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LAND PARK’S SWANTON DRIVE Classic 3 bedroom 1½ bath Land Park home on a quiet tree lined stretch of Swanston Drive. Great curb appeal with immaculate, bright interior. Kitchen and bath updated. Great location, convenient walk to schools and William Land Park! $600,000 JERRY KIRRENE 455-1001, DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495

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Art at the Arena STUNNING LOCAL WORKS ADD TO GOLDEN 1 CENTER’S BEAUTY

y husband says that I see the world through the eyes of an artist. Even though I haven’t practiced studio art in more than a decade, my involvement with the arts in our community is the driving force behind much of my energy. While my husband appreciates art and design, he’s hardly an expert. But he reminds me often that his life has been enhanced because, after more than 27 years of marriage, I still help him see things in a new way. I’m grateful that the past few months in Sacramento have been very art-oriented. On the tail end of the hugely successful Sacramento Mural Fest in August came the opening of Golden 1 Center. The arena’s publicart component brought about one of the most significant community controversies ever about the role of public art. An expert panel chosen by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and charged with selecting the art was presented early on with the idea of a single Jeff Koons sculpture for the arena plaza. (The established practice for a publicart decision of this size would have involved selecting among various site-specific proposals from several qualified artists.) The idea was put forth by Marcy Friedman and her son, Mark, along with Sacramento Kings owner Vivek

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Ranadive. It was no small detail that the sculpture’s $8 million cost surpassed the original $5.5 million art budget. Putting money where their hearts were, the group raised the balance of the funds with private donations. I must be honest: I never really saw the beauty of Koons’ “Coloring Book 4,” aka Piglet. All we had was a rendering to help the public visualize the piece in location on the arena’s plaza. To me, it looked like it was

made of colored Plexiglass shapes sandwiched together. I’m pretty sure I had never seen a Koons original until early this year, when I saw his work at The Broad museum in Los Angeles. Its design and quality were very impressive. But given my high regard for the judgment of both Mark and Marcy Friedman in matters of art and design, I was totally willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. When the Koons sculpture was unveiled

in September, I immediately saw its appeal and why they were willing to go to such great efforts to make it happen. It is a remarkable and delightful piece, and the quality is gorgeous. Its mirror-polished stainless steel surface is rich with transparent color. The sculpture reflects the surrounding buildings, lights and people, lighting up with visual activity that quickly changes as one walks around the structure. Many locals in and out of the arts community were concerned that the arena’s entire public-art budget was going to a New York artist. Luckily, Marcy Friedman responded in a big way. The arts philanthropist put up an additional $1 million to fund local art for the project. I thought the panel’s selection of local artists Bryan Valenzuela and Gale Hart was inspired, given what I had seen of their previous work. Valenzuela’s work appeared on one of our covers last year, along with an artist profile. As part of the arts commission’s remarkable artist series, Valenzuela joined Hart for a discussion of their arena commissions. The event was held last month at Crocker Art Museum. Both artists joined in conversation with Shelly Willis, the director of the arts commission. Many people are surprised to learn that most public art is designed by artists but almost always fabricated by craftspeople working from plans created by the artist. Oftentimes, engineers are called in to help ensure the fabrication is structurally sound and safe. Though I am an appointed member of the arts commission and have PUBLISHER page 9

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ongratulations are in order for Richard Hernandez, the Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors’ recently elected president. He becomes the organization’s first Hispanic president since its founding in 2001. Hernandez, along with other newly elected chamber board members and officers, were sworn into office by Sacramento Mayor-Elect Darrell Steinberg at the chamber’s 2016 Awards and Scholarship Dinner on Sept. 15. “I am proud of our chamber’s accomplishments and growth over the past several years and it is my honor to serve as its president,” Hernandez says. “Rainbow Chamber has helped expand opportunities for LGBT-owned businesses throughout California through the legislative process, led efforts to designate the Lavender Heights neighborhood and install the landmark Rainbow Crosswalk, and contributed to the economic growth of our community. “With the support of the outstanding business leaders and professionals who make up our board, I am confident we will continue to build on our achievements in the coming year.” Among its accomplishments over the past year, the Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce led

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fundraising efforts for installation of a Rainbow Crosswalk in Lavender Heights, commemorating Sacramento’s historic LGBT neighborhood; took over production of monthly Drag Queen Bingo events, raising more than $30,000 for local nonprofit organizations; increased its membership by nearly 50 percent; endorsed 14 candidates for office in the 2016 primary election through its nonpartisan RainbowPAC affiliate; and won a 2016 National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Community Impact Award. For more information, go to rainbowchamber.com.

PURPLE PRIDE It’s common knowledge that cancer touches everyone, whether you yourself are battling it or know someone who is or has. So why not join the fight by donning your sneakers to help stamp out pancreatic cancer at the PurpleStride Sacramento 5K Run and 1 Mile Walk on Nov. 12 at William Land Park? This year’s family-friendly race will take participants on a lovely route through the park to help raise funds, awareness and support for pancreatic cancer research. The day will also include children’s activities, music, refreshments, the ShopPurple store and more.

It’s almost time to start your holiday shopping in earnest (yes, really), so start the season off right at the Mercy General Hospital Guild Fabulous Holiday Boutique and Luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at the Dante Club. Fortify yourself with a delicious lunch of pork chops with risotto and chicken with balsamic sauce, green salad, seasonal vegetables, rolls, beverage and dessert. Then get your wallet ready for an outstanding selection of vendors to make all those you give a gift to this year happy to know you. You’ll also be supporting the Mercy Guild, a nonprofit group that provides information and clerical support to Mercy General Hospital. The boutique and social hour will take place at 11 a.m. and the luncheon will begin at noon. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased by check and sent (along with your menu selection) to BeBe Wright, 7247 Havenside Drive, Sacramento, CA 95831. Reservations must be received by Nov. 7. For more information, call 4242628. The Dante Club is at 2330 Fair Oaks Blvd.

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PUBLISHER FROM page 7 participated on several art selection panels, I learned a great deal about the process and the artists themselves at the event. Valenzuela is known largely as a two-dimensional artist, working on large canvases and using intricate tiny lettering as part of his almost magical compositions of images derived from nature. After the panel selected him as the artist for the interior lobby of the building (based on his submitted portfolio of past work,) they were stunned and delighted when he submitted a design for 400 handblown blue-green glass globes, ranging from 12 to 20 inches in diameter, suspended from the ceiling in a sculpture called “Multitudes Converge,” echoing the theme of our two great rivers coming together. Valenzuela is 34 years old, and this was his first public art commission. What a gorgeous work he created! (Remember, Maya Lin was selected at the age of 21 as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.) The artist had the globes handblown in a small town in the Czech Republic after discovering only three places in the world had the capability to fulfill his design vision—and all were in the same small town. He

spent six weeks abroad this summer overseeing the glass fabrication, including the painstaking process of drilling holes in all the globes in order to slide metal rods inside to suspend them in the lobby. But he found the most challenging part to be the installation. Even the delivery of the crates with the glass needed to be carefully coordinated by the dock master who controlled all that went in and out of the downtown construction site on a 24/7 basis. Laboring under an unbelievably tight deadline, he and his team often worked in the middle of the night to install the piece without being impeded by other contractors. Gale Hart’s work, located on L Street and on the south entrance to the plaza, is equally compelling. The multiple-component sculpture, called “Missing the Mark,” takes a fun approach to the idea of gamesmanship. The first pieces you encounter on L Street are largerthan-life stainless steel and fiberglass darts in the sidewalk, near a terrazzo dartboard also set in the sidewalk. Next appear three raised concrete numbers and dart tails. When you turn the corner and walk up the plaza stairs, an 11-foot bronze-and-steel hand, holding more dart tails, sets the stage before you see the Koons piece

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displayed on the plaza level. Hart’s work presents a humorous take on the serious world of corporate sports.

At the lecture, Hart became a delightful storyteller as she took the audience through the challenging process of creating her multipart work and working with numerous fabricators using multiple materials and processes. The fourth element of the arena’s public art is a sound sculpture called “Sonic Passages,” by San Franciscobased Bill Fontana. It extends on the north side of the plaza and features 19 small loudspeakers embedded in the “green wall” sections of the landscape planters. The sounds I heard were those of songbirds and nature, and they were delightfully intermittent. Also still to be installed are interior murals by the venerable Royal Chicano Air Force, a local Chicano art collective, founded in 1970 by José Montoya and Esteban Villa. This part of the project has been commissioned by the county of Sacramento. All in all, we have much to be proud of artistically at Golden 1 Center. The masterful architectural and technological work of AECOM— PUBLISHER page 11

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LIFE FROM page 8 LPCA’s monthly meeting at Eskaton Lodge on Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Find out what the neighborhood group has going and meet your neighbors and fellow Land Park lovers at this informational meeting. For more information, go to landpark.org. Eskaton Monroe Lodge is at 3225 Freeport Blvd.

STEP UP The Down Syndrome Information Alliance needs your help. What better way to pitch in than to get some exercise and lend a hand (foot?) at the Step Up for Down Syndrome Walk and 5k Run from 8 a.m. to noon on Sunday, Nov. 6, in William Land Park? This fun-filled day and picnic will help the DSIA raise much-needed money to continue its life-changing programs and outreach into 2017 and beyond. Event highlights will include food trucks from Chando’s Tacos, Kado’s Asian Grill, Cecil’s Taste and Yolanda’s Tamales, a fire truck display, bounce houses, a kids’ activity center, resource tables from local agencies, entertainment from Dusty’s Puppets and Music to Grow On, a table full of delectable baked goods, popsicles and hot chocolate provided by Umpqua Bank, and a visit from Now 100.5 Radio. Registration for the 5k starts at 8 a.m., the run starts at 9 a.m. (when registration for the walk begins), the walk starts at 10 a.m., and lunch and entertainment begin at 11 a.m. To sign up or for more information, go to downsyndromeinfo.org/events/. The event will take place in William Land Park at Village Green at the corner of Freeport Boulevard and Sutterville Road.

MEAL ON WHEELS Hungry? Of course you are! Don’t miss this month’s installment of Food Truck Mania from 4 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20, at the corner of Freeport Boulevard and Sutterville Road.

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The Step Up for Down Syndrome Walk and 5k Run takes place on Nov. 6

Join the Land Park Community Association for oodles of gourmet food trucks, great music and kidfriendly entertainment and celebrate living in this wonderfully vibrant neighborhood. For more information, go to landpark.org.

WINTER IS COMING Winter might be rapidly approaching (Fairytale Town’s winter hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., start on Tuesday, Nov. 1), but there’s still plenty of time to enjoy the great outdoors at the newly opened Sacramento Adventure Playground, a project of Fairytale Town and the Sacramento Play Coalition. Check

out this awesome play area for free at Community Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12. All ages are invited to create their own play structures and spaces by re-purposing everyday items such as cardboard boxes, household wares, natural elements and unexpected items. The playground is a fun and safe environment where children can use their imagination and creativity to direct their own play, which is a proven method to encourage growth and development. Community Day also will feature special activities and craft projects, including Box Forts, Mud Play and Slide, Sand Play, bike riding (bring your bike and helmet!), craft projects,

bubbles, painting and more. Families are requested to wear closed-toe shoes and clothes that can get messy. The event will take place rain or shine. The Sacramento Adventure Playground is at 3301 37th Ave. After you’ve finished stuffing yourself with turkey, celebrate Nationwide Free Admission Day and the Canned Food Drive at Fairytale Town from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 25. On this day after Thanksgiving, get free admission by bringing a canned food item for donation to the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services Holiday Spirit of Giving Food Drive. The day also includes free arts and crafts activities.

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PARK PLANS If you’ve been eagerly awaiting news about the plans for the Land Park retail center The Park, proposed for 4700-4790 Freeport Blvd., Ben van der Meer of The Sacramento Business Journal had some news to share in his article on Sept. 9. According to van der Meer, new plans for the center were recently resubmitted to reflect suggestions

for changes from the city and its residents. Those changes include adding more bike and walking paths, a new bike entrance and more outdoor patio space. Other than that, as van der Meer quotes Todd Oliver, a principal with development firm Mo Capital, “The general site plan as a shopping center is pretty much the same.” Raley’s has already signed on as an anchor tenant with a 55,000-squarefoot store on the site of the former Capital Nursery. Apart from Raley’s, the developer hasn’t identified any other possible tenants in the center, but we do know what it doesn’t

have: a gas station. Good news in the wake of discussions over a proposed Safeway gas station for the retail center in the Crocker Village development being built by developer Paul Petrovich a few miles away. (The gas station proposal was denied.) The Park proposal went before the City Planning Commission for a vote on Oct. 20 and is projected to go before the Sacramento City Council before Thanksgiving. Then, says Oliver, “If we get approved, we’ll try to get things going as quickly as possible.” Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com n

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Expansion , Maybe BIGGER CONVENTION CENTER ISN’T NECESSARILY BETTER

ast month, the City Council gave an ambiguous amber light to city manager John Shirey’s plan to spend $170 million to expand the Sacramento Convention Center, last renovated in 1995. However, the council voted to move full speed ahead on a proposal to spend $83 million to renovate the nearby Convention Center Theater and a further $16 million to upgrade the Memorial Auditorium so it can serve as a temporary venue for performing arts events while the theater is being renovated. Mayor-elect Darrell Steinberg had asked the council to defer any decision on the convention center for several months to give him a chance to weigh in on the future direction of our money-losing convention center. Instead of deciding to move irrevocably ahead with the convention center expansion plan or deferring the decision, as requested by Steinberg, the council approved an ambiguous compromise: It elected to move forward with center expansion planning documents while also commissioning an economic feasibility study that would examine various expansion options. If you are scratching your head over the council’s inconsistent actions, you aren’t alone. Local media were left in a state of confusion

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over exactly what the council had approved: The Bee reported that the council “passed a plan to complete conceptual designs for an expanded … center,” while KCRA News reported that the council had “tabled a vote on the proposal for another time.” In Sacramento local government, momentum is everything. Without it, perfectly sound, beneficial public projects can limp along for years, only to wither and die. A good example is our city’s 50-year failure to develop the Sacramento River waterfront. But with momentum, even crazy projects seem to have the wind at their backs, gathering support and velocity. A dirty little secret is that momentum for a public project rarely has anything to do with robust research, rigorous analysis of future

returns or a thoughtful weighing of alternative public investment opportunities. Too often, a public project’s momentum depends on how adroitly elite opinion is formed and manipulated by local masters of the public relations and governing arts. The proposed convention center expansion is the latest example of a crazy local project that has had the wind at is back for the past year. The project’s champions have been outgoing city manager Shirey, downtown hotel and restaurant owners and Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau (renamed Visit Sacramento). The question now is: Will momentum for center expansion, at least in its current form, fade once financial analysts start seriously examining the market demand and

economic feasibility of the project and the mayor holds a promised public debate on the center’s future? It’s anyone’s guess.

AN ABYSMAL HISTORY The convention center has had a perfectly awful 40-year financial track record. In 1974, the City Council increased the city hotel tax from 6 percent to 7 percent to fund construction of the center. Early losses were so severe that the council raised the tax to 10 percent in 1978 to cover unexpected center losses. When the center was expanded in 1995, its performance immediately fell far short of projections, forcing the council to provide $10.4 million CITY HALL page 14

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an astonishing $16 million annually and been consistently losing money at such levels for 14 years, a fact unknown at the time even by city councilmembers. Last month, EOS released a second report on the convention center. Annual losses have increased to $19 million, while aggregate city losses over the past 17 years have amounted to an eye-popping $267.9 million— more than enough to cover 100 percent of the city’s cash subsidy for the construction of the new Golden 1

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Center. Let that fun fact sink in for a moment. Sacramento currently spends 87 percent, or $19 million, of its $21.8 million in annual hotel tax revenues on subsidizing convention center losses, while the 10 West Coast cities we principally compete with for convention business use only between 14 percent and 64 percent of their hotel taxes on their convention centers. (Average use: 45 percent.) In those cities, remaining hotel tax revenues are used to fund general government functions like police, parks and street repairs. So despite a convention center track record of consistent and growing failure, city staff again wants to expand the convention center, as if a bigger center will somehow magically turn around the financial disaster that the center has been for decades. This same song and dance has been played out before city councils across the country in recent years, leading to one gigantic money pit after another. In 2011, Las Vegas doubled the size of its convention center. Attendance of 1,279,383 in 2011 dropped to 1,212,038 in 2012—despite a doubling of the center’s size. In 1997, before a major expansion, Seattle’s Washington State Convention & Trade Center hosted 183,875 out-of-state attendees. By 2011, its attendance had fallen to 147,345. The Pennsylvania Convention Center expansion in the 1990s was forecasted to generate 664,800 hotel night bookings by 2001. But by 2002 it had only 336,000 bookings. In 2011, after another expansion, it had just 311, 810.

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In 2003, San Francisco expanded Moscone Center. In the late ’90s, attendance averaged 694,000 a year. After the expansion, attendance fell to 540,660 in 2004 and 482,035 in 2005. The same sorry story of absurdist consultant projections and falling attendance has played out in St. Louis, Orlando, Washington, D.C., Chicago and numerous other cities, large and small. After poor attendance results followed Boston’s 2004 convention center expansion, the then-executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, James Rooney, had this to say about the experience: “When I talk to people from other cities about making a public investment in a convention center, I’m equally blunt about the feasibility studies these consultants use to justify [such] investments … some of these guys ought to be taken out and shot.” The adage “build it and they will come” works just fine in fantasist Hollywood movies, but it’s a reckless and thoroughly discredited approach to convention center investments.

PULLING THE WOOL OVER THE COUNCIL’S EYES On May 3, the City Council approved $1,340,825 in contracts to three firms “… to proceed with the project development phase of an integrated project to renovate the Community Center Theater and expand the Sacramento Convention Center.”

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The city staff report that was used to sell the council on the idea of expanding the Convention Center relied heavily on a 2012 study prepared by Conventions, Sports & Leisure International. But that study, entitled “Preliminary Findings Associated With the Current and Future Market Potential for the Sacramento Convention Center,” contains critical comments against an expansion that are suspiciously and inexcusably absent from staff’s May 3 report to the council.

For the past three years, Eye on Sacramento has been a strong advocate of both ethics and transparency reform in city government. In short, city staff cherry-picked data and findings from the CS&L study but failed miserably to provide councilmembers with crucial points in the study that clearly state that an expansion of the convention center is not needed. It was on the basis of the May 3 report that the council first decided to move forward with the expansion of the convention center. The latest EOS report concludes: “We’ve now determined that the council was misled by its staff into believing that its principal convention center consultant … was solidly in favor of the proposed expansion when, in fact, it was largely opposed to it.” The CS&L study states that: “Demand research specific to Sacramento did not identify an immediate or short-term need for significant additions of space” and “[t]hese data indicate that there is not a large base of existing unmet event demand to support a near-term significant expansion of convention space.” None of these findings, or

another half dozen similar to them, were ever disclosed to the city council in the May 3 staff report. It’s very serious business when city staff misleads the council into a decision to incur hundreds of millions of dollars of debt for a project that the city’s own principal consultant counsels is ill advised. But the current mayor and city manager are heading out the door and, as with most publicsector scandals and project failures, it’s unlikely that anyone in city government will be held accountable for such contemptible, fraudulent misconduct. For the past three years, Eye on Sacramento has been a strong advocate of both ethics and transparency reform in city government. Following 10 public forums on ethics and transparency reforms, EOS and its Ethics Reform Subgroup have proposed a city ethics code that would require, among other provisions, that all city employees who appear before, or provide reports to, the City Council annually sign statements promising never to lie to, or mislead, the council. The EOS ethics code also provides that staff will experience adverse impacts on their careers if they break their promise, up to and including termination. EOS has also proposed that the city charter be amended to create a fully independent, funded and staffed ethics commission, with the jurisdiction and authority to hold senior city officials accountable for violations of the ethics code. The council’s law and legislation committee has been dragging its feet for 14 months reviewing a heavily watered-down set of ethics and transparency reforms, none of which, if ever adopted, would provide any remedy or mechanism for effectively and judiciously dealing with senior city staff who chose to lie to or mislead the council.

THE ‘GO BIG OR GO HOME’ ALTERNATIVE Barry Broome, the high-energy, plainspoken CEO of the Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council, CITY HALL page 18

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facility through a public/private partnership, with much of the development capital provided by private-sector partners. Broome is aware of the strong market trend toward holding conventions in convention centers owned and operated by adjoining hotels. According to Broome, hotel-based convention centers now draw 56 percent of all convention business in the country. (I attended a four-day conference last month in Nashville at the gargantuan and luxurious Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, next-door to the legendary Grand Ole Opry. I left the grounds just twice during my stay.) The fundamental problem with such an idea is that the size of a convention center is not the primary determinant of market demand for convention space, as the disastrous experiences of Las Vegas, Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, etc., show. While hotel-based convention centers are increasingly popular and quite convenient for conventioneers,

the tourist attractions that a city offers visitors are also a very large factor in the siting decisions of convention planners. If the attendees of a large convention have a choice of going to a convention in San Francisco, San Diego, Long Beach or Sacramento, which city are they likely to choose? As much as I love my hometown, I don’t think I’d bet the farm that they’d choose Sacramento.

To read the EOS report “History of Sacramento’s Hotel Tax Subsidy & Convention Center Subsidy: A ‘Tsunami of Red Ink,’” go to eyeonsacramento.org. 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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Too Tall? AT 14 STORIES, MIDTOWN PROJECT RAISES A HOST OF ISSUES

amanee is the name of a 14-story development proposed for the southeast corner of 25th and J streets. The building will have 134 for-sale luxury condos located above 11,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and multiple stories for parking. According to Midtown resident and Yamanee developer Ryan Heater, the building will be world-class. Yamanee’s designers include New York architect Chris Smith and Australian Bruce Henderson, who, according to Heater, not only has offices in London and Hong Kong but “is really one of the best in the world.” This is his first major American project. While there’s been little objection that Yamanee could be a beautiful building, the issue of its height and location has raised eyebrows. According to Sacramento’s 2035 general plan, new development in J Street’s urban corridor cannot exceed six stories, which means Yamanee will rise some 100 feet higher than currently permitted by code. However, a clause within the general plan allows projects to deviate from those limitations when they provide “significant community benefits.” Proponents of Yamanee have cited benefits such as sustainable development, alley activation, public connectivity,

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Rendering of Yamanee

decreased dependency on cars, and new housing units to justify the development, and the city agreed.

The city’s Planning Commission approved Yamanee’s proposal in May, and though preservationist William Burg subsequently filed an appeal, the

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context of Mayor Kevin Johnson’s In Downtown housing initiative, which was announced in January 2015 and called for 10,000 new housing units to be built in the central city over the next decade. The 2035 general plan was finalized only two months later in March 2015, after four years of workshops, meetings and community input. “So that [housing initiative] brings a different perspective to interpreting the plan,” says Tillotson, “and had they known about it during the planning process, it would have had some influence.” “This is where judgment comes in,” says Heater. “Otherwise, we don’t need planners, and we’d just plug [a project like Yamanee] into the computer and it would give a pass or fail and we’re done.” For Heater, the issue comes down to the trust placed in elected officials and planners who understand the planning process. “This is why we have elected officials and vote for people who study and understand the issues.” City councilmember Steve Hansen, in whose district Yamanee will be built, compares the city’s general plan to a living document. “Slavish adherence to a plan that was created a decade ago is not typically how cities operate,” says Hansen. “It was a moment in time that sets some expectations but also has flexibility in it, and a general plan is not etched in stone.” But Jacques and Yamanee opponents argue that Yamanee establishes a precedent that other developers can ignore limitations within the general plan.

Reimagine Your Wardrobe S. Benson has the look you need this Fall! Featuring the brand new line from Rodd & Gunn– New Zealand design with a tailored European ﬁt. “On a larger level,” explains Jacques, “when you approve something for which there is no clear definition to allow approval, or without clear limit, you’ve entered into planning chaos. This is the basis upon which land speculation is encouraged. “As a landowner in Midtown, I may assume that, ‘Oh, I’m going to be able to build something much taller, and get more money out of it in the future, so I’m not going to put energy into maintaining my current building.” Tillotson disagrees. “That in itself is speculative,” she says. “You are speculating that people are going to speculate.” Speculation aside, Yamanee raises another question: Did the community’s input into the general plan even matter? California cities are required by state law to include its residents in the process of creating a new general plan, and Jacques was one of many Sacramentans who attended local workshops and meetings.

“There were four years of community input and decision-making about what overlay zones were appropriate and where,” explains Jacques. “I felt we had a really good plan, and that if the city stuck to it, going forward it would protect the things that we love but also add a lot of density, which we need.” When the city approved Yamanee, Jacques felt betrayed. “I feel that they betrayed all of us,” she says. “And the larger issue, the larger tragedy, is that when something like this happens, you send a message to the community and everybody who works in good faith: Don’t bother. Your input doesn’t matter anyway.” Will Yamenee improve the Midtown economy or lead to speculation blight? Will the building be architecturally significant or stick out like a sore thumb? Says Hansen: Projects like Yamanee “are sort of like Rorschach tests for a lot of folks.” Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com n

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Signs waiting to be restored

The Pacific Neon Company crew, Rick Hatala, Esau Garcia and Ryan Drury

Bright Lights NEON SIGNS OF THE TIMES ARE DISPLAYED AT GOLDEN 1 CENTER

ower Records. Shakey’s Pizza.

Many of the city’s neon signs were

Tower Records, Shakey’s Pizza,

adding new wiring and transformers,

Coronet Portraits.

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Coronet Portraits, Sleepers Stamp

replacing the blown glass and refilling

Company.

and Stationery, Franke’s Drugs and

the glass with gas.

From the 1920s through

the 1960s, the most popular form of

The Center for Sacramento

Fountain and Newbert Hardware.

“We wanted the signs in working

commercial signage was the neon

History, an archive of Sacramento

sign. In Sacramento, neon illuminated

memorabilia, historical artifacts,

businesses like Tower and Shakey’s,”

says Kandl. “In the museum field,

much of Midtown and downtown.

documents and more, now houses

says Veronica Kandl, a curator at the

you don’t completely restore history.

more than 17 large neon signs from

Center for Sacramento History. “We

The patina of an old sign tells a story,

local businesses. The owners of the

had to consider other factors when

and we wanted to retain that. These

Sacramento Kings and Golden 1

selecting signs, like size and how

signs do not look new. That’s how we

Center decided to use some of those

structurally sound they were.”

wanted to show them in the arena.”

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signs as historic art at the new downtown arena. They picked six signs that once hung outside local businesses:

The signs are tested at Pacific Neon Company

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“It was a no-brainer to pick iconic

Pacific Neon, which has been

order but not completely restored,”

For Pacific Neon, the job required

building and installing commercial

a combination of craftsmanship,

signs in Sacramento for 60 years, took

artistry and detective work.

on the challenge of fixing the signs,

The signs are transported and installed at the new arena

The refurbished signs can be enjoyed by visitors to -Golden 1

“We left the rust and the aged look for each sign,” says Ryan Drury, an account representative and a third-

him how. He’s very talented and knows the art form.” Pacific Neon doesn’t make many

generation member of the family

neon signs these days. But it still gets

that owns Pacific Neon. “It was

requests for neon. Drury says the

an involved process that involved

company produces neon or neonlike

checking out every part of the sign.”

signs for businesses like as Pizza

Drury’s crew took the signs apart and cleaned them. They tried to

Rock, Fox & Goose and Zelda’s Pizza. “Neon is a brilliant source of

salvage transformers and wiring, but

illumination and advertising,” he

in many cases they had to add new,

says. “These older signs are unique

high-voltage wiring. They repaired

with cool colors and the drama of

and replaced neon tubes. If sections

advertising as it used to be.”

were missing, they had to guesstimate

After repairing the signs, Drury

the bends in the tubes from old

and his team packed them up and

photos.

shipped them to Golden 1 Center

“It was an amazing experience,”

for installation just in time for the

says Drury. “These older signs are all

arena’s opening in early October.

unique. Many represent our history.

Kandl credits the owners of the

Pacific Neon did all the Tower signs

Kings and the arena for paying for

locally and throughout the world, so

the repairs and restoration of the

bringing the Tower neon signs back

nostalgic signs and putting them on

and to see them in the arena is a thrill

display. “It’s so nice to see them come

for us.”

to life,” she says.

Fixing neon is no easy task. Most

Drury agrees. “It’s been an

commercial lighted signs now use

amazing experience,” he says. “We

LED lights, which are more efficient

gave life to these old signs. While

and cost effective. The old outdoor

the arena may be the most high-tech

signs had taken a beating from the

arena ever, these signs represent

elements and from critters that had

old-school Sacramento. You can’t

used them as their homes. Finding

help but notice them. While they

people who know the art of glass

aren’t my era, many in Sacramento

blowing and bending becomes more

will remember the names and iconic

difficult every day.

brands of the companies that made

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The Bank on the Corner FUNDING LOCAL BUSINESS IS ITS MISSION

s community celebrations go, it would be difficult to top Cecily Hastings’ new book, “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital.” And since Cecily owns the publication you’re presently reading, she doesn’t need my help to cheer the small businesses highlighted in her book. But as I flipped through “Inside Sacramento” and marveled at the story in pictures and words, I realized it was a blueprint for how a city comes of age. Which raises a question: Beyond the cultural vibrancy these businesses provide, how important are they to Sacramento’s economy? It turns out they are extremely important. Small businesses—enterprises such as Magpie Cafe on 16th Street and Bacon & Butter in Tahoe Park—are a cornerstone of the local economy. They can’t be underestimated or overlooked. Sacramento has a unique relationship with small business. The community lacks Fortune 500 headquarters and the jobs they create. The city is not an industrial or manufacturing base. And Sacramento’s historic links to agriculture have been dwindling for 50 years. Small businesses—especially restaurants, bars and the hospitality

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To better understand the significance of small businesses in the community, I talked to someone whose work revolves around the dreams, ambitions and realities of local entrepreneurs: Virginia Varela, president and CEO of Golden Pacific Bank.

Providing funds for businesses owned by women and minorities is a Golden Pacific subspeciality.

Virginia Varela is the president and CEO of Golden Pacific Bank

sector—fill the void. U.S. Census data show food services and accommodations provide 22,000 jobs in the city of Sacramento. Most are clustered around the eight core neighborhoods featured in Hastings’ book. About 12 percent of the city’s workforce earns a living in the hospitality and retail service industries. Sacramento relies on government jobs to provide the vast majority of local paychecks. With a population

of about 480,000, the city has 96,000 residents working in what census authorities call “public administration.” That means government work. Beyond public administration, the impact of small business becomes apparent on every street where people wander, shop and play. Small firms with fewer than 20 employees account for 41,000 jobs in Sacramento—23 percent of the workforce. That’s monumental.

Varela has spent her career in banking. She served as a federal bank regulator and U.S. Treasury official. These days, she runs a small community bank headquartered at 9th and J streets. Golden Pacific has retail operations in downtown Sacramento, Yuba City and Live Oak. The bank specializes in making smallbusiness loans. “We think small is beautiful,” Varela says. “We are unique in comparison to big-box banks. There are three of us here in the office with loan authority who make almost every decision on small-business loans. Or we can reach out directly to our board members if we need more consultation. When you get a loan from us, it’s the CEO who’s approving your loan.” Providing funds for businesses owned by women and minorities is a Golden Pacific subspeciality. Varela

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Days before the presses rolled on her book, Hastings learned one of the featured retail shops had shut down. She removed the photos and copy and scrambled to add an 11thhour replacement. Readers won’t notice the difference, but the banker understands. “It happens,” Varela says. “As much as we want to believe in the prospects of a small business, sometimes, for various reasons, they don’t make it.” But many more do make it—and they thrive for decades. “Inside Sacramento” serves as a primer for success, featuring people such as Randy and Stacy Paragary, the Fat family, Matt and Fred Haines and Randall Selland, all of whose restaurants have been operating for decades. There’s Darrell Corti, whose family has been selling groceries since 1947, and Vic’s Ice Cream, which opened 69 years ago. They endure because they evolve. And they evolve without losing their small-business spirit. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n

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Merry Kerrie LOCAL DESIGNER’S HOME FEATURED ON CHRISTMAS TOUR

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hen the organizers of the Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour approached Kerrie Kelly and her husband, Vinny Catalano, about including their East Sac home on the upcoming tour, they weren’t expecting a positive response. So they were delighted when the couple said yes. During the holidays, Kelly and her design team at Kerrie Kelly Design Lab usually spend their time and creative energy decorating other people’s homes for the holidays. “So mine never gets done,” she says. But her husband pushed for a change in their routine. “He said, ‘Let’s do the tour. I want a Christmas tree this year,’” she explains.

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WE WANTED TO CREATE A MEMORY ALONG WITH A SENSE OF HOSPITALITY.

When Kelly and Catalano moved into their 1927 bungalow in 2010, they revamped the three bathrooms, painted the interior and added bookcases, trim and molding throughout. A new outdoor kitchen extended their entertaining area. Tour goers will get a hint of what’s inside when they catch a glimpse of the couple’s newly refurbished 1986 Wagoneer with wood trim parked in the driveway. The seats were reupholstered with leather and Black Watch tartan fabric. Plaid-on-plaid blankets will fill the trunk. A Christmas tree on top will evoke the holiday spirit.

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The front porch’s banisters will be draped with vintage lights in primary colors. Pillows tucked into red Adirondack chairs announce Kelly’s decorating theme: Welcome to East Sacramento. Relles Florist will supply florals for the house, including red roses, magnolias and eucalyptus. “There will be nothing cute or tricky about this,” Kelly says. “It is just about celebrating the holidays.” Kelly’s previous work with Ralph Lauren is evident throughout her polished, preppy home. The decorating scheme will

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incorporate equestrian touches such as horse ribbons and lots of plaid. “Layering plaid on plaid is the new black this holiday season,” she says. Kelly plans to switch out some of her fabrics and draperies for the tour. A few pieces of furniture from Kelly’s new company, 42nd Street, will be integrated into the design. “We have a lot of new products to share,” she says. Five chefs will offer treats from Kelly’s kitchen. Coffee, cider, nibbles hot off the Wolf cook top and holiday cookies provided by Sweet Celebrations are just a few of the goodies that will be on offer. “People get hungry,” Kelly explains. “Some have even tried to eat the fake foods that have been put out on home tours.” Both the backyard and porch will be decorated. The garage will morph into a pop-up shop offering for sale many of the items seen throughout Kelly’s home. All proceeds from the sale will go to Sacred Heart School. Kelly notes her home is small.

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“I am an exercise in small-space living,” she explains. The short tour route through her home puts a special emphasis on seizing tour participants’ attention quickly and exciting their senses. “For many people, going on the home tour is a tradition and getting ideas for their home along the way,” she says. “We wanted to create a memory along with a sense of hospitality.” The 43rd annual Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour will take place Friday, Dec. 2, Saturday, Dec. 3 and Sunday, Dec. 4. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 on the days of the tour. For more information, go to sacredhearthometour.com. If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster.julie91@yahoo.com n

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Drink Locally SACRAMENTO ENTREPRENEURS CREATE EXCITING BEVERAGES

his holiday season, there’s

cut jalapeno or other farmers market

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produce as garnish.

your table. Several Sacramento-

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they’re available at Raley’s, Corti

Jason Poole’s Midtown-based

Brothers, Nugget Markets, Whole

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Foods and BevMo.

2011, is best known for its award-

Bailarin Cellars was founded by a

winning Bloody Mary mix, which took

group of Sacramento locals, including

home a silver medal in a national

Chris and Amanda Ryan and Ali

competition sponsored by Absolut

Zamanian. Their wines have won

Vodka in 2012. Poole uses local

awards: Bailarin Cellars received

ingredients, including tomatoes,

a gold medal in the San Francisco

to make the spicy mix. It comes in

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a 1-gallon jug, perfect for parties.

2014 Bailarin Suacci Vineyard Pinot

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celery from the farmers market

Wine Enthusiast as a “new producer

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worth knowing.”

Preservation & co. sells a variety of cocktail mixes, including blackberry margarita mix, at its Midtown store

“Nothing makes me dance more than helping people find their own passion and zest for life,” she says.

(1717 19th St.). It also sells jarred pickles, balsamic beet slices, cayenne carrot sticks and hickory Brussels sprouts. Sacramentan Payam Fardanesh missed the Persian vinegar-based fruit drinks he grew up with, so he decided to re-create and bottle them. He launched his company, Silk Road Soda, in 2012 after obtaining his MBA at Sacramento State University.

The wine is made from grapes

“My goal is to share my rich

grown in Sebastopol and Mendocino.

Persian culture with America through

The company’s motto is “Life is short. Dance more.” Co-owner Amanda

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Ryan loves being surrounded by friends in this business. “Nothing Jason Poole of Preservation & co in Midtown

organic apple cider vinegar-based

cucumber mint, pomegranate mint,

people find their own passion and zest

beverages,” says Fardanesh.

pear mint and ginger mint. Local

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His sodas taste more like shrubs than the sugar-laden drinks of American tradition. Flavors include

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them best.”

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Their book can be downloaded from

Sacramento food writer Garrett McCord teamed up with local food

foodliteracycenter.org with a $10 dollar donation to the charity.

photographer Callista Polhemus

Chocolate Fish Coffee offers nitro

to create an e-book that celebrates

coffee on tap. Made with cold-brewed

our city’s farm-to-glass beverage

coffee infused with nitrogen, the

scene. The pair wanted to highlight

drink has the mouthfeel of beer and

Sacramento’s bartenders, who are

the perk of your favorite morning

as innovative as our region’s quality

caffeinated beverage. While you can’t

chefs. McCord and Polhemus spent

pack it in a box and give it as a gift,

a year tasting, photographing and

you can take friends and out-of-town

documenting 26 recipes from the

guests to Chocolate Fish for a taste of

region’s top professional distillers,

Sacramento’s best.

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Pitch Perfect AT O’NEIL PARK, SOCCER IS ALWAYS IN PLAY

onney Field, home of the Sacramento Republic, is lovely to behold. But for history and atmosphere, the true football fanatic must make the pilgrimage to Broadway and 6th Street. That’s where O’Neil Park endures as the soul of Sacramento soccer. O’Neil Park is staging ground for the Central California Soccer League, which began as an informal arrangement of immigrant teams in 1947 led by Otto Massara, who learned the game as a child in his native Oleggio, Italy. Otto arrived in Sacramento in the 1920s, played for a team called Garibaldi, and helped charter the CCSL in 1958. Otto died in 1997 at age 92. Almost until the end, he served as the league’s president, which meant he could be found on Sunday mornings chalking lines at O’Neil Park. It’s never been a perfect pitch. A notorious manhole plate near midfield stubbornly resists camouflage. Countless ankles have been tweaked on O’Neil Park gopher holes, sprinklers and divots. But for generations of deeply bred soccer fans and players from Turlock to Chico, O’Neil Park is hallowed ground. And the CCSL is a genuine icon. The league has ridden the crests and crashes of soccer’s popularity, from the days of Pele and the New

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O’Neil Park is where soccer lovers come to play. Ali Radmand is he league’s president.

York Cosmos to the Republic’s emergence as a hot local ticket. The CCSL has faltered and stumbled along the way, ranging from seven to 72 teams. But always, CCSL maintains its footing. As the league prepares for a new winter season with a dozen teams, the future is bright. “The quality of play is exceptionally high, and the pitch is in the best shape we’ve seen in years,” says Ali Radmand, the league’s newly installed president. “I’d like to find a way for the city to dedicate the field in honor of the CCSL, which now has fourthgeneration players using O’Neil Park.” Sunday was always soccer day at O’Neil Park, which was part of

Southside Park before the elevated section of Highway 50 came barreling through in the late 1960s. Today, shoppers at the Sunday farmers market beneath the freeway compete for parking spaces with soccer fans, but the crowds mingle and mix and make it work. A typical Sunday during summer and fall months would present five games at O’Neil Park, keeping the place hopping from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. The CCSL also schedules games on Friday night to accommodate teams whose religious commitments preclude playing soccer on Sunday. Religion and nationality have always held oversized roles in CCSL culture. Even today, when all teams

have ecumenical rosters and talent is more important than ethnic origin, sides still align with ancient roots. And they respect the openhearted attitude personified by Otto Massara, the Italian native who coached the Mexican Athletic Club’s Embassy Team. “Today, you’ll see Africans, Hispanics, Fiji Islanders and Europeans playing on various teams. It’s like one big family,” Radmand says. The soccer witnessed on Broadway can be exceptional, which is no accident. Several years ago, the CCSL was in trouble. It was losing teams to newer suburban leagues. It was beset

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18-year-old players in their physical, if not game-savvy, prime. A festive social atmosphere around Southside Park is another CCSL tradition. Admission for games is free. Teams share responsibility for organizing the food services, which produce culinary delights, with barbecue yielding to tacos, and tacos yielding back to barbecue. The CCSL has wrapped its top teams into a division called the Otto Massara Cup. It’s an appropriate distinction, honoring the man who helped introduce soccer to Sacramento, who nurtured a sport that became a fundamental experience for thousands of local children and made the Republic a viable business proposition. Otto Massara is still around, keeping an eye on O’Neil Park. Despite a potential red card from city authorities, who look down on this sort of thing, his ashes are scattered there. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n

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No on Measure B IT’S A SHORTSIGHTED APPROACH TO TRANSPORTATION FUNDING

he Sacramento Transportation Authority placed a questionable sales-tax measure on the November ballot. It calls for Sacramento County residents to tax themselves even more whenever they make a purchase. The new tax would be on top of the existing countywide sales tax devoted to transportation. Measure B would double the transportation tax rate and be imposed for 30 years. While sales taxes are convenient for government to collect, Measure B is decidedly bad tax policy. It’s even worse transportation policy, bad environmental policy and bad health policy. There are much smarter, fairer ways to raise and spend money for transportation. From the very start, the process that developed Measure B was flawed. The public was excluded as decisions were made by nonelected government staff and paid consultants. When the proposal developed behind closed doors was put before elected officials, those officials gave short shrift to public concerns about project priorities and their environmental impacts. In contrast, they paid very close attention to comments from developers and construction industry representatives, prime beneficiaries of the measure.

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Taxes hit people in the pocketbook, so any new tax must be carefully crafted and spent wisely for the greatest good. Federal and state legislators have been derelict in their duty to adequately fund transportation. Gas taxes have been fixed on a per-gallon basis for decades, with no adjustment for the better mileage newer cars get or for the effects of inflation. But raising transportation funding through a local sales tax instead of a gas or mileage tax is not the right way to go. It’s unfair and regressive. Those who use the roads the most should pay more for new road projects and maintenance. Everyone pays sales taxes, whether they drive or not. The poor pay proportionately more, even though they drive less. Yet the biggest problem with Measure B is not the taxation method but how the money will be used. Wellthought-out regional transportation plans call for any new transportation revenue to be used exclusively for road maintenance and transit maintenance and operations—known as a “fix-it-first” approach. There is nothing inherently wrong with that approach. Unfortunately, the proposed work in Measure B is not limited to fixit-first projects. It includes hugely expensive road and transit projects, such as the Southeast Connector and extensions of light rail to Elk Grove and the airport. These projects are sprawl inducing and sprawl supportive. Over the long term, the road capacity projects will induce more people to drive. They won’t, as the measure claims, result in congestion relief. Instead, they will

cause more congestion grief. We need transit that provides frequent and fast service, not a system that ensures poor service by diluting it over a large area.

Over the long term, the road capacity projects will induce more people to drive. They won’t, as the measure claims, result in congestion relief.

While the automotive and tech industries recognize that transportation is going to be transformed, Measure B doesn’t. It locks in 30 years’ worth of spending based on today’s transportation model, not a future system that will be radically different. It’s simply not flexible or visionary enough. Measure B’s business-asusual approach will not improve neighborhood livability or quality of life. In fact, increased traffic will result in more noise and air pollution. Transportation is the economic sector that creates 40 percent of the greenhouse gases that causes global warming. Measure B doesn’t change the existing fossil-fuel-burning transportation paradigm. Measure B’s promotional materials promise to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety, but there is absolutely no certainty it will deliver on that promise. The measure makes using funds for cost-effective, healthy pedestrian and bicycle projects optional, not obligatory. Further, the increased traffic from road capacity projects will make pedestrians and bicyclists less safe, not more. We need taxes that are fairly raised and wisely spent. We need a transportation system that doesn’t hurt neighborhoods or the environment and helps make our citizens healthier, not sicker. Measure B fails as a fair tax measure and fails to deliver the best transportation system. Not only can we do better; we must do better. Vote No!

The 30-year life of Measure B is hugely problematic. Because of emerging self-driving technology, we are on the cusp of a revolution in transportation. It is not clear how this future will play out, but we should anticipate dramatic changes. These changes will come soon, perhaps within five years. They certainly will materialize within the 30-year life of Measure B. Driverless cars are already on the streets in Pittsburgh and Singapore. There is fierce competition to develop and mature self-driving technology. Consortiums of automakers, tech companies such as Google and Apple, and transportation service providers such as Uber and Lyft have hired thousands of employees and are Walt Seifert writes “Getting There” investing billions of dollars to alter fundamentally the way we get around. for Inside Publications. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net n

Yes on Measure B IT WILL FUND CRITICAL TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS

BY STEVE HANSEN

emember the last time rushhour gridlock made you late for work? Or the time you swerved to miss a gaping pothole and nearly careened into the car in the next lane? Count these among the many aspects of our deteriorating roads and transit system—mounting problems for which Measure B offers a longterm solution. Measure B, on the November ballot, will generate $3.6 billion over 30 years to repave streets, repair aging roads and bridges, fund highway, connector and interchange projects, and support maintenance, security and expansion of transit services.

A majority of this money will go toward filling potholes, resurfacing roads and modernizing roadways. A majority of this money will go toward filling potholes, resurfacing roads and modernizing roadways throughout the county so that they are safer for bicyclists, pedestrians, drivers and transit users. We all recognize the need here in Sacramento to “Fix It First.” Every day when we drive to work, we see and feel potholes that damage our vehicles and make our

roadways dangerous for bicyclists and pedestrians. If we don’t fill the potholes now, they will only get bigger and more expensive to fix, and make it even more expensive for cashstrapped families to repair damaged vehicles. Measure B will also fund essential countywide transportation projects, including fixing the Capital City Freeway bottleneck and improving service, safety and security on light rail and buses. Measure B requires that 75 percent of the funds generated in the first five years address lingering and deferred

maintenance issues. To ensure that these funds are spent properly, a citizens oversight committee will perform annual audits of the expenditure plan, which can be found at sacramentogo.com. In the unincorporated areas of Sacramento County alone, the budget is $8 million a year for road repair and maintenance versus a $450 million backlog. The cities of Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Folsom, Galt and Isleton face similar daunting backlogs. That’s why nearly 70 percent of Measure B funding is directed

proportionally to all local agencies for road repair and maintenance. Measure B provides a dedicated source of local funding so that Sacramento County can secure state and federal matching funds when they become available. These funds will be necessary to complete our future plans to bring light rail to the airport and Elk Grove and improve our transportation infrastructure as our regional economy continues to grow. The transportation improvement projects in Measure B will keep Sacramento motorists safe, pave the way for first responders to do their job, enable businesses to run efficiently, make our region attractive for economic investment, and allow families to make their way safely around the county. That’s why Democrats like Mayor-elect Darrell Steinberg and Republicans like Supervisor Susan Peters have joined with local businesses and labor unions, Friends of Light Rail, Downtown Sacramento Partnership and others to support Measure B. So this fall when you get your ballot, find Measure B and vote yes. Steve Hansen represents District 4 on the Sacramento City Council. n

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What Lies Beneath IT’S IMPORTANT TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR SOIL

nless we are growing root vegetables such as radishes or carrots, we tend to focus on what is above ground in our gardens. We think in terms of feeding plants when what we really need to do is build a healthy soil conducive to growth. The soil provides air, water and nutrients to a plant’s roots, but it can also be a source of problems. You need to dig beneath the surface, figuratively and literally, to evaluate the health of your plants. You may already have removed your summer vegetable garden. If you haven’t, pull up the plants and take a good look at the roots. They should be devoid of masses of white nodules that indicate root knot nematodes have invaded your planting area. Nematodes are bad news for many fruits and vegetables, although there are some resistant varieties. You can reduce nematode population by solarizing the soil in the summer, rotating crops or leaving soil fallow (unplanted) for a year or two Tomatoes should have deep root systems. If the roots haven’t penetrated very far, it could be that you didn’t loosen the root ball of the plant during planting, or the soil was too dry or compacted. Sometimes you will discover that the roots have rotted away and the soil is soggy just a few inches beneath the surface. You may simply be overwatering, or there may be an

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impenetrable layer of hardpan under the surface. Most vegetables need regular water and good drainage. Drainage is an issue for most of the drought-tolerant plants suited to our Mediterranean climate. Many a salvia and lavender have rotted miserably away in my home garden’s dense silt-clay soil. They thrive in the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery’s well-drained sandy loam, where I’ve gardened for many years. At my house, if you fill a hole with water, it drains very slowly. In the cemetery, it empties in 30 minutes or less. It’s amazing how different the soil is just 5 miles apart. If you have poorly drained soil, improve its drainage by mixing in fine lava rock, known as

“lava fines,” and building mounds before planting. If you aren’t sure what kind of soil you have, get your hands dirty and feel it. Squeeze a handful of damp soil and form it into a ball. If it holds together, feels smooth and makes a 2-inch or longer ribbon when you rub it between your thumb and forefinger, it’s clay. If the soil feels gritty and makes a short ribbon or crumbles apart, it’s sandy. Many soils are a combination of both, along with silt and organic matter. The condition of all types of soil will benefit if you maintain layers of compost and mulch on its surface, feeding the underground organisms that enrich and aerate the soil. Replenish this

layer regularly because it rapidly decomposes. Most Sacramento soils are low in nitrogen and organic matter and are somewhat alkaline. Nitrogen is essential for plant growth but is water soluble and quickly runs through. You can analyze soil to see what nutrients are present and determine its pH (a measurement of acidity or alkalinity). Use a do-ityourself test kit, available online and in garden centers, or send a sample to a laboratory for more complete analysis and recommendations. With the test results, you can better determine what fertilizers and other amendments are needed for the plants you want to grow.

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Master of the Mailbox SHE DESIGNS BEAUTIFUL CATALOGS FOR NATIONAL FURNITURE RETAILERS

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ehind some of those pesky home-furnishing catalogs that arrive in your mailbox is an unsung artist—a hard worker who is passionate about what she does and has a knack for controlling chaos. “I make pretty junk mail.” That is how Kelly Popejoy, a freelance creative, design and photo art director, describes her job. She smiles when she says it. Popejoy has direct blue eyes, barely tamed curls and tiny freckles. It’s easy to imagine her commanding a crew, orchestrating a photo shoot, getting the job done. With a client list that includes Ashley Furniture HomeStore, BrylaneHome and Grandin Road, she does everything: developing the initial

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catalog concept, overseeing photo and art direction on location, creating and laying out the final design and delivering the whole lot to the printer on deadline. A single catalog can take more than three months from start to finish. She spends most of her time on the road. Recent catalogs have been shot in Shanghai, North Carolina and Miami. In Florida, Popejoy contacted local real estate agents to find suitable locations. The agents, in turn, had to persuade the homeowners to let Popejoy move into their homes— homes worth more than $3 million. Popejoy and her crew showed up with four large trucks crammed with merchandise, removed the owners’ furnishings and quickly moved in. She worried about artistic details, including the afternoon light, which turned a white bedspread yellow (a no-no in the catalog world), and

a chandelier that refused to hang correctly. (She secured it with wires.) A large silver crab makes an appearance in several photos, along with smiling children and a Boston terrier. Blue accents abound. What looks like a dining room in the finished catalog is actually a boy’s bedroom. She had three different photographers working in three different rooms. It was 10- to 12-hour days of “mass hysteria,” she recalls. Light, color, angles: Popejoy obsessed about everything. She still thinks about it, even though the catalog has long since left her hands and arrived in your mailbox. “You have to be ‘geeked’ about this,” she says. The best part of her job is getting and making a great photo. The worst part is when she can’t find the stuff she needs in the trucks; she knows she is “burning money and daylight” (more no-nos). The best and worst

often occur on the same day, on the same shoot.

Light, color, angles: Popejoy obsessed about everything. She still thinks about it, even though the catalog has long since left her hands and arrived in your mailbox. Popejoy, a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago, has a bachelor’s degree in film and video. She interned at a photo studio at the age of 18,

followed by a stint working with extras on the movie “Ali,” where she got to see Will Smith every day. “I had all these great experiences in Chicago. I was ready for LA,” she says. Los Angeles, however, wasn’t a good fit for the Chicago native, even though she secured a job at CBS Paramount Studios. She says, “I was told, frankly, that I wasn’t tall, skinny and blond.” Popejoy returned to Chicago and became a regional visual merchandise manager for Z Gallerie. But catalog production runs in her family. Her stepfather worked for Spiegel, a catalog company, and her mom was in printing. She discovered that she “liked to shoot things that don’t move or talk back to me.” Interior design became a passion. Popejoy joined the corporate world, working as a catalog creative supervisor and senior art director, where she was a phenom. A few years ago, her husband, Luke Preczewski, received an offer from UC Davis Transplant Center to be the executive director. At that time, Popejoy and Preczewski were living and working in separate cities, so they took the opportunity and moved to Sacramento. “I fell in love with it. I loved the flowery streets,” she says. She started her own business, KLP Creative, which she operates out of the couple’s East Sacramento home. Instagram provided a way for her to connect socially with other local

artists, and her account has more than 2,700 followers.

“I make pretty junk mail.” That is how Kelly Popejoy, a freelance creative, design and photo art director, describes her job. The available food and wine choices have surprised and delighted Popejoy. When she is not on the road, she and Preczewski walk to Orphan Breakfast House. They also ride their bikes to Federalist Public House, The Golden Bear or Rick’s Dessert Diner. The Waterboy is a personal favorite. “They have the best menu. We take everyone there,” Popejoy says. Although she likes to travel and loves what she does, she is happy to arrive home. “I pinch myself every time I leave and come back.”

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Gone But Not Forgotten A READING LIST OF OBSCURE BOOKS WORTH READING

f you worked in a restaurant that sold nothing but fried chicken, you’d probably get sick of fried chicken pretty quickly. You wouldn’t want to see it. You wouldn’t want to eat it. And when you weren’t at work, you wouldn’t want to even think about it. I work in a bookstore that sells nothing but new books. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with fried chicken, either. Our bookstore is not large. It does not have a deep, deep inventory. We can’t afford to stock books that will find a buyer only once every eight years. Thus, we stock a lot of popular fiction and nonfiction, current hardback bestsellers, perennially popular self-help books, bona fide literary classics, and that’s about it. We have plenty of books by John Steinbeck, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. I have no problem with these books and the people who read them. I don’t even have a problem with the people who read Lee Child, Stephen King or Sandra Brown. More power to ’em. But when I get out of that bookstore and go looking for something to read, I usually find myself drawn to dank and dusty used-book stores, library sales, garage sales, antiquarian book fairs and other places teeming with books that are hard to find, out of print or simply

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really, really obscure. In other words, I go looking for something other than fried chicken. What amazes me (and also depresses me a little) is how many truly wonderful books have fallen into almost complete neglect. I thought I would use this month’s column to list some of the best obscure books that I read during the course of this past year. The biggest names in Old West literature all belong to men: Zane Grey, Louis L’Amour, Owen Wister, etc. Some excellent westerns have been written by women, but to find them you have to be as relentless as the fictional Native American tracker, Lord Baltimore, in the film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” One of those great westerns is “So Far From Spring,” written Peggy Simson Curry and originally published back in 1956. The book was briefly brought back into print in the early 1980s but has been out of print for most of the past 60 years. Curry’s book is about real cowboys rather than the movie kind. Her cowboys actually raise cows, move them from pasture to pasture during the temperate months, feed them hay and oats when the winter comes, nurse them when they are sick, herd them and take them to market. There are no gunfights or saloon brawls in “So Far From Spring.” Most of the cowboys are too poor to own a gun. Fortunately, they rarely have any need for one. Cows seldom challenge anyone to a duel. The story takes place mainly on a cattle ranch in North Park, Colo. Curry, who grew up on a cattle ranch in Colorado in the early 20th century, knows her milieu well. Her main

character is a Scotsman named Kelsey Cameron, who leaves his homeland in 1898 and ventures to the land of opportunity—America—in search of his own piece of land and the freedom to run his own cattle, rather than merely tending the herds of some Scottish laird. Curry brings to her novel something rare in the literature of the Old West: a special gift for considering the perspective of the women who lived on the frontier. Curry’s female characters speculate on how much better life would be for them if they weren’t so often pregnant. They confer with each other on abortion methods. And even the youngest character, Kelsey’s daughter Heather, must contend with the unwanted advances of sex-starved cowboys, though she is still only a child. This is a harsh, unromanticized vision of the Old West, a story with a surprising feminist twist. Why it hasn’t been rediscovered by feminist scholars and university literature departments, I don’t know. But it’s definitely worth tracking down, even

if all you’re looking for is a ripsnorting page turner. “Winter Wheat,” by Mildred Walker, is another western novel told from a female perspective. This one is set in the early 1940s, right before and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The story takes place in a remote part of Montana, where most of the characters live in isolation from their neighbors on family-owned wheat farms. The main character is Ellen Webb, a 17-year-old high school senior when we first meet her. She is proud of her heritage as a westerner and a farmer. She is proud of her father, a transplant from Vermont, and her mother, a Russian peasant woman whom her father met when he was fighting in Russia during World War I. The book was originally published in 1944. Since the early 1990s it, like most of Mildred Walker’s other novels, has been kept in print by University of Nebraska Press. In his introduction to the novel, James Welch notes, “We see through WRITING page 43

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Calling in Sick LIFE LESSONS FROM A MISGUIDED DAY OFF

ho hasn’t feigned illness to take a day off from work? This was my question as I called the Baylor University bookstore one Friday morning in the fall of 1978. When my manager picked up the line, I winked knowingly at my new girlfriend sitting beside me. “I’m not feeling well today.” Cough, cough. “I can’t come in until Monday.” “Then you’re fired!” he said. I wasn’t expecting the finality in his answer. I could hear a pulse in my ears. “Don’t come back,” he added before slamming down the phone receiver. My face flushed and my eyes suddenly felt overhydrated. I was having a grief reaction, anticipating the loss of the prestige I’d enjoyed interacting with university professors and freshman co-eds. How had I miscalculated this scenario? Was my boss aware of the love-struck hormonal illness with which I was afflicted? How would I afford to take my girlfriend to the backto-school dance? I had to make this right for many reasons. The bookstore was the center of university life, and I didn’t want to be dodging my boss for the next year. I needed to apologize. How does one apologize for such bald-faced lying? First, it’s always good to allow a cool-down period. I waited a few weeks

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for the back-to-school rush to and called for an appointment. Once inside the manager’s office, I kept it simple. I admitted that I hadn’t been sick. Plain and guileless. “I’m sorry for lying.” I didn’t excuse my action or bring my girlfriend into the picture. Second, I expressed understanding for his situation. I admitted that I had abandoned my colleagues, causing them to be shorthanded at the store’s busiest time of the year. Third, I asked for forgiveness. He granted that.

Finally, I think I surprised him when I asked his help to clarify the lessons I needed to learn. That question brought his deepest thought. “Who is it you want to be?” he asked. “Pardon me?” “Well, I know you’re a ministerial student, so I know what you want to be. But beyond that, who do you want be?” I thought I got his drift, but I wasn’t entirely sure. “I think above all,” he said, “you want to be a person who people trust.

I think you want to be a person who keeps his word.” “I see three lessons,” he continued. “First, don’t lie. Lying shows you don’t believe you’re capable of being who you want to be. Don’t sell yourself short. I know you are capable of being who you want to be.” “Second, if I’m not mistaken, Jesus said, ‘Let your yes be yes and your no, no. Whatever is more than these is from the evil one.’” In other words, my ex-boss was telling me to be sure of what I want before I commit to something. And when I do commit, I should keep my word. “Third.” He cleared his throat, trying to remember his third point. He gave up on that. “Just remember those two for now. Don’t lie and keep your word.” The bookstore manager was OK in my book—even if he didn’t give me my old job back. Fortunately, he gave me a good reference for a better-paying job as a night watchman in a local bank. Good thing, too. I could afford to take the girl to the dance. Unfortunately, I can’t dance, and she broke up with me. Happily, I met and married my wife after that. But that’s a story for another day. Norris Burkes is a chaplain, national speaker and author. On Veteran’s Day weekend, he will give a sermon at Impact Community Church about a soldier who asks God to forgive the insurgents who killed his squad leader. The church is at 8299 East Stockton Blvd. Services will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday and 9, 10:15 and 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Burkes can be reached at norris@thechaplain.net n

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WRITING FROM page 40 Ellen Webb’s eyes. We feel the stalks of wheat through her fingers, the wind through her hair. We hear the howl of the blizzard through her ears. We smell her mother’s borscht through her nose. Above all, we are in her mind as she attempts to make sense of her emotions, of her relationship with her parents, of her parents’ relationship with each other, of their relationship with the land.” Midway through the novel, Ellen goes off to college in Minnesota, where she finds herself falling for Gil, a sophisticated city boy with no experience of the rural West. When Gil comes to visit Ellen in Montana during the summer break, she is forced to view her world—the farm, her parents, the house they live in—through Gil’s eyes, and it causes her to start doubting the beauty and nobility of that world for the first time in her life. At that point, Ellen’s humble roots and lofty ambitions go to war with one another. This internal war is nicely

played out against the coming of a

readers seem familiar with her work.

fields. Both must deal with the deaths

real war—World War II—to America.

This is a shame, because West was

of loved ones. And both women

Though the book is kept in print by

an excellent writer. If you want to

are sexually betrayed by their own

University of Nebraska’s Bison Books

familiarize yourself with her work, a

daughters.

imprint, you’re more likely to find

good place to start is with her 1979

it at a used-book store than a new one. It deserves to be as well known

novel “The Life I Really Lived.” In the first half of this book, we

The second half of “The Life I Really Lived” also includes a gripping courtroom drama, a passionate

as that other masterpiece of Great

watch Orpha Chase grow from a

love affair with an up-and-coming

Plains literature, Willa Cather’s “O

socially awkward schoolgirl into a

movie star and a detailed account of

Pioneers!” But sadly, few people seem

twice-married young woman. The

the rise of one of California’s first

to have heard of it.

action—and there’s plenty of it—

megachurches (clearly patterned

takes place in northern Kentucky

after Aimee Semple McPherson’s

has done for Mildred Walker, some

mostly during the 1920s. This part of

Foursquare Church). Though set

California small press ought to do

the story includes a couple of suicides,

mainly in Southern California, a key

for Jessamyn West. Though born in

a couple of murders, some incest,

plot point in the second half of the

Indiana, West moved to California

adultery and plenty of other juicy

book involves both Sacramento and

with her family when she was 6 years

material.

Yuba City.

What University of Nebraska

The next time you’re looking for

old. She grew up in Yorba Linda,

But the best part of the book is the

graduated from Whittier College

second half. In 1932, still a relatively

a good book to read, don’t ignore the

and did postgraduate work at UC

young woman, Orpha moves to

dusty out-of-print volumes that call

Berkeley. She was a second cousin

California and eventually pursues a

from garage-sale boxes and thrift-

to Yorba Linda’s most famous native

writing career. This part of the book,

store shelves. There is a lot more

son, Richard Nixon. In 1960, West

which delineates Orpha’s professional

to life than best-sellers and fried

and her husband moved to an estate

rise, is very reminiscent of James M.

chicken.

in Napa, where she lived for the

Cain’s masterpiece “Mildred Pierce.”

remaining 24 years of her life.

Both Orpha and Mildred have to

Despite her strong connection

overcome disastrous marriages. Both

to the Golden State, few California

Orpha and Mildred eventually become

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No Shortcuts MAGPIE CAFE IS A LEADING LIGHT OF THE SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT

t’s a little before lunchtime on a Monday. A chalkboard on P Street announces Magpie Cafe’s daily specials, including a BLT that makes me wish I liked bacon. Inside, the menu is written on rustic butcher paper and attached to a yellow post. Wine lists are neatly stacked in baskets. Check out the ceiling. There is a lot of black, but it is an efficient and modern black. Ed Roehr, Magpie’s co-owner, walks in the front door carrying a stack of clean blue towels. He’s wearing sneakers with black socks, plaid shorts, large sunglasses and a porkpie hat—at least I think it is a porkpie. It’s a memorable ensemble even without the hat. It’s another day at the “office” for Roehr. While Roehr and Janel Inouye, his wife and Magpie’s co-owner, did not pioneer Sacramento’s farm-tofork movement, they are the next generation to embrace it. “We might have been first in the new wave,” Roehr says. He tips his hat to other Sacramento restaurants like Biba, Paragary’s and The Waterboy and says they were doing a great job before he and Inouye started their catering company in 2005, the forerunner to Magpie Cafe. “We’re at the same big table together,” he says. The couple earned their spot at Sacramento’s farm-to-fork table

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Janel Inouye and Ed Roehr of Magpie Cafe Photo courtesy of D L Cunningham Photography

through hard work and a commitment to offering seasonal and locally sourced food. Roehr started early in the business, washing dishes at Schooners, a

restaurant that was located across the street from Paragary’s. “I just never left the kitchen,” he says. “It seems like that was where I was supposed to be.” Inouye, a Sacramento native,

also spent a lot of time in restaurants, but her focus was on the front of the house. At one point in his career, Roehr went to Italy and worked in a restaurant in Venice for a year. That’s where he absorbed the philosophy behind the Slow Food movement, which advocates using quality, locally sourced ingredients, among other concepts. “The time I spent there was more about the lifestyle. There were no bars, TV or fast food,” he says. “It made me think about Sacramento and the bounty around us. How come we’re not doing this?” Although they’ve lived and worked in other places, including Santa Cruz and Honolulu, Roehr and Inouye returned to Sacramento to open their catering business. The couple started Magpie Catering with $10,000 and a business plan. They put an ad in the Yellow Pages (remember those?) and installed a business phone in their apartment. On the side, Inouye waited tables at Rubicon Brewery & Pub, and Roehr worked as a personal chef. They shared a commercial kitchen, which they rented by the hour, with other businesses. “We tried to offer foods that were seasonal,” Roehr says of those early days, but they had some pushback from their clients. Root vegetables, in particular, were a hard sell. “We had to show them how beautiful things can be in the dead of winter,” Inouye says. They eventually moved operations to R Street and opened Magpie Cafe. Magpie has relocated to an ultramodern space on P and 16th, and the couple has added Nido, a casual dining spot, and Yellowbill, a cafe

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1261 43RD AVE 7256 MILFORD ST 2103 57TH AVE 2941 TRENTWOOD WAY 1749 WAKEFIELD WAY 1527 LINDA VISTA LN 4301 CUSTIS AVE 2178 56TH AVE 4631 CUSTIS AVE 3151 ELLWOOD AVE 1518 STERLING ST 1780 60TH AVE 4201 CUSTIS AVE 4921 CRESTWOOD WAY 1453 SHERWOOD AVE 7451 TISDALE WAY 4912 HELEN WAY 2556 GARDENDALE RD 1817 WAKEFIELD WAY 2125 65TH AVE 6951 MIDDLECOFF WAY 2452 40TH AVE 1143 26TH AVE 5613 DANA WAY 7233 TAMOSHANTER WAY 2116 KIRK WAY 2171 54 AVE 7556 LEMARSH WAY 1443 WACKER WAY 2354 50TH AVE 1960 QUINCY AVE 7230 AMHERST ST 4709 22ND ST 1285 NOONAN DR 2816 52ND AVE 2301 TURNESA AVE 2816 HING AVE 7366 TILDEN WAY 1620 OREGON DR 6860 DIEGEL CIR 2524 37TH AVE 2231 67TH AVE 2367 MANGRUM AVE 1600 68TH AVE 5657 CARMELA WAY 1461 LONDON ST 5615 LONSDALE DR 7588 SAN FELICE CIR 7529 SCHREINER ST

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1125 BELL ST 347 RIO DEL ORO LN 501 WOODSIDE OAKS #4 2274-F SIERRA BLVD 2821 ARMSTRONG DR 305 FAIRGATE RD 820 WOODSIDE EAST LN #7 1921 KINCAID WAY 1920 KINCAID WAY 2208 WELDON WAY 747 FULTON AVE 2237 WOODSIDE LN #2 544 WOODSIDE OAKS #4 3165 ELLINGTON CIR 1034 COMMONS DR 963 FULTON AVE #557 628 WOODSIDE SIERRA #4 2416 LARKSPUR LN #234 548 WOODSIDE OAKS #1 2418 BRENTWOOD RD 2440 LARKSPUR LN #299 2116 BELL ST 606 EAST RANCH RD 2109 CORTEZ LN

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2910 ANDERSON WAY 1211 VANDERBILT WAY 1537 HOOD RD #F 2316 BARCELONA WAY 2265 SWARTHMORE DR 2380 LLOYD LN 114 DUNBARTON CIR

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524 RIVERGATE WAY 1305 BRANWOOD WAY 6120 WYCLIFFE WAY 6242 FORDHAM WAY 7443 MYRTLE VISTA AVE 8063 LINDA ISLE LN 6615 S LAND PARK DR 569 LEEWARD WAY 6717 13TH ST 1251 FAY CIR 824 KLEIN WAY 8081 LIDO ISLE LN 7503 RIO MONDEGO DR 551 LEEWARD WAY 7700 ELENA MARIE DR 452 BLUE DOLPHIN WAY 7707 GEORGE RIVER LN 6532 S LAND PARK DR 6 SPACE CT 7544 RIO MONDEGO DR 48 FARALLON CIR 110 AUDUBON CIR 466 TWIN RIVER WAY 1222 SILVER RIDGE WAY 7710 DUTRA BEND DR 2 WOODRIVER CT 1397 PALOMAR CIR 6161 S LAND PARK DR 1250 NORFOLK WAY 7632 AMBROSE WAY 7310 GLORIA DR 7125 BELL RIVER WAY 404 SPINNAKER WAY 7678 RIVER VILLAGE DR 31 LAKESHORE CIR 18 LOOKOUT CT 7413 DURFEE WAY 8046 LINDA ISLE LANE 470 TWIN RIVER WAY 1166 CEDAR TREE WAY 1179 GRAND RIVER DR 10 RIVERSHORE CT 7584 ALMA VISTA WAY 7447 DELTAWIND DR 6948 RIVERSIDE BLVD 6830 RIVERSIDE BLVD 7328 IDLE WILD WAY 6280 LAKE PARK DR 6837 S LAND PARK DR

95864

4057 ESPERANZA DR 3317 MAYFAIR DR 4305 COTTAGE WAY 4341 ULYSSES DR 1139 RIVARA CIR 4444 THOR WAY 4321 SIERRA MADRE DR 3625 LAS PASAS WAY 1721 LA PLAYA WAY 1713 ORION 1407 JONAS AVE 3635 LUSK DR 3737 ESPERANZA DR 1153 WATT AVE 1733 MERCURY WAY 1804 NEPTUNE WAY 4147 ASHTON DR 2060 MAPLE GLEN RD 1309 CARTER RD 2800 SIERRA BLVD 2031 VENUS DR 3360 FAIR OAKS BLVD 1431 LAS SALINAS WAY 3731 WINDING CREEK RD 2905 HOLT WAY 3741 LAS PASAS WAY 3337 SIERRA OAKS DR 4001 RANDOM LN 806 TREEHOUSE LN 1800 DEVONSHIRE RD 831 SOUTHWICK

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Clean Water PROJECT IS AIMED AT REMOVING THE YUCK

s I described in my last two articles, wastewater in the Sacramento region is processed at Regional San’s massive treatment plant in Elk Grove. Every day, an average of 150 million gallons of raw sewage is processed into an “effluent” that gets discharged into the Sacramento River. Local residents might ask: Is that processed wastewater clean enough? There are lots of different ways to define “clean,” and some definitions are laid out by the government in discharge permits. Regional San’s discharge permit is issued by the state of California in accordance with state and federal law (such as the Clean Water Act) and must be renewed every five years. Contrary to what I expected, the standards for effluent are not the same for every wastewater treatment facility. Instead, specific water-quality standards depend on the beneficial uses of the water into which the effluent is discharged. The Sacramento River is a treasured local resource. It’s used for agriculture, recreation and as a source of drinking water for other parts of California. Therefore, the standards in Regional San’s discharge permit are quite high, much higher than at facilities that discharge into, for example, the Pacific Ocean. To ensure that the standards are met, a

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state-certified testing lab is on site at the treatment plant. The lab employs biologists, chemists and analysts who perform about 60,000 tests per year, looking at everything from pH and phosphates to organic substances. Every day, the lab tests the plant’s effluent for coliform bacteria, ammonia and suspended solids. The lab also tests for trace amounts of metals and organics in special positive-pressure rooms designed to prevent contamination. Fluorescent lights are even banned in one room because such lights contain mercury. At the miniscule levels being studied, this can affect the test results. In addition to testing for specific chemicals in the water, the lab performs bioassays to see if the water

affects the survival, growth and reproduction of river organisms. In one bioassay, tiny rainbow trout (less than 1 month old) are placed in tanks of effluent from the plant for four days, and survival rates are measured. Regional San’s permit requires that at least 70 percent of the fish be able to survive in effluent water. By some measures, Regional San’s effluent is cleaner than the river water it joins. It’s less turbid and has fewer bacteria. By other measures, the effluent is a pollutant. In particular, treated wastewater carries nitrogen-containing compounds such as ammonia. Ammonia can be directly toxic to fish. It also acts as a fertilizer to promote the growth of algae and bacteria. Overgrowth by these

microorganisms depletes oxygen from the water, causing further harm to the ecosystem. That’s about to change. When Regional San’s discharge permit came up for renewal in 2010, stringent new requirements were added to protect the river and the Delta, whose fragile ecosystem receives flows from the Sacramento. By 2021, the plant must add a tertiary treatment process that will reduce its ammonia discharge by nearly 95 percent. Also, by 2023, it will further reduce disease-causing microorganisms (especially viruses) by adding a step that filters the effluent through sand and anthracite coal. Together, these mandatory improvements are called the EchoWater Project. These improvements don’t come cheap. With a budget of about $2 billion, EchoWater is one of the largest public-works projects in the region’s history. It’s a massive operation that began with construction of a miniature-version pilot plant that ran for about two years to test technologies and systems. Construction of the full-size facility is well underway, currently under budget and on schedule. To pay for EchoWater, Regional San is gradually raising customer rates. Currently, $12.50 per month of a single-family residential bill goes to fund EchoWater. This amount will increase slightly by 2020. Fortunately, these numbers are well below original estimates. EchoWater will advance our region’s treated wastewater. But things like phosphorus, pharmaceuticals and pyrethroids

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Driving Jobs Away AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WILL CHANGE THE WORKFORCE

elf-driving vehicles are on the

to handle the few nonautomated

road now. At least a dozen

responsibilities. Or imagine a system

major corporations are engaged

in which completely autonomous

in an intense, high-stakes competition

trucks operate between big-city

to dominate the markets for self-

transfer stations where local drivers

driving cars and trucks. Ford CEO

hook up and deliver loads to the final

Mark Fields says the company will

destination.

produce cars without steering wheels

Truckers would not be the only

or gas and brake pedals by 2021. Lyft

drivers affected. Uber alone has

president John Zimmer recently said

more than 600,000 drivers in the

that by 2021, “a majority” of rides

United States. Lyft, other ride-hailing

on its ride-hailing network will be in

firms and taxi companies have many

self-driving cars and that by 2025,

thousands more. There’s little loyalty

personal car ownership will be over.

between Uber and its drivers, whom

Some industry analysts believe

it considers independent contractors.

these forecasts are overly optimistic.

And there’s a tremendous incentive

There are technical issues with

for Uber and others to remove

nonhumans handling roads covered in

expensive labor—their drivers—as a

snow and ice or interpreting a police

cost factor in their operations. While

officer’s hand signals. Bureaucratic

many Uber and Lyft drivers work

issues surround liability, insurance

part time, they still generate income.

and vehicle certification. Consumers

Those jobs and that money are not

have to be willing to turn over their

likely to last much longer.

safety to software that may not be

Buses could also be automated.

perfect, even if it likely will operate

That includes Paratransit, corporate

more safely than a human. Yet

United States will be eliminated or

overall, it is very clear self-driving

transformed. There are 3.5 million truck drivers

Freeways are one of the simplest

employee shuttles and school buses.

environments for self-driving

Fare collection and security on public

software to manage. It is easier for

transit would have to be addressed

exact arrival date is uncertain.

in the United States. Long-haul

artificial intelligence to deal with the

and resolved. A school bus might be

The advent of completely

drivers move the goods that we

variables of freeway driving—speed,

too anarchic an environment to have

autonomous vehicles is going to

need. They represent a significant

lane position and safe separation from

without the steadying influence and

revolutionize how we get around. It’s

part of the middle-class, blue-collar

other vehicles—than urban driving,

adult supervision of a driver.

also going to bring seismic changes in

workforce. Their wages represent

which has many complex variables.

employment. Millions of jobs in the

a third of freight costs. Despite

City streets have pedestrians,

as UPS or FedEx, to go driverless,

the long hours they put in, drivers

bicyclists, parked cars, stop signs,

there would have to be a method to

need to sleep, take vacations and

traffic signals, tight turns and varying

move packages from truck to door.

receive health care benefits. Those

speed limits.

It’s possible drones could do this,

vehicles are on their way, even if the

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limitations disappear with trucks that

While Otto says its trucks will still

For local delivery trucks, such

but someone, at least in the near

can operate without a driver. Self-

need drivers to handle tasks such as

term, would have to load the drones.

driving truck startup Otto, recently

loading, unloading, paperwork and

A dedicated loader, with no driving

purchased by Uber, expects to have a

refueling, it’s pretty easy to foresee

responsibilities, perhaps could do that

$30,000 kit that will allow trucks to

a future that has drivers sleeping in

as the truck trolls the street.

operate autonomously.

trucks that are on the road essentially 24/7. The driver would be available

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A Conversation with Merit Graham

CO-OWNER OF HEAVENLY SALT SPA, ALONG WITH JOSE MENDOZA

Why did you and Jose decide to open a salt spa in August? We had seen a piece on TV about the benefits of salt therapy and how it can be a homeopathic cure for respiratory issues. Our granddaughter has severe asthma and would use her puffer several times a day, so we decided to take her to a salt spa in Walnut Creek. She had one 45-minute session and didn’t have to use her puffer for a week. It got the medications out of her system and has helped maintain her health. But salt therapy—or halotherapy, “halo” is Greek for “salt”—works differently for everyone. For me, I have bad allergies, and since I’ve been doing salt therapy, I haven’t had to take any medication and can use both sides of my nose. It’s really for anyone and everyone who wants to feel better.

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How does salt therapy work? The salt we use is approximately 200 million years old and comes from crystallized sea salt beds in northern Pakistan. We use a salt generator to crush this mineral-rich salt into microionized dry aerosol particles that are then inhaled. Both White Himalayan and Pink Himalayan salt particles have antiinflammatory properties that help open the airways and reduce or eliminate mucus from the lungs. Halotherapy produces negative ions, which packs the benefits of three days at the ocean into one 45-minute session and can help combat the effects of free radicals in our environment.

manager of regional services for Best Western Hotels and Resorts. So we work very well together and have a lot of business experience. After taking our granddaughter to the spa in Walnut Creek, we started doing research on halotherapy and found out that it’s a top spa trend across the country. We reached out to companies in the Los Angeles area who were also doing salt therapy and worked with them to source our salt and our halogenerators. We then hired a masonry expert to create our salt wall by cutting square blocks of salt into a beautiful pattern and backlighting it so you can see the salt’s full range of colors.

How did you go about setting up Heavenly Salt Spa? We’ve both been in the hospitality industry for years. Jose is a chef by trade and has owned restaurants in Roseville and Granite Bay, and I’m a

What else does Heavenly Salt Spa offer? Our infrared sauna is very popular. The infrared light heats up your core faster—the room can reach 140 degrees—so you sweat more and get rid

of toxins more efficiently. We also have a masseuse starting soon to complete the relaxation experience. We’ve been very lucky with how everything has worked out. It feels like this is meant to be. Heavenly Salt Spa is at 3325 Folsom Blvd. For more information, call 4551525 or go to heavenlysaltspa.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com.

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A Conversation with Lisa Lopez SHE IS THE CO-OWNER OF BLEU, ALONG WITH MARSHA MCGILL AND LAURIE NEWMAN

How did you, Marsha and Laurie end up owning a shop together? This is essentially the reincarnation of a store that Laurie opened in Fair Oaks Village several years back. Laurie has been in the antique business for almost 30 years—her parents even had an antique shop in Folsom—and she was one of the owners of Le Jardin, the first-of-its-kind vintage French shop in town. Le Jardin closed in 2003 after many years and soon thereafter Laurie moved up to Fair Oaks Village to open Bleu. I started as her customer at Le Jardin and later reconnected with her at Bleu in Fair Oaks. We became friends and she kindly encouraged me to sell with her. (I was a stay-at-home mom at the time.) Earlier this year, Laurie’s good friend Marsha, who’s a full-time special education teacher, said she had wanted to bring a clothing boutique into the mix, so we thought, “Why can’t we do a boutique where we curate vintage pieces, a few new items, chic clothing and unique gifts?”

complement to our vintage items. She is proud to carry Mother denim (quite an exclusive brand) and Campomaggi bags from Italy, among other wonderful lines. The best compliment we’ve received over the years is when our customers who have traveled and shopped overseas tell us the shop has a distinct European feel. That’s what we are aiming for.

What’s the advantage of buying vintage? I’ve been “green” for as long as I can remember. With vintage, you can get things that are quite lovely and also incredibly smart from a value standpoint. The question is, how do you incorporate older pieces into a modern setting? I think the key is that something with history can make a room, a home, more interesting and bring everything together.

The good pieces are hard to find—I was lucky to make it to France twice last year to source products—so when we do, it’s very rewarding to have our loyal customers snap things up. When you’re in this business, you buy what you’re attracted to. Having a sophisticated buyer who understands the products and also loves to support local shops buy what you’ve discovered makes us very happy. We are very glad to have opened our boutique in East Sac this June. And next year, my husband of 22 years and I are moving to England to be closer to his family. We will have easy access to France and all her treasures—Laurie will also accompany me as often as she can for fun buying trips so Bleu will have its own international buyers! Looking for something special? Check out Bleu at 3319 Folsom Blvd. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com.

The combination clearly works for Bleu. How do you decide what to stock? When Laurie and I search for vintage pieces, we have a very similar aesthetic: We both lean French when buying, it’s just what we’re attracted to. We pride ourselves on carrying the real McCoy, vintage pieces that are actually sourced from Europe, and we like to carry new items that nobody else has. Marsha wanted to carry chic, easyto-wear, organic cotton clothing that’s locally made, which was a nice

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All Together Now HE BRINGS TOGETHER VOICES FOR AN ALL-FEMALE CHORAL GROUP

he motto for Vox Musica, the

Paulson was a regular on the

innovative women’s vocal

national honor choir circuit in high

ensemble, is Music Worth

school. Yet he knew he was destined

Sharing. That motto perfectly fits

to one day wield the baton.

both the group and its founder and

“Even in high school, I knew

music director, Daniel Paulson.

music education and being a choral

“To quote the father of American

director was my path,” Paulson says.

choral, Robert Shaw, I know of no

“I found that I could see the paths of

other art form in which an individual

least resistance—to help people learn

with limited skills is enhanced by the

music faster and help them meet their

group,” Paulson says.

creative goals.”

Vox Musica serves as the perfect outlet for Paulson’s expansive imagination.

“I’ll see something really interesting, and it’s my job to find a pathway.”

He founded the all-female group

But after his first summer of

10 years ago after earning his

graduate school, Paulson was

master’s degree in choral conducting

feeling stymied. One of his mentors

at California State University, Los

suggested he go home and start his

Angeles. (He also has a bachelor

own group. Paulson did just that in

degree in voice performance from

2006.

Sacramento State.) “Working in a

“I wanted to create something in

group is really powerful,” he says.

town that I felt there was a need for,”

“Everyone’s voice is unique. It’s

he explains. “At that time, I couldn’t

of our spirit, our thumbprint. To

find a women’s choir working at the

share it, you have to be completely

skill level I knew was possible. So I

vulnerable. In choral singing, you

brought some friends together and

have to be vulnerable with others.

started Vox to forge new ground in

I fully believe you can transform

choral work.”

Vox Musica serves as the perfect Daniel Paulson of the founder of Vox Musica

situations through singing. It’s

an organist, and his father is a choir

empowering.”

director. In his family, he says,

Paulson comes from a musical family: His mother is a singer and

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“you played a sport, you played an instrument and you went to church. That was our life.”

outlet for Paulson’s expansive imagination. Over the past 10 years, the group has produced 40 concert projects and has given more than 100 concert performances. Its repertoire

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has inspired Paulson—who is a

Swedish, Japanese, Hungarian,

tenure-track professor of voice and

Georgian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Farsi,

choral at Sacramento City College

Arabic, Nahuatl (ancient Aztec) and

and a resident artist at the Tahoe

Nisenan (an archaic Native American

Symphony—to go even bigger and

language).

better.

“I’ll see something really

“We have something pretty exciting

interesting, and it’s my job to find

in the works that I can’t talk about

a pathway,” Paulson says. “For

yet,” Paulson says. “We’re also

example, I saw a local taiko dan

in conversations with an Italian

drumming group and I was just

percussionist from the Bay Area, as

mesmerized. I said, ‘I really want to

well as a local poet who has a major

work with these people,’ so I made it

collection of poetry we want to use as

my job to find a way to incorporate it

the center of a project. And of course

into a project. Collaborations are at

we’re going to incorporate even more

the heart of our organization. If can’t

educational outreach—there’s always

find published music, I’ll go out and

an educational component.”

get music made by friends. I get all these crazy ideas and think, ‘This is cool. Now, how can I bridge the gap?’” Paulson is clearly very good at

For more information on upcoming Vox Musica concerts, visit voxmusica. net.

bridging the gap, and the American Society of Composers and Publishers took note. This year, Vox Musica was

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awarded the 2015-16 National Award

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2000 musicians will come together at the Memorial Auditorium for Symphony of 2000 on Nov. 20

TO DO THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS

2000 Strong “Symphony of 2000” presented by the Sacramento Youth Symphony Sunday, Nov. 20, at 4 p.m. Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St. 731-5777, sacramentoyouthsymphony.org

After making history with its Symphony of 1000 (1,000 musicians coming together to play the same music in a concert of epic proportions), the Sacramento Youth Symphony is doubling down and inviting all instrumentalists and vocalists of the Sacramento Valley region to come and participate in the Symphony of 2000, a unique orchestral and choral experience under the able baton of artistic director and conductor Michael Neumann. People of all ages and abilities are invited to choose and perform as many pieces as they would like from the selection of classical and well-known compositions that include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,” George Frideric Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” from “The Messiah,” “Amazing Grace” and John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes.” Check out their website to ﬁnd music selections and more information.

Forget Her Not “Ani Lo Eshkakh—I Will Not Forget,” a one-woman show by Sherilyn Zeff Saturday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Nov. 20, at 2 p.m.

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The Center at Twenty-Three Hundred, 2300 Sierra Blvd. 818-653-6519, 541-3720, tinyurl.com/aniloeshkakh

Emotions will abound when performer Sherilyn Zeff presents her one-woman dramatic anthology of the Holocaust, constructed of excerpts from books, plays, diaries, memos, poems and songs set in chronological order from 1933—when Adolf Hitler came to power—to the end of World War II in 1945. Zeff portrays 12 characters, ranging in age from 11 to 50. This multimedia production is sponsored by the KOH Library and Cultural Center and the Central Valley Holocaust Educators Network (CVHEN). The Sunday matinee performance will be followed by a short discussion, moderated by Holocaust survivor and CVHEN President Liz Igra.

Call Him Ishmael “William Ishmael and Friends” art exhibit Nov. 7 through Dec. 3 Second Saturday reception on Nov. 12 from 6-9 p.m. The Archival Gallery, 3223 Folsom Blvd. 923-6204, archivalgallery.com

It’s a group effort! Check out new collaborative artwork created by beloved local artist William Ishmael along with a roster of fellow creatives Jerry Barnes, Julie Didion, Maureen Hood, Margaret Teichert, Robert-Jean Ray and others. The exhibit, which took over a year to complete, offers a peek into the artistic collaborative process. And congratulations are in order: Archival Gallery is expanding! A larger gallery space will be unveiled during this exhibition. While Archival will still offer in-house framing, the gallery portion of Archival will be expanded to include new artists.

Self-Preservation “40 Years of Preservation” photography exhibit Nov. 5 through Dec. 17, Reception on Nov. 12 from 3:30-5 p.m. Ella K. McClatchy Library, 2112 22nd St. saclibrary.org, sacramentoheritage.org

This photographic exhibit highlights several successful projects that have been preserved, restored, rehabilitated and adaptively reused to contribute to Sacramento’s unique historic identity and evolving neighborhood character as part of a 40-year preservation program. The city of Sacramento established this historic preservation program in 1975 and, over the past four decades, has acted to recognize and inventory hundreds of historically signiﬁcant buildings, structures and landscapes and 33 historic districts in our capital. This exhibit is a collaborative effort of the city of Sacramento Preservation Commission, Sacramento Heritage Inc., and many other local organizations.

Mary Dignan's mosaic masks will be on display at SMUD Art Gallery. Photo courtesy of Diana Jahns.

Masters of Disguise “Masked: Sacramento Area Artists Explore the Art of Disguise” art show Through Nov. 16 SMUD Art Gallery, 6301 S St. smud.org, smac.org

Through a variety of mediums—including photography, ﬁber, paintings, drawings, mosaic, metal and collage—Sacramento area artists depict the various ways of hiding identity or revealing issues of social or cultural import in this fascinating exhibition at the SMUD Art Gallery, part of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission’s Art in Public Places program. The exhibit features diverse works by 20 contemporary artists, including Dawn Blanchﬁeld, Judy Butler, Laura Caron, Mary Dignan, Marie Dixon, Sha Sha Higby, William Ishmael, Jaymee Kjelland, Barbetta Lockart, Barry Lowery, Yoli Manzo, Eileen Marcotte, La La Ortiz, Carol Matthew-Rogers, Jill Allyn Stafford, Susan Silvester, Angela Tannehill, Garr Ugalde, Jace Ugalde and Carol Wittich.

A collaborative work by William Ishmael and Sean Royal at the Archival Gallery this month

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Primed for Laughs “Prime Time for the Holidays,” a new retro musical comedy by Bob Cooner Oct. 28 through Nov. 20 Woodland Opera House, 340 Second St., Woodland 530-666-9617, woodlandoperahouse.org

Ready for some belly laughs just in time for the upcoming holiday season? Take a seat for the world premiere of local playwright Bob Cooner’s new retro musical comedy “Prime Time for the Holidays.” Set in 1960s Hollywood, the play harkens back to the “Mad Men” era with the wise-cracking humor of beloved sitcoms and the pop-ﬂavored music of classic variety shows. The show is appropriate for all ages and guarantees a laugh- and music-ﬁlled return to Christmases past but not forgotten. Show times are 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays.

Fresh Beats Crocker Classical Concerts presents “The Festival of New American Music” Sunday, Nov. 13, at 3 p.m. Street photographer Ingrid Lundquist will be on exhibit at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center

Gifts Galore Crocker Holiday Artisan Market 2016 Nov. 25, 26 and 27 Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H St. creativeartsleague.com

Ready to get your shopping on? The Crocker Art Museum is delighted to partner again with the Creative Arts League of Sacramento to bring regional residents the chance to shop for distinctive, one-of-a-kind treasures at this annual three-day market. Fine and functional work will include glass, textiles, wood, ceramics, paper, photography, painting, sculpture, ﬁber and textiles, jewelry and more. More than 109 artists and their original works have been carefully juried into this special event to give gift shoppers an exciting, varied and quality shopping experience. Bring your family and friends for a photo with Victorian Santa on Friday, enjoy delightful food served by Ambrosia Café, listen to local musicians playing lovely music throughout the venue and get your face painted by pixies and elves. Market hours are noon to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Bring in the Holiday Market 2016 ad from the Crocker Art Letter magazine, The Sacramento Bee, this very paper or from the CALS website for a $1 discount on admission.

Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerartmuseum.org

The Festival of New American Music, a project of the School of Music at California State University, Sacramento, returns to the Crocker to showcase some of the most talented musicians and composers working today. This year’s concert will feature Juilliardtrained flutist Laurel Zucker accompanied by Saturday Club president John Cozza on piano. Zucker will perform a concert of new and recent American works for flute, including the premiere of her own “Grand Canyon Sonata” for flute and piano. Check out all of the festival events at csus.edu/music/fenam.

Raise Your Voice “ArtMix: Howl” Thursday, Nov. 10, from 5-9 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerartmuseum.org

Election Day might have passed, but we all still have something to rant, rave or howl about. Check out Activism Articulated’s Altars for Justice project and join Sol Collective for art making that will get you thinking. DJ Novela, Rasar Amani, Paul Willis and CatchaKoala will drop beats that speak, plus you can lend an ear to an open microphone and socially conscience performances that are sure to get you talking. Enjoy food and drink discounts during happy hour from 5-6 p.m. and $5 drink specials all night.

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Laurel Zucker will play at Crocker Art Museum

When in Rome … Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera Classics concert “The Pines of Rome” Saturday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m. Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera Pops concert “Classical Mystery Tour” Saturday, Nov. 26, at 8 p.m. Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. 808-2000, sacphilopera.org

Whether you’re a fan of the classics or like your music a little more fab (as in the Fab Four), don’t miss the Sacramento Philharmonic and Orchestra’s November offerings. “The Pines of Rome” will feature dramatic moments from Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Forza del destino,” “Otello” and “Un ballo in maschera,” Pietro Mascagni’s “Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana,” Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme Act I Finale,” Gioachino Rossini’s “Semiramide” and, of course, Ottorino Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome.” Christoph Campestrini will conduct guest singers Katherine Whyte, soprano; and Adam Luther, tenor. If you’re giddy for some groovy tunes, hop on board the “Classical Mystery Tour” featuring a full Beatles cover band (members of the original cast of Broadway’s “Beatlemania!”) under the baton of guest conductor Martin Herman.

¡Hola, Ingrid! “Hola Baja: the texture of the place, the heartbeat of its people,” a solo photography show featuring work by Ingrid Lundquist Nov. 9 through Dec. 3 Artist’s reception on Friday, Nov. 11, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Public reception on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 5-9 p.m. Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, 2015 J St. 441-2341, viewpointgallery.org

Photographer Ingrid Lundquist explains her ﬁrst solo photography show best: “Saying ‘hola’ (‘greetings’ in Spanish) causes your face muscles to move upward in an openly welcoming manner. ‘Baja’ is the land of the beating sun where dust clings to your body like a cheap price sticker and the colors vibrate to distract you from the surrounding hardships.” Lundquist shoots candid images of people and ordinary objects in their natural environment, lending her images a photojournalistic quality that makes the viewer

Prime Time for the Holidays runs through Nov. 20 at the Woodland Opera House

beg for more. Since her artistic rebirth (as a certiﬁed special event professional, Lundquist designed huge temporary installations until she returned to her ﬁrst love, art, in 2011), her photos have won several awards and been included in more than 50 juried shows in New York, Vermont, Texas, Oregon, California, Florence and London.

Hi, Ho, Silver! Auction of the California silver collection of Edwin Iloff presented by Witherell’s Auction begins Friday, Nov. 4, at 10 a.m. Auction preview on Thursday, Nov. 3, from 1-7 p.m. Witherell’s Annex, 1925 C St. 446-6490, witherells.com

More than 400 lots of impressive silver pieces dating from the mid-19th to early 20th century will be sold to help fund science endowments that the late physics professor Edwin Iloff established at California State University, Sacramento. “I hope this exhibit and auction will inspire others to explore the artistic and historic merits of this distinct California art form,” Witherell’s chief executive officer and PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow” appraiser Brian Witherell says. To wit, the Crocker Art Museum called the original 1,000-piece collection the most comprehensive California silver ever assembled. Don’t miss your chance to make some of these beautiful pieces part of your collection.

Sacramento Heritage Photogrpahy Show at McClatchy Library runs through Dec. 17 Photo courtesy of Rudy Calpo Photography.

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN NOVEMBER

“Visions,” 17th Annual Open Juried Photography Show runs through Nov. 20. Shown above: “Jack Feeds His Friends”, a photograph by R. Favour. Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 5330-B Gibbons Drive, sacﬁnearts.org DaDas Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Colombian artist Alejandro Naranjo through Dec.3. Shown: “Life Series” by Naranjo. DaDas Gallery is at 3655 J St.

Beatnik Gallery presents the work of Sacramento artists Bryan Valenzuela, Brain Shea and Rora Blue through Nov. 30. Shown: “Full of the Feels in the Nebulous Deep,” Bryan Valenzuela, mixed media. 723 S St.; beatnik-studios.com

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Sparrow Gallery presents the work by Linda Clark Johnson and Mary Carboni through Dec. 3. Shown above: Linda Clark Johnson’s “Moon Daisies” Cyanotype 2418 K St., sparrowgllerysacramento.com

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No Sophomore Slump HAWKS PUBLIC HOUSE A DELIGHTFUL ADDITION TO EAST SAC RESTAURANT SCENE

lmost 10 years ago, Michael Fagnoni and Molly Hawks opened an ambitious new restaurant in Granite Bay. It focused on the fresh, local and seasonal and took an uncompromising approach to cooking and serving. A meal at Hawks is still widely regarded as one of the finest dining experiences in the region. A trip to

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Granite Bay (which some who live in the city regard as a Lewis-andClarkian expedition) is a treat if a visit to Hawks is included. Fagnoni and Hawks created a restaurant that exceeds expectations and exudes quality. It was with great anticipation, then, that news of a Hawks outpost in Midtown was greeted. The people of the grid waited with fervid excitement when the new eatery was first announced in early 2014. Then they waited some more. Then more waiting. Then a little more waiting. The Christmas lights were up in 2015 by the time Hawks Public House opened.

Things don’t move fast when you’re opening a business in Sacramento. It’s rare when a business isn’t delayed by permitting issues or licensing issues or health issues or parking issues or even noise issues. But that’s a discussion for a different column. In December 2015, Hawks Public House opened on Alhambra Boulevard and P Street. It was worth the wait. The architecture is an updated take on the Moorish splendor of the dearly departed Alhambra Theatre, with graceful arches and a lighted sign that’s a nod to a classic movie marquee. The interior switches up genres and goes with a rustic, steampunk vibe. Old-fashioned

overhead fans and large Edison light bulbs with large-looped filaments hang over the fairly simple space and give the place a cheeky ambience. Thankfully, there are no clever glassware or silverware choices meant to set apart the dining experience from the everyday. Hawks Public house lets its cooking speak for itself. The frequently changing menu has a definite Italian bent, with multiple pasta dishes and a few other Italian accents. But a good portion of the menu speaks to a more international point of view. Some of the highlights of Hawks’ menu were the pork ribs ($33), well shellacked and served with blistered

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figs and roasted fingerling potatoes; the roasted squid small plate ($12) with indulgently rich beans and a palate-tingling herb puree; and pan-roasted arctic char ($26) over a sumptuous base of chickpeas and chorizo.

The service on each of my visits was nothing short of exceptional. The menu changes often and leans towards seasonal fare. One of the standbys is the Wagyu beef burger and fries ($18). Served on a brioche

bun and topped with aged cheddar and mushroom-bacon marmalade, it stands out as one of Sacramento’s great burgers. Some might blanch at the price, but the cost is close to some of the best restaurant burgers in town, like the Whiskey Burger at Formoli’s Bistro and the awardwinning burger at Pangaea Cafe. However, price is a component of any dining decision, and it’s fair to say that the cost of dining at Hawks isn’t in everyone’s budget. At a recent lunch, I sampled the casarecce (narrow, twisted and rolled tube pasta) served with a satisfying braised pork. It was a competent, unfussy dish that would fill up any reasonable diner. Yet it’s price—$22—seemed a little ambitious, especially for lunch. The lesser-priced small plates range from $5 to $16, but “small” is

exactly what they are, providing a few expertly crafted bites but not meant as a meal. Thankfully, those looking for ublime the same sublime execution from Hawks’ kitchens without the finedining prices can grab a bite at the casual food-to-go counter next door at Hawks Provisions. s, Sandwiches, salads and baked goodss are ready att a moment’s notice and are, for the quality, very fairly priced. The service on each of my visits was nothing short of exceptional. Whether it was the quick and efficient

delivery of proper plates and fresh utensils or the expert descriptions of the (sometimes confusingly listed) menu items, the staff radiates casual confidence and und understated pro professionalism. F fans For H of Hawks in Gr Granite Bay, the ex excellence on di display at Hawks P Public House is no surprise. F For those u unfamiliar, tthe fare that ccomes from tthe exemplary kitchen is a delight. Hawks Public House iis at 1525 Alhambra Blvd.; 588-4440; hawkspublichouse. com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com n

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INSIDE’S

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

THE HANDLE The Rind 1801 L Street #40 441-7463

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

DeVere’s Pub 1521 L Street L D Full Bar $$ Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com

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

L D Wine/Beer $$ Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com

The Firehouse Restaurant

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

1112 Second St. 442-4772

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

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

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

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

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

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

Café Bernardo 2726 Capitol Ave. 443-1180 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service

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

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

Federalist Public House

1132 16th Street

R STREET

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-ﬁred pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com

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

1431 R St. 930-9191

Firestone Public House

Frank Fat’s

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

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

Fish Face Poke Bar

Ma Jong’s

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

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

Iron Horse Tavern 1116 15th Street

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

2009 N Street

Hot Italian 1627 16th Street 444-3000 L D Full Bar $$ Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, Gelato• hotitalian.net

1104 R Street Suite 100

1431 L Street

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

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

Red Rabbit 2718 J Street L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a

Old Soul & Pullman Bar

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

Magpie Cafe 1601 16th Street

South

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

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

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

The Waterboy 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

OBO Italian 3145 Folsom Blvd. L D Full Bar $$ The rustic, seasonal, and nourishing ﬂavors of Italy. Counter service and patio • oboitalian. com

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

sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net

Formoli’s Bistro

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

29th and P. Sts. 455-3300

2000 Capitol Ave. 498-9891

1110 Front Street 442-8226

1200 K Street #8 228-4518

1131 K St. 443-3772

Zocolo

Rio City Cafe

Downtown & Vine

Ella Dining Room & Bar

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com

Suzie Burger

Paragary’s Bar & Oven

3839 J St. 448-5699

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

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

Revolution Wines

Hawks Public House

2831 S Street

1525 Alhambra Blvd. 558-4440 L D $$-$$$ Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com

1401 28th St. 457-5737

2005 11th Street 382-9722

L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com

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

Nido Bakery

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

L D $ Bakery treats and seasonal specialities • hellonido.com

Skool

Kru

2315 K Street

3145 Folsom Blvd. 551-1559

D $$ Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com

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

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This Month @ the Market

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

ARTICHOKE

The edible, immature flower of a cultivated thistle plant, this plant originated in the Mediterranean, but now California grows nearly 100 percent of the country’s crop. Eat it: Steam until tender, then dip the leaves in melted butter or flavored mayonnaise.

MANDARIN ORANGE

This small citrus fruit has few seeds and a loose, puffy orange skin that is easy to peel, making it a popular addition to children’s lunchboxes. Eat it: Peel and enjoy.

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CARROT

BRUSSELS SPROUT

This root vegetable is related to parsnips, fennel, parsley, anise, caraway, cumin and dill. It can be eaten raw or cooked, or even baked in a cake. Eat it: For better flavor, steam, rather than boil, them

A cruciferous vegetable, it’s related to cabbage, kale, collard greens and broccoli. It contains healthful phytonutrients. Eat it: Toss with olive oil and roast in a hot oven with onion and bacon..

CHARD

YELLOW FINN POTATO

This nutritious, hearty green, a relative of the beet, can be blanched, braised, sautéed or steamed. Eat it: Make a quick sauté with onions and garlic..

ThiThis all-purpose potato has yellow flesh, a creamy texture and a slightly sweet, buttery flavor. Eat it:: Mash them with lots of butter and cream, of course!.

La Trattoria Bohemia

Freeport Bakery

3649 J St. 455-7803

2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256

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

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

Opa! Opa!

Iron Grill

5644 J St. 451-4000

13th Street and Broadway 737-5115

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

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

3340 C St. 443-5402

Riverside Clubhouse

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

2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988

Selland’s Market Cafe

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

The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Way 568-7171

5340 H St. 736-3333

Taylor’s Kitchen

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

2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154

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

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

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104

OAK PARK La Venadita 3501 Thurd Ave. 4000-4676 L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com

Oak Park Brewing Company 3514 Broadway L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com

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

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

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Casa Garden Restaurant

3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331

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

Luna Lounge

Sacramento

ours 10am-9pm Christmas Eve H l Dinner Menu Brunch & Specia s Day Closed Christma

5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883

LAND PARK 2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809

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

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

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

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

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