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THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS Sacramento Ballet will perform "The Genius of Balanchine."

“The Genius of Balanchine” Sacramento Ballet June 14–17

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The Soﬁa Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave. • sacballet.org Sacramento Ballet will perform excerpts from 18 of choreographer George Balanchine’s most iconic works as part of its commitment to continuing his artistic legacy.

“Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo” (“Testamento del espíritu: Pinturas de Eduardo Carrillo”) Crocker Art Museum June 24–Oct. 7 216 O St. • crockerart.org This bilingual exhibition features more than 60 paintings and watercolors spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s production, from the late 1950s through the late 1990s.

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The third episode of the Convergence II series will feature ﬂutist Maquette Kuper, clarinetist Deborah Pittman and baritone Omari Tau.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Crystal Ice Cream Fantasy Fairytale Town Saturday, June 23, 5–9 p.m. 3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org This magical midsummer evening features multiple ice cream tasting stations, live entertainment, hands-on activities and more. Costumes for the whole family are encouraged.

Crocker Art Auction Crocker Art Museum Saturday, June 2, 5:30–11 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org The 40th year of Sacramento’s premier art auction will feature nearly 120 works from established and emerging artists from California and beyond. Proceeds support the museum’s educational programs and community outreach.

Leslie Hackard's artwork will be on display at Tim Collom Gallery.

Carmichael Park Community Band Festival Sacramento Valley Symphonic Band Association Saturday, June 2, and Sunday, June 3 Carmichael Park Amphitheater, 5750 Grant Ave. • svsba.net With 14 concert bands, this has been one of the largest community band festivals in California for more than 20 years. Bring a picnic and the whole family for two days of music.

Sacramento Black Book Fair The Historic Center of Oak Park Friday, June 1, and Saturday, June 2 3555 3rd Ave. • sacramentoblackbookfair.com This annual book fair will include book signings, talks by featured writers, cultural vendors, food trucks, a kids’ zone, a community parade, poetry readings, writers’ circles and art displays.

Art Where Wild Things Are Gala American River Natural History Association and Sacramento Fine Arts Center Saturday, June 9, 5–8 p.m. Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way, Carmichael • sacnaturecenter.net This elegant outdoor fundraiser benefiting the center’s youth education programs will feature a catered meal, local wines, music and silent and live auctions of juried artwork.

Work by Eduardo Carrillo will be on exhibit at Crocker Art Museum.

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Take in some artwork by Kellie Raines at Archival Gallery.

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Square Root Academy Saturday, June 23

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North Laguna Creek Park, 6400 Jacinto Ave. • htpfest.com This festival turns the park into a tech wonderland for all ages. In partnership with the city of Sacramento, Square Root Academy has curated a STEM experience for the whole family celebrating culture, innovation and community.

1931 L St. • kennedygallery.net This group exhibit includes 20 8-by-8-inch works in various media from each of the 20 juried artists featured.

“Birds of a Feather” and “New Works”

Fair Oaks Horticulture Center Saturday, June 16, 9 a.m.–noon

Archival Gallery June 6–30 3223 Folsom Blvd. • archivalgallery.com Delightful paintings of birds from artists Kellie Raines and Don Yost will share wall space with new work from Miles Hermann. The Second Saturday reception will be held on June 9 from 6–9 p.m.

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Open Garden 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd., Fair Oaks • sacmg.ucanr.edu Bring your gardening questions and enjoy demonstrations on soil solarization, growing sunflowers, harvesting fruit-tree crops, vegetable garden-pest management, harvesting blueberries and more.

Kim Hayden in Conversation Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, June 20, 12:15 p.m. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive • gensac.org Gen Sac’s monthly meeting will feature Kim Hayden from the Center for Sacramento History sharing information on how to conduct historical research at the center.

Patricia Tool McHugh’s “Still Life Variations” and Leslie Hackard’s “Juicy” Tim Collom Gallery June 5–July 5 915 20th St. • timcollomgallery.com Tool McHugh is known for her lush landscapes and sumptuous still-life work in watercolor. Hackard’s art reflects a joyous, nostalgic spirit through her use of vibrant colors and everyday items.

Sacramento Taco Festival Vida de Oro Saturday, June 2, 10:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. The Boulevard, 1600 Del Paso Blvd. • sactacofest.com The main event of Sacramento Taco Week, this festival will feature tacoeating contests, live music, professional wrestling, kids’ activities, arts and crafts, a Chihuahua beauty contest and the largest selection of tacos in one location.

Art show will feature 20 works by 20 artists.

Convergence/Hello MôD Artists Sunday, June 3, 3–5 p.m. Guild Theater, 2828 35th St. • sthope.org The third episode of the Convergence II series—an event-based project that reveals the history of Oak Park through original music, art, dance, oral histories and film—will feature flutist Maquette Kuper, baritone Omari Tau and clarinetist Deborah Pittman. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

Spring gala will beneﬁt Effie Yeaw Nature Center.

Enjoy two days of music at Carmichael Park Community Band Festival.

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A Piece of History

Rita Gibson (seated) with Cecily Hastings (left) and Rivkah Sass.

SIGNED ‘LADY BIRD’ SCREENPLAY NOW RESIDES AT THE LIBRARY

am especially grateful that libraries still have a special place in our communities. As a publisher, I admit a fairly large bias toward the written word. Reading for both

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learning and enjoyment has always played a huge role in my life. Our beloved Sacramento Central Library is 100 years old this year. My husband and I attended the celebration in April, and I was honored to play a small part in the event. My dear friend, local businesswoman and philanthropist Rita Gibson, recently purchased an original typed screenplay of Greta Gerwig’s film “Lady Bird.” Gibson decided to donate it to the Sacramento Room, located on the second floor of the 100-year-old

Central Library and home to the library’s special collections. The screenplay was signed by Gerwig, who wrote and directed the film, and actress Saoirse Ronan, who played Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson in the movie, which is set in Sacramento. At the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, the film won the Best Motion Picture award for a musical or comedy, while Ronan won Best Performance by an Actress in the same category. The movie also captured five Oscar nominations. Gibson made the donation in my honor because, as she said at the

centennial event, “My friend, Cecily, has been telling us the interesting and compelling stories of hundreds of Sacramentans—and doing it for more than two decades now.” I was both delighted and humbled by the gesture. Gibson purchased the script at an auction to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, one of many charitable causes she supports. Gibson, who grew up in Sacramento, loved the movie and saw it numerous times. It reminded her of her own path to young adulthood. “When it came up at auction, my first thought was the bidding would go through

“ONCE I HAD IT HOME, I THOUGHT ITS PLACE IS WHERE, HOPEFULLY, SOME YOUNG SACRAMENTO WOMEN WITH BIG DREAMS MIGHT GO AND FIND INSPIRATION TO DO SOME GREAT THING OF THEIR OWN.”

the roof and well beyond my budget,” she said. “But gratefully, not many in attendance understood the value. So my modest bid won, but I really had no idea what to do with it at the time. “Once I had it home, I thought its place is where, hopefully, some young Sacramento women with big dreams might go and find inspiration to do some great thing of their own.” She contacted library director Rivkah Sass, who was over the moon about the gift. “We are so excited and grateful for Rita’s gift and love that is in honor of a local woman publisher,” said Sass. So special is the “Lady Bird” connection to Sacramento that we included a whole page of photographs of “Lady Bird” movie locations in the second edition of our “Inside Sacramento” book, out later this summer. Sass herself was recently bestowed a local honor. She was named one of the 2018 Women Who Mean Business award winners by Sacramento Business Journal. She’s a powerhouse librarian and an exceptional leader. She has headed the library since 2009, when she inherited an organization that had been weakened by corruption and poor management. I was on the Women Who Mean Business judging panel this year. As CEO of California’s fourth largest library system, overseeing operations in 28 branches, Sass stood out among more than 100 nominees. Her strong

community connections—along with her focus on lifelong learning and literacy efforts—have made her a standout leader far beyond Sacramento. At the centennial celebration, Amanda DeWilde, archivist of the Sacramento Room, talked a bit about the library’s history. Sacramento’s first library opened in 1879 with a collection of around 6,000 volumes. It was built with money donated by Scottish businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. By the 1910s, the library had grown to more than 120,000 volumes. “It became clear that the library deserved a grander home,” DeWilde said. In 1912, the city applied to the Carnegie Corporation for money to construct a new library. The city wanted its public library to join the new City Hall in forming a civic center around a park, now known as Cesar Chavez Plaza. A $100,000 grant was approved in 1914. The city held a competition to design the new library, and Loring P. Rixford of San Francisco was awarded the contract. The new three-story Italian Renaissance building would be built on I Street between 8th and 9th streets. When the terra-cotta plant assigned to create the building’s exterior burned down, Gladding McBean stepped in to complete the façade, which was made of pressed brick. Inside, the walls were white plaster;

cork carpets were laid on the floor to deaden sound. A winding staircase connecting the three floors was constructed of marblelike Magnolith flooring, and a fountain at the base of the stairs was built of marble from the bed of the Tiber River in Italy. From the library’s Romanesque windows, one could see trees in the park and the top of City Hall. The building opened to the public in 1918. “That’s just as the Spanish flu is taking off and less than a month before the armistice ending World War I,” DeWilde pointed out. In the late 1980s, Sacramento’s main city library had once again outgrown its space, and a new Central Library was built around the original Carnegie structure, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Shortly thereafter, DeWilde said, the second floor of the old Carnegie library was transformed into the Sacramento Room. The newly formed Sacramento Public Library Foundation raised private money to renovate the room, which opened in 1995. The room’s mission is to preserve and share Sacramento history. The historic library building serves as a very fitting home for Sacramento’s special collections. At the presentation of the “Lady Bird” screenplay, Sass said there was no more fitting gift for a room that holds so much of our city’s history. “The movie shared with the world the aspects of Sacramento that we all love,” Sass concluded. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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Here’s to You, Mr. Balanchine ICONIC CHOREOGRAPHER IS CELEBRATED AT THE SOFIA

aesthetic to our dancers and to the public. We felt strongly about giving our dancers the same opportunity of artistic fulfillment I was fortunate to have experienced as a dancer.” For tickets and more information, visit sacballet.org.

MCKINLEY VILLAGE PARK DEDICATED TO MICHAEL HIMOVITZ

ancers all over the world want to dance Balanchine,” says Carinne Binda, whose Sacramento Ballet will present “The Genius of Balanchine” at The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts June 14–17. For the past 30 years, Balanchine’s works have been a trademark of Sacramento Ballet under the artistic direction of Binda and her husband,

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Ron Cunningham. There’s a reason they’ve always been so faithful to the choreographer, whose iconic works include “Prodigal Son,” “Firebird,” “La Sonnambula” and the American holiday phenomenon “The Nutcracker.” “The musical and technical demands of Balanchine ballets simply make a dancer a better dancer,” says Binda, who danced at least one work by Balanchine every season at Boston Ballet for 13 years. “There is extraordinary nuanced musicality in his work, along with his use of refined pointe work, energy and speed, that developed a new breed of dance artist.” Sacramento Ballet has presented 18 of his masterpieces over the years. His inclusion in the repertoire has been “a powerful draw to dancers wanting to

In April, Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Councilmembers Steve Hansen and Jeff Harris joined with Carinne Binda community leaders and neighbors to dedicate a new urban pocket park in memory of Sacramento arts leader be members of our company,” Binda and pioneer Michael Himovitz. The says. Unlike traditional classical dedication kicked off a weekend-long ballet, she explains, “everyone in a public celebration of McKinley Village Balanchine work dances. The corps Art Walk, a unique collection of public de ballet in his work is equally as art created by local artists and located complex as the soloist and principal in the parks and public spaces of the roles.” McKinley Village neighborhood in “The Genius of Balanchine” East Sacramento. will include excerpts from the “Michael Himovitz was an choreographer’s immense catalog, extraordinary civic leader who made which has influenced generations of pioneering and lasting contributions dancers and dancemakers. to the Sacramento arts scene,” says “It has been said that ballet was Steinberg. born in Russia, raised in France and Himovitz founded the pathbreaking redefined in America by Balanchine,” Himovitz Solomon Gallery and Binda says. “Personally, as a dancer, Himovitz Gallery; helped create I never felt more freedom—nor Second Saturday, one of Sacramento’s experienced such exhilaration— signature art events; and sponsored than when dancing Balanchine’s a series of exchange exhibits that choreography. A great part of Ron’s brought international artists to and my vision in building a company for Sacramento was to bring this same Sacramento and allowed local

Registration is open for Performing Arts Summer Camp for sixth through 12th graders.

artists to show their work abroad. “He strengthened the local arts community in many ways, including guiding and promoting the careers of local artists,” says McKinley Village developer Phil Angelides. Michael Himovitz Park is one of five intimate urban pocket parks located within McKinley Village. These pocket parks were designed as gathering places where residents can come together to relax, mingle and enjoy art. Located within the park is the newly completed publicart installation “Wildlife on a Ferris Wheel” by James Piskoti, emeritus professor of fine art at Stanislaus State University.

PERFORMING-ARTS CAMP OFFERED FOR KIDS Registration is now open for CLARA Performing Arts Summer Camp, a two-week performing-arts summer camp for kids at E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts. The camp will include 15 kinds of performing arts, including Irish dance, improv and bucket drumming. The day camp runs Monday through Friday, July 16–27, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is open to students from sixth through 12th grade. Tuition is $495 for the two-week session. It includes healthy snacks

Mayor Darrell Steinberg (right) helps dedicate new park in memory of Sacramento arts leader and pioneer Michael Himovitz. and daily lunch, all teaching supplies, class and performance materials, a reusable water bottle and a T-shirt. CLARA is at 2420 N St.

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Allora Is Outstanding NEW FINE-DINING RESTAURANT IN EAST SACRAMENTO SHINES

new restaurant called Allora has sprung up at the corner of 53rd Street and Folsom

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Boulevard in East Sacramento. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housed in a small but elegant brick building that until 2016 was the home of Rust Florist. With the retirement of Greg Rust, the building underwent an impressive transformation inside yet retains its lovely, modest exterior. Elizabeth-Rose Mandalou, who owns Allora with her husband, chef Deneb Williams, had loved the building from afar for many years and jumped at the chance to open

a restaurant there. The fact that the former owners left the building to retire also lent an air of positive energy to the space. In just a few short months, Mandalou and Williams have done great things with the former florist shop. Unlike the host of farm-totable, let-the-ingredients-shine, simple-preparation, rustic-kitchen restaurants that have opened in the past decade, Allora has a definite

fine-dining bent. The tablecloths arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t white (in fact, there are no tablecloths at all), but the Italian-inspired dishes are artistic and architectural in their beauty, sophisticated in their flavors and jewel-like in their proportions. The deceptively complex Insalata di Mare jumbles together cold shrimp, calamari, crab and mussels, all perfectly cooked and seasoned and served with a stunningly

beautiful salad of shaved asparagus and pea tendrils. The plate is prettier than a spring garden, with a few strategically placed dots of forestgreen dressing and a fluttering yellow pansy. (Almost every dish is finished with flowers to pay tribute to the original florist who built the space.) The textures are on point and made more interesting by the addition of a smattering of pillowy-soft cannellini beans. Much like the quickly vanishing spring, the plate is gone in a few forkfuls—just enough time to luxuriate in the experience and then regret it was over so soon. A small but diverse selection of pastas, all house-made, highlights the kitchen’s impressive skills without showboating. The bucatini, layered with crab, sea urchin and garlic cream, is about as rich and indulgent a pasta dish as you’ll see. The cream sauce holds the dish together in a velvety embrace, not letting any one ingredient skip any one bite. It’s an impressive feat of cohesiveness. For the cavatelli with sausage, chili, tomato and broccoli raab, the kitchen takes a rustic seasonal pasta and elevates it to a small, condensed dish with flavors so overlapping and layered as to be nearly overwhelming. It’s the kind of dish that makes you want to put the fork down in between each bite and quietly reflect. Honestly, what kind of wine list could stand up to this onslaught of elegance and sensation? Mandalou, an advanced sommelier, opts for a stunning selection of Italian varietals from California, Italy and beyond. She smartly divides her wine list into three sections: “New World expressions of Italian varietals,” “Classic Italian wines” and “For the adventurous palate.” On one visit, I let our server choose wines for us, and his aim was unnervingly on-target. Through each course, he brought glasses that were lovely complements to the dishes we were eating. The highlight was a dessert wine from Sardinia, a passito, so named because the late-harvest grapes are left out to dry and the wind “passes” through them. It tasted of dried apricots and sweet earth and paired delightfully with my olive oil cake and zabaglione.

Speaking of dessert, the offerings at Allora are as refined as the rest of the menu. The olive oil cake came dressed with dollops of mascarpone and gently dusted with flowers. Bomboloni— Italian doughnuts—were filled with huckleberries. The service, especially at a restaurant open only a few months, is near-perfect. Friendly, professional, attentive without being cloying, the servers, bussers, bartenders and owners all make their presence known. It’s no surprise that this is Williams and Mandalou’s third restaurant. Allora shows a steady hand and wealth of experience. What is surprising is that the duo have opened all three of their restaurants— Woodlake Tavern, Uptown Pizza and now Allora—within the past 18 months. If that last year and a half is any indication, this impressive couple will help keep Sacramento in the national culinary conversation for years to come. Allora is at 5215 Folsom Blvd., (916) 538-6434; allorasacramento. com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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Genre Bender Jeff Myers

THIS ARTIST USES TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE UNIQUE WORKS OF

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ecause Jeff Myers believes that artists need to keep learning or get stale, the painter and photographer has made it his mission to come up with ever more inventive and innovative techniques. The son of legendary local stock photographers Sally Myers and the late Tom Myers created a sculpture for the McKinley Village development in East Sacramento that is a genre unto

itself. Myers purchased a 1950s Ford tractor and covered the outside with a fresh “skin” of aluminum plating to which he applied his art. “The project for McKinley Village is a direct extension of what I’ve been doing on a two-dimensional surface in my studio,” says Myers, who lives in Midtown and works out of a studio in Land Park. For the tractor sculpture, he painted a series of detailed

paintings based on aerial photographs looking down on human patterns, such as agricultural fields and freeway networks. Then he sent the paintings to Los Angeles to be photographed and heat-imbedded into aluminum, a process called dye sublimation. “Aluminum is a beautiful screen to print or project onto,” he says. “It gives a piece an almost stained-glass feeling.” Myers then welded and

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riveted the thin sheets of aluminum onto the tractor—“almost like recreating flesh,” he explains. The project—called “Tractor Levitation,” since it’s suspended above its base on three steel beams—stands sentinel at one of the entrances to the home development in the very area where Myers grew up. (In fact, he remembers when the land was covered with peach trees instead of new homes.) In a way, the artwork acts as a merging of all of Myers’ passions: photography, painting, technology and history. “I’ve become more and more interested in the historical wave of technology versus the wave of human consciousness,” Myers says. “I love exploring consciousness. What are the boundaries of it? How does it relate to the curve of technology? I like to bring an ambiguity to my forms: Are those brushstrokes something alive and organic or something digital? I like that in-between ground.” Myers grew up traveling all over the country with his dad to photography gigs. In school, he struggled with dyslexia, which made visual art a more natural mode of expression than reading or writing. He doodled constantly—still does— and studied art at Sacramento City College, UC Davis and Sacramento

State with the likes of Wayne Thiebaud, Roland Petersen, Fred Dalkey, Laureen Landau and Oliver Jackson. He moved to New York in 1995 and stayed for five years, making friends and connections that he still maintains. “I wanted to view the major exhibitions and collections located in New York in person as part of my education,” says Myers, who still goes back east to visit at least once a year and periodically places pieces with a private art dealer there. “I moved to New York to establish a network of friends and collectors so that now, a big chunk of my work comes from commission. As a freelance artist, you have to balance commission with exhibition.” Myers is due to show his latest work at Elliott Fouts Gallery this fall. His current focus is a collection of photos he took while in Paris to create a temporary art installation with a friend. (Myers ripped up photos he’d taken of giant redwoods and tacked them to edifices throughout the city.) He’s manipulating the photos with different types of printing processes. For example, he’ll print out a photo and transfer it to a canvas through a painstaking sponging process, then he’ll paint over the ghost image just

enough that you can see both the new strokes and the original image. “I love playing with the time trajectory of past, present and future,” he explains. “I think one of the roles of visual art as the world changes faster and faster is to provide that anchor point, that stillness. And when traditional materials and

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technology interrelate, they create a visual tapestry unlike anything else.” For more information, go to jeffmyersart.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Splendor in the Suburbs BARBARA SAFFORD LOVES HER CARMICHAEL COMMUNITY—AND IT LOVES HER BACK

arbara Safford is a breeze at conversation. The Carmichael resident and volunteer can talk to anyone about anything, which has made her an amazing asset to countless organizations over the years. “I’m a people person,” she admits while we lounge in her beautiful backyard. She and her husband, Tom, have lived in this house on Stanley Avenue for 45 years, ever since they moved to Sacramento from their

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native Chicago so Tom could take a job. “He was offered jobs in both Sacramento and Southern California, where I actually have family,” Safford recalls. “He picked the one in Sacramento, and when we drove down Stanley Avenue for the first time and I saw how agricultural it was with all the chickens and sheep, I didn’t know what to think. It felt like we were near a zoo!” Safford now says she wouldn’t live anywhere else. One key reason is the abundance of activities she threw herself into when they relocated so she could make the community her own. Volunteerism has always been a part of Safford’s life. As a high school student in Chicago, she volunteered at a preschool to read to kids and was an active Girl Scout. As an adult in Carmichael, she’s served as a Camp

Fire and Cub Scout leader and a PTA member and officer at Mary Deterding Elementary School. She’s volunteered with the Assistance League of Sacramento, Our Lady of Assumption Parish Council, the Administrative Fire Services Section of the California Fire Chiefs Association and, for the past year, as a member of the board of Carmichael Friends of the Library. In March, the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce honored her as volunteer of the year. “I’ve never thought of myself as a volunteer,” says Safford, who worked as the senior staff administrative coordinator at the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District until she retired. “I just like to do things to help others. It’s always been a part of me. It’s my way of learning.” As a board member of the Carmichael Chamber for the past six years, Safford has represented

Carmichael Friends of the Library, spreading the word about the library’s merits. “I think of the library as an indoor park,” says Safford. “People can do all kinds of activities at the library, and there’s always some kind of event going on. The role of the Friends is to help fund those extra programs through our twice-yearly book sales in May and November and through membership. My goal is to tell people all about it.” For more information about Carmichael Library, visit saclibrary. org. For more information about the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce, visit carmichaelchamber.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Marc Prescott and his sons work on tiny doors together.

A Mighty Idea TINY PEOPLE SELLING TINY DOORS FOR TINY HOUSES

arents these days have to answer tough questions from their children, even young ones, about why there are people living on the streets, in parks, under overpasses or on sidewalks. Answers aren’t easy when it comes to the homelessness problem, which seems to be growing in all Sacramento neighborhoods.

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Most families have the means for food and roof. But some don’t. Kids ask why. Parents have to explain about mental health issues, drug and alcohol abuse, poverty and despair. But that still doesn’t answer the question about why they have to live on the street. Marc Prescott, an assistant pastor at Restoration Life Church in Tahoe Park, has had to answer these questions from his own children, Benjamin, 3, and Joshua, 5. His church is building 20 tiny homes for homeless people at Compassion Village, a program that brings together civic, business, nonprofit and church leaders to work on solutions to social issues. Six tiny

homes have already been built on the grounds of St. Paul Church of God in Christ in North Sacramento; 14 more will be completed by the end of summer. Young Benjamin knew about the tiny homes and wondered why they couldn’t build more houses for the homeless people he saw. Prescott told him that people are trying, explaining that they need more money, volunteers and support to solve such a large problem. The city of Sacramento is looking at the small-dwelling concept as an important piece of the puzzle. Prescott and his wife, Tina, had an idea for raising money and engaging

the community. It would be a life lesson for Benjamin and Joshua. The family’s solution: Make little doors with wood, paint and inspiration. Walk around their East Sac neighborhood, talk about homeless issues and sell the doors for a $20 donation. The money would go in a jar to contribute to build more tiny shelters. “The boys saw homeless people near our neighborhood or on the river,” said Prescott. “They asked questions. This was a chance for the family to do something and have the boys take a positive step in community service and caring for other people. They are very aware that something’s wrong.”

ministries, professionals and others to help make Compassion Village a success. Her board includes Restoration Life’s pastor, Dan Axtell, and other community leaders. “We all have to work together to find solutions,” she added. “It’s going very well and we’re excited. I look at these issues from a business perspective. I’ve witnessed the pain when people have lost their house during the recession. But there are other issues ranging from homelessness and youth at risk to racial tensions and sex trafficking.” “We have to keep going,” said Prescott. “People are dying on the street. We have to assign worth to the worthless. If we all pull together, we can do this.” Benjamin and Joshua may not totally understand the significance of their little doors, but as they grow older, they will take satisfaction that they tried to help others. Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com. n

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The little multicolored wood doors can be found on East Sac porches, leaning up against trees and in yards. The Prescott family would love to have other families participate in the tiny-door project. “It’s good,” said Benjamin. “Tiny people selling tiny doors for tiny homes.” Compassion Village in North Sac is moving along nicely, according to organizers. E49, the nonprofit organization that oversees Compassion Village, is planning another homeless village at Genesis Church in South Sacramento. It will have 20 tiny homes, primarily for homeless mothers and their children. The little homes are built on wheels and are considered trailers for zoning purposes. They provide housing that can be permanent or temporary. Volunteers build the structures using supplies provided by The Home Depot, Lowe’s and other suppliers. Each partner church agrees to build the tiny homes and provide $7,500 for construction. In addition, they provide $5,000 per year in support and services for residents of each unit. Eventually, some residents will pay a small rent. “We would love to have 15 to 20 different villages following the same model of 20 units per location,” said Tammy Vallejo, founder and president of E49. Vallejo, a real estate broker, is committed to collaboration with

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My Trip to Costco A RIVER FLOWS THROUGH IT

ost people shop at Costco like they’re survivalists stocking up for Armageddon’s aftermath. They purchase massive quantities and trundle the goods to their cars via ginormous carts and wheeled pallets. Recently, I needed only a single item that I knew Costco carried. I was unsure about finding it anywhere else. I thought, “Why not bike to Costco, get a little ride in and enjoy the trip?” I found out why not.

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As the crow flies, the Expo Parkway Costco is just over 2 miles from my East Sacramento home. That’s a distance that can be easily biked in 10 minutes. However, crows don’t have to worry about crossing the American River. For those of us using earthbound transportation, a bridge is required. For me, the bridge that would be most convenient, the one carrying the Capital City Freeway, allows neither pedestrians nor bikes. It’s for motor vehicles only. To cross the river by bike, my choices are either the former Sacramento Northern Railway bridge, now converted to bicycle and pedestrian use (behind the Blue Diamond Growers almond factory), or the H Street Bridge. I headed out toward the Sacramento Northern bikeway. The ride through East Sacramento and Midtown was fine. The trailhead for the Sacramento Northern is near

20th and C streets. The scenery there changes dramatically. There are no historic homes and no shade. Instead, there’s rampant graffiti alongside the Union Pacific tracks. There are also many conspicuous homeless campsites along the trail edge, with attendant piles of trash nearby. A female cyclist I talked to this weekend said such conditions creeped her out. Once you’re on the American River Parkway trail, the surroundings are more scenic and less impacted. A steep ramp took me to the levee top, and an access trail connected nicely to Expo Parkway. Even better would have been a parkway access direct to the REI and Costco parking lots, but no connection was added when the stores were built. (Maybe Costco didn’t want passing cyclists to horn in on the churros, pizza slices and hot dogs on offer.) By the time I got to Costco, 30 minutes had passed. The ride was 5.7 miles, almost tripling

the distance and time needed for a theoretical direct route. Once at Costco, I had to figure out what to do with my bike. Ideally, bike racks for retail stores and other commercial uses are located near a main entrance. That’s where they are easy to find and most convenient. Also, it’s where they are well-observed by passersby, which helps prevent theft of bikes and components. At Costco, not only could I not find a bike rack near the entrance—I couldn’t spot a rack anywhere. That’s not a welcoming sign, but it’s not an unusual situation for bicyclists. Improvising seems to come with the territory. I locked my bike to a pole in the parking lot. Costco has parking for more than 500 cars. Cars are clearly welcomed there. Without a doubt, most customers need a car to haul away the goods to stock their bunkers. Yet shouldn’t any busy destination have

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a place where one or two bikes can be safely and conveniently locked? On my return home, just to compare, I came back via the H Street Bridge. The trip was almost exactly the same distance (5.8 miles) and took the same time, half an hour. Crossing the bridge requires riding on a too-narrow sidewalk and trying to squeeze by pedestrians and other cyclists going in the opposite direction. My wife describes this experience as harrowing. I have the flexibility to spend more time than the average person on getting places. When I use my bike for transportation, I can appreciate the enjoyment of the ride itself and the physical benefits. Most people are much more time limited. They can’t afford to spend an hour on a trip they could make in 10 or 20 minutes by car. If Sacramento is to achieve its tantalizing potential as a truly bicycle-friendly city, it must address its riverine barriers and how bicyclists are welcomed at destinations. Bicycling needs to be not only safer

but more convenient. Midtown is a very good place to ride a bike with its shaded streets, short blocks offering a variety of routes, bike lanes and numerous destinations, many with new bike racks. Those conditions don’t exist in every, or even most, neighborhoods. They should. Two of California’s premier rivers flow through Sacramento. Sacramento is fundamentally a river city. An inability to quickly and conveniently get across the Sacramento or American rivers severely limits travel choices. Inevitably, because of that, more people choose to drive and, in so doing, generate vehicle traffic that we don’t need. I don’t expect it, but I’d love to see more bikes at Costco (maybe with heavy-duty trailers to haul all that stuff). Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n

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An Arts Blueprint THE CITY’S CULTURAL PLAN MOVES FORWARD

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n April 23, hundreds of people gathered at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium to see the final draft of the city’s proposed cultural plan. It was the final step in a process called Creative Edge: six months of town hall meetings, community forums, and city and countywide surveys to shape the city’s arts, culture and creative economy in the years ahead. Sacramentans’ participation and enthusiasm proved residents are hopeful the cultural plan will yield more than just words on paper. Mayor Darrell Steinberg admitted some still may have doubts. “I know there may have been experiences with the city over the years where there were promises made and promises not kept,” he said. Sacramento artist Jeff Musser, who participated in four meetings throughout Creative Edge’s planning process, responded to the draft with cautious optimism. “Bureaucracy is a very slowmoving train, but if there is enough momentum, things will happen,” he said. “However, as Steinberg hinted,

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I have heard this speech for years. So when it actually happens and there’s a concrete plan and application, then I’ll believe him.” Musser hopes the cultural plan will provide opportunities for artists to receive grants, perhaps even mentorship programs to equip artists with skills beyond their creative talent. The city, said Musser, could “create opportunities for artists who live in Sacramento to work with mentors and artists.” As an example, he cited New York artist Jeff Koons, who created the controversial sculpture on the plaza outside Golden 1 Center. “As much as I don’t care for the Koons sculpture,” he said, “what if we had an initiative here where Jeff Koons could come and mentor somebody and say, ‘This is how my practice works, and these are the things I do. What’s a project you want to do but can’t?’” Art is an economic motivator for Sacramento to adopt a new cultural plan. Filmmaker Greta Gerwig and a cadre of local artists have proven through the success of “Lady Bird” and the Wide Open Walls mural

festival that art is essential both to Sacramento’s identity and economy. Musser, and artists like him, hope the city finalizes a plan that enables artists to make a living. As a marching band paraded through the auditorium, Musser gestured to the band. “I hope they got paid,” he said. In fact, most Sacramentans want to see artists get paid. According to the surveys conducted during the planning process, more than 90 percent of residents cited the importance of art, and 73 percent said they support a citywide tax to benefit the arts. Likely inspired by those numbers, Steinberg announced at the meeting the possibility of renewing Measure U, a temporary half-cent sales tax approved by voters in November 2012. The draft plan explores other sources of funding: creating a cultural trust fund, restoring transient occupancy taxes and seeking funds through outside sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council.

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Though the surveys suggest the vast majority of Sacramentans value art, Jonathon Glus, the city’s director of cultural and creative economy, noted that “everybody experiences arts, culture and creativity on their own terms.” The draft plan addresses the need to foster cultural diversity while alluding to the city’s failure to protect it in the past. According to Glus, the draft reflects the issues raised by residents who participated in the planning process, essentially mandating the city to take cultural equity more seriously. “We need to make sure there is access to resources in our neighborhoods so that people can explore their own cultural identity and creative expression,” Glus said. Glus expects a final version of the draft to go to the City Council for approval soon. Councilmember Angelique Ashby said she believes the plan has the five votes necessary to pass. I asked Glus, who has participated in similar arts and cultural planning processes in both Houston and

Pasadena, if he could compare those processes to Sacramento’s. “You may be surprised, but Sacramento has seemed more eager, more optimistic, more enthusiastic and ready for a step forward,” he said. “I was cautioned that there could be some cynicism with the plan … but I think it has been really amazing to see the community step up.” Sacramento’s skepticism may be giving way to expectations, but arguably Creative Edge has already found its target. Sacramento is seeing an arts and cultural renaissance that is proven by the process itself: the participation and persistence of Sacramentans whose job now is to hold the city accountable by creating an arts and cultural plan that represents every Sacramentan. To read the draft of Sacramento’s cultural plan, go to creativeedge. cityofsacramento.org. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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Ready for a Change EMPTY NESTERS CREATE NEW MEMORIES IN MODERN EAST SAC FLAT

CR By Cathryn Rakich Home Insight

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hen empty nesters Phil and Julie Angelides downsized to their new residence in McKinley Village, they were not sure how much of an emotional toll the move would have on them. “I expected when I drove by our old home that my heart would sink,” says Julie of the 1933 pink stucco house in Land Park where the couple lived for 30 years. Phil and Julie, who have three adult daughters, both grew up in Sacramento. Julie fell in love with the older home while walking past it in high school; she and Phil purchased the classic when it came up for sale years later. “I thought they were going to have to drag me out on a stretcher,” she jests. “The home had a lot of memories,” adds Phil, former state treasurer and Democratic candidate for governor in 2006. “For example, Bill Clinton was in our home three times,” including in 1996 when he was president of the United States. But when Julie saw the new East Sacramento homes at McKinley Village, which Phil co-developed with The New Home Company, “I just fell in love,” she says. “This gives us a chance, at our age, to set our roots down, to make new friends, to have a different lifestyle.” “Julie took care of our old home by herself— she did the yard, she did the house,” notes Phil. “This downsizing has been wonderful.” Julie agrees. “I had worked so hard in that house,” she adds. “Now I feel free. It is a very good feeling. It’s liberating.” Another adjustment was necessary when moving from their 4,000-square-foot home on a half an acre of land to a 2,224-square-foot flat with no backyard. “We sold all our furniture,” says Julie. “We just started discarding.” Basically, dishes, cookware, artwork and family mementos were among the few items that made the transition. “We had our moments,” remarks Phil. “When you go through all the belongings you have accumulated over four or five decades, there was emotion in the move. But we ended up saving all the stuff we cared deeply about.” In addition to his treasured tennis trophies, he brought along all his books. “Books are like gold to me. My concern was if there would be enough room for them.” McKinley Village, a new 50-acre urban housing development situated between Capital City Freeway and an elevated railroad line in East Sacramento, opened to the public in 2016. “The idea was to create a community that was in harmony with East Sacramento and had a range of housing opportunities for people who

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A HOME FOR A LIFETIME.

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want to live near restaurants and shops, who work Downtown,” says Phil. Phil, a longtime developer, is quick to give credit to nationally known urban architects Peter Calthorpe, who created the initial design concepts, and Mike Woodley, who was the lead on the final land plan and home designs. Sacramento-based architect David Mogavero designed the central clubhouse. When completed, there will be 10 parks and common areas throughout the “urban village” that will feature art installations by local artists. The Angelideses’ model, called the Alder, offers single-story living in a two-story flat. The first floor features a half bath, coat closet, access to the two-car garage, a staircase and elevator. “The elevator is great when we have suitcases from traveling, when my 95-year-old dad comes to visit, when we come back from the store,” comments Phil. The second level is the living space, complete with a master bedroom suite with a bathroom and two walk-in closets; guest bedroom and bathroom; laundry room; and library for all those books. “Even though our old home was beautiful, it had 1933 closets,” says Phil. “With this home, everything is all spankin’ fresh and new.” The couple elected to go with a modern look in the kitchen with quartz countertops, a Carrera marble tile backsplash and high-end stainlesssteel appliances. Eighteen-feet-high ceilings add drama to the open living area with a fireplace. Scratch-resistant tile flooring was important to the couple, who have active grandchildren, a goldendoodle dog and a calico cat. “I wanted it to be easy to take care of,” notes Julie. “I can clean this whole place in less than two hours.” From the second-level outdoor patio, they can enjoy a view of Downtown Sacramento’s skyline. “We have the most glorious sunsets,” says Julie. Phil adds, “At night, this place feels particularly urban and exciting.” The home was pre-wired with a 240-volt electric vehicle charger—perfect for Phil, who just purchased a plug-in hybrid that will go 53 miles on pure electric. “I come home at night, plug it in, and within two hours it’s completely charged,” he says. With more than half of the homes already sold, the neighborhood is starting to come alive. “It’s a good mix of young families, couples with no children, empty nesters,” comments Phil. “We’re getting to know everyone and it’s exciting. Everyone feels like they are part of an adventure.” Even though the couple, now in their mid-60s, own vacation houses in Oregon and Los Angeles, they call Sacramento home. Their new flat in

McKinley Village represents the next phase of their lives. “Hopefully, this will be a home for a lifetime,” says Julie. “And we will have 30 more years of memories here, too,” adds Phil. Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@surewest.net. n

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Young Brains and Football LOCAL ASSEMBLYMAN TACKLES A TOUGH PROBLEM

he debate over tackle football and whether children should be allowed to play it builds around several points. There’s the safety argument: Tackle football is just too dangerous for kids younger than 12. And there’s the nanny-government argument: Politicians already interfere enough in our lives. But there’s no debate about one fundamental feature of youth tackle football. No matter what happens to those young brains and bones and spinal columns on the gridiron,

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parents and guardians can’t say they weren’t warned. Sacramento Youth Football, which operates tackle leagues for 10,000 children ages 5 and older, posts on its website 17 separate documents related to injuries. Fourteen of them talk about concussions. They cover everything from symptoms to diet to whether and when a child who has suffered a football concussion should return to school. This helpful library of information comes in addition to the gruesomely detailed waiver parents and guardians must sign before their young athletes

strap on football helmets. The waiver indemnifies the league from lawsuits involving an array of potential injuries, all spelled out and punctuated by the ultimate tragedy, “even sudden death.” Despite the dangers, thousands of parents each year in Sacramento examine the documents, sign the waivers and suit up their children for a season of tackle football. The game stirs deep passions in these parents. They were not pleased to see an effort by their representative in the California State Assembly, Kevin

McCarty, to ban tackle football for kids younger than 12. “As you might expect, we do not agree with the legislation,” says Jay Erhart, commissioner of Sacramento Youth Football. “We believe the research they cite is flawed, and we believe other sports are every bit as dangerous. This is governmental overreach and an attack on youth sports. If they succeed with banning football, they will move onto other sports.” Earlier this year, McCarty introduced Assembly Bill 2108, the Safe Youth Football Act, which is

remarkably simple as legislation goes. It would prohibit children from playing organized tackle football until their 12th birthday. With support uncertain, McCarty shelved the bill prior to a committee hearing in May. But the issue won’t go away. “Some people act like we want to ban apple pie,” says McCarty. “Obviously, that isn’t the case. I became interested in this issue when I began to dig into the studies and research. They are pretty decisive. The odds of suffering brain damage in tackle football increase by 50 percent for kids under 12. It’s compelling.” McCarty made a gutsy call when he decided to carry the legislation. It’s not a juice bill—an instrument of legislation that saves or produces money for special interests—and it’s not a feel-good bill that moves forward without real consequences. While youth tackle football may not stand supreme among the burning issues of the day, the Safe Youth Football Act is something that touches many families and inflames the hearts of many people whose

children are long past the age of youth sports. Erhart, a retired law enforcement officer with 34 years in youth football, praises the game for its ability to teach mentorship, discipline, commitment and resilience, especially among African-American and Latino youngsters in South Sacramento. He says other sports leagues often abandon inner-city kids. And he says parents know better than politicians what’s best for their kids. “I call BS on that,” McCarty says. “There are plenty of other youth sports that provide those values, including soccer, baseball, volleyball, flag football and others. Even a contact sport like ice hockey has taken steps to reduce the type of contact injuries that cause concussions.” The assemblymember dismisses the claim that state government should keep its nose out of youth football. “I’ve heard the nanny-government argument, but I don’t buy it,” McCarty says. “We have a duty to pass laws that protect people. It’s why

we have seat belts and child car seats and why kids can’t buy cigarettes.” Youth football has grass-roots support from across the country. The proposed ban activated football fans and helped with parental awareness, Erhart says. Meantime, McCarty has several legendary NFL players and coaches who have lent their names on behalf of AB 2108 and similar bills in other states. Among them are Phil Villapiano, Nick Buoniconti, Chris Borland and Harry Carson.

Last year, five of the 10,000 kids in Sacramento Youth Football suffered concussions. That’s five more than anyone would like to see, but no sport is 100 percent safe. “Safety is our first priority,” Erhart says. The bill is on hold for now, but the battle over youth football will continue. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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A Stranger in a Strange Land MY TRIP TO D.C. WITH METRO’S CAP-TO-CAP

Publisher’s Note: In the May 2018 edition of Inside Publications, the article that ran in this column space had substantial editorial changes made that were not approved by the writer. We regret the oversight. The full unedited article, which focused on the tragic death of Stephon Clark and the aftermath in our city, will appear in a special online-only edition. This edition will also feature an update from Craig Powell on the conflicting autopsies and their political impact, and an article that details the viewpoint of a police officer in the shooting. Please visit insidepublications.com.

CP By Craig Powell Inside City Hall

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made the decision to be part of Sacramento Metro Chamber’s annual Cap-to-Cap lobbying trip to Washington, D.C. (aka “the swamp”), with a great deal of hesitation and not a small amount of trepidation. This year, 365 attendees descended on Washington to lobby the federal government to—let’s be frank about it—fork over more federal taxpayer largesse to our region. It’s a wellorganized, highly choreographed, long-standing five-day beg-a-thon, now in its 48th year. Who attends? A lot of local elected officials and senior bureaucrats, trade association executives, reps from large health care systems and nonprofits, government contractors and professional lobbyists, as well as a small contingent of local media people (Jeff vonKaenel, publisher of Sacramento News & Review, a TV crew from Fox 40 and me). Why my hesitation and trepidation, you might ask? Because I wasn’t going on Cap-to-Cap just to cover it for you, my dear readers (although

that was certainly an added benefit). I was going primarily to advocate for policy positions that aren’t exactly aligned with those of the Metro Chamber and the Cap-to-Cap delegation as a whole. You see, Metro Chamber has fallen into, in my view, the habit of supporting almost every proposal that involves Washington sending ever larger sums of federal taxpayer money into our region.

POLICY DIFFERENCES The problem, as I see it, is that that’s not always a good thing, and the dollars that Metro Chamber wants the federal government to send us could, in many cases, be better spent on more deserving projects and programs or in more intelligent, less costly ways. But the powers that be in the Metro Chamber and the Cap-toCap delegation are motivated, by and large, by short-term considerations: to land this new grant or to secure funding for that new project. It’s a beg-a-thon, after all. (Although in

fairness, the Metro Chamber had another important initiative it was pursuing with gusto on Cap-to-Cap this year: to streamline the federal approval process for projects of all kinds.) No one with Metro Chamber, to my knowledge, is suggesting the one solution that would save mountains of taxpayer money while giving state and local governments total control over how such dollars are spent: simply roll up the budgets of dozens of federal departments and agencies and “block grant” the entire pile to the states whence the money came. Eliminate the federal haircut that Washington always extracts when it serves as the middleman between federal taxpayers and local projects and programs. Eliminate the ways in which the federal government’s grant and project guidelines coerce local and state governments into spending their own money (in the form of required local matches) in ways they might not otherwise.

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D.C. FUNDING MISFIRES Here’s an example. When Sacramento was designing its proposed Downtown recirculating streetcar project, it wanted to secure funding from the federal government’s Small Starts program, which at the time allowed for federal grants of up to $75 million and required local governments to match the federal investment. So Sacramento, in partnership with West Sacramento and Regional Transit, designed a $150 million streetcar project, half to be funded by the Small Starts program and the remainder to be funded from various state and local sources. But in the closing days of the Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation decided to increase the maximum grant allowable under the program to $100 million. The enticement of federal money is so strong that city officials dumped its $150 million streetcar plan and quickly expanded it to a $200 million plan, adding a mile of track along undeveloped river frontage in West

Sacramento south of Tower Bridge (at a cost of $20 million) and adopting a plan to move the light rail line currently on K Street north three blocks to H Street, so that the new streetcar could travel down K Street (another $20 million addition). As Sacramento City Councilmember Steve Hansen candidly put it, “We didn’t want to leave money on the table. If we want to ask [the federal government] for more, we have to show a bigger project. We’re trying to show them what we would do if they chose to invest more.” Local taxpayers are throwing more money at the project solely because the federal government signaled its willingness to throw more money at it, not because it makes any sense from a transportation policy or efficiency point of view. Under the 50 percent local-match requirement, local governments would have to pony up a further $25 million, increasing the local share of the project’s costs from $75 million to $100 million. How do streetcar backers plan to raise the extra dough? Well, last year Regional Transit was

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in line to receive $25 million from high-speed-rail project bonds for “local rail connections” to high-speed rail (assuming high-speed rail ever comes to Sacramento). RT should use this $25 million to initiate a program of replacing its fleet of obsolete and increasingly dilapidated light rail cars—a looming $200 million liability that RT has no reserves set aside to cover. Instead, in a power play, Mayor Darrell Steinberg pressured the RT board into diverting the high-speed-rail money to the streetcar project, with a promise that he would help RT impose a new tax on Sacramento residents and businesses to make up the difference—a de facto streetcar tax. What is Sacramento getting for the extra $25 million in federal funding? Moving the light rail tracks from K Street to H Street will inconvenience legions of state workers, most of whom work in state buildings south of K Street. The 1-mile extension of the proposed streetcar line along the West Sac riverfront, south of Tower Bridge, principally benefits only one person: developer Mark Friedman, whose

company, Fulcrum, owns a large tract of undeveloped land along the proposed new route, near his existing West Sac housing properties. So I went to Washington with the hope of derailing federal funding of the streetcar project. At Eye on Sacramento (the civic watchdog group that I founded and lead), our research showed that streetcars do nothing to enhance mobility or get people out of cars. Our transit expert, Professor Emeritus Gregory Thompson of Florida State University, a nationally recognized specialist in rail transportation, has characterized the proposed streetcar project as “little more than an amusement ride for tourists.” Further, academic studies have shown that streetcars contribute little to nothing to economic development, notwithstanding the rosy claims of streetcar boosters. Most troubling of all is that the $200 million spent on building a streetcar project is $200 million that can’t be spent on RT’s fleet of light rail cars, which are badly in need of replacement. All in all, it’s a lousy deal for Sacramentans—unless you’re

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TO WASHINGTON So with this backdrop, I signed up for Cap-to-Cap and traveled to Washington on April 13 for a five-day experience unlike any I’ve ever had. Our 365-strong delegation was divided into 12 policy teams. I chose to be on the transportation team, made up of about 30 members. But when I arrived at our conference hotel (the venerable Mayflower Hotel), I was told that my registration for the transportation team, for some reason, couldn’t be found. I was also told that I’d missed our first team meeting that morning because I hadn’t been informed of it. Further, my plans to participate in meetings with administration officials at the Department of Transportation were being blocked because I hadn’t submitted security forms. (I had registered weeks before the deadline for submitting such forms but was not advised of the requirement.)

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minutes later, I ran into the director of the city’s Department of Utilities, Bill Busath, on the sidewalk in front of the Mayflower. (Recurring scandals in that department are a regular target of EOS reports and press releases.) I again got the startled ghost-sighting reaction. I was starting to feel like a party crasher. That evening, I attended a lavish reception for the Cap-to-Cap delegation held at the architecturally stunning Organization of American States headquarters, built on a premier location directly across the street from the South Lawn of the White House. I was grateful to chat with a half-dozen or so friendly associates. I was able to fully participate in meetings on Capitol Hill with senior staffers of the various congressional committees that appropriate transportation dollars (there are a number of them), as well as attend small meetings with staffers in the Capitol offices of our local congressional representatives.

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When I pleaded with our conference managers for help in fixing the security forms problem, a new obstacle arose. I was informed by a senior Metro Chamber official that it was “too late to add folks to agency [administration] meetings. We have been planning this program for the last six months and the attendees for agency meetings have been set.” As a consolation prize, I suppose, I was offered a chance to attend a meeting with Congresswoman Doris Matsui, a major sponsor of the streetcar project. I respectfully declined. I began to feel increasing unwelcome in the cozy fraternity of Cap-to-Cap attendees, made up mostly of folks who were longtime attendees. When I arrived at the conference check-in table, I ran into a Sacramento city councilmember (who shall remain nameless), who looked at me like they’d seen a ghost. A few

‘STICK WITH THE SCRIPT’ On the morning of our first day of congressional meetings, we were all advised by Metro Chamber officials to “maintain unity” and “stick with the script” of the chamber’s policy positions as published in various handouts. The only problem with that is I’d never agreed to act in lockstep with 100 percent of the Metro Chamber’s policy prescriptions when I signed up for Cap-to-Cap. I knew at that point my task was going to be tricky. In our congressional meetings, typically four to eight of us from the transportation team would meet with the most senior staffer of each party on each of the committees we visited. These were “professional” staff (it even said so on their cards), meaning permanent policy staffers who turn over infrequently. I was startled to find that there was almost

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no discernable difference in the policy preferences expressed by GOP and Democratic senior staffers. If you weren’t told who was who, it was virtually impossible (at least for me) to tell the difference between the two. They all seemed perfectly happy to send taxpayer money out the door. One member of each group was designated as group leader, responsible for guiding our discussions. The leaders were immensely knowledgeable. For example, Jim Corless, the CEO of SACOG, the regional government body in Sacramento that plays a huge role in deciding which local transportation projects get funded, was the leader of one of my groups. We met with staffers of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which ultimately oversees all appropriations for transportation projects on behalf of the Senate. I have found that local advocates of transportation funding typically adopt a public posture that “we should fix our infrastructure first,” meaning before we start blowing taxpayer money on new projects. But that’s almost always empty posturing, not intended to get in the way of their efforts to land federal dollars for new projects, like the streetcar project. So whenever someone in one of my groups touted support for a “fix it first” policy, I would always promptly and strongly echo their sentiment. I would then say that the replacement of RT’s ancient fleet of light rail cars should be funded before the federal government blows $100 million in federal tax dollars on an unneeded streetcar system. Well, that didn’t win me any friends among the members of my groups. In fact, I was twice admonished (albeit politely) by group leaders to “stick to the script” and “never show anything but a united front.” I thanked them for their advice. They had their agendas and I had mine. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 7183030. n

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A Tough Job

Daniel Hahn

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f Daniel Hahn didn’t already have the toughest job in Sacramento, he has it now. As police chief, Hahn has faced unprecedented community unrest over the March shooting death of Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old killed when two of Hahn’s officers mistook Clark’s cellphone for a gun.

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At the same time, Hahn has worked to resolve a potential crisis in his ranks. Cops worry they have become political targets for trying to do their inherently hazardous jobs in a messy environment that demands perfection. Still, police feel support from the chief’s office. There has been no real griping in station houses about Hahn’s leadership. And despite community frustration over accountability in police shootings of African-American men, Hahn remains popular in both economically distressed and affluent neighborhoods. If the chief’s job can be described as walking a razor’s edge, Hahn has kept his balance. “Our officers have responded well,” says city manager Howard Chan, who hires and supervises Sacramento’s police chief. “The protesters have really been letting them have it. People have been in their faces, saying they are racists. But they have shown judgment and restraint. Things could be burning. I couldn’t ask for a better partner than Daniel.” Hahn’s presence as the right person in the right job at the right time has been a blessing, not just for Chan but for the City Council and the community at large. But his presence begs a larger question: How long will the chief stick around? To be clear, Hahn has said nothing to suggest he might be thinking of bailing out. He became Sacramento’s 45th police chief only last August, and he made it clear at his swearing-in ceremony that it was his dream job. If Hahn was looking for a retirement gig, he already had it—he was Roseville’s police chief when Chan hired him for Sacramento. Moreover, Roseville authorities didn’t want to lose Hahn. They would have matched any offer made by Sacramento. But Hahn wanted to come to Sacramento. The city is his home: He grew up in Oak Park, went to Sacramento High School, Sacramento City College and Sacramento State University, and he served his entire career with the Sacramento Police Department until Roseville hired him away as chief in 2011. Though he loves his hometown and has a plate filled with goals yet to be fulfilled, there’s another factor that must be considered. Hahn recently turned 50, and that’s a golden age for any city worker classified as a safety officer. When he celebrated his birthday, Hahn automatically became eligible for retirement. The city’s retirement system will pay the chief 3 percent of his salary, multiplied by the number of years he worked in the state retirement system. The Sacramento chief’s annual salary at top range is about $254,000. Three percent of that salary, multiplied by 30, is an annual pension of approximately $229,000. Hahn began as a community service officer at 19 and became a police officer at 21. Being eligible for retirement means Hahn shows up for work for an extra $25,000 per year. “Chief Hahn would not have come here if he wanted to retire,” says Tim Davis, president of the Sacramento Police Officers

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f not for the financial crisis of 2007 and the resulting economic downturn, Kenny Hotchkiss might still be laying tile for a living. A longtime craft beer fanatic, Hotchkiss used his shrinking workload as motivation to pursue his passion project, a taproom and bottle shop that would showcase the best the beer world had to offer. “I kind of backed into it, and if the economy hadn’t taken a dump, I would have probably remained in construction,” says Hotchkiss. “It forced me to go after what I wanted.” Along with his life and business partner, Patti Aguirre, Hotchkiss started working on the concept that became Capitol Beer and Tap Room (affectionately known as Cap Tap) in 2010. He finally opened the business in the University Village shopping center in summer 2012. “I was chasing beer for a long time, and I was trying to start a similar

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project prior to this with different partners that didn’t work out,” says Hotchkiss. “I think Patti was looking for a business opportunity at that point, and it sounded good.” With its expertly curated tap list and all-star bottle shop, Cap Tap instantly raised the beer-bar game in the area, joining Pangaea and Final Gravity as a local mecca for beer geeks. In fact, Cap Tap is currently ranked as one of the top 300 beer destinations in the world on the influential RateBeer website. Hotchkiss became a local celebrity in the beer community, to the point that Rancho Cordova-based brewery Claimstake created a beer in his name, a West Coast-style IPA named The Kenny MF’n Hotchkiss. “It was kind of a proud, humbling moment, and it was a great beer, too,” he says. Hotchkiss and Aguirre initially pursued a site on the Grid for Cap Tap, but with the craft-beer boom still a couple years away, the concept met with some resistance. “We just couldn’t find a space back then, and nobody really understood what we were trying to do, so we expanded our search and ended up in the Arden area,” says Hotchkiss. “After doing well there, people started asking us to come Downtown.” On Labor Day weekend 2017, five years after opening Cap Tap, Hotchkiss and Aguirre finally made it on the grid. After a yearlong renovation process, they debuted Capital Hop Shop, a 40-tap beer bar and restaurant housed in an old auto shop on the corner of 15th and I streets. Tucked inside a shopping center without a street presence, Cap Tap was always more about the beer than the experience, but Capital Hop Shop is something different, a striking beer palace located in a bustling urban center. “This is the big show,” says Hotchkiss. “There’s a high energy here.” The new location also allowed Hotchkiss to adjust the spelling of “Capitol,” which he labels a mistake. “We got it wrong the first time, but we also wanted each place to have their own personality, their own identity,” he says. “The same concept, but definitely different personalities.” Instead of the free pretzel bowls and liberal “outside food” policy at Cap Tap, the much larger Capital Hop Shop boasts a full kitchen run by chef Phil Webster, with food specials tailored to rare beers, such as a poutine burger paired with Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout. Other key upgrades at Capital Hop Shop include an expanded number of taps, a digital display and a stylish layout that maintained the industrial character of the building. However, the stricter laws on the Grid regarding the sale of single bottles of beer prevented Hotchkiss and Aguirre from including a bottle shop in the design. For his part, Hotchkiss has been “chasing” beer for as long as he can remember, identifying Sierra Nevada Pale Ale as the beer that sparked his passion. “It was so bold and in your face, different than anything that I had prior to that,” he says. “I was already into beer, but that was the one that opened my eyes.” He moved to the Sacramento area in 1994, fueling his growing obsession with visits to Rubicon and River City Brewing Company. “I just started chasing beer after that, going to every brewery I could,” he says. “Years of chasing craft beer kind of led me to this point.”

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Even though it took him nearly a decade to open the beer bar he originally envisioned, Hotchkiss believes the process worked out in his favor. “We started off real green over there,” he says. “We came up with our formula over time, about how we wanted to present beer, and I think that’s really helped to understand what people want. “It gave us the experience to come Downtown with better quality.” Capitol Beer and Tap Room is at 2222 Fair Oaks Blvd. Capital Hop Shop is at 1431 I St. For more information, go to capitolbeer.com and capitalhopshop. com.

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Alberta “Pearl” Johnson has inherited from her African-American ancestors a soulful collection of rare folk songs. It’s 1933 and she is imprisoned in Texas for murder. Music is her lifeline to family and future. Enter Susannah, a white woman who is an ambitious collector of songs for the Library of Congress. To advance her career, Susannah wants to record Pearl singing her extraordinary repertoire. Pearl sees Susannah as a possible escort to freedom.

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Lewis is a tenured professor of mathematics at a well-regarded university. Underneath his veneer of success lies a soul troubled by questions of personal and cultural identity. A night of disorienting insomnia conjures his ancestors, three generations of men from slavery through Black Power. They challenge Lewis to embark on a night journey combining past and present.

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New Owners, Same Vibe CONTINUING D&J KITCHENS & BATHS’ LEGACY OF STELLAR REMODELING SERVICES

community, so it means a lot to take over a business that’s so local. When you took over on Jan. 1 of this year, did you want a big change or to continue smooth sailing? D&J had its policies and procedures already in place, so it was appealing to be able to step right in. The key is that the character and the culture— and the people—were already here. We want to continue operations as they stand. We’re lucky that the staff has been incredibly loyal and helpful. They were the key to this transition. Tony Lunsford, our production manager, has been in the construction and remodeling industry since 1987. He has so much knowledge! Amanda Barnhart, our lead designer, has specialized in kitchens and baths for 15 years and was D&J’s first employee back in 2004.

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hen John Otto and his business partner, Jeff Zimmerman, were looking to start a new venture, they had only to look down the street. D&J Kitchens & Baths is known all over Sacramento for providing topnotch remodeling services, and Otto

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would regularly see its signs along the street where he lives in Land Park. When Otto and Zimmerman heard that D&J founder Darius Baker was planning to retire, the two entrepreneurs decided they wanted to continue the legacy that Baker started. Here, Otto discusses the ownership transition and his plans for the future. You and Jeff both have extensive experience in construction. (Otto worked with family-run Otto Construction, which his grandfather founded

in 1947. Zimmerman hails from a local real estate family and has spent years managing multiuse development projects.) Why did D&J appeal to you as a business? We heard through personal connections that Darius was planning to retire but didn’t want to let go of his baby—his legacy—that is D&J Kitchens & Baths, which he’d run for almost 37 years. Since Jeff and I were looking to partner on a new project and we both come from family-owned businesses ourselves, we thought the opportunity was too good to pass up. We’re both very involved in the

What do you see for the future of D&J? The niche for D&J has always been higher-end kitchens and baths. Our ambition is to expand the number of whole-house remodels we do and slowly but steadily grow the company while keeping operations intact. Sacramento is growing, and we want to be a part of that. D&J Kitchens & Baths will help you realize your home remodeling dreams. Call (916) 925-2577 or visit djkitchen.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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hen Vincent Sterne opened Two Rivers Cider Co. in 1996, it was one of the first craft cider companies in California to make its product from fresh fruit instead of concentrate. A David fighting many Goliaths, Two Rivers needed to stand out to compete with the industrial ciders imported from England and Canada. Following the lead of the always-innovating craft beer industry, Sterne decided to buck convention by adding pressed juice from locally sourced fruit into his dry apple ciders. “Pomegranate cider was a first for Two Rivers and, as far as I know, the whole cider market,” says Sterne. “I think the pomegranate cider put Two Rivers on the map.” Fast-forward two decades and the tap list at Two Rivers’ tasting room bursts with fruit flavors. The group of “core ciders” includes the pioneering pomegranate as well as flavors like blackberry, strawberry jam, blood orange and huckleberry, while the “rotating” group of seasonal ciders includes raspberry and boysenberry. However, the innovation doesn’t stop with sweet fruits. You can find unconventional ciders ranging from walnut to habanero to ginger, all of them shockingly well-balanced. There is also a hopped cider for beer fans, likely another first in the world of cider. “The hopped cider has become quite popular throughout the region,” says Sterne. “We always have a hopped cider on tap in our tasting room now.” Sterne’s ability to experiment increased exponentially when Two Rivers opened its Hollywood Park tasting room in 2016. “The tasting room is an excellent platform for exploring new ciders and for gauging the consumer’s reaction,” he says. That spirit of

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using honey sourced from the same farmer supplying the cherries. In another potentially pioneering move, Sterne has started research and development on making sake with locally grown rice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sake is the most fascinating and challenging of all the fermentation industries,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a more labor- and timeconsuming process than beer or wine or cider because there are multiple parallel fermentations.â&#x20AC;? Sterne recently returned from a trip to Japan, where he studied the centuries-old art of sake making, and where he also became enamored with the flavor of yuzu. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a citrus fruit thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a cross between a lemon and an orange,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was fascinated with the flavor, and I think that it would make a delicious cider.â&#x20AC;? More seasonal produce will make its way into Sterneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ciders over the course of the summer, including a popular kiwi cider. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very laborious process of peeling and pressing the kiwifruit,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We basically use a potato peeler to get the skin off, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a long day.â&#x20AC;?

If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a concern moving forward, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that there wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be enough apples for all the ciders that Sterne wants to make. While Sterne sources as many cider apples as he can from places like Barsotti Ranch in Camino and Five Mile Orchard in Watsonville, he also sources off-season apples from out of state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;California doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grow enough apples to supply all us thirsty cider makers,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real financial challenge to keep the apple trees in the ground.â&#x20AC;? However, Sterne holds out hope that with the increasing popularity of craft cider that trend will start to change. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of growers are realizing that there is a new market for cider fruit as opposed to table fruit,â&#x20AC;? says Sterne. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The advantage is that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not growing fruit that has to be cosmetically perfect, which also means less pesticide.â&#x20AC;? Two Riversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tasting room is at 4311 Attawa Ave. For more information, go to tworiverscider.com. Daniel Barnes can be reached at danielebarnes@hotmail.com. n

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Fish Face Poke Bar 1104 R St. Suite 100 • (916) 706-6605 L D $$ Beer/Sake Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • ﬁshfacepokebar.com

DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L 1116 15th St. • (916) 492-1960 L D $$ Full Bar Classic American lunch counter with a millennial vibe • cafeteria15l.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters 400 P St. • (916) 400-4204 Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

de Vere’s Irish Pub 1521 L St. • (916) 231-9947 L D $$ Full Bar Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com

Downtown & Vine 1200 K St. #8 • (916) 228-4518 L D $$ Educational tasting experience of wines by the taste, ﬂight or glass with tapas and small plates • downtownandvine.com

Ella Dining Room & Bar 1131 K St. • (916) 443-3772 L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • elladiningroomandbar.com

Esquire Grill 1213 K St. • (916) 448-8900 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • paragarys.com • esquiregrill.com

Firestone Public House 1132 16th St. • (916) 446-0888 L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical American menu • ﬁrestonepublichouse.com

Frank Fat’s 806 L St. • (916) 442-7092 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • fatsrestaurants.com

Ma Jong’s Asian Diner 1431 L St. • (916) 442-7555 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com

Grange Restaurant & Bar 926 J St. • (916) 492-4450

Iron Horse Tavern

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1800 15th St. • (916) 448-4488

Hock Farm Craft & Provision

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1415 L St. • (916) 440-8888

Magpie Cafe

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1601 16th St. • (916) 452-7594

South

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2005 11th St. • (916) 382-9722

Shoki Ramen House

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Paragary’s 1401 28th St. • (916) 457-5737 L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio.,California cuisine with a French touch • paragarys.com

Revolution Wines 2831 S St. • (916) 444-7711 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Urban winery and tasting room with a creative menu using local sources • revolution-wines.com

Skool 2319 K St. • (916) 737-5767 L D $$ Beer/Sake Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com

Suzie Burger 2820 P St. • (916) 455-3500 L D $ Beer/Wine Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger. com

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Tapa The World

1001 Front St. • (916) 446-6768

The Rind

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • fatsrestaurants.com

1801 L St. #40 • (916) 441-7463

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

OLD SAC Fat City Bar & Cafe

Rio City Cafe

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

1110 Front St. • (916) 442-8226

Zocolo

L D $$ Full Bar Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com

1801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 441-0303

The Firehouse Restaurant 1112 Second St. • (916) 442-4772 L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • ﬁrehouseoldsac.com

Ten22 1022 Second St. • (916) 441-2211 L D $$ Full Bar American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com

Willie’s Burgers 110 K St. • (916) 573-3897 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com

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

2115 J St. • (916) 442-4353

Thai Basil 2431 J St. • (916) 442-7690 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties • thaibasilrestaurant.com

The Waterboy

MIDTOWN Biba Ristorante 2801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • biba-restaurant.com

2000 Capitol Ave. • (916) 498-9891 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and Northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com

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Café Bernardo

La Venadita

2726 Capitol Ave. • (916) 443-1180

3501 Third Ave. • (916) 400-4676

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com

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

Centro Cocina Mexicana 2730 J St. • (916) 442-2552

Oak Park Brewing Company

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • paragarys.com • centrococina.com

3514 Broadway • (916) 660-2723

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Vibe Health Bar

1725 I St. • (916) 469-9574

3515 Broadway • (916) 382-9723

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2009 N St. • (916) 661-6134 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-ﬁred pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com

Hot Italian 1627 16th St. • (916) 444-3000 L D $$ Full Bar Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, gelato • hotitalian.net

Mulvaney’s Building & Loan 1215 19th St. • (916) 441-6022 L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting

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L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese ﬁne dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com

Federalist Public House

The Red Rabbit

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

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