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SOUTH LAND PARK TERRACE LOVE at ¿rst sight when you enter this SUNNY mid-century ranch home. It’s located in fantastic South Land Park Terrace. There are loads of updates including hardwood Àoors and all new appliances in the kitchen, 2 updated bathrooms, re¿nished hardwood Àoors, pretty molding, newer roof, dual pane windows and a deep backyard. $470,000 SHEILA VAN NOY 916-505-5395

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‘PIZZAZ’ S Land Park Terrace 4 bedrooms 2½ baths, you’ll feel your heart skip a beat when the front door swings open and your senses feast on a blend of stylish contemporary and mid-century tradition. You’ll be awestruck by the walls of glass, angular rooms, and a voluminous library that doubles as a quick getaway or an entertainer’s dream. $655,000 SHEILA VAN NOY 505-5395

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SPECTACULAR GREENHAVEN Quality Lee Basford built home close to the Sacramento River. 3 bedroom 2½ bath with tile roof in 2016, newer paint, re¿nished hardwood Àoors and updated kitchen! Beautiful pool and yard. Newer front and backyard landscaping/hardscape and fence. Charming outbuilding bar. Heat/air updated. Immaculate! Wow! $515,000 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

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SOUTH LAND PARK 3 bedroom 2 bath home with gigantic yard. Original re¿nished solid oak Àoors. Gorgeous quality remodeled kitchen with beautiful cabinets, granite counter tops and appliances. Dual pane windows and slider. Shutters throughout. Roof, gutters and water heater in 2017. Huge RV parking with metal awning at this amazing property Sundance spa. $439,000 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

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BRENTWOOD VILLAGE Wonderful original family home. Enjoy the large family room featuring brick ¿replace, beamed ceiling and new carpet. Light and airy living room has nice ¿replace and bookshelves. Dining room has a pass through to the kitchen. Pretty hardwood Àoors throughout most of the house. Backyard potential! $310,000 PAULA SWAYNE 916-425-9715

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local organization called Crossroads has developed an innovative way to give people with disabilities and other challenges a chance at a better life. Crossroads consists of a forprofit landscaping, janitorial and hospitality business that invests its profits into nonprofit services. The business provides janitorial and landscaping services to state and federal government buildings in Downtown Sacramento. It also has major contracts throughout California and Texas, including a $5.5 million contract with the San Mateo County Transit District. Since the organization was founded 40 years ago, Crossroads has helped more than 6,000 people in the Sacramento region. While Sacramento’s PRIDE Industries has been a leader in services and programs for the physically disabled, Crossroads works TO page 8

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FROM page 7 with those who struggle with mental disabilities and other challenges. “We are a strong partner in the community, although there are still many in the community who don’t know we are here,” says Andrea Rogozinski, Crossroads’ chief strategy officer. “We have a unique model that’s participant centered. We take a unique approach to every individual needing help, but they have to engage in the process. We don’t do it all for them.” People with mental disabilities can face challenges at school, in the workplace and with life in general. Often, these people retreat from a normal life and find themselves on financial assistance. Crossroads offers ways to help. For some, it’s help with a resume and how to dress for a job interview. Others need more extensive support and guidance to find the right job, continue education or seek other opportunities to help them live a better life. With an office in Rancho Cordova and a job center in Citrus Heights, Crossroads is in the community working with employers and partners. “Our clients drive their own success,” says Rogozinski. “We are there to help, provide value and give them access to resources that wouldn’t otherwise be available. We are good at what we do. But it’s a 50/50 relationship where we meet our clients halfway, but they have to bring the same. The results are extraordinary to see.” Demand for the organization’s services peaked during the recession when unemployment was high, but it

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has tapered off as the job market has rebounded. “Like many nonprofits, we’d love to be put out of business because the need for our services no longer exists,” Rogozinski says. “That’s not the case right now, and we need the community to know we’re here and what help we can provide. We are trying to communicate that even more.” More than 1,500 people were served at the Crossroads Job Center last year, and the organization hosted more than 45 events for local employers and job seekers. In addition to employment and education services, Crossroads has a team of peer-support specialists who work with Sacramento County’s Suicide Prevention Project. Many staff members at Crossroads have suffered from mental disability and have a deeper understanding of what it’s like. “It’s very powerful to have those on staff who understand what our clients are going through,” says Rogozinski. “They’ve been there and they did it. They found a path toward recovery and better life.” A key ingredient in the equation is to find employers willing to hire people with disabilities or other challenges. Crossroads seeks out these employers, provides training and offers financial incentives. Many bigger corporations and companies have inclusionary hiring programs. They see the value. “We are not just looking for any match between a potential employee and employer,” Rogozinski says. “We seek a good match and something that works for both with long-term benefits.”

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Many people with disabilities are motivated to get back to work and succeed. Maybe they’ve been receiving government benefits or assistance. Maybe they want a more complete life. Consequently, they are often more dedicated, appreciative and loyal because of the opportunity. The organization also partners with numerous federal, state and local agencies for services that contribute to its revenues. Crossroads may consider expanding opportunities for individual and corporate donations from those who want to assist Crossroads’ mission. While the commercial company operates throughout California and Texas, social services are provided only in the Sacramento region. Crossroads may consider expanding social services to other areas in the future. In addition to employment and education-related services, the organization provides many programs, including those specifically for youth. “It comes down to our core mission that’s embodied in our slogan,

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lks Lodge #6 will host two crab feeds this month. Central California Hemophilia Foundation will host its Surf & Turf dinner on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Dungeness crab and grilled tri-tip will be served. The evening will feature live music, a silent auction and raffle prizes. Tickets are $55. An early-bird discount for a table for 10 is available for $500. Proceeds will provide assistance to local families and children with bleeding disorders. For more information, call (916) 448-0370 or go to cchfsac.org.

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The Don Puliz Annual Crab & Shrimp Feast will be held Saturday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. The menu includes crab, shrimp, antipasto, green salad, pasta and garlic bread. Tickets are $55. For tickets, go to the Elks Lodge office or call (916) 422-6666. The Elks Lodge is at 6446 Riverside Blvd. For more information, go to elks6. com.

BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE AT THE LIBRARY On Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m., the Pocket-Greenhaven Community Association will host a local-business roundtable at Robbie Waters PocketGreenhaven Library. Topics will include a “shop local” community campaign and business concerns. Local business owners and business representatives are encouraged to attend.

The library is at 7335 Gloria Drive. For more information, go to pocketgreenhaven.org.

LEARN ABOUT FIBROMYALGIA On Thursday, Feb. 1, from 4 to 5 p.m., Terry McSweeney of Fibromyalgia Pathways will present a workshop on fibromyalgia, including its symptoms and how it is diagnosed. The free workshop will be held at ACC Senior Services. Preregistration is required. Contact Anna Su at (916) 393-9026 ext. 330 or email classes@ accsv.org. ACC Senior Services is at 7334 Park City Drive.

ACC OFFERS SENIOR FITNESS CLASS ACC Senior Services is offering a new exercise class called Senior Total Body Workout.

The class, taught by instructor Pamela Wong, is designed to increase endurance, strength and balance. Students will use light weights and exercise bands to improve posture, flexibility and walking stability. Classes are held Tuesdays from 2 to 3 p.m. The cost is $20 a month. To preregister, call Anna Su at (916) 939-9026 ext. 330 or email classes@ accsv.org. ACC Senior Services is at 7334 Park City Drive. For more information, go to accsv. org.

DANCE LIKE IT’S 1960 Elks Lodge #6 will host a dance party on Friday, Feb. 9, at 6 p.m. A DJ will play music from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad, nacho bar and popcorn will be served at 7 p.m. There will be prizes for best costumes.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. For tickets, call (916) 422-6666. The Elks Lodge is at 6446 Riverside Blvd. For more information, go to elks6. com.

WORKSHOP ON ESTATE PLANNING On Tuesday, Feb. 13, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., estate-planning attorney Donna Shioya will present a workshop focused on estate planning, beneficiaries and executorships at ACC Senior Services. Attendees will learn how proactive beneficiary decisions can positively affect their future financial situation. ACC Senior Services is at 7334 Park City Drive. For more information, go to accsv. org.

JENNINGS TO HOLD OFFICE HOURS City Councilmember Rick Jennings will hold District 7 office hours on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 6 p.m. in the Community Room at Robbie Waters

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THIS MONTH AT THE LIBRARY The following activities will be offered this month at Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library: Frankenstein: The 200th Anniversary, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Celebrate the 200-year anniversary of Mary Shelley’s classic novel with a riveting book discussion led by guest speakers Carrie Sessarego and Stephanie Taylor. Between the Pages, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Local romance novelists Loucinda McGary, Anna J. Stewart and Suzanne Whitfield Vince will discuss the writing process and the pros and cons of this best-selling fiction genre. Books will be available for purchase. 20th Century Fox: A Century of Entertainment, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Author Michael Troyan will share movie clips and

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FINANCIAL ADVICE FOR WOMEN On Wednesday, Feb. 28, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., financial adviser Esther Aw will lead a discussion at ACC Senior Services on the unique financial challenges facing women. Preregistration is required. Call Rod Malloy at (916) 394-6399 ext. 124. ACC Senior Services is at 7334 Park City Drive.

WARMING THE NEW YEAR WITH BLANKETS Rotary Club of Pocket Greenhaven received more than 200 blankets during its second annual blanket drive in November and December. With help from Zajic Appliance, Rotary members delivered the blankets to local nonprofits My Sister’s House, Moral Values Program, California Coalition for Youth and A Brighter Childhood Foster Family Services. Rotary Club of Pocket Greenhaven meets on Thursdays at 7:30 a.m. in Aviators Restaurant at Sacramento Executive Airport, 6151 Freeport Blvd. Visitors are always welcome. For more information, go to pgr. rocks. Corky Mau can be reached at corky. sue50@gmail.com. n

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A FIGHT IS LOOMING OVER RENT CONTROL

n my December column, I addressed Sacramento’s twinned crises of escalating housing costs and a rapid increase in our homeless population. I suggested a solution to alleviate both crises: the adoption of a “Marshall Plan” that would tear down cost and regulatory barriers that impede the construction of new homes and apartments by private-sector builders, developers, investors and banks. The idea is to bring California in line with the more liberal and facilitating housing policies embraced by the rest of the country, where housing costs are half what they are today in California and homeless counts aren’t exploding as they

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are in every major West Coast city, despite huge increases in spending on homeless services. It’s time to admit to the errors of our ways. But the political progressives who dominate in the California Legislature can’t seem to shake their preoccupation with failed or failing governmentcentric “solutions” to these largely government-created crises. In its most recent legislative session, the Legislature passed bills to place a $4 billion public housing bond on the November ballot, raise taxes on real estate transactions to fund housing programs and impose costly “prevailing wage” requirements on a large share of new housing projects. It did virtually nothing to ease the heavy cost and regulatory barriers that hamper private-sector housing construction in California. Now there is a campaign to dramatically expand rent control in California. Today, 15 California cities

have some form of rent control. In the November 2016 election, rent-control measures were the subject of pitched fights in four Bay Area cities. (It was a split card, with measures passing in two cities and losing in two.) Rent control was narrowly defeated in Santa Rosa, where real estate interests spent $1 million to defeat it. Who is behind the rent-control push in our state? The Democratic Socialists of America is a major sponsor. Another is the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE.

THE PUSH TO REPEAL In 1995, the Legislature approved the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which restricted local rentcontrol ordinances to apartments built before 1995. Apartments built after 1995, including all apartments built in the future, as well as all condos and single-family homes, are

statutorily exempt from rent control. The Costa-Hawkins law is a very big deal because it insulates newly constructed apartments from rent control. Without such protection, a housing developer, investor or bank would have to be a little loony to build new rental housing in any California city that either has or is considering rent control. The groups pushing rent control have never been happy with the limits imposed by Costa-Hawkins and have been actively seeking its repeal in the Legislature. In a contentious hearing last month that drew nearly 1,000 people (split between proponents and opponents of rent control), the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee narrowly rejected a bill to repeal CostaHawkins, effectively killing the bill for this year. But late last year, rent-control proponents filed a statewide ballot measure with the California Secretary

of State that seeks to put the issue of Costa-Hawkins’ repeal before state voters in November, bypassing the Legislature entirely. If the measure manages to qualify for the ballot, we can expect the California Apartment Association, Realtors, the building industry and construction trade unions to spend from $60 million to $100 million to defeat it. The outcome of the fight is anyone’s guess.

THE COMING FIGHT With mixed success in imposing rent control in liberal Bay Area cities, rent-control backers are now seeking to expand rent control into the more conservative Central Valley. Their principal target is the Valley city with the highest concentration of progressive voters: Sacramento. But they won’t find much support for rent control on the Sacramento City Council, each member of whom has gone on record opposing rent control. As Councilmember Jay Schenirer put it at a recent Curtis Park/Land Park forum on homelessness, “Rent control doesn’t work. It would discourage new-housing construction.” The City Council’s opposition to rent control hasn’t discouraged its proponents. For the past few months, they’ve been canvassing low-income Sacramento neighborhoods as a precursor to filing a ballot measure that would impose what will almost certainly be a strict form of rent control in Sacramento. How strict? If their ballot measure follows the one recently adopted in Richmond, it would roll back rents 18 months and force owners to refund rent increases given since then; limit future rent hikes to annual increases in the consumer price index; restrict owners’ rights to evict tenants except when they can prove “just cause”; impose significant annual fees on rental units to fund a new city bureaucracy to administer the rentcontrol ordinance and handle appeals; and require owners to pay tenants’ relocation expenses under certain circumstances.

‘JUST CAUSE’ EVICTION The “just cause” eviction provision common to most rent-control laws these days is a particular worry both to owners and law enforcement, and it should be of real concern to tenants. Currently, if residents of a rental community complain to management that a fellow tenant is dealing drugs or engaged in gang activity, management can, with 30 or 60 days’ notice, remove the problem tenant from the property. But just-cause eviction provisions typically require owners to present witness testimony that the offensive tenant is dealing drugs or engaged in gang activity. The problem is that residents are scared to death to testify openly against a drug dealer or a gang member living next door to them, justifiably fearing reprisals. Consequently, it is almost impossible for rental property management to evict a criminal tenant under a just-cause eviction standard, which puts the safety and security of every resident in the community at risk.

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HIT TO PROPERTY VALUES, TAX REVENUES Studies have shown that rent control chops about 20 percent off the value of a residential rental property. Those who’ve purchased rental property with 80 percent financing would likely see their entire equity wiped out. Small rental properties are popular investments for retirees, providing both retirement income and security. Should they be penalized to provide below-market rents to their tenants? Economic studies have shown that the drop in rental property values caused by rent control lowers assessed values and tax revenues to local governments and school districts. With Sacramento facing a fiscal cliff in the next couple of years, cutting its property-tax revenues for the sake of rent control would be pretty mindless.

IMPACT ON CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOUSING We already have a deeply sclerotic market for new rental housing in Sacramento, featuring, according to one recent report, the smallest number of new rental-housing building starts of any city in the country—a direct consequence of the heavy cost and regulatory burdens that state and local governments impose on new rental-housing construction. If a statewide ballot measure to repeal Costa-Hawkins passes in November and Sacramento voters approve a city rent-control measure on the same ballot, the chances of new rental housing being built in the city will further diminish. Our growing housing shortage will likely snuff out opportunities to offer adequate housing to new workers in Sacramento. Our ability to recruit businesses to locate in Sacramento will be damaged. And our ability to meaningfully address the housing needs of Sacramento’s poor and homeless will effectively vanish.

Our growing housing shortage will make Sacramentans more likely to commute longer distances, live in overcrowded housing and delay or forgo homeownership. As Matt Levin of CALmatters recently put it, “Economists have a hard time agreeing on most things. But regardless of partisan leaning, most economists would say rent control is not great policy. Even prominent progressive economists like Paul Krugman have expressed opposition to it.” A 2012 poll of ideologically diverse economists found that only 2 percent agreed with the statement that rent control has had a positive impact on housing affordability in cities like New York and San Francisco.

HARMFUL IMPACTS The least expensive, most efficient way for government to subsidize low-income and homeless housing is through the federal government’s Section 8 housing voucher program. TO page 15

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Electronic Policing LICENSE-PLATE READERS HELP KEEP POCKET CRIME-FREE

nless you are a car thief or wanted felon, you should take comfort in knowing that each time a vehicle enters or exits Pocket and Greenhaven, its license plate is scanned and reported to police. Typically, nothing happens. But on those rare occasions when the license plate matches one that has attracted the interest of law enforcement, the wheels of justice turn. A descriptive model is instantly built: make, model, color, year, accessories such as tinted windows, spoiler and sunroof. Patrol cops are alerted across Sacramento and told to be on the lookout. Depending on the circumstances, a police officer who spots the car might follow from a distance, like a bloodhound sniffing footprints, hoping to see where the trail leads. Or lights and siren might be needed. Every situation is unique. License-plate readers are neither new nor invasive. They are part of the landscape, another instrument in a strategy designed by City Hall and the police department to make life difficult for people who break the law. The strategy works. Pocket and Greenhaven consistently rate as the safest communities in Sacramento. License-plate readers, which work in conjunction with camera pods nested above every intersection leading into

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Sacramento Police Sgt. Marnie Stigerts helps manage camera pods and plate readers. Inset: A license-plate reader at an intersection. Pocket and Greenhaven, stand guard as a passive system to help keep people honest. “Everyone thinks it’s a case where Big Brother knows where I am and where I’m driving, but it doesn’t work like that,” says Sacramento Police Sgt. Marnie Stigerts, who helps manage the city’s network of camera pods and plate readers. “Just because it’s your car doesn’t mean you’re

in it. The system has no connection with DMV, and it’s not like a red-light camera, which gets a photo of the driver.” Red-light cameras want to identify a person behind the wheel of a car running a red light.

License-plate readers want data. They are not hammers for prosecution. Vehicles that make the plate reader sit up and take notice have been reported stolen or connected to a missing person. Plate readers note cars associated with wanted felons or suspected car thieves. “The fact that we get a hit from a license-plate reader is not probable cause for a stop all by itself,” Stigerts says. Plate readers provide an example of the complexities that police face. Stigerts tells the story of a woman who was walking along a street when a pimp drove up and approached her. The woman happened to be near a camera pod and plate reader, which captured the scene. “Thanks to that, we were able to quickly verify her story,” Stigerts says. Working with the vehicle description and plate, detectives soon linked the vehicle to its registered owner: a woman who didn’t fit any description provided by the victim. More detective work established that the car’s owner had a son. And that son was

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But criminals are clever. Sometimes, they remove their license plates and drive around with paper plates, the kind supplied by car dealers. Paper plates bring a new set of problems: They can attract police suspicion. Starting in 2019, car dealers in California must attach temporary plates with easy-to-read numbers. In the meantime, paper plates can still be sorted by plate readers. “Sometimes we get a better idea about what kind of paper plate is on the car,” Stigerts says. “We can see if it’s red and white and if it has a dealer’s name. It’s like a partial ID.” Despite the technology, police still must do their jobs. While red-light cameras make it easy for cities to mail out traffic tickets, plate readers only assist the investigative process. “We still have to do police work,” Stigerts says. “We have to follow leads.” R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Voucher holders are able to choose the private rental unit they want to live in and the federal government picks up a major share of the rent. The city’s administrative costs of running the voucher program are relatively low. By contrast, the most expensive way for government to provide housing to low-income or homeless people is for government to build it. The poster child for out-of-control costs is Sacramento’s pending project to build a 480-unit, five-story “mixed income” housing project to replace its existing low-density Twin Rivers public housing project on Richards Boulevard. The total cost for each new apartment: more than $600,000—nearly six times the typical market value of existing apartments in Sacramento. Consequently, government-built public housing will never be a workable means of subsidizing housing costs for either the poor or the homeless. The costs are simply too astronomical. So the Section 8 housing voucher program (or some local iteration of it) is fated to remain the backbone of local governments’ efforts to subsidize housing for the poor and homeless. But here’s the rub: Owners of rental properties must be willing to accept Section 8 tenants. Most owners don’t accept Section 8 vouchers, primarily because it’s not worth it to subject themselves to the onerous regulations that the program imposes, but also because many owners prefer to rent to self-supporting residents. Last year, Mayor Darrell Steinberg persuaded both the City Council and

Lambtrust.com the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors to scrap the long-standing first-come, first-served distribution of housing vouchers in favor of a policy that moves homeless people to the front of the line. Now imagine that rent control is imposed in Sacramento. Economic studies have shown that rent control in San Francisco has led to a 15 percent withdrawal of units from its rental housing market. What happened to these disappearing rental units? They were converted to condos or to commercial use, used as personal residences for their owners or, in the case of deteriorated housing, demolished or simply abandoned. With the housing shortages that rent control always ushers in, rental property owners prohibited from charging market rents will naturally become choosier in selecting new residents. They will start selecting only those with the highest incomes, the best credit scores and the best housing references and track records. The minority of owners who currently accept Section 8 vouchers will increasingly abandon the program, leaving both low-income and homeless people effectively without housing options—except for the tiny number of housing units that local governments (and local taxpayers) can afford to build for them. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, general partner of a residential real estate firm, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 7183030. n

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Kitty’s Kitties THIS RADIO HOST ALWAYS WANTED TO BE SURROUNDED BY CATS

eo, a spunky feline with soft swirls of auburn-red hair, is calling to his mom, Kitty O’Neal, from his outside sanctuary. “Are you ready to come in?” O’Neal queries her very vocal 12-year-old boy. Leo is perched on the top tier of his three-story cat condo in the backyard of O’Neal’s Curtis Park home, which she shares with husband, Kurt Spataro. Attached to the cage is a long tunnel made of netting that allows Leo to venture into the garden. “Leo loves to be outside,” says O’Neal, afternoon news anchor for KFBK. “But I do not let my cats roam. So I said to Kurt, we have to let him out and endure the consequences, which I was not prepared to do, or find a way to let him out and confine him. Now he has a total setup in the backyard where he can’t get out and nobody can get in.” O’Neal and Spataro, executive chef and partner for Paragary’s Restaurant Group, have opened their hearts to many cats throughout the years. In addition to Leo, the couple currently provides a home to two 7-year-old felines: Juneau, a friendly kitty with Alaska-white fur, and Blue, an Abyssinian with sleek grayish/blue hair and a golden-brown chest. The couple’s fourth cat, Cinnabon, a senior they had for only two years, recently died. The feline’s previous owner had to go into a care facility, so O’Neal agreed to take in the kitty. “He was an older cat and had some issues. But I totally fell in love with him. He was just precious. He walked like an old man,” she remembers with a smile. “But he had the sweetest disposition ever … and he had one of those big motor purrs, which was so endearing. He was as good as gold.”

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AN AFFINITY FOR CATS Growing up, O’Neal remembers telling her mother that she wanted to be surrounded by cats, which is fitting for someone named Kitty, a nickname she has had most of her life. (She also has an Aunt Kitty.) “We were never allowed to have more than one, and I always wanted a lot. When I was

really little, I just knew it. There is just something about cats.”

RUNS IN THE FAMILY O’Neal’s father was base commander at Mather Air Force Base, where the family lived for several years while O’Neal attended and graduated from Folsom High School. She later earned a degree in communications from Sac State. “In

their older years, my parents were wonderful about taking in cats.” For her mother, O’Neal’s father adopted a champagne-colored cat named Dolly from the SPCA. “I remember he said, ‘That cat did not look like she belonged in that cage.’ Dolly was my mom’s constant companion.” While doing a radio remote in Roseville, O’Neal found what would become her parents’ next cat. “There was a kitten stuck in a drain, so I

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called the Roseville fire department. They put the hose in and washed that cat out of the sewer drain. So there was this drenched little gray cat. I brought it home, and my dad fell in love with it.”

GIVING BACK O’Neal also volunteers her time with several charitable organizations. She sits on the Media and Marketing Committee of the Sacramento SPCA and emceed its annual fundraising gala for 25 years. “We have the

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MAKING MUSIC O’Neal, a singer/songwriter, and Spataro, a guitarist, met in their 20s while performing in cover rock bands. After putting their musical calling on hold to follow their current career paths, they are now creating music again as part of an alternative-rock band called Skyler’s Pool. One of their 10 original songs, called “Mr. Blue,” was inspired by their cat. “It is not about Blue at all, but he was the inspiration because he is kind of doglike, always so happy. I thought what would it be like to live life where

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O’Neal’s love for animals is big. “It runs so deep,” she says. “Sometimes I step back and I think I have this creature living in the house with me … several of them,” she adds with a laugh. “And I am feeding it, and we have a relationship, and it understands me and I understand it … and yet it is a totally different species. We take pets for granted, but when we really consider what’s happening in that human-pet relationship, it’s pretty extraordinary. “Beyond that, I love the affection from an animal. I love taking care of them. It is a very special, unique bond that isn’t really replicated in any other way.”

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If Walls Could Talk LYNN EDER BRINGS ART TO HISTORIC PUBLIC LIBRARY

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ynn Eder loves Ella K. McClatchy Library. As she shows me around the storied space built in 1910, her eyes light up when she explains which room was used for what when it was home to the McClatchy publishing family. In 1940, Eleanor and Charlotte McClatchy gave the house to the city of Sacramento, which converted it into a youth library and named it after their mother. Ede Eder’s enthusiasm for tthe place is evid evident in her det determination to kee keep the library’s art exhibition pro program (which she helped found) goi going strong. “The ex exhibition pr program idea st started being di discussed in 19 1995, when th the Friends o of the Ella K. M McClatchy L Library first cconceived of rrenovating a and bringing the library’s second floor up to code,” says Eder, who mov moved from Ohio to Sacramento 30 years ago and discovered the library on a stroll after exercising at the YMCA with her husband. “We talked about using the large space as a meeting and activities room for different groups and programs, but also as a salon of sorts where art, music, poetry and cultural discussions could take place.” When the second floor was finished and opened in fall 2012, Eder and two like-minded members of the Friends group— arts enthusiast Alice Levine and artist Nancy Gotthart—realized

that the space would be perfect to host art exhibitions. “It even already had a picture rail installed,” Eder says, gesturing to the bright, windowlined space. After winning a matching grant to host a year of art shows, the three women set up a series of four art shows in 2014. Word spread fast, and soon the opening receptions were packed and the participating artists were selling enough work that they donated back to the library in appreciation. The Friends of the McClatchy Library agreed to continue to fund the shows due to their popularity. Eder now has the entire 2018 exhibition cycle already planned. “The three of us love art and what it does for our community,” says Eder, who’s been an arts administrator, art curator, assistant gallery director, committee member of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission’s Art in Public Places and a working artist. “We’ve shown outstanding artwork in many mediums, including Maggie Jimenez’s whimsical clay sculptures, Laura Hohlwein’s small abstracts, Katherine Venturelli’s paper sculptures and several contemporary photography group shows. The three of us look at a lot of art, so we select artists we feel offer a high degree of professionalism. We endeavor to present a variety of mediums and approaches—all of which are appropriate for display in a public library.” “Expression of Chinese Art” will be on display Feb. 10 through March 23. A reception will be held on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 2 to 4 p.m. Ella K. McClatchy Library is at 2112 22nd St. For more information, go to saclibrary.org. n

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Center for Change THIS ORGANIZATION PROVIDES HOPE AND MORE FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE

he LGBT Community Center has served Sacramento for 40 years, but despite its advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ community, many know the center as “that building across from Merc,” says David Heitstuman, its executive director. Even he was mostly unaware of the center before attending a focus group there in 2011. Six weeks later, he was chairman of the board of directors. Those familiar with the center won’t be surprised why Heitstuman was inspired to volunteer. The center offers HIV testing and prevention programs, legal assistance, monthly potlucks, and support groups for people coming out of the closet. It plugs people into faith communities and assists with housing and employment, but mostly it provides a place to be. For many, the LGBT Community Center is family. Founded as the Lambda Community Fund in 1978, the center focuses its services on

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health and wellness, advocacy and community building, but perhaps its most significant service to LGBTQ youth is its Q-Spot, which opened in 2011. Between noon and 6 p.m. daily, the drop-in facility at 1927 L St. provides young people access to a shower, food, computer, washer and dryer, and supplies like new socks, clothing, sleeping bags, tarps, toiletries and even pet food. And access is easy. “They just need to come into the center and talk to somebody at the front desk,” says Heitstuman. The Q-Spot helps some 200 youth a week go from “just getting by to where they are self-reliant and self-empowered,” Heitstuman says, thanks to resources, referrals and counseling. The center provides “a break from the stress of the streets and an opportunity to restore dignity into their day.” Undoubtedly public attitude toward the LGBTQ community is improving, and 20 percent of millennials now identify as LGBTQ. But statistics also show that the LGBT Community Center and Q-Spot are more necessary than ever. Almost 90 percent of LGBTQ youth experience bullying, and 90 percent of transgender people experience work discrimination and twice the unemployment rates of the general population. Last year, 27 transgender Americans were murdered, making 2017 the deadliest year on record for transgender people. One of those women, Chyna Gibson, 31, was from Sacramento. While 20 percent of millennials identify as LGBTQ, that percentage doubles for homeless youth. “For the last 20 years, we’ve been saying, ‘You’re safe, come out, be who you are,’” says Heitstuman. “And young people have. They’re seeing more of themselves on television, in popular culture, in leadership roles, and they’re feeling more comfortable coming out and being who they are. But even though we’ve told them it’s safe to come out, it’s not.” Marriage equality wasn’t a magic pill to end prejudice and discrimination, and these statistics suggest that many LGBTQ youth

still experience prejudice and discrimination within their own families. According to the Trevor Project, one out of six high school students contemplates suicide, but the rate of attempted suicide is five times higher among LGBTQ youth than hetero youth. More shocking, LGBTQ youth rejected by their families are 8.4 times more likely to attempt suicide than LGBTQ youth who are accepted by their families. Summer camps and softball teams, both offered through the center, are more than recreational; they provide space “where people can be surrounded by people who care about them and value them,” Heitstuman says. “Listen, I know you see Laverne Cox on ‘Orange Is the New Black.’ There’s an out secretary of the Army [Eric Fanning], and ‘Will and Grace’ is back on TV for round two. But over here at Rocklin Academy, there’s a kid who’s being tortured,” says Heitstuman, referring to the Rocklin Academy kindergarten student who began transitioning in 2017. “And here in Sacramento,” he continues, “I can walk down a street in Midtown and people will still scream, ‘Hey, faggot,’ and throw a beer bottle—even in the most affirming place in the city.” Prejudice is shocking wherever it rears its head, but perhaps even more when it occurs in Lavender Heights, an LGBTQ neighborhood in the capital of the most progressive state in America. But despite existing prejudice, Sacramento is still somehow ahead of the game. According to Heitstuman, the Los Angeles LGBT Center is the first and largest in the world, but preceded the Lambda Community Fund by only nine years. By comparison, The Source LGBT+ Center in Visalia opened in 2016. Heitstuman admits Sacramento’s center nearly failed. When he first joined the board in 2011, he says, “we didn’t know how deep the crisis was … and didn’t believe necessarily that the organization was going to have enough funding to continue within a few weeks even.”

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Except it did. Since 2011, the center has increased its budget from $250,000 to $1.4 million. Just this year, the center secured a two-year grant from the California Office of Emergency Services that allows the center to provide emergency housing to victims of violence. Emergency housing won’t solve the homeless problem, admits Heitstuman. But in a system that already underserves LGBTQ youth, it’s a start. The growth of the LGBT Community Center has drawn attention from other LGBTQ centers in the nation. Says Heitstuman, “The Bradbury-Sullivan Center in Allentown, Penn., has conducted a study of emerging centers in the country, and we were included as the best model to emulate. They are sending a delegation at the end of February to spend a couple days with us to learn what we’ve done and how we did it.” How did they do it?

Heitstuman pauses, responding after a deep breath. “A lot of sleepless nights,” he says. He might not have known it in 2011, but those sleepless nights have translated to more peaceful nights within the LGBTQ community. Ultimately, it’s impossible to measure the center’s impact, because even if we could count the suicides prevented, the youth now off the streets, the jobs secured or rights restored, how do we quantify dignity? Practically, Heitstuman is excited to offer a safe night’s sleep to those who need it. But more than a bed, a meal or clothes, the LGBT Community Center offers hope. And Heitstuman hopes others will see the center as a beacon, not just as that building across from Merc. For more information or to attend a tour of the LGBT Community Center, go to saccenter.org. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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No Fix in Sight IT’S BEEN A TOUGH SEASON FOR KINGS FANS

ebruary is a pivotal month in the NBA. The long season reaches its halfway point. The trading deadline arrives and forces teams to nail down their rosters for the playoff drive. The All-Star weekend celebration provides a break in the tedium of practice sessions, home games and road trips. That’s how things work in most NBA cities. But Sacramento, as

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anyone who’s been paying attention for the past 33 years knows, is different. None of the traditional February rituals applies to the Kings. Their season basically ended around Thanksgiving, about the time the Kings were pummeled by the Atlanta Hawks 126-80. The Hawks are a terrible basketball team, but they were 46 points better than the Kings. For every step the Kings make to improve themselves during the offseason, for every marketing strategy they roll out to make ticket buyers think next year will be different, the team stumbles backward. This season, they brought in new, young players to energize the roster and provide enthusiasm. The youthful-energy trick has been tried

before, with no luck. The young guys lack leadership. They lack killer instincts. They don’t know how to process devastating defeats. They are shell-shocked by the perpetual-loser environment. Quickly, they spiral downward. To fill out the roster, the Kings bring in veterans to supply confidence and patience. But the old guys, many of whom were intentionally dumped in Sacramento by their former teams, arrive with baggage. Many don’t want to play here. They assume the attitude of gilded prison inmates. They do their time, keep their heads down and cross off each day until the season ends. And they pray to someday sign with the Golden State Warriors.

Every few years, the Kings change coaches. They duplicate the pattern of alternating young and old. They replace a worn-out veteran with an eager young assistant. It makes no difference. The Kings could let the players coach themselves and the outcome would be no better or worse. Even changes in ownership—four different partnerships have operated the Kings since 1985—have minimal impact on the team’s success. The first three ownership groups—Joe Benvenuti and Gregg Lukenbill, Jim Thomas and finally the Maloof family—encountered financial problems. They couldn’t keep pace with the hyper-inflationary reality of NBA salaries and found it impossible to attract serious talent to Sacramento.

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The Doctor Is In DIAGNOSING YOUR PLANT PROBLEMS

t a recent party, I answered a lot of gardening questions. That’s what we Sacramento County UC Master Gardeners love to do. Many of us have UC Master Gardener license plate holders on our cars, inviting random strangers to quiz us in parking lots. However, it makes me a little sad when I encounter people who have a lot of pent-up plant problems. You don’t need to wait to bump into a Master

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Gardener to get advice. Sacramento County Master Gardeners answer telephones and assist visitors to our office at 4145 Branch Center Road from Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. You can also email us at mgsacramento@ucanr.edu. We love getting close, sharp digital photos to help diagnose what is wrong, and we may call you to find out more. You are encouraged to bring plant samples or insects to our office for our examination. Before you make a trip, call (916) 876-5338 to make sure that the office is staffed and to discuss what kind of sample is needed. If the Master Gardener on duty can’t answer a question immediately, he or she will usually refer you to

the UC Davis website, sacmg.ucanr. edu. It’s easy to use and offers a tremendous amount of information. A home gardener can often find answers there without assistance. I usually recommend that people read what is online and then talk with us if they have further questions. We will mail you many of the UC publications for free. Master Gardeners may also consult with the Sacramento County agricultural commissioner next door. If necessary, we will submit a sample through that office for analysis by the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Plant Pest Diagnostics Center at 3294 Meadowview Road. The agricultural commissioner, Juli Jensen, says, “We are really fortunate

to have the lab here in our county.” While her office’s primary mission is regulatory, it will also assist walk-in visitors. Her preference is that people first go to the Master Gardeners, but “if someone has driven out here, and a Master Gardener is not available, we will try to provide the best customer service that we can,” she says. Although homeowners can bring samples directly to the state lab for analysis free of charge, it’s good to start and finish with the Master Gardeners, who can help interpret the findings and figure out what to do. According to Jensen, there is another reason for requests to go through the county office. “If something unusual is found, then we are sure to get notified.” Occasionally, a new pest is

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What about soil and water? The Master Gardeners office can provide a list of private companies that test soil and advise what amendments and fertilizers are needed to bring it to optimal growing conditions. Sacramento’s water tends to be good, but water in Davis and from some wells can be too high in boron or other elements. The pH of soil and water is important, too. Nutrients are usually best absorbed at a pH of about 6.5, although some plants such as blueberries or azaleas need even more acidity. You can buy inexpensive sampling kits and test pH and basic soil nutrients yourself. At the party, we discussed problems with raised vegetable beds. My hostess said that last season’s crop was stunted and infested with whiteflies. We talked about whitefly control, and I asked if she had examined the roots of her plants. She had not, and she agreed that she would look at roots of all plants that she is removing in the future. Dr. Cheryl Blomquist of the Plant Pest Diagnostics Center once told me

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that homeowners often don’t think to look at the base of a plant or at its roots. If there are drainage or overwatering problems, a plant may develop fungal root rot. Nematodes will cause pearly, gnarly growth that clots and stunts the roots. Much of a plant’s life lies beneath. We have some excellent nurseries in town with trained, experienced staff, and they can provide good information. They often refer tougher questions to the Master Gardeners office, where you can tap into the most recent scientific information. The doctor is in and happy to help. No co-pays required. Anita Clevenger is a Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. The Master Gardeners will host an Open Garden at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center on Saturday, Feb 17, from 9 a.m. to noon. The center is at 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. For answers to gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu. n

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v e e r r o H F o r i m e h e T COUPLE E N O W O H

hen Leslie and Scott Donald moved from Davis to Sacramento in 1994, they widened their search for a new home to several neighborhoods in hopes of finding a larger lot. But they soon realized East Sacramento was where they wanted to be. “We like the community feel,” says Leslie. “We can walk everywhere.” But it was not until 2011, after living in two East Sac homes, that they found and bought the one in which they hope to grow old: a 2,100-square-foot, Mediterraneanstyle, white-stucco house built in 1926. Knowing that the older home

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CRE AT E D A HOUS E TO GRO W OL D IN

had the potential to be a perfect fit “We really wanted to keep the for their growing family, the couple integrity of the house,” explains initiated phase one of a three-part Leslie, emphasizing that they remodeling project, adding 1,000 refurbished the original light square feet to the footprint. fixtures and ensured all added crown The remodel, which took one moldings, baseboards, and window year to complete, included adding and door moldings matched the two bedrooms and bathrooms to the original woodwork. Even the new second level; expanding the tight flooring seamlessly coordinates with entryway; turning a ground-floor the original white-oak hardwoods. bedroom into a mudroom “The entryway was the and laundry room; and most dramatic change,” creating a spacious family adds Leslie. It included room that opens up to increasing the landing a new backyard patio. space at the top of the Heating, air conditioning, stairs and pushing back By Cathryn Rakich plumbing and electrical walls on the second Home Insight were all replaced. level to create a more

open feeling. They kept the original wrought-iron staircase railing but moved the antique hanging light fixture to above the dining-room table, replacing it with a larger iron chandelier in the foyer. Equally important to the couple and their two children, Jackson, 23, and Anna, 20, was the addition of an outside living space, complete with a large flat-screen TV. “One of the best things we did was the covered back porch,” says Leslie. “We live out there eight months out of the year,” taking advantage of Sacramento’s mild weather. Even though the Donalds ran into a few setbacks, such as uncovering

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extensive dry rot downstairs, the remodel turned out to be a rewarding experience. “We had a very good contractor,” states Leslie, who credits contractor Ken Dyer and draftsman John Packowski for making the entire endeavor stress free. “I loved picking out the finishing touches. It is my taste, my home,” Leslie says. One exceptionally nice touch is a repurposed antique crystal chandelier that hangs over a free-standing soaking tub in the master bathroom. Despite some skepticism on the part of friends, Leslie insisted on keeping the original awning that shades the front door. She replaced the tan canvas with a new rust-colored fabric and had the poles lengthened to make the awning taller. “People were shorter back then,” she says with a smile. To make the front porch even more inviting, a friend painted a faux woodgrain over the original coral-colored entry door. Now that phase one is behind them, Leslie and Scott are looking forward to phase two, the kitchen, and phase three, the backyard landscape. For anyone considering a remodel, Leslie recommends making sure the bid is as comprehensive as possible. “Every doorknob, every light fixture,” she says. “If you are quoted for tile, check out what you are going to get for that bid. “We were not going to remodel to the extent that we did,” Leslie adds. “We had a budget. We doubled that budget. For example, the bid was for 12 windows and doors, but we ended up doing 36. That’s kind of how it all went.”

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Once the remodel was done, Leslie realized how much she enjoyed design. With encouragement from her husband and a close friend (herself an interior designer), she decided to start her own business, Leslie Donald Design. In the end, remodeling their home was worth the effort and expense. “We

love it,” says Leslie. “It’s our home that we will stay in forever. It is the perfect size for us to grow old in.” If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Cathryn Rakich at crakich@surewest.net. n

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A Bad Idea A CASE FOR HIGHER GAS TAXES, NOT LOWER

s the price of any other good displayed more prominently and more often than the price of gas? At thousands of corner gas stations, numbers are posted on huge signs and tall poles. They are often in lights, with costs down to the tenth of a cent. The unique visibility and virtual omnipresence contribute to the acute awareness and sensitivity that the public has to the cost of gas. The in-your-face ubiquity of gas prices helps explain efforts underway to repeal California Senate Bill 1, passed last year. SB 1 added a 12-cent-per-gallon tax to the price of gas, upped taxes on diesel, increased vehicle registration fees and added a road-improvement fee for electric vehicles. There are those who seem to believe that no tax increases are ever justified. Others are convinced that tax increases somehow wind up lining politicians’ pockets or that gas taxes regularly get siphoned off to fund unneeded pet projects. Little evidence is offered for these claims. In the real world, facts matter, and the need for more funding for transportation is manifest. It’s magical thinking to believe taxes don’t have to increase when costs rise. It was shortsighted that gas taxes were set at a fixed amount per gallon and were not indexed to inflation. The last state gas-tax increase was in

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Insurance Accepted! 1994, nearly a quarter century ago, when a dollar was distinctly more valuable. One dollar in 1994 has $1.69 in buying power today. Back in 1994, the average cost of a movie ticket was $4 and average rent was $533 a month. It’s not just that decades of inflation have eroded the buying power of the dollar. Road construction and maintenance costs have risen faster than the general level of inflation. Improved fuel efficiency plus hybrid and electric vehicles mean that, for every mile driven, there are fewer tax dollars available to cope with the wear and tear that vehicles impose on roads. Caltrans, cities and counties have been starving for money to fix potholes, repave roads, and repair and maintain thousands of bridges, traffic signals and culverts. There is a gigantic $130 billion backlog of roadmaintenance needs at state and local levels. Last winter’s storms added another $1 billion in maintenance costs to the backlog. There simply was no way to stretch inadequate funding to meet the ever-expanding amount of deferred maintenance or to build new capacity for a growing population. Funding for transportation projects is complicated, and few understand

it completely. Federal, state and local dollars all play a role. Despite a common belief, gas taxes don’t pay for all road costs. Motorists currently pay a lower percentage of the total costs than they have for a long time. Increasingly, local jurisdictions have tapped other sources, such as sales taxes, to make up for the shortfalls. Sales taxes violate the “user pays” principle by making everyone pay for transportation costs, no matter how much or in what way they use the transportation system. Sacramento County voters recognized the dire straits we were in by passing a 30-year renewal of the Measure A transportation sales tax in 2004, but they rejected a second salestax increase just a dozen years later. Even then, most voters recognized the need, but there were disagreements about how the money should be used. It would be profoundly unwise to repeal the state gas-tax increase. There simply hasn’t been enough money to go around. If anything, federal gas taxes, or other funding sources, need to be boosted as well. Like the state tax, the federal gas tax has not been increased for decades and is not indexed to inflation. While it hurts to pay even a modest gas-tax increase (about $100 a year under SB 1), and all those gas station signs constantly remind us of the price, without enough money our road system, and our economy, will suffer. Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n

THE MUSICALS OF MUSICALS: THE MUSICAL

BECKY SHAW by Gina Gionfriddo

A fanciful parody, the show pays homage to classic musical theatre troupes from across the ages, with a cast of four in those fated recurring melodrama roles of villain, hero, ingénue, and matron. You, too, will be taken to fantastic, but somehow familiar, musical lands and are destined to leave the theatre in stitches. (Group rates and special student performances available)

In Gina Gionfriddo’s BECKY SHAW, a newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends: wife’s best friend, meet husband’s sexy and strange new co-worker. When an evening calculated to bring happiness takes a dark turn, crisis and comedy ensue in this wickedly funny play that asks what we owe the people we love and the strangers who land on our doorstep.

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ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS

Set in the 1970s New York City, two strangers embark on a cat and mouse game after one invites the other into his apartment. As they toy with one another, they explore what it means to live and die. Playwright Richard Broadhurst has been both an actor and writer for almost 50 years. Director Janis Stevens has worked as both an actress and director in theatres nationally and internationally. Tory Scroggins has starred in independent films and stage plays in Los Angeles, Sacramento and the Bay. He was awarded Outstanding Regional Actor at the 2017 Sacramento International Film Festival, the 2017 Outstanding Achievement in a Supporting Role from the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance.

This wild adaptation of Servant of Two Masters took the world by storm in 2011. Winning multiple awards in England and America, this gut busting play tells the story of out-of-work skiffle player Francis Henshall, who becomes separately employed by two men. As Francis desperately tries to keep the men from meeting and learning the truth about his double employment, he spins various plates in the air to hilarious results.

B Street Theatre Main Stage Thru Mar 4 2711 B St, Sac 443-5300 BStreetTheatre.org

Brandon Hughes’ THE ABSENT FATHER, THE WAYARD SON

The Guild Theater Feb 3 – Feb 25 2828 35TH St (Broadway & 35th) Brandonhughes.net A powerful, funny, must-see show! David “DayDay” Williams has never seen his father in person, but discovers photos of his father under his mother’s bed affirming their resemblance. This leads David questioning his worth, resulting in an angry, confused, and wayward life. At seventeen, his mother reveals a secret, driving David to express his feelings about the father he’s never met, and how different his life would’ve been if he had. It is a story about love, repentance, redemption, and forgiveness. (Ages 13+)

OUR TOWN

Sacramento Theatre Company Feb 28 – Mar 4 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 SacTheatre.org Our Town tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens, particularly Emily Webb and George Gibbs, and is performed by STC School of the Arts Young Professionals Conservatory students. The Young Professionals Conservatory is a ten-month program for students ages 12 to 18 that prepares students for careers in theatre through master classes and performance opportunities with professional actors, directors and designers.

GANDHI

B Street Theatre Feb 19 – Mar 11 2711 B St, Sac 443-5300 BstreetTheatre.org A middle school boy in detention learns deeper values in life when forced to read the life of Mahatma Gandhi. A delightful tale of awakening set to Hip Hop and Indian Classical music.

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Jewel of the City AT 100, WILLIAM LAND PARK IS SHOWING ITS AGE

BY RICK STEVENSON

n Jan. 8, 1918, City Commissioners, as the City Council was then termed, adopted Resolution No. 1266, which allocated almost $150,000 worth of World War I Liberty bonds from a bequest by William Land to purchase 238 acres of land pieced together by George Swanston and F. B. McKevitt. Land came to Sacramento as a poor teenager during the Gold Rush and became a wealthy hotel owner and, in 1898, the mayor of Sacramento. He died in 1911, leaving money for a park open to the public free of charge. For a century, his name has lived on in that park and the surrounding Land Park neighborhood. Sacramento’s first parks were single-block parks or plazas. Private parks that charged admission, such as Richmond Grove (at 20th and O streets) and what is now McKinley Park, were also popular. Early Sacramento maps also show

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Agricultural Park, which was built in 1859 and served as the state fair’s horse-racing track in the area now known as Boulevard Park. The Swanston-McKevitt site was not without controversy. Various groups wanted to place Land’s park in other areas, but in 1922 the city proceeded to develop the present park site. Four wells provided water for the park and are still the primary source of irrigation, enabling the park to stay green through drought times. Initially, 4,000 trees were planted. The park became home to Sacramento’s first golf course in 1923, and the zoo was established in 1927. Three baseball diamonds were added that same year. Three bodies of water—Duck Lake, Lily Pond and Boat Lake (which originally had boats to rent)—and two stream systems that are no longer operational were created. Further amenities came to include

the WPA Rock Garden, Funderland Amusement Park, pony rides, an amphitheater, Fairytale Town, Camellia Grove and memorials to William Land, World War I and the Spanish-American War. Ponds were stocked and fishing encouraged to interest children in the sport. A major amenity, now gone, was a series of bridle paths for use by horses stabled across Freeport Boulevard from the park. Sacramento City College held equestrian and archery classes in the park. In 1937, city voters voted against a bond proposal to make the southeast area of the park the new site of Crocker Art Gallery and create a cultural center in conjunction with the large art department at Sacramento Junior College (now City College). In recent years, drastic cuts in park staffing levels have caused William Land Park to deteriorate. Residents

created Land Park Volunteer Corps, now in its ninth year, to carry out many park maintenance functions. Now, the group is raising funds to restore the 1926 Swanston statue, created by noted sculptor Ralph Stackpole. The list of pressing park needs includes restroom replacement, renovation of Duck Lake and restoration of original traffic patterns “temporarily” blocked decades ago to discourage problems now long gone. Additional refinements have been proposed, including a multimilliondollar renovation of the amphitheater. William Land Park is the city’s most visited park. Years of chronic underfunding have created problems that volunteers alone cannot remedy. The best manner in which to respect William Land’s generosity and love for Sacramento is for the city to devote the resources required to restore the park to its former glory. n

Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN FEBRUARY

Tim Collom Gallery presents a solo exhibition, “Round Two,” by Whitney Lofrano, from Feb. 6 to March 1. Shown above: “Float Sweet Peaches,” watercolor on paper. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com

Jaya King’s encaustic work will be featured in a duo show with Frank Brooks at Beatnik Studios through March 22. Shown above: “Reﬂection,” encaustic by King. 723 S St.; beatnik-studios.com

B. Sakato Garo presents the work of Ryan M. Reynolds from Feb. 6 to Mar. 3. Shown: “Freeway #4”, oil on panel by Reynolds is shown above. 923 20th St.; bsakatagaro.com

Artistic Edge Gallery presents work by Ron Hall, Diana Ormanzhi, Gary Harris and Carol Brown through Feb. 28. Shown above: “Golden Gate,” oil on canvas by Harris. 1880 Fulton Ave.; artisticedgeframing.com

Archival Gallery presents selected works by Gerald Barnes and Mariellen Layne through March. 2. Shown right: “Stele,” a mosaic by Layne. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalgallery.com NCA Aspiring Artist Debut 2018 is an exhibit open to new artists who have never shown in a juried exhibition. The show runs through Feb. 18 at Sacramento Fine Arts Center and includes drawing, mixed media, oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, photography and sculpture. Shown above right: “Images,” by Angela Cleavenger. 5330 Gibbons Drive; sacﬁnearts.org

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Advance Preparation CHAPLAIN’S WIFE MISINTERPRETS DYING BREATH

utter Hospice chaplain Dale Swan had always been clear with his wife, Jill, about how he wanted to die. “If I get sick and can’t feed myself or make my own decisions, please don’t let them put in a breathing or feeding tube,” he told her. “Let me go peacefully.” Jill, a CPA who is used to calculating the options, responded the way many people do: “I don’t want you to starve to death.” Dale reassured his wife of 34 years that his hospice colleagues would be there for her and wouldn’t let him suffer. Dale was a 58-year-old avid cyclist who showed no signs of impending problems until one evening this past summer. He was watching TV from his recliner, eating a veggie burger and sipping a beer, when he was hit with troubling stomach pains. He took some antacid and told his wife he was going to lie down. When Jill checked on him an hour later, she found his pain intensifying. She suggested a doctor, but Dale declined, instead making a bathroom visit that brought only mild improvement. An hour later, Jill heard Dale moaning with extreme pain. She

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insisted on taking him to the ER, but Dale countered by asking her to call 911. When paramedics arrived, they began assessing his pain even as they were speculating it was a heart attack. Within a few minutes, EMTs

to alarming levels with no apparent diagnosis. Nurses admitted Dale to a room, ordered that he have no food for four days and administered Dilaudid. Once he was in the room, the pain medication slowed his respiration

Dale and Jill Swan placed him on a gurney and loaded him in the ambulance. Beside him, they hung an IV drip of fentanyl, a strong opiate for pain control. The ER doctor ordered blood tests, a CT scan and a sonogram. Dale was suffering from pancreatitis, but the medical staff could find no cause. They ruled out stomach blockage, gallbladder problems and alcohol abuse. Dale’s pain level was rising

to six breaths per minute. Dale was rapidly losing consciousness. Hospital staff suspected an overdose and instructed Jill to keep her husband awake or they’d have to give him Narcan, a drug that reverses opioid effects. If that doesn’t work, they grimly warned her, we’ll have to insert a breathing tube down his throat.

Jill remembered Dale’s instructions and shocked the staff by saying, “Oh, no, he doesn’t want that! He’s always said to let him die peacefully.” Jill felt prepared. She and Dale had discussed many of the crucial questions involving the end of life and placed those answers into an advance health care directive (often called a living will). Everyone should have an advance health care directive. It instructs doctors what you want done if you become incapacitated. Without the directive, doctors are obligated to do everything possible to save your life—even if “everything” means a painful delay of your inevitable death. Fortunately, the medical staff knew this wasn’t a moment to give up on a healthful and strong patient. They helped Jill understand that Dale’s document didn’t apply to situations where a full recovery could be logically anticipated. While Dale has fully recovered and returned to work, the happy couple is taking no more chances. Dale’s given Jill more detailed instructions. And Jill, ever the logical numbers cruncher, is reviewing their life insurance policies—just in case. For more information on advance health care directives, go to caringinfo. org. Recently retired chaplain Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and book author. He can be reached at comment@ thechaplain.net. n

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Chinese brush painting will be the focus of the “Expression of Chinese Art” exhibit at Ella K. McClatchy Library. This artwork was painted by Sylvia Hsieh.

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“Expression of Chinese Art” Ella K. McClatchy Library Feb. 10–March 23 (reception Feb. 10, 2–4 p.m.) 2112 22nd St. • saclibrary.org This exhibition will highlight Chinese brush painting (ink and watercolor on absorbent xuan paper) by master painter Lillian Seto and her students. Seto will give a Chinese brush-painting workshop on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 2 to 4 p.m., limited to 15 participants. Sign up at the library circulation desk.

Sacramento Ballet will perform "Giselle” Feb. 16-18 at the Community Center Theater.

“Giselle” Sacramento Ballet Feb. 16–18 Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. • sacballet.org With its surreal beauty, “Giselle” has mesmerized audiences since its premiere in Paris in 1841. Co-artistic directors Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda chose the production—which hasn’t been done in more than 15 years—in celebration of their 30th year at the helm of the Sacramento Ballet.

Classical Concert: Michelle Xiao You Crocker Art Museum Sunday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org Michelle Xiao You, violinist with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, will present a program featuring European composers of the late 19th century.

Black History Month Free Family Festival Crocker Art Museum Sunday, Feb. 18, noon–4 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org. This annual festival features live performances, hands-on activities and the community’s only Black and Beautiful Community Marketplace. Stop by Crocker Art Museum and check out the Faith Ringgold exhibit.

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“Art of the Airport Tower” Aerospace Museum of California Feb. 10–July 6 3200 Freedom Park Drive, McClellan• aerospaceca.org This compelling exhibit premiered at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in 2015. It takes guests on a photographic journey to airports around the world through 50 striking photographs by Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo.

Go on a photographic journey to airports around the world with “Art of the Airport Tower” exhibit at Aerospace Museum of California. The photos were taken by Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo.

Elena Smith in Conversation Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, Feb. 21, 12:15 p.m. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive • gensac.org Speaker Elena Smith, librarian at the California State Library, will explain the resources available in the library’s large collection for those looking to do genealogical research.

“Family Cabins”

“Terry Moore’s Poetic Justice 2018” Laughs Unlimited Thursday, Feb. 8, 8:30 p.m. 1207 Front St. • terrymoorelive.eventbrite.com Catch a rare, full-show performance by eight-time “Best Poet” award winner Terry Moore—who’s opened for Maya Angelou, Kirk Franklin, Raphael Saadiq and Dr. Cornel West. Also appearing: host Selena Spencer, a live band and special guests.

“Faith Ringgold: An American Artist”

Asymptotic Productions Feb. 23–March 10

Crocker Art Museum Feb. 18–May 13

Howe Avenue Theater, 2201 Cottage Way • familycabinsplay.com In writer Irwin Rosenblum’s first full-length play, Jane arrives at her family’s cabin in the Sierras in time for “Gotcha Day,” an annual celebration of her adoption. Over the course of the weekend, events trigger Jane into a manic state of her bipolar disorder, and her family desperately tries to help her cope. Warning: “Family Cabins” contains strong language and mature content.

216 O St. • crockerart.org This exhibition brings together more than 40 examples of works by Faith Ringgold. It will include her story quilts, tanka poems, prints, oil paintings, drawings, masks, soft sculptures and original illustrations from her awardwinning book, “Tar Beach.”

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7th Annual Sacramento Bacon Fest Chef’s Challenge Sacramento Bacon Fest Sunday, Feb. 11, 2–6 p.m. Mulvaney’s B&L, 1215 19th St. • facebook.com/sacramentobaconfest This popular pig-centric food feast is back as chefs compete to see who’s got the best bacon, bites and more. Your $60 ticket includes bites from all of the participating chefs, food from Mulvaney’s, three beer/wine tickets and service charge.

The Purple Carpet Fundraising Gala The Purple Dove Saturday, Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m. Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I St. • thepurpledove.com The Purple Dove, a local organization providing holistic treatment for those combating opioid addiction, will host a gala in honor of the late singer Prince in an effort to raise awareness of opioid dependency and the need for rehabilitation facilities. Tickets are $25–$75. Proceeds will go toward startup costs for The Purple Dove Opioid Treatment Center in Carmichael. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

Don't miss "Family Cabins" at Howe Avenue Theater.

“Hopes Springing High: Gifts of African American Art” Crocker Art Museum Feb. 18–July 15 216 O St. • crockerart.org In recognition of Black History Month and the opening of “Faith Ringgold: An American Artist,” the museum will install a concurrent exhibition of recent acquisitions and promised gifts of art by African-American artists.

“The Absorption of Light” Beatnik Studios Feb. 2–March 22 (reception Feb. 2, 6–9 p.m.) 723 S St. • beatnik-studios.com Large-scale works by Frank Brooks and Jaya King will share space in this dramatic exhibition featuring abstracts, figures and portraitures in King’s signature encaustic and Brooks’ sculptural layered oils in varying shades of black and gray.

Artwork by Jaya King will be on exhibit at Beatnik.

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BY DANIEL BARNES ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

Sole Practitioner THIS ARTIST PAINTS ABSTRACTS, NOT RIVERS AND TREES

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t is important for any artist to feel at home in his studio, but Andy Cunningham managed to take the concept to a whole new level. A prolific Sacramento painter who was tired of sharing Downtown studio space with artists and bands, Cunningham created his own studio by building a quasi-house on a corner lot in the northernmost reaches of East Sacramento. The former owners split the property into two parcels and sold what was once the backyard to Cunningham, who built a structure with enough amenities to pass inspection. He doesn’t live in the space, but building codes still required him to include a bathroom and a barebones kitchen. Otherwise, he left the studio largely an unfinished shell, more of an oversized man cave than a home, with paint-splattered cement floors, makeshift plywood tables and a garage overflowing with old paintings. “It gives me space to think,” says Cunningham, who recently brought his works to China as part of a show of Sacramento and Chinese artists. “I like to keep my head down and keep going forward, and this space allows me to do that.” Isolated and unique, the studio makes an almost-too-easy metaphor for Cunningham’s position in the local arts scene. An abstract artist who specializes in nonobjective explorations of color and shape, Cunningham often finds himself on the outside of a mainstream Sacramento art world that favors representational images of rivers and trees. And although he made a

striking contribution to last year’s ArtStreet, an art pop-up event held in and around an old warehouse near Broadway, he also doesn’t fit the mold of the urban artists and muralists who are driving change in the local scene. “Sacramento desperately wants to be a city, but the city is not the dirt and earth anymore. It’s an abstracted experience,” says Cunningham, whose work is influenced by “hard-edge abstractionists” like Frank Stella and Brice Marden. Although he remains an outlier in the Sacramento scene, he sees hope in the change brought by groups like M5 Arts and Verge Center for the Arts. “I definitely see the needle moving more toward not necessarily abstraction, but anything other than cows and rivers and sunsets,” says Cunningham. Born in New York and raised between there and the Bay Area, Cunningham was back in New York City attending graduate school at Hunter College when his wife became pregnant with their first child. The new family returned to Northern California, eventually settling in Sacramento, where Cunningham played the role of “artist and at-home dad” and found a job teaching art at Sacramento Country Day School. The busy schedule didn’t do much to raise his profile. “Come 8 o’clock on a Friday night, I was reading Harry Potter to my kids,” says Cunningham. “I didn’t have the energy or the desire to be out shaking hands, so I figured I would spend more time in the studio.” Cunningham describes his work as “colorful and whimsical,” and the many paintings that cover his studio

walls attest to his love of “color for color reasons,” as well his obsession with exploring shapes. Rather than chasing trends, Cunningham has preferred to chase his own muse, no matter where it leads him. “Throughout time, many of the great experimenters have nearly killed themselves with explosions, and in that they found a whole new thing,” says Cunningham. “By making work in a serious progression, just keeping my head down and moving forward, that’s going to get me where I want to go.” Cunningham concentrates almost solely on paintings, but he stepped outside of his comfort zone for ArtStreet, creating a playful yet powerful piece featuring nine shrinkwrapped wheelbarrows sitting atop spray-painted wooden plinths. “He has always stuck to his guns,” says Cunningham’s friend and fellow artist, Salvatore Victor. “He’s somebody who doesn’t get caught in a formula.” ArtStreet also helped connect Cunningham with Lin Fei Fei, the artist who sponsored the East Meets West show, held this past

July in Shenyang, China. Already off from work for summer vacation, Cunningham seized the opportunity to travel to Shenyang for the exhibit, carrying his artwork as luggage. “I don’t know if I’ve sold anything because of the show, but it was a oncein-a-lifetime experience,” he says. Back in Sacramento, his studio remains a hive of activity. Next to the stairs sits a cardboard tube filled with artwork that Cunningham is sending to a show in Los Angeles, and he sent two other paintings to Connecticut just the day before. “His work is vastly recognized outside of here and amongst his peers, but he doesn’t get the recognition in Sacramento that I think he deserves,” says Victor. “Maybe my market is somewhere else. Maybe I don’t have a market,” says Cunningham. “I’m just going to keep funneling artwork into my garage, if that’s what it takes.” To see Andy Cunningham’s art, go to saatchiart.com/andyc. Daniel Barnes can be reached at danielebarnes@hotmail.com. n

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Japanese on the Grid ASIAN GASTROPUBS BRING DIVERSITY OF CUISINE

he sushi craze hit the West Coast more than a decade ago. Growing up in Sacramento during the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, I knew of only one place that served raw fish, Hana Tsubaki on J Street. (Still going strong, by the way.) In the years that followed, sushi joints popped up in every part of town. There are now upscale, casual, experimental and grab-and-go sushi spots in nearly every neighborhood.

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Then, in the past five to 10 years, ramen became the Japanese import du jour. Now, there are literally ramen shops across the street from other ramen shops. In the wake of these two Japanese food trends, there hasn’t been much room for the true panoply of Japanese cuisine to shine. However, two newer restaurants on the Grid are filling in the gaps, bringing another style of Japanese cooking to town. Skool Gastropub Shochu & Sake Bar draws from Japanese pub grub and elevates it in its hip K Street digs. The menu is inspired by the food of an izakaya, a casual pub or bar and grill that you’d find in most Japanese cities. Small bites are fried or grilled; fish and other meats hold equal spots on the menu; and everything tastes better washed down with a beer or sake. This is a bit of a rebranding for Skool. When it first opened two

Skool Gastropub

years ago, as a Sacramento outpost o of a successful San Francisco enterprise, the focus was on refined cooking and a higher price point. Now, prices are lower, and the menu focuses on accessible Japaneseinspired comfort foods. Here are just a few of the n beautiful small bites you can snack on: fried oysters with house-made tartar sauce; panko-breaded and fried sardine or salmon; karaage aded fried chicken; cornmeal-breaded baby mushrooms with miso aioli. Those dishes, and equally om the excellent items that come from grill, are elevated by precise execution use-made and the care put into the house-made sauces and sides. Each dish comes from humble roots but is enhanced by thoughtful preparation. On a recent visit, I was blown away by the grilled escolar. It was a

Happy hour at Skool Gastropub

simple-looking dish, but the cooking of the buttery fish stood out. The meat was pillowy soft, and the skin had a perfectly grilled char. The lightly sauced dish sang with a simple accompaniment of braised bok choy. At $15, it was a truly gorgeous dish. Some of these dishes might sound a little more Japanese-inspired than technically Japanese. But other items on the menu fit that bill nicely. For an indulgent Japanese bar snack, try the takoyaki, fried balls of batter stuffed with octopus and other fillings, topped with mayo and bonito flakes. This street-food dish, originating from Osaka, is an unsophisticated fried treat. Binchoyaki Izakaya Dining, a small, newish restaurant on 10th Street in Southside Park, also offers Sacramento diners a glimpse into casual yet beautifully executed Japanese fare. Binchoyaki’s cuisine is based on a style of Japanese cooking called sumiyaki (“sumi” or “bincho” is Japanese charcoal and “yaki” is grill) or better known as yakitori (“yaki” is grill and “tori” is chicken). More than half of the menu is delivered from the charcoal grill, typically skewered and sauced, and quickly devoured without pretension. Grilled morsels range from the highly familiar—chicken thigh, beef strip, shrimp and oyster—to the more unfamiliar: chicken heart, beef tongue, mackerel and bacon-wrapped enoki mushroom.

The other half of the menu highlights a kitchen with heart and skill. What sound like simple fish dishes—salmon with shishito peppers, grilled cod with mushrooms—come to the table as gorgeous plates with facefirst flavors and strong seasoning. A small but efficient lineup of ramen is flat-out excellent. Highly creative desserts stand out. During the holidays, a mochi ice cream treat that resembled a particular red-clad gift bringer was delightful. Year-round, the crème caramel is indulgently fantastic. The simple glass storefront shows off the sizable charcoal grill and the hungry diners seated before it, as well as a glass-fronted cold box stuffed with the widest array of Japanese beers I’ve seen in the area. If sushi and ramen are as far as you’ve gone into Japanese food culture, I encourage you to try out these two spots to broaden your horizons and learn some new culinary vocabulary. Skool Gastropub Shochu & Sake Bar is at 2319 K St.; (916) 737-5767; skoolonkstreet.com. Binchoyaki Izakaya Dining is at 2226 10th St.; (916) 469-9448; binchoyaki.com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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