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

TO DO THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS

2000 Strong “Symphony of 2000” presented by the Sacramento Youth Symphony Sunday, Nov. 20, at 4 p.m.

Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St. 731-5777, sacramentoyouthsymphony.org

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

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

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The Center at Twenty-Three Hundred, 2300 Sierra Blvd.

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

Call Him Ishmael “William Ishmael and Friends” art exhibit Nov. 7 through Dec. 3 Second Saturday reception on Nov. 12 from 6-9 p.m.

The Archival Gallery, 3223 Folsom Blvd.

923-6204, archivalgallery.com

It’s a group effort! Check out new collaborative artwork created by beloved local artist William Ishmael along with a roster of fellow creatives Jerry Barnes, Julie Didion, Maureen Hood, Margaret Teichert, Robert-Jean Ray and others.

The exhibit, which took over a year to complete, offers a peek into the artistic collaborative process.

And congratulations are in order: Archival Gallery is expanding! A larger gallery space will be unveiled during this exhibition. While Archival will still offer in-house framing, the gallery portion of Archival will be expanded to include new artists.

Self-Preservation “40 Years of Preservation” photography exhibit Nov. 5 through Dec. 17, Reception on Nov. 12 from 3:30-5 p.m.

Ella K. McClatchy Library, 2112 22nd St. saclibrary.org, sacramentoheritage.org

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

Mary Dignan's mosaic masks will be on display at SMUD Art Gallery.

Photo courtesy of Diana Jahns.

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

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

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

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Primed for Laughs “Prime Time for the Holidays,” a new retro musical comedy

by Bob Cooner Oct. 28 through Nov. 20 Woodland Opera House, 340 Second St., Woodland 530-666-9617, woodlandoperahouse.org

Ready for some belly laughs just in time for the upcoming holiday season? Take a seat for the world premiere of local playwright Bob Cooner’s new retro musical comedy “Prime Time for the Holidays.” Set in 1960s Hollywood, the play harkens back to the “Mad Men” era with the wise-cracking humor of beloved sitcoms and the pop-flavored music of classic variety shows.

The show is appropriate for all ages and guarantees a laugh- and music-filled return to Christmases past but not forgotten. Show times are 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays.

Fresh Beats Crocker Classical Concerts presents “The Festival of New American Music” Sunday, Nov. 13, at 3 p.m.

Street photographer Ingrid Lundquist will be on exhibit at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center

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

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

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

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

Raise Your Voice “ArtMix: Howl” Thursday, Nov. 10, from 5-9 p.m.

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

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

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Laurel Zucker will play at Crocker Art Museum

When in Rome …

Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera Classics concert “The Pines of Rome” Saturday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m.

Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera Pops concert “Classical Mystery Tour” Saturday, Nov. 26, at 8 p.m.

Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. 808-2000, sacphilopera.org

Whether you’re a fan of the classics or like your music a little more fab (as in the Fab Four), don’t miss the Sacramento Philharmonic and Orchestra’s November offerings.

“The Pines of Rome” will feature dramatic moments from Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Forza del destino,” “Otello” and “Un ballo in maschera,” Pietro Mascagni’s “Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana,” Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme Act I Finale,” Gioachino Rossini’s “Semiramide” and, of course, Ottorino Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome.” Christoph Campestrini will conduct guest singers Katherine Whyte, soprano; and Adam Luther, tenor.

If you’re giddy for some groovy tunes, hop on board the “Classical Mystery Tour” featuring a full Beatles cover band (members of the original cast of Broadway’s “Beatlemania!”) under the baton of guest conductor Martin Herman.

¡Hola, Ingrid!

“Hola Baja: the texture of the place, the heartbeat of its people,” a solo photography show featuring work by Ingrid Lundquist Nov. 9 through Dec. 3 Artist’s reception on Friday, Nov. 11, from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Public reception on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 5-9 p.m.

Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, 2015 J St. 441-2341, viewpointgallery.org

Photographer Ingrid Lundquist explains her first solo photography show best: “Saying ‘hola’ (‘greetings’ in Spanish) causes your face muscles to move upward in an openly welcoming manner. ‘Baja’ is the land of the beating sun where dust clings to your body like a cheap price sticker and the colors vibrate to distract you from the surrounding hardships.”

Lundquist shoots candid images of people and ordinary objects in their natural environment, lending her images a photojournalistic quality that makes the viewer

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

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

Hi, Ho, Silver!

Auction of the California silver collection of Edwin Iloff presented by Witherell’s Auction begins Friday, Nov. 4, at 10 a.m.

Auction preview on Thursday, Nov. 3, from 1-7 p.m.

Witherell’s Annex, 1925 C St. 446-6490, witherells.com

More than 400 lots of impressive silver pieces dating from the mid-19th to early 20th century will be sold to help fund science endowments that the late physics professor Edwin Iloff established at California State University, Sacramento.

“I hope this exhibit and auction will inspire others to explore the artistic and historic merits of this distinct California art form,” Witherell’s chief executive officer and PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow” appraiser Brian Witherell says.

To wit, the Crocker Art Museum called the original 1,000-piece collection the most comprehensive California silver ever assembled.

Don’t miss your chance to make some of these beautiful pieces part of your collection.

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

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Art at the Arena

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y husband says that I see the world through the eyes of an artist. Even though I haven’t practiced studio art in more than a decade, my involvement with the arts in our community is the driving force behind much of my energy. While my husband appreciates art and design, he’s hardly an expert. But he reminds me often that his life has been enhanced because, after more than 27 years of marriage, I still help him see things in a new way.

I’m grateful that the past few months in Sacramento have been very art-oriented. On the tail end of the hugely successful Sacramento Mural Fest in August came the opening of Golden 1 Center. The arena’s publicart component brought about one of the most significant community controversies ever about the role of public art.

An expert panel chosen by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and charged with selecting the art was presented early on with the idea of a single Jeff Koons sculpture for the arena plaza. (The established practice for a publicart decision of this size would have involved selecting among various site-specific proposals from several qualified artists.)

The idea was put forth by Marcy Friedman and her son, Mark, along with Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive. It was no small detail that the sculpture’s $8 million cost surpassed the original $5.5 million art budget. Putting money where their hearts were, the group raised the balance of the funds with private donations.

I must be honest: I never really saw the beauty of Koons’ “Coloring

Book 4,” aka Piglet. All we had was a rendering to help the public visualize the piece in location on the arena’s plaza. To me, it looked like it was made of colored Plexiglass shapes sandwiched together. I’m pretty sure I had never seen a Koons original until early this year, when I saw his work at The Broad museum in Los Angeles. Its design and quality were very impressive.

But given my high regard for the judgment of both Mark and Marcy Friedman in matters of art and design, I was totally willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. When the Koons sculpture was unveiled in September, I immediately saw its appeal and why they were willing to go to such great efforts to make it happen. It is a remarkable and delightful piece, and the quality is gorgeous. Its mirror-polished stainless steel surface is rich with transparent color. The sculpture reflects the surrounding buildings, lights and people, lighting up with visual activity that quickly changes as one walks around the structure.

Many locals in and out of the arts community were concerned that the arena’s entire public-art budget was going to a New York artist. Luckily, Marcy Friedman responded in a big way. The arts philanthropist put up an additional $1 million to fund local art for the project.

I thought the panel’s selection of local artists Bryan Valenzuela and Gale Hart was inspired, given what I had seen of their previous work.

Valenzuela’s work appeared on one of our covers last year, along with an artist profile. As part of the arts commission’s Remarkable Artist Series, Valenzuela joined Hart for a discussion of their arena commissions. The event was held last month at Crocker Art Museum. Both artists joined in conversation with Shelly Willis, the director of the arts commission.

Many people are surprised to learn that most public art is designed by artists but almost always fabricated by craftspeople working from plans created by the artist. Oftentimes, engineers are called in to help ensure the fabrication is structurally sound and safe.

Though I am an appointed member of the arts commission and have participated on several art selection panels, I learned a great deal about the process and the artists themselves at the event. Valenzuela is known largely as a two-dimensional artist, working on large canvases and using intricate tiny lettering as part of his almost magical compositions of images derived from nature.

After the panel selected him as the artist for the interior lobby of the building (based on his submitted portfolio of past work,) they were stunned and delighted when he submitted a design for 400 handblown blue-green glass globes, ranging from 12 to 20 inches in diameter, suspended from the ceiling in a sculpture called “Multitudes Converge,” echoing the theme of our two great rivers coming together.

Valenzuela is 34 years old, and this was his first public art commission.

What a gorgeous work he created!

(Remember, Maya Lin was selected at the age of 21 as the designer of

the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.) The artist had the globes handblown in a small town in the Czech Republic after discovering only three places in the world had the capability to fulfill his design vision—and all were in the same small town. He spent six weeks abroad this summer overseeing the glass fabrication, including the painstaking process of drilling holes in all the globes in order to slide metal rods inside to suspend them in the lobby.

But he found the most challenging part to be the installation. Even the delivery of the crates with the glass needed to be carefully coordinated by the dock master who controlled all that went in and out of the downtown construction site on a 24/7 basis.

Laboring under an unbelievably tight deadline, he and his team often worked in the middle of the night to install the piece without being impeded by other contractors.

Gale Hart’s work, located on L Street and on the south entrance

to the plaza, is equally compelling.

The multiple-component sculpture, called “Missing the Mark,” takes a fun approach to the idea of gamesmanship. The first pieces you encounter on L Street are largerthan-life stainless steel and fiberglass darts in the sidewalk, near a terrazzo dartboard also set in the sidewalk.

Next appear three raised concrete numbers and dart tails. When you turn the corner and walk up the plaza stairs, an 11-foot bronze-and-steel hand, holding more dart tails, sets the stage before you see the Koons piece displayed on the plaza level. Hart’s work presents a humorous take on the serious world of corporate sports.

At the lecture, Hart became a delightful storyteller as she took the audience through the challenging process of creating her multipart work and working with numerous fabricators using multiple materials and processes.

The fourth element of the arena’s public art is a sound sculpture called “Sonic Passages,” by San Francisco-

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based Bill Fontana. It extends on the north side of the plaza and features 19 small loudspeakers embedded in the “green wall” sections of the landscape planters. The sounds I heard were those of songbirds and nature, and they were delightfully intermittent.

Also still to be installed are interior murals by the venerable Royal Chicano Air Force, a local Chicano art collective, founde din 1970 by Jose Momtoya amd Estaban Villa. This part of the project has been commissioned by the county of Sacramento.

All in all, we have much to be proud of artistically at Golden 1 Center. The

masterful architectural and technological work of AECOM—in partnership with the Sacramento Kings—is the perfect backdrop for a terrific public-art showing we should all be very proud of.

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ower Records. Shakey’s Pizza. Coronet Portraits.

From the 1920s through the 1960s, the most popular form of commercial signage was the neon sign. In Sacramento, neon illuminated much of Midtown and downtown. Many of the city’s neon signs were built by Sacramento’s Pacific Neon Company.

The Center for Sacramento History, an archive of Sacramento memorabilia, historical artifacts, documents and more, now houses more than 17 large neon signs from local businesses. The owners of the Sacramento Kings and Golden 1 Center decided to use some of those signs as historic art at the new downtown arena.

They picked six signs that once hung outside local businesses: Tower Records, Shakey’s Pizza, Coronet Portraits, Sleepers Stamp and Stationery, Franke’s Drugs and Fountain and Newbert Hardware.

“It was a no-brainer to pick iconic businesses like Tower and

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Shakey’s,” says Veronica Kandl, a curator at the Center for Sacramento History. “We had to consider other factors when selecting signs, like size and how structurally sound they were.”

Pacific Neon, which has been building and installing commercial signs in Sacramento for 70 years, took on the challenge of fixing the signs, adding new wiring and transformers, replacing the blown glass and refilling the glass with gas.

“We wanted the signs in working order but not completely restored,” says Kandl. “In the museum field, you don’t completely restore history.

The patina of an old sign tells a story, and we wanted to retain that. These signs do not look new. That’s how we wanted to show them in the arena.”

For Pacific Neon, the job required a combination of craftsmanship, artistry and detective work.

“We left the rust and the aged look for each sign,” says Ryan Drury, an account representative and a thirdgeneration member of the family that owns Pacific Neon. “It was

an involved process that involved checking out every part of the sign.”

Drury’s crew took the signs apart and cleaned them. They tried to salvage transformers and wiring, but in many cases they had to add new, high-voltage wiring. They repaired and replaced neon tubes. If sections were missing, they had to guesstimate

the bends in the tubes from old photos.

“It was an amazing experience,” says Drury. “These older signs are all unique. Many represent our history. Pacific Neon did all the Tower signs locally and throughout the world, so bringing the Tower

The signs are transported and installed at the new arena

Signs waiting to be restored The Pacific Neon Company crew, Rick Hatala, Esau Garcia and Ryan Drury

The signs are tested at Pacific Neon Company

The refurbished signs can be enjoyed by visitors to Golden 1

neon signs back and to see them in the arena is a thrill for us.”

Fixing neon is no easy task. Most commercial lighted signs now use LED lights, which are more efficient and cost effective. The old outdoor signs had taken a beating from the elements and from critters that had used them as their homes. Finding people who know the art of glass blowing and bending becomes more difficult every day.

“We got a guy who knows neon,” said Drury. “He’s kind of the last

of his kind. He’s in his 50s and was interested in neon and learned how to blow glass from an old pro who taught him how. He’s very talented and knows the art form.”

Pacific Neon doesn’t make many neon signs these days. But it still gets requests for neon. Drury says the company produces neon or neonlike signs for businesses like as Pizza Rock, Fox & Goose and Zelda’s Pizza.

“Neon is a brilliant source of illumination and advertising,” he says. “These older signs are unique

with cool colors and the drama of advertising as it used to be.”

After repairing the signs, Drury and his team packed them up and shipped them to Golden 1 Center for installation just in time for the arena’s opening in early October.

Kandl credits the owners of the Kings and the arena for paying for the repairs and restoration of the nostalgic signs and putting them on display. “It’s so nice to see them come to life,” she says.

Drury agrees. “It’s been an amazing experience,” he says.

“We gave life to these old signs.

While the arena may be the most high-tech arena ever, these signs represent old-school Sacramento.

You can’t help but notice them.

While they aren’t my era, many in Sacramento will remember the names and iconic brands of the companies that made Sacramento home.”

Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com. n

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN NOVEMBER

“Visions,” 17th Annual Open Juried Photography Show runs through Nov. 20.

Shown above: “Jack Feeds His Friends”, a photograph by R. Favour.

Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 5330-B Gibbons Drive, sacfinearts.org DaDas Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Colombian artist Alejandro Naranjo through Dec.3. Shown: “Life Series”

by Naranjo. DaDas Gallery is at 3655 J St.

Beatnik Gallery presents the work of Sacramento artists Bryan Valenzuela, Brain Shea and Rora Blue through Nov. 30. Shown: “Full of the Feels in the Nebulous Deep,” Bryan Valenzuela, mixed media.

723 S St.; beatnik-studios.com

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

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Hawks Public House is a delightful addition to

East Sac restaurant scene

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lmost 10 years ago, Michael Fagnoni and Molly Hawks opened an ambitious new restaurant in Granite Bay. It focused on the fresh, local and seasonal and took an uncompromising approach to cooking and serving.

A meal at Hawks is still widely regarded as one of the finest dining experiences in the region. A trip to Granite Bay (which some who live in the city regard as a Lewis-andClarkian expedition) is a treat if a visit to Hawks is included. Fagnoni and Hawks created a restaurant that exceeds expectations and exudes quality.

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It was with great anticipation, then, that news of a Hawks outpost in Midtown was greeted. The people of the grid waited with fervid excitement when the new eatery was first announced in early 2014. Then they waited some more. Then more waiting. Then a little more waiting.

The Christmas lights were up in 2015 by the time Hawks Public House opened.

Things don’t move fast when you’re opening a business in Sacramento.

It’s rare when a business isn’t delayed by permitting issues or licensing issues or health issues or parking issues or even noise issues. But that’s a discussion for a different column.

In December 2015, Hawks Public House opened on Alhambra Boulevard and P Street. It was worth the wait.

The architecture is an updated take on the Moorish splendor of the dearly departed Alhambra Theatre, with graceful arches and a lighted sign that’s a nod to a classic movie

marquee. The interior switches up genres and goes with a rustic, steampunk vibe. Old-fashioned overhead fans and large Edison light bulbs with large-looped filaments hang over the fairly simple space and give the place a cheeky ambience.

Thankfully, there are no clever glassware or silverware choices meant to set apart the dining experience from the everyday. Hawks Public house lets its cooking speak for itself.

The frequently changing menu has a definite Italian bent, with multiple pasta dishes and a few other Italian accents. But a good portion of the menu speaks to a more international point of view.

Some of the highlights of Hawks’ menu were the pork ribs ($33), well shellacked and served with blistered figs and roasted fingerling potatoes; the roasted squid small plate ($12) with indulgently rich beans and a palate-tingling herb puree; and pan-roasted arctic char ($26) over

a sumptuous base of chickpeas and chorizo.

The menu changes often and leans towards seasonal fare. One of the standbys is the Wagyu beef burger and fries ($18). Served on a brioche bun and topped with aged cheddar and mushroom-bacon marmalade, it stands out as one of Sacramento’s great burgers. Some might blanch at the price, but the cost is close to some of the best restaurant burgers in town, like the Whiskey Burger at Formoli’s Bistro and the awardwinning burger at Pangaea Cafe.

However, price is a component of any dining decision, and it’s fair to say that the cost of dining at Hawks isn’t in everyone’s budget. At a recent lunch, I sampled the casarecce (narrow, twisted and rolled tube pasta) served with a satisfying braised pork. It was a competent, unfussy dish that would fill up any reasonable diner. Yet it’s price—$22—seemed a little ambitious, especially for lunch.

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Th lesser-priced small plates The ra range from $5 to $16, but “small” is exactly what they are, providing f a few expertly crafted bites but not me meant as a meal.

T Thankfully, those looking for the same sublime execution from Haw Hawks’ kitchens without the finedini prices can grab a bite at the dining casu food-to-go counter next door casual H at Hawks Provisions. Sandwiches, salad and baked goods are ready at salads mo a moment’s notice and are, for the quali very fairly priced. quality, Th service on each of my visits The n was nothing short of exceptional.

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delivery of proper plates and fresh utensils or the expert descriptions of the (sometimes confusingly listed) menu items, the staff radiates casual confidence and understated professionalism.

For fans of Hawks in Granite Bay, the excellence on display at Hawks Public House is no surprise. For those unfamiliar, the fare that comes from the exemplary kitchen is a delight.

Hawks Public House is at 1525 Alhambra Blvd.; 588-4440; hawkspublichouse.com.

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Too Tall?

AT 14 STORIES, MIDTOWN PROJECT RAISES A HOST OF ISSUES

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Proponents have cited benefits such as sustainable development, alley activation, public connectivity, decreased dependency on cars, and new housing units to justify the development, and the city agreed.

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amanee is the name of a 14-story development proposed for the southeast corner of 25th and J streets. The building will have 134 for-sale luxury condos located above 11,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and multiple stories for parking.

According to Midtown resident and Yamanee developer Ryan Heater, the building will be world-class.

Yamanee’s designers include New York architect Chris Smith and Australian Bruce Henderson, who, according to Heater, not only has offices in London and Hong Kong but “is really one of the best in the world.” This is his first major American project.

While there’s been little objection that Yamanee could be a beautiful building, the issue of its height and location has raised eyebrows.

According to Sacramento’s 2035 general plan, new development in J Street’s urban corridor cannot exceed six stories, which means Yamanee

will rise some 100 feet higher than currently permitted by code.

However, a clause within the general plan allows projects to deviate from those limitations when they provide “significant community benefits.” Proponents of Yamanee have cited benefits such as sustainable development, alley activation, public connectivity, decreased dependency on cars, and new housing units to justify the development, and the city agreed.

The city’s Planning Commission approved Yamanee’s proposal in May, and though preservationist William Burg subsequently filed an appeal, the City Council unanimously rejected that appeal.

Following the appeal’s rejection, an organization called Sacramentans for Fair Planning filed a lawsuit to stop the development, claiming that the loophole within the general plan could permit developers to deviate from the code without exception.

Karen Jacques, co-founder of Sacramentans for Fair Planning, says the general plan has “created a total loophole where essentially you have

the potential to say that anything about a project offers significant community benefit.”

This loophole, she continues, has allowed the city “to approve a building that is 100 feet taller than allowed under the zoning code, three times the floor area ratio. They evoke significant community benefit, but the city has no formal definition of what that is, let alone how to measure it or what you should get back.”

One possible way to measure benefits, suggests Jacques, is to create a ratio between affordable and market-rate units, which could allow limited deviation based upon the number of affordable units provided.

Jacques argues that the general plan must have guidelines that are “clearly defined, measurable, enforceable and with a limit.”

Angela Tillotson, president of Midtown Neighborhood Association, says she understands Jacques’ concern but supports the project.

“As far as significant community benefits goes, I agree that it’s a vague term, but trying to define community benefits is like trying to

define beauty,” says Tillotson. “To me, the greatest community benefit is housing. We are in a severe housing crisis.”

Interpreting the general plan becomes even more difficult in the context of Mayor Kevin Johnson’s In Downtown housing initiative, which was announced in January 2015 and called for 10,000 new housing units to be built in the central city over the next decade. The 2035 general plan was finalized only two months later in March 2015, after four years of workshops, meetings and community input.

“So that [housing initiative] brings a different perspective to interpreting the plan,” says Tillotson, “and had they known about it during the planning process, it would have had some influence.”

“This is where judgment comes in,” says Heater. “Otherwise, we don’t need planners, and we’d just plug [a project like Yamanee] into the computer and it would give a pass or fail and we’re done.” For Heater, the issue comes down to the trust placed in elected officials and planners who

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“I felt we had a really good plan, and that if the city stuck to it, going forward it would protect the things that we love but also add a lot of density, which we need.”

understand the planning process.

“This is why we have elected officials and vote for people who study and understand the issues.”

City councilmember Steve Hansen, in whose district Yamanee will be built, compares the city’s general plan to a living document. “Slavish adherence to a plan that was created a decade ago is not typically how cities operate,” says Hansen. “It was a moment in time that sets some expectations but also has flexibility in it, and a general plan is not etched in stone.”

But Jacques and Yamanee opponents argue that Yamanee establishes a precedent that other developers can ignore limitations within the general plan.

“On a larger level,” explains Jacques, “when you approve something for which there is no clear definition to allow approval, or without clear limit, you’ve entered into planning chaos. This is the basis upon which land speculation is encouraged.

“As a landowner in Midtown, I may assume that, ‘Oh, I’m going to be able to build something much taller, and get more money out of it in the future, so I’m not going to put energy into maintaining my current building.”

Tillotson disagrees. “That in itself is speculative,” she says. “You are speculating that people are going to speculate.”

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Speculation aside, Yamanee raises another question: Did the community’s input into the general plan even matter?

California cities are required by state law to include its residents in the process of creating a new general plan, and Jacques was one of many Sacramentans who attended local workshops and meetings.

“There were four years of community input and decisionmaking about what overlay zones were appropriate and where,” explains Jacques. “I felt we had a really good plan, and that if the city stuck to it, going forward it would protect the things that we love but also add a lot of density, which we need.”

When the city approved Yamanee, Jacques felt betrayed. “I feel that they betrayed all of us,” she says. “And the larger issue, the larger tragedy, is that when something like this happens, you send a message to the community and everybody who works in good faith: Don’t bother. Your input doesn’t matter anyway.”

Will Yamenee improve the Midtown economy or lead to speculation blight?

Will the building be architecturally significant or stick out like a sore thumb? Says Hansen: Projects like Yamanee “are sort of like Rorschach tests for a lot of folks.”

Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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

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t’s a little before lunchtime on a Monday. A chalkboard on P Street announces Magpie Cafe’s daily specials, including a BLT that makes me wish I liked bacon.

Inside, the menu is written on rustic butcher paper and attached to a yellow post. Wine lists are neatly stacked in baskets. Check out the ceiling. There is a lot of black, but it is an efficient and modern black.

Ed Roehr, Magpie’s co-owner, walks in the front door carrying a stack of clean blue towels. He’s wearing sneakers with black socks, plaid shorts, large sunglasses and a porkpie hat—at least I think it is a porkpie. It’s a memorable ensemble even without the hat. It’s another day at the “office” for Roehr.

While Roehr and Janel Inouye, his wife and Magpie’s co-owner, did not pioneer Sacramento’s farm-tofork movement, they are the next generation to embrace it. “We might have been first in the new wave,”

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Roehr says. He tips his hat to other Sacramento restaurants like Biba, Paragary’s and The Waterboy and says they were doing a great job before he and Inouye started their catering company in 2005, the forerunner to Magpie Cafe. “We’re at the same big table together,” he says. The couple earned their spot at Sacramento’s farm-to-fork table through hard work and a commitment to offering seasonal and locally sourced food.

Roehr started early in the business, washing dishes at Schooners, a restaurant that was located across the street from Paragary’s. “I just never

left the kitchen,” he says. “It seems like that was where I was supposed to be.” Inouye, a Sacramento native, also spent a lot of time in restaurants, but her focus was on the front of the house.

At one point in his career, Roehr went to Italy and worked in a restaurant in Venice for a year. That’s where he absorbed the philosophy behind the Slow Food movement, which advocates using quality, locally sourced ingredients, among other concepts. “The time I spent there was more about the lifestyle. There were no bars, TV or fast food,” he says. “It made me think about Sacramento and the bounty around us. How come we’re not doing this?”

Although they’ve lived and worked in other places, including Santa Cruz and Honolulu, Roehr and Inouye returned to Sacramento to open their catering business. The couple started Magpie Catering with $10,000 and

a business plan. They put an ad in the Yellow Pages (remember those?) and installed a business phone in their apartment. On the side, Inouye waited tables at Rubicon Brewery & Pub, and Roehr worked as a personal chef. They shared a commercial kitchen, which they rented by the hour, with other businesses.

“We tried to offer foods that were seasonal,” Roehr says of those early days, but they had some pushback from their clients. Root vegetables, in particular, were a hard sell. “We had to show them how beautiful things can be in the dead of winter,” Inouye says. They eventually moved operations to R Street and opened Magpie Cafe.

Magpie has relocated to an ultramodern space on P and 16th, and the couple has added Nido, a casual dining spot, and Yellowbill, a cafe and bakery, to their business lineup.

But their philosophy has stayed the same. They don’t use frozen food.

They support local farms. They offer fresh, seasonal produce. They even bake their own hamburger buns.

“It’s always a challenge to do things right in a world filled with shortcuts,” Roehr says.

Roehr returned to Italy this fall as Sacramento’s community leader delegate to Terra Madre Salone del

Gusto, an international Slow Food event. After that, Roehr, Inouye and their young son visited Venice and the restaurant where Roehr had worked.

When I met with the couple before they left on their trip, Roehr said it would be an opportunity for him to “connect the dots” and wondered if he would be “bringing something there or bringing something back.” Inouye assured him the answer would be “both.” “It’s an opportunity to get a fresh breath,” she says. “Look around and see what’s going on.”

While we talked, Roehr monitored his cellphone and greeted customers.

One woman gave him a hug and said she wanted to drop by and have lunch.

Inouye sat quietly next to Roehr.

They are yin and yang. It’s easy to see why this partnership works.

I asked them about the best part of their jobs. Inouye says it’s the people.

Roehr adds, “As a chef-owner, your job is to look for all the issues. We have a lot of people to keep happy. I spend a lot of time figuring out what we need to fix. Every once in a while, I sit at Magpie and people are coming in, enjoying themselves. Those are the times.”

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TO MAKE OVER HER LIFE, THIS WRITER MOVED TO MIDTOWN

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n 1994, at the age of 26, I moved from an apartment in suburban Sacramento to a flat in Midtown. I was recently separated from my husband and was ready to completely change my lifestyle. I wanted a neighborhood g that was edgy and exciting m and a home that had charm and character.

I rented a beautiful one-bedroom vintage flat at the corner of 21st and P. It eet sat directly across the street dtown from The Press Club. Midtown ges was rough around the edges h at that time. The kids with nd mohawks, Doc Martens and own. trench coats lived in Midtown.

Rent was cheap ($450 per he place month for my flat!) and the was practically a ghost town on evenings and weekends. But for me, it had a certain draw, especially on the heels of a failed marriage in which I had tried so hard to be “the good wife” but felt as if I had constantly come up short. The slightly rebellious types lived in Midtown, and I was definitely feeling a bit rebellious.

As a single female, I was comfortable being out and about alone during daylight hours.

But come nightfall, I didn’t feel quite the same way. There just wasn’t a whole lot going on in the evenings, and the transients outnumbered the rest of us on those dark sidewalks. I wasn’t into the bar scene, but had I been, the places nearby did not seem particularly attractive to me as a single female in my 20s. I saw only older men going into and out of The Zebra Club. Town House wasn’t my crowd. Zelda’s was dark and dank. And The Press Club was a source of great angst for me when live bands

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perfor performed on weekends until all hours, depriving me sle until the wee hours of morning. Add to that of sleep f the fact a bottle recycling guy generally showed up acro the street from my apartment at 4 a.m. He across toss beer bottles from The Press Club’s sidewalk tossed tras bin into his pickup bed, happily whistling away trash t top of his lungs as he worked, the sound of at the bre breaking glass ringing out with every toss. Nope, Th Press Club wasn’t winning me over either. But The l I lived only blocks from my workplace. I enjoyed the co convenience of life in Midtown, even if my friends a family didn’t quite understand why I wanted and to live there.

I lived in Midtown for five years before the purchase of my first home took me away. I wanted to buy in Midtown and seriously considered purchasing several different houses. I even made an offer on two of them. But as a young, single female, I worried about the maintenance and repair costs of an older home. So I took advantage of the affordable new homes being built in Natomas and bought my first house there.

Fast forward 20 years and I’m even further out in suburbia. My husband and I live in Carmichael in a charming old farmhouse that we renovated together.

We have a dog and four chickens. My father lives in a small cottage on our property. I’ve come to love the fact I hear crickets on warm summer evenings while sitting on the back patio, their song broken only by an occasional siren’s wail or the bark of a neighborhood dog.

But I still work in Midtown. And the difference between 20 years ago and today could not be more stark. The

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New Helvetia coffeehouse, which had served caffeine-crazed Midtown residents (myself included) for many years, went out of business shortly after Starbucks arrived. It was a sad thing, indeed. But today, Midtown hosts a plethora of small, individually owned boutique coffeehouses, and there are enough residents to keep them all in business. The restaurants and bars in Midtown are abundant and crowded. I don’t even try to keep track of them all. It seems there’s something new every day.

Ironically, my 28-year-old stepdaughter has now purchased her first new home. And where did she buy? Yep, you guessed it. She bought in Midtown, where infill development has flourished. She didn’t have to

worry about the maintenance and repairs of an older home like I once did. Her place is sleek, modern and energy efficient, with a built-in solar energy system and proximity to just about all that she might want in the area.

It’s quite an evolution that has occurred in Midtown Sacramento over the past 20 years. And every once in a while, I wax nostalgic for the past and wonder if maybe, just maybe, I might want to live there again. For now, I’m content to live vicariously through my stepdaughter while I enjoy the crickets in Carmichael. But periodically, Midtown’s surrounding neighborhoods of McKinley Park, Land Park and Curtis Park seem to be calling my name.

Carrie Lane has lived in the Sacramento region for her entire life, with the exception of college and a one-year stint in Dallas. (Don’t ask.)

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Merry Kerrie LOCAL DESIGNER’S HOME FEATURED ON CHRISTMAS TOUR

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hen the organizers of the Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour approached Kerrie Kelly and her husband, Vinny Catalano, about including their East Sac home on the upcoming tour, they weren’t expecting a positive response. So they were delighted when the couple said yes.

During the holidays, Kelly and her design team at Kerrie Kelly Design Lab usually spend their time and creative energy decorating other people’s homes for the holidays. “So mine never gets done,” she says.

But her husband pushed for a change in their routine.

“He said, ‘Let’s do the tour. I want a Christmas tree this year,’” she explains.

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

When Kelly and Catalano moved into their 1927 bungalow in 2010, they revamped the three bathrooms, painted the interior and added bookcases, trim and molding throughout. A new outdoor kitchen extended their entertaining area.

Tour goers will get a hint of what’s inside when they catch a glimpse of the couple’s newly refurbished 1986 Wagoneer with wood trim parked in the driveway. The seats were reupholstered with leather and Black Watch tartan fabric. Plaid-on-plaid blankets will fill the trunk. A Christmas tree on top will evoke the holiday spirit.

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The front porch’s banisters will be draped with vintage lights in primary colors. Pillows tucked into red Adirondack chairs announce Kelly’s decorating theme: Welcome to East Sacramento.

Relles Florist will supply florals for the house, including red roses, magnolias and eucalyptus.

“There will be nothing cute or tricky about this,” Kelly says. “It is just about celebrating the holidays.”

Kelly’s previous work with Ralph Lauren is evident throughout her polished, preppy home. The decorating scheme will

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incorporate equestrian touches such as horse ribbons and lots of plaid.

“Layering plaid on plaid is the new black this holiday season,” she says.

Kelly plans to switch out some of her fabrics and draperies for the tour.

A few pieces of furniture from Kelly’s new company, 42nd Street, will be integrated into the design. “We have a lot of new products to share,” she says.

Five chefs will offer treats from Kelly’s kitchen. Coffee, cider, nibbles hot off the Wolf cook top and holiday cookies provided by Sweet Celebrations are just a few of the goodies that will be on offer.

“People get hungry,” Kelly explains. “Some have even tried to eat the fake foods that have been put out on home tours.”

Both the backyard and porch will be decorated. The garage will morph into a pop-up shop offering for sale many of the items seen throughout Kelly’s home. All proceeds from the sale will go to Sacred Heart School.

Kelly notes her home is small.

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“I am an exercise in small-space living,” she explains.

The short tour route through her home puts a special emphasis on seizing tour participants’ attention quickly and exciting their senses.

“For many people, going on the home tour is a tradition and getting ideas for their home along the way,” she says. “We wanted to create a memory along with a sense of hospitality.”

The 43rd annual Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour will take place Friday, Dec. 2, Saturday, Dec. 3 and Sunday, Dec. 4. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 on the days of the tour. For more information, go to sacredhearthometour.com.

If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster.julie91@yahoo.com n

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Julie Kanoff SHE CYCLES, AND HELPS OTHERS DO THE SAME

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hen you ride your bike, you can have all kinds of fun adventures,” Julie Kanoff says. Kanoff, who rides her bike to almost all of her activities these days, regularly volunteers with Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, a 25-year-old group that works to make bike riding safer and more convenient for regional residents.

“I’d known about SABA since my son got very interested in biking as a kid and asked me to register his bike for him,” says Kanoff, who lives in East Sac. “I started volunteering with them two years ago, and the experience has been the most rewarding for me due to the wonderful, quality people.”

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Kanoff decided to use her bike as her primary form of transportation after retiring from her job at the state. “Now, I show up at dinner engagements on my bike with my helmet under my arm,” Kanoff says proudly. “Sacramento is also perfectly set up for outdoor events. I’ve even biked to the state fair. I can bike to an event and get the benefits for both my brain and my body. And I don’t have to worry about parking.”

At one of those outdoor events, Kanoff had her first personal experience with SABA. “I had biked to Pops in the Park and unwillingly parked my bike with the bike valet that SABA offers for

free at lots of local events,” Kanoff recalls. “I was really freaked out about leaving my bike with them.

But the kind man volunteering at the valet reassured me that they would watch it and that I should just go and have a good time. I started getting emails from them after signing up at the concert and realized that they have events all around my neighborhood. I had such a good experience talking to the volunteer that day that I thought I’d like to give them some of my time.”

As a SABA volunteer, Kanoff helps sets up the bike valet corral at events like farmers markets and concerts, trains new volunteers and helps at the bike barn, a repository of

lost and stolen bicycles. She speaks with admiration of SABA’s executive director, Jim Brown, who shows bike owners how to properly lock up their property to avoid having their mount end up in the bike barn.

Events with bike valets are generally fundraisers for worthy causes. “I believe that education and love are the only two things that can make any difference in this world,” says Kanoff. “Working with SABA has helped me see that I’m better serving the world and myself when I’m out helping others.”

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Several Sacramento-based products are taking the food-and-beverage scene by storm—some regionally, some across the country.

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his holiday season, there’s plenty of local flavor to add to your table. Several Sacramento-based products are taking the food-andbeverage scene by storm—some regionally, some across the country.

Jason Poole’s Midtown-based Preservation & co., established in 2011, is best known for its awardwinning Bloody Mary mix, which took home a silver medal in a national competition sponsored by Absolut Vodka in 2012. Poole uses local ingredients, including tomatoes, to make the spicy mix. It comes in a 1-gallon jug, perfect for parties.

As Sacramento cools down, fresh celery from the farmers market makes an ideal garnish for the drink.

Preservation & co. sells a variety of cocktail mixes, including blackberry margarita mix, at its Midtown store (1717 19th St.). It also sells jarred

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pickles, balsamic beet slices, cayenne carrot sticks and hickory Brussels sprouts.

Sacramentan Payam Fardanesh missed the Persian vinegar-based fruit drinks he grew up with, so he decided to re-create and bottle them.

He launched his company, Silk Road Soda, in 2012 after obtaining his MBA at Sacramento State University.

“My goal is to share my rich Persian culture with America through organic apple cider vinegar-based beverages,” says Fardanesh.

His sodas taste more like shrubs than the sugar-laden drinks of American tradition. Flavors include cucumber mint, pomegranate mint, pear mint and ginger mint. Local bartenders use the drinks in farm-toglass cocktails, adding slices of freshly cut jalapeno or other farmers market produce as garnish.

The refreshing sodas were featured in O, The Oprah Magazine and are sold are around the country. Locally, they’re available at Raley’s, Corti Brothers, Nugget Markets, Whole Foods and BevMo. Bailarin Cellars was founded by a group of Sacramento locals, including Chris and Amanda Ryan and Ali Zamanian. Their wines have won awards: Bailarin Cellars received a

Jason Poole of Preservation & co in Midtown gold medal in the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition for its 2014 Bailarin Suacci Vineyard Pinot Noir, and Bailarin got a nod from Wine Enthusiast as a “new producer worth knowing.”

The wine is made from grapes grown in Sebastopol and Mendocino.

The company’s motto is “Life is short.

Dance more.” Co-owner Amanda Ryan loves being surrounded by friends in this business. “Nothing makes me dance more than helping people find their own passion and zest for life,” she says.

Bailarin has a tasting room inside Insight Coffee Roasters at Pavilions shopping center. The tasting room is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m.

Sacramento food writer Garrett McCord teamed up with local food photographer Callista Polhemus to create an e-book that celebrates our city’s farm-to-glass beverage scene. The pair wanted to highlight Sacramento’s bartenders, who are as innovative as our region’s quality

chefs. McCord and Polhemus spent a year tasting, photographing and documenting 26 recipes from the region’s top professional distillers, bartenders, chefs and brewers.

McCord describes the book as “a collection of profiles of epic Sacramento bartenders, their stories and the cocktails that they feel define them best.”

Their book can be downloaded from foodliteracycenter.org with a $10 dollar donation to the charity.

Chocolate Fish Coffee offers nitro coffee on tap. Made with cold-brewed coffee infused with nitrogen, the drink has the mouthfeel of beer and the perk of your favorite morning caffeinated beverage. While you can’t pack it in a box and give it as a gift, you can take friends and out-of-town guests to Chocolate Fish for a taste of Sacramento’s best.

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Thru Nov 20 Capital Stage 2215 J St, Sac 995-5464 Capstage.org A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secretes. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets.

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The Bank on the Corner FUNDING LOCAL BUSINESS IS ITS MISSION Virginia Varela is the president and CEO of Golden Pacific Bank

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s community celebrations go, it would be difficult to top Cecily Hastings’ new book, “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital.” And since Cecily owns the publication you’re presently reading, she doesn’t need my help to cheer the small businesses highlighted in her book.

But as I flipped through “Inside Sacramento” and marveled at the story in pictures and words, I realized it was a blueprint for how a city comes of age. Which raises a question: Beyond the cultural vibrancy these businesses provide, how important are they to Sacramento’s economy?

It turns out they are extremely important.

Small businesses— enterprises such as Magpie Cafe on 16th Street and Bacon & Butter in Tahoe Park—are a cornerstone of the local economy.

They can’t be underestimated or overlooked.

Sacramento has a unique relationship with small business.

The community lacks Fortune 500 headquarters and the jobs they create. The city is not an industrial or manufacturing base.

And Sacramento’s historic links to agriculture have been dwindling for 50 years.

Small businesses—especially restaurants, bars and the hospitality sector—fill the void. U.S. Census data show food services and

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accommodations provide 22,000 jobs in the city of Sacramento.

Most are clustered around the eight core neighborhoods featured in Hastings’ book. About 12 percent of the city’s workforce earns a living in the hospitality and retail service industries.

Sacramento relies on government jobs to provide the vast majority of local paychecks. With a population of about 480,000, the city has 96,000 residents working in what census authorities call “public administration.” That means government work.

Beyond public administration, the impact of small business becomes

bank regulator and U.S. Treasury official. These days, she runs a small community bank headquartered at 9th and J streets. Golden Pacific has retail operations in downtown Sacramento, Yuba City and Live Oak. The bank specializes in making smallbusiness loans.

“We think small is beautiful,” Varela says. “We are unique in comparison to big-box banks. There are three of us here in the office with loan authority who make almost every decision on small-business loans. Or we can reach out directly to our board members if we need more consultation. When you get a loan from us, it’s the CEO who’s approving your loan.”

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featured in “Inside Sacramento.”

Befitting the community pride that comes from assisting a small business open its doors, Varela makes personal visits to the shops underwritten by Golden Pacific. When the CEO and Golden Pacific staff members buy products and enjoy meals and drinks, the bills they pay directly assist the enterprises they helped establish.

Funding small businesses can be a high-risk proposition. Few types of work are more difficult than running a small enterprise. And sometimes, small entrepreneurs fail.

Days before the presses rolled on her book, Hastings learned one of the featured retail shops had shut down. She removed the photos and copy and scrambled to add an 11thhour replacement.

Readers won’t notice the difference, but the banker understands.

“It happens,” Varela says. “As much as we want to believe in the prospects of a small business, sometimes, for various reasons, they don’t make it.”

But many more do make it—and they thrive for decades. “Inside Sacramento” serves as a primer for success, featuring people such as Randy and Stacy Paragary, the Fat family, Matt and Fred Haines and Randall Selland, all of whose restaurants have been operating for decades. There’s Darrell Corti, whose family has been selling groceries since 1947, and Vic’s Ice Cream, which opened 69 years ago.

They endure because they evolve.

And they evolve without losing their small-business spirit.

businesses can be

a high-risk proposition.

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more difficult than running a small enterprise.

apparent on every street where people wander, shop and play. Small firms with fewer than 20 employees account for 41,000 jobs in Sacramento—23 percent of the workforce. That’s monumental.

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

Varela has spent her career in banking. She served as a federal

owned by women and minorities is a Golden Pacific subspeciality. Varela has seen how difficult it can be for women, young people and minority entrepreneurs to secure bank loans, forcing many into secondary financial markets that lack the regulation, oversight and competitive interest rates of a real bank.

“That’s a point of pride for us,” she says. “The small-business entrepreneur is a target customer for us. Being small ourselves, we know where they are coming from.”

Golden Pacific Bank supplied funds for several of the 101 businesses

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Artistic Intuition

TONKIN RIEGEL REFINES CREATIVE PROCESS, GUIDES OTHERS

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don’t know what I’m doing,” says Susan Tonkin Riegel. But she says it with the conviction of a lifelong artist.

Inside of her spacious studio is a procession of work: canvases, assemblage, encaustic, works on paper and new pieces incorporating plaster, wood and cardboard. Her art is symbolic and colorful with a hint of mystery and intrigue. “I let the piece and the materials guide me,” she says.

“It’s an intuitive process.”

Riegel is excited about the combination of color and materials and just starts working, letting the process evolve. The trick, she says, is to stop before the piece is overworked.

“It’s better to keep work slightly unfinished and fresh.” Over the course of teaching art for 25 years at Sierra and American River Colleges, she says this was a difficult concept for students. She advised students to pay attention to how they felt about the work—to notice their gut or heart

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reaction and not intellectualize the in 2006. Riegel is an attentive listener process too much. and workshop leader who offers a She retired from Sierra College range of creative experiences from last fall and expects the change printmaking to copper enameling to in routine to register in her work mobile making. No matter what the as she prepares for a November medium, Riegel says the workshops show at Artspace 1616 on Del Paso are about connecting with creativity, Boulevard. “Change is simultaneous which she believes involves being in with life,” says Riegel, who lives the moment and letting the process in Gold River. “When life changes, happen without worrying too much our work changes.” She believes all about what’s next or the outcome. artists, whether a poet, a dancer or She says many people view the a musician, are “recording life in a workshops as a retreat where they subconscious way,” and that everyone can unwind and let go. has some creative thing to express.

“In life we always get caught up “We all have something. It’s a matter with what’s next. There is really of whether we want to be open to it.” nothing that compares to being in Riegel is dedicated to guiding the zone and fully immersed in the others through the creative process act of creativity. It’s a feeling of and hosts workshops full involvement and at her Granite Bay energized focus.”

Studio. “At first I The creative process taught kids, but hooked her in second then their parents grade, when she made wanted to make art a papier mache solar

By Debra Belt too.” So she added system and painted it.

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had the desire to draw and make art, she never thought she was as good as other people at drawing or painting.

This changed once she went to UC Berkeley and studied with noted Bay Area figurative painters Joan Brown and Elmer Bischoff. “Joan Brown encouraged my strange compositions and the way I drew people and told me I was a good artist.”

Bischoff was a big influence, too.

Riegel describes him as a quiet man who didn’t say much, but when he did, it was profound. “Bischoff always told me to keep the practice going and also to go it alone and not worry what my friends were doing artwise, and listen to my own artistic voice.”

It was not a direct route to UC Berkeley for Riegel. She grew up in Sacramento and went to C.K. McClatchy High School, attended University of the Pacific and then UCLA. “I was searching. My parents were divorcing and it was a chaotic time,” she recalls. She took a year off to travel and worked for six months

on a kibbutz in Israel, lived on a Greek island for three months and visited France and Italy. Upon her return, her mother persuaded her to go to UC Berkeley and finish college. “I think that was the only time I followed her advice,” she says.

She worked at a variety of jobs including office work and waitressing in Berkeley, framing, art sales, color consulting and painting holiday windows in Sacramento and Berkeley. “The window painting was one the most fun jobs,” she says. “It was good money in a short amount of time, and I could paint Santas and angels on windows and also learn the art of business and how to deal with executives.”

Soon after her children were born, she started looking for teaching jobs, first teaching at Learning Exchange and then Sierra College and American River College. Her two children are grown now, and she continues to work alongside her husband of 32 years, sculptor Mike Riegel, whose studio is adjacent to hers.

Riegel has shown work in Sacramento since the early ’80s and has been awarded residencies in France, Sweden, China, Mexico, Switzerland, San Francisco and Alberta, Canada. The residencies give her the chance to dig deep into work and have time alone to seriously consider her compositions. She acknowledges it can be a balancing act between creating and selling art. “Selling work is important, and I love it when my work resonates with someone, but I don’t like to put pressure on myself to sell.

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A Conversation with Merit Graham CO-OWNER OF HEAVENLY SALT SPA, ALONG WITH JOSE MENDOZA

Why did you and Jose decide to open a salt spa in August?

We had seen a piece on TV about the benefits of salt therapy and how it can be a homeopathic cure for respiratory issues. Our granddaughter has severe asthma and would use her puffer several times a day, so we decided to take her to a salt spa in Walnut Creek.

She had one 45-minute session and didn’t have to use her puffer for a week.

It got the medications out of her system and has helped maintain her health.

But salt therapy—or halotherapy, “halo” is Greek for “salt”—works differently for everyone. For me, I have bad allergies, and since I’ve been doing salt therapy, I haven’t had to take any medication and can use both sides of my nose.

It’s really for anyone and everyone who wants to feel better.

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How does salt therapy work?

The salt we use is approximately 200 million years old and comes from crystallized sea salt beds in northern Pakistan. We use a salt generator to crush this mineral-rich salt into microionized dry aerosol particles that are then inhaled.

Both White Himalayan and Pink Himalayan salt particles have antiinflammatory properties that help open the airways and reduce or eliminate mucus from the lungs.

Halotherapy produces negative ions, which packs the benefits of three days at the ocean into one 45-minute session and can help combat the effects of free radicals in our environment.

manager of regional services for Best Western Hotels and Resorts. So we work very well together and have a lot of business experience.

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

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

What else does Heavenly Salt Spa offer?

Our infrared sauna is very popular.

The infrared light heats up your core faster—the room can reach 140 degrees—so you sweat more and get rid

of toxins more efficiently. We also have a masseuse starting soon to complete the relaxation experience. We’ve been very lucky with how everything has worked out. It feels like this is meant to be.

Heavenly Salt Spa is at 3325 Folsom Blvd. For more information, call 4551525 or go to heavenlysaltspa.com.

Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com.

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

How did you, Marsha and Laurie end up owning a shop together?

This is essentially the reincarnation of a store that Laurie opened in Fair Oaks Village several years back. Laurie has been in the antique business for almost 30 years—her parents even had an antique shop in Folsom—and she was one of the owners of Le Jardin, the first-of-its-kind vintage French shop in town. Le Jardin closed in 2003 after many years and soon thereafter Laurie moved up to Fair Oaks Village to open Bleu.

I started as her customer at Le Jardin and later reconnected with her at Bleu in Fair Oaks. We became friends and she kindly encouraged me to sell with her. (I was a stay-at-home mom at the time.)

Earlier this year, Laurie’s good friend Marsha, who’s a full-time special education teacher, said she had wanted to bring a clothing boutique into the mix, so we thought, “Why can’t we do a boutique where we curate vintage pieces, a few new items, chic clothing and unique gifts?”

complement to our vintage items. She is proud to carry Mother denim (quite an exclusive brand) and Campomaggi bags from Italy, among other wonderful lines.

The best compliment we’ve received over the years is when our customers who have traveled and shopped overseas tell us the shop has a distinct European feel. That’s what we are aiming for.

What’s the advantage of buying vintage?

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

The good pieces are hard to find—I was lucky to make it to France twice last year to source products—so when we do, it’s very rewarding to have our loyal customers snap things up.

When you’re in this business, you buy what you’re attracted to. Having a sophisticated buyer who understands the products and also loves to support local shops buy what you’ve discovered makes us very happy.

We are very glad to have opened our boutique in East Sac this June. And next year, my husband of 22 years and I are moving to England to be closer to his family. We will have easy access to France and all her treasures—Laurie will also accompany me as often as she can for fun buying trips so Bleu will have its own international buyers!

Looking for something special?

Check out Bleu at 3319 Folsom Blvd.

Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com.

The combination clearly works for Bleu. How do you decide what to stock?

When Laurie and I search for vintage pieces, we have a very similar aesthetic: We both lean French when buying, it’s just what we’re attracted to. We pride ourselves on carrying the real McCoy, vintage pieces that are actually sourced from Europe, and we like to carry new items that nobody else has.

Marsha wanted to carry chic, easyto-wear, organic cotton clothing that’s locally made, which was a nice

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

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he Sacramento Transportation Authority placed a questionable sales-tax measure on the November ballot. It calls for Sacramento County residents to tax themselves even more whenever they make a purchase. The new tax would be on top of the existing countywide sales tax devoted to transportation.

Measure B would double the transportation tax rate and be imposed for 30 years.

While sales taxes are convenient for government to collect, Measure B is decidedly bad tax policy. It’s even worse transportation policy, bad environmental policy and bad health policy. There are much smarter, fairer ways to raise and spend money for transportation.

From the very start, the process that developed Measure B was flawed.

The public was excluded as decisions were made by nonelected government staff and paid consultants. When the proposal developed behind closed doors was put before elected officials, those officials gave short shrift to public concerns about project priorities and their environmental impacts. In contrast, they paid very close attention to comments from developers and construction industry representatives, prime beneficiaries of the measure.

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Taxes hit people in the pocketbook, so any new tax must be carefully crafted and spent wisely for the greatest good. Federal and state legislators have been derelict in their duty to adequately fund transportation. Gas taxes have been fixed on a per-gallon basis for decades, with no adjustment for the better mileage newer cars get or for the effects of inflation. But raising transportation funding through a local sales tax instead of a gas or mileage tax is not the right way to go. It’s unfair and regressive. Those who use the roads the most should pay more for new road projects and maintenance. Everyone pays sales taxes, whether they drive or not. The poor pay proportionately more, even though they drive less.

Yet the biggest problem with Measure B is not the taxation method but how the money will be used. Wellthought-out regional transportation plans call for any new transportation revenue to be used exclusively for road maintenance and transit maintenance and operations—known as a “fix-it-first” approach. There is nothing inherently wrong with that approach.

Unfortunately, the proposed work in Measure B is not limited to fixit-first projects. It includes hugely expensive road and transit projects, such as the Southeast Connector and extensions of light rail to Elk Grove and the airport. These projects are sprawl inducing and sprawl supportive. Over the long term, the road capacity projects will induce more people to drive. They won’t, as the measure claims, result in congestion relief. Instead, they will

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

Over the long term, the road capacity projects will induce more people to drive.

They won’t, as the measure claims, result in congestion relief.

While the automotive and tech industries recognize that transportation is going to be transformed, Measure B doesn’t. It locks in 30 years’ worth of spending based on today’s transportation model, not a future system that will be radically different. It’s simply not flexible or visionary enough.

Measure B’s business-asusual approach will not improve neighborhood livability or quality of life. In fact, increased traffic will result in more noise and air pollution.

Transportation is the economic sector that creates 40 percent of the greenhouse gases that causes global warming. Measure B doesn’t change the existing fossil-fuel-burning transportation paradigm.

Measure B’s promotional materials promise to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety, but there is absolutely no certainty it will deliver on that promise. The measure makes using funds for cost-effective, healthy pedestrian and bicycle projects optional, not obligatory. Further, the increased traffic from road capacity projects will make pedestrians and bicyclists less safe, not more.

We need taxes that are fairly raised and wisely spent. We need a transportation system that doesn’t hurt neighborhoods or the environment and helps make our citizens healthier, not sicker. Measure B fails as a fair tax measure and fails to deliver the best transportation system. Not only can we do better; we must do better. Vote No!

The 30-year life of Measure B is hugely problematic. Because of emerging self-driving technology, we are on the cusp of a revolution in transportation. It is not clear how this future will play out, but we should anticipate dramatic changes. These changes will come soon, perhaps within five years. They certainly will materialize within the 30-year life of Measure B. Driverless cars are already on the streets in Pittsburgh and Singapore. There is fierce competition to develop and mature self-driving technology.

Consortiums of automakers, tech companies such as Google and Apple, and transportation service providers such as Uber and Lyft have hired thousands of employees and are Walt Seifert writes “Getting There” investing billions of dollars to alter fundamentally the way we get around. for Inside Publications. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net n

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Yes on Measure B IT WILL FUND CRITICAL TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS

BY STEVE HANSEN

R

emember the last time rushhour gridlock made you late for work? Or the time you swerved to miss a gaping pothole and nearly careened into the car in the next lane?

Count these among the many aspects of our deteriorating roads and transit system—mounting problems for which Measure B offers a longterm solution.

Measure B, on the November ballot, will generate $3.6 billion over 30 years to repave streets, repair aging roads and bridges, fund highway, connector and interchange projects, and support maintenance, security and expansion of transit services.

A majority of this money will go toward filling potholes, resurfacing roads and modernizing roadways.

A majority of this money will go toward filling potholes, resurfacing roads and modernizing roadways throughout the county so that they are safer for bicyclists, pedestrians, drivers and transit users.

We all recognize the need here in Sacramento to “Fix It First.”

Every day when we drive to work, we see and feel potholes that damage our vehicles and make our roadways dangerous for bicyclists

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and pedestrians. If we don’t fill the potholes now, they will only get bigger and more expensive to fix, and make it even more expensive for cashstrapped families to repair damaged vehicles.

Measure B will also fund essential countywide transportation projects, including fixing the Capital City Freeway bottleneck and improving service, safety and security on light rail and buses.

Measure B requires that 75 percent of the funds generated in the first five years address lingering and deferred maintenance issues. To ensure that

these funds are spent properly, a citizens oversight committee will perform annual audits of the expenditure plan, which can be found at sacramentogo.com.

In the unincorporated areas of Sacramento County alone, the budget is $8 million a year for road repair and maintenance versus a $450 million backlog. The cities of Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Folsom, Galt and Isleton face similar daunting backlogs.

That’s why nearly 70 percent of Measure B funding is directed proportionally to all local agencies

for road repair and maintenance.

Measure B provides a dedicated source of local funding so that Sacramento County can secure state and federal matching funds when they become available.

These funds will be necessary to complete our future plans to bring light rail to the airport and Elk Grove and improve our transportation infrastructure as our regional economy continues to grow.

The transportation improvement projects in Measure B will keep Sacramento motorists safe, pave the way for first responders to do their job, enable businesses to run efficiently, make our region attractive for economic investment, and allow families to make their way safely around the county.

That’s why Democrats like Mayor-elect Darrell Steinberg and Republicans like Supervisor Susan Peters have joined with local businesses and labor unions, Friends of Light Rail, Downtown Sacramento Partnership and others to support Measure B. So this fall when you get your ballot, find Measure B and vote yes.

Steve Hansen represents District 4 on the Sacramento City Council. n

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This Month @ the Market

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

ARTICHOKE

The edible, immature flower of a cultivated thistle plant, this plant originated in the Mediterranean, but now California grows nearly 100 percent of the country’s crop.

Eat it: Steam until tender, then dip the leaves in melted butter or flavored mayonnaise.

MANDARIN ORANGE

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

Eat it: Peel and enjoy.

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CARROT

BRUSSELS SPROUT

This root vegetable is related to parsnips, fennel, parsley, anise, caraway, cumin and dill. It can be eaten raw or cooked, or even baked in a cake.

Eat it: For better flavor, steam, rather than boil, them

A cruciferous vegetable, it’s related to cabbage, kale, collard greens and broccoli. It contains healthful phytonutrients.

Eat it: Toss with olive oil and roast in a hot oven with onion and bacon..

CHARD

YELLOW FINN POTATO

This nutritious, hearty green, a relative of the beet, can be blanched, braised, sautéed or steamed.

Eat it: Make a quick sauté with onions and garlic..

ThiThis all-purpose potato has yellow flesh, a creamy texture and a slightly sweet, buttery flavor.

Eat it:: Mash them with lots of butter and cream, of course!.

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