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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.

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“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.

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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

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“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.

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A Hand Up LOCAL ORGANIZATION HELPS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

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

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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.”

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,

Passion at Work,” says Rogozinski. “We all need to remember that regardless of labels, it’s our humanity that connects us.” For more information about Crossroads, go to cdsdiv.com.

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Celebration Arts has a new home in B Street Theatre's old space on 27th and B streets.

elebration Arts, a local theater company, has signed a five-year lease for B Street Theatre’s recently vacated space at 27th and B streets. Celebration Arts lost the lease on its East Sac location when “the building owner needed to expand his own business,” according to Celebration Arts executive director James Wheatley. The company has taken over B Street Theatre’s 110-seat venue at 2711 B St. The first production in the new space will be Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” starting Feb. 23.

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“The new location presents a grand and exciting opportunity,” Wheatley wrote on his company’s website. “It will allow flexibility in staging productions, make expansion of training programs possible and will seat twice as many patrons. These changes also mean we will grow production and training support capabilities and make the facility accepting and comfortable for students and patrons.” Celebration Arts is the only regional arts organization dedicated to the African-American experience in theater, dance and music. To pay for the relocation and continuing operations, the company has launched a $100,000 fundraising campaign, Celebrating the Legacy. To contribute, send a check payable to Celebration Arts to 1809 S St., Suite 101188, Sacramento 95811. For more information about Celebration Arts, go to celebrationarts.net.

RUN IN YOUR UNDERWEAR On Saturday, Feb. 24, the Colorectal Cancer Alliance will hold the Sacramento Undy Run/Walk in William Land Park to help raise awareness of colorectal cancer. People are encouraged to wear “family-friendly” underwear for the event, which begins at 9 a.m. Each participant will receive a commemorative pair of boxer shorts. More than 600 people in Sacramento County develop colorectal cancer every year, and more than 200 people die from the disease. Registration fees are $35 in advance, $40 on the day of the race for adults, $30 in advance and $35 on the day of the race for youth 6 to 13 years old. Colorectal survivors can register for free. For more information or to register, go to fundraise.ccalliance. org/sacramento.

Fitness Rangers, an East Sacramento workout facility, has added cycling classes to its schedule. In a specially designed and dedicated room, the new cycling program features two classes, PureRide and RhythmRide. Both classes are 50 minutes long with a focus on cardio. “With the addition of our cycling program, we’re thrilled to offer every type of workout you could want, under one roof, for one membership,” says owner Adam Attia. Cycling classes are available seven days a week and are included with a Fitness Rangers membership. The full schedule is available online. The state-of-the-art facility also offers boot-camp classes, personal training, barre, kickboxing, yoga and child care. Fitness Rangers is at 1717 34th Street. For more information, visit fitnessrangers.net.

FREE ADMISSION ON SACRAMENTO MUSEUM DAY On Saturday, Feb. 3, more than 26 local museums will offer free or halfprice admission as part of Sacramento Museum Day. The annual event is a great way for members of the community to experience the city’s wealth of art, history, science and wildlife at little or no cost. Event coordinators recommend that people plan to visit no more than two or three museums to allow

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Front Street Animal Shelter recently received a $132,500 grant from Petco Foundation to support

community outreach and adoption events in the Sacramento area. Front Street receives approximately 10,000 stray, lost and unwanted animals annually. Thanks to manager Gina Knepp and her staff, the shelter has become increasingly successful in decreasing the euthanasia rate over the past three years by showcasing the animals in places other than the shelter. In 2014, for example, Front Street animals participated in more than 120 community events at traditional pet stores, wineries, festivals, parades and Sacramento Ballet performances of “The Nutcracker.” The Petco Foundation money will go toward transportation, staff, supplies and associated costs of preparing more than 500 animals for adoption, including surgeries, microchips, vaccinations and ID tags. For more information, go to cityofsacramento.org. Front Street Animal Shelter is at 2127 Front Street. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.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

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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

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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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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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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?

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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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Bright Idea MICHAEL SESTAK’S CUSTOM LIGHTING DESIGNS ILLUMINATE SACRAMENTO

ichael Sestak’s light-bulb moment was a literal one. After years as an acclaimed pastry chef, Sestak left the sweet life behind to start a shiny new career in lighting design. “Pastry is about presenting the end of the dinner with something showy, fun and creative,” says Sestak, who studied at City College of San Francisco’s Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Program. “That’s the connective thread from one career to another: In pastry and in lighting design, you mix ingredients together to make something great. Now, those ingredients happen to be wood, steel, glass and electricity instead of flour and sugar.” Sestak used his keen artistic eye not only for breathtaking feats of baking, but also in remodeling his various homes—first in San Francisco, then in Sacramento, where he moved in 1986 to serve as a pastry chef for the Hyatt Regency. It was lighting that he found most transformative. “Adding lighting to a home makes it more enjoyable,” the Carmichael resident says. “Friends would come

over and ask me to do the same thing to their homes, and that’s when the light bulb went off.” In 2000, Sestak left a star-studded pastry career—he’d designed pastry showpieces for The Rolling Stones, Ella Fitzgerald and Cartier—to see what he could create with electricity. After acquiring a contractor’s license and taking courses sponsored by SMUD and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, he opened Sestak Lighting Design. Over the past 17 years, Sestak has designed custom lighting solutions for high-profile residential clients, including Mark Friedman, Lina and Ken Fat, Jeanne Reaves, Cecilia Delury and Vince Jacobs. He’s also done commercial projects like the McKinley Village underpass, The Barn in West Sacramento, Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park and The Sutter Club. “I consider myself a resource in lighting,” says Sestak, who conducts what he calls “collaborative interviews” with clients to figure out what they want. “There’s a giant world of discovery when it comes to lighting. It’s a great place to play

and create and have lots of fun, but there’s also a lot of science behind it. I can look at the photometrics of a fixture and tell you what it’s going to do, how much light will come out of it, so we can select the one that will illuminate the space properly.” The most common thing Sestak is asked about these days is LED lighting. “LED brings with it a whole new world and lexicon,” Sestak says, adding that lighting has come a long way from the “plug-and-play” incandescent and fluorescent bulbs on grocery-store shelves. “I try to take the mystique out of it and explain to the layperson that it’s just a light source that can be used in many different ways. LED is actually most exciting because it allows you to use color with light. That’s what I did with the McKinley Village underpass and The Barn. It’s also energy efficient and long lasting, but it’s the artistic applications that make people ooh and ah.” Recent technological advances also allow consumers to interact more directly with lighting displays, either through smartphone apps or the

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WHAT’S NEXT FOR FORMER LEGISLATOR ROGER DICKINSON?

he first thing you notice about Roger Dickinson is his tall, lanky stature, followed by his genuine affability. Waiting to meet Dickinson at an East Sacramento coffee shop, I watched as he casually strolled up the sidewalk— right on time for our interview—and was immediately waylaid by two men who recognized the former Sacramento County supervisor and state assemblyman. I purposely chose a meeting place away from Dickinson’s Downtown office so we would not be disturbed by passersby and acquaintances who knew him from his years of community service, but already that proved futile. Undaunted by the interruption, Dickinson shook their hands and tipped his head back in laughter, clearly glad to share a greeting. “What I love most about Sacramento is how comfortable it is,” says Dickinson. “People are welcoming. They are accepting. Some places it is difficult to make an impression. There is so much opportunity here, whether in politics, business, social services, the arts. Here you can make an impact in a fairly short period of time.”

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Making an impact is what Dickinson, 67, does best. His claims to fame are numerous. He spent four years (2010-14) representing Sacramento in the state Assembly, focusing on issues related to public safety, the environment, transportation, education and youth, among others. Prior to his time in the California Legislature, he served

on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors for almost 17 years. He won the seat in a special election in 1994 and was subsequently re-elected to four four-year terms. As a county supervisor, he played key roles in health care, welfare reform, economic development, clean air, transportation and climate issues. He was instrumental in building

Raley Field; transitioning McClellan Air Force Base into a business park; constructing a new primary health care center for Sacramento County; converting the county vehicle fleet to clean fuels; creating Birth & Beyond, a home visitation program for at-risk families; establishing the Dry Creek Parkway; turning around the Grant Joint Union School District; and passing an ordinance that requires anyone 12 years or younger to wear a life jacket while on the river. Dickinson now serves as executive director of Transportation California, a nonprofit coalition that facilitates public and private partnerships to improve the state’s transportation infrastructure. High on the priority list is landmark legislation signed into law last year to repair California’s roadways. His current volunteer activities include serving on the board of Families Now, an advocacy organization promoting permanent solutions for foster children. He also serves on the board of the Aerospace Museum of California, located at McClellan Park. And he has been active in planning Sacramento State’s new Downtown School of Public Affairs. So where does Dickinson get his energy? What motivates him to continue serving the Sacramento community? “I was a teenager growing up in the ’60s in the East Bay,” he explains. “I was in the middle of the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, the environmental movement, the Vietnam war. It made me want to be an agent of social change. Those

influences had more of an impact on me than anything else. “Back then, lawyers were the good guys. Lawyers were agents of social change. That’s why I wanted to be a lawyer,” adds Dickinson, who earned his undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley and his law degree at UCLA in 1976. While at Berkeley, Dickinson lettered in varsity basketball, and he continues to play whenever he can. “I grew up playing sports,” says the Cal Bears and San Francisco Giants fan. “Basketball was interesting because I spent time with people I would not necessarily spend time with otherwise. You go places, are exposed to things, learn something about commitment, sacrifice, devotion, perseverance, tolerance. It puts you in a team setting where you learn how to work with other people. It served me well as an elected official.” In addition to basketball, Dickinson has a passion for model trains, and he shares a love of food and wine with his wife, Marj. Now married 43 years, the couple moved to Sacramento in 1977 when he took a job with the

California Department of Consumer Affairs. They bought their first house the following year in Sacramento’s Woodlake neighborhood, where they still reside. “Both Marj and I love it here,” he says. “There is a great sense of community. It is also fun to be a part of a place on the rise. When you look back to how Sacramento was in 1977, you can see now how much it has changed for the better.” So what is the next chapter for a man who has devoted a significant slice of his life and career to being a public servant? “As long as I am able, I anticipate being involved in community and public policy in some capacity or another. I don’t know what that might be. I won’t rule out running for office again. “I was lucky to be an elected official for 20 years. But there are lots of ways to contribute, and I hope to continue to do that in some way.” Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@surewest.net. n

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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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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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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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“WE’VE JUST GOT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO START COMPETING, START BEING MEN.”

weren’t cohesive and lacked structure and style. The grind of an 82-game season quickly overwhelmed the young players. One month into the season, the Kings had trouble scoring more than 85 points. Lacking the talent to score, they also lacked the will to rebound and defend. “Losing is one thing, but we have to do a much better job of competing,” the coach, Dave Joerger, said after one lopsided defeat. Joerger didn’t help himself. He was unable to settle on a lineup. He tried eight different starting rotations in the first six weeks. If his young players were confused and unsettled as the season began, Joerger’s dartthrow lineup strategy guaranteed the confusion and insecurity would extend well past Christmas. A negative irony developed around the concept of youthful energy. The Kings made a point of embracing the future by giving their young players extended minutes. The youth movement was supposed to exude energy, if not expertise. But the kids dragged like pensioners. Frustrated,

Joerger complained his troops weren’t tough enough. And they became accustomed to losing. “We’ve got a lot of nice guys,” he said. “I love them, but ...” The players didn’t disagree. Lack of energy became a tired excuse. Said guard Garrett Temple, “We’ve just got to figure out how to start competing, start being men.” The Kings will almost certainly have a lottery pick in this summer’s draft—a chance for another young player. They have to make it count. They will get nothing in 2019, having traded away their first-round pick that year. Forgotten as always are the paying customers, who still have three months to endure at Golden 1 Center. “We owe Sacramento, our fans, better than what we’re showing them,” guard George Hill said. His salary is $20 million this season, payable whether the Kings win or lose. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.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.

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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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The Heart of the Matter MINI PACEMAKER IS A GREAT IMPROVEMENT

here is no easy way for a doctor to tell a patient that the recommended procedure has, uh, never actually been done before by these hands in this hospital. But for Dr. Mark Bowers, a cardiologist at Mercy General, that discussion went surprisingly well last summer. Bowers has more than a decade of experience in helping fix and maintain patients’ hearts. Among his specialties is electrophysiology, the electrical phenomenon that regulates the heartbeat. He’s an expert in pacemakers. If the lights went out while he was inserting a standard pacemaker, Bowers and his patient would be fine.

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But this was something new: a miniature pacemaker, one-tenth the size of the standard model, deployed in a different way, recently approved for use after years of clinical trials. Somebody had to go first at Mercy. “That’s pretty much how the conversation went,” Bowers says. “I said I’d been through all the training and practice sessions arranged by the manufacturer, and I’m confident I can do this and I think you’d be a good candidate. The patient said, ‘I’ll be your guinea pig.’” Since then, Bowers has successfully inserted about 20 miniature pacemakers, formally called the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System. The doctor’s operational speed has improved from about 45 minutes to 10 or 15 minutes—not that quickness is the goal. Says Bowers, “I try not to rush through it, but obviously as you do more procedures, you tend to get faster.” The benefits of a mini pacemaker can be significant. Standard

pacemakers are battery packs pressed into a surgical pocket created in the upper chest, below the collarbone. They have wire leads that are threaded through a vein into the heart’s chambers. The wires deliver electrical pacing therapy as needed to keep the heart beating in proper rhythm. The miniature pacemaker works on a similar principle, but its size changes everything. A patient’s chest is not cut open. No surgical pocket is created. Instead, the cardiologist makes a small hole in the groin, opens a vein, inserts a catheter and threads the tiny pacemaker all the way to the heart. The implantation process is similar to something called cardiac catheterization, which is used for diagnostic purposes to see how a heart is performing. Dye can be injected through the catheter, and X-ray photos track the dye to find blockages. Pressure flows can be measured. Biopsy samples can be taken.

But pushing a mini pacemaker into the heart is a different sort of job. “We will use the groin like a cardiac cath, but it’s a whole new skill set,” Bowers says. “There’s a learning curve, like with anything else. It’s like learning a whole new procedure.” Once secure in the heart, the little pacemaker does its work without wires or fuss. It becomes part of the body. There is less chance for complication—such as bleeding or infection—and no scar. The tiny size means the battery might last about twice as long as standard pacemakers, which work for around seven to 10 years, depending on how they are programmed. The miniature system is not for everyone. If a patient needs pacing therapy in more than one heart chamber (a situation that requires multiple wire leads from a standard pacemaker), the Micra system won’t help. It only works in one chamber. “Only a minority of patients qualify,” Bowers says.

IF THE LIGHTS WENT OUT WHILE HE WAS INSERTING A STANDARD PACEMAKER, BOWERS AND HIS PATIENT WOULD BE FINE.

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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.

Sacramento Theatre Company Thru Feb 11 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 SacTheatre.org

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Dr. Mark Bowers has successfully inserted about 20 mini pacemakers. Miniaturization would seem an obvious advancement, given that traditional pacemakers have been helping human hearts keep time for 60 years. But the path to success in the world of tiny battery packs has been slow and difficult. The Micra system took years and many millions of research dollars to develop, test and certify for human service. Meantime, a rival company’s miniature pacemaker was halted near the starting gate with battery problems. “It takes money and resources to make a medical advancement,” Bowers says. “In this case, one company got it right and another company spent millions and millions and was back to square one after choosing the wrong battery technology.”

If there are downsides to the tiny pacemaker, they concern permanence and price. The device costs a bit more than the standard unit, which goes for between $6,000 and $10,000. And it is almost impossible to remove. But Bowers says the little pacemaker can safely stay in the body even after the battery runs out. A new model can be housed alongside the old one. Eugene Gini, 80, was among Bowers’ first few guinea pigs. Six months later, the patient feels great. “I probably should have done more research, but I had faith in Dr. Bowers,” he says. “I haven’t felt this good in years.” R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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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.

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+)

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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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he Girl Scouts of America are about more than cookies and campfires, as Linda Farley, the CEO of Girl Scouts Heart of Central California, will tell you. Girl Scouts are go-getters, innovators, risk takers and leadersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or G.I.R.L.s, an acronym coined by the national organization to describe its membership. Farley is a perfect example of how the century-old organization inspires success. A Sacramento troop member during her childhood, Farley

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enter middle school, they begin to lose

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trying to integrate STEM into the

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confidence and interest in math and

Farley, who hopes to open another

other work we’re doing.”

director of development at Crocker

science in particular,” Farley says.

center in Modesto next summer as

Art Museum.

“Studies show that when they’re in a

well as a mobile STEM unit to reach

legend each month to familiarize

“I always knew I wanted to work

“We wanted to provide more than

to actually propel the box. We’re

The center highlights a local

single-gender environment, girls are

girls and young women in all 18

troop members with different

for the Girl Scouts,” says Farley,

much more inclined to engage, ask

counties. “Yes, we have 3-D printers,

STEM careers. December’s featured

who has lived in the Land Park area

questions and create. So we thought,

laser cutters and sewing machines,

legend was entomologist Dr. Pamela

since 2008 after bouncing between

what could we do as a council to

but we also have laptops for coding

Marrone, CEO and founder of

Michigan, Minnesota, Texas and

provide the best opportunity for our

and robotics. We were very deliberate

Marrone Bio Innovations, so the

Colorado before returning to her

girls?”

about delivering as many STEM

center displayed a wall of tools that

aspects to the girls as possible.”

an entomologist uses in her work.

hometown. “The Girl Scouts helped

The answer came in the form of

me get established as a leader.

the STEM Center + MakerSpace,

The center now hosts classes

“The Girl Scouts play such

They’re why I got my doctorate in

which opened this past December. By

for girls and teens in kindergarten

an important role in giving girls

leadership from the University of St.

rejiggering the space used for its retail

through 12th grade, as well as First

confidence and courage,” Farley says.

Thomas, St. Paul. I want to give girls

store off Elvas Avenue, the council

Friday, where teens can hang out and

“We give them what they need to not

an advantage in life, so it’s a perfect

freed up about 2,000 square feet for

solve STEM-related problems devised

only know the content, but also how

match.”

the new center without having to

by the staff.

to speak up for themselves.”

The regional Girl Scouts council

construct a separate building. Farley

Even the famous Girl Scout cookies

serves more than 29,000 girls and

and the council assembled an all-

are getting into the STEM act. The

10,000 adult members in 18 counties.

female task force—including a team

council plans to hold classes where

Since Farley took the reins in 2013,

from Intel in Folsom that served on

Girl Scouts can make derby cars with

the council has decided to focus

the community advisory board—to get

empty cookie cases.

heavily on STEM (science, technology,

the space up and running. They also

“The younger girls will roll them

engineering and math) education for

met with other local hacker labs and

down a slope,” says Farley, “but the

young women to give them a leg up in

with George Claire, founder of VSP

older girls are looking at ways to

a notoriously male-dominated field.

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make the activity more difficult—how

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hen I ask Jeff Gephart what made him move from Maryland to Sacramento, he chuckles and says, “I like to tell people I killed a guy.” Gephart has a wicked sense of humor (he used to perform in a weekly sketch comedy TV show), and he knows how to spin a yarn. The Pittsburgh transplant is a prolific writer of poetry, short fiction, screenplays and novels. His third book, “Accidental Adulthood: One Man’s Adventures With Dating and Other Friggin’ Nonsense,” was published last year. And no, it’s not quite an autobiography. “Every piece of fiction is invented from something real,” says Gephart, who lives in West Sacramento with his girlfriend. “While writing my previous book, ‘Out of Dark Places,’ I had been single for a long time, so I

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tried out internet dating. Insane stuff would happen on these dates, and I’d tell friends these stories. They’d be dying laughing and kept saying, ‘You have to make a book out this!’ I’m usually a serious writer, but I thought maybe it would be entertaining for people.” Gephart’s gut was right. After he sent his “Accidental Adulthood” manuscript to All Things That Matter Press (the online publisher that handled “Out of Dark Places”), they enthusiastically agreed to publish it. Since the book came out last spring, the author has received kudos from friends and fans alike. “A total stranger contacted me after buying the book to tell me it was one of the best books he’d ever read,” says Gephart, still somewhat aghast. “That’s the whole point of writing for me. To be able to reach out and connect with people is a very special feeling.” Gephart doesn’t just do that with his writing—he does it in the classroom as well, as a longtime elementary school teacher. While Gephart was working as a graphic

designer after college, his teacher roommate asked him to volunteer in his classroom—and Gephart’s fate was sealed. “I just really got a feeling for it,” he says. “I love teaching writing to the youngsters. It’s so gratifying when kids who come in feeling ‘meh’ about writing at the beginning of the year say they want to be writers by the end of the school year. It’s wonderful to share my love of writing.” Gephart has always been something of a Renaissance man when it comes to creative endeavors. He acted in independent films and worked on a comedy sketch show on public-access TV in Baltimore after meeting up with a group with aspiring filmmakers. “It’s the most fun hobby I’ve ever had,” Gephart says. But his first love remains writing. Although Gephart insists that “Accidental Adulthood” is not an autobiography, he does admit that there are threads of his own truth woven in. The protagonist is a young man in his early 30s trying to find what completes him. He feels like

his friends have things figured out, but he’s still an aspiring writer stuck running a motel on 16th Street. It’s a classic coming-of-age story with a twist. “Thirty seems like it’s a little too late to be growing up,” Gephart says. “But the character is finally ready.” This is also the first novel that Gephart set locally. “The settings for my first two books were fictional places,” Gephart says. “But I think it’s easier to get richer in detail if you set it in a place you’ve been. I loved reading Tom Clancy novels when I lived near Washington, D.C. When he’d write about Annapolis, I’d be able to say, ‘Hey! I know that place!’ I think people in this town will get a kick out of seeing places they know in a novel.”

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The Sweet Life MAKING CHOCOLATE BARS BY HAND IS A LABOR OF LOVE

essica Osterday, the owner of Gracias Chocolate, has a great laugh. It’s the kind of laugh you’d expect from someone who has spent a lot of time making, tasting and learning about chocolate. I spoke with Osterday by phone, after meeting her at the Midtown Farmers Market, where she sets up a stall during the

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cooler months. Osterday’s chocolate bars are different, light-years from the massproduced candy bars I grew up with. Her chocolate has a sophisticated, grown-up taste that might make some people uncomfortable if they are expecting to bite into something along the lines of a Hershey bar or a KIT KAT. “You have to be willing to be adventurous,” Osterday tells potential customers. In a shared commercial kitchen in Auburn, Osterday makes each gourmet bar by hand from ingredients found around the world: Ecuadorian cacao, maca from the Andes, macadamia nuts from Hawaii, Vietnamese cinnamon and Himalayan pink salt. Her chocolate bars are

non-GMO, vegan, soy and gluten free, organic and fair trade. Coconut sugar (from Bali), rather than refined sugar, lends the bars warmth and promotes the image of a somewhat guilt-free dessert that might be good for you. “Every single one [of the bars] touches my hands,” says Osterday, followed by that big laugh. She thinks her company, which she started in 2014, is successful because she offers a unique product. A candy maker has to pair unique with good taste to enjoy success in the chocolate world. Osterday begins with premium cacao. She uses Ecuadorian cacao, which makes the chocolate light and fruity and gives it a slight stoneground texture. It has a clean finish with no aftertaste.

For comparison, the taste is similar to Mexican chocolate. Osterday pairs the cacao with interesting ingredients, including fig balsamic vinegar with black salt, lavender honey with almonds, sour cherries with pistachios, and coffee, maca and macadamia nuts. “I love that people are excited about [the product],” she says. In all, there are seven bars listed on her company’s website. She’s had a few disasters in the kitchen, but that hasn’t stopped her from satisfying her curiosity and chocolate craving by trying different flavors and ingredients. A vegan marshmallow bar developed the texture of Silly Putty. And, it turns out, garlic oil and cilantro do not marry well with chocolate.

How did this former art major start experimenting with cacao? While vacationing on Kauai, Osterday and a group of friends learned how to make chocolate. That chocolatemaking session led to brainstorming. Brainstorming led to research about ingredients and techniques. Out of that group, only Osterday put her burgeoning chocolate-making skills into forming her own company. “I’m the person who is really good at getting stuff done,” she explains. She’s also developed a pretty good palate, and she says she can often detect the country of origin (meaning the source of the cacao) based on tasting a piece of chocolate. And she’s tasted a lot of chocolate. Chocolate from Ecuador is high on her list, but she also enjoys chocolate from northern Peru and southern Colombia. After finishing college, she worked as a healthful-food advocate for the farmers market in Del Paso Heights, “sharing recipes, making food samples and distributing info about healthy eating and recipes,” she wrote in an email, after a marathon day in the kitchen. She also helped teach food classes in an after-school program as part of an internship with the Health Education Council in West Sacramento. Those experiences, she says, shaped her view of food and its availability. The council offered her a permanent position, but she declined in order to travel to Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina. “I have been fortunate enough to travel back to South America several times since [that original trip], and every time I feel honored to know it more.” While she has help during busy times, Osterday is still the chief chocolatier in her time-intensive business. It requires about 10 hours of her own time to prepare and temper enough chocolate, and add flavors, for a batch of 350 bars; another six hours of labor from a part-time employee goes into those same bars. Osterday packages the bars in see-through packets, so customers can view what they’re buying, which takes another eight hours. A 1.4-ounce bar sells for $5. She doesn’t use fancy machines or elaborate equipment. A spatula is

Every chocolate bar is handmade in Jessica Osterday's kitchen. the tool of choice to layer lavender honey onto that lavender honey bar. And, yes, her hands do the work of placing the right number of almonds. “Gracias” is one of her favorite words. Paired with chocolate, it seems like the perfect name for a company that was created in Hawaii by a woman who uses ingredients from around the world, who has traveled a great deal and speaks Spanish. When we spoke, Osterday had just returned from another trip to Peru. Although Gracias Chocolate is a small company, and Osterday doesn’t know what her next business steps will be, some day she hopes to have a hand in making life better for cacao farmers in countries like Peru and Ecuador. How sweet that will be. For more information, go to graciaschocolate.com. Angela Knight can be reached at knight@mcn.org. n

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