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A Season of Doings THE END OF SUMMER BRINGS A CALENDAR FULL OF FUN EVENTS

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s a die-hard fan of Sacramento’s spring and summer weather, I used to greet the approach of fall with reservation rather than enthusiasm. But in recent years, September has become a month I eagerly await.

Coming up this month are three events I’d like to recommend to our readers: Urban Renaissance Home Tour, Capital Artists Studio Tour (also known as Sac Open Studios) and Farm-to-Fork Celebration.

Urban Renaissance Home Tour is a new name for an event that has been held for more than 15 years.

Formerly called the East Sacramento Home Remodeling Tour, the one-day event on Sunday, Sept. 28, features five new or remodeled homes in East Sacramento. Tour goers can check out the latest trends in kitchens and baths, second-story additions and brand-new homes built with vintage charm to blend seamlessly into historic neighborhoods. Home remodeling is extremely popular in our older urban neighborhoods, and people love to go on the tour to

get ideas for their own projects, or just see how our neighborhoods are upgrading.

I founded the tour in 1996 to encourage remodeling that respects the character of our older neighborhoods. Two of my own homes have been on the tour a total of three times. People were exceptionally gracious and complimentary, and we loved sharing information to help people with their own projects.

Finding homeowners willing to open up their homes is an annual challenge. It takes a special person or couple, and each year I am so grateful for the generosity of those who participate. This month, we are running a story on the lovely home of Mike and Kelly Paris whose home is on the tour.

The tour is sponsored by Friends of East Sacramento, a volunteerled nonprofit that my partner Lisa Schmidt and I manage. We lease Clunie Community Center and McKinley Rose Garden from the city of Sacramento and have raised more than $250,000 to restore both historic facilities. All tour proceeds go to the McKinley Park Renewal Fund to help maintain and improve the community center and the rose garden.

Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 on the day of the tour. Visit sacurbanhometour.com or East Sac Hardware for tickets.

The most frequent compliment we receive on our publications is directed toward our covers. Folks love the original local artwork we feature.

By far the best part of my job as publisher is the time I spend looking

at art and meeting the artists who create it.

Come September, I eagerly await Sac Open Studios, which this year will be held over two weekends: Sept.

13-14 and Sept. 20-21. My friend Cheryl Holben, chair of Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, founded the tour in 2006 when she was a board member of Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento. Since then, the tour has become the largest Sacramento art event of its kind. This year, more than 125 artists will open their studios to participate in this free event.

Sac Open Studios offers an opportunity for members of the community to connect with local artists and purchase all types of art.

Sac Open Studios offers an opportunity for members of the community to connect with local artists and purchase all types of art. Visiting art studios is quite interesting. Some artists work out of individual spaces inside of a collective such as Verge Center for the Arts or Sacramento Art Complex. Others work in their homes or garages, or in warehouse or industrial spaces. If you go on the tour, you will see artists at

work and have a chance to meet and talk with them about their work.

The tour is organized by location.

The Sept. 13-14 tour features artists who work in downtown, Midtown, Land Park, Curtis Park, Natomas, North Sac, Pocket-Greenhaven and Southside Park. The Sept. 20-21 tour features artists who work in East Sacramento, Arden Arcade, Carmichael, Oak Park, Tahoe Park and Fair Oaks.

To best prepare for the tour, go to the preview exhibition opening Sept.

11 at Verge Center for the Arts, which features a representative piece from each participating artist. You can pick up a free tour program at Verge (625 S St.) or at University Art (2601 J St.).

Incidentally, our cover art on all four editions this month features work by artists on the tour. Each year I find at least one new piece of art to add to my collection. Last year I purchased four small paintings, two by artists that have been on our covers.

The last September event I’d like to recommend is the 2014 Farm-toFork Celebration, which takes place Sept. 13-28. During that time, local restaurants will host special events, offer special farm-to-fork menus and supply opportunities for the public to meet farmers, winemakers and brewers who define Sacramento’s culinary scene.

The Farm-to-Fork Festival on Saturday, Sept. 27, is a free event on Capitol Mall designed to demonstrate where our food and drink come from.

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Park Trees at Risk CONCERNS GROW OVER PROPER CARE OF PARK TREES BY CITY

BY CRAIG POWELL

system, but I must admit I’ve found no experience comparable to gazing up into the 120-foot magnificence of a McKinley English elm.) The tour was led by arborist Anne Fenkner of Sacramento Tree Foundation, a uniquely Sacramento institution that quietly goes about the challenging business of fending off threats to trees in our region from urbanization, disease and poor care practices.

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irst, let’s establish how important trees are to Sacramento and its residents.

We are, after all, “the city of trees,” as the large water tower in the south part of town advises travelers driving up I-5. But it is much more than just a slogan to us. It is an essential element of our identity and a key part of Sacramento’s enviable livability. We instinctually named many of our neighborhoods after our parks (Land, McKinley, Curtis, Tahoe, etc.).

When I served on the board of Land Park Community Association a few years ago, we surveyed more than 1,000 residents about the most important concerns of Land Park residents. Preservation of the tree canopy outscored every other concern, including crime, by a huge margin.

With issues of air quality and climate change, concern for Sacramento’s tree canopy has only grown in recent years. In short, trees are a very big deal to us.

Last week, I joined two dozen folks in taking a tour of McKinley Park’s remarkable trees. (I live near William Land Park, the jewel of the city park

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According to tree experts, mature trees should receive a “deep watering” for at least an hour or two every two to three weeks.

The tour was less a showing-off of McKinley’s trees than a visit through a trauma ward, including a large, completely barren area where two giant elms had stood just weeks before, victims of the insidious Dutch elm disease. The tour included trees so parched that their normally rubbery leafs now have the feel of dry leather, the results of cells shutting down due to lack of water.

We witnessed a struggling volunteerbased triage operation organized led by the tree foundation (dubbed Mulch Madness) to mulch around tree trunks in order to capture critical moisture in the soil—except that there is really almost no moisture to capture.

The overall appearance of McKinley Park is simply deplorable.

A contractor installing new $300,000plus restrooms in June mistakenly cut into a major water line, not once but multiple times, cutting off all water to the park for a two-week period. Water was also shut off to a large portion of the park for an extended time last summer during the herculean neighborhood effort to build a new playground to replace the one torched by arsonists. City officials reportedly hoped that winter rains would revive the browned-out grass. The rains never came, and parts of McKinley are now hardpan.

According to tree experts, mature trees should receive a “deep watering” for at least an hour or two every two to three weeks. But nowhere in the city park system are trees currently receiving such watering, according to reports of both senior park officials and park maintenance workers. What are the consequences of skipping deep watering of park trees over time?

Greater susceptibility to disease, tree weakness, shortened life spans and tree death.

A Bee article recently quoted Elizabeth Anderson, operations manager for the city’s parks and recreation department, saying that the city is watering its parks two days a week for only 20 minutes (more for sports fields), even though the city’s watering ordinance imposes no time limit on watering. City watering rules limit watering to two days per week and restrict the hours of watering (not after 10 a.m. or before 7 p.m.), but they do not restrict sprinkler times other than a general prohibition

against running sprinklers long enough to generate runoff. So why is the city so restrictive in its watering of city parks that it’s endangering not just turf, but the long-term health and viability of 50- and 100-year-old legacy trees in city parks? To save water, seemingly at all costs.

Have city officials made a conscious policy decision to sacrifice the health and risk the early death of mature park trees for the sake of hitting a 20 percent water conservation goal that the city seeks to reach? If so, the public has had no part in the decision.

It hasn’t been the subject of debate at a city council hearing.

The city must take the lead in planning such projects and funding reserve accounts to raise the local contribution that such grants typically require.

According to recent reports, Sacramento is already far ahead of the statewide average in achieving water savings, even though Sacramento enjoys Cadillac-level senior water rights to both the Sacramento and American rivers. In April, the city issued a press release bragging that while the city, as a whole, had reduced its use by 16 percent, city government CITY HALL page 10

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turf (at a cost), but we cannot replace 50- or 100-year-old majestic trees in itself had reduced its use of water by the next budget cycle. Nor do budget 54 percent over the previous two-year numbers begin to gauge the harm to average of water use. (Last month, the community of a policy that, if not the city announced that citywide reversed, could lay waste to our city consumption of water was now down parks (which is, arguably, already 22 percent from last June’s levels.) occurring in McKinley Park).

Meanwhile, statewide water use The city is now trying to sell the actually increased in May by 1 percent slogan “gold is the new green.” As compared with the May average over city officials whip up enthusiasm the past two years. in support of a single-minded focus By reducing its water use, the city on water conservation targets, is imperiling some of Sacramento’s perhaps they ought to pause and most treasured assets: our park consider what is most important to trees. At a certain point, gung-ho Sacramento citizens. I have a copy enthusiasm for an admirable and of the survey of Land Park residents worthwhile single goal becomes that I’d be happy to share with them. reckless fanaticism. The city’s I offer my own slogan: Our tree relentless focus on reduction of water canopy is the real green. use is making bureaucrats scared to What can the city do to halt use water out of fear of being called the damage its watering policies out for screwing up the city’s water are doing to city trees? Based on conservation performance. But numerous conversations I’ve had governing means having to handle with park officials, arborists and park more than one goal or priority at a maintenance workers, it appears time. We cannot throw the baby—our the first action that should be taken park trees—out with the bath water, is to begin deep watering of most so to speak. We can easily replant park trees once every two weeks,

setting sprinklers on low flow where technically feasible. Secondly, the city should mobilize its park workers to clear grass and weeds from much of the drip zone of park trees (which has already been done in several parks) and mulch these areas to a depth of at least 4 inches to preserve moisture.

Finally, it should broadly aerate the soil around park trees to allow water to more easily penetrate the tightly compacted soil that is typical of high-use parks. None of these steps requires significant cost, and park volunteer groups will likely help.

Parks officials, in close collaboration with tree experts in the city’s urban forestry section, should also start engaging in serious long-range planning for reforestation of the city’s older parks, working with park volunteer corps and neighborhood groups as well as urban forestry specialists and other stakeholders. A great many trees in our older parks were planted 70, 80 or 100 years ago and are at or near the end of their natural lives. There is no time to waste in planning for an

orderly and strategic replanting of appropriate park trees.

A great many trees in our older parks were planted 70, 80 or 100 years ago and are at or near the end of their natural lives. There is no time to waste in planning for an orderly and strategic replanting of appropriate park trees.

Additionally, city officials need to get serious about funding replacement of aging and increasingly decrepit park irrigations systems, CITY HALL page 13

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216 O Street • Downtown Sacramento 916.808.7000 • crockerartmuseum.org CITY HALL FROM page 10 particularly in our older parks. Since the city doesn’t have water meters on individual valves, it has no way of knowing how much water it’s losing to leaking water pipes beneath our parks. Park irrigation systems have been neglected for decades.

Parks maintenance manager Shannon Brown has had the difficult job of managing park maintenance crews in an era of severely depleted staffing levels. She has to cope with the creaky irrigation systems and hit water conservation targets while trying to keep the parks green.

She’s also a keen observer of the city budgeting process. “Nobody wants to invest in anything that they can’t see and touch,” she says. “Perhaps we need to find a way to make irrigation projects look sexy to secure funding.”

Brown also advises that we should “replace what is hugely aged before we put new things in parks that we cannot afford to maintain.”

The “sexy” element may come from the water savings that the replacement of leaky park irrigation

systems would bring. While Measure U provided $850,000 for park irrigation projects, it’s a small fraction of what is needed.

But the city must take the lead in planning such projects and funding reserve accounts to raise the local contribution that such grants typically require. Now would be an awfully good time to start.

Brown is understandably nervous about approving the planting of new or replacement park trees, which require more frequent deep watering than mature trees, until she’s satisfied that park irrigation systems and city watering policies will allow for the delivery of the water new trees need to thrive.

Next month, I’ll cover a city effort to completely revamp the city’s tree policies and ordinances, including a proposal to expand the city’s regulatory reach over trees on private property. How do you like the idea of having to secure a city permit to trim any trees on your property that are 4 inches or greater in diameter?

City staff also wants to pass off to residents in older neighborhoods responsibility for maintaining trees in the maintenance easements along the fronts of their lots. A sizable stakeholders group has been meeting with city staff and city consultants for almost a year on the subject, but the proposals, so far at least, have received no media coverage. We’ll fix that next month.

I find it ironic, and more than a little hypocritical, that the city is seeking to dictate to private citizens how to best care for their own trees while, at the same time, the city is putting city park trees in peril with its unduly restrictive watering policies.

As the old proverb goes, “Physician, heal thyself.”

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Some Like It Hot FIRE PERFORMANCE ART WILL HEAT UP LAND PARK

just sitting around on the ground around the perimeter of the Swanston area probably for the past 70 years or longer. As chief engineer on the project, Forrest did a marvelous job of overseeing all details of the project.

Bravo, Forrest and our great LPVC team!”

Check in at Base Camp on Sept.

6 behind Fairytale Town (3901 Land Park Drive) and enjoy a tasty breakfast donated by Espresso Metro and a filling lunch provided by a generous anonymous donor.

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ummer sure is hot in Sacramento, but the seventh annual Fire Spectacular on Saturday, Sept. 20, from 6 to 10 p.m. at William A. Carroll Amphitheater in Land Park is going to heat things up even more.

Fire Spectacular celebrates fire performance art in all its forms, including fire breathing, fire eating, fire hooping, fire dancing and more.

This year’s festivities will include troupes from across the West.

Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $10 for youths 9 through 18, and free for children 8 and younger.

Group discounts are available. For tickets and more information, go to sacredfiredance.com William A. Carroll Amphitheater is in William Land Park at 3901 South Land Park Drive.

CORPS VALUES It’s “mulch” ado about something in Land Park this month when the Land Park Volunteers Corps meets on Saturday, Sept. 6, from 8 to 11 a.m. to continue the process of beautifying the park for all to enjoy. Mulch is a key ingredient in keeping the park

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Mulch is a key ingredient in keeping the park pretty; it suppresses weeds and keeps plant roots moist.

For more information, contact Powell at ckpinsacto@aol.com or 7183030. Donations are gladly accepted and can be sent to Land Park Volunteer Corps, 3052 Freeport Blvd., #231, Sacramento, CA 95818.

Fire Spectacular celebrates fire performance art in all its forms, including fire breathing, fire eating, fire hooping, fire dancing and more.

Photo courtesy of Andy Pischalnikoff.

pretty; it suppresses weeds and keeps plant roots moist.

While you’re in the park lending a hand, be sure to check out two new stone benches in the Swanston garden area. The benches were constructed by corps volunteers out of abandoned stone slabs.

“They are absolutely beautiful,” says Craig Powell, the corps’ lead coordinator. “Forrest, Dennis, Bob, Mike and Rick—as well as Dwayne, Richard and Tiger of the city crew—did just a terrific job of constructing these benches, using two large slabs of granite that had been

DOINGS AT FAIRYTALE TOWN Grandma and Grandpa can get in on the Fairytale Town fun this month on Sunday, Sept. 7, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. As part of National Grandparents Day, all grandmas and grandpas will receive free admission when they bring the grandtykes (kids ages 0 to 12).

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The first book, inspired by David’s eldest daughter Murphy, won third place in Feathered Quill Book Reviews’ contest for best illustrated children’s book. The second installment features David’s younger daughter McKay. When a little boy at school gets McKay thinking about what she wants to be when she grows up, there’s no stopping her imagination.

David hopes to remind young kids— especially little girls—that there are no limits to what you can do when you let your imagination run free.

David is working on the next book in the Magical Hat series. To purchase the books or for more information, go to katedavidbooks.com

Fairytale Town will offer piratethemed activities in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day on Friday, Sept.

19. Pirates-to-be will learn pirate vocabulary, songs of the sea and tales of high-seas adventure at Pirate Skool. The event is free with paid park admission.

ScholarShare Children’s Book Festival will take place Saturday, Sept. 27, and Sunday, Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. During the twoday early literacy extravaganza (the largest of its kind in the region), participants can enjoy readings by children’s book authors and illustrators, performances by storytellers—including headliner Barney Saltzberg, author of “Beautiful Oops” and 50 other children’s books—and tons of interactive booths sponsored by kid-friendly groups like KVIE Public Television, Sacramento Public Library and more.

For more information on all Fairytale Town events, call 808-7462 or go to fairytaletown.org Fairytale Town is at 3901 Land Park Drive.

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PLAY’S THE THING The Sacramento Play Summit comes to Central Library on Saturday, Sept. 13, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The all-day informational event aims to highlight the importance of all kinds of play on child development. Keynote speaker Dr. Stuart Brown, founder of the National Institute for Play and author of “Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul,” will share tips and tricks for incorporating play into each day. General registration begins Sept. 1. It costs $45 per person or $35 for students, seniors and members of Fairytale Town, Friends of the Sacramento Library and ScholarShare account holders. For more information, call 808-7462.

Central Library is at 828 I St.

All grandmas and grandpas will receive free admission to Fairytale Town when they bring the grandkids on Sunday, Sept. 7

New stone benches in the Swanston garden area constructed with abandoned stone slabs by members of the Land Park Volunteers Corps

HATS OFF TO KATE! Land Park resident Kate David, author of the children’s book

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“Murphy and the Magical Hat,” has published a second book in the series: “McKay and the Magical Hat.”

Are you over 55 years old with a hankering for tea and tigers? Then don’t miss Senior Tea & Tours on Mondays, Sept. 8 and 15, from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Sacramento Zoo. Adults 55 and over can register for a special tour of the zoo, followed by a tea service complete with snacks.

Tickets are $15 per person. Two-week advance reservations are required.

Call 808-5888.

In honor of Deaf Awareness Day, the deaf and hard-of-hearing community is invited to a special event at the zoo on Saturday, Sept.

13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sponsored

by NorCal Services for Deaf & Hard of Hearing, the event will have ASL interpreters on-site all day.

Do you love those red, furry faces that look more like foxes than panda bears? Don’t miss Red Panda Day on Saturday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., a special, interactive event that aims to raise awareness and funds for red panda conservation. All donations will go to Red Panda Network, an organization that seeks to save these adorable endangered creatures and preserve their natural habitat through community-based research, education and carbon mitigation.

For more information on all zoo events, call 808-5888 or go to saczoo. org The Sacramento Zoo is at 3930 West Land Park Drive.

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NICE RACKS If you like to ride your bike around Land Park, you might notice a new place to park: at the custom-made bike-rack art installation in front of the Sacramento Zoo. The reclaimed-metal bike rack was handmade by local sculptural welder Gina Rossi. The three larger-than-life sculptures in front of the zoo give bike commuters a place to park when visiting the zoo, Fairytale Town, Funderland and Land Park itself.

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SEASON’S GREETINGS Camellia Symphony Orchestra kicks off its 52nd season on Saturday, Sept. 27, at Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center.

The dazzling program will include Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski’s “Little Suite,” Tchaikovsky’s “Variations on a Rococo Theme” featuring cello soloist Susan Lamb

Cook, and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 3 (Eroica).”

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ST. ROBERT’S FALL FESTIVAL On Sunday, Sept. 28, St. Robert’s Church and School will host its 56th annual Fall Festival. Included this year is a craft fair with a variety of handmade gifts, home décor and seasonal items. Games, food and bingo for the entire family will also be available.

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Carl Naake FOCUSING ON FAIRYTALE TOWN

BY JESSICA LASKEY VOLUNTEER PROFILE

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or Carl Naake, joining the Fairytale Town board of directors just seemed natural.

“I grew up in the Land Park area, so I was very interested in helping out,” Naake says on a break from his day job as the owner of Scott-Naake Paper Company, a paper products distributor started by his dad in 1946.

“I really enjoy being on the board.

It’s really positive because of Fairytale Town itself. It’s a fun place to bring your young kids, and it’s really well maintained.

Though he currently lives in Loomis with his family, Naake has always felt connected to his native neighborhood. So when a fellow member of the 20-30 Club called him about joining Fairytale Town’s board, it was a perfect match.

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Fairytale Town board member Carl Naake. Photo courtesy of Rochelle Pastor.

“I really enjoy being on the board,” Naake says. “It’s really positive because of Fairytale Town itself.

It’s a fun place to bring your young kids, and it’s really well maintained.

Executive director Kathy Fleming has done a wonderful job focusing on that.

She’s really turned it around.”

Naake has done a stellar job in his own right of maintaining the family business that his dad started after World War II. The company distributes paper cups, napkins and the like to delis, bakeries and restaurants in a 70-mile radius

around its Richards Boulevard warehouse.

“After college, I came to work at my dad’s company to give it a try,” Naake recalls. “About two months later, my dad’s business partner was killed in car accident, so I had to decide if I was in or out. I’ve been there ever since. It was one of those defining moments.”

Naake’s dedication is evident in his extracurricular activities as well.

He’s been a very active member of the Fairytale Town board since 2007 (even serving as its president in 2012) and a member of Point West Rotary

Club for years. In 2013, he was named Rotarian of the Year. He hosts Fairytale Town fundraisers with fellow board members, and now his kids are even getting in on the act.

“We moved to Loomis when my kids were small, but they definitely went to Fairytale Town,” Naake says. “Now that they’re in their 20s, they help support the fundraisers.”

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The Champion of Buy Local SHE WANTS LOCAL RETAILERS, NOT NATIONAL CHAINS, IN CURTIS PARK VILLAGE

BY R.E. GRASWICH CITY BEAT

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or Nancy McKeever, the most alluring word in the English language might be “local.”

In her hands, the word takes on a translucency that brightens the desolation of empty storefronts and ugly strip malls and brings vibrancy to the places we love most: our homes and our neighborhoods.

“It’s really kind of a no-brainer,” McKeever says. “Everybody wins when we support local business owners who live here and work here and hire people from our community.”

From McKeever’s immediate vantage point, the community in question is Curtis Park. She lives there, shops there and finds the place almost too adorable to be true. But she is quick to note there are no boundaries in the ideal world of buying locally.

The concept applies to every community, moving from place to place with the ease of a FasTrak commuter.

Thus, when McKeever began to dream up a name for a buy-local movement that everybody could rally around, she settled on an all-inclusive title: Neighborhood Character Advocates.

Anyone can join.

“Our little group appreciates neighborhood character,” she

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Nancy McKeever at Fitsom Studios, with top trainers looking on. Left to right: Pablo Martin, Lee Carter and Fitsom owner Marco Guizar

says. “And the name can fit any neighborhood.”

Seated at a picnic table at Track 7 Brewing Co. (“I just love this place. Look what they did with old, underutilized industrial space,” McKeever says), our buy-local champion pulls out a map downloaded from the city of Sacramento’s data portal.

The map shows the Curtis Park community in baby blue, offset by Franklin and Freeport boulevards and running deep from Broadway to Sutterville Road. Within the baby-blue borders are about 100 green dots, each representing an individual business.

On the periphery are another 55 or so

businesses, all a stone’s throw from Curtis Park proper.

“Who would have thought there were that many businesses in Curtis Park?”

McKeever says. “Some of them are obviously sole proprietorships run out of people’s homes and some are chains.

But they all represent an investment in the community.”

The south-central portion of McKeever’s map is empty, devoid of gray streets or green dots. This would be Curtis Park Village, the 72-acre development project that is replacing the old Western Pacific railroad yards.

The burgeoning development will eventually include about 180,000 feet of retail space.

And each of those square feet holds a delectable promise for McKeever, but not in the way some people might think.

In its torturous, two-decade path to entitlement, Curtis Park Village was one of the most contentious developments in Sacramento history.

Every block was argued over, every line on the master plan analyzed and debated.

At this point, with the development approved by the city council, Curtis Park Village is not an entitlement turf war McKeever wants to revive.

Rather, she would love to see those 180,000 square feet of retail space maintain holistic, organic provenance, local style. In other words, Staples may

be ideal for Truxel Road and Old Navy is certainly suitable for Arden Way, but Curtis Park is more conducive to goods and services sourced and supported locally. It’s all about the character of the place.

“All we really want is for a community to have the kinds of businesses that reflect the uniqueness of the community,” McKeever says.

“It’s hard for a chain store to do that. I think everybody appreciates a business where you can get to know the owner and where you know the business has roots here. That’s what character is all about.”

When McKeever speaks of urban planning and the character of neighborhoods, she knows what she’s talking about. Recently retired after a career in urban and environmental planning, McKeever has first-name familiarity with many of the West Coast’s most forward thinkers in civic identity and urban strategies, such as Michele Reeves of Portland’s Civilis Consultants.

And at home, McKeever can always bounce ideas off her husband, Mike McKeever, executive director of SACOG (Sacramento Area Council of

Governments), which provides planning and money for transportation projects across the six-county Sacramento region.

Two classic arguments against big-box chain stores—they wipe out small, entrepreneurial businesses and crush a community’s spirit with boring sameness—are appreciated by Neighborhood Character Advocates, but Nancy McKeever doesn’t want to fight over retail leasing strategies in Curtis Park Village.

She would rather see local business encouraged to move into the Village. Her goals are focused on the preservation of neighborhood character, the stuff that makes communities unique.

“Our goal is to have retail space in Curtis Park and every neighborhood in Sacramento filled by successful local businesses that serve the community,” she says. “It’s not complicated. Other cities have found ways to do it. It’s where the trends are headed. It’s what people want. We want to make it happen here.”

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Cutting a Rug KAMRAN AND MORRY BAGHESTANIAN TEAM UP TO SELL THE BEST

first store on Arden Way, Kamran’s Antiques and Oriental Rugs.”

Though that business lasted only a year, it didn’t take the Baghestanian clan long to get back on its feet. Kamran arranged a rug concession inside a furniture store in Lodi where he could carry his father’s rugs, which eventually allowed for the establishment of outposts in Sacramento and Napa as well. In 1998, Kamran opened his own independent furniture store in Lodi called Classic Living—carrying Morry’s rugs, of course—and his dad officially took over the Sacramento store. Classic Living lasted for 11 years before the economy took a dive and Kamran found himself back where his journey had first begun.

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hen Kamran Baghestanian says the family business dates back generations, he’s not exaggerating. The Baghestanian family has been in the Oriental rug business since the late 1800s, and Kamran is doing his part to continue the tradition he inherited from his father, Morry, with whom he owns Morry’s Oriental Rug Bazaar on 56th and H streets.

“We’ve worked together for 25 years,” Baghestanian says proudly.

“I sort of grew up with rugs, so every day has been a learning experience.

To this day, we’ll come across a rug and my dad knows what village or province it’s from—he’s traveled the world and been to all these different places, so he knows how the people are, how they dye their wool, what kind of lifestyle they have. It’s awesome just to listen to him.”

Morry will be celebrating 55 years in the Oriental rug business this year, so naturally, he’s gained a lot of knowledge over the years. He was taught the craft by his father as a child in Persia (modern-day Iran), where he would travel to historic weaving villages to learn techniques from master craftsmen.

After completing his apprenticeship with his father, Morry established a booming business supplying highquality, handcrafted rugs to Tehran, earning him the moniker of “Master Dealer” before the age of 40 and an assignment to the prestigious Tehran Antique and Handcraft Committee.

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Kamran and Morry Baghestanian own Morry’s Oriental Rug Bazaar on 56th and H streets

When the Islamic revolution riled up Iran in the 1970s, Morry sent then-13-year-old Kamran to the United States to continue his education in a safe and stable environment. The business expanded westward as well, and by the time Baghestanian graduated from Rio Americano High School, he was ready to join his father in what had become

the largest Persian rug venture in Northern California.

“At the time, my father was supplying a lot of the furniture stores in the area, like Scofield’s,” Baghestanian recalls. “Then, while I was in college in 1991, Scofield’s rug department closed and we had to act quickly to find a place for all my dad’s rugs. That’s when I opened my

“Everything in your home at some point will change, but Oriental rugs are the only thing that stay with the family and look better as they age.”

“The Sacramento store has been open for 22 years now,” Baghestanian reports. “I had the space right next to it when I first started, then when I moved the inventory back from Lodi and needed a bigger space, I got the space right next door. So in February of this year, I joined my father right where I first started in Sacramento.”

With this homecoming of sorts, Baghestanian is even more eager to share his family’s traditions with customers.

“We’re already seeing different generations come in,” he says. “A mom, then her daughter, then hopefully her daughter someday.

Some people come in and care that these are heirlooms that one day they’ll pass on to their children.

Everything in your home at some point will change, but Oriental rugs are the only thing that stay with the family and look better as they age.”

But what about for those folks who don’t need a heritage piece and just want a beautiful rug to brighten up a room?

“We have a lot of different styles in a range for everyone’s budget,” Baghestanian says. “Why spend hundreds of dollars if you merely want a throw rug for a couple of hundred bucks? But we also have rugs for $20-, $30-, $40,000 if you want something super nice.”

And to make sure that the rug you pick is the perfect fit for your space, the Baghestanians offer the “on approval” approach—before you make a purchase, you can take a rug home to try it out.

“Don’t buy it until you try it,” Baghestanian says. “Take it home, lay it down. Lighting in homes is different and you’re going to live with it for a very long time, so we want to make sure you’re content.”

If you don’t see what you’re looking for amid the Bazaar’s impressive inventory, the two intrepid rug purveyors can access their international web of dealers to find you the perfect pick.

“We even ask customers to bring pictures from magazines,” Baghestanian says. “That’s when I go to work. We’re pretty successful at being able to find the same look, design and colors.”

Considering the four generations of experience behind him, “pretty successful” might be a bit of an understatement.

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with massage therapy, though she continued working her bank job while building up her clientele; she’d see two clients a night on weekdays and schedule as many as she could every weekend. But the schedule started to take its toll.

“My dad finally said, ‘Why don’t you just let the day job go?’” Ajay says. “He said, ‘I think you could have a future in this, so why not give it a try?’ He told me he would do whatever it took to support me.”

That was the nudge she needed, and soon Ajay had a bustling fulltime massage business out of her home. Since the clients kept coming, it wasn’t long before she had to seek additional space and moved into an office at 20th and N streets, where she worked massage magic for almost eight years.

“I started incorporating techniques from a course I took in face-lift massage,” Ajay says. “I paired a toning massage geared toward strengthening the muscles of the face with a traditional facial. I also incorporated body scrubs and created my own foot treatments. If you can do a face-lift on someone’s face, why not on their feet? Clients started booking three or four hours with me and I became very creative.”

Cindy Ajay is the owner of Blue Sky Day Spa, which recently celebrated 14 years in business

Morry’s Oriental Rug Bazaar at 5623 H St., call 731-4444 or go to morrysorientalrugs.com

NOTHING BUT BLUE SKY “Sometimes when you put things out in the universe, things happen more quickly than you could have imagined.”

So says Cindy Ajay, the owner of Blue Sky Day Spa, who celebrated 14 years in business last month. If you’d asked her years ago when she was a loan counselor at a mortgage bank what she’d be doing for a day job, she probably would have never imagined she’d be running a successful day spa, one of the first of its kind in Sacramento. But things have a way of working out for Ajay, even amid disastrous circumstances.

In January 1991, Ajay’s mother suddenly died, sending the then-37year-old into a miserable spiral.

“Dealing with her death made a lot of things come to light for me,” Ajay says. “I started questioning my life, my future. I had to take a month off of work because I was so stressed out.”

A car accident on the way to her second job, as a karate instructor at her brother’s studio, left her with a numb right arm. The doctor suggested massage therapy. The rest, you could say, is history.

“My massage therapist said to me, ‘You’re a people person, you seem strong—you should go to massage school,’” Ajay recalls. “By default, I went to a massage school over by the Natural Foods Co-op. I met with the owner, filled out an application, and as we were taking a tour of the facility, a calmness came over me. I had never felt so welcome. It was the soothing atmosphere I needed.”

Ajay signed up for a three-month, 130-hour program and fell in love

“When you try to please everybody, you lose yourself and your concept. You have to find your niche.”

Ajay also noticed that the trend of European day spas—spas that offer multiple services for face and body under one roof with a water feature, often a shower—was spreading to the United States. Since she was all but operating one already, she decided to see if she could turn her creative massage endeavor into a full-blown day spa.

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SHOPTALK FROM page 23 myself two years to get the business going, but sometimes things happen quicker. My landlord at the time asked me to move and gave me 60 days. For two weeks, I racked my brain, but no one-room offices were popping up. All the offices appearing were three or four rooms. I thought, ‘Maybe it’s time for this spa.’”

The timing was indeed right and, combined with the loan she secured after a chance networking encounter with a Union Bank loan officer, Ajay’s Blue Sky Spa was up and running on Aug. 1, 2000. Within a year, business had ballooned to nearly $1 million and Ajay ran a staff of 14, seven days a week.

“The success of the business hit really quickly,” Ajay says. “I thought I could handle it, but it was (my private practice) magnified times 14.”

Though the recession in 2008 hit hard, Ajay didn’t quit. She pared down, tightened her belt, took on more responsibilities and kept going, ending up even stronger than before.

“Before, I thought I had to be all things to all people,” she says. “I don’t have to do that anymore. When you try to please everybody, you lose yourself and your concept. You have to find your niche.”

Ajay certainly has. With Blue Sky’s signature mix of services (massage therapy as well as spa, skincare, makeup, nails and waxing treatments) and dedicated staff (all of Ajay’s therapists have been with her for years and are California State Board certified), pampering yourself has never been nicer.

“I think if people made a commitment to their health at least once a month, the world would be a more peaceful place,” Ajay says.

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SPINNING THEIR WHEELS “Cycling is like being a 10-year-old kid again,” Bruce Kaiser says.

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Cody Kaiser, professional bike racer who competes in cyclocross, is the son of Kinetic Cycles owner Bruce Kaiser

This enthusiasm for all things bicycling serves the owner of Kinetic Cycles well, considering he lives and breathes bikes all day long at the La Sierra Drive store he opened in March (a relocation from Elk Grove, where the store had operated for six years).

Kaiser was no stranger to the love of sports for both fun and fitness when he opened Kinetic Cycles in 2007. His career as a golf pro had taken him all over the country as a club professional, running club operations and playing tournaments in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and finally El Dorado Hills, when he was recruited by Serrano Country Club in 1995.

“Once I got here, I didn’t want to go anywhere else,” Kaiser says.

Although golfing certainly keeps you moving, Kaiser took up cycling for fitness in 2002, and promptly fell in love with the sport. He passed this passion on to his son Cody, who is now a 22-year-old professional bike racer who competes in cyclocross— “this weird mix of mountain bike and road racing, then sprinkle a little steeplechase on top,” Cody explains—

at the world championship level and fields his own professional team.

It quickly became clear back in 2002 that the Kaiser clan had found their niche in cycling, which made their decision to open a store five years later nearly a no-brainer.

“We wanted to spread the passion and joy for cycling,” Kaiser says.

“Cycling had done so much for our family, we wanted people to be able to have a retail experience that got them to have fun on bikes, too.”

Part of that experience was contingent upon what kind of bicycles Kaiser carried, which is where the brand Specialized came in.

“I started looking at all the different vendors and manufacturers (I could carry),” Kaiser recalls. “I kept asking, ‘Who’s a leader in technology?

Who has great new products?’ When I heard about Specialized, it seemed like the right fit. It’s based out of Morgan Hill, which means it’s local, which to me seemed like a home run. We always like to support local.

We signed on to be a Specialized concept store, which means we commit to carry a certain percentage of their product and in turn they

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They’re partners, though they’re not financially invested.”

But lest you think all you’ll be able to find at Kinetic Cycles is Specialized products, think again. Kaiser carries an impressive array of bicycle brands and products, and his staff specializes in custom fittings to make sure you feel as good as you look.

“Fitting is an integral part of selling bicycles,” Kaiser says. “Our staff constantly takes classes to learn how to be better fitters, which means we also know our products better. We carry kids’ bikes, family bikes, top-ofthe-line eye-candy racing bikes—the same ones they ride in the Tour de France—and other smaller lines as well.”

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High Kicks AFTER BEATING ADDICTION, SHE FOUND REDEMPTION IN AN OLD LOVE: SOCCER

BY TERRY KAUFMAN LOCAL HEROES

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isa Wrightsman can trace much of what has gone wrong in her life to a childhood bout with cancer. She can trace much of why she’s still here to that same terrible illness. Twelve years old when she was diagnosed with a rare, fast-growing tumor in her abdomen, she underwent chemotherapy and missed much of seventh grade. It was a turning point in many ways.

Wrightsman grew up in Elk Grove with a passion for soccer. She was a phenom on the field, routinely scoring six or seven goals in a game. When cancer struck, she found herself isolated. “I had a different routine than my peers,” she recalls. “When you’re on the verge of not living, you learn more about life than most kids.”

She developed not just self-sufficiency but also a heightened tolerance for pain. “I learned to numb it,” she says.

Cancer also separated Wrightsman from the sport she loved, and she stayed away for a long time. “I didn’t want to play again,” says Wrightsman. “I was afraid that I wouldn’t be as good as I used to be.”

One day, while watching her brother’s game, the ball came her way and she kicked it. She was back in.

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Lisa Wrightsman is the director of Street Soccer Sacramento Lady Salamanders

She attended Sac State on a soccer scholarship and was a star on and off the field. She was also a hellion. “I had a reckless attitude, partly because of my experience with cancer.” Her college years were a collage of weekend parties and tough soccer games. She was a force to be reckoned with on the field, holding the record for second highest goals

scored at Sac State. “Soccer kept me in line,” she says. “I found myself in that place.” Her plan was to play professionally after graduation, but it crashed and burned when the women’s professional league folded.

Wrightsman crashed and burned as well.

“I played semipro and worked as a personal trainer,” Wrightsman

says, “but I lost my work habits and became unhappy with my life.” After her second DUI, she moved back to her mother’s house. Her family was well meaning but had no grasp of the monster that was her alcoholism.

“I was convinced that my problem was more than just drinking and taking pain killers. I started taking methadone to get off of Vicodin, and then I was hooked on methadone.”

She tried to detox on her own but ended up back on methadone to balance withdrawal side effects.

The nadir was a six-month stint in jail. “I went home, but I didn’t know how to stay sober,” she recalls. “I finally asked my mom to help me get into rehab.” She entered a 90day residential treatment program at Alpha Oaks in Carmichael and then was admitted to a two-year employment program with Volunteers of America, where she was housed and fed with others in recovery. “It provided enough structure that it allowed me to really discover who I was in a safe place.” Her case manager told her about a street soccer program for the homeless, and she found her new passion.

“I went down and played with the men’s team, and I had a great time,” says Wrightsman. “It reminded me that I had loved something before I loved drugs and alcohol.” In 2010, Wrightsman went to the national tournament in Washington, D.C. “I was six months sober, so it was a big deal to be outside of my safe space.

When you’re going through rehab, you have a lot of fear and shame.

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“You create a space for them to find themselves. Soccer is just the vehicle ... They score on this field, and they can transfer it to their lives.”

That year, Wrightsman was chosen for the first all-women’s U.S. team at the Homeless World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The trip convinced her that a women’s team belonged in Sacramento. She partnered with Tiffany Fraser, another Sac State soccer alum, to start and coach the Sacramento Lady Salamanders. They practice twice a week on the grass at

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Serna Village. Since 2011, they have sent teams to the Homeless World Cup in France, Mexico and Poland.

“Most participants are not soccer players. They’re adults with rough life experiences,” says Wrightsman.

“You create a space for them to find themselves. Soccer is just the vehicle.

You put them in a uniform and put them on a soccer field. They score on this field, and they can transfer it to their lives.” Wrightsman is amazed at the impact the game and the trips have had on these women. “It gets them out of their comfort zone, teaches them to be part of a team, builds their confidence.”

“It’s good to see the parallels between soccer and life,” she says.

“This is the one thing I can do for others. This is my redemption. It’s a way to make up for all the things I’ve done.”

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Carmel Charm A LOCAL BUILDER LARDS HIS EAST SAC HOME WITH COTTAGE ELEMENTS

BY JULIE FOSTER HOME INSIGHT

“I don’t need big but rather wanted cozy, charming and romantic ...”

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uilder Mike Paris and his wife, Kelly, love to visit the charming seaside town of Carmel. The village’s multitude of cottages serves as inspiration for many of Paris’ building projects.

One of those projects is the couple’s own East Sac home, which will be featured on the Urban Renaissance Home Tour on Sept. 28. The 2,700-square-foot house incorporates many of the cottagey architectural elements Paris favors: arched doorways, French doors, shed roofs, balconies, working shutters, high ceilings and tall windows.

Paris calls his style “Nouveau Cottage.”

“I try and find ways to bring natural light into all rooms from two different directions and create space and volume in small rooms with floor elevation shifts,” he says.

Paris combines overscale structural features with durable natural materials and generally works on a house plan from the outside in.

“The living spaces must be true to the architectural style,” he explains.

“The challenge is staying focused on authentic scale and building materials.”

Paris owns BlackPine Communities and is working with developer Paul Petrovich on the residential housing aspect of the Curtis Park Village project. He’s using his Nouveau Cottage design concepts for one of the housing styles that will be available.

The first models are expected to open in late October.

A skilled and dedicated homemaker, Kelly designed the interior of the couple’s East Sac home. “I love putting a house together,” she says, “picking out the paint colors, tiles and flooring.”

She wanted a house that looked and felt as if it had been in place for generations.

“I don’t need big but rather wanted cozy, charming and romantic, especially from the outside,” she says.

“Bigger is not always better.”

Her design talents are evident throughout the family-friendly house, which the couple shares with their daughter. She used lots of brick, warm colors and dark wood floors covered with rugs. Fireplaces create

a sense of romance and comfort. The house has four fireplaces, including one in the master bedroom and one in their daughter’s room.

She used to love the shabby chic look but says she is trying to move away from using so many “rose-patterned pillows.”

“The living spaces must be true to the architectural style. The challenge is staying focused on authentic scale and building materials.”

Lately, she has gravitated toward a more neutral palette of warm colors for interior spaces, with painted white wood trim, beadboard, crown moldings and wood on the ceilings.

“I always use a soft white trim that provides enough of a contrast against a wall color,” she explains.

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Homeowner Kelly Paris in her backyard

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Friendships blossom at our picturesque lodge, where you can join in on the recreation and excursions, spend time on the putting green or in the garden, or meet friends over tasty meals in our dining room.

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HOME FROM page 29 She frequently alters the look of a room by changing the paint color or adding new bedding, slipcovers, throw pillows or area rug.

“I like things that I can change,” she says.

She loves to cook and bake. The kitchen has plenty of room for friends and family to gather.

Kelly is also a gifted gardener.

Her green thumb is apparent in the perfect English cottage gardens in the front and back yards. The backyard also contains three trellises.

“We have incorporated a trellis into every backyard we’ve had,” she says.

The backyard features a swimming pool and patio and a 664-square-foot pool house complete with a fireplace, full bath and a large area that

works as either an office or spacious bedroom.

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Your Brain on Phone DISTRACTED DRIVING IS DRIVING BLIND

BY DR. AMY ROGERS SCIENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

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ids are back in school.

Vacations are over and workplaces are in full swing.

You need to stay connected, keep on top of who’s doing what. So even though you’re driving, when you hear that “ping,” you glance at the text message on your cellphone.

In a fraction of a second, you go from sober to drunk. You’re piloting 3,000-plus pounds of deadly missile, and at highway speed, you’ll travel the length of a football field as if you were blindfolded.

Maybe you don’t use your phone in a moving car, but a staggering number of drivers do. A 2013 survey found that 98 percent of drivers correctly think texting and driving is dangerous, but 43 percent of those surveyed read texts nevertheless.

Why do we do it?

Neuroscientists are grappling with this question. The answers lie deep in what it means to be human.

Our desire for community, for relationship with others, is ancient and powerful. When we experience contact with another person, our

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brain rewards us by releasing a bit

Not me, some people think.

of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

I’m a good driver and I’m good at

performance on neurologic tests

Dopamine gives a sense of well-being.

multitasking.

of attention showed his ability to

In effect, answering a text is a small-

Modern cognitive science tells us

was texting. The man’s subsequent

multitask was actually better than

scale form of the same pleasure people

that multitasking is a myth. The

average, giving lie to the notion that

get from using cocaine. Dopamine is

attention centers of our brains can’t

being “good” at multitasking can

a big part of the reason why, when

do two things at once. Our brains

protect you from distraction.

it comes to distracted driving, many

actually juggle two tasks, alternating

people say one thing but do another.

focus from one to the other. Each

parts of the brain synchronize to each

time the focus switches, things can

other, and separate tasks require

get missed.

separate “tuning of the frequency.”

Nearly 70 percent of California drivers say they have been hit or nearly hit by a driver using a

With devastating consequences.

When we pay attention, different

For example, the part of our brain

cellphone. In 2012, 3,328 Americans

In his excellent new book, “A Deadly

that receives input from the eyes

died in distraction-related collisions.

Wandering,” Northern California

communicates with the part of the

Texting while driving increases your

writer Matt Richtel tells the poignant

brain that processes or interprets

crash risk 23 times. This exceeds the

story of a young Utah man who

what we see. When we make a

risk of driving under the influence of

killed two rocket scientists when his

choice to attend to a text message,

alcohol.

car crossed the centerline while he

what neuroscientists call top-down

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activation, the neurons that read text

something with the visual cortex part

become sensitive, alert specifically to

of the brain that’s connected to the

the message even if there are other

eyes, but never become aware of the

competing objects in the field of view.

object because the processing part

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of the brain is paying attention to something else.

Modern cognitive science tells us that multitasking is a myth.

Our brains actually juggle two tasks, alternating focus from one to the other.

Thus, the price of attention to one thing is ignoring something else. To focus on a text message, your brain reduces the sensitivity of neurons that process glimpses of things that are not texts—things like a bicyclist on the road.

The result is called inattention blindness. A person can “see”

A Harvard psychologist famously demonstrated inattention blindness with a widely circulated video. Six people wearing either white or black shirts are milling about with a basketball. Viewers are instructed to count how many times players wearing white pass the ball. Midway

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through the short video, a woman in The brain is powerful, but when

a gorilla costume saunters into the

too. Recent data suggest that talking

screen, pauses to beat her chest and

on a cellphone is equally distracting

it comes to attention, its capacity is

walks away. When questioned after

whether or not you’re hands-free

far from infinite. When you’re behind

the video, half of viewers missed the

(as is required by California law.)

the wheel, pay attention only to your

gorilla. Their eyes were on it, but

If your brain is busy processing a

driving. Arriving safely to a hug from

their conscious minds never perceived

conversation, the brain curtails

your loved one will give you all the

it.

visual processing to minimize

dopamine you need.

Therefore, the problem with

distraction. Talking to someone who

cellphone use by drivers isn’t taking

isn’t physically in the car can blind

their eyes off the road. It’s taking

the driver to the unexpected, even

their minds off.

if the driver’s hands never leave the

Inattention blindness can result

steering wheel.

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The Green Thumb Club HOW THEIR GARDENS GROW IS THEIR COMMON INTEREST

succulents or cactus. Others love garden art or flower arranging. Most, however, simply enjoy creating a quiet, peaceful space in their yards.

“It is wonderful to visit gardens in the neighborhood and see all of the creative ways people have designed and used their space,” she says. “The homes in this neighborhood are about 60 years old. They have large lots and mature trees and plants. Personally, I find it fascinating to see the creative ways people use their space. We are passionate about being good stewards for our environment. But the one thing we all have in common is a love for gardening.”

BY GWEN SCHOEN THE CLUB LIFE

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eople with a passion for gardening know there are many rewards. Among them: instant gratification and a sense of pride for hard work; watching the bees flitter from one flower to another; discovering a plant that has come to life after a dormant season.

Corinne Liseno would add another reward: friendship.

Liseno loves growing roses. A few years ago, she was searching for a garden club near her home where she could meet people who find joy in digging, pruning and weeding. She didn’t have to look very far. Even though she didn’t live in Arden Park, she discovered that the neighborhood, near Watt Avenue and Fair Oaks Boulevard, has had an active garden club for more than 60 years. When she attended her first meeting, members gave her an enthusiastic welcome and the assurance that she did not have to live in the neighborhood to join.

They require only that members have a passion for gardening and learning about horticulture along with a willingness to share their knowledge.

That suited Liseno’s interests just fine.

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Arden Park Garden Club publicity chair Mary Jane Sutliff

“I have been a member ever since,” she says. “You don’t think of gardening as a social pastime, but when you belong to a garden club, you develop wonderful friendships with people who have the same passion. Only a true gardener can sit and listen to an hourlong

lecture about the benefits of various fertilizers,” she says with a laugh.

Liseno is currently the club president and is busy helping the group organize its annual fall garden tour.

Mary Jane Sutliff adds that many members specialize in one particular type of plant, such as roses,

“It is wonderful to visit gardens in the neighborhood and see all of the creative ways people have designed and used their space.”

Currently, Arden Park Garden Club has 55 members. They meet monthly, usually on the second Wednesday of each month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Arden Park Community Center (1000 La Sierra Drive). Often, meetings focus on such topics as water conservation, fertilizer, pest control and growing specific plants. The club frequently hosts field trips to commercial and public gardens and garden shows. Annual dues are $20 per household. You will find membership

Experience the Richness of Fall All custom clothing 30% off & Suit up in the Fall Collection from Coppley, the pinnacle of men’s tailored clothing for over 130 years. information on the club’s website at ardenparkgardenclub.com The Arden Park Garden Club will host its annual fall garden tour on Saturday, Sept. 13. The tour, which is open to the public, is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. You can begin at the first home on the tour (3601 Buena Vista Drive), where you will find maps and directions to four other open homes.

Or you can stop by Arden Park Community Center, where you can visit with club members and garden experts and purchase tour tickets.

Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 on the day of the tour. Advance tickets can be purchased at Rustic Brick and Stone Company (3150 Power Inn Road) or Emigh Ace Hardware (3555 El Camino Ave.). For more information about the tour, call 3838988, go to ardenparkgardenclub.com or send an email to marysassyjane@ outlook.com If you know of an interesting club in the area, contact Gwen Schoen at gwensclubs@aol.com n

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Reading Is Fundamental LITERACY GROUP NEEDS VOLUNTEERS FOR TUTORING PROGRAM

IN THE CLASSROOM

BY GLORIA GLYER DOING GOOD

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iteracy Little League is gearing up for the 19th season of its literacy tutoring program at Edison Language Institute in the San Juan Unified School District. Tutors work with third-graders on reading skills to get them ready for fourth grade, when independent reading is a must. Volunteers see the same child each week for 40 minutes. A training session for future volunteers will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church (2391 St. Mark’s Way). For more information, contact volunteer coordinator Dorothy Marshall at 488-2578 or dorothym@csus.edu

GET ON BOARD The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is seeking high school and college students to serve as junior board members. To find out about the next training session, contact Jennifer Pear at 929-4720 or Jennifer.Pear@ LLS.org

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Junior Achievement of Sacramento extends a big thank-you to more than 700 volunteers from the local business community who taught economic empowerment programs to 12,500 students in the 2013-14 school year. The programs are designed to empower young people to own their economic success. For more information about Junior Achievement, go to jasac.org

HELPING WEAVE Point West Rotary Club has selected WEAVE (Women Escaping a Violent Environment) as the beneficiary of its 20th annual California Brewers Festival. The festival takes place Saturday, Sept.

20, at Discovery Park. Tickets are $45. For tickets or more information, go to calbrewfest.com For information on how to help weave, go to weaveinc.org

LITERACY IN FOOD Food Literacy Center has dropped the word “California” from its name, but it continues to do good work in the state. “We’ve seen a 36 percent increased positive attitude toward healthy snacks since we began the food literacy program three years ago; 91 percent of our kids tell us healthy food tastes good,” says Amber Stott, founding executive of the center, which operates a food literacy program at three Sacramento schools.

According to Stott, the group changed its name because the center is no longer limited to serving

California. “We have watermelonsized dreams of taking over the world with our food literacy curriculum,” she says.

“We’ve seen a 36 percent increased positive attitude toward healthy snacks since we began the food literacy program three years ago.”

The center provides after-school education at Aspire Capitol Heights Academy in Oak Park, Florin Elementary School in Elk Grove and Pacific Elementary School in South Sacramento. At each school, it offers weekly 45-minute classes on cooking, nutrition and where food comes from.

Stott says that 70 percent of students request foods they have tasted in class. The center’s 70 volunteers serve 2,400 kids annually.

For more information, go to foodliteracycenter.org

A GREAT GALA Women’s Empowerment raised $160,000 through its 13th annual Celebration of Independence gala in June. The money will fund programs to help homeless women find homes and jobs so they can support their families.

Women’s Empowerment offers comprehensive job-readiness

programs. Last year, 81 percent of graduates found homes and 90 percent found jobs or enrolled in school or training.

For more information, go to womens-empowerment.org

WISH COME TRUE A little girl named Chloe will get her wish—to visit the San Diego Zoo—thanks to Make-A-Wish Foundation. The 9-year-old heart patient learned the news during a visit to Folsom Zoo, where she met tigers Misty and Pounder. Chloe has loved tigers ever since her grandmother bought her a stuffed tiger when she was 3. The animal never leaves her side, especially when she’s in the hospital.

Make-A-Wish grants the wishes of children diagnosed with lifethreatening conditions. To learn more about Make-A-Wish, go to necannv. wish.org

BOWLING FOR DOLLARS Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Sacramento Area recently raised $42,000 with a bowling fundraiser at Country Club Lanes.

More than 200 people participated in the event, called Bowl for Kids’ Sake.

The organization will hold The Big Event fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 25, at Lions Gate Hotel. There will be food, wine, beer and silent and live auctions. For more information, go to bbbs-sac.org Gloria Glyer can be reached at gglyer@sbbmail.com n

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Terrific Tomatoes GREENHAVEN GARDENER SHARES HIS TIPS AND TRICKS

BY ANITA CLEVENGER GARDEN JABBER

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any Sacramento gardeners grow tomatoes. Whether it’s one or two plants in a container by the driveway or a couple dozen in the ground, we are on a quest. We want to grow tomatoes that taste delicious, not like “Styrofoam with tomato flavoring,” as Garrison Keillor once described supermarket tomatoes.

Few of us pursue tomato growing with the fervor of Greenhaven’s Pete Frichette. He’s been refining his tomato-growing techniques for decades. He’s studied reference materials and books about tomatoes and soils, talked to area farmers and kept meticulous, detailed records.

The Sacramento Bee’s garden writer, Debbie Arrington, was so impressed by his analytical approach and towering tomato plants that she dubbed him “Mr. Tomato.”

Frichette remembers when his dad and everybody else on his block of East Sacramento’s 50th Street had a victory garden during World War II. “It was patriotic,” he recalls.

Frichette, an architect, designed and built a house and garden overlooking Lake Greenhaven. He brought in a backhoe to remove three feet of “slick

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Greenhaven gardener Pete Frichette among his tomato plants

clay—terrible soil.” He used an auger to drill holes, which he filled with sand to improve drainage, filled in the garden with good topsoil and planted tomatoes. “They’re my favorite food,” he says.

Frichette has collected many articles and books about growing tomatoes. He finds UC Davis Publication 8159, Growing Tomatoes in the Home Garden, especially helpful. It categorizes tomato

varieties by climate zone. He prefers to select Zone B tomatoes, best where daytime temperatures regularly exceed 95 degrees. He doesn’t know why area nurseries sometimes sell varieties better suited for cooler climates, but they do. UC Davis also lists disease resistance and plant type, advises about tomato culture and provides information about how to deal with common disorders and pests. Frichette follows much of the guidance, but not all. When it comes to tomatoes, he says, “everybody has an opinion.”

Frichette prefers indeterminate tomatoes that keep growing throughout the season. His favorite tomatoes are ones that provide a “joyful burst of acid” when you bite into them. ‘Early Girl’ is his favorite choice for everyday eating. ‘Better Boy’ is a heavy producer. ‘Super San Marzano’ is his choice for fresh sauces. He supports them with cylindrical wire cages made from concrete reinforcing wire. Some vines top 9 feet before the season is over.

His best heirloom tomato is ‘Mortgage Lifter.’ He grows only a couple of cherry tomato plants, spreading them out on a trellis so that they are easier for kids to pick.

UC Davis recommends that gardeners avoid growing tomatoes or other members of the nightshade family (such as peppers, potatoes and eggplant) in the same location for more than two years to avoid developing disease and insect problems. Frichette knows that crop rotation is a good idea. “The ones that grow best are planted in the first year,” he observes. However, like

most of us, his garden space is limited.

He’s grown in the same beds for 32 years and works hard to build his soil. Every year, he digs 2 feet down, removes the soil and mixes nutrients and compost into it. Just as farmers do, he has his soil tested periodically and makes sure that key elements are balanced. After he plants, he adds 6 inches of compost to the soil’s surface.

“Digging those holes is good for the triceps,” he notes.

Gardeners in Sacramento are advised to plant tomatoes in late April or early May, when the soil warms up and there is less wind. Frichette can’t wait that long. He plants his tomatoes in bottomless 5-gallon buckets that help protect the young plants from “critters and wind.” He sometimes plants as early as late February. This year, he did most of his planting in March.

Frichette now uses a drip system to water the tomatoes, but for years he poured 2 gallons of water into each tomato’s bucket every three days, for a total of two inches of water a week.

He’s experimenting with “fertilating” this year, applying fertilizer through the drip lines. He adds a balanced granular fertilizer when the tomatoes are planted and sprays liquid fertilizer on the foliage every few weeks throughout the season. While Frichette wants leafy, vigorous plants, he doesn’t worry when lower leaves die off later in the season. “The plant doesn’t need them for photosynthesis anymore,” he says.

The best tomatoes are harvested when they are ripe. Frichette harvests by feel, not by color. He gives each tomato a gentle squeeze. If it gives slightly, it’s ready.

Last year, Frichette gave tomatoes to 178 different people. These lucky people agree that Mr. Tomato’s opinions are backed up by results.

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Bringing People to R Street KEY TO SUCCESS IS HOUSING WHERE ARTISTS CAN AFFORD TO LIVE

BY SENA CHRISTIAN

“It’s filmmakers, performing artists, dancers, musicians, painters, sculptors, graphic designers,” he says.

“It’s essentially a community for creatives, as opposed to traditional artists.”

The $41 million project is a collaboration of CFY Development, Inc. and the landowner, CADA (Capitol Area Development Authority). Founded in 1978, the development authority is a selfsustaining public agency modeled after a land development and property management company, but which must abide by government mandates.

Its goal is to “build safe, affordable and environmentally sustainable urban neighborhoods.”

BUILDING OUR FUTURE

A

renaissance of Sacramento’s R Street is under way.

And, like the famous Italian rebirth of the 14th to 17th centuries, this movement engages artists.

The downtown R Street corridor has become a mini arts district in recent years, welcoming New Helvetia Theatre and a collection of galleries and studios called ARTHOUSE to join longtime staples such as Fox & Goose, which hosts live music. But what does the area need to complete the transformation into a true arts and culture district? That would be residents.

Warehouse Artist Lofts, on R Street between 11th and 12th streets, will fill that void by renting out 116 housing units once construction is complete this fall. “These are new tenants,” says developer Ali Youssefi, of CFY Development, Inc. “It’s a new use for a commercial space that will bring in residents.”

Warehouse Artist Lofts—also known as WAL—involves the construction of a new building on a vacant lot and the rehabilitation of a six-story historic warehouse built in 1915 and on the National Register of Historic Places into a residential, mixed-use complex. The property will include 13,000 square feet of groundlevel commercial space to attract visitors to the R Street Historic District.

Designed a century ago by notable Northern California architect Clarence Cuff, the Lawrence Warehouse was constructed adjacent to the Southern Pacific Railroad

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“It’s filmmakers, performing artists, dancers, musicians, painters, sculptors, graphic designers.

It’s essentially a community for creatives, as opposed to traditional artists.”

Construction of the artist lofts on R and 11th streets is in full swing

and built of reinforced concrete; it’s considered Sacramento’s first fireproof building.

The WAL project broke ground in February 2013. The developer plans

to release units in August with a target October move-in date. Youssefi says curiosity among Sacramento’s creative class is growing, with about 450 people now on an interest list.

“Our whole idea was to utilize this as a catalyst to revitalize this area,” says CADA’s R Street development manager, Todd Leon, adding, “It was Ali’s vision of artists housing that originally sparked our interest.”

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Developer Ali Youssefi in one of the lofts

in Alkali Flat into residential units in 2008. CFY joined the Warehouse Artist Lofts (formerly called Capitol Lofts) development team in 2012.

The original plan involved developing condos, but Youssefi’s input turned the concept into an affordable housing project for artists instead. Some units will be affordable, while others will be available at market rate.

Developers worked with local arts councils and commissions to determine the needs and wants of artists for a live-work space. In terms of businesses, the main requests were for a coffee shop, grocery store and art supply store. In terms of housing, artists said affordability was key if they were going to relocate downtown. A studio will run $375 to $1,100 a month; a three-bedroom will start at $575. One- and two-bedroom apartments will also be available.

“It’s really a range of rent levels we have available for tenants,” Youssefi says. “Having affordable housing

was important to artists. It’s just unique. There’s no project like this in Sacramento.”

The building’s design boasts a dance studio for residents instead of a traditional gym, and the space can double as a gallery for Second Saturday events. The units have high ceilings with plenty of natural light and hard floors. Industrial sinks will be installed in each building for the cleaning of art supplies.

“Even before we started the project, these were features artists told us they’d want to see in a livework space,” Youssefi says.

The three-story, 9,600-square-feet B&G building on the corner of 11th and R streets is being rehabilitated in conjunction with Warehouse Artist Lofts, and will include commercial space and an Italian restaurant on the ground floor. The historic building’s loading dock will be used for outdoor seating.

CA BRE #01402254 Adopted in 1996, the R Street Corridor Master Plan established a vision for the area’s future, which includes infill development that creates home ownership and high-density rental housing. Back at the time of the plan’s adoption, the corridor consisted of low-rise government buildings, offices and industrial warehouses and was littered with vacant buildings and lots, according to CADA. The neglect of public infrastructure was evident

and some parts lacked sidewalks, drainage and adequate lighting.

Youssefi says that since the construction of Warehouse Artist Lofts began, nearby property owners and businesses have expressed interest in improving their own sites.

“It’s going to be a ripple effect,” he says.

Sena Christian can be reached at sena.c.christian@gmail.com n

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A Cyclical Business THIS BIKE IS BUILT FOR BEER LOVERS

BY TERRY KAUFMANN

the vehicle while 10 of the 15 riders provide the pedal power. Participants pay $20 to $25 for the two-hour ride.

(At each stop, riders pay for their own beer.)

“The business model really speaks for itself,” says Ferren-Cirino.

“Sacramento is very comparable to Portland. It’s an outdoorsy city with a bicycling culture. It’s similar in size to Portland, and the business can run year-round, unlike in a place like Minnesota or Chicago. It’s even better than Portland, because it doesn’t get as cold or rainy.”

Ferren-Cirino also saw a parallel food and craft beer culture that meshed perfectly with the bike concept. This has spawned a new offering, starting in August, of a lengthier food-focused tour, offered in conjunction with Local Roots food tours.

MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR

W

hen Chris Ferren-Cirino and his wife Sarah moved to Portland, Ore., last year, they both thought it would be for the long haul. He was moving up the corporate ladder with The Hartford insurance company, and the move was part of that upward career trajectory. So what are they doing back in Sacramento a year later?

If you’ve driven through Midtown on a recent summer evening, you may have found yourself crawling along behind a strange contraption: a behemoth of a bicycle that seats 15 people, moves at a snail’s pace and seems to become increasingly raucous as the evening progresses. It’s Sac Brew Bike, a traveling party hosted

by Ferren-Cirino, who no longer dresses like an insurance agent.

He and his wife, both Bay Area transplants, met while running cross-country and track at UC Davis.

Passionate about the outdoors and staying fit, they saw Portland as a good temporary stopping point.

What Ferren-Cirino discovered in Portland, besides yet another office environment and plenty of precipitation, was the ubiquitous beer bike. “I saw this cool bike rolling down the street, and I thought it was an awesome idea,” he says. “I didn’t plan to move back after a year, but I thought about how great Sacramento would be for this and did some number crunching.”

He was still working in Portland during the week and coming down on the weekends when Sac Brew Bike was launched in mid-May. “It

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Sac Brew Bike is like a pub crawl on wheels, taking participants to three different brew pubs and beer breweries.

Sac Brew Bike driver Matt See with guests, ready to enjoy a beer and bike tour of Midtown

was definitely challenging to get everything lined up at the beginning,” he says. “It took a lot of planning and coordinating, because I was still working my day job.” By June, he and Sarah were installed back in

Sacramento, and the ride has been remarkably smooth ever since.

Sac Brew Bike is like a pub crawl on wheels, taking participants to three different brew pubs and beer breweries in Midtown over the course of two hours. Ferren-Cirino steers

If the standard offerings don’t suit a customer’s fancy, Ferren-Cirino is more than happy to put together a custom tour. One of his favorite memories thus far is of a wedding party that hired the bike to take them from the hotel to the wedding venue. They gamely pedaled while dressed in traditional wedding garb.

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A women’s group chose to do wine tasting; another group chose an ’80s theme and dressed in neon. He indulges requests gladly, playing upbeat music while keeping his rowdy crowd pedaling. “I encourage them to make it as fun as they want, to make it uniquely their own,” he says.

Ferren-Cirino’s investment in the first bike—custom made in Savannah, Ga.—has garnered enough business that a second bike is on order and other drivers will be hired to help him out. His wife, who continues to work a “normal” job while providing financial, administrative and moral support, plans to come on board full time in the not-too-distant future.

They had originally considered establishing a bricks-and-mortar presence in Midtown but thought it best to use rented storage space until the business took off. That time has come. “We’re looking for a location in Midtown to store the bikes,” he says.

It can’t happen too soon. Currently, the bike is stored in East Sacramento,

about three-quarters of a mile from the tour starting point at 28th and J streets. Ferren-Cirino is the one who must single-handedly navigate it from storage and back again. An ardent cyclist who hasn’t ridden anything but the brew bike in recent months, he laughs about it. “It’s definitely cumbersome to move the bike, but I figure that it builds character to do something difficult,” he says. “One day, we’ll look back at this and really appreciate how good we have it.”

One day—he hopes soon—he’ll get back on a regular cycle. “I love doing triathlons,” says Ferren-Cirino. “I have a competitive drive, and I like to hold myself accountable when I’m training for a race. Once I get this business going, I’ll do it again.” For now, he’ll have to content himself with steering a huge bike at five miles per hour through the streets of Sacramento.

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Be the Ball THE LIFE OF A FOOTBALL IS THE LIFE FOR ME

BY KEVIN MIMS WRITING LIFE

O

ne of the most common pieces of sports advice given by coaches to players is “Be the ball.” It’s kind of a Zen thing. In order to achieve success at a sport, a player should focus on exactly what the ball might need in a given situation to make it through the hoop, or through the uprights, past the batter, into the goal, onto the green, etc.

Over the course of my life, I have tried to be a tennis ball, a basketball, a softball, a football and, during the winters of my youth when it was cold enough for the ponds near my house in Portland, Ore., to freeze, even a hockey puck (which technically isn’t a ball). It is very difficult for a human being to be a tennis ball. A tennis ball spends most of its time unattached to anything human. In a professional tennis match, the ball spends less than 10 seconds actually on the racquet strings of the two competitors. Most of the time, the ball is airborne.

It is much easier to be a basketball.

A basketball player, when he is standing at the free-throw line, has plenty of time to measure the heft of

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the ball in his hands and to visualize the path that he wants the ball to take to the hoop. Likewise, a golfer can take plenty of time to size up a putt. He can test the wind. He can examine the contours of the grass lying between the ball and the cup.

Golfers, more than most athletes, can actually spend quite a bit of time being the ball.

I have often asked myself, “If you could be any ball in any sport, what kind of ball would you be?” After a lifetime of pondering this question, I have come up with a definitive answer. I would be a football.

This might seem like an odd choice for a man who is relatively nonviolent and watches very little football, but think about it for a minute. A football receives more loving touches than any other type of ball I know of. Running backs are instructed to “cradle” a football. Quarterbacks are instructed to “protect” the ball up until the moment they release it from their hands. The best wide receivers are those who have “soft hands”—i.e., men who don’t reach out and grab at the ball but allow it to gently nestle itself between their outstretched fingers.

Like all balls, footballs come in for a lot of rough treatment. They get punted and kicked. They get blocked and they get stripped. But footballs spend much of their time actually being held by a human being. They spend several seconds before each play begins in the grip of the center.

The center then snaps the ball into the waiting hands of the quarterback.

(Technically, this is known as “the exchange”—a misnomer because

the quarterback comes away from it with the ball while the center comes away from it empty-handed.)

The quarterback then either places the ball into the cradled arms of a running back or tosses it downfield to where both receivers and defenders alike are hoping to gather it into their hands.

interludes in the life of a football. For the most part, it is intimate with only three or four players per team.

A baseball, on the other hand, is sort of a mama’s boy—“mama” being the pitcher. In what is known as “a perfect game,” the baseball spends nearly all its time being lovingly caressed by the pitcher, and almost no time whatsoever in the hands of

“If you could be any ball in any sport, what kind of ball would you be?” After a lifetime of pondering this question, I have come up with a definitive answer. I would be a football.

any other player. He may scuff it and nick it and even spit on it, but the pitcher is the only player who ever gets to know a baseball intimately.

Baseballs are nowhere near as social as footballs. What’s more, if you are a baseball, every time you are pitched, you run the risk of being knocked into the stands, either as a home run or a foul ball, at which point your career will come to an abrupt end.

Soccer balls are the ultimate flunkies. They spend all of their time being kicked around by others.

Basketballs are promiscuous, always bouncing from man to man, never spending long periods of time

A football’s life can be viewed as a metaphor for a human life. Most of us have a reasonably wide circle of friends but only a small handful of people with whom we are truly intimate. Likewise, a football may be handled by dozens of players during the course of a game, but it is intimate with only a few players: the center and quarterback, both of whom handle it during nearly every play, and perhaps a star running back and a star receiver. An offensive lineman may recover a fumble now and then. A defensive lineman may bat down a pass. But these are just brief

with anyone.

I used to watch a lot of women’s college volleyball, and I thought it would be wonderful to be a volleyball and spend my days cavorting amid beautiful athletic young women dressed in spandex shorts and skimpy tops. But a volleyball can’t be cradled and caressed. Its interactions with humans are generally brief and involve only the palm of one hand or the fingertips. Every volleyball player’s goal is to “kill” the ball.

Tennis balls, as mentioned above, spend very little time actually in contact with tennis players or tennis

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racquets. What’s even worse is that,

No, as violent as professional

in a professional tennis match, the

football may be, the football itself

balls are replaced after every seven

is the most lovingly treated ball in

games. This mandatory-retirement

all of sport. If I had to, as coaches

rule makes a tennis ball’s career

are always exhorting their players,

tragically short.

“be the ball,” I would choose to be a

Professional golf balls get to do a

football. Sure, you get kicked around

lot of flying, it’s true, and they are

a bit, and you find yourself face-down

usually employed in lovely settings

in the mud at times, but you also

such as Pebble Beach or Palm

get the opportunity to be frequently

Springs or St. Andrews golf course in

embraced by a small circle of loving

Scotland. But a golf ball is constantly

friends, friends who want nothing

getting whacked by an iron club. That

more than to help carry you towards

alone makes the life of a golf ball not

your goal. And isn’t that exactly the

worth envying.

kind of life that all of us aspire to?

A polo ball not only gets whacked a

Football season is here again. The

lot; it also runs the risk of landing in

next time you settle down on the

a pile of horse poop. ’Nuff said.

couch to watch the 49ers or Raiders,

A hockey puck gets whacked

don’t cut yourself off from the people

around a lot, and it freezes its butt off

you love. Invite your family and

while doing so. The hockey puck does,

friends to join you. Allow them to

however, have a few things that make

embrace you each time your favorite

its existence worthwhile. It sometimes

team scores. Metaphorically, at least,

gets to knock out the teeth of a player

allow yourself to be cradled and

or spectator. And it gets a front-row

protected by your inner circle. And

seat at a lot of fights. But in spite of

seek out those who most want to be

these advantages, a hockey puck’s life

near you.

is not ideal.

Be the ball. n

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2847 22ND ST $769,000 2186 6TH AVE $355,000 2840 CASTRO WAY $485,000 1315 TENEIGHTH WAY $1,104,000 2633 28 $142,000 2990 17TH ST $368,000 3601 COLLEGE AVE $885,000 2410 9TH AVE $475,000 2875 2ND AVE $280,000 2028 21 ST $716,143 786 VALLEJO WAY $350,000 2677 CURTIS WAY $717,000 562 ROBERTSON WAY $304,000 1740 BURNETT WAY $325,000 3325 CUTTER WAY $475,000 1704 CARAMAY WAY $509,000 2730 LAND PARK DR $638,000 2800 2ND AVE $267,500 3750 19TH ST $1,755,000 2717 17TH ST $379,900 711 FLINT WAY $358,000 2441 MONTGOMERY WY $364,000 2700 13TH ST $569,900 733 ROBERTSON $365,000 2621 16TH ST $380,000 2788 SAN LUIS CT $268,000 2000 24TH ST $340,000 1712 CARAMAY WAY $381,000

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Who’s Listening?

A BLESSING IN A MOST UNUSUAL PLACE

I was quiet for a moment while the

removing the safety pins that kept her

The baby had been born on Christmas

so tightly wrapped. I wanted to see

Eve. Now, instead of wrapping the

her face.

babe in swaddling clothes, the parents

T

en years ago, while serving as a pediatric chaplain at Sutter Medical Center, I answered

a phone call from a nursing supervisor.

At first, it seemed she was calling with a typical request. “We have some parents asking for you to bless their newborn daughter,” she said.

“No problem,” I answered.

“Actually,” she said, “it could be a problem. Can you bless a baby who’s died?”

decided to speak from my heart.

a face peeking through the covers.

were someone’s promise—someone’s

“Good,” she said, “But you’ll be

Here was a creation known and loved

anticipation and expectation. Your

by God and perfectly described in

mama and daddy love you very much.

“Pardon me?” I asked.

Jeremiah 1:5, in which God says, “I

I know because they asked me to

The nurse unwrapped a bit more

knew you before I formed you in your

come and tell you that one more

of the story. The parents had left

mother’s womb. Before you were born

time.”

the hospital immediately after the

I set you apart ...”

After “talking” to the baby, I

death, too devastated to remain.

pronounced a blessing and prayer for

Nevertheless, they wanted the baby

the parents:

blessed in their absence.

“No problem,” I said.

A few minutes later, I met the supervisor in the basement morgue.

The busy nurse pointed to the refrigerator that sheltered the baby and then returned to our short-staffed ICU. Alone, I opened the refrigerated space to see a bundle wrapped in blankets with a name tag attached. I

I peeled away three layers of blankets until finally I uncovered a face peeking through the covers. Here was a creation known and loved by God.

“God, I entrust to your care this life conceived in love. May your blessing come upon these parents. Remove all anxiety from their minds and strengthen this love so that they may have peace in their hearts and home.”

I rewrapped the baby and gently placed her back onto the refrigerated shelf.

Had this been a real blessing? I wondered. Would the parents be able

checked the tag. Yes, I had the right

to know, to feel, to hear the blessing?

baby.

Or had this just been the proverbial maybe I did have a problem. How

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Then, against all the classroom theology I’d ever been taught, I

“I can,” I promised.

That’s the moment I realized that

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heart of a parent.

“Hello, sweetheart,” I said. “You

alone.”

SPIRIT MATTERS

I peeled away three layers of

from knowing these things with the

blankets until finally I uncovered

were shopping for burial clothes.

BY NORRIS BURKES

I picked up the little girl and began

supervisor gave me more information.

According to most religious practices and beliefs, the baby was already in heaven. There was nothing I could do to speed her journey or even obtain better accommodations.

Knowing all these things in my theological brain was very different

tree falling in a forest?

Within my heart, I knew something had happened, but what? Then I realized that blessings aren’t always about what someone does for another.

Sometimes they can be what happens to the one doing the ministry.

On that day, it felt like both.

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Historic Couple THIS PAIR WORKS TO PRESERVE SACRAMENTO’S STORIED PAST

BY SENA CHRISTIAN

“We have so much fun revealing

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the stories of the past,” Boghosian says. “It’s never boring.”

rchitectural historian Paula

She spent her childhood visiting the

Boghosian still remembers

de Young Museum in San Francisco

the school project by a pair

and learning from her father, an

of sixth-grade classmates that

artist. “I grew up in an atmosphere

sparked her interest in historic

that encouraged an interest in and

structures. It was on ancient

exposure to a lot of great stuff,” she

monuments of the world, and she

says.

was riveted.

“This was back in the Middle Ages,

“You can go into a city and see what areas were important to that city’s history. It gives you a picture of the past that’s unattainable in any other way.”

when I was in grammar school,” she says, laughing and sitting in the family room of her midcenturymodern house in Carmichael. The home was built in 1972 by Streng Brothers and Carter Sparks, a wellknown local builder/architect duo.

Near her is a lounge chair by Charles Eames, a famed designer of the mid20th century who acted as a visiting instructor at UC Berkeley when Boghosian was enrolled there and who inspired her with his functional yet visually compelling modern

Boghosian studied painting and

designs.

art history at UC Berkeley and later

Since 1977, Boghosian has run

earned two teaching credentials and

Historic Environment Consultants

a master’s degree in community

in Sacramento. In 1990, marketing

development. Upon moving to

and advertising specialist Donald

Sacramento, she joined the local

Cox joined her. The couple—since married—have played a big role in the preservation of some of the city’s

chapter of the American Association Married couple Donald Cox and Paula Boghosian share a love of historical buildings

most historic buildings.

“These (buildings) are a part of our history and a part of our evolution,” Boghosian says. “You can go into a city and see what areas were important to that city’s history. It gives you a picture of the past that’s unattainable in any other way.”

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of University Women and took trips to New York and Chicago. In those metropolises, she marveled at the

Simply walking down a street

Friends of East Sacramento’s Urban

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Renaissance Home Tour (formerly

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sense of when and how the city’s

known as the East Sacramento Home

Sullivan.

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craftsmanship of times past.

and Boghosian are committed to

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interesting stories contained within

According to Cox, houses built from

Association’s tour on Sept. 20 and

these structures.

the 1850s to 1900s were considered

Cox is involved with two upcoming

In 1973, she wrote a book,

the projects of carpenters and nothing

there, including Aimee Crocker, a

special. The book helped change that

“typical heiress” who traveled the

perception, he says.

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measure to retain certain historical

with writing and earning a degree in

Commission. Much later, in 2005,

aspects, including the ceiling.

journalism.

she served as interim preservation director for the city of Sacramento. In 2006, Cox and Boghosian wrote the book “Sacramento’s Boulevard Park,” for Arcadia Publishing.

Boghosian and Cox tell the story of a maid in the Crocker household who was tried for stealing from Aimee.

She was found innocent. Incensed, Margaret Crocker, the family matriarch, left Sacramento for good.

After she started her own

But she deeded both the mansion and

consulting firm, one of her major

gallery to the city before her death.

projects involved completing the

Boghosian was also involved in the

environmental impact report for Crocker Art Museum and Crocker House. In doing so, she learned much about the people who once resided

renovation of Memorial Auditorium, a much-debated project that ultimately resulted in the passage of a ballot

Cox was introduced to Boghosian

When not working, Cox gardens

through his landlady. In this new

and writes. He has five books

friend, he discovered shared interests

in progress, including one on

in history and architecture. Cox grew

the preservation movement in

up all over the western United States,

Sacramento. Cox and Boghosian

and during family road trips his

read historical books, hang out with

dad would tell stories about various

historian friends and take historically

places along the way, cementing

themed vacations. Cox explained that

his son’s fascination with historical

their professional work often bleeds

anecdotes. Cox had planned to become

into the types of hobbies they pursue.

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children to the potentially greater risks of inactivity. Guidelines suggest kids should be physically active 60 minutes every day. Research shows that outdoor activity is especially beneficial and that being outdoors provides a mental boost as well.

When driven, kids lose an important opportunity for independence—the invaluable experience of being on their own for the journey to school.

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ost kids used to walk or bike to school. In 1969, 89 percent of kids living within a mile of school walked or biked. Now, only 1 student in 10 gets to school under his or her own power. The resulting reduction in physical activity has contributed to today’s youth being extraordinarily overweight and obese—fatter and more prone to diabetes than any generation in history.

Neighborhood schools are vanishing. Applying a narrow view of economy, administrators have made schools bigger and farther apart.

In smaller communities, schools may be at the edge of town instead of centrally located. Even when a school is close by as the crow flies, it can hard to get to. Busy, hardto-cross streets, cul-de-sacs, gated communities and sound walls can make trips too long or too dangerous for walking or biking.

School bus cutbacks also mean more car traffic around schools.

Ironically, many parents say they need to drive their kids to school because of the traffic. Of course, the decision to drive means even more traffic. Estimates are that a quarter to

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The trend of fewer kids walking and biking to school can be reversed.

a third of peak-hour traffic is related to school trips.

Besides being concerned about traffic, parents worry about “stranger danger.” They fear their child being abducted. Parents fear abduction more than the harms that might come from car crashes, sports injuries or drug addiction. While kidnapping risks should not be ignored, they are easily and commonly exaggerated.

Though highly publicized, child

kidnappings are rare. When they do occur, the perpetrator is usually a family member or acquaintance, not a stranger.

So parents drive. As anyone can observe around a school at drop-off and pickup times, the results are confusion and chaos: backed-up traffic, double parking, harried parents and overwhelmed children.

When trying to protect their kids by driving, parents instead expose their

The trend of fewer kids walking and biking to school can be reversed.

Starting in 2000, Marin County began a successful, federally funded Safe Routes to School pilot program. The program resulted in an increase of 17 percent in the number of kids walking and biking to participating schools.

There was a 24 percent decrease in the number of children arriving as the only child in the car. The success of the pilot program led to the adoption of Safe Routes to School strategies

by Marin County and Transportation Authority of Marin.

Marin’s success helped launch broader federal and state Safe Routes to School funding programs.

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Buy Me Some Peanuts RIVER CATS EXECS KNOW IT TAKES MORE THAN BASEBALL TO KEEP FANS HAPPY

BY R.E. GRASWICH SPORTS AUTHORITY

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here are certain things a baseball fan shouldn’t know when enjoying a River Cats game at Raley Field.

Among them is the fact that several hours before the first pitch on this particular night, five people who serve hot dogs and beer called to report they would miss the game with one excuse or another.

As a fan, you are not supposed to know this and it’s not supposed to matter. But it does matter. It can ruin the Swiss-watch complexities plotted over days, months and years by Sierra Beshears, the ballpark’s general manager for food and beverage.

“It’s the kind of crisis that happens all the time,” she says. “But it’s still a crisis when it happens.”

The River Cats are in business to provide customers with the gentle elixir of America’s pastime, which, poets tell us, means the thwack of a baseball striking a wood bat, a dusty slide into third, a home run in the bottom of the ninth.

Those sights and sounds are eternal. Their presence each spring and summer on the shoreline just west of Tower Bridge has helped to make the River Cats the most

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Sierra Beshears is the the general manager for food and beverage at Raley Field

valuable minor-league team in the United States, worth about $40 million, if you believe Forbes magazine.

But the baseball-poetry stuff isn’t what keeps fans coming back.

For that feat, the River Cats rely on people like Beshears, workers who create the food and effects and

atmosphere that transport baseball fans through their game-time experiences at Raley Field.

“It’s all about customer service,” says Mark Ling, the team’s public relations and baseball operations coordinator.

In 15 years since landing at Sacramento, the River Cats have

never been able to conduct business with the big-league swagger that sustains the Kings or Giants or A’s.

The River Cats can’t sell swagger because they are by definition a minor-league outfit.

The trick is not act like one.

Big-league franchises sell exactly that: the promise of The Show, the presence of the world’s best athletes, the marquee names. Some do it well.

Others get lazy about it.

None of those obvious big-league promotional tools exist in the River Cats’ garage, beyond the occasional appearance of a famous name undergoing physical rehab while he takes a few cuts in the minors.

“When we get a big-name player passing through, we certainly try to capitalize on it, even if he’s playing for the other team,” says Dane Lund, entertainment and promotions manager for the River Cats. “But usually, what we have to sell is a great experience.”

That experience covers a wide spectrum over six months, from an uninhibited performance by a boozy Jimmy Buffett tribute band to a miniconcert starring Lincoln Brewster, a Christian guitarist and worship pastor at Bayside Church in Granite Bay. It becomes a balancing act, with the River Cats seeking to build an evening of nonstop fun and entertainment around an old-fashioned, slow-paced game where few fans know the players. Thanks to the team’s status as a Triple-A feeder for the Oakland A’s, the River Cats have no control over the team roster. They barely know who will be in uniform.

“Baseball is why people come out, and it always will be about the game,” Lund says. “But we have to do our best with everything else, which is

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Salad bars and panini sandwiches are popular but no match for the hot dog, which River Cats fans consume an average of 734 per game.

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All fans have unique and personal agendas—some baseball devotees actually enjoy scoring the game, while others are there on dates or seeking hookups—but the River Cats must touch common denominators.

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Thus, the Jimmy Buffett tribute band set up alongside the premium craft beer garden on the concourse above third base. The beer was flowing early. The adjacent salad bar didn’t open until the Buffett group was wrapping up. There was no point to rush salads into action while the crowd swayed to “Why Don’t We Get Drunk.”

Salad bars and panini sandwiches are popular but no match for the hot dog, which River Cats fans consume an average of 734 per game. Beshears runs through 285 garlic fry orders in a nine-inning stretch. Her seasonal pours of Coors Light exceed 100 kegs, more than 1,600 gallons of beer.

There’s a final attraction that transcends hot dogs and beer and wireless TV cameras and Jimmy Buffett and even the scorekeeper’s shorthand of a backward “k.” This would be Dinger, the club’s feline mascot.

“Dinger isn’t going anywhere,” Lund says. “He’s here for the duration.”

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Thru Oct 5 Mainstage at B Street Theatre B Street Theatre 2711 B St. Sac 443-5300 Bstreettheatre.org A sequel to Foster’s hilarious play, The Foursome. This play follows four women as they navigate the ups and downs of life on the links. During an outrageous round of golf, these women discuss life, love, men, sex, careers……basically everything but golf. Don’t miss this heartwarming comedy!!!

Runaway Stage Productions’ Gala

2015 Season Preview GALA & RECEPTION September 14 24th Street Theatre 2791 24th St. Sac 207-1226 Runaway Stage Productions announces its 2015 season!!! The Gala will include a preshow reception with light snacks, beer and wine, and 2015 season tickets will be offered at a substantial discount. There will also be performances from selected 2015 season plays which include The Addams Family, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Catch Me If You Can, Next to Normal, Sweeney Todd and A White Christmas.

Love Isadora

Sept 20 – Oct 14 California Stage Theatre 2509 R St. Sac 451-5822 The play will be directed by Drama Desk Award Norminee, Janis Stevens and features choreography by New York-based choreographer, Tracy Eisenberg.

Bonnie & Clyde

Sept 5 – Sept 28 Presented by Runaway Stage Productions at 24th Street Theatre 2791 24thth St. Sac 207-1226 It was said of the infamous his-and-her gangster team of Bonnie and Clyde …. “They’re young. They’re in love. They kill people.” And now, thanks to this rousing and breathlessly exciting new musical, you can add “THEY CAN SING.” Bonnie and Clyde weaves rockabilly, blues and gospel music into the story of how two small-time nobodies in West Texas became America’s most notorious folk heroes.

The Exit Interview

Sept 12 – Oct 11 Big Idea Theatre 1616 Del Paso Blvd. Sac 960-3036 BigIdeaTheatre.com Dick Fig has been fired. On his last day at his university, Dick’s excruciating exit interview with Eunice, a humorless HR representative, is interrupted by an unexpected and violent incident. They play bounces from Bechtian interludes, to a pair of politically-radicalized cheerleaders, from a pompous newsman to dispatches from God, and includes debates on religion, science and politics before reaching its startling conclusion.

The Uninvited

Sept 26 – Oct 19 Sacramento City College Seeking to escape the demands of life in London, Pam and her brother, Roddy, an aspiring playwright, discover a charming house in the west of England, overlooking the Irish Sea. The house, Cliff End, has been empty and has a unsavory reputation. The reason is soon apparent.

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Brain Work PROOF IS IN THE PAINTING AS ARTIST RELEARNS CRAFT

BY DEBRA BELT

green to neutralize red and orange to tone down blue,” she recalls. The ability to hold an image in her head crept back sometime around 2012.

“The brain can rewire itself to fetch information,” notes Altschul, now 56.

“It’s an incredible tool.”

Her studio is full of paintings, mostly portraits on toned canvas, images in which the subject’s face isn’t always visible. The work is loose and painterly and holds the eye. One half-finished and compelling piece shows a female figure from the back climbing a long ladder suspended in the sky. Altschul says doing portraits is a new twist in her work. “For many years I was an abstract painter,” she says.

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tanding in her Curtis Park studio, Patricia Altschul pushes a wild tangle of curls from her face and locates a small transparent envelope on her worktable. From it she fishes out a 2-inch-square piece of paper that vaguely depicts the sky with clouds.

It’s a small, simple piece for MFAcredentialed artist and former art professor.

“It is what I could do at the time,” Altschul explains. She created the tiny piece in 2003, three years after she suffered a traumatic head injury that rendered her unable to walk, talk or process visual information. “I lost my working memory,” she says. Of the many paintings in her studio, the diminutive piece is a marker of the beginning of her journey to retrain and discover the resiliency of the human mind.

Altschul was doing a routine cleaning job in 2000 when a wall shelf collapsed and sent Masonite boards cascading on top of her head. She was hit repeatedly and briefly knocked out. “It was a freak accident,” she says. “Life has stuff in it, and that’s the way it is.”

After the accident, she was on the couch for months and began speech, occupational and physical therapy.

“My world became very small,” she recalls. She had to relearn how to be mobile and communicate. Three years later, with the help of an assistance dog, she made her way back into the studio. However, she was without the “mental toolbox” she formerly used as

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“I didn’t know what color to use or how to use it, and I could not hold an image in my head.”

Painter Patricia Altschul and her canine helper in her studio

an artist. “I didn’t know what color to use or how to use it,” she says, “and I could not hold an image in my head.”

Initially, she painted only the sky and clouds and, after a while, treetops. A few years later, she moved on to sketching small animals in order to explore form. Then, working in oils, she created images inspired by old family photographs. Altschul forged through problems such as not being able to distinguish foreground

from background or remember what she was working on from one day to the next. As a reminder, she kept a notebook. “I would wait for information to appear on the canvas,” she says. “I didn’t know what to do next.” She says it was discouraging, starting from scratch each day. “But it didn’t occur to me to not try.”

Slowly, changes came.

“The color wheel came back, and I started remembering that you can use

Back inside her home, she points to paintings created before the accident.

The acrylic paintings are abstract and muted, featuring shapes reminiscent of birds. Altschul said Wallace Stevens’ poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” inspired the works, which are about time—the moment before a bird takes off.

The earlier pieces are the culmination of studies at UC Davis graduate school, which she attended in the early ’80s, when

After many years as an abstract painter, Altschul says doing portraits is a new twist in her work.

Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, Cornelia Schulz and Roy De Forest were among the teachers. Altschul went on to become an adjunct art professor at American River College and taught drawing, painting and beginning design. “I loved it,” she

says. “I especially loved teaching beginning drawing and relating how to read visual information and solve visual problems. I loved the moment the light goes on for students.”

Altschul’s earlier pieces were painted with a different palette of colors than she currently uses, and

her newer paintings depict a different subject matter. Still, a timeless quality runs through all of her work, says D. Oldham Neath, owner and curator of Archival Gallery and Framing on Folsom Boulevard.

Archival will show Altschul’s new paintings in September.

“I used to show her work before she was injured, and she was one of

my best-selling artists,” says Oldham Neath, who had not seen Altschul’s work for nearly 15 years. “She has lost nothing of her original voice as far as art goes. This new work looks like her work, but she created it with a new part of her brain.”

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Out of This World SACRAMENTO STATE HOSTS WEEKLONG CELEBRATION OF GLOBAL MUSIC, DANCE

By Jessica Laskey RIVER CITY PREVIEWS

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here can you find performers, foods and cultural fun from around the world in one place?

At SacWorldFest, a celebration of cultural diversity through music and dance, hosted on the Sacramento State University campus from Sept. 27 through Oct. 5.

The weeklong extravaganza will kick off with a fundraising gala at the University Theatre at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, that will include delectable dishes from around the world, beverages from breweries and wineries, delicious desserts, raffle prizes and performances from regional groups with a special “Spotlight on Brazil.”

The rest of the festival, which includes master classes and tons of fascinating performances, will take place all around the city—events and locations can be found on the website—as well as on the Sac State campus.

“Having the SacWorldFest celebration on our campus is a wonderful opportunity for the community and the university,”

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Brazilian band SambaDá is one of the headliners at SacWorldFest hosted at the Sac State campus from Sept. 27 through Oct. 5

says Edward Inch, dean of the CSUS College of Arts and Letters. “It brings new visitors to campus while providing a terrific venue for the dynamic entertainment and multiethnic art and food.”

SacWorldFest culminates on Sunday, Oct. 5 with a community festival on campus from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. that will feature acts on multiple stages, including headliner SambaDá, the West Coast’s hottest Brazilian

band; international vocalist Alencia Vela; Irish, Welsh and Americana music by Stepping Stone; Sacramento/ Black Art of Dance; Ukrainian dance

by Sonechko; and West African music and dance by JODAMA Drum & Dance. There also will be crafts and fine art vendors and a Global Village offering food from around the planet.

For more information, go to sacworldfest.org

HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? To answer that age-old question, Soroptimist International of Sacramento will host its fourth annual Edible Gardens Tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13 in East Sacramento.

Six local master gardeners will take tour-goers on an exclusive tromp through their fruit, vegetable and herb gardens, including Suzanne The Edible Garden Tour Is on Sat. Sept. 13 In East Sacramento

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HAVE “INSIDE,” WILL TRAVEL 1. Patrick and Julieanne Hinrichsen in a row boat in Lake Bled in Slovenia 2. Emilie and Amanda DeFazio at the U.S.Canada border crossing at Douglas, British Columbia, Canada 3. Rob, Aimee, and Maya Schopen at the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica 4. Rudy Martinez and Bob Anderson at Formula One race in Montreal, Quebec, Canada 5. Miles Magaletti on the famous Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 6. Laura Poppers and Lisa Brody at Barra de Navidad, Estado Jalisco, Mexico

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Presenting the best in music, dance and speakers

The Season begins!

Opening Caetano Veloso SEP 18 Night!

Brazilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Father of TropicĂĄliaâ&#x20AC;?

The 16th annual Race for the Arts is Saturday, Aug. 23 in William Land Park

FREE Corin Courtyard concert before the show: Mistura Brasileira Samba Dance Company t 1.

The Sacramento Old City Association Home Tour will be Saturday, Sept. 20.

Photo courtesy of Don Cox.

Generations of Jazz Masters

Ellis Marsalis, Jr. and Delfeayo Marsalis SEP 19 The Last Southern Gentlemen FREE Corin Courtyard concert before the show: Element Brass Band t 1.

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PREVIEWS FROM page 58 Tonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Urban Farm (offering mandarin oranges, blueberries, squash and rosemary) and Karen Baumannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Whimsical Garden (showcasing persimmon, pear, kale, basil and banana trees). They also will answer questions to the tunes of the Sacramento Symphonic Winds.

Proceeds benefit Soroptimist International of Sacramento, a nonprofit service club that has given support to at-risk women and children for 91 years. For more information on the group, go to soroptimistsacramento.com For tickets and more information on the tour, go to ediblegardensac.org

OAK PARK GATHERING On Thursday, Sept. 11, Oak Park Business Association will block off 3rd Avenue (at 35th Street and

Broadway) for a Second Thursday event called Gather.

Gather takes place from 5 to 9 p.m. in the newly dubbed Triangle District, Oak Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central business corridor.

The free event will feature live music by reggae band ZuhG. Food vendors will include Mother restaurant, Maui Wowi Hawaiian Coffees & Smoothies, Wandering Boba, Thai Basil, Paragaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Preservation & Co., DavePops, Rebel Confectionary and The Professor Went Nuts. Local craft beers will be served, and Old Soul Coffee will give an informational presentation on brewing coffee.

A childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s area will feature a spice-your-own-popcorn bar, paper flower making, arts and crafts and a coloring station.

For more information, go to oakparkba.com PREVIEWS page 62

It’s the total package.

Featuring guest speaker Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author.

Don’t miss Care Begins With Me, Sacramento’s premier health and lifestyle event for women. Treat yourself to delicious appetizers and beverages. Experience the marketplace expo. Conclude the evening with informative care chats led by Dignity Health doctors and health experts.

It all happens Thursday, October 2, 2014 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Sheraton Grand Hotel.

Register at CareBeginsWithMe.org. $25 registration. $5 discount for Care Begins with Me members.

Sponsors: SHOP . DINE . PLAY

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THIS OLD HOUSE If these walls could talk. Well, for one day they kind of can: The Sacramento Old City Association Home Tour will open the doors to some enticing historic homes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20.

Now in its 39th year, the tour allows visitors a privileged peek into some of midtown’s restored and reused buildings. This year, that includes Sutter’s Fort (the oldest building in Sacramento), private residences, the Kennedy Gallery Art Center and the Amber House Bed and Breakfast.

Start your day of house hopping at the Midtown Farmers Market (2020 J St.), where you’ll be given a tour brochure and wristbands for entry access. Once you’ve gotten an eyeful of all the beautiful buildings, return to the market for a free street fair that will boast booths from local contractors and artisans who specialize in home rehab and remodeling, artists and craftspeople selling their wares, and nonprofit organizations with information on everything from advocacy to history.

Rarin’ to go? Buy your tickets in advance and save $5 at soca2014hometour. brownpapertickets.com Limited free parking will be available at the two-story structure on 20th Street between K and L streets; or spend $2 and park for the whole day at Sacramento East End Parking (1150 17th St.). A monitored bicycle corral will also be available for free. For more information, go to sacoldcity.org

CHALK CIRCLES Sure, art is ephemeral, but never more so than when one good rainstorm could wash it away for good. So be sure to check out the sidewalk masterpieces at Chalk It Up on Labor Day weekend (Aug. 30Sept. 1) at Fremont Park before the elements take their toll.

Now in its 24th year, the threeday event boasts elaborate sidewalk

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Have you ever wondered what it really looks like in an artist’s atelier? Now is your chance to get an exclusive sneak peek into more than 130 artists’ studios during the Sacramento Open Studios event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 13, 14, 20 and 21.

chalk art creations by more than 200 artists, family-friendly fun at a variety of booths, hands-on activities, live music from 30 regional groups, gourmet food trucks, and a wine and beer garden to help you wash it all down. As always, the event is free, so bring the whole brood for a stroll around the park perimeter to see stunning pieces from Sacramento’s creative class rendered in everyone’s favorite elementary-school medium.

For more information, go to chalkitup.org Fremont Park is bounded by 15th, 16th, P and Q streets.

FOR OUR EYES ONLY Have you ever wondered what it really looks like in an artist’s atelier?

Now is your chance to get an exclusive sneak peek into more than 130 artists’ studios during the Sacramento Open Studios event presented by the Center for Contemporary Art from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 13, 14, 20 and 21 all across Sacramento.

Local artists will talk visitors through their processes, show off their most recent pieces and answer questions from curious tour-goers; one-third of all artists will even demonstrate their techniques. Special

events such as the Sacramento Open Studios Kick-Off Party & Reception (on Thursday, Sept. 11) and free demonstrations of letterpress, monoprint, painting and more are not to be missed, so make sure you pick up a guide and a map at Verge Center for the Arts (625 S St.) or online at sacopenstudios.com Studios will be open west of the Capital City Freeway (downtown, midtown, Land Park, Greenhaven/ Pocket) on Sept. 13 and 14 and east of the freeway (East Sacramento, Tahoe Park, Oak Park, Carmichael, Arden Arcade, Fair Oaks) on Sept. 20 and 21. For more information, visit sacopenstudios.com

CROCKER-CON Deaf Jam, Comic-Con, Classical Concerts—September has arrived at Crocker Art Museum, and it’s shaping up to be one very exciting month.

First up is the Classical Concert featuring the Trio MoD at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14. The group is composed of Maquette Kuper on flute and alto flute, Deborah Pittman on clarinet and Native American flute, and baritone vocalist Omari Tau. The three have an electric, eclectic musical style that fuses classical, jazz, gospel and Native American music

in original arrangements, including Pittman’s Harlem-inspired “Peter in the Hood,” that will delight the ears and eyes. Tickets are $6 for museum members, $10 for students and $12 for nonmembers.

Next, is your Spidey sense tingling?

Comic-Con is coming to the Crocker with an Art Mix twist for Crocker-Con from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Sept.

11. The evening will include special appearances by the 501st Legion as well as featured artists from DC, Marvel and Dark Horse Comics; rock music performed by Ewoks (the band Six Beers Deep) and nerd-core DJ sets by the Sleeprockers; an expanded outdoor showcase with more than 30 artists and vendors; and more costumed cosplay fun than you can imagine. Drink specials are under $5 all night and costumed Crocker-Coners get in free, so let your cosplay freak flag fly!

For a tamer (but no less interesting) evening, check out audience-favorite saxophonist Garrett Perkins performing for Jazz in the Courtyard at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18. Perkins will present work by African American musicians past and present, from bebop to contemporary jazz, in a concert that’s sure to educate as well as entertain. Tickets are $6 for members, $10 for students, $12 for nonmembers.

Looking forward to the next, new exhibit to grace the Crocker’s walls?

It’s here: “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art” opens on Sept. 21 and will be on display through Jan. 11.

The exhibit will feature nearly 100 pieces of all different media from the mid-20th century to contemporary times by Latino artists drawn from Smithsonian American Art Museum collections. It will explore our “nation of immigrants,” the movements that inspired these artists and how they approached issues of expansionism, migration, settlement and shifting cultural traditions through their artwork.

In celebration of National Deaf Awareness Month, the Crocker’s Deaf Jam event from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 25 is not what you

think it is. “Deaf Jam” is actually the title of an acclaimed documentary that chronicles the story of two young women in New York City who combine American Sign Language and spoken word poetry to form a new kind of self-expression: ASL slam poetry.

The Crocker event will include a screening of the film, ASL-interpreted tours of the museum, ASL poetry and a community art exhibit for the deaf and hard-of-hearing and their family and friends. All are welcome, and preregistration is suggested.

For tickets and more information for all Crocker events, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum.org

FULL OF BEANS Are you jonesing for some java?

Now you can join in the fun that all those beer-loving pub crawlers and rosé-swilling wine tourists get to have with Sacramento’s very first Caffeine Crawl presented by The LAB on Sept.

6.

The event was thought up in 2011 by the beverage marketing firm The LAB, which is based in Kansas City and Portland, as a way to bring a jolt of java to cities all over the country by featuring local roasters. This is the first year California’s capital will get in on the caffeinated fun, and it sounds like a blast: Crawlers will start at one of three Roaster Sponsor locations—Insight Coffee Roasters, Old Soul Co. or Chocolate Fish—grab some nifty swag bags and enjoy a brief presentation before taking a tour by bike or car to other participating shops around Sacramento, including Temple Coffee, Fluid Espresso Bar, Pachamama Coffee Bar, Shine Coffee and Son of a Bean Coffee House.

All coffeehouses will present a topic that is near and dear to their coffeeloving hearts and provide guests with samples to sip while they listen. Once the tour is finished, crawlers can partake in the after-party at Temple Coffee, which will feature crafts, lots more coffee and raffle prizes galore. It should only take you a week to come down from the caffeine high.

For tickets and more information, go to caffeinecrawl.com/sacramentotickets.html Caffeine Crawl starting locations are Insight Coffee Roasters (1901 Eighth St.), Old Soul Co. (1716 L St.) and Chocolate Fish (400 P St.).

FEEDING A NEED Whet your appetites: Sacramento’s Farm to Fork Week 2014 is here, and what better way to kick off the region’s favorite food-athon than to make sure those who don’t have access to abundant food can have a satisfying meal? Don’t miss the Farm to Every Fork gala dinner from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13 at Trinity Cathedral.

Your ticket buys you a mouthwatering meal prepared by chefs Michael Thiemann and Matt Masera of restaurants Mother and Empress Tavern, as well as a meal for someone who has experienced poverty and food insecurity.

Sacramento Farmers and Chefs have teamed up with Slow Food Sacramento, Sacramento Food Bank

& Family Services, River City Food Bank, the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee/Homeward Street Journal, Food Not Bombs and the Fund for Urban Gardens to host the event, which they hope will spur a communal commitment to end hunger in our region.

So while you’re enjoying the food, music, wine and the keynote presentation by Eric Holt-Gimenez of Food First, you can know that you’re also helping feed someone in need.

For more information, go to farmtofork.com Trinity Cathedral is at 2620 Capitol Ave.

COAST TO COAST If a last-minute beach vacation just isn’t in the cards, let art spirit you away at the new exhibition of Anthony Montanino’s landscapes at Alex Bult Gallery from Sept. 11 through Oct. 4.

The artist is based in the stunning Sacramento Valley, but his frequent trips to the coast of Maine inspired

Anthony Montanino’s landscapes will be on exhibit at Alex Bult Gallery from Sept. 11 through Oct. 4.

this show, entitled “From the Valley and Beyond.”

Montanino says: “I’m attracted to the strong light of the valley and coast where subjects are dramatically lit. It’s irresistible to paint the transformation of their mood using color and composition.”

Even more irresistible is seeing his beautiful landscapes up close and getting to meet the painter in person.

Don’t miss the preview reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 11 or the opening night reception on Second Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. on Sept. 13.

For more information, call 4765540 or go to alexbultgallery.com Alex Bult Gallery is at 1114 21st St., Suite B.

ON HER TOES Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda are familiar faces around the Sacramento Ballet, but there’s a new face that you should get to know: Caty Solace was just named the company’s new executive director.

Solace comes to Sacramento from the Trey McIntyre Project, a Boise, Idaho-based nonprofit dedicated to the artistic vision of contemporary choreographer McIntyre. Solace’s work there has prepared her well for taking the Sacramento Ballet into its 60th anniversary season.

“She has been on the job about two weeks with lots to catch up on,” says Ron Cunningham. “We think she is wonderful and will help take the Sac Ballet to a new level of growth.”

The ballet’s upcoming season will include the return of Cunningham’s wildly popular “The Great Gatsby,” as well as his beloved “Nutcracker,” the hotly anticipated premiere of his new version of “Peter Pan,” a full-length production of “Swan Lake,” “Modern Masters” in May and the continuing Beer & Ballet series at City College.

Solace has her work cut out for her!

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Capital Wineries THESE TWO URBAN WINERIES CALL THE CITY ‘WINE COUNTRY’

BY GREG SABIN RESTAURANT INSIDER

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ere in Sacramento, we’re in the middle of wine country.

Just an hour from Napa, a little farther to Sonoma, an easy 45 minutes to El Dorado and Amador and a quick highway trip to Lodi, we are the hub of the wine wheel that defines much of California viticulture. It wasn’t until recently, however, that winemakers started setting up shop here in town.

Our central location allows these winemakers to source their grapes from any nearby wine region, keeping costs down and quality up. Two of these urban wineries have lovely tasting rooms and restaurants.

Cabana Wines and Bistro— Open for about six months, Cabana Winery and Bistro is still finalizing its menu and hours but is already a fine addition to the East Sac neighborhood. Winemaker Robert Smerling has been working the wine circuit for a few decades and knows his stuff. He took away a Best in Region and Best of Class in Region for his 2012 Sauvignon Blanc at this year’s California State Fair.

Smerling was founder and vintner in Amador County's Renwood Winery from 1993 to 2010. He fell in love with the urban winery concept after visiting Santa Barbara's urban wine district.

Smerling and staff have also put together a fine list of outside wines and beers to serve in the bistro. The bistro menu, already diverse and well executed. Some great dishes are

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Robert Smerling of Cabana Winery in his East Sac tasting room and bistro

coming out of Cabana’s little kitchen.

This is not a winery afterthought menu but a standalone restaurant menu worthy of many a return visit.

From pilsner soup to country pate to fish tacos, the menu thematically makes no sense but is delicious as all get-out.

This is not a winery afterthought menu but a standalone restaurant menu worthy of many a return visit.

Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. was recently added and has already received rave reviews. An

courtyard patio is a perfect spot for parties and special events.

Cabana Wines and Bistro is at 5610 Elvas Ave.; 476-5492; cabanawine. com Revolution Wines—Standing reservedly on the corner of 29th and S, in the neighborhood some call Newton Booth, Revolution Wines hides in plain sight. If you’re driving by, it’s hard to tell how well equipped it is for wine tasting, dining and relaxing.

There’s a sizable L-shaped bar, table seating for dozens inside and one of the loveliest outdoor patios in town. Dappled with vining plants and twinkling lights, the patio that Revolution shares with next-door neighbor Temple Coffee can’t be beat when it comes to evening dining and sipping.

And what lovely dining and sipping it is. Revolution’s wine offerings are well balanced, and its menu is small but amazingly well thought out. On a recent visit, I was particularly taken with a 2013 Clarksburg chenin blanc.

First, I’m quite happy that a jug wine from the ’70s and ’80s is making a comeback as a well-crafted varietal.

You’ll find chenin blanc popping up on almost every winemaker’s to-do list, and Revolution does a lovely job with this varietal. It’s a crisp, light white with the barest hint of fruit.

On the red side of the aisle, Revolution’s St. Rey Celeste is a lovely example of a field blend. Most blends make use of several different grapes from several different vineyards. In contrast, a field blend uses multiple varieties grown together in the same vineyard.

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The Celeste is a subtle, dry red, great with food or on its own. The grapes are all Sacramento County fruit, which adds a touch of pride for the local drinker.

The products from Revolution’s kitchen can hold their own with the wines.

The products from Revolution’s kitchen can hold their own with the wines. This is not a full restaurant menu, but it is a nicely curated collection of plates that pair well with the wine and make for happy mouths.

The peach-and-greens salad is a beautiful celebration of in-season ingredients, complementing the

sweet peaches with cilantro, candied pistachios and cherry-balsamic vinaigrette. The beet salad celebrates the neon-colored roots with candied macadamias and a healthy serving of blue cheese.

On the more indulgent side, the BLT cheese dip is as ridiculous as it sounds, creamy and meaty, with an acidy bite of tomatoes and enough fresh herbs to give the whole thing a lift and make it more than just a wonderfully warm cheese bomb.

For a sweet ending, pair the fruit bruschetta with a late-harvest viognier. The fruit/honey/bread concoction goes quite nicely with the sweet notes of the wine and makes for a memorable send-off.

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

Aioli Bodega Espanola L D $$ Full Bar Patio Andalusian cuisine served in a casual European atmosphere

Biba Ristorante

2801 Capitol Ave. 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian

cuisine served a la carte • Biba-restaurant.com

Buckhorn Grill

1801 L St. 446-3757

L D $$ Wine/Beer A counter service restaurant with high-quality chicken, char-roasted beef, salmon, and entrée salads

2730 J St. 442-2552

Chicago Fire

2416 J St. 443-0440

D $$ Full Bar Chicago-style pizza, salads wings served in a family-friendly atmosphere • Chicagofirerestaurant.com

Crepeville

1730 L St. 444-1100

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Outdoor Dining Crepes, omelets, salads, soups and sandwiches served in a casual setting

Café Bernardo

Ernesto’s Mexican Food

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Casual California cuisine with counter service

B L D $-$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Fresh Mexican food served in an upscale, yet familyfriendly setting • Ernestosmexicanfood.com

2726 Capitol Ave. 443-1180 1431 R St. 930-9191

1901 16th St. 441-5850

58 Degrees & Holding Co. 1217 18th St. 442-5858

Sacramento’s Oldest Restaurant

ESPAÑOL Since 1923

ITALIAN

RESTAURANT

$10 OFF Total DINNER food order of $40 or more

With coupon. Cannot be combined with other discounts.

Expires 9/30/14.

$5 OFF

Total LUNCH or DINNER food order of $25 or more With coupon. Cannot be combined with other discounts.

Expires 9/30/14.

5723 Folsom Boulevard 457-1936

Clark's Corner Restaurant 5641 J St.

L D Full Bar $$ American cuisine in a casual historic setting

Paesano’s Pizzeria

Clubhouse 56

L D $$ Gourmet pizza, pasta, salads in casual setting • Paesanos.biz

BLD Full Bar $$ American cuisine. HD sports, kid's menu, beakfast weekends

Paragary’s Bar & Oven

Evan’s Kitchen

1806 Capitol Ave. 447-8646

1401 28th St. 457-5737

D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio California cuisine with an Italian touch • Paragarys.com

Suzie Burger

29th and P Sts. 455-3300

L D $ Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger.com

The Streets of London Pub 1804 J St. 498-1388

L D $ Wine/Beer English Pub fare in an authentic casual atmosphere, 17 beers on tap

Tapa The World

2115 J St. 442-4353

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

723 56th. Street 454-5656

855 57th St. 452-3896

B L D Wine/Beer $$ Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere, Kid’s menu, winemaker dinners • Chefevan.com

Español 5723 Folsom Blvd. 457-3679

L D Full Bar $-$$ Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere

Formoli's Bistro

3839 J St. 448-5699

B L D Wine/Beer Patio $$ Mediterranean influenced cuisine in a neighborhood setting

Italian Stallion

3260B J St. 449-8810

L D $-$$ Thin-Crust Pizza, Deserts and Beer in an intimate setting and popular location

Fox & Goose Public House

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties Thaibasilrestaurant.com

3649 J St. 455-7803

The Coconut Midtown

Les Baux

L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Food with Thai Food Flair

BLD $ Wine/Beer Unique boulangerie, café & bistro serving affordable delicious food/drinks all day long • lesbauxbakery.com

1001 R St. 443-8825

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer English Pub favorites in an historic setting • Foxandgoose.com

Harlow’s Restaurant 2708 J Street 441-4693

L D $$ Full Bar Modern Italian/California cuisine with Asian inspirations • Harlows.com

Italian Importing Company 1827 J Street 442-6678

B L $ Italian food in a casual grocery setting

Jack’s Urban Eats

1230 20th St. 444-0307

L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com

Kasbah Lounge

2431 J St. 442-7690

2502 J Street 440-1088 Lunch Delivery M-F and Happy Hour 4-6

The Waterboy

2000 Capitol Ave. 498-9891

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com

Zocolo

1801 Capitol Ave. 441-0303

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

D Full Bar $$ Middle Eastern cuisine in a Moroccan setting

Lucca Restaurant & Bar 1615 J St. 669-5300

L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Patio Mediterranean cuisine in a casual, chic atmosphere • Luccarestaurant.com

D $$-$$$ Eclectic menu in a boutique neighborhood setting

2028 H St. 443-7585

La Trattoria Bohemia L D Wine/Beer $-$$ Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting

5090 Folsom Blvd. 739-1348

Opa! Opa!

5644 J St. 451-4000

L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service

Nopalitos

5530 H St. 452-8226

B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting

Selland's Market Cafe 5340 H St. 473-3333

2115 J St. 442-4388

Lunch 11-4 pm • Dinner 4-9 pm Sundays • 11:30-9 pm • Closed Mondays

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LD $$ Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2. • cabanawine.com

Thai Basil Café

Moxie

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L D $$$ Wine/Beer California cuisine served in a chic, upscale setting • 58degrees.com

Dine In & Take Out • Cocktail Lounge • Banquet Room Seats 35

www.espanolitalian.com

Cabana Winery & Bistro

EAST SAC 33rd Street Bistro

3301 Folsom Blvd. 455-2233

B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Pacific Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting

Burr's Fountain 4920 Folsom Blvd. 452-5516

B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties

B L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, wine bar

Star Ginger

3101 Folsom Blvd. 231-8888

Asian Grill and Noodle Bar • starginger.com

Thai Palace Restaurant 3262 J St. 446-5353

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Authentic Thai cuisine in a casual setting

Frank Fatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2013 Recipient, James Beard Foundation America's Classics Award

ď&#x2122;&#x160;ď&#x2122;&#x2C6;th Anniversary â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dinner Special* $27.95 per person APPETIZER

Chinese Chicken Salad

with pickled cucumber, almonds, and a sesame soy vinaigrette ENTRĂ&#x2030;ES

Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Style New York Steak

NY steak smothered in sautĂŠed onions and oyster sauce

Honey Walnut Prawns Our award-winning recipe.

Chicken and Vegetable Stir-fry in spicy garlic sauce

Young Shew Fried Rice

With barbecued pork, Chinese sausage, lettuce, and shrimp DESSERT

Fatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Famous Banana Cream Pie Two person minimum. No substitutions please. May not be combined with ?LW MRFCP BGQAMSLR "MCQ LMR GLAJSBC R?V MP EP?RSGRW -ĂŹCP CVNGPCQ 1CNRCK@CP

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Summer Hours: Closed Sundays only, 'til September 7th 806 L Street, Sacramento 916-442-7092 www.frankfats.com

DOWNTOWN Foundation

400 L St. 321-9522

L D $$ Full Bar American cooking in an historic atmosphere â&#x20AC;˘ foundationsacramento.com

Chops Steak Seafood & Bar 1117 11th St. 447-8900

L D $$$ Full Bar Steakhouse serving dry-aged prime beef and fresh seafood in an upscale club atmosphere â&#x20AC;˘ Chopssacramento.com

Downtown & Vine 1200 K Street #8 228-4518

Educational tasting experience of wines by the taste, flight or glass â&#x20AC;˘ downtownandvine.com

Ella Dining Room & Bar 1131 K St. 443-3772

L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space â&#x20AC;˘ Elladiningroomandbar.com

Esquire Grill 1213 K St. 448-8900

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting â&#x20AC;˘ Paragarys.com

Estelle's Patisserie

901 K St. 916-551-1500 L D $$-$$$ French-inspired Bakery serving fresh pastry & desserts, artisan breads and handcrafted sandwiches.

EstellesPatisserie.com

Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. 446-6768

D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location â&#x20AC;˘ Fatsrestaurants. com

The Firehouse Restaurant 1112 Second St. 442-4772

L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting â&#x20AC;˘ Firehouseoldsac.com

Frank Fatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

806 L St. 442-7092

L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Chinese favorites in an elegant setting â&#x20AC;˘ Fatsrestaurants.com

Il Fornaio

400 Capitol Mall 446-4100

L D Full Bar $$$ Fine Northern Italian cuisine in a chic, upscale atmosphere â&#x20AC;˘ Ilfornaio.com

Grange

926 J Street â&#x20AC;˘ 492-4450

B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful â&#x20AC;˘ grangerestaurant.com

Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. 440-8888

L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region's rich history and bountiful terrain â&#x20AC;˘ Paragarys.com

McCormick & Schmickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seafood Restaurant 1111 J St. 442-8200

L D $$ Full Bar Upscale seafood, burgers in a clubby atmosphere â&#x20AC;˘ Mccormickandschmicks.com

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Freeport Bakery

Visit Land Park’s Newest Café

Vic’s Café

B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com

2535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 481-5225 L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com

Iron Grill

The Kitchen

13th Street and Broadway 737-5115 steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com

D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com

Jamie's Bar and Grill

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria

L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986

L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting

Riverside Clubhouse

2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988

L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com

*with purchase of any entreé

Between 3-6pm. Mention this ad. Expires 9/30/14.

Taylor's Kitchen

2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154

D $$S Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested.

Mikuni Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar 1530 J St. 447-2112

L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Japanese cuisine served in an upscale setting • Mikunisushi.com

WE WED ED D-FRI -FFR FRI R RI 3PM M-6PM - M

10AM M- M M-2PM AMPLE PATIO SEATING G DOG FRIENDLY LY 5610 Elvas Ave. e.

(Between H & F st.) t.)

(916)476 766-5492 92 cabanawine.com m

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ARDENCARMICHAEL Andaloussia

1537 Howe Ave. 927-1014 L D $-$$ Authentic Moroccan cuisine, lunch &

Café Vinoteca

Rio City Café

L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • Cafevinoteca.com

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Seasonal menu of favorites in a setting overlooking river • Riocitycafe.com

Chinois City Café

Ten 22

L D $$ Full Bar Asian-influenced cuisine in a casual setting • Chinoiscitycafe.com

L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting ten22oldsac.com

Ettore’s

L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire $$ Wine/Beer. Elegantly presented American cuisine. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children's Home. Small and large groups. Reservations recommended • casagardenrestaurant.org

5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727

D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out

D $$ Full Bar Relax with drinks and dinner in this stylish downtown space

2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Vietnamese and Thai cuisine in a casual yet elegant setting

L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 am weekends

Parlaré Eurolounge

Casa Garden Restaurant

601 Munroe St. 486-4891

The Mandarin Restaurant

B L D $-$$ Full Bar Espresso, omelettes, salads, table service from 5 -9 p.m. • bellabrucafe.com

LAND PARK

Lemon Grass Restaurant

Willie's Burgers

Bella Bru Café

1022 Second St. 441-2211

L D $ House-made ice cream and specialties, soups and sandwiches

L D Beer/Wine $$ Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes

D $$$ Full Bar Upscale American steakhouse • Mortons.com

1110 Front St. Old Sac 442-8226

2333 Arden Way 920-8382

B L D $$ Wine/Beer International cuisine with dessert specialties in a casual setting

dinner specials, belly dancing weekends • bestmoroccanfood.com

10th & J Sts. 448-8960

Leatherby’s Family Creamery

Matteo's Pizza

1518 Broadway 441-0222

Morton’s Steakhouse

621 Capitol Mall #100 442-50

3032 Auburn Blvd. 484-0139 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104

Tower Café

2415 16th St.444-2006

3193 Riverside Blvd (Next to Vic’s Ice Cream) 475-1223 • cafevics.com

2225 Hurley Way 568-7171

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood

427 Broadway 442-4044

Free specialty coffee drink*

Jack’s Urban Eats

2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256

5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883

3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331

3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-8690

2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. 482-0708

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, desserts in a bistro setting • Ettores.com

Kilt Pub

4235 Arden Way 487-4979

L D $ Beer/Wine British Pub Grub, Nightly Dinner Specials, Open 7 Days

4321 Arden Way 488-47794

Roma's Pizzeria & Pasta 6530 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-9800

L D $$ Traditional Italian pizza & pasta Family Friendly Catering + Team Parties • romas-pizzaand-pasta.com

Roxy

2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000

B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere

Ristorante Piatti

571 Pavilions Lane 649-8885

L D $$ Full Bar Contemporary Italian cuisine in a casually elegant setting

Sam's Hof Brau

2500 Watt 482-2175 L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • thehofbrau.com

Thai House

427 Munroe in Loehmann's 485-3888 L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com

Willie's Burgers

5050 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-5050L D $ Great burgers and more n

Executive Chef Kurt Spataro at Del Rio Botanical

Cafe Bernardo Riverdog Farms Spinach Salad

Brentwood Corn & Squash Blossom Tacos

Celebrating 25 Years in Our Community Call now for Enrollment Information

Locally-roasted Vaneli’s Coffee

Soil Born Farms Heirloom Tomatoes

(916) 427-5022 www.camelliawaldorf.org

DO IT YOURSELF Wedding Parties & Classes

Courtland Pears

Find our schedule online at RellesFlorist.com

Relles Florist

2400 J Street • 441-1478

RellesFlorist.com

Voted Best Florist 12 years by readers of Sacramento Magazine

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Art Preview

GALLERY ART SHOWS IN SEPTEMBER

Crystal Close explores the theme of the female portrait in a show at the Union Hall Gallery. Shown: Portrait of a Lady by Crystal Close. 2126 K St.

Sacramento painter Anthony Montaninoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s work will be featured at the Alex Bult Gallery from Sept. 11 to Oct. 4. Shown above: Elk Slough.

1114 21st Street, Suite B; alexbultgallery.com

A joint exhibit of the work of Mark Emerson and Jay Leaver, both painters at Jay Jay Art Gallery, will be shown through Oct. Shown: Toss and Turn in polymer by Mark Emerson. 5520 Elvas Avenue; jayjayart.com

Tim Collom Gallery will be featuring owner and artist, Tim Collom.

The show includes old favorites and brand new inspirations.

Show runs Sept. 13 to Oct. 4. Shown above: Stinson Beach, by Tim Collom.

915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com Atelier 20 will be showing new award-winning soft pastel works by Marbo Barnard. Shown right: is Relics by Marbo Barnard.

The show runs Sept. 13 to Oct. 4. 915 20th St.

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