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Timothy would celebrate his fifth birthday soon. Our mom was planning to bake him a special cake to celebrate the occasion. She was a great baker. She made us cookies whenever we asked her to. Sometimes she would make oatmeal raisin cookies and sometimes, if she had chocolate chips, she would make melt-inyour-mouth chocolate chip cookies. We never ate cookies that came from the grocery store.

She also made cinnamon rolls for our dad. I think that she learned to bake when she was a teenager. There were 20 kids in her family and they only ate breads, cookies and cakes that her mother made at home.

We celebrated birthdays often in our house because we had so many family members.

There were birthdays in January, February, March, two in June, two in August, and one in October. My family celebrated by having a special cake. The birthday person always got the first piece of cake after we all sang them the Happy Birthday song. Timothy was the next birthday kid, and he was counting down the days until he got a present and we all shared his cake with him. I knew what my parents were giving him for his birthday. I helped my mom wrap it in brightly colored paper. He would really like his new toy.

We were all surprised on Timothy’s birthday when the back door opened and a really special present was carried into the house. Dad had a little bundle of black and white fur in his arms. He told us her name was Trixie and she was going to live at our house. He put her on the floor and she immediately started barking and wagging her tale. I guess she was happy to be a part of our family. We were happy to have her too. We all wanted a dog, and we were very happy that our dad had finally listened to our pleas. He had told us many times that when we were living in our own house we could get a dog. And here she was at last!

She would have to sleep outside, on the back steps. Now I understood why Dad had hurried to get the fence and gate finished so quickly. He wanted our new puppy to be safe in our backyard. Every day when Rodney and Timothy woke up, they would go out the back

door to check on little Trixie. She would bark and jump up and down when they greeted her in the morning. Our mom would have to yell at them to stop playing with the dog, get inside, wash their hands, and sit down at the table and eat their breakfast.

When Dad came home from work the next day he handed Timothy a collar and leash for Trixie. The boys could take her for a walk, and she would not run away. Then, Dad reached into his pocket and handed me a box of chalk.

Now I could draw a hopscotch in the driveway. I was so happy that I surprised him with a quick hug. He grinned and shook his head. I guess little things could make his young children very happy. We were not spoiled children. We knew that we had everything we needed, and that was enough for us.

Timothy got to share his birthday cake with us that night. It was chocolate cake, covered with chocolate frosting. And, for another added treat, our dad had gone to the grocery store and bought some rocky road ice cream to eat with it. We all enjoyed celebrating Timothy’s fifth birthday. Rita tried to eat her cake and ice cream with a little spoon, and dropped more than she got into her mouth. Wayne, who was sitting in his high chair, smeared his cake all over the eating tray.

And, because Timothy was 5 years old now, he was old enough to start going to school with Rodney and me. But, he still had one more present that he needed to open before he went to sleep. When we had all finished enjoying Timothy’s birthday dessert, our mom went to her bedroom to get the present that she had wrapped in the special birthday paper. The birthday present could have been wrapped in plain brown paper. Timothy did not care about the paper, he just wanted to see what was inside. When he discovered what the present was, he tossed the paper away, and grabbed the tall cylinder shaped container. He hollered out to Rodney as he headed for the kitchen table to start dumping the pieces out on the table. Which design would he construct first? Maybe his big brother could help him decide.

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Keeping Warm We had ways of keeping warm. We girls wore long, flannel nightgowns and raced to stand over the floor heaters on chill mornings. The warm air rushed up, nightgowns billowed out and we looked like tiny-headed creatures with ballooning torsos. Standing over the heater was so delicious. If you were the first one there the warmth blew gently up and enveloped you. It put you in a state of serenity. But you had to share. You always had to move over, make room, take your turn, and make sure everyone, especially the little ones, got a chance to warm up.

Our little ones were our baby brothers who wrapped their cowboy blankets around their shoulders for billowing and swayed over the heater until the blankets puffed and cold was gone. Then they toddled to the sofa, and waited and watched in sleepy contentment. Sometimes one or anoth-

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er of the older ones would monopolize the heater. Then came the uproar: “Mom, Sheila’s hogging the furnace.

Pat’s hogging the furnace.” Our mother always made the miscreant surrender her position, and always said, “You kids don’t know what cold is.”

She was from St. Louis where it snowed and the lakes froze and the temperature dove to freezing. She said her father, our grandfather, would get up at 5:30 a.m. and put logs in the wood-burning stove in the kitchen, and that’s where everyone would huddle, drinking coco. It seemed wondrous to me, drinking hot chocolate and gazing out the window at fresh snow; it seemed idyllic, like a Christmas card.

Our mother rolled her eyes. “You kids don’t know how lucky you are.”

One morning our father, Sacramento born and bred, said it was cold as ice and if he didn’t have hot coffee his frozen eyes might drop from their sockets. “I can’t drive to work with my eyes rolling on the floor,” he said. Our little

brothers, side by side in their cowboy blankets, looked up in fascination. Our mother gave him his coffee and said again, “None of you know what cold is.”

Well, she was right. One early April, while we ran around in light sweaters, glorying in the spring, our parents reserved a large cabin in Tahoe.

They got some kind of an off-season “deal” that wouldn’t be available later.

It meant we would have to miss a day of school, but it was an opportunity that “just didn’t pop up that often,” our mother said. My ecstasy was utterly boundless: we were going to the mountains and not going to school.

How does life get better?

We headed up in the station wagon, climbing into country made green and beautiful by rain. We thrilled to see signs that warned of deer crossings and Kathleen said three Hail Mary’s, fervent supplications to send a deer our way. Moira spotted a plop of leftover snow and we let out rapturous shrieks. It was our first sight of real snow. Other snow sightings followed, chatter escalated. We finally turned up a narrow, bumpy road and reached the cabin, ‘nestled’, as promised, in the deep, high woods. “What the hell?” our father said. We gaped.

The cabin had no walls. It had an arched roof, canvass front and back, a brown plywood deck-like floor and front door, but nothing but air on either side.

We kids jumped out of the car into a new kind of cold—exhilarating, biting.

Pinecone cold. The mountains smelled

so good. But we all had to pee. We ran into the cabin with no walls. There was a wood stove but no bathroom. Canvass flaps distended from the roof to mark off “rooms” but there was no toilet anywhere. By now our parents had gotten out and our father spied an outhouse, half hidden, and a long walk away. This meant the boys got to go pee in the forest with Dad while the girls had to form a line at the outhouse. As usual the littlest went first, but Mom told me to go in with Sheila because Sheila might not be able to reach the “contraption.” I took Sheila’s hand and started toward the outhouse. “You know who wakes up in the mountains in spring?” Kathleen said.“Bears. They wake up from hunger.”

I paused. Don’t think. With faked nonchalance, took Sheila’s hand, and went in. It was dark and vile, but no bear. The toilet seat was encrusted with ice.

Our father took the boys in the car and drove off to find the cabin people who had left us with no walls. Our mother, Kathleen and I pounded the toilet-seat with rocks, the ice broke off in chunks.

The sun that had lit and mildly warmed the crackling forest floor, began to fade, and now the even deeper cold arrived. It felt like it came from space, it stilled the very air. Or mother unpacked our pedal-pushers and we put them on over our shorts. We put on our thin sweaters and extra blouses. Mom told Kathleen and me to gather wood and tinder. Tinder?

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She said it was the scratchy stuff around the trees.

Kathleen and I stayed together while we gathered, no more talk of bears. It was twilight already. Kathleen wore a dark blue sweater. Bits of dimming light fell on it as she stooped. Something else wafted down. At first it was hard to believe. “Stand up,” I whispered. She rose, held out her blue arms. The snow fell gently, fluttering like it does in stories.

“Your hair,” she whispered. I put my hand to my head. It was everywhere, beautiful everywhere. We ran back to the tent-cabin and dumped our gatherings by the stove. Sheila and Moira were sitting up, both of them in one sleeping bag. “Snow,” Moira said. “It’s snowing.”

Our mother had gotten the stove on, a dull red glow shone behind its small window. “We’ll need more wood,” she said, almost to herself. Then she made a wide, forced smile and said, “Well well. Our first snowfall together. Isn’t this something?” But now a wind had come up and Kathleen and I got in a sleeping bag. The wind forced us to face away from the beauty.

Our father came back with the boys and said the cabin walls rolled down, but you had to first unsnap a gismo and a thingamabob. It took him a while to do this and while he worked he cussed the weatherman and the cabin people. Where was Mom to say, “Mike,

your language?” The canvass suddenly rolled down and now we had another wall. Then a thump from behind and our Mother appeared with an armful of logs. Now all kids were in sleeping bags around the stove. Dad got the last wall down, but we still saw snow because it bunched in through cracks and puddled down the tent sides. The wind got louder. “It’s a damn blizzard,” our father said, but Mom said this was no blizzard; it was a storm with flurries. Our parents went to the door and talked in urgent whispers. I scrunched closer to Kathleen. She said even her butt felt cold.

Moira said to Danny, “Kathleen’s bottom froze.”

I don’t know how they did it, but our parents packed everything back in the station wagon. Kathleen and I helped the kids out of their sleeping bags and ran with them to the car. At the end our tennis shoes were soaked and we had to ride barefoot, our feet immersed in sleeping bags. Mom turned off the cabin stove and climbed into her front seat.

Dad started the heater and drove slowly, slowly, down the skinny road. In half an hour we were warm again and told everyone how and when we first realized we were being snowed on. When we got home two hours later we put on our flannel nightgowns and pajamas and had a picnic dinner on the rug, including Hostess cupcakes. Then I said, “I miss the snow though.” I don’t think I meant it. But I wanted to make my father laugh and see my mother roll her eyes.

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Saturday, Dec. 31 (Traffic Stop): Stockton and Alhambra boulevards at 12:26 a.m.

Officers were patrolling in the area when they stopped a vehicle for an infraction violation. The driver was contacted and confirmed to be on parole. A search of the vehicle revealed a stolen firearm. The driver and passenger were detained and arrested for various charges.

property. The victim was transported to an area hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury.

Monday, Jan. 2 (Assault): 4100 block of 35th Street at 9:20 a.m.

At the request of the owner, the victim used a key to check to see if it worked for the property. The suspect, who lives at that location, became upset and attacked the victim with a ceramic mug. The victim sustained a non-life threatening injury during the assault. The suspect fled prior to officer’s arrival.

A report was generated and the investigation remains on-going.

Sunday, Jan. 1

(Medical Aid): 3200 block of 11th Avenue at 12:30 a.m.

Officers responded to the location regarding a female who had found her boyfriend trying to commit suicide. The male was transported to a local area hospital and is expected to survive.

(Robbery): 5900 block of Stockton Boulevard at 6:45 a.m.

Officers responded to the area regarding a robbery that occurred.

Upon arrival, officers determined that the victim was confronted by an unknown suspect who assaulted him with a blunt object and stole property before fleeing. While searching the area, officers located and recovered the victims stolen

(Domestic Disturbance): 3000 block of Redding Avenue at 10:01 p.m.

Officers responded to the location regarding a domestic disturbance.

Upon arrival, officers contacted the victim who had sustained a nonlife threatening injury to his arm.

Officers then contacted a female inside the apartment who also had small lacerations to one of her

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When the victim tried to get into the bathroom to stop her, she cut him. Both subjects were transported to separate hospitals for medical aid. The female was later booked for domestic violence.

Tuesday, Jan. 3 (Disturbance ): 3000 block of Capitol Avenue at 10:40 a.m.

Officers were patrolling in the area when they were hailed by a citizen.

The citizen reported a male subject who was threatening people in the area armed with a sharp object. Officers located the described man and detained him. After further investigation, the suspect was arrested for threats.

Friday, Jan. 6 (Fatal Vehicle Accident): 65th and Q streets at 10:38 p.m.

Officers responded for a fatal vehicle accident between a pedestrian and a commuter bus. The bus was out of service with no passengers at the time of the accident. Arriving officers began CPR on the unresponsive pedestrian until medical personnel arrived on scene. Despite life-saving efforts, the pedestrian was pronounced deceased. The Major Collision Investigation Unit responded for the investigation.

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Get ready for a roller coaster ride through the galaxy as the courageous Captain leads his misfit crew of aliens on a hilarious delivery mission gone wrong. Featuring movie quality animatronic creature puppets and animated-projection backdrops, this short-run performance premiers Jan. 28 and 29 at Swanston Park Community Center at noon and 2 p.m., running about 60 minutes including intermission. Following the scripted first act, the audience is invited to join the crew of the Starship Pegasus on stage for an improvised interactive storyline and fly through the stars, hiding from giant creatures, helping the Captain rescue alien scientist Dr. Scarpsy from space pirates within dark caves of the intergalactic set.

Written and directed by Sacramento resident Peter Bond and starring Jesse Jones and Evan Widjaja, local improv stars from the Sacramento Comedy Spot, the production is the second episode of the “Galaxy Express� live series, which Bond hopes will continue to grow with more episodes and bigger audiences.

About a bored delivery ship captain who travels from point A to point B on various missions looking for adventure along the way, the plot centers on him falling prey to space leeches and leviathans, and a bunch of “space things�, in this second episode, the delivery is missing; so they’re going on a rescue mission on planets.

Set on a space ship, the scenery will move around with projection imagery, allowing Bond to amp up the effects

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without having a high production of lights and fog. And, all the while, the puppets interact with the screen and a monster will chase them.

With an exciting plotline, the story is ideal for ages 6 to 12 and was born out of Bond’s dissatisfaction with local productions of Disney classics. “The whole reason I did this is because I was bored going to see The Lion King and I wanted to create something the whole family would enjoy.�

Jokes may be appreciated by parents and slapstick stuff for the kids... and the young at heart, as Bond admits: “I like that stuff too.�

Included in the puppet cast are the Captain, a navigator named “Frog Guy� (for pronunciation purposes, think Russian accent); the ship’s engineer Boomer, a tiny half-man, halfcaterpillar aka “manipillar�, a crotchety sour-face commander, and Dr. Scarpsy, the alien scientist.

Bringing the behind the scenes to the forefront, the puppeteers presence on stage in full view allows for more movement and helps sway the little ones’ fears of the scary looking monsters.

What began as a lofty goal of producing one episode a month, Bond scaled down his ambitions to “maybe four� episodes a year. “I’m going to keep making episodes as long as have people act for me.�

A self-proclaimed “unknown�, Bond’s self-made productions of “Galaxy Express� came after years of learning about the art form via books and the internet. Starting with sock puppets, Bond’s mastery of puppet creation quickly progressed to foam latex creatures.

After “wandering aimlessly� after high school, Bond made “good money�

“The whole reason I did this is because I was bored going to see The Lion King and I wanted to create something the whole family would enjoy.� –Peter Bond

doing real estate. “But it was not fun. I got through the short sales. With real estate you have to reinvent yourself every two years and I didn’t want to do it again,� he said.

Meanwhile, Bond hit the books and now the roles have been reversed. He’s the part-time puppet maker, stay-athome dad to children Gabriel and Charlotte and husband to wife, Christina, who he met during his teen years and is now supporting the family as a nurse.

Bond’s favorite pastimes from early childhood included playing with building toys, but when his brain started hemorrhaging in the second grade, his creative side suffered and it wasn’t until his own son was about 3 or 4 years old that “somehow� his memory returned.

Hooked up through the Swanston Park Community Center from offering puppet building classes there, Bond’s transition to using the facili-

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ty for the performance took a natural course. Not a theater, “just a community center,� Bond brings in the lights, speakers and a screen visually transforming the multipurpose room into a theater. “It works out pretty good and we can split the floor in half for backstage and the audience room.�

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From the page to the stage San Francisco Shakespeare Festival presents “Twelfth Night” at McKinley Library Photo by Victor Bittorf

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Out from the page and onto the stage, the words of Shakespeare will come to life when the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival presents “ Twelfth Night” at McKinley Library on Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 3:30 p.m. The free, touring production uses Shakespeare’s original words in a condensed one-hour version of the play that includes full costumes, props and original music composed by the company. The actors will also bring two lucky audience members on stage to participate in the play. After the performance, the cast will answer questions from the audience. “ Twelfth Night” is a romantic comedy that tells the story of twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Disguised as a boy, Viola falls for Duke Orsino, who is in love with Countess Olivia. Believing Viola is a man, the Countess then falls in love with her.

“It’s Shakespeare’s most heartfelt comedy,” said director Carl Holvick, who is also the Education Director and a Resident Artist with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, which is in its 35th year. “ Twelfth Night” combines traditional comedic aspects with dramatic aspects, explained Holvick. “ There’s the clowning, Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

dancing and antics. There’s also the fights, moments of love, passion, and the darker sides of mourning the loss of a loved one and feeling what’s like to have your heart broken.”

“To balance all of those elements together in a single play is one of Shakespeare’s greatest feats,” said Holvick.

“It makes people laugh, and it has an emotional impact on the audience.”

The production, which tours the state of California with stops at schools, libraries and retirement centers, is truly an ensemble piece with lots of collaborative input from the actors who double-up on roles and re-purpose props to represent different objects and scenery throughout the play, said Holvick.

“With the touring production, we’re able to reach thousands of people–all kinds of audiences–and bring a professional production of Shakespeare to them locally,” said Holvick.

The local McKinley Library performance is an opportunity for all ages to enjoy Shakespeare. “Parents can introduce their kids to his work at the event. Students can see a free production related to their coursework, and aspiring thespians can come and be inspired,” said Cathy Crosthwaite, the Programming and Partnership Coordinator for the Sacramento Public Library.

Shakespeare On Tour’s Twelfth Night.

As an educational tiein to the performance, the McKinley and McClatchy libraries will have displays highlighting Shakespeare’s work. Literature and stories that have been influenced by Shakespeare’s prose will also be featured.

“We really enjoy being able to take the inspiration that comes from great literature

and bringing it to life for– and often with–the community,” Crosthwaite added.

In celebration of its 35th year, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival will also present a series of free, short, performances of “35 Famous Speeches in 35 Famous Places” around San Francisco, beginning February 16 before culminat-

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Matias Bombal’s Hollywood Rogue One: A Star Wars story

you are lucky enough to have one of the 15 IMAX theaters in the United States that are exhibiting this movie in a 15/70mm film print you are in for a very special treat indeed. Sacramento, California’s Esquire IMAX is one such theater and opened this picture on a rainy night to at capacity crowds. The anticipation was palpable as patrons milled through the lobby one day earlier than the national opening of the digital versions, not just to see it first but to see it on 15/70mm film!

Having seen both the digital and 15/70 film versions, I may report that the experience is different in several ways. First, there is a sequence of shots in the film version that is different than the digital one. They occur when we first see Darth Vader in a tank without his famous outfit. The digital shows the tank draining for him to get dressed. The tank drains with the camera placed behind the tank. On the 15 IMAX film prints, you see the side view of the tank beginning to drain with Darth Vader’s head unmasked instead with the liquid draining to just about his eyebrows. His face is not fully revealed.

The film print has better contrast than the digital and offers richer more palpable colors. If you have a chance to see one of these film prints, not in 3-D, you will have the best possible experience of this movie. How is the movie itself? I was thoroughly entertained by this Star Wars story, it held my attention from start to finish and was fun to watch. Adding good turns of the script are actors Forest Whitaker, Ben Mendelsohn and Mads Mikkelsen, who I still think sounds just like classic film actor George McCready every time he speaks. This is fun at the movies and extra special in IMAX 15/70 film, the way I suggest you see it.

The MPAA has rated this PG-1 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Lucasfilm bring us “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” the prequel to the very first of “Star Wars” adventures, “A New Hope” from 1977. You may recall that in the very first “Star Wars”, Princess Leia placed the plans to the Death Star into R2D2’s memory. This new movie is the story of how she was able to obtain them in the first place. It is due primarily to the unlikely heroic efforts of Jyn Erso, played

by Felicity Jones. She is the daughter of a man (Mads Mikkelsen) that the Empire has used to design the Death Star, the menacing planet killing orb the size of a small moon.

The rebel forces feel that she is the key to getting information about it via her connection to Empire insiders.

Initially they kidnap her, but when she sees more clearly the cause, she rallies the rebels to fight. Jimmy Smits may be seen briefly recapping his role of Bail Organa in the scene. Jyn is off to fight for the cause, assisted by a sarcastic droid and a pilot named Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna. Of course, first they must establish some level of trust and some comic moments ensue.

Something you’d not expect in the picture is the return on screen, through digital means, of Grand Moff Tarkin, played by actor Guy Henry.

That is to say that Mr. Henry’s body and voice are Tarkin, but the face belongs to Peter Cushing, placed on Mr. Henry’s head by the latest technology.

The irony of the fact that the digital presence of Cushing’s face, a man who of played the undead for years in movies, seems somehow fitting. It is surprising to witness. Truth be told, an impressive bit of movie magic. There is quite present in this movie the magical voice of James Earl Jones, once FENCES again giving voice to Darth Vader.

From an exhibition stand point it The MPAA has rated this PG-13 is possible to see this movie in multiParamount Pictures gives us Denzel ple ways, both 3D and 2D on screens Washington’s directorial effort of Auacross the United States. However, if gust Wilson’s screenplay based on his

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Diego Luna and Felicity Jones do their part for the rebellion. Photo: Lucasfilm, LTD/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

own play of the same name,”Fences”.

Set in the 1950s, Washington plays a father, Troy Maxon, who works as a garbage man but longs to be promoted to garbage truck driver. He had wanted to be a baseball player, but life happened instead. His wife is played by the always magnificent Viola Davis. Actor Stephen Henderson is terrific in support as Washington’s work mate, Jim Bono. Outstanding performances throughout with beautiful photography, yet the movie does seem tightly bound to its play-like setting of origin. Maxon must examine his changing position in the world as his son and family grow and change around him. The dialog is fantastic as you travel through three distinct periods in the life of this family. A must see!

PASSENGERS The MPAA has rated this PG-13 Columbia Pictures (Sony) gives us a story of outer space with “Passengers”, directed by Morten Tyldum. In a rather familiar scenario, an elegant and exclusive spaceship is traveling to colonize a planet to leave the overcrowding of Earth behind with the entire crew and passengers in suspended animation as it takes about 100 years to reach the destination planet. An asteroid field hits the ship en route, causing the failure of the pod in which mechanic Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) had been suspended. He has the run of the whole ship but faces the future of living out the rest of his days before the fellow passengers and crew will awake. He tells his troubles to a robot bartender, Arthur (Michael Sheen) whose bar looks just like the one in the Kubrick movie “The Shining”. In fact, there are many scenes reminiscent of other movies. After a year, he just can’t take it anymore and considers waking up a beautiful girl, Aurora Lane ( Jennifer Lawrence) to not face his days alone. This will produce ex-

pected and unexpected results. Also appearing briefly in the movie, and I do mean briefly; Laurence Fishburne and Andy Garcia. Overall not very good, but with some agreeable moments and gorgeous set design. It is all held together by likable Chris Pratt, who women find attractive and men may relate to.

ASSASSIN’S CREED The MPAA has rated this PG-13 From Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation comes another movie based on a video game, “Assassin’s Creed”. At this point I’d check my mind at the door and hope not to be abused by loud sound and violence, for there is that to be sure. However what makes this offering different is the fact that it has perhaps the best cast ever in such a video game based movie; Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson and Charlotte Rampling.

I thought I was reading the names from some fantastic British drawing period picture! Michael Fassbender is Callum Lynch who is “saved” from lethal injection by the modern day assassins who have fought the Knights Templar since the time immemorial for religious artifacts.

In this case, it is the apple Adam got for Eve. In order to find it, Rikkin (Irons) and Sofia (Cotillard) tap Callum’s ancestral memory to find when and where his relative hid the apple in antiquity and engage him reliving his past relative’s last battles in order to find it. This movie starts poorly, then picks up speed amid great photography, production design and sets, but is not very good, but for the unexpected element of great actors in these roles.

Michael Fassbender also produced.

So strange in that Fassbender’s role in “The Light Between Oceans” was may favorite male lead performance in 2016. This, I just don’t get.

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Passion on paper Free Literature of Love course offered at the Clunie Center Feb. 1, 8

By Monica Stark

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Poetry is made for passion.

Using sound and rhythm to convey messages of romance, beautiful love letters and literature are guaranteed to fill the hearts of students of Frank Dixon Graham’s The Literature of Love course through the McKinley Library. Free of charge, students can get set for Valentine’s Day by reading and writing passionate love letters and romantic poetry in two one-and-ahalf hour classes on consecutive Wednesday evenings from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in early February.

Frank, a published poet, the Editor of Tule Review, and adjunct professor of English at the Los Rios Colleges, will give lectures at each session and also facilitate the reading and discussion.

In lecture one, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, students will learn about the greatest love correspondents of all time.

Why did they write the best love letters? What did these lovers have to say? How did they express themselves and what stories are behind their romantic correspondences?

Attendees will hear a brief history of love letters and their star-crossed lovers.

Participants may write their own love letters in class. The authors discussed and the reading of romantic letters will be certain to inspire.

In lecture two, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, less than a week before Valentine’s Day, students will read some of the best love poems ever written.

There will be a discussion of these authors and what goes 10

into writing a meaningful or lasting love poem. Students are encouraged to enrich their own relationship by writing their own love poem in class or become inspired to express themselves with a well-crafted note to your valentine.

Open to adults “aged 18 to 81 years and older,” there is no cost associated with either session. It is free and open to the public.

A writer of many love poems, Frank noted they are less likely to get published, yet that’s not usually the intended purpose.“Love poems are either meant to express something to the person you love or they are simply created as a reminder of what was, what can be, what is, or what was. My wife is an inspiration and I have to say that I’m inspired by a moment of love or loving.”

Quotidian activities can become the most romantic when shared with someone you love, he explained, so tell those stories in your love poems. Images for love poems may come like photographs of time that one wishes to describe to the listener or reader, he said.

While there’s less of a market for love poems today, there are some poets who have found a way to delight audiences: Mark Doty, Nikki Giovanni, and even Sharon Olds all have different twists on the modern love poem, Frank added. “Pablo Neruda is, hands-down, the most romantic poet of the past century. He’s my favorite. Neruda used simple language and nature imagery to convey his message. The use of sound is critically important to Neruda and there’s something about those mel-

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lifluous lines that can transport one to another dimension emotionally. Poetry is made for passion. Nowhere is that more evident than with Neruda.” Available in Spanish, or in English with good translations by W.S. Merwin and others, Frank said a romantic gift-giver could hardly go wrong with Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

If you can’t afford the book, Frank recommends getting a copy from the library and read it to your love interest over a romantic meal that you have cooked for them.

Seeing his students awaken to some beautiful experience of language or hearing a writer open up and share some detail of their life that they’ve never been able to express before are some of the greatest experiences Frank has had as a literature professor. In one of his past classes, a couple attended the writing workshops and lectures together.

“They were young. I wasn’t sure how close they were or if they really knew each other well at all. I’d like to think that their relationship blossomed as a result of the class. They were married last summer, not long after the class ended.”

Even in his non-romantic classes on writing and literature, a lot of personal material is shared. Participants support each other. They become friends and really connect with each other, he explained. Beyond the fact that

you see them develop as genuinely artful beings, a teacher of writing must love to see that connection between writers happening. Frank has coached boys’ soccer and some of the same principals apply; some of those kids will be friends for the rest of their lives. “Writing is far from the solitary experience many may think of it. It is a team effort and sometimes, as we’re about to explore, it is a fascination between two people who want to experience life on a deeper level, together.”

This isn’t the first free literature class Frank has offered at the McKinley Library. Required to complete a teaching practicum in a community environment for his master’s program in writing at Goddard College, he realized his love of teaching and decided to continue to offer classes after he graduated. So, since that time, he’s taught five series, each made up of six to eight classes. From contemporary poetics, international forms and styles of poetry to certain specific historical periods of American literature, Frank is interested in teaching a class on social justice poetry and nature poetry in the near future. From coordinating readings that serve as fundraisers for nonprofits to organizing the editing and publishing of the Sacramento Poetry Center’s next anthology, Frank enjoys facilitating other people’s creative expression through writing and literature. “I was given a lot. This is the way I know to

give back. The process is also a lot of fun.”

For as long as he can remember language has been important to Frank. “Being read to as a child can stimulate curiosity and wonder. I never stopped imagining the worlds introduced to me,” he said. At some point, life brought on challenges and he found that the best and most healthy escape was to write creatively.

Physical exercise was also an important outlet, but as arthritis set in the mental workout of creating poetry has become a more vigorous activity.

He has founded or championed a number of literary activities locally.

In the description of the first workshop, Frank writes: “We will read the beautiful love letters of both real and imaginary authors after a brief lecture on the topic.”

Thinking that might “make a few scratch their heads,” Frank explained with the following example: “Griffin and Sabine is a wonderful work of fiction by Nick Bantock. It is an epistolary novel and an exchange of love letters between two people.

The book is beautiful in design and in content, with letters that may be pulled from their envelopes within the text itself. Beyond that, some of the world’s greatest romances are documented through love letters.”

On that note, Frank added that the love letter is an almost extinct art form. “We’ve See Love letters, page 11 Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

Love letters: Continued from page 10

given in to texting. Sexting isn’t all that high of an art form. It may be gratifying for a moment, but returning to a tangible piece of writing can, ultimately, be more satisfying. Some people may have never read or may have never written a love letter. The tactile riches of opening an envelope sealed with the tongue of one’s love interest can create a new romance or rekindle an old one. A good pen with good ink can combine with quality paper to deliver an important message.

A perfectly individualized note from someone who has affection for you in your mailbox? How fun is it to find a stamp that may have some symbolism for both of you? How much value is there in the lasting memory of a love letter? How much are we missing by not addressing our valentine with our own handwritten card or letter? The letter is a cost effective and quite complete way of conveying our thoughts to someone we care deeply about.”

In the description of the second workshop, he writes: “There will be a discussion of these authors and what goes into writing a meaningful or lasting love poem. Enrich your own relationship by writing your own love poem in class or become inspired to express yourself with a wellcrafted note to your valentine.”

Asked what makes a meaningful or lasting love poem and to describe any personal experiences, Frank shared the following: “A love poem must convey the sentiment of the admirer while stimulating the interest of the admired. Ideally, that’s the way it works.

There are rhetorical and poetic devices that are used to that end. Even still, there are situations in which that’s not possible. There are romances that fail. Love doesn’t fail. But we are human. An open expression is paramount to any poem. We all learn what it is like to experience rejection.

So we put ourselves on the line when we communicate how we truly feel. We’ve all had to learn to kindly reject others who have opened their hearts to us as well. Whether we succeed in love or whether we fail miserably trying, the Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

effort that can be documented in our writing is a worthwhile activity. I’ve written love poems for a few sweethearts.

Some even wrote me back.

When that kind of emotional exchange happens, the experience can be exhilarating.

The closest we can become as human beings is not necessarily in the physical realm but in the experience made possible with words.”

If you go: What: Frank Dixon Graham’s The Literature of Love course Where: Reagan Room inside the Clunie Center (third floor), 601 Alhambra Blvd.

Cost: Free When: Wednesdays, Feb. 1 and Feb. 8 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Who: The program is open to adults aged 18 to 81 years and older

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LION The MPAA has rated this PG-13 The Weinstein Company releases this movie to critical acclaim and in the process, it has garnered four Golden Globe nominations. Based on true events, it is the story of a five-year old Indian boy, Saroo Brierley (Sunny Pawar), who, whilst bored waiting for his brother to return, climbs in an old railroad car and falls asleep, only be awakened by a sense of movement. The decommissioned rail car was on a long train ride to a scrap heap. Trapped aboard, he is taken thousands of miles from his home village. In the sea of humanity that is Calcutta, he is lost, orphaned. He is adopted by an Australian couple who rear him to adulthood. The adoptive mother is played by Nicole Kidman. Actor Dev Patel plays Saroo as an adult. The adult Saroo becomes fascinated to find his long lost brother and mother and village of origin. He becomes obsessed with finding out the lost pieces that evade his memory, that of a child’s eye of the world. He embarks on an adventure of discovery.

As lauded as this picture has been in recent months in its tour of film festivals, etc, I did not find it a solid movie, with likable Patel’s performance not really selling me on his character’s motivations. Kidman turns in a typical study of a slightly off, frigid woman with a big heart, the type she excels in playing, yet not a real stretch for her talents. I was just not as impressed by this movie as have been some of my colleagues.

WHY HIM? The MPAA has rated this R Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation offers a movie that had me asking why me? Or, just plain why? As in; why did they bother to make this picture in the first place. The tired old plot of a father (Bryan Cranston) who faces the biggest nightmare, that of his daughter (Zoey Deutch) wanting to marry a less than ideal husband (James Franco), one riddled tattoos, has a fowl mouth and yes, just hap-

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pens to be a tech billionaire. This is strictly pay TV fodder that has no place on the big screen, in spite of the participation of Bryan Cranston. At least good actors got to work. Among them, the fun Cedric the Entertainer, Megan Mullally as the mother, and young and talented Griffin Gluck, an adolescent seen in many pictures of recent. There is even the appearance of two of the popular band members of the rock band “Kiss”. The jokes are crude and the comedy is focused on the lowest common denominator. I hope you hold a higher standard for your movie entertainment than this, I sure do.

LA LA LAND The MPAA has rated this PG-13 Run, don’t walk to see this! Summit Entertainment’s “La La Land” is distributed by Lions Gate. Director Damien Chazelle has, at 31 years of age, made a musical movie love letter to Hollywood past and present. Homages abound, but the picture remains its own special story, told along the lines of “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”. The singing of the musical numbers are not in the modern Broadway style (which I do NOT care for) but more reminiscent of the natural style of singers in classic movie musicals, with more subtle nuance. Right off the bat, the Summit logo is in the academy ratio (the square look of classic movies) and black and white, dissolving to the CinemaScope logo which dissolves to color and the masking (side edges of the image)move out to reveal the CinemaScope aspect ratio. We think Mr. Chazelle has been watching our Current Cinema Reviews online in video form!!! (We

have done that for 3 years now...) I knew from that moment on there would be screen magic and it is a delight from start to finish. Ms. Emma Stone is a pure joy and the popular Mr. Ryan Gosling dances well and captures your attention. Contemporary, yet classic. Hollywood! More movies like this!!! Made with LOVE in Hollywood, U.S.A.

JACKIE The MPAA has rated this R Fox Searchlight Pictures offers “Jackie” a powerful film and performance that will long linger in your mind. Chilean director Pablo Larrain, who made the well received “Gloria” in 2013 and is soon to release his bio-pic about Pablo Neruda entitled “Neruda” navigated the numbing days surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as recalled by his wife, Jackie and told from her perspective in flashback, during an interview.

Jackie Kennedy is played by Natalie Portman. She recalls her experience shortly after leaving the white house to a reporter played by Billy Cudrup, telling him with direct and vivid frankness her thoughts without filter, only to tell him later that he can’t print any of it and it is off the record. But not before we have seen it represented and told. Portman is nothing less than sensational in her portrayal of a remarkable woman of poise holding it together as the world watched. In support, Sacramento actress, Greta Gerwig as Nancy Tuckerman, John Hurt as her priest, and Peter Sarsgaard as Bobby Kennedy. Some graphic scenes of the assassination motorcade are sudden and rough, but tastefully handled.

Around 200 bands will be providing live music for East Sacramento businesses as part of the national Porchfest festival on May 27.

Porchfest is a free, family-friendly event that aims to bring communities together by showcasing local musicians at restaurants, galleries and homes around East Sacramento.

One hundred hosts and 200 bands will play 30 to 45 minute sets starting at 11 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m.

Musical genres will run the entire spectrum ranging from jazz to rock and everything in between.

It has become a tradition that each year, a different charity or organization is chosen as the beneficiary of the donations collected during the festival.

This year’s donations will be given to Fisher House, an organization that provides free lodging to veterans and their families.

Each venue will serve as a donation station, with patrons and concert-goers being asked to provide a monetary donation.

After the event, these venues will then write a check to Fisher House as a donation.

Naturally, a competition of sorts forms with hosts competing to see who can raise the most donations.

Last year, Porchfest was held in the Boulevard Park area of Sacramento with donations going to Mustard Seed School, a private school that serves homeless chvvildren for free in the Sacramento area.

Interested performers or hosts can call 642-5424 or email eastsacporchfest@gmail.com with questions regarding participation in Porchfest.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 21 SABRINA’S CRAFT CORNER – Got any knitting supplies you’re not using? This month, join us for the annual Knitting Exchange! Bring what you have, take what you like. This free, adult program takes place Saturday, Jan. 21, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento.

FRIDAY, JAN. 27 MINECRAFT GAMING – Like building and creating new worlds in Minecraft? Come join us for an afternoon of Minecraft gaming! Each player will be given their own computer to battle with friends on our library server or build new creations and in creative, survival, or hardcore mode. Players of any level of experience are welcome to join. This is a school-age and teen program.

Friday, Jan. 27 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento.

SATURDAY, JAN. 28 BENEFITING WEAVE: “LOUDER THAN WOLVES: TAKING A STAND AGAINST RAPE”: Rape is a problem in our society. Silence is not the answer but it is the only choice for many. On Saturday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. at the Historic Colonial Theatre in Sacramento, filmmakers, artists, musicians, poets, dancers, aerialists, and more unite their talents in order to give a voice to the voiceless and inspire positive change.

Louder Than Wolves: Taking a Stand Against Rape is produced by Tim Meunier, Rebel Rose, & Jamie DeWolf and is hosted by Jamie DeWolf & Jaz Sufi.

Dance Performances by Audrey Von Price, Christa Quinn, Mone’t Ha-Sidi, Skye Monroe, Bella Badonkadonk; Spoken Word/ Poetry By: Jamie DeWolf, Nancy Levine, Jaz Sufi Belly Dance Art by: Verbatim, Melissa Reyes Aerialist Arts by Rebel Rose, SacCirque, VicKnives, Katie Nicole, Croalia Musical performance by Rachel Lark Short Films include: “Quiet Culture” Directed by Cody Martin, “Girls Don’t Cry Wolf ” directed by John Chigas & Anna Eva Kotyza All proceeds benefit Sacramento WEAVE. There will be a minimum donation of $10 that will be asked. Tickets will only be sold at the door. Event page: https:// www.facebook.com/events/1320141231383228/

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1 LITERATURE OF LOVE, LECTURE 1: In lecture one of Frank Dixon Graham’s first lecture in the Literature of Love series, attendees will learn about the greatest love correspondents of all time. Why did they write the best love letters? What did these lovers have to say?

How did they express themselves and what stories are behind their romantic correspondences? Attendees will hear a brief history of love letters and their star-crossed lovers. Participants may write their own love letters in class. The authors we discuss and the reading of romantic letters will be certain to inspire. Class starts at 7 p.m. at the Clunie Community Center, 601 Alhambra Blvd.

The program is open to adults aged 18 to 81 years and older. There is no cost associated with either session. It is free and open to the public.

SAC STATE’S NEW MILLENNIUM CONCERT SERIES kicks off with The Mexico City Woodwind Quintet, 7:30 p.m. in the Capistrano Concert Hall, on campus 6000 J St. This is the Northern California debut for Mexico’s most distinguished wind ensemble. The program features a rich array of music, including Piazzolla’s “Tema de Maria.” Tickets are $20 general, $15 seniors and $10 students, available at (916) 278-4323 or www.csus.edu/hornettickets

SATURDAY, FEB. 4 19TH ANNUAL “SACRAMENTO MUSEUM DAY”: With 26 museums and local destinations participating, the 2017 Sacramento Museum Day is proudly presented by Sutter Health and Bank of America. To the delight of the greater Sacramento area community, the participating local museums will offer free or half-priced admission from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, February 4, 2017, during the 19th annuValley Community Newspapers, Inc.

al event. Most of the more than 25 museums will offer free admission whereas two destinations located in residential areas -- the Sacramento Zoo and Fairytale Town -- will offer half-priced admission to offset parking and traffic control costs. Many of the museums are within walking distance of each other and easily accessible via public transportation. Event coordinators suggest that guests plan to visit no more than two or three different museums on this day in order to allow adequate time to enjoy the experience and to travel between individual sites. In addition to offering free or reduced cost admission, many of the destinations are offering special activities during Sacramento Museum Day. The activities range from special staffing by docents (for some smaller museums not normally open on Saturdays) to the following: The California Agriculture Museum is opening Golden Landscapes, a photography exhibit by Carson Jefferies. The museum is also featuring the book California’s Thirst for Tractors and guests can meet the author Jack Alexander at noon that day; California Museum will offer free hands-on activities including an interactive family history/immigration project and a selfie photo booth where visitors may pledge to become a unity activist and submit their photos for a chance to be featured in the Unity Center exhibit opening summer of 2017; California State Library will offer a 3-D exhibit showing historic photos on a 3D monitor, an historically themed scavenger hunt, a touch-screen of visual images from their collection, a tactile map of California from their Braille and Talking book library along with a special display of technology used by the visually impaired, and a special exhibit on the third floor featuring editorial cartoons; Maidu Museum & Historic Site will offer trail tours, children’s activities, tables for grinding acorns and beaded bracelets or necklaces; The Sacramento History Museum will offer their always-popular gold panning activities for kids outside in front of the Museum; The Old Sacramento Schoolhouse Museum will serve punch and cake as well as provide short lessons by interesting teachers all to celebrate the anniversary of Sacramento’s first public school in February 1854; The Roseville Utility Exploration Center will present a hands-on “Bird and Bug Bonanza” with interactive activities such as a creek crawl, build your own bluebird home, story time with the Bug Squad and more; Sacramento Children’s Museum will offer lots of handson activities including the popular Mission Imagination.

While admission is free at most of the participating museums during Sacramento Museum Day, admission to two destinations located in residential areas are halfpriced as follows: Sacramento Zoo is $7.50 for adults, $5 for children ages 2-11 and free for children under two; Fairytale Town is $2.88 per person and free for children ages one and under.

Due to the popularity of Sacramento Museum Day, some locations must limit the number of admissions for safety reasons. The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. but note the last guests will be admitted at 4 p.m.

More detailed information about participating museums, addresses, limitations, suggested parking and public transit options is available at www.sacmuseums.org (click on “News & Events”), or by calling Visit California at (916) 808-7777.

Participating Museums for Sacramento Museum Day 2017*: California Agriculture Museum – California Automobile Museum – California Museum – California State Capitol Museum – California State Library – California State Railroad Museum – Don & June Salvatori California Pharmacy Museum – Fairytale Town – Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park – Locke Boarding House Museum – Maidu Museum & Historic Site (Roseville) – Museum of Medical History – Old Sacramento Schoolhouse Museum – Old Sacramento State Historic Park – Powerhouse Science Center Discovery Campus – Roseville Utility Exploration Center – Sacramento Children’s Museum – Sacramento Historic City Cemetery – Sacramento History Museum – Sacramento Zoo – Sojourner Truth African American Museum – State Indian Museum – Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park – Verge Center for the Arts – Wells Far-

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Best Bets BENEFITING WEAVE: “LOUDER THAN WOLVES: TAKING A STAND AGAINST RAPE”: Rape is a problem in our society. Silence is not the answer but it is the only choice for many. On Saturday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. at the Historic Colonial Theatre in Sacramento, filmmakers, artists, musicians, poets, dancers, aerialists, and more unite their talents in order to give a voice to the voiceless and inspire positive change.

Louder Than Wolves: Taking a Stand Against Rape is produced by Tim Meunier, Rebel Rose, & Jamie DeWolf and is hosted by Jamie DeWolf & Jaz Sufi.

Dance Performances by Audrey Von Price, Christa Quinn, Mone’t Ha-Sidi, Skye Monroe, Bella Badonkadonk; Spoken Word/ Poetry By: Jamie DeWolf, Nancy Levine, Jaz Sufi Belly Dance Art by: Verbatim, Melissa Reyes Aerialist Arts by Rebel Rose, SacCirque, VicKnives, Katie Nicole, Croalia Musical performance by Rachel Lark Short Films include: “Quiet Culture” Directed by Cody Martin, “Girls Don’t Cry Wolf ” directed by John Chigas & Anna Eva Kotyza All proceeds benefit Sacramento WEAVE. There will be a minimum donation of $10 that will be asked. Tickets will only be sold at the door. Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1320141231383228/ go History Museum (Capitol Mall) – Wells Fargo History Museum (Old Sacramento) . *SAM member museums not able to participate in the 2017 Sacramento Museum Day include: Aerospace Museum of California (closed in preparation to open a major exhibit on 2/6/17); California Statewide Museum Collections Center; Crocker Art Museum (charging $5 admission that day) and the Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park (closed to the public).

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 LITERATURE OF LOVE, LECTURE 2: In Frank Dixon Graham’s second lecture in the Literature of Love series, just one week following the love letter talk and less than a week before Valentine’s Day, we’ll read some of the best love poems ever written. There will be a discussion of these authors and what goes into writing a meaningful or lasting love poem. Enrich your own relationship by writing your own love poem in class or become inspired to express yourself with a well-crafted note to your valentine. Class starts at 7 p.m. at the Clunie Community Center, 601 Alhambra Blvd. The program is open to adults aged 18 to 81 years and older.

There is no cost associated with either session. It is free and open to the public.

ONGOING FE GALLERY PRESENTS AN ART BENEFIT FOR THE SHORT CENTER NORTH: There will be art featured by the students and faculty of the “Short Center North” now until Jan. 31 at Fe Gallery. The Short Center North (SCN), a component of DDSO, has provided arts training to adults with developmental disabilities in the Sacramento area for over 35 years.

The Short Centers were founded in 1975 by Mary Short, wife of Senator Alan Short, who co-authored of the historic Lanterman (LPS) Act, which guaranteed rights for people with disabilities. SCN is truly an artistic treasure in our community. Many of you have seen artwork by SCN artists at such diverse venues such as the California State Fair, the CrockerArt Museum, the State Capitol, and countless galleries and businesses throughout our community. Literally 1000’s of adults with disabilities have benefited from attending The Short Centers. SCN provides more than arts training. Through the arts it provides an opportunity for persons with disabilities to develop life skills, form meaningful friendships, and to become part of our community. SCN is more than a place to go – it is a way of life for our clients. http://ddsoarts.org/; https://ddso. org/project/short-center-north/ Gallery hours are as follows: 2nd Saturday Hours Front Gallery & Metal Shop 6:00pm ‒ 9:00pm; Monthly Daytime Hours Gallery Monday Friday 9:00am‒4:00pm; Most 3rd & 4th Saturdays 2:00pm - 4:00pm call first; after hour appointments available.

1100 65th St. Sacramento, CA 95819. For more information, call 456-4455.

KNITTING CIRCLE – Any adult interested in knitting — even an absolute beginner — is invited to join.

Participants can learn to knit, or get help on current projects and advice from expert knitters. Don’t forget to bring your knitting needles and yarn. Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon at McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento.

ONE-ON-ONE TECHNOLOGY HELP – Are you curious about eBooks but not sure how to get started?

Is your tablet or eReader a mystery? Do you need basic computer help such as creating e-mail accounts and using the internet? Come meet with a Technology Assistant! Sessions are first-come, first-served and last 30 minutes. This free, adult program takes place on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. at McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento.

TEEN SPACE – Looking for something fun to do after school? Need a place where you’re free to hang out with your friends and have a snack? Come to the McKinley Library Teen Space, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 18 and 25, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento.

GOOGLE CS FIRST CODING CLUB – Ever thought of making your own music video? Want to design a digital instrument? Come join your friends for these and other fun projects at the Google CS First Coding Club - Music and Sound. Spots are limited, and registration is required for this 8-week program – sign up online or at your local library today! This program is recommended for young people aged 10 – 14. Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. starting Jan. 12 at McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento.

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