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TUCKED AWAY SLP Light and airy 3 bedroom home! Updated and in wonderful condition, all it needs is someone to love it as much as the owners do. Drought tolerant planting makes the curb appeal a welcoming site and maintenance a breeze. The open Àoor plan makes it great for entertaining or enjoying family time. Move in ready! $425,000 PAULA SWAYNE 916-425-9715

GORGEOUS HOME 3 bedroom 2½ bath home in great Greenhaven/Pocket community. Wonderful Àoorplan with separate living and family rooms. Amazing professionally landscaped front and back yards. Nice covered patio. Huge wall of glass in family room opens to amazing large yard. Newer heat/air and updated kitchen, wet bar and granite counter tops. $469,000 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

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PARK RIVER OAK TOWNHOME 2 bedrooms 2½ baths with lots of natural light and balconies on both sides. Kitchen has upgraded cabinets and pantry closet. Master bedroom has walk-in closet, ensuite bath with double sinks, and small balcony. New carpet throughout. Attached 2 car garage w/ extra storage room. Low HOA dues. Next to Garcia Bend Park. $290,000 BETH SHERMAN 916-800-4343

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CRESTWATER GARDEN HOME Walk to the river to watch the sunset. Boat/RV parking lot in complex. Great updated 3 bedroom 2½ bath home with attached 2-car garage, plenty of parking, pretty patio, and indoor laundry room. Roof is less than 1 year old. Updated with laminate Àoors throughout. Newer remodeled kitchen with cabinets, granite counter tops. $289,500 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

WONDERFUL UPDATED CUSTOM HOME Walk or bike to river and enjoy beautiful sunsets. Boat ramp close by. Wonderful 3 bedroom 2½ bath home with Large yard, pool, spa, pond for indoor/outdoor living. Two ¿replaces. Newer dual pane windows, Hunter Douglas shutters, 2 Anderson sliders, laminate Àoors, attic fan, alarm, ceiling fans. Updated bathrooms!!! $489,000 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

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HUGE YARD 2016 POOL 3 bedroom 2 bath with new pool by Premier Pools 2016. Huge yard with pool, play structure and possible RV access. High ceilings and open Àoor plan. New paint in/out. Remodeled kitchen and baths. Fireplace, dual pane windows, covered patio, Nest thermostat, Ring video doorbell, succulent dry riverbed landscaping! $515,000 MONA GERGEN 916247-9555

MOVE-IN READY ELK GROVE Amazing single-story 3 bedroom 2 bath home in highly desirable Elk Grove neighborhood. Features a bright and open Àoor plan with new interior paint, gorgeous granite counter tops and kitchen cabinets, dual pane windows and beautiful tile Àooring throughout the kitchen and family room. Lovely backyard with deck, fruit trees and more. $375,000 JERRI LI 916-601-0679

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BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED Sweet 3 bedroom 2 bath 1522 square feet home in a quiet neighborhood! Close to Garcia Bend park and Sacramento River. Well loved for many years and in wonderful condition. Pristine kitchen opens into spacious family room with beautiful brick ¿replace and slider opening to backyard. Welcome home! $345,000 PAULA SWAYNE 916-425-9715

AMAZING GREENHAVEN HOME Beautiful large yard for entertaining. Gorgeous built-in pool with waterfall. 3 bedrooms 2 baths, excellent open Àoor plan. Berber patterned carpet/pad, interior paint, ceiling fans, brand new roof. Also features: refaced cabinets, dual pane windows, new clear coat on aggregate decking around pool/patio, window blinds, shutters, clear pest, alarm. $450,000 MONA GERGEN 916-947-9555

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COVER ARTIST SHU FEN CHEN This painting by Shu Fen Chen was selected from the 2018 California State Fair Fine Art Show by Inside Publications publisher Cecily Hastings for one of her 2018 Publisher’s Awards. Shown: “Peony,” oil painting. Shu Fen Chen can be reached at shufenpocket@yahoo.com.

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Hot Off The Press NEIGHBORHOODS STAR IN SECOND EDITION OF ‘INSIDE SACRAMENTO’

his past month we released the second edition of our book, “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital.” The updated version follows the launch of the first edition two years ago. With the first edition, we distributed and sold 7,000 books. Considering that the average book from a traditional publisher sells around 3,000 copies nationally over its lifetime, we are extremely proud and grateful for the community’s embrace of “Inside Sacramento.” Sales came from many places. Readers of our publications bought copies. Prominent Realtors gave them as closing gifts with a home purchase. Attorneys delivered them as Christmas gifts to clients and family. My accountant gave the book as client gifts and also delivered them to new residents in his neighborhood, along with his card and welcome message. Book sales came from folks who love our city and want to better know our unique neighborhoods. People handed copies to new neighbors and showed visitors from out of town. Mayor Darrell Steinberg proclaimed the book as Sacramento’s “bucket list challenge.” At our book launch he said, “Buy this book and visit every one of these places. And then when you have been to all of them, give the book to a newcomer.” Many people I know have copies proudly displayed on their coffee tables. Several residential developers, including McKinley Village, Bardis

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The colorful neighborhood map featured in the new book is also available in a larger format at University Art in Midtown. Show your neighborhood pride! Homes and Fulcrum Property, hand the book to new homeowners. We’re working with a local television station president who wants to use copies of “Inside Sacramento” to help recruit young people to the company. Golden Pacific Bank gives copies to clients, since many of their smallbusiness customers are in the book. Sacramento State University gives copies to new faculty. And books are inside the hotels rooms at the Kimpton Sawyer, Embassy Suites and the Downtown Holiday Inn. Our sponsors—including Visit Sacramento and the Greater Sacramento Economic Council—use “Inside Sacramento” to share the city’s bounty and to help promote and lure business to Sacramento. The book helps sell convention planners on our city. “Inside Sacramento” went abroad as city leaders took copies as gifts for sister-city exchange trips. City Councilmember Steve Hansen brought the book to China. He says, “Even

with a language barrier, everyone can relate to the gorgeous photography of our city’s great places and farm-tofork culture.” A group of musicians from Europe did a concert exchange with a local musical organization. The Europeans were presented books upon their arrival. I spoke about the book at several Rotary clubs. A nerve was struck with members when I talked about our city’s reputation not keeping pace with the reality of what Sacramento offers. I mentioned the book as a wonderful way to convince children and grandchildren to consider moving back to Sacramento. They loved that approach! Several business owners featured in “Inside Sacramento” told me they had people stop by and ask the merchants to sign their page. The readers were collecting them! I heard about a woman who placed color-coded flags on each page to help track the places she visited—and the discoveries still ahead.

WITH THE BOOK EACH OF US CAN DO OUR PART TO TELL THE COMPELLING STORY OF OUR INTERESTING AND BEAUTIFUL CITY.

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A year ago, I met a Los Angelesbased cookbook author at a fitness spa in Mexico. We exchanged experiences about our books. She mentioned her frequent travels through Sacramento to visit her parents in Northern California. She said she was thinking of moving her catering business to Sacramento. On a lark, I sent her the book. Months later, she emailed me to say she was sitting in her new East Sac backyard enjoying “Inside Sacramento” with a glass of wine! She made the decision to move here when the book arrived, instantly connecting with our food scene. She knew she would fit in. Late last year, as our first edition supplies dwindled, we decided to publish a second edition. Each place featured is a locally owned business, so closures and turnover were inevitable. We post changes as they happen on insidesacbook.com. The first edition was a snapshot of the city when it was published in 2016. Since then, many new places have opened. In preparing the second edition, we carefully curated new entries. As with the first edition, there are more than 1,000 gorgeous photos by photographers Aniko Kiezel and Rachel Valley. Both covers have been updated with new photos. The first edition featured nine neighborhoods: Downtown, Old Sac, Midtown, The Handle, R Street, Land Park, Curtis Park, Oak Park and East Sac. For the second edition, we added The Bridge District (home of The Barn and Raley Field) in West Sacramento and the Sutter District, which is part of Midtown but with its own identity. The second edition has about 30-percent updated content. A new section called City Amenities features art galleries and performing arts organizations, “Lady Bird” movie locations, mural art and the Sacramento Walk of Stars honorees. Also noteworthy is a new colorfully designed neighborhood map on the first page of the inside cover. It’s a first for Sacramento. In my travel experiences, great cities have great maps. In Vancouver recently, we were handed five different maps in four days. They included a colorful map of the city’s neighborhoods and districts, a cycling map, historic walking map, park attractions map and farmto-table dining map. I used smartphone maps only twice. Physical maps were much easier. They let me ditch the smartphone, relax and enjoy a new city. Last year, I visited Dallas and noticed every Airbnb rental online had a colorful map of Dallas neighborhoods

displayed in the room. Maps were for sale in many retail shops. There were a variety of designs, but each visually defined the city’s neighborhoods. When I researched Sacramento maps, I found exactly one: a business-like map of City Council boundaries on the city’s website. Clearly, we needed something to reflect Sacramento’s spirit. So we designed our own map for the book’s inside cover. And we produced a larger version for wall display. The large version is 24 inches by 36 inches and for sale at University Art in Midtown for $24.95. We hope many of the places featured in “Inside Sacramento” will display copies proudly in their locations. People take great pride in their neighborhoods—and they should. Neighborhood identity adds immeasurably to the textural character of our city. Not long ago, we all relied on printed maps. But in a digital world, printed maps take on a new and important purpose. Anyone with a smartphone or computer knows you can find anything on digital maps. While e-maps pinpoint locations, they make it difficult to understand a neighborhood’s boundaries or size. And they don’t help us understand how neighborhoods relate to each other geographically. For walking or biking, context is vital. The second edition of “Inside Sacramento” includes a variety of neighborhoods. The Handle is compact, just a few blocks from East Sac, which covers many square miles. This isn’t obvious on a smartphone, but it’s clear on our map. Please consider buying the second edition of “Inside Sacramento” from our local sellers. They include Chocolate Fish Coffee, Display: California in Oak Park, University Art and Time Tested Books in Midtown, Avid Reader in Land Park, #Panache in East Sac and the Crocker Art Museum store. The price is $29.95. Discounts for larger orders are available by contacting sue@ insidepublications.com. “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital” is also available online at insidesacbook.com, with free shipping. Mention “Inside” and get a $5 discount on the new lower price of $29.99. And with the book each one of us can do our part to tell the compelling story of our interesting and beautiful city. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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From Crafts to Politics FALL BRINGS VARIETY OF EVENTS TO POCKET AREA

ctober is an incredibly active month in the Pocket and Greenhaven community. This month’s column has enough information to keep everyone busy, right up to the holiday season.

HOLIDAY CRAFTS FAIR; PARKING LOT SALE It’s never too early to start Christmas shopping. The annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Festival at Elks Lodge No. 6 is the perfect place to gather quality, artisanal gifts, such as custom jewelry, from local artists. The festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free to shoppers. Artists are welcomed to rent table space. For more information, contact Joyce Breen at (916) 421-3601 or visit www.elks6.com. Also, if someone’s trash is your new treasure, check out the Elks Lodge No. 6 annual fall Parking Lot Sale on Saturday, Oct. 6, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Elks Lodge No. 6 is located at 6446 Riverside Blvd.

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The robotics team from the School of Engineering and Sciences will present a Mini Robotics Workshop on Saturday, Oct. 6.

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More than 100 homeless veterans were assisted last year with money raised by Vetstock, the annual food and music festival at Elks Lodge No. 6. This year’s event is set for Saturday, Oct. 13, at 5 p.m. Each $30 ticket supports homeless veterans. Vetstock guests will enjoy a barbecue buffet, live music by the Howlin’ Alan Band, a silent auction and prizes. Last year’s festivities raised $18,000 with all proceeds helping homeless vets. Buy

ROBOTICS WORKSHOP Budding engineers will get hands-on training when the robotics team from the School of Engineering and Sciences presents a Mini Robotics Workshop on Saturday, Oct. 6, from 10 a.m. to noon. The workshop is geared for sixth to eighth graders. Students meet at the Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library and walk to the robotics lab next door. Training in computer-aided

design, soldering and coding will help students create a project they can take home. Space is limited. Register at saclibrary.org.

PAINTS & ICE CREAM Sea-sponge painting and ice cream make excellent companions, especially when the ice cream is Gunther’s, a Sacramento classic. Parents can sign up their kids and join artist Liz Harrington on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 6 to 7 p.m., at A Taste Above restaurant in the Promenade Shopping Center.

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VOTER FORUM The November election ballot includes 11 statewide initiatives, along with local Measures U and K. To keep voters informed, the Pocket-Greenhaven Community Association will host an educational forum Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library. Kim Nalder, director of Sacramento State’s Project for an Informed Electorate, will lead a discussion on each initiative, with city and county representatives providing insight. Register at voter.pocketgreenhaven.org.

HOT BOOKS; LED GREETING CARDS Penguin-Random House representative Liz Camford will provide a sneak preview of the most highly anticipated books of the season. Her “Book Buzz” takes place Wednesday, Oct. 3, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library. To reserve a seat and receive a free tote bag, register at saclibrary.org. For the kids—third-graders and older—a hands-on workshop will be held on how to make electronic greeting cards with LED lights, Saturday, Oct. 13, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Robbie Waters library. The workshop is limited to 30 children and pre-registration is required. For more information, call (916) 264-2920 or visit saclibrary.org.

PARK VOLUNTEER DAY Join City Councilmember Rick Jennings and Pocket Girls Softball team

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members to spruce up Seymour Park at 845 Florin Road on Saturday, Oct. 6, from 1 to 4 p.m. Equipment and snacks will be provided. Wear “outdoor clean up” attire and comfortable sneakers. For information, contact Devin Lavelle at parks@devinlavelle.com or (916) 8087192.

FOOD TRUCK MANIA Take advantage of the fine fall weather and enjoy a picnic in the park at Food Truck Mania. Casual outdoor dining options are on the menu when local food trucks return to Garcia Bend Park at 7654 Pocket Road on Friday, Oct. 19, from 5 to 8 p.m.

CONSTITUENT MEETINGS Two public officials who represent Pocket and Greenhaven will hold office hours this month. Assemblyman Jim Cooper will meet community members at the Robbie Waters PocketGreenhaven Library on Thursday, Oct. 18, from 3 to 5 p.m. Cooper and his team will help residents connect with community resources and listen to their state agency concerns. For more information, contact Daniel Washington at (916) 670-7888 or daniel. washington@asm.ca.gov. City Councilmember Rick Jennings will follow Cooper with office hours from 6 to 7 p.m. For more information, contact Yoon Chao at (916) 808-7192 or ychao@cityofsacramento.org. Corky Mau can be reached at corky.sue50@gmail.com. Submissions are due six weeks prior to the publication month. n

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Measure U: The Basics

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acramento voters should carefully consider their vote on Measure U in the Nov. 6 election. The ballot measure would double and make permanent the existing half-cent sales tax that restored fire, police, parks and other basic services slashed during the Great Recession. Approved by 64 percent of city voters in November 2012, the original Measure U delivers nearly $50 million a year. The tax automatically expires on March 31, 2019. Starting next April 1, a renewed Measure U would

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create a 1-cent sales tax, increasing the total in Sacramento to 8.75 percent—one of the highest tax rates in the region. I’ve followed this issue since the original Measure U was proposed six years ago. I’d like to provide some context and background. I’m not telling readers how to vote. Measure U is a general tax, which means the money goes into the general fund. Under state law, Measure U dollars can’t be earmarked for specific use. Despite that restriction, most of the money goes to public safety—police and fire—with lesser amounts spent to restore parks and fund libraries. I was appointed to the citizens’ oversight committee that reviewed audits of how Measure U dollars were spent. The committee was announced before the 2012 election to help convince voters the city would spend the money responsibly.

My main criticism with the original Measure U is that proceeds have not been equitably distributed. Police and fire—with powerful unions—were fully restored fairly quickly. But today, park funding is only partially restored, despite a tax windfall much higher than the city anticipated. I live across from McKinley Park, where conditions have continued to deteriorate since 2010. Before 2008, the park had a dedicated staff. Now there is one staff person for dozens of parks. The nonprofit Friends of East Sacramento that I co-founded in 2011 manages hundreds of volunteers who have helped maintain McKinley Park. The Land Park Volunteer Corps continues—as it has for eight years— to provide hundreds of volunteer hours each month to care for that park. There is no guarantee the new Measure U would restore our parks to their 2008 budget levels—no

guarantee of relief for the volunteers who are getting burned out plugging the city’s maintenance gaps. Given that Measure U is a general tax without earmarks, it’s essentially a blank check to the City Council—a check worth almost $100 million a year. This means the decision for voters is really about trust and accountability. Citizens who favor Measure U must believe the City Council will spend the money wisely. There are no guarantees. I recently spoke with Mayor Darrell Steinberg about Measure U. He’s confident the new tax will pass. He needs 50.1 percent approval. The results of private polls organized by the mayor apparently support his confidence. In our discussion, he refused to discuss the possibility of Measure U falling short. The question of where the money would go is tricky for Steinberg and his allies on the City Council. Legally,

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they can’t promise anything. When I suggested that approximately onequarter cent—about $23 million annually—would go to CalPERS for unfunded city pension obligations, Steinberg took great offense. The mayor described the link between Measure U and pension obligations as “a fiction created by Eye On Sacramento,” the local watchdog group. But Councilmember Jeff Harris—the smartest, most detail-oriented and honest elected official I’ve found in the city—agrees with my prediction. Harris says another one-quarter cent—again, approximately $23 million—has been promised to various organizations to secure their support. “The extra one-quarter cent, if applied only to the city’s road-repair needs, would take more than eight years to cover our backlog of needed repairs,” Harris says, giving some perspective. Steinberg and other Measure U supporters say the additional money would boost affordable housing and homeless services, provide job training for teenagers and economic growth in poor neighborhoods. The money would also free up bondpayment capacity for projects along the waterfront. Yet by definition, Measure U is a regressive tax—it applies equally to everyone who pays sales taxes, rich and poor. People with lower incomes carry a heavier burden than residents with higher incomes. When I asked Steinberg why he so quickly rejected the idea of making the original half-cent Measure U permanent, he said, “I just believe we have a unique opportunity in

Sacramento to gain the capital to invest in inclusive economic growth with this new tax. In my first yearplus as mayor, I believe that we have great aspirations. “But we do not have the financial tools to meet the aspirations of our city and to address the issues of equity and systemic poverty that exist in too many parts of our city.” If Measure U fails in November, the city could face painful budget cuts. The tax pays for around 150 police officers and 90 firefighters. The local firefighters union, which helped bankroll the original Measure U, urged the council to stick with the current half-cent tax to make sure the extension passes. The City Council opted to roll the dice and double the tax. If voters reject Measure U, the council will likely call a special election in March to renew the current sales tax. It will be a humbled council that does the asking. Today, as in 2012, I urge the city to control labor costs and make departments more efficient through a variety of measures as advocated by Eye On Sacramento. The city made progress by negotiating higher employee pension contributions and reducing retiree health benefits. But Harris notes there is much work to do. An example he cites is replacing one firefighter in city ambulances with a civilian paramedic. The move would save about $6 million a year. So far, the idea has little support. In August, Steinberg rushed to pass a collective-bargaining agreement with trade unions without a serious analysis of the cost. The agreement

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REGISTER ONLINE AT: WWW.CBHS-SACRAMENTO.ORG could add millions to the cost of several expensive remodeling projects, including the Sacramento Convention Center, Community Center Theater and Memorial Auditorium. (See our City Beat column this month.) The watchdogs at Eye On Sacramento oppose Measure U. The group put together a list of savings it claims will total $125 million, mostly by reducing labor expenses. Eye On Sacramento notes the city’s pension costs are projected to increase by $62 million a year in 2022-23. The watchdogs believe Measure U would primarily support pensions. To help with both transparency and accountability, Steinberg has proposed a more robust citizens’ oversight committee for Measure U. The committee would recommend potential investments based upon a set of metrics to evaluate economic growth potential. The committee would measure whether the investments perform as expected. Here’s an idea for the mayor: Give Eye On Sacramento a seat on that committee.

YES ON MEASURE K The City Council placed a second measure on the November ballot. Measure K would establish the city auditor as a charter officer, which means the position can’t be eliminated without a ballot measure. It would consolidate the independent budget analyst’s duties under the auditor’s office. Measure K deserves a yes vote. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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on Measure U BROKEN PROMISES, HIDDEN PENSION AGENDA EARN REJECTION

very Sacramento resident should want to believe Mayor Darrell Steinberg will keep his promises about how he plans to spend the $100 million raised annually by Measure U, Steinberg’s permanent 1-cent sales-tax hike on the November ballot. But the mayor is an ambitious politician. And we know ambitious politicians make promises they cannot keep. Voters would be foolish to blindly believe Steinberg’s glib promises, particularly when they carry the cost of a major increase in a regressive tax that would hurt modest-income families and the poor—the very people the mayor promises to help. To assess whether city politicians can be trusted to honor their Measure U vows, let’s look at the track record. First, they promised the original Measure U, a half-cent sales tax hike in 2012, would be temporary. They promised the money would fill budget gaps until the city’s revenues recovered from the recession.

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Today, city revenues, not counting Measure U, are more than $120 million above their level from 2012, zooming up 16 percent in the past two years. Instead of honoring the city’s promise, the mayor wants to double the Measure U tax and make it permanent. Councilmember Jeff Harris urged the City Council to give voters the option of extending the half-cent sales tax to protect the city from budget cuts. But Steinberg and his council allies rejected Harris’ proposal. They knew voters would, if given a choice, be much more willing to extend the current Measure U half-cent tax instead of doubling it. Steinberg made sure voters don’t have that choice. Clearly, Steinberg wants voters to fear massive budget cuts if they fail to approve his permanent 1-cent tax. It was a reckless and coercive move, and it revealed how little the mayor cares for protecting city services from cuts. But the ploy isn’t likely to work once voters realize that, if they reject Measure U, the council will almost certainly order a special election next spring to give residents the option to extend the original half-cent tax. How can voters trust Steinberg to keep his Measure U promises when he’s demonstrated a willingness to

put city services in peril while denying residents a more prudent option on taxes? How can voters trust a mayor who seeks to coerce them into approving a major tax hike for fear of budget cuts? What kind of leader does that? At the start of his term, Steinberg proclaimed he should be held “accountable” if he failed to reduce street homelessness in Sacramento by 2,000 within two to three years. With two months left before he begins his third year as mayor, it appears the only way Steinberg can honor his vow is to buy nearly 2,000 one-way bus tickets for homeless people. He’s oscillated between opposing new homeless shelters, to supporting a new shelter, to wanting to build more shelters. Should voters hold Steinberg “accountable” for his confusion and broken promises on homelessness by handing him a 1-cent tax windfall—a $100 million blank check? Hardly. Is Sacramento a city that would impose an 8.75 percent sales-tax rate—highest in the region—on the backs of residents who have among the lowest per-capita incomes in the region? I hope not. Where would the $50 million in new taxes produced by Measure U really go? City pensions.

The city finance director estimates pension costs will increase to $62 million annually over the next four years. Do the math: Sacramento’s escalating pension bill will consume all (and more) of the $50 million in new dollars Measure U would generate. Eye on Sacramento released a report last month on how the City Council could reduce spending by $125 million annually without any reduction in core services. The report is called a “Blueprint for a PostMeasure U City.” Please read it and share it with friends. The report is available on the EOS website at eyeonsacramento.org. Given the broken promises and deceptions about where the tax-hike millions will actually go, residents must hold Steinberg and the City Council accountable and vote no on Measure U. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He chairs the “No on Measure U” Campaign Committee (dontdoublethetax.org). Powell can be reached at craig@eyeonsacramento. org or (916) 718-3030. n

on Measure U TAX SAVES ESSENTIAL SERVICES, BUILDS CITY’S FUTURE

hen Sacramento voters approved Measure U in 2012, they were responding to the effects of the Great Recession. City budget cuts sliced deep across all city departments. Parks were overgrown. Police patrols had been reduced. Public pools did not open. Fire stations closed on a rotating basis. Today, the situation is much better. Measure U deserves a large portion of the credit for the significant improvement in city services. So, of course, does the economic recovery. So why do we still need Measure U? We need it because Sacramento is one of the fastest growing cities in California. Our population growth means we have increased needs. Measure U provided $46.5 million in the 2017-18 budget year. It currently pays for 184 sworn officers in the police department, 90 employees in the fire department and 137 in parks. Without Measure U, the city is expected to face a budget shortfall of

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$43.6 million in the next fiscal year. Police, fire and parks would face drastic cuts. Renewing Measure U will ensure the quality of our essential public services and allow us to tackle growing problems such as homelessness, a lack of affordable housing and economic inequity. We could make a demonstrable difference in homelessness, one of the issues that weighs heavily on us as a community. The number of people living without shelter in Sacramento County nearly doubled from 2015 to 2017. Under the leadership of Mayor Darrell Steinberg, the city is now pursuing solutions that work. The city’s Triage Shelter and Whole Person Care program have succeeded in getting hundreds of people off the streets and into permanent housing, including some people who had been homeless for decades. That number could become thousands if the city had more resources for shelters and permanent supportive housing. Our city’s future also depends on whether the children growing up in our neighborhoods today are able to obtain an education and become qualified for the jobs that will exist here in the future. On that front, we are currently falling far short. Three-quarters of the jobs in our region now require digital skills, but

only 18 percent of African-American and Latino residents obtain at least a four-year degree, and only half go beyond high school at all. We could use a portion of the Measure U proceeds to invest in programs to prepare young people for the workforce, and also in privatepublic partnerships to make sure our city has enough jobs that young people can stay and make a good life here. Opponents will suggest the city has been an irresponsible steward of public tax dollars, and will waste the additional funds entrusted to it by the voters. This argument is false. Due the implementation of government efficiencies, the city now has fewer employees and provides the same level of service. Sacramento now employs 9.3 employees for every 1,000 residents of Sacramento. That compares to 11.5 employees per every 1,000 residents in 2007-08. The city also eliminated or reduced retiree health benefits for new employees. Measure U funds lifeguards, forensic investigators, detectives and parks maintenance workers— positions essential to making Sacramento a safe and enjoyable place to live. Members of the Sacramento City Council have made it clear they are

committed to strengthening the current oversight commission that monitors Measure U spending. The new commission will help decide how the money is spent, rather than simply reviewing those expenditures after the fact. The council is also working toward adopting metrics that any Measure U expenditures would have to meet. Opponents have said the money from Measure U will be used for pension obligations. While pension costs are a concern facing every local government in California, the best way to fill any shortfall is to grow our economy so it produces more tax revenue over time, making our budgets sustainable. Measure U will ensure that Sacramento can protect and enhance vital services and emergency response while giving us the opportunity to grow our economy, address homelessness and affordable housing, and invest in our youth. For all these reasons, we urge you to vote yes on Measure U in November. Will Cannady is president of the Pocket Greenhaven Community Association. Devin Lavelle is a member of the city Parks and Recreation Commission. n

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Secretive Giveaway STEINBERG SNEAKS LABOR DEAL INTO LAW, NOT KNOWING THE PRICE

eople who know Mayor Darrell Steinberg often talk about his split personalities. There’s the public Steinberg, soft spoken and empathetic, a people’s champion who listens intently, nods his head in harmony with grievances and exudes sincerity. And there’s the private Steinberg, who dominates conversations, holds grudges and harbors the ruthlessness of a mob boss. As a city councilman, Assembly member and state Senate pro tem, Steinberg perfected his act over decades. He knows when the cameras are on, when the public is watching. And he knows when they are not. He rarely slips. But Steinberg is not perfect. At 9:56 p.m. on Aug. 21, at a City Council meeting designed to jam through a secretive and likely expensive collective-bargaining agreement with

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trade unions, the facade began to crumble. The split personalities—public Steinberg and private Steinberg— merged in the council chambers at City Hall. Determined to pass his union pact with minimal transparency, the mayor was angry because two council members raised questions about cost and accountability to taxpayers. Steinberg’s voice began to rise. His patience wilted. He waved his arms and jabbed the air. He rattled through several academic studies about project labor agreements—the term used to describe contracts such as the one Steinberg was trying to hurry into law. He called for the vote, knocking down a parliamentary request to postpone the decision by one week. The gift to unions passed 7-2. Under the agreement, any taxpayersupported, capital-improvement construction job in the city worth more than $1 million must engage unionized labor. There are components for apprentice training and local hiring, but trade unions essentially wrote the ordinance. Labor calls the shots at Steinberg’s City Hall. And despite pleas by council members Allen Warren and Jeff Harris, nobody at City Hall knows what Steinberg’s union requirements will cost. The price tag is a question mark. Coincidentally, Warren and Harris are the only two council members

DETERMINED TO PASS HIS UNION PACT WITH MINIMAL TRANSPARENCY, THE MAYOR WAS ANGRY BECAUSE TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT COST AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO TAXPAYERS. HARRIS AND WARREN SIMPLY WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THE TAXPAYERS’ BURDEN. who have significant experience with building trades. Warren is a developer, Harris a contractor. Both made it plain they aren’t anti-union. They can take unions or leave them. The councilmen simply wanted to understand the taxpayers’ burden. Warren said, “We don’t know what the costs are going to amount to.” Said Harris, “The missing piece here is the cost. Show me some numbers.” Harris and Warren tried to get cost information from city staff. Staff said they didn’t know. The councilmen asked Steinberg and union representatives for cost estimates. No response. The private Steinberg, the politician with a quick temper, fragile ego and massive ambition, was not interested in delays or discussion. To pass the labor agreement, he ignored tradition and used a loophole to suspend the council’s rules of procedure. He skipped

a committee review and passed the agreement on its first hearing. During Steinberg’s time as leader of the state Senate, greasy business with unions was handled behind closed doors. The labor folks would come in, state their demands, make perfunctory threats and offer payoffs in campaign contributions. The Senate leader would secure support or opposition for an ancillary issue or two, and reminded them he was charge. Subsequent committee and floor votes were as scripted as pro wrestling. It’s worth noting that the Senate under Steinberg was unusually corrupt. At one point, 10 percent of his members were in jail or under indictment for various crimes. The public Steinberg said he was disappointed by the corruption. Steinberg intensely followed the machinations of his predecessor, Kevin

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Johnson, as Johnson tried to install himself as strong mayor (I worked in the mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office and tried to help). Once elected, Steinberg appeared to accept Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weak mayor system, but only with his public personality. The private Steinberg seems more bent on wielding power than Johnson. Why was Steinberg so desperate to sneak the union guarantee into law? A guess is he needed labor money for his campaign to pass Measure U, the regressive and permanent 1-cent sales tax Steinberg placed on the November ballot.

Before voting on the union agreement, Warren tied the labor giveaway to Measure U. It was a warning. He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re suggesting (with Measure U) is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be prudent with the money.â&#x20AC;? Any suggestion of prudence with money was absent from City Hall on Aug. 21. So was transparency. On that night, the private Steinberg publicly gave his union friends a gift from Sacramento taxpayers of unknown and unlimited value. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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or much of the world, fall is the time to harvest and put the garden to bed. Gardeners in Sacramento are harvesting, too, but we have to multitask. Autumn is our “second spring,” according to Angela Pratt, owner of The Plant Foundry in Oak Park. Now is the time to plant spring-blooming seeds and cool-season flowering plants, and then enjoy their flowers in the coming months. If you tend to collect packets of wildflower seeds, including California poppies, Pratt recommends stapling them to a calendar on the month of October because that is the “magic planting window.” Sow them and other

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spring-blooming annuals, such as sweet peas, bachelor’s buttons, cerinthe, larkspur, clarkia and hollyhocks, while the soil is still warm and before rains begin. Seeds planted now won’t bear flowers for months. What about plants that bloom autumn through winter? Pratt calls pansies, violas, primroses, stock, calendula, Iceland poppies and paludosum daisies the “usual suspects” for cool-season flowers. Often, we wait to plant these until spring when they flower for a few brief months and collapse when it gets hot. By planting them now, you get “more bang for the buck,” Pratt asserts. They will bloom while fall days are fairly long and nights are relatively warm, hunker down in the coldest, darkest winter months, and then explode with flowers as spring approaches. Pansies are the common term for a wide range of hybrids in the viola family. The plant labels may say “viola,” but most of us know a pansy when we see one. Like all violas, they have five petals. Pansies usually have three blotches forming a happy “face.” Their

flowers are large, up to 4 inches across, and come in an array of colors. Whether you want soft and subtle pastel shades or eye-popping primary tones of yellow, orange, red and purple, there is a pansy for you. It’s odd that “pansy” is a term used to insult people for being weak or lacking courage. They are the tough guys of the winter garden, undaunted by rain and frost. The term “viola” is usually used for pansies’ daintier cousins, but they are also tough and have brightened gardens for centuries. Thomas Jefferson planted Viola tricolor in his Monticello garden, so it is a true heirloom plant. Old-time gardeners like my mother called them “Johnny-Jump-Ups.” Viola tricolor does indeed self-seed and jump up throughout the garden, but rather than being invasive, they are a delightful if uninvited guest. They do best if you

regularly pick their flowers, along with some of their green growth, to keep them compact. What else do cool-season flowers need? Protect them from slugs and snails, fertilize them, and remove spent flowers to encourage continued bloom. If there will be a hard freeze (below 28 degrees), cover them to ensure they survive unharmed. Is it fall or spring? In Sacramento, you can have both at once, and flowers every day of the year. Anita Clevenger is a Lifetime Sacramento County Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, contact the UC Master Gardeners at (916) 875-6338 or mgsacramento@ ucanr.edu. The last Open Garden of the year will be Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 9 a.m.–noon at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center, 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. n

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Dine & Dash CELEBRATING POCKET RESTAURANTS BY TRYING THEM ALL

practically raised my kids at Mountain Mike’s Pizza in the Promenade Shopping Center. At least once a week when they were in elementary school, we rode our bikes along the canal, turned at Rush River Drive, parked near the restaurant and threaded cable locks through the wheels. Nobody stole our bikes. In warm weather, the boys wrestled on the grass out front while the pepperoni pies cooked. In winter, they poured quarters into Mountain Mike’s arcade games. Such weekly indulgences didn’t screw them up. Both kids ended up at good universities, squared away with bright futures. I credit the pizza. Friends from other neighborhoods— especially from Land Park and East Sac—have told me there’s nowhere decent to eat in Pocket. I’ve always disagreed. And to put my money where my mouth is, I’m going to eat my way through every Pocket restaurant in upcoming months. Pocket has 33 restaurants, with more coming. Some are better than others. Collectively, they dish up a diverse banquet, from savory to sweet, beef to vegetarian, silverware to plastic, family owned to chain franchise. I know what people mean when they say Pocket is a restaurant desert. They mean there’s nothing worth driving to, nothing that would inspire a gourmet to post brag photos on Twitter, nothing that foodies consider a destination. They are wrong. If people don’t come to Pocket for a meal, it’s because of ignorance or laziness, not the lack of interesting places to eat. Wherever they are, restaurants do more than feed people. They provide a status report on a community’s economic health and cultural direction. They expose neighborhood frailties and ambitions and tastes and habits. Restaurants bring people together. If they fail to draw a local crowd, they quickly close.

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Running a restaurant is brutal, the toughest business out there. About 25 percent collapse in the first year. The hours are impossible, the competition relentless. Inventory gets thrown away or stolen. Obnoxious customers get better service than they deserve and trash the place on Yelp. Staff requires food-safety training. County inspectors come around. Equipment troubles or water that doesn’t run hot enough can get a restaurant shut down. And don’t even think about vermin. Pocket restaurants are survivors— many have exceeded the five-year anniversary that about 80 percent of eateries never live to see. Clearly, Pocket residents are loyal and like to eat out. Pocket menus lean westward, toward the Pacific. Customers can feast on Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Philippine, Thai and Hawaiian classics. Mexican food is not abundant, but represented well enough by two taco chains and Vientos, a local landmark. Hamburgers and sandwiches are easily obtained, as are croissants and doughnuts. Of the major cuisines, Indian is the most egregious absentee. I haven’t figured out my route through the menus of every Pocket restaurant. But I’ll probably start at Mountain Mike’s. It closed for years then opened again with new owners. Comeback stories are irresistible. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Smart Design REMODEL TURNS DATED EAST SAC HOME INTO MODERN BEACH COTTAGE

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igh and low” is how interior designer Elizabeth Lake describes her style for remodeling her two-bedroom, one-bath home in East Sacramento. For example, she replaced the cabinets on one side of the kitchen with inexpensive open shelving from IKEA. But in the dining room, she went big with a modern, statement-making crystal chandelier by Baccarat. “Buy quality when necessary, but be smart about it,” says Lake. “There are places you don’t need the best of the best and places you probably do.”

Choosing such an impressive light fixture for her nearly 2,000-square-foot home is fitting for an interior designer who specializes in lighting. Lake worked as showroom manager and lighting designer for Lumens in Midtown for 10 years before leaving last year to open her own business, Elizabeth Lake Interiors. She purchased the cottage-style home, built in 1949, at the end of 2016, and wrapped up a four-month partial remodel before moving in. Lake’s family history dates back five generations in Sacramento. Her great, great, great grandfather came

to Sacramento in 1842 and lived at Sutter’s Fort, according to Lake. While working toward a bachelor’s degree in interior design at Sacramento State, Lake took a break from the River City and commuted to Los Angeles for “the weather and the beach,” she says. “I thought there was something better out there, but realized there wasn’t. Sacramento is home.” Lake moved back to Sacramento and bought her first house in Tahoe Park, where she lived for five years before purchasing her current cottage. “It was my dream to live in East Sac,” she says.

“I wanted to live in a place where I was part of a community.” Despite the charming neighborhood, “The home was a dump,” Lake says. “Every wall had a different texture— most of it very heavy. It looked like they took mud and slapped it on the wall and swirled it around, then painted it all a dark green semi-gloss.” As a result, everything had to be resurfaced. Lake is tackling the galley-style kitchen in two phases. For the first phase, she added a farmhouse sink with an industrial-style faucet, range hood, wine fridge and, of course, a crystal and brass pendant light over the sink. The granite countertops were in bad shape, but all they needed was a good cleaning. For the second phase, Lake plans to bump the back wall out, allowing for the addition of a laundry/mudroom and a larger kitchen with an island, as well as a master bedroom with a bath. Phase two also will include refinishing the original hardwood floors, adding a gas insert to the fireplace and creating an outdoor dining/living area with a water feature. Lake gutted the “Pepto-Bismol-pink bathroom” and implemented another example of her high-and-low design style. After installing an inexpensive stock medicine cabinet, she attached custom-cut mirrors and mounted sconces on each side. “Instead of spending a lot of money to have the walls tiled, I did wainscoting to add interest.” For the bathroom floor, Lake discovered leftover Carrera-marble tiles, covered in dust, on a back shelf at Home Depot. Too few for the entire job, she traveled to eight different Home Depots in search of what she needed, then spent a little extra on a herringbone pattern. “I think it created a cool wow factor without spending a ton of money,” she says. Lake’s love of anything beachy is evident throughout the home, with seashore décor and colors of white, grey and navy. To tie the rooms together, Lake used a single paint color—“Silver Polish” by Dunn Edwards. “It looks different in every room depending on the time of day, lighting, whether it’s sunny outside or not,” she says. As an interior designer, Lake has participated in many local charity events, including the annual Sacred

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Heart Holiday Home Tour, where she decorates an entire house. To store all the leftover decorations, plus her own holiday décor, Lake added a shed in the backyard. “I have a Christmas decoration problem,” she says with a laugh. Lake could not be happier with the results of phase one. “It feels good in here,” she says. “There is a warmth and

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friendliness that was very important to me. I want people to feel like they can come over any time, sit down and have a glass of wine. That’s why I moved to East Sac.” To recommend a house or garden for Home Insight, contact Cathryn Rakich at crakich@surewest.net. n

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Thinking Small NIKKY MOHANNA CREATES HOUSING, DOESN’T WASTE SPACE

The 19J project in Midtown will be an 11-story mixed-use building. Rendering courtesy of HR Group Architects.

n February, Mohanna Development Co. expects to complete its mixeduse structure at 19 and J streets. This will not be just another building. Developer Nikky Mohanna is creating a community space that reflects Midtown lifestyles, tastes and budgets. Sacramento has never seen anything

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quite like it. With small, efficient micro-studios starting at below $1,000 a month, Mohanna believes 19J will appeal to an urban workforce threatened by Sacramento’s housing crisis. “In a lot of ways, millennials are the pioneers of urban living, so we have to build for them, and we have to figure out a way to meet their budgets,” says Mohanna. She designed 19J not by contemplating square footage, but asking, what can residents afford? Most units at 19J will be cheaper than the median studio price in Sacramento, but 19J is not an affordable housing project. Without subsidies or federal tax credits, Mohanna had to

build small and efficiently to make 19J financially viable. Eighty percent of 19J’s 175 units are between 300- and 400-square feet. Studios less than 400-square feet will come with Murphy beds and storage built into walls. European cities and New York inspired Mohanna to build micro-units, where urban lifestyles demand more mixed-use, communal spaces and alternate forms of transportation. Her vision includes patios, balconies and a 6,000-square-foot retail space where tenants will offer services for residents. The project has just 37 stackable parking spaces. “Sacramento is unaffordable and we need to do something about it,”

Mohanna says. “It makes me want to build.” Experience and education help explain why Mohanna elected to construct for community and inclusion. The daughter of Sacramento developer Moe Mohanna, a Sacramento property owner for more than four decades, Nikki returned home in 2014 after studying at London School of Economics and working with UNESCO in Tehran, Iran. Her sense of community was forged early in Sacramento when she volunteered with Loaves & Fishes and Women’s Empowerment, two nonprofits focused on homeless support. The volunteer work helped her understand

that her comfortable upbringing carried an obligation to help others. “I realized that I didn’t deserve what I had, and I certainly don’t deserve it today,” she says. “If anything, that puts more pressure on me to do something that’s right.” As Mohanna considered 19J, her first major project, she sought a balance between profitability and community value. She decided the two goals could coexist. “We’re trying to build a community within the community that will be done through programs and communal spaces,” she says. Common areas include indoor and outdoor lounges, fitness and game rooms, three outdoor patios, a communal kitchen and rooftop garden. “But something different that we’re doing, that I haven’t seen before, is to provide the programming for these spaces.” Five resident managers will live on alternate floors of the 11-story 19J building. The managers will organize programs such as painting, cooking and gardening. They will be graduates of Women’s Empowerment, where Mohanna now volunteers as a board member. The resident-manager program will help combat biases many

Nikky Mohanna homeless women face as they transition into housing. “Because of their history, many were not getting housing and work,” Mohanna says. “They were competing against people without that history and without that bias against them. So I was sitting at a (Women’s Empowerment) graduation one day while I was entitling 19J, and I thought, wouldn’t it be

perfect if we could provide employment in property management that comes with housing?” Five graduates from Women’s Empowerment will receive a yearlong position at 19J. During their time with the project, the women will gain training and free onsite housing. When their year ends, they will receive help as they transition into other jobs. “This is a critical time—the issue of people not being able to afford to live—so we need to start building for the middle class and our workforce,” Mohanna says. The 19J project is Mohanna’s first majority micro-unit development, but in August she submitted an application for a similar project at 10th and K streets. Her plans for the Downtown corner include a hotel with 200 rooms, 186 apartments and a floor of co-living, dorm-style units for Capitol interns and short-term residents. “They’re here three or four months and have the hardest time finding housing, so we want to incentivize those individuals,” she says. Mohanna hopes to break ground on 10K later next year or in early 2020. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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You Are Not

Alone

MESSAGES OF HOPE PUNCH HOLES IN THE DARKNESS

n a Sunday afternoon, my wife, Becky, and I visit the Crimson Tattoo Co. in Auburn. We’re not looking to get a painful heart-shape tattoo, but rather to help alleviate the spiritual pain of suicide. Shop owners Jon and Brittney Hendricks invite us inside where a dozen volunteers are emulating a suicide-prevention tactic recently started by a woman in the UK. The idea seems beautifully simplistic—write and attach anti-suicide notes to any local structure known for suicides.

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Jon welcomes me at the front desk where we chat for more than a half hour as he laminates about 200 notes written on multi-colored construction paper. His local strategy calls for us to post these notes along the span of the Foresthill Bridge. I strain to read the writing of one person at an adjacent table. “Life is hard and impossible to go through alone. You are not alone. Call 800-2738255.” (This is the 24-hour National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.) Another writer composes “Silence is overrated. Scream at the top of your lungs when you need help. Call 800-273-8255.” Jon seems a gentle soul, a pastor’s son, so I ask what spurs his interest in the topic. He tells me he’s a combat veteran, an infantryman with tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. “Some of my friends didn’t survive our coming home.” He points toward Brittney. “She knows those stories, so she worries about me.”

Jon checks his watch. The evening shadows hint at dusk, so he dismisses us to our cars. Ten minutes later, we find the Foresthill Bridge straddling a massive canyon, 730 feet over the north fork of the American River. I park near a special call box with a sign, “Crisis Counseling. There is hope. Make the call.” The call box is an unadorned reminder that since the 1973 bridge was constructed, 87 people have jumped from the bridge, the fourth highest in the country. Our group scatters along the halfmile span. Each of us carries a plastic bag holding a dozen notes written with a rainbow of permanent ink colors. With the blessings of county officials, we walk both sides of the bridge, zip-tying our inspirational messages along the fence line. The railings have been raised to 6 feet 6 inches in hopes of dissuading spontaneous jumpers. Sadly, I’m told, the retrofit does little to stop the single-minded who bring small ladders. Hikers stop to examine the messages. Some of them voice the hope that our notes might stop one person from “… making a permanent choice to solve a temporary problem,” as one bright piece of paper states. One young passerby asks Becky if he can hang one of our notes. “A good friend committed suicide just last

week,” he says, explaining his random request. Becky gives him a note along with an understanding nod. We start our walk back to our car with the aid of glaring headlights from passing vehicles. The darkening sky stages the obvious metaphor of overwhelming gloom descending on victims of suicide. “Do you think this will do much good?” Becky wonders aloud. “Maybe it’ll be like holes in the darkness,” I suggest. “Pardon?” “It’s an old sermon illustration from Robert Louis Stevenson,” I explain. “Stevenson spent his childhood in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 19th century. As a boy, he was intrigued by the lamplighters who used a torch to ignite the streetlights of the town. “One evening, Robert’s parents asked him what he was gawking at. With great enthusiasm he exclaimed, ‘Look at that man! He’s punching holes in the darkness!’” We look back across the bridge. The notes seem to light the span with florescent colors and vibrant messages. “May God bless our efforts,” I say, “to throw some punches through this darkness.” Norris Burkes can be reached at comment@thechaplain.net. n

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TO DO

“Miles Hermann: Native Son” Tim Collom Gallery Oct. 10–Nov. 1 Second Saturday Reception: Oct. 13, 5:30–8:30 p.m. 915 20th Street • timcollomgallery.com This solo exhibition features more than 25 of Hermann’s oil paintings based on a oneyear survey of the state featuring Dolores Park, Arcata and Carmel, as well as a portrait of Sacramento past and present. A painting by Hermann is shown above.

THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS

A Sacramento Bicycle Festival Saturday, Oct. 13, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Township 9 Park, North 7th Street at the American River • riovelo.com Rio Velo is a free, family-friendly festival that celebrates bicycles, the rivers and the people who love them. Enjoy daredevil stunts, bike-safety training, CHP Bike Rodeo, electric bike test rides, live music, exhibits and SactoMoFo Food & Brew.

Integrative Skin Care Wellness Fair Dermveda Saturday, Oct. 20, 5:30–8:30 p.m.

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Sheraton Grand Sacramento, 1230 J St. • dermveda.com This Dermveda event will include skin and beauty experts, free makeup consultations and samples, local and national brands for sale, DIY skin product stations, world-renowned speakers and raffle prizes. Ten percent of ticket sales will be donated to Women’s Empowerment.

Stained Glass Concert 2018 “Songs of the Spirit” Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra Saturday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m. Fremont Presbyterian Church, 577 Carlson Drive • sacramentochoral.com Don’t miss this evening featuring music by Mozart, Kodàly and Pärt under conductor Donald Kendrick.

“Paws to Party” Front Street Animal Shelter Friday, Oct. 12, 6–9 p.m. California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St. Facebook.com (Paws to Party) Join the Front Street shelter for a celebration to benefit the animals. Highlights will include tastings by regional restaurants, breweries, wineries, distilleries and more.

“Life, Love and Legend” Sacramento Symphonic Winds Sunday, Oct. 14, 2:30 p.m. Rio Americano High School Center for the Arts, 4540 American River Drive • sacwinds.org The 60-piece symphonic band will collaborate with the Rio ensemble to present a fall concert featuring work by James Sochinski and Jack Stamp (“Cheers! The Legend of Alcobaca”), Clifton Williams, Elliot Del Borgo and Alfred Reed.

Beatles vs. Stones Crest Theatre Wednesday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m. 1013 K St. • crestsacramento.com The competition between The Beatles and Rolling Stones has been going on ever since they first crossed paths on the charts 54 years ago. These two legendary groups will engage in an on-stage musical showdown courtesy of tribute bands “Abbey Road” and “Satisfaction.”

Sacramento Outdoor Film Festival Sacramento Outdoor Movies Friday, Oct. 5, and Saturday, Oct. 6, 8 p.m. Fremont Park, 1515 Q St. • facebook.com (Sacramento Outdoor Film Festival) SOFF will salute the “coming of age” genre with two films, “Boyz N The Hood” and “Lady Bird,” plus food trucks, a craft beer garden and live music beginning at 5 p.m. The event is free and net proceeds from the beer garden will benefit the Front Street Animal Shelter.

“Beyond Small” microART Oct. 13–Nov. 2 Second Saturday Reception: Oct. 13, 6–9 p.m. Sparrow Gallery, 1021 R St. • microgallery.net This showcase of diminutively scaled art from Nanjing and Beijing, China, is a follow-up to previous exhibitions in China, both of which included work from Sacramento artists.

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera Saturday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m. Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. • sacphilopera.org The new season of the PhilOpera features work by Tchaikovsky and Schumann under conductor Andrew Grams with violinist Angelo Xiang Yu.

5th Annual MiniFest Sacramento French Film Festival Sunday, Oct. 14 (times to be announced) Esquire IMAX Theatre, 1211 K St. • sacramentofrenchﬁlmfestival.org The Sacramento French Film Festival presents a miniature version of its June event with a full day of French flicks (with English subtitles) on the giant IMAX screens.

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New Work by Patricia Altschul Archival Gallery Oct. 4–Nov. 3 Second Saturday Reception: Oct. 13, 6 p.m. 3223 Folsom Blvd. • archivalgallery.com Altschul’s evocative figurative paintings are featured in her first gallery show in 15 years. "Couch" by Altschul is shown at left.

Refugee Journey: Rescuing Lives Amnesty International, International Rescue Committee, Doctors Without Borders Wednesday, Oct. 3, 6:15 p.m. 24th Street Theater, 2791 24th St. • amnestysacramento.org, rescue.org/unitedstates/sacramento-ca Join these humanitarian groups for an evening of food, drink and insight into the current worldwide refugee emergency. The free event starts with the short film “Frontline Doctors: Winter Migrant Crisis,” followed by a panel of speakers.

“Break Through Brick Walls” Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, Oct. 17, 12:15 p.m. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive • gensac.org Speaker Laurie Markham will help genealogical enthusiasts use familysearch.org to “break through brick walls” in the hunt for their ancestral roots.

“Fall Planting for Spring Color” UCCE Master Gardeners of Sacramento County Saturday, Oct. 20, 9 a.m.–Noon 4145 Branch Center Road • sacmg.ucanr.edu This Master Gardener seminar presented by UC Cooperative Extension will cover topics like layering bulbs for long-blooming displays and forcing bulbs in containers. Guest speaker William R.P. Welch (aka “Bill the Bulb Baron”) will lend his expertise as a renowned Northern California bulb grower and hybridizer.

Safe & Super Halloween: Dinosaurs

3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org Dinosaurs take over Fairytale Town for four nights of trick-or-treating and family fun. Enjoy 15 treat stations, photos with dinosaurs, a fossil dig, live entertainment, costume parade and more.

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n I e r ’ u o Y n i k S The DERMVEDA IS ANSWER TO ALL SKIN-CARE QUERIES

Venita Sivamani

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eople think that taking care of your skin is about vanity, but it’s so much more than that,” says Venita Sivamani, co-founder and CEO of Dermveda, a groundbreaking online platform that combines the disciplines of Western medicine, Ayurveda, naturopathy and traditional Chinese medicine to provide skincare information to the masses. “The No. 1 request doctors get from patients is about skin,” says the East Sacramento resident. “Dermveda is here to help answer questions so patients can go to their providers informed.” Although not a dermatologist, Sivamani is good friends with many and married to one. Her husband, Raja Sivamani, is a boardcertified dermatologist and Ayurveda expert who serves on the Dermveda advisory board. Sivamani started noticing that certain complaints were coming up time and again. “Everyone lamented the fact that they don’t have enough time with their patients,” says Sivamani, who has worked in educational equity and leadership for nearly a decade. “They didn’t have enough time in an appointment to really delve into a patient’s concerns—and most of those concerns were about skin.” Because of Sivamani’s extensive educational background, she started to formulate a way to educate patients outside of the provider’s office—to give them a place to bring their questions and learn about themselves and their health in the process. Never one to do things halfway, Sivamani attended business school at UC Davis to study entrepreneurship (which included time abroad at London Business School) before turning her focus to Dermveda fulltime in 2015. Sivamani was passionate about including varied disciplines and approaches to health. She grew up in a blended Eastern-Western household, with a mother from Sri Lanka and a father whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower. She was also adamant that her platform would bring patients the most medically accurate information in an accessible format. To achieve this, Sivamani solicited dermatological experts from all over the country to submit articles about different skin concerns, which were then sent through a vigorous peer-review process much like a medical journal. “We make sure claims are reinforced to meet the highest standards,” Sivamani says. “We want our site to be as safe and credible as possible.” Dermveda.com launched in July 2016 and has won praise, not only from the public but also from providers, whom Sivamani says often refer patients to the site or use it themselves during appointments to look up

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ingredients in Dermveda’s extensive database. “It’s truly personalized,” says Sivamani, who was inspired to start the site after an adolescence spent battling acne with “every product under the sun” to no avail. “You start by creating a unique skin profile by answering a few questions and providing a photo, and then we personalize your dashboard with expert-reviewed content related to your unique skin type, skin conditions and other interest areas.” Users also receive recommendations about what ingredients and products will be best for their skin and track progress with photo uploads—all completely free of charge thanks to content provided by Dermveda’s integrated team of allopathic medical doctors, research scientists and professional alternative-medicine practitioners. “Our experts are so willing to share,” Sivamani says gratefully. “Often, they’ve published a study in a medical journal and then it has nowhere else to go. This way, the information can be shared with so many more people.” Sivamani is taking the sharing to a whole new level this month with Dermveda’s first Integrative Dermatology Symposium, which will

bring more than 250 providers together for “a meeting of the minds,” as Sivamani describes it. The provider-only symposium will be followed by the Integrative Skin Care Wellness Fair, which is open to the public. Attendees will meet skin and beauty experts, enjoy free makeup consultations and samples, shop local and national brands, create DIY skin products, and listen to world-renowned keynote speakers Drs. Keira Barr and Trevor Cates. Better still, 10 percent of ticket sales from the event will benefit Women’s Empowerment, a local nonprofit that educates and empowers homeless women to re-enter the workforce. “Beauty and wellness are not just about slathering on product,” Sivamani says. “It’s about getting to know yourself better and living an optimal lifestyle.” Visit dermveda.com for more information on the Integrative Skin Care Wellness Fair, Saturday, Oct. 20, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento, 1230 J St. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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SONGS OF THE SPIRIT

An Evening of Inspired Music for Chorus, Soloists and Organ

Sacramental Litany – W. A. Mozart Berliner Messe – Arvo Pärt Laudes Organi – Zoltán Kodàly Ryan Enright, Organist Patricia Westley, Soprano Julie Miller, Mezzo Michael Dailey, Tenor Shawn Spiess, Bass

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Sensing a Pattern ARTIST’S GEOMETRIC ART IS INSPIRED BY MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE

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Mark Emerson in his East Sacramento studio.

ark Emerson likes the very thing about art that makes a lot of others anxious. “Uncertainty in the arts really frustrates a lot of people,” he says on a break from packing up his East Sac studio—located in the house where he grew up—on the eve of a move to Davis

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to be with his fiancée. “But I think it spurs us on to do our work. It’s the question, ‘What’s going to happen when I paint this painting?’ It never comes out exactly as I intended. Making art is like playing golf—sometimes you tee it off and drive it in, another time it’s in the woods. But you have to be open

to the ebb and flow. Discovery is the biggest part.” Emerson’s deep desire to explore his medium—often polymer on panel—is evident in his vibrant color play, as well as in the sharp lines and rhythmic patterns that Emerson describes as being “akin to the development of

music. Some of the paintings are bright and quick, some are slower and lyrical.” The artist calls himself “damn local,” seeing as how he was born at Mercy Hospital and, but for a brief stint in LA, has called Sacramento home ever since. He has an eloquent yet clear way of describing both his style and

THEATRE GUIDE A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN

THE CRUCIBLE

Like a comet that burns far too brightly to last, Janis Joplin exploded onto the music scene in 1967 and, almost overnight, became the queen of rock & roll. The unmistakable voice, filled with raw emotion and tinged with Southern Comfort, made her a must-see headliner from Monterey to Woodstock. From Broadway to your city, now you’re invited to share an evening with the woman and her influences in the musical, A Night with Janis Joplin. Fueled by such unforgettable songs as “Me and Bobby.”

Sacramento Theatre Company (STC) is proud to kick off the 2018-2019 season of “Love, Loss, and Laughter” by presenting The Crucible. One of Arthur Miller’s most popular plays and a central work in the canon of American theatre, The Crucible dramatizes the Salem witch trials of late-17th Century Massachusetts. In a community undergoing great change — where some feel as if they are losing control — hatreds are expressed, the vulnerable are scapegoated, hysteria takes hold, and vengeance is taken. Written as an allegory for American mid-20th Century political repression, The Crucible remains as relevant today as when it debuted in 1953.

Harris Center for the Arts Oct 12 – 14 10 College Parkway, Folsom (916) 608-6888 HarrisCenter.net process, which comes in handy when he teaches classes at Sierra College and Sacramento City College. He also recently retired from his alma mater Sacramento State after teaching there for 16 years. “I always tell my students that every time we make something, we make something different,” says Emerson, who earned his associate of arts degree at Sac City where he studied with local legends Gregory Kondos, Darrell Forney, Laureen Landau, Fred Dalkey and Larry Weldon. He went on to earn his BFA at Sacramento State and MFA at UC Davis, and did some coursework at the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland. “If there are 20 students all painting the same subject, there are going to be 20 distinct pieces of work being created.” While Emerson has always been creative, observing his instructors at Sac City who were living the lives of artists spurred him to seek that life for himself. “I saw them being professional, teaching and having shows on a regular basis, and I thought it looked like a good life,” Emerson says. “I thought, ‘This is what I want to do.’ But then I had to figure out what my art was about.” A fascination with colors and their relationship to one another led him to Josef Albers’ iconic book “Interaction of Color,” which became a “guidepost” for Emerson as he developed his style. As he progressed and decided he wanted more out of his artwork—to have it be “more demanding of viewer”—he switched to abstraction. And because he’d always responded to the geometric approach of pattern and line, he found his niche in geometric abstraction. “The process starts in my sketchbook,” explains Emerson, who

works on small watercolors in a 7-by9-inch booklet during class while his students are working. “When I have a new show coming up, I refer to my notebooks—I have dozens of them now—to say, ‘Oh, I like that rhythm or repetitive thing happening in that sketch,’ and then I translate that to a larger piece.” A rare exhibition of these watercolor sketches will be on display through Oct. 20 at JAYJAY gallery on Elvas Avenue alongside Emerson’s more traditional panel paintings and CSU Stanislaus professor Dean DeCocker’s wall sculptures. The painter says he’s working on a series of small pieces for the show—none larger than 24-by-24 inches—with compositions that are of the “symphonic variety with the counterpoint of jazz.” Namely, motifs of diamond shapes, stripes and rectangles. “After I draw the painting out in pencil, I tape off different areas, paint those sections and move on,” says Emerson, whose most recent commissioned work can be seen hanging at the newly completed Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing on the campus of the UC Davis Medical Center. “When I’m working on something next to an area that’s taped off, I can’t see what’s next to it. When I remove the tape, I get to see if the colors work and readjust if necessary. Sometimes I realize I’ve never seen that color combination before. That’s what makes art so exciting—we can’t control it, which is why we keep going back to it.”

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Harris Center for the Arts Oct 20 10 College Parkway, Folsom (916) 608-6888 HarrisCenter.net Filled with all of the wonderful ingredients we have come to expect from The Panto Company USA — lots of laughter, stunning costumes, music and plenty of magic — the ensemble comes to the Harris Center for two family-friendly shows this season. Join Pinocchio on an adventure full of magic and wonder as he sings and dances his way to becoming a real boy. He’ll experience Stromboli’s travelling show, Pleasure Island, the inside of a whale’s mouth and more with the Blue Fairy and Jimmini Cricket.

Sacramento Theatre Company Thru Oct 21 1419 H St, Sac (916) 443-6722 SacTheatre.org

CIRQUE MECHANICS UC Davis, Jackson Hall Oct 28 501Alumni Lane, Davis (530) 754-2787 Mondaviarts.org

Cirque Mechanics finds its roots in the mechanical and its heart in the stories of American industrial ingenuity. Inspired by the traditional diameter of a circus ring, 42FT showcases the timelessness of this evolving art form. The company’s latest invention features a story full of the lore of the one-ring circus and creates a welcoming place, like a big top, where we can be amazed by a galloping mechanical metal horse and a rotating tent frame for strongmen, acrobats and aerialists.

Check out Emerson’s work at markemerson.info and at JAYJAY gallery at 5524 Elvas Ave. during October. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Una Mas TACOS SPAN THE GLOBE AT NEW R STREET EATERY

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he brothers Wong—Mason, Alan and Curtis—are the driving force behind the MAC Hospitality Group, and they’re busy. In the MAC portfolio are such familiar names as Cafeteria 15L, Ma Jong’s Asian Diner, Iron Horse Tavern, MIX Downtown and The Park Ultra Lounge. Their newest restaurant, Mas Taco Bar, is the first of several planned openings for the Wongs in the next few months. They hope to open two more Mas Taco Bars—at Palladio in Folsom and at Arden Town Center— and another Iron Horse Tavern also at Palladio. Located next to the Iron Horse Tavern at 15th and R streets, the first Mas Taco Bar adds another fun spot to the bustling R Street corridor. The location, formerly held by Dos Coyotes Border Café, is at the heart of a district already packed with bars, clubs, restaurants and residences. With the soon-to-be-completed Ice Blocks project between 16th and 18th streets, the R Street corridor is only getting busier and livelier as the months go by. The new taco concept fits in pretty darned well in the humming district. The kitchen offers plenty of casual lunch fare for the hundreds of nearby state employees, and the bar serves an impressive cocktail lineup with extended hours for evening revelers who make R Street a regional destination.

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Make no mistake, though, this is no standard taqueria. The menu at Mas Taco Bar puts a global spin on the taco, taking inspiration from the Americas, Southeast Asia, India and more. Take, for example, the Banh Mi Shrimp Taco. This clever item is a spin on the Vietnamese sandwich of the same name, a staple of Vietnamese street food. The taco takes fried shrimp and pairs it with crunchy pickled veggies, fresh cilantro, jalapeno and an Asian barbecue sauce, served on a pillowy-soft Chinese laughing bun. This dish is a winner all the way around. A similar dish stuffs the same laughing bun with shrimp, cabbage, peanuts and red curry. The flavors are spot on and bright like the noonday sun. It’s another clever offering, this time with the flavors of Thailand as the jumping-off point. Some offerings sit squarely in the “traditional taco” camp, like the fried fish taco that adds spicy avocado crema, grilled pineapple salsa and cabbage to the standard tortilla. The short-rib taco uses traditional Mexican seasonings and is topped with cilantro, onions and cotija cheese. The majority of the menu, though, is a mashup of traditional Mexican preparations with inspired additions from the U.S. and Europe. The Drunken Chicken starts with barbecue staple “beer can chicken” and adds tomatillo. The Steak and Egg pairs chili-lime skirt steak with a sunny-side-up egg, giving off a cheeky breakfast vibe. The Baja Fish takes blackened salmon and douses it with a Mexican hot sauce aioli. The presentation is fun and inviting, with diners instructed to jot down their orders on a pad at their table. The server brings back a metal tray covered with tacos. It’s a great way to sample the fare and share it with your people.

Many of the taco recipes also can be converted to “bowls,” which contain brown rice, onions and peppers topped with the same fillings as the tacos. Also, a good sampling of salads and small plates can be had. Surprisingly, desserts are a standout. Or maybe not so much a surprise given the skill with which Iron Horse Tavern puts out the sweets just next door. The key lime tart is served, of course, in a mason jar, but the flavors could not be more on point, perfectly blending the tart, sour and sweet in every bite. The churros, fried fresh and served with a Mexican chocolate ganache, are

a favorite of apparently everyone who works there. The space, like the food, is cheeky and fun. The front patio is a perfect place to throw back a few expertly made cocktails (try the watermelon basil margarita) and watch the party roll by on R Street. If you’re in the Arden or Folsom area, count yourself lucky that a Mas Taco Bar is coming your way in just a few months. Mas Taco Bar is located at 1800 15th St.; (916) 706- 1330; mastacobar.com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

THE MENU AT MAS TACO BAR PUTS A GLOBAL SPIN ON THE TACO, TAKING INSPIRATION FROM THE AMERICAS, SOUTHEAST ASIA, INDIA AND MORE.

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DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L Classic American dishes with millennial ﬂavor 1116 15th Street • 916.492.1960 cafeteria15l.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters Award-winning roasters 3rd and Q Sts. • chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

de Vere’s Irish Pub A lively and authentic Irish family pub 1521 L Street • 916.231.9947 deverespub.com

Ma Jong Asian Diner

Mulvaney’s Building & Loan

Tapa the World

A colorful & casual spot for all food Asian 1431 L Street • 916.442.7555 majongs.com

Farm-fresh New American cuisine 1215 19th Street • 916.441.6022 mulvaneysbl.com

Traditional Spanish & world cuisine 2115 J Street • 916.442.4353 tapatheworld.com

Mayahuel

Old Soul

Temple Coffee Roasters

Mexican cuisine with a wide-ranging tequila menu 1200 K Street • 916.441.7200 experiencemayahuel.com

Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 1716 L Street (rear alley) • oldsoulco.com

2200 K Street • 2829 S Street 1010 9th Street • templecoffee.com

The Rind

The Waterboy

A cheese-centric food and wine bar 1801 L Street # 40 • 916.441.7463 therindsacramento.com

Classic European with locally sourced ingredients 2000 Capitol Ave. • 916.498.9891 waterboyrestaurant.com

Preservation & Company

Zocolo

Preserving delicious produce from local farms 1717 19th Street #B • 916.706.1044 preservationandco.com

Tastes inspired by the town square of Mexico City 1801 Capitol Avenue • 916.441.0303 zocalosacramento.com

LAND PARK

Solomon’s Delicatessen

MIDTOWN

Old Soul Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 555 Capitol Mall • oldsoulco.com

INSIDE’S

Downtown & Vine

Taste and compare the region’s best wines 1200 K Street, #8 • 916.228.4518 downtownandvine.com

Ella Dining Room & Bar New American farm-to-fork cuisine 1131 K Street • 916.443.3772 elladiningroomandbar.com

Esquire Grill Classic dishes in a sleek urban design setting 1213 K Street • 916.448.8900 paragarys.com

Firestone Public House

Opening summer of 2018 730 K Street • Solomonsdelicatessen.com

South Timeless traditions of Southern cooking 2005 11th Street • 916.382.9722 weheartfriedchicken.com

OLD SAC Fat City Bar & Cafe

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters

Legendary chef, cookbook author Biba Caggiano 2801 Capitol Avenue • 916.455.2422 biba-restaurant.com

Open Summer 2018 • 2940 Freeport Blvd. chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

Block Butcher Bar Specializing in housemade salumi and cocktails 1050 20th Street • 916.476.6306 blockbutcherbar.com

Hip and happy sports bar with great food 1132 16th Street • 916.446.0888 ﬁrestonepublichouse.com

Centro Cocina Mexicana

Frank Fat’s

The Firehouse Restaurant

Federalist Public House

Grange Restaurant & Bar The city’s quintessential dining destination 926 J St. • 916.492.4450 grangesacramento.com

Hot Italian Remarkable pizza in modern Italian setting 1627 16th Street • 916.492.4450 hotitalian.net

La Consecha by Mayahuel Casual Mexican in a lovely park setting 917 9th Street • 916.970.5354 lacosechasacramento.com

Mexican cuisine in a festive, colorful setting 2730 J Street • 916.442.2552 paragarys.com

The premiere dining destination in historic setting 1112 2nd Street • 916.442.4772 ﬁrehouseoldsac.com

Signature woodﬁred pizzas and local craft beers 2009 Matsui Alley • 916.661.6134 federalistpublichouse.com

Rio City Café

Lowbrau Bierhalle

California-inspired menu on the riverfront 1110 Front Street • 916.442.8226 riocitycafe.com

Modern-rustic German beer hall 1050 20th Street • 916.452.7594 lowbrausacramento.com

Willie’s Burgers

Old Soul at The Weatherstone

A quirky burger joint 110 K Street • 916.444.2006 williesburgers.com

THE HANDLE Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates Unmatched sweet sophistication 1801 L Street, #60 • 916.706.1738 gingerelizabeth.com

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A mecca to hearty eating 2422 13th Street • 916.737.5115 irongrillsacramento.com

Riverside Clubhouse Traditional Amercian classic menu 2633 Riverside Blvd. • 916.448.9988 riversideclubhouse.com

Selland’s Market-Café Family-friendly neighborhood café 915 Broadway • 916. 732.3390 sellands.com

Taylor’s Market & Kitchen

Vic’s Ice Cream & Café

French inspired bistro in chic new environment 1401 28th Street • 916.457.5737 • paragarys.com

Family owned since 1947 3199 Riverside Blvd. • 916.448.0892 vicsicecream.com

The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar A focus on all things local 2718 J Street • 916.706.2275 • theredrabbit.net

Sac Natural Foods Co-Op

Willie’s Burgers A quirky burger joint 2415 16th Street • 916.444.2006 williesburgers.com

OAK PARK La Venadita

Omnivore, vegan, raw, paleo, organic, glutenfree and carnivore sustenance 2820 R Street • 916.455.2667 • sac.coop

Hot spot for creative Mexican cuisine 3501 3rd Avenue • 916.400.4676 lavenaditasac.com

Skool Japanese Gastropub

Oakhaus

Inventive, Japanese-nuanced seafood 2319 K Street • 916.737.5767 skoolonkstreet.com

A modern take on a traditional hof brau 3413 Broadway • 916.376.7694 • oakhaussac.com

Sun & Soil Juice Company

Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 3434 Broadway • oldsoulco.com

Suzie Burger 7600 Greenhaven Drive • shearpoetry-salon.com • 916.424.5355

Iron Grill

Paragary’s

Raw, organic nutrition from local farms 1912 P Street • 916.341.0327 • sunandsoiljuice.com

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Award-winning neighborhood bakery 2966 Freeport Blvd. • 916.442.4256 freeportbakery.com

A reputation for service & quality 2900 & 2924 Freeport Blvd • 916.443.5154 taylorsmarket.com

Urban winery and kitchen 2831 S Street • 916.444.7711 • rev.wine

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Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 812 21st Street • oldsoulco.com

Revolution Wines

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Outstanding dining in a garden setting 2760 Sutterville Rd. • 916.452.2809 casagardenrestaurant.org

Biba Ristorante Italiano

American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location 1001 Front Street • 916.446.6768 fatsrestaurants.com

Fine Chinese dining in an elegant interior 806 L Street • 916.442.7092 frankfats.com

Casa Garden Restaurant

Burgers, cheesesteaks and other delights 2820 P Street • 916.455.3500 • suzieburger.com

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