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REMODELED TUDOR You will feel at home the minute you walk into this 2 bedroom home with hardwood and mosaic tile Àoors. The kitchen is chef ready for entertaining and the vintage gas stove makes a unique statement. Lovely backyard for lawn games and a patio area. Living quarters above the garage.$565,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048
SPACIOUS EAST SACRAMENTO Two story 3 bedroom 2 baths with 2456 square feet of living space! Upstairs was added on in 1990. Large master bedroom with lots of closet space. Upstairs has room for of¿ce or bedroom. Lots of charm with glass windows. Great exterior and large rooms. $795,000 JERRY KIRRENE 455-1001, DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495
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TWO HOUSES ON ONE LOT Charming front house, built in 1922, has 2 bedrooms a full basement and a 2-car carport. The back house, built in 1992, is a 3 bedroom 2 bath with a 2-car attached garage. Close to public transportation, Sac State, East Portal Park, shopping & restaurants $735,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048
PICTURE PERFECT COTTAGE On a cute tree-lined street this 2 bedroom is just around the corner from popular eateries and coffee shops! The sunny interior has a remodeled kitchen and bath, large bedrooms and upgraded plumbing and electrical. The deep backyard is a beautiful garden with covered patio. $450,000 DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495
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HEART OF TALLAC VILLAGE Just right... enjoy this 3 bedroom home with bonus/family room (or bedroom), and a detached 1-gar garage with workshop. This Tahoe Park Area home has freshly re¿nished hardwood Àoors, new roof, updated kitchen with granite counters and new Àooring, plus ¿replace. $335,000 PATRICK VOOGELI 207-4515
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EAST SACRAMENTO TUDOR This Fab 40’s home is just what you have been looking for! Pristine hardwood Àoors, formal living room with built-in bookcases on both sides of the ¿replace, formal dining room with built-in buffet, a kitchen with plenty of storage and a breakfast nook with, yet again, built-in seating. $487,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048
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Trusting the Media SINKING AMERICAN CONFIDENCE IN NEWSPAPERS
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he surprising election results last November proved that our country’s media seriously misjudged the political mood of the country. While this is hardly the first time that Americans were subject to inaccurate or misleading reporting and polling, it certainly seemed to be the most stunning example. Almost all the major newspapers regardless of their political slant, endorsed the losing presidential candidate and confidentially predicted her win. The media is a huge basket that holds television, radio, print and social media, but my business interests tend to focus specifically on print and newspapers. Actor Denzel Washington recently slammed the media and repeated this quote from Mark Twain: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” A June 2016 study showed that only 20 percent of Americans are confident in newspapers as a U.S. institution. This is an all-time low, marking the 10th consecutive year that more Americans express little or no, rather than high, confidence in the institution. The percentage of Americans expressing “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers has been dwindling since 2000, and the
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percentage expressing “very little” or “none” finally eclipsed it in 2007. One in five adults now says they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers—the all-time low for newspapers in Gallup’s polling dating back to 1973.
An additional 42 percent of adults say they have “some” confidence, meaning that the institution still sparks at least a measure of confidence in a majority of Americans. Confidence in newspapers among both left- and right-leaning groups
has also fallen over the past 16 years. Historically, Gallup found that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to have a significantly better view of newspapers. I would conclude that this is most likely because the majority of major newspapers slant left editorially. This is the first year, however, that Democrats’ confidence is no longer net positive: 27 percent have little or no confidence in newspapers, slightly exceeding the 25 percent saying they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence. By contrast, Republicans’ views toward the institution have been tilting negative since 2004. Surprisingly, young adults aged 18 to 34 have consistently been the most positive of all age groups about newspapers as an institution. My guess is that the younger folks who have grown up with the internet as a news source may see the benefit from a serious, even if traditional, news filter to the exploding amount of information available on the internet. But to be fair, the decline in public confidence in newspapers since 2000 is also part of a larger pattern of decline in Americans’ confidence in all U.S. institutions. The public tends to place the most confidence in the military, small business, the police and organized religion, which rank in the top 4. Of the 15 institutions Gallup tracks, television news ranks 13th, while newspapers are 14th. The only ones that rank worse are big business and Congress. However, since 2000, confidence in newspapers has fallen more steeply than the average of 15 institutions PUBLISHER page 13
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Get Fit in 2017 WAYS TO UP YOUR HEALTH GAME IN EAST SAC
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Street Antique Row on Monday, Jan. 2. Pilates’ countless progressions and modifications make it so anybody can practice the method. Group and private lessons are available. Nephesh Pilates is at 855 57th St. For more information, visit nepheshpilates.com/eastsac.
FREE YOGA EVERY SATURDAY AT MCKINLEY PARK Yoga Moves Us offers a free yoga class Saturday mornings at 9 a.m. in McKinley Park. This volunteer-taught class is attended by more than 100 individuals some weekends at every skill level. During the cooler months (October through March), classes are moved indoors to Clunie Community Center. For more information and to see other parks where classes are offered, visit yogamovesus.org.
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If getting fit is part of your new year's resolution, there are plenty of options around, including joining Sacramento Walking Sticks and doing yoga in the park
WALKING CLUB Sacramento Walking Sticks started in 1984 and is a nonprofit organization that is run by volunteers. This club is open to everyone. You can walk at your own pace. The group’s East Sac/ Midtown walk will take you through the shady streets of East Sacramento to the rose gardens of McKinley Park and into Midtown by historic Sutter's Fort. Unique galleries and shops line the streets with many gastronomic delights
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along the way under the majestic old trees for which Sacramento is famous. For more information, go to sacramentowalkingsticks.org.
DOLLAR DAYS DANCE CAMP On Sunday, Jan. 8, Sacramento Ballroom is offering dance camps to give the beginning dancer a chance to see what partner dancing is all about. No partner needed! The cost is $1 for all three lessons: 1 p.m.,
Beginning East Coast Swing; 2 p.m., Beginning Waltz; 3 p.m., Beginning Salsa. Each lesson is 45 minutes with an additional 15 minutes for practicing what you learned. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. For more information, call 456-2616 or visit theballroomofsacramento.com.
HEALTHY ADDITION TO ANTIQUE ROW Nephesh Pilates will start group classes at its new location in 57th
East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce held its annual holiday party on Dec. 7. During the festivities, chamber president Ted Kappel announced the winners of the group’s annual Commerce Business Awards. This year’s Business of the Year award took on a new name in honor of one of its founders, businesswoman and publisher Cecily Hastings. A longtime champion of East Sacramento, Hastings, who also co-founded the Friends of East Sacramento in 2009, self-published her first book this year, “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital.” Hoppy Brewing was named Cecily Hastings Business of the Year. Accepting the award was Scott Patterson, director of sales and marketing. While presenting the award, Kappel praised Hoppy for its generosity, noting that in 2016 it gave nearly $50,000 in donations to the local community. Last year, Hoppy secured large accounts such as LA Dodgers and Staple Centers and began self-distribution in Northern California. New Business of the Year went to Hawks Provisions and Public
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Scott Patterson of Hoppy Brewing won the Cecily Hastings Business of the Year Award presented by chamber leaders Kathy Herrfeldt, Cecily Hastings and Ted Kappel. Photo courtesy of Laurie Theriault.
The Special Place Award was presented to Lyn Pitts of Friends of East Sacramento for the McKinley Rose Garden. The Friends nonprofit restored the garden in 2012 and now manages the property.
Gallup has tracked annually since 1993. While average confidence across all 15 institutions fell from 40 percent in 2000 to 32 percent the past two years, confidence in newspapers fell from 37 percent to 20 percent over the same period. The public’s mood over the past 16 years has been something of a whirlpool, pulling newspapers down across the country at alarming rates. The rise of digital media could be a factor in the declining trust we place in a traditional print medium such as newspapers. But perhaps more importantly, newspapers are suffering from the broader decline Gallup sees in Americans’ trust in the mass media in general. With the ever increasingly rapid news cycle, there seems to be the need to be first over the need for accuracy or truth. When a terrible situation occurs, I make myself say a prayer for those involved, then wait some time before reading what is usually more accurate reporting about it. I gave up a long time ago on television as a serious news source. Given my love of the printed word, I get most of my news from reading newspapers, either online with The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, or in print with The Sacramento Bee. (My husband’s daily crossword ensures we never stop our print subscription.) I am constantly reminded, reading about the same issue in these three different newspapers, how differently the reporting of stories is slanted politically. So with trust in the media
at an all-time low, is it any wonder we retreat to news sources that reflect our values? With our own focus on community news, featuring the most interesting people, places and events in our neighborhood, we strive to offer a local news source that is positive and fair. Only a few of our columnists are tasked to analyze controversial topics each month. And we are always open to alternative views voicing other opinions. I do hear occasional grumbling, mostly from elected officials, and we always ask them to respond in writing. But they rarely follow through. Will the media in our country ever recover its status? I’m sad to say I don’t hold out a great deal of hope. All we can do is something my mother used to tell me about gossip: Consider the source.
PET RESCUE ANGEL Congratulations to Kim PaciniHauch, who stepped up big time late last year to generously underwrite the cost of all pet adoptions from the city’s Front Street Animal Shelter during December. The response was overwhelming and the donation was thoughtful and inspiring. Kim can start the new year knowing she has brought joy to hundreds and hundreds of appreciative families with her kind gesture. Bless you, Kim! Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com n
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EAST SAC LIFE FROM page 13 House, located at the corner of Alhambra and Stockton boulevards. Kappel cited owners Molly Hawks and Michael Fagnoni for not only offering wonderful food and service but transforming a forgotten corner of East Sacramento into the thriving corner it is today. Since opening its doors a little over a year ago, Hawks has been recognized by Sacramento Magazine as one of Sacramento’s best new restaurants. Recently, Molly Hawks was named as one of eight women who are leading the way toward a better Sacramento by Sacramento Magazine. The Special Place Award recognizes businesses and places that distinguish East Sacramento. “McKinley Rose Garden seemed like a fitting choice,” Kappel said. It is ranked as one of the most Instagrammed places in Sacramento. The award was accepted by Lyn Pitts of Friends of East Sacramento, who works diligently to keep the rose garden as healthy as it is beautiful. Opened in 1871, the rose
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of the year, a shared award given to Janet Mason of Ideas by Design, Melea Martinez of Aflac and Serena Marzion of Soirée for their combined efforts with the Taste of East Sacramento and their contributions to the chamber throughout the year. For more information about the chamber, visit eastsacchamber.org.
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The chamber's award for New Business of the Year went to Hawks Public House. Owners Molly Hawks and Mark Fagnoni are shown above.
garden sprawls over 1.5 acres and is the largest of Sacramento’s rose gardens with 1,200 roses. The Lisa Schmidt Volunteer of the Year Award went to the owner of Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters and chamber board member Edie Baker. “Since joining the chamber, Edie has brought amazing energy and great ideas that have really helped us grow this last year,” Kappel said. Baker, who founded SPLAT (Sacramento
Public Latte Art Tournament) and co-founded Specialty Coffee Week, said, “The sense of community is felt everywhere. I’m so proud to be on the East Sac Chamber board to help foster that community to increase the success of all our businesses, new and old, and also those in our dreams.” New awards this year were the Presidential Award given to chamber vice president Kathy Herrfeldt of Home Care Assistance and member
On Saturday, Jan. 7, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., McKinley Park Volunteer Corps will join with Sacramento Rose Society for the annual “prune-a-thon” of McKinley Rose Garden. A group of rose lovers, or “rosarians,” gathers there each year to perform a massive pruning to ready the flowers for future blooms. Everyone, from novice to expert, is welcome. No experience is required as expert rosarians will be there to teach volunteers how to prune. Help will also be needed in removing the rosebush trimmings, raking where EAST SAC LIFE page 16
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needed in the garden, and pruning the bushes around the garden. While some equipment and garden supplies will be provided, volunteers are asked to bring a pair of garden gloves and bypass pruning shears if they have them. At 8:45 a.m., courtesy of East Sacramento Hardware, professional knife sharpener Stanley Spencer of Stanley’s Perfect Edge will be at the garden to sharpen volunteers’ clippers. This will be done on a firstcome, first-served basis. Coffee and water will be available and a hot soup lunch from Evan’s Kitchen will be provided to volunteers after the prune-a-thon. Because the majority of the roses are newer cultivars with patent protection, rose cuttings will not be available this year. Rose petal collection is allowed after the prune-athon to participating volunteers. The rose garden is at the corner of H and 33rd streets. R.S.V.P.s are requested, though drop-in help will also be appreciated. The garden, a popular wedding spot, was renovated in 2012 and is managed by the Friends of East Sacramento. The Friends group is also looking for volunteers to work on their own schedule.
“We have more than 30 dedicated deadheading volunteers who worked hard to remove the spent blooms each week. This kept the new blooms coming all summer long,” says Lyn Pitts, who oversees the care of the garden for the volunteer nonprofit. “But each year, we need more neighbors to help with this vital volunteer job.” For more information about the prune-a-thon or to become a regular volunteer in the garden, call 452-8011 or email friendsofeastsac@aol.com.
TAX AIDES NEEDED AARP Foundation’s Tax-Aide program is seeking volunteers for the upcoming tax season. Tax-Aide, the nation’s largest free, volunteerrun tax assistance and preparation service, is recruiting new volunteers to assist with federal, state and local tax return preparation. Volunteers are particularly needed to assist with electronic filing. It is not necessary to be an AARP member or retiree to volunteer. People of all ages and backgrounds are welcome. There are several sites in the East Sacramento area. For information on how to join AARP’s Tax-Aide team in Northern California, contact the district coordinator at taxaidesosac@hotmail. com or go to aarp.org/giving-back.
LEAF SEASON ENDS Leaf pile collection will end on Jan. 31. After that date, customers should place yard waste only in their designated green bins. Piles placed on the street after Jan. 31 may be tagged as illegal dumping and subject to fines. For more information, go to cityofsacramento.org.
PHOEBE HEARST SCHOOL TOURS Campus tours for prospective Phoebe Hearst Elementary School students will be held on four consecutive Wednesdays in January and February. Beginning on Jan. 11, interested families may drop in at the main office to take a tour of the campus and learn about admission criteria, kindergarten enrollment and the open enrollment process. Additional tour dates are Jan. 18, 25, and Feb. 1. All tours begin at 9 a.m. Open enrollment is Feb. 7-21. Phoebe Hearst is located at 1410 60th St.
The annual “prune-a-thon” of McKinley Rose Garden will take place on Jan. 7
CHILDREN’S THEATER PROGRAMS OnStage, a Sacramento-based theater-arts program for children, is a great outlet to develop confidence,
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Ever wonder what your stuffed Sociologist Sara Goldrick-Rab animals like to do at night? Find out comes to Sacramento State University by participating in McKinley Library’s on Friday, Jan. 27, to share annual Stuffed Animal Sleepover. solutions to the problem of college Children can drop off a stuffed animal affordability and financial aid access. of their choice at the library any time She will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Hinde on Wednesday, Jan. 18. You can then Auditorium in the University Union. pick up your child’s furry friend on The event, sponsored by the Doctorate Friday, Jan. 20, along with pictures in Educational Leadership, is free and of their adventures during their open to the public. Sacramento State sleepover at the library. is at 6000 J Street. CODING CLUB FOR KIDS For more information, go to csus. edu/edd. Ever thought of making your own
JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL CRAB FEED Jesuit High School Boosters’ annual crab feed fundraiser will be held at the Jesuit gymnasium on Saturday, Jan. 28. Tickets are $75 per person. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. For
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SHAKESPEARE’S ‘TWELFTH NIGHT’ The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival will present its touring production of “Twelfth Night” on Wednesday, Feb. 1, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at McKinley Library. This fun-filled production includes walk-on roles for audience volunteers and a post-show Q&A with the cast. McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd. The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival will present its touring production of “Twelfth Night” at McKinley Library
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Two Years AN UPDATE FROM THE COUNCILMEMBER
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now have two years behind me serving as your councilmember, and it has been great so far. It is very rewarding to affect the city in a positive way. We have tackled some tough issues and had many successes. I’d like to give you an idea of the breadth of issues that I work on and indicate some of the things I foresee for Sacramento’s future. When campaigning, I often said that homelessness and the Railyards development were key issues for the district (and the entire city). A lot has happened on both fronts. I met with staff and Downtown Railyards Venture over many months to work on access, parking, school, density, affordability and Major League Soccer issues. The result is that compromises were reached and the entitlement package passed Council last month. This means that after three decades, ground will soon be broken on the biggest infill project in the western states! Over two decades, we will see remarkable changes in the railyards, starting with MLS and an urban Kaiser hospital. On the homelessness front, we are working to amass money through two new programs, No Place Like Home and Pay for Success, to create housing units for rapid rehousing with follow-on services. I’m looking at using a product that is an engineered stackable modular unit for this purpose. Last year, I directed staff to
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now have a tree mitigation fund so that we can achieve succession planting and species diversity. This year we will begin building an urban forestry master plan to set coverage goals for our canopy and detail best practices. I created an ordinance curtailing the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on city property, adjusted the setback and tent ordinance to better fit our older neighborhoods, and managed to change state law so that our artificial turf ordinance gives us a modicum of control over the use of the product.
My focus is to address growth responsibly, tackle city problems and keep Sacramento solvent while doing so!
Programs are in place to help homeless people get off the streets
create a cost-of-homelessness report, and we discovered that the city spends $14 million annually on the homeless. It will save us money to get people sheltered. For shorter-term mitigations, I started the Pit Stop program and will work with Mayor Darrell Steinberg to create a 24-
hour triage center for those living in poverty on the street. This is a very complex problem, but I believe that we will make significant progress in 2017! I spent over two years crafting our new tree ordinance. This involved extensive community outreach. We
I served as chair of SAFCA (the flood control agency) in 2016 and worked hard on the property-tax assessment that voters wisely accepted (by a 75 percent margin) to assure that we continue our flood control projects. This is very significant for the future of Sacramento. I led the effort to keep our watering standards at stage-two levels in response to the drought, for which we have received praise on the state level for leading by example. District 3 will soon have two new fire stations. Station 15, in South Natomas, is sorely needed and will have an ambulance bay. This is
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make us eligible for significant park bond money to enhance the parkway. Assemblymember Kevin McCarty did an admirable job moving this through the legislature and securing the governor’s signature. Although this is just a very brief overview, I hope it gives you an idea of what my job entails. My focus is to address growth responsibly, tackle city problems and keep Sacramento solvent while doing so! Being a councilmember is complex and fun. It is like living in a novel: It has a storyline. There is collaboration and treachery, inspiration and deceit, love and light, disappointment and accomplishment, and in the end, the city moves forward. Local politics is not for the faint of heart—one needs a thick skin to survive the environment. I approach it as a full-time job. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve.
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Police Shootings REACTIVE WINDOW DRESSING OR EFFECTIVE REFORMS?
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n July, Sacramento police killed a mentally ill, knife-wielding man on the streets of North Sacramento in a hail of gunfire, striking him 14 times, in an episode recorded by police dash cams and other video. Calls to police dispatchers had reported that a mentally ill man (he had soiled himself and was seen typing on an imaginary keyboard) armed with both a gun and a knife was observed loose on the streets, which, of course, triggered the highest degree of police vigilance. The shooting was preceded by an unsuccessful effort by police officers to run the man down with their squad car. The Sacramento police department’s response to the shooting was ham-handed, at best. It refused media requests to obtain multiple dash cam and other video of the episode, despite growing public pressure to release it. But once The Bee released a video of the incident weeks later that had been recorded by a private party, the SPD ended its stonewalling and released all of its videos of the episode within a matter of hours. What ensued was a growing chorus of calls, particularly, but not exclusively, from groups and individuals in the black community, for the city to adopt major reforms
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in how it handles police misconduct complaints.
CITY’S RAPID RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM On Sept. 20, Mayor Kevin Johnson appointed a council committee to research ways the city could upgrade police accountability and transparency. Three days later, the committee, headed by Councilmember Larry Carr, visited Berkeley to discuss its police review commission. (Berkeley, home of my alma mater, wouldn’t have been my first choice as a place to look for sound local government policy.)
Our new interim city manager, Howard Chan, in office for just a few days and facing his first major crisis, hired a new assistant city manager, Arturo Sanchez, from the city of Long Beach to oversee the police and fire departments and to implement new police oversight procedures. One of the reasons Sanchez was hired was for his experience in overseeing police review commissions in Long Beach and, previously, in Oakland. Indicative of the rush the city was in to respond to growing community outrage, the city conducted four public forums on police accountability, transparency and use-of-force policy over just three days in mid-November, a new land speed record.
At a crowded council meeting on Nov. 29, the city council adopted a broad set of reforms designed to address community concerns with police behavior. First, the council did a major upgrade of the city’s Office of Public Safety Accountability, which until now has been a quiet backwater of city government. The council assigned three new staffers to OPSA and increased its annual budget to $600,000. It expanded OPSA’s authority to monitor the police. It also removed OPSA from the control of the city manager and placed it under the city council’s direct control.
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CITY HALL FROM page 22 OPSA’s job is to monitor how well the police department’s internal affairs division handles investigations of officer misconduct complaints. It has full access to police files and investigative records, but it has no independent power to initiate or investigate such complaints. With the reforms, OPSA can now ask the city council to issue subpoenas should OPSA feel that internal affairs is going off the rails in an investigation. The council also slightly recast the 1-year-old Sacramento Community Police Commission. It added the word “Review” to its name, but it did little to augment its previous powers, which were (and continue to be) to review police policies and recommend policy changes to the council. The commission will now be able to review quarterly reports from OPSA on pending internal affairs investigations, but the reports will be sanitized to conceal the identities of the parties involved. The city council also changed the composition of the police commission. Currently, there is at least one police representative on the commission. Under the new rules, all current and former police officers will be banished. It will now be an 11-member “all civilian” body, which strikes me as unwise. Why wouldn’t we want our police commission to have the benefit of a retired officer’s perspectives on policing matters? Barring retired officers from serving as members also seems to increase the likelihood that the commission will adopt a more confrontational posture toward the
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police than if they had the input of a retired cop in their ranks.
PUBLIC REACTION TO THE REFORMS: TOO WEAK Every witness testifying at the Nov. 29 council meeting, save two, thought the reforms were weak and didn’t go far enough, including representatives from Area Congregations Together, the ACLU, the Law Enforcement Accountability Directive, and Black Lives Matter. Their objections were that the revised police commission won’t be independent (the mayor and council will appoint its members), it will lack subpoena power to conduct its own investigations into misconduct cases and it will have no power to impose discipline on officers it finds acted improperly. Those testifying thought the reforms offered by the council were, at best, a weak first step toward real reform. Most councilmembers were sympathetic with such concerns but felt that their hands were tied by legal constraints. City attorney James Sanchez explained that under the city charter, only the city council and its committees have subpoena power and that a charter amendment would have to be approved by the voters to grant the police commission the power to issue investigative subpoenas. To place a charter measure on the ballot would require citizens to gather signatures from well over 40,000 registered city voters, an expensive and time-consuming proposition. Or the city council could simply direct
that a charter change measure be placed on a future ballot, much as it did with Measure L, the charter measure to create an independent redistricting commission, which was approved by city voters in the November election. But it was clear that the council has no appetite to take such action, at least for now. Otherwise, it would have approved placing such a measure on the 2018 ballot at its Nov. 29 meeting. Sanchez also explained that state law would likely prevent the council from granting the police commission the power to discipline cops. State law strictly limits who can have access to police personnel and disciplinary records, a restriction broadened by the California Supreme Court’s Copley Press decision in 2006. A 2007 bill by then-Sen. Gloria Romero was designed to allow any charter city (like Sacramento) to release such records as they did before Copley. But when it came up for a hearing before the Senate’s Public Safety Committee, its chair—Sen. Mark Leno, who supported increased police oversight—was abruptly removed from the committee and the committee room was flooded with police officers who opposed any efforts to water down their privacy rights. The bill died on the spot. Such is the political juice that police groups have in the State Capitol. It was clear to this observer that, while it wouldn’t say so, the council wants to keep to itself the power to conduct investigations into the handling of misconduct cases by the police’s internal affairs division and
had no intention of sharing it with a citizens’ police commission anytime soon. I could also sense that the council has some trepidation about handing disciplinary authority over city police to a citizen commission. Historically, the Sacramento city council has, as a general rule, been quite resistant to sharing city power with others. What was quite surprising about the council meeting was the complete absence of police officers, its union, the Sacramento Police Officers Association, or any command personnel from SPD. I imagine police shied away from dealing with the police-unfriendly crowd. Councilmember Angelique Ashby did note that the SPOA opposed the reforms. (Note: Sacramento police department veteran Brian Louie takes over from police chief Sam Somers this month. Louie will serve as interim chief while the city searches for a new permanent chief, whom the city manager says should be appointed by April or May.)
RELEASING VIDEO OF POLICE SHOOTINGS The reforms would also mandate that any video of an officer-involved shooting be publicly released within 30 days of the shooting unless the city council decides to withhold it under certain narrowly defined circumstances. The police chief, for example, could ask the council CITY HALL page 27
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CITY HALL FROM page 24 to withhold release of video if he believes it would compromise a pending investigation. Frankly, I’m not sure such a provision is legal, as it arguably impinges on the exclusive executive powers and authority of the city manager under the city charter. And it certainly doesn’t seem politically smart for the city council to put itself in the unpopular position of telling the community that they can’t see a video of a police officer shooting somebody whenever the council must, for legitimate legal reasons, decide to withhold such videos from the public.
THE NATIONAL NARRATIVE AND SOME RECENT RESEARCH FINDINGS There is no issue in municipal government today more highly charged or more divisive than the matter of citizen deaths at the hands of police. Police feel under siege, both nationally and locally, by a powerful national narrative that the police are too quick to resort to deadly force in dealing with black citizens in high-risk, high-conflict settings. Meanwhile, a large number of African-Americans have lost trust in the police. They’re angry by what they view as increasing numbers of racially biased, unjustified shootings of black citizens by police who are too often trigger happy. A study by a Harvard professor released in July found no evidence of racial bias in police shootings even though officers were more likely to interact physically with nonwhites than whites, The Washington Times reported last summer. The study, by the National Bureau of Economic Research, examined thousands of incidents at 10 large police departments in California, Florida and Texas and concluded that police were no more likely to shoot nonwhites than whites after factoring in extenuating circumstances. “On the most extreme use of force—officer-involved shootings—we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account,” said Harvard
economics professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. in the abstract of the paper. Fryer, who is black, told The New York Times that the finding of no racial discrimination in police shootings was “the most surprising result of my career.”
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FUTURE FLASH POINTS So what are the potential future flash points over the city’s handling of police misconduct complaints? Well, without subpoena power or disciplinary authority of their own, OPSA and the police commission will have a hard time challenging the findings of internal affairs or the disciplinary decisions of police brass. Unless OPSA can persuade the council to issue subpoenas, the most it can really do is try to embarrass the police department by issuing reports to the police commission and the council condemning an internal affairs investigation or a disciplinary action by police department brass. The police department will remain firmly under the control of the city manager. A police department decision exonerating an accused officer could trigger so much community furor that it leads to political brinksmanship in city government: Would a city manager stand up and defend a decision by his police department and its internal affairs division not to fire an accused officer in the face of pressures from OPSA, the police commission and a politically sensitive city council to oust the officer? Or would a cautious city manager cave under such pressures to protect his own job, overrule the decision of his police department and fire the officer, even though it would likely damage the morale of police brass and line officers alike? It’s not clear. One day we may just find out. Craig Powell is a local attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or 718-3030. n
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Filling the Seats NEW WAY OF SELLING TICKETS COULD SOLVE THE EMPTY-THEATER PROBLEM
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he guardians of Sacramento’s cultural universe are ready to speak loudly with your tax dollars. City officials will soon begin to shovel $83.4 million toward a remodeled Community Center Theater. Another $16.4 million will go toward upgrades at Memorial Auditorium. To help pay for it all, the city hopes to clear $20 million in a naming rights deal that has yet to materialize. The plan will turn a public cultural center into a billboard. If history predicts outcome, Sacramento’s grand theatrical ambitions around 14th and J streets may fall short. The city will spend massive amounts of money on an expanded convention center and improved theater and auditorium but nothing much will change. The problem is the execution. For years, scarce bookings have been a way of life for Memorial Auditorium and the Community Center Theater. The buildings are dark far too many evenings. People in the local arts community have various opinions on why the city’s performance centers perform so poorly. Some note lousy acoustics in both the auditorium and theater— uneven sound qualities that make promoters and artists avoid booking the stages. Others cite the city’s
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strict labor mandates: Services such as staging and janitorial must be filled by unionized help, raising a promoter’s costs.
But there’s another explanation for the city’s inability to book heavy calendars at downtown stages. It involves the city’s passive approach
to chasing after theatrical attractions and coaxing them to Sacramento. Basically, Sacramento doesn’t chase anyone. We make our presence known and wait for promoters to call and inquire about stage availability. When promoters call, the city offers them a price sheet for rent, security, janitorial, stagehands and other services. And when promoters don’t call, oh well. The stages stay dark. The alternative to the city’s passive strategy is something called the “presenter” model. This is where a promoter obtains booking rights for the city’s theatrical inventory. The presenter becomes a booking agent, signing acts, marketing shows and selling tickets. If audiences respond and fill seats, the presenter makes money. If not, the presenter has only the mirror to blame. Given that an empty theater means zero income for a presenter, people in the industry tend to devote significant energies toward making sure theaters get filled. There are many examples of the presenter model at work around Sacramento. At Golden 1 Center, the Kings serve as presenters with Live Nation, a global promoter with connections to hundreds of performers, including many of the biggest names in show business. They keep the arena busy. A smaller example is Ace of Spades entertainment hall on R Street. Live Nation fills the place with acts not mainstream enough for an arena. Sacramento authorities are finally ready to explore the presenter model, but only at Memorial Auditorium.
After years of watching promoters take shows to regional halls such as UC Davis’ Mondavi Center or the smaller Harris Center at Folsom Lake College, the city will ask presenters to bid on promotional rights at the circa-1926 auditorium, which will be upgraded for the 2019 season. The city hopes the presenter model will help cover the $16.2 million rehab at Memorial. Even then, Sacramento will need the $20 million naming rights deal to make the entire convention center and Community Center Theater project pencil out. While nothing has happened yet, city officials say the presenter model could include the rehabbed theater at 13th and L streets. A naming rights partner may insist on it. “We haven’t proposed any changes for operation of the CCT and there haven’t been any discussions to date. That doesn’t preclude future consideration of that idea,” says Fran Halbakken, project chief for the city. The presenter model might seem like an obvious fix for Sacramento’s problem of dark nights at Memorial
Auditorium and the Community Center Theater. But it’s not obvious to everyone. Richard Lewis, CEO of California Musical Theatre, which presents the Music Circus and Broadway Sacramento series, is OK with testing the presenter model at the auditorium, but he doesn’t believe it’s good for the theater. Lewis spends about $800,000 each year renting the theater for his six-show Broadway series. He likes things as they are. “It introduces a profit motive into the process, and that’s something the city has to be very careful about getting involved with in a publicly owned building,” Lewis says. “City staff is great to work with, and they’ve done an excellent job operating the theater.” To pay for a new arts and convention center, the city will enter a new world—a racket filled with showbiz promoters. It won’t fly without a naming rights deal and a strategy to fill those seats. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n
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Ed Goldman and William Ishmael BRINGING THE ARTS COMMUNITY TOGETHER
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ou’ve heard that it takes a just stepped down after two back-tovillage—to raise a child, to back terms as its board president. make a community great—and (You may know him as a columnist that’s never more true than at Blue for Sacramento Business he nonprofit arts Line Arts, the group that was founded more than 50 years ago in Roseville and has grown over the past few years into one of the most respected ns organizations n in Northern or California for showcasing the work of regional al and national artists. ed “I accepted ncy the presidency d of the board of Blue Linee in 2015 on hat provision that Ed Goldman the group start to Journal. market itself as the He’s also—full disclosure— regional gallery it really is,” explains this writer’s dad.) “The Ed Goldman, who served on the gallery is not just Rosevilleboard of Blue Line for four years and centric—we exhibit artists ill from all over the world.” This will be the third year in a row that Blue Line has hosted the Crocker-Kingsley Art Competition, a biennial national juried art show started in 1940. By Jessica Laskey The organization further cemented Giving Back its role in the arts community when
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it acquired Arts & Business Council of the Sacramento Region in 2015, a move that allowed certain programs to continue as a division of Blue Line. One such program is Prelude t the Season, which bestows awards to recognizing local leadership in categories like arts journalism, arts philanthropy, arts management and arts/business partnerships. Though t event took a two-year hiatus the after Blue Line acquired the council, it will return this year on Jan. 25 as Interlude ART. “Because the event won’t take
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members of the business community, arts organizations and artists from the counties of El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba in an intimate cocktail setting. “The nice thing about Interlude this year is that we’ve actively invited nominations from the sixcounty region,” says Goldman, who has served as the president of the board of Arts & Business Council and Sacramento Theatre Company and as a member of the board of Capital Stage, Discovery Museum, the Sacramento Philharmonic and WEAVE, among others. “T “That’s a always been the goal of the event, but it’s never been a as clear as i is this it y year—and th that’s thanks to the work of William Ish Ishmael. Wi William has bee the most been inst instrumental e in expanding b the base of nom nominees and addin new, adding more relevant catego categories for award and awards organi organizing and meeting with the selection panel. He’s been pretty tireless.” Ishmael, a longtime member of the Blue Line board, is an artist best GIVING BACK page 32
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‘When Boys Became Men’ SAMUEL E. CLOWER RECALLS THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR 75 YEARS AGO
B
omb smoke over Pearl harbor
know the magnitude of the attack or
cleared three-quarters of a
what to expect next.” In distant Pearl
century ago. But for World
Harbor, dozens of U.S. Navy vessels
War II veteran Samuel E. Clower,
were sunk or damaged. At Hickam
memories are focused sharp by last
Field, 188 planes were wiped out. U.S.
month’s commemorations.
casualties included 2,400 dead and
“When I read names of the dead,
1,000 wounded.
I still see their faces,” he says. “I
At Wheeler, Clower helped bring
remember them as kids who never
local families to safety.
had a chance to grow old.”
“We waited for news from Schofield
The Sacramento nonagenarian is
Barracks,” he recalls. “All radio
among dwindling witnesses to the
communication was gone. I’d have
surprise attack that precipitated the
given a million bucks and 10 years
United States’ entry into the world
for a cellphone. After two hours, our
war. He was 21. Now 97, he considers
relief arrived in taxi cabs; all other
Dec. 7, 1941, the day “when boys
transportation was knocked out.
became men.”
“We learned what happened at Pearl Harbor and tried to figure
“They were miles away; I thought they were our guys coming in to play golf.” As war in the Pacific continued, he took part in the New Guinea invasion and earned a Purple heart
Rosemont resident Col. Sam Clower, 97, is among the few remaining witnesses of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The Army/Air Force veteran holds plaques from the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. Photo courtesy of Susan Maxwell Skinner.
our airfields and heavy guns were Clower had a creamery job when he
mainland leave. Intelligence indicated
in rowboats and taken over. We were
decided to enlist.
a Japanese attack, somewhere in the
desperate for the U.S. Navy to get
Pacific, was imminent. Sgt. Clower
aircraft carriers over to protect us.
“I’d read what was happening in Europe,” he explains. “I wanted to
volunteered to lead a Dec. 6 detail
be prepared for what might come. I
guarding a dam near Wheeler Air
figured after a few years in the Army,
Field.
I could return to my creamery job and get promoted.” After training at Fort Bliss,
At sunrise on Dec. 7, he surveyed the sky. “I saw aircraft coming from the north,” he recalls. “They were
Texas, the 19-year-old spent months
miles away; I thought they were our
patrolling the Mexican border on
guys coming in to play golf.”
Japanese. He would serve in Korean
horseback.
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Soon Japanese emblems were
“In our barracks, I saw an Army
visible. One wing of the massive
poster promoting Hawaii as a place
attack headed toward Honolulu.
to serve,” he says. “I thought: ‘That’s
The other wing bombed Wheeler
for me.’ Six weeks later, I was at
Field, 600 yards from where Clower
Schofield Barracks (Oahu) learning
watched.
weapons and administration with
The sergeant witnessed the air
the infantry. The weather was
strip’s destruction as 233 U.S. aircraft
great; duties were easy; people were
went up in flames. “How helpless
friendly. On $21 a month, Hawaii was
can you feel?” he asks. “We couldn’t
paradise.”
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in fear of another attack. Our ships,
By December 1941 he was due for
hungry months as a prisoner of the
as an Air Force colonel in 1974.
on our nerves, guarding the coast
Raised on a Texas cattle ranch,
medal for injuries. He later endured
and Vietnam conflicts before retiring
what to do. For seven days, we lived
gone—the Japanese could have landed
“Hawaii really was paradise for a young man. Until Dec. 7, 1941. Then, overnight, we all quit being youngsters.” “Of course, all leave was cancelled. No question, we were at war.” Within months, Clower was dispatched to Perth, Australia, to train for an allied invasion of
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Japanese-occupied New Guinea. After
bark off trees. We had faith—it
of his war years. But mainland duties
Generation pillar, Clower is now
that action, duty took him to the
helped that our captors were almost
enabled the sergeant to meet and
much celebrated and feted, especially
Solomon Islands. “Three hundred
worse off
marry Pauline
than us.”
Wiopious from
After five
on sponsored trips to Oahu. “I enjoy
Capay. His bride
telling others how
of us made
months,
is now 96 and
camp on a
the ailing
has supported
things used
supposedly
Americans
him through 73
to be at
uninhabited
were
years of Army,
Schofield,”
atoll,” says
rescued
then Air Force,
says the
Clower. “We
and
service. Based all
former
woke up
shipped
over the world,
barracks
surrounded
to San
the Clowers
resident.
by Japanese.
Francisco.
raised three
“Hawaii
They’d been
“We sailed
children.
really was
stranded by
under the
our blockades
Golden
retirement from
and were
Gate,”
Yokota Air
Until Dec. 7,
starving.
says the
Base in Japan,
1941. Then,
Their
survivor.
Col. Clower
overnight, we
commanding
“We were
began a civilian
officer was
all in
Harvardeducated and I guess we were as well-treated
Clower met Pauline tears.” After service in the Pacific, Sam immigrants wed her ek Gre of Health Wiopious. The daughter s. They will mark their 74th war hero within three month problems photo) anniversary this year. (Family
as any POWs
After
paradise for a young man.
Days before Pearl Harbor,
First Sgt. Sam Clower career in the hotel was due for mainla nd leave. After the attack, he served in Australia, New industry. Leisure Guinea and
was much spent with the Pearl
dogged the
Harbor Survivors
remainder
Association
all quit being youngsters.”
the Solomon Islands. Five month s as a POW preceded his return to United States. (Family photo)
could be. But I went from 150 to 128
until, in 2014, only a few hoary
pounds. We ate rodents; seaweed;
survivors were left. As a rare Greatest
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End of an Era MEGAMI’S CLOSURE A SIGN OF A CHANGING DOWNTOWN
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ith exciting restaurants popping up all over Sacramento’s grid, it’s easy to miss when a small restaurant closes its doors. So you may not have heard the news that Megami Bento-Ya on 10th Street is set to close sometime soon. By some estimates, more than 30 new restaurants will open in the downtown area over the next year. That’s on top of recently opened restaurants in Midtown, East Sac, along R Street and throughout the city. These restaurants have unique concepts, cuisines and styles. They often bank on Sacramento’s farm-tofork movement but definitely strive for the sort of sophistication seen in major cities. They want to serve a growing residential crowd and lure suburbanites back to the city core. Until the last decade or so, Sacramento was pretty much a government town. Some downtown restaurants served the political elite who dined and drank while making deals in smoky backrooms. Other restaurants, like Megami, served mostly government workers who had only an hour for lunch and wanted good food, good prices and fast service. Alan Honda opened Megami BentoMa in 1983. (His parents opened the original Megami on Florin Road in 1976.) Honda’s mom and his wife,
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Alan Honda opened Megami Bento-Ma in 1983
Judy, are integral to the restaurant’s operations and success. Megami is a family affair. Its customers have always been treated as family, too. The small restaurant serves Japanese food buffet style. Honda learned his craft from his parents and from working at House of Genji in San Jose and later at a hofbrau.
Judy comes in to help, although she has a full-time job with the post office. Honda’s 87-year-old mother also helps out. “Mom is a tough woman and comes in to whip us into shape,” Honda says. “And Judy is a hard worker, often working a full shift at the restaurant and another eight hours at the post office.”
“We’ve had a lot of good customers who became good friends over the years,” says the 61-year-old Honda. “But I think it’s time for something new. I work almost 70 hours a week.” Honday is a modest man who jokingly says he is a lousy businessperson. But he’s been on the cutting edge, whether he knows it or not. He developed his own sauces for comfort foods like sesame chicken and teriyaki. He offers ramen bowls at extremely affordable prices. Tucked on the corner of a serving area are bottles of booze for those who want a cocktail. His loyal customers come in droves for lunch and dinner. Honda works behind the counter every day, serving sushi and other Japanese food. While most restaurants thrive on the weekends, Megami is closed, an acknowledgement that its customer base is made up of government workers from City Hall and the State Capitol. Honda has endured some difficult times. He kept the restaurant going in a construction zone when The Citizen Hotel was being built next door. Then came the Great Recession, which resulted in furloughed employees and a significant drop in business. “It’s been tough at times,” he says. “We manage to make it, but times are changing. I’d need to make a big investment to remodel the place and keep it going. I’d need to hire more people and be open seven days a week, too.” Honda says customers keep coming in to ask when he’ll close. No date has been set as he works through some issues with his landlord, but he expects to be closed before the end of 2016. His location will likely be taken
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While he says he might retire, that seems doubtful. “Maybe I’ll drive for Uber,” he says. “I could do that.” Honda has other, more serious ideas. “I’ve been thinking about a food truck and taking my food on the road,” he says. “I’ve also had some people approach me about bottling and marketing my sauces. That sounds interesting.” Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com n
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Gold in a Glass MAKING CIDER WITH LOCAL PEARS AND APPLES IS THIS DUO’S PASSION
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pass slow-rolling tractors and lots of dusty grapevines on my way to Lockeford, a tiny town in San Joaquin County. Behind the old Tuscan Wine Village, business partners Sarah Hemly and Chris Thomson are pressing the freshly picked pears and apples that will go into their next batch of cider. The previous day, they were up doing the
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same until 1 a.m., probably listening to Journey or Toto—Thomson’s choice in music. Fifteen-hour days are the norm in late fall when the fruit is ripe. They’ll barrel through tons of the stuff before they’re finished with the harvest. Sarah Hemly’s hands and hair are sticky. Juice from the fruit dries as hard as hairspray. She’s wearing a pair of no-nonsense rubber boots. Thomson is sporting a shirt that says, “Pears well with everything.” They look exhausted but seem excited. “We make cider not for the craft of cider but for the enjoyment of it,” Thomson says. They assure me the long hours are worth it because they know they’re making cider the right way.
Hemly Cider is a partnership between Sarah Hemly, Thomson and Greene & Hemly, a sixth-generation organic pear and apple farm. The fruit in Hemly Cider comes from the farm’s trees, some more than a century old, located in Courtland. Matt Hemly, Sarah’s husband, manages the orchard operations. Before it becomes cider, the fruit has to be ground down, pressed and fermented in large stainless steel containers. Just about everything is done by hand. The Hemly Cider website contains a riff (“orchard to bottle”) on the familiar farm-to-fork theme, but there’s time and work packed into that phrase.
About 10 years ago, Sarah and Matt Hemly traveled to various places, tasting cider along the way. She wanted to find the best beverage to showcase the family’s pears. They settled on more of a traditional English-style cider, which is drier than ciders made in the United States and has a slightly higher alcohol content. When Hemly Cider first launched in late 2015, the partners thought they had enough cider to last until the next harvest, but the phone started ringing a few months ago. They’d run out of product and people wanted more, which is a good problem to have.
If you ask Sarah, Hemly emly out Cider really began about overed the time gold was discovered ne of in California, when one hased Matt’s ancestors purchased land in the Delta and he planted pear trees in the d rich soil. Fast-forward many years later. She and Thomson met through one of her dad’s friends. They connected via Skype and bonded over rugby and a shared appreciation for cider. Sarah grew up in Fair Oaks and went to school in Berkeley, where she played rugby before injuries sidelined her. While Thomson is still crazy about the sport, he’s had a few too
many in injuries as well and recently switched to playing Australian football. In the fall, Thomson makes tthe long journey from hi his home in Hobart, Tasma Tasmania (often referred to as “Tassie,” but he pron pronounces it “Tazzie”), wh which he shares with hi his wife and young son, to the United States. Ba Back home in Hobart, he is the head distiller at Lark Distillery and Fo Forty Spotted Gin. He Here, he spends many ho hours helping Sarah pr process tons of pears an and apples. As you might im imagine, Hemly Cider tas tastes like pears. Ap Apples are tossed in for balance. The result
Sarah Hemly and Chris Thomson
is a light, effervescent and oaky (but not too oaky) cider, which looks like gold in my glass. Even better? It has
half the calories of a glass of wine and contains about 5 percent alcohol. FARM TO FORK page 41
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The Wheelman HE CYCLES LIKE HIS LIFE DEPENDS ON IT
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f you plan to live a long, vibrant life and survive to 91, it’s important to find the right sport. Fortunately, a group called the Sacramento Wheelmen makes the sports part easy. The Wheelmen are a bicycle club, among the biggest and most enthusiastic in California. There are around 400 members. They cover a wide spectrum of age and two-wheel core competency. Some Wheelmen ride hundreds of miles each week around the Sacramento region. Some travel to places like France, Italy and Spain, where they ride more miles. Other Wheelmen meet at Discovery Park, ride to a nice place for breakfast, pedal home and call it a day. Tom Goodwin represents the infinite possibilities of membership with the Wheelmen. He has cycled across Europe. And he’s cycled across town for breakfast. He happens to be 91, making him the club’s senior member, which he doesn’t consider a praiseworthy accomplishment. “I’m only 91,” he says. He emphasizes the word “only.” While cycling at 91 is impressive despite Goodwin’s modesty, our elder Wheelman is more interested in other numbers. For example, there’s the number 100, which represents the mileage he tries to cover each week on his bike. And there’s 6,000,
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to enjoy rides during the week. Other members, still toiling away at day jobs, must wait for the weekend before clipping their bike shoes into their pedals and heading off on adventurous group rides.
As amateur athletes, some cyclists summon a competitive spirit that rivals the world’s top pros.
Tom Goodwin rode more than 6,000 miles last year
the annual mileage goal he sets for himself. “I try to ride three or four days a week, 45 or 50 miles,” he says. “I went 66 miles yesterday, and that put me over 6,000 miles for 2016.”
Apart from his longevity, Goodwin is a fairly average representative of the Wheelmen. About half the roster is filled with retired women and men, a status that affords such Wheelmen the flexibility
Wheelmen journeys tend to fall into two categories: breakfast rides and exercise rides. Goodwin enjoys both types. As amateur athletes, some cyclists summon a competitive spirit that rivals the world’s top pros. The Wheelmen have riders who push themselves to earthly limits and thrive in an exhilarating environment of speed and utter exhaustion. Other Wheelmen prefer a more modest pace. They prioritize conviviality and social experience over the thrill of arriving first. That would be Goodwin, taking his time. “Oh, we enjoy the competitive riders,” he says. “They just ride a little faster.” Fast or slow, every cyclist knows the hazards associated with the sport. Cars can present serious problems. So can potholes and gravel and even other riders. Given enough time on a bicycle, every rider eventually tumbles. Goodwin, who takes a philosophical
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“It wasn’t a hard job,� he says. “Basically, I chaired the meetings and made sure they stayed organized. That’s about all I had to do.� Wheelmen membership has allowed Goodwin to make new friends and ride to breakfast locations around the world. He’s joined Wheelmen sojourns to Europe eight or nine times. And he’s made numerous overnight trips to locations around California, places such as San Francisco and Santa Cruz. He packs his bicycle into a vehicle and drives to the starting point. In Guerneville not long ago, his bike was stolen. He says, “It was inside my car in the parking lot, and they took it right out of the car. That’s the way the ball bounces sometimes.� Goodwin replaced the stolen bike with a high-end, carbon-fiber-frame Giant. But bicycle pedigree doesn’t matter to the Wheelmen. “We encourage anyone who can ride to come out and join us,� Goodwin says. “We like anyone who rides a bicycle.� R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n
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FARM TO FORK FROM page 39 I could spend the rest of the afternoon al fresco, sipping cider, listening to Thomson’s Australian accent, a frog making a ruckus somewhere close by, and Sarah’s dry delivery. Then there’s the banter. She fondly refers to Thomson as the “crazy Tasmanian,� while Thomson teases her about the chocolate bunny cereal she offered him for breakfast. They are both looking forward to taking time off tomorrow night when
they’ll attend a Kings game. Thomson became a fan a few months ago. After the cider ferments, after Thomson travels back home to Hobart, after driving to the facilities in Lockeford to test the cider every day, after bottling, Sarah Hemly plans to borrow a neighboring business’s labeling machine, and the next batch of Hemly Cider will roll off the line. For more information, visit hemlycider.com Angela Knight can be reached at knight@mcn.org n
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Eying the Watchdog A CHALLENGE TO CITY HALL CHALLENGERS
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n open secret at Sacramento City Hall—or any room where elected officials gather to cast votes—is how little weight is given to public comments. From a policy standpoint, those heartfelt remarks made by common citizens each Tuesday night at city council meetings mean nothing. The board listens politely, then ratifies decisions that were predetermined hours if not weeks prior. Councilmembers view public commentary as a necessary evil, required by law and tradition but secondary to the serious business of orchestrating the city’s course. Prominent within the category of public commentators is a group called Eye on Sacramento. For years, the Eye and its members—a group of people who could comfortably fit around a dinner table—have been showing up at City Hall, demanding their two minutes and weighing in on substantive issues under consideration by the council. The Eye’s sweet spot is tax money and the squandering of same. The Eye has discovered significant waste. When I began working at City Hall as special assistant to Mayor Kevin Johnson in 2009, nobody took the Eye seriously. Part of my job was to attend council meetings and text the mayor about what was going on in the gallery. I got to know City Hall regulars, folks who showed up every
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Susan Foster, Lisa Garcia, Craig Powell, Greg Thompson and Anna Robertson
week. Among them was Craig Powell, the Eye’s indefatigable leader. I enjoyed listening as Powell and his friends respectfully challenged the council on wasteful practices in public works and other departments. Powell was trained as an attorney, and while he doesn’t practice law, he has perfected a soothing, logical delivery worthy of courtroom summations. He’s persuasive and fun to watch. Later, working with the crew at Inside Publications, where Powell writes a column, I got to know him better. While I don’t always agree with Powell and Eye on Sacramento,
I admire the group’s tenacity and purpose. They are a public asset. The Eye rummages through City Hall budgets and staff reports, prepares dissenting arguments and posts conclusions on the web. Whistleblowers are treasured. The Eye sends out press releases to draw attention to itself and keep city staff and councilmembers accountable. In recent years, local TV stations and The Bee began to quote directly from the Eye’s reports. This would not have happened a decade ago, when news organizations had larger and more robust staffs. Back then, the Eye was a tip sheet at best.
These days, it’s easier for shortstaffed media to pick up the Eye’s reports and turn them around as completed stories, using sentences that say, “According to a report from the watchdog group Eye on Sacramento ...” This is bad news for City Hall. Suddenly, city government has a few presumptive, determined citizens who transcend the open-mic atmosphere at Tuesday-night council meetings and vault ahead with credibility certified by traditional media. The Eye became a real watchdog once local media realized they could
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beg rides on the group’s legwork and conclusions. Which brings us to City Councilmember Jay Schenirer. This holiday season, Schenirer catapulted the Eye into the major leagues of credibility by threatening to pry open the group’s membership roster and donation ledgers. In an incredibly peevish move (and I happen to like Schenirer), the councilmember argued that since the Eye was nagging City Hall with requests for information, City Hall should do the same to the Eye, only worse. Schenirer thus certified Powell and
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Schenirer of dire consequences for harassment. Quickly, the councilmember backed down. He tried to dismiss the matter as an overblown tempest. His fellow council mates abandoned him. “A councilmember’s harassment could have had a chilling effect on
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our whistleblowers inside City Hall and our fundraising,� Powell says, underscoring how some of the Eye’s juiciest material comes from city staff. Had Schenirer been less sensitive, he might have taken another approach. He could have publicly thanked the Eye, applauded its passion for citizen advocacy and
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Talent Rink NEW SPACE WILL HOST ‘THE VOICE’-STYLE COMPETITION
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In a roundabout way, then, aspiring
n 1954, championship roller skater Dorothy “Dotti” Lane purchased
Sacramento musicians can thank
Senator Roller Drome at 1031 Del
Kennedy’s wife for inspiring him to
Paso Blvd. in North Sacramento. Its
start the hunt for the building that
doors would close in 1974, but during
would become The Rink Studios.
those 20 years, Dotti trained many
The Rink Studios will rent out
state and national champions, and
15 rehearsal, recording, teaching
Senator Roller Drome became one of
and “all-purpose” studio spaces.
the largest competitive roller-skating
“Even though this isn’t really
clubs in California.
being advertised except by word of
Long vacant, the 90-year-old
mouth, people are already in line,”
building has lost some of its luster,
says Kennedy. The venue will also
but Elk Grove resident and developer
offer opportunities to educate those
Greg Kennedy has been renovating
interested in nonperforming aspects
the roller drome into a studio and
of music, such as sound engineering,
performance space for musicians that
performance and recording
will open in early 2017.
production. “We started thinking about
The new venture will bring back the old spirit of competition that
things like recording,” he explains.
existed during the Roller Drome’s
“Hopefully we will be able to generate
heyday, but with a new name and
some decent performance groups from
twist. The Rink Studios is more than
the rehearsal studios by giving them
a studio space; Kennedy envisions
input on how to set up a PA system,
it as a music incubator for local
or how to work together as a group.” While studio spaces will draw local
musicians that will offer a potentially international audience through
musicians looking for a place to jam,
livestreaming online.
record or store their instruments, The
Kennedy admits the idea behind
Rink Studios will also invite music
The Rink Studios has broadened in
lovers to attend live performances
scope since he first began searching
held on the rink’s original floor, which
for a rehearsal space for his band,
was built in 1926. Kennedy says the
The Refurbs, which performs covers
venue will accommodate up to 500
of “everything from Billie Holiday to
standing and 300 seated people. The stage will be open for Tuesday-
Billy Idol,” he says.
night performances for local bands,
“When I was in high school and
and Mondays will be a free movie
college, I played in garage bands here or there. When I started getting
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Developer Greg Kennedy plans on turning Roller Drome into The Rink Studios. Photos courtesy of Jenn Bartell Photography.
back into music a few years ago, I
“when my band started playing in my
decided that I’m too fussy to play in
living room, it was annoying to my
a garage or somebody’s living room,”
wife.”
he explains. Also, Kennedy chuckles,
night open to the community. But the biggest draw at The Rink Studios is a live-performance competition that operates on a similar model to popular reality shows like “American Idol” and “The Voice.” The plan is to have 50 winners a year who will be invited to perform
live at The Rink Studios. Using
18. He is not prepared to announce
professional audio and video, the
what the opening night will look like,
performance will be streamed live
but it will include live performances.
on The Rink Studio’s website and
“Oh yeah, it’s going to be a part. We’ll
Facebook page, directly connecting
have some performers with draw,” he
musicians with a national or even
says.
international audience while also
Kennedy knows that whatever shot
bridging the gap between the music
he had at becoming a famous musician
industry and talent.
is behind him, but he wants The Rink
Submissions will be accepted
Studios to be an avenue to give young
through The Rink Studio’s website,
musical artists a shot. “The focus
and winners will be decided by which
really is on the younger musicians,”
songs receive the most clicks by an
he says. “Groups like mine, old-fart
Internet audience. Competitors’
musicians, we’re beyond the stage
songs will be placed on more than 150
where we’re going to make it big.
global digital music platforms.
But there are a lot of good musicians
The competition will not be
around Sacramento. Maybe we can
limited to Sacramento bands. But
find somebody who has some real
the winning performance will take
talent.”
place at The Rink Studios, with plans underway to build other Rink Studios in Denver, Seattle and potentially
For more information, go to therinkstudios.com
other cities. Remodeling of the building is nearly complete, and Kennedy says
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Honor and Regrets AN OLD SOLDIER FACES LIFE’S END
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first met Ernie Head in hospice care last summer. The 96-year-old was a proud World War II veteran who lived life by a personal motto: No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, never give up. We began each of my home visits with a salute that often prompted war stories about his service in the 43rd Infantry Division. Unfortunately, the war had left Ernie nearly deaf, so I often needed to yell into his right ear. Eventually, we worked out a system using a dry-erase board for short questions or comments. One day, he took me back when he said, “Teach me to pray.” “Just talk to God like you’re talking to me,” I wrote. He then recounted the prayers he made to God during the war in the Pacific Theater of Operations. The stubbornness of the Japanese Imperial Force during the liberation of the Philippines required Allied soldiers to be ruthless in ways no one thought possible. “I made some promises to God back then,” he said. “I told God that if he’d get me out of this situation, I’d do anything. He got me out, but I’m not sure I lived up to my end of the bargain.” At this point, I could’ve reminded him that bargaining with God is a
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normal reaction to a mortal situation. But suffice it to say, I don’t think God keeps contractual lawyers on his staff. God doesn’t run a gotcha game, suing the “prayee” for breach of contract. My personal experience with God is that he stays with me, even when I stray. “Maybe you didn’t come home to serve on the deacon board,” I said, “but you served in other ways.” The plaques on his wall told me that.
He’d served in the VFW, Rotary and Chamber of Commerce and was named Veteran of the Year for Yolo County. He’d been blessed with a loving wife who gave him four children and then blessed, again, with a second loving wife after his first one died. He’d done a lot of good, and I have no doubt that he’d done some bad. Maybe it was the bad that filled his eyes with moisture.
“I want you to baptize me,” he said. “Do you believe in God?” I wrote. He nodded. “Do you want to follow God with all the breath you have left?” He did. “The Bible promises us that if we call on God, he will save us.” “Save me from what?” is the question folks often ask. I tell them that it largely depends on what’s troubling them. In this case, Ernie sought salvation from his haunting memories. “Can you do it now?” he asked. “You don’t want to wait for friends and family?” I replied. “Now. I need it now.” With his confirmation, I dipped my fingers into a small water bowl and moved them, dripping, over his forehead. In the language that rang from the centuries, I said, “Upon your profession of faith, I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.” “Thank you,” he said, his words cascading into multiple thank-yous. Ernie died a few weeks ago much like a lot of old soldiers die these days. They die with honor, they die with pride and, like most people, they die with a few regrets. It was my honor to help Ernie lessen those regrets. To him and to all our WWII vets approaching their final battle, I offer you my most heartfelt salute and my profound thank-you. Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author. He can be reached at norris@thechaplain.net n
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Designing Women TWO FRIENDS WITH SIMILAR SENSIBILITIES MAKE JEWELRY TOGETHER
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riends and business co-owners Amber Collins and Pam Tuohy-Novinsky finish each other’s sentences, listen attentively to anecdotes they’ve probably heard more than a few times, and laugh a great deal. It’s easy to see why this former model and former jazz dancer became friends when they met seven years ago in San Francisco. They soon discovered that although they had individual styles, their tastes and philosophies about consumption and waste were similar. TuohyNovinsky and Collins use the word “interdependent” to describe their close friendship and Cabine, the mostly Internet-based company they founded two years ago. According to Cabine’s website, the company is based on “a shared passion for connection, living simply, love of creativity, a good story, objects of quality, crafts(wo)manship with meaning, choosing quality over quantity, celebration, a big belly laugh, [and] purpose and growth.” Products include affordable, craftsbased, recycled jewelry and art, along with soy candles and sage smudge sticks. Everything is made by hand; Tuohy-Novinsky and Collins are the only employees. “It isn’t our goal to be a global corporation. It was a goal to start a company based on a heartfelt belief system,” says Collins. “We’ve both laid our hands on every piece we sell.”
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Necklace is crafted with gray seed beads and handmade Ethiopian metal accents
Although they’ve seen a lot of places and done a lot of things, both women agree that Sacramento is one of the best communities to live and work. The company’s name was inspired by Collins’ modeling days. A cabine, loosely translated, is a holding place where models change their clothes and spend the most time. “My community was that cabine,” Collins says. Collins and Tuohy-Novinsky source their own materials and repurpose them into unique and affordable jewelry. “We don’t believe in waste,” TuohyNovinsky says. Tuohy-Novinsky is a model for low consumption. She and her husband grow a lot of their own food. She also gave up her car and relies on public transportation and her bike to get around. Despite their similarities, they come from different backgrounds. Collins, who is an East Sacramento resident, and the more vocal of the two, was raised on a reservation. It was an hour’s drive to the nearest Dairy Queen, so she didn’t grow up eating a lot of fast food. She used to sing the Helen Reddy classic “I Am Woman” at school during show and tell. “I had to be asked to stop. I was ‘leaning in’ a really long time,” she says and laughs. In seventh grade, she visited a mall for the first time and thought it was “beautiful.” She started modeling when she was 15, and three years later
she was modeling full time in Paris. “I loved being a model. I traveled. I earned a really good living. It was my job,” Collins says. Modeling was heady stuff for a teenager who grew up on a reservation, yet there were humbling moments as well. At a Chanel show, Collins wore a sexy swimsuit covered with jewelry. “I was strutting my stuff. The crowd was digging me,” she says. Later, she discovered that the heavy jewelry had flipped the top of her swimsuit; she had walked the runaway topless. Collins’ mother told her to remember that story because “‘you cannot forget who you are.’” While she no longer works as a model, Collins still looks and moves like one. She currently represents models and actors for Cast Images Talent Agency. “I spend a lot of time reminding them that it is a job,” she says. “You have to look on it as a business.”
Earrings are crafted with gray seed beads, freshwater pearls and handmade silver Ethiopian metal beads. Shown on a hand-tied sage smudgestick.
Cabine's cream-colored seed bead, freshwater pearl, Ethiopian metal and heishi necklace. Amber Collins and Pam Tuohy-Novinsky
Even though she doesn’t consider herself to be an artist, Collins works with Tuohy-Novinsky to craft the recycled jewelry offered by Cabine. They also use the word “interdependent” to describe how they create Cabine’s custom-made jewelry, with both women taking turns working on a piece until it is done. They transport the unfinished jewelry in the same Ziploc bags they started using two years ago. A Land Park resident, TuohyNovinsky has a curly mane and the body of a dancer. She was born and raised in San Francisco two blocks from Golden Gate Park, where she worked as a docent at Steinhart Aquarium, shepherding private donors around, until she moved to New York to study jazz on a scholarship. Tuohy-Novinsky has
had a variety of jobs. She worked for San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, and in jewelry studios. She also managed a music studio and, later, represented actors and musicians. In addition to Cabine, Tuohy-Novinsky shares a business, 2ETN, with her husband, making one-of-a-kind jewelry. She is currently pursuing an MFA in interdisciplinary art. Although they’ve seen a lot of places and done a lot of things, both women agree that Sacramento is one of the best communities to live and work. “This is an undiscovered jewel,” Tuohy-Novinsky says. “I can’t imagine doing business anywhere else.” For more information about Cabine, go to cabinemonde.com. Their products are usually available at Display in Oak Park. n
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Soul Providers PROMOTING WELL-BEING WITH AERIAL YOGA AND AERIAL SILKS
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ou’ve certainly heard the adage that “exercise is the best medicine,” but Dr. Thomas Revesz and his wife, Eva, have taken that notion one step further in their new business, Carmichael Med+Fit, located on Fair Oaks Boulevard just before Marconi Avenue. “The whole idea is about approaching the whole person: mind, body and medical wellness,” explains Eva Revesz, who retired from a busy career as a social worker and full-time lecturer at California State University, Sacramento, to help her husband manage his primary care practice. “We offer a holistic approach to fitness and well-being. “People really need to move, so we’re not just a gym and we’re not just a studio. We’re good for the soul.” Carmichael Med+Fit, which has offered classes since September as part of its soft opening phase, will officially open to the public on Jan. 28. To introduce its unique blend of services, instructors and advanced students will perform demonstrations of Carmichael Med+Fit’s primary components, aerial yoga and aerial silks. “Aerial is a beautiful tool,” says Ivy Grace, the business’s director of healing arts, operations coordinator and aerial yoga instructor. “There’s something for everybody, whether you’re completely new to yoga or really experienced. You can do very easy poses or very challenging ones. By Jessica Laskey
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from injury—whether physical or emotional. “I guide people to connect with themselves and experience the world around them through mindfulness,” Grace says. “I work with people to build strength you can use in day-today life. For example, if I work with an older woman who can’t get out of her chair, we’re going to work on strengthening the muscles that will help her do that more easily.
“People really need to move, so we’re not just a gym and we’re not just a studio. We’re good for the soul.”
Eva Revesz of Carmichael Med+Fit
“I specialize in making yoga accessible and it’s very individualized. Whatever you need in that moment on that day is what I help you achieve.” Grace’s background is a fascinating mixture of politics (the Florida native studied international politics and
neurolinguistics in preparation to become a foreign service officer and she worked in Washington, D.C., when Hilary Clinton was secratary of state) as well as all kinds of yoga, including rehabilitative and traumainformed yoga for patients recovering
“I want people to be as safe as possible, which is why combining the ‘aerial’ part (a hammock that supports your weight as you complete yoga poses) is so helpful when people come in with joint issues. The hammock takes the pressure off your wrists and being off the ground helps decompress the joints.” Grace’s whole-body approach to yoga fit in perfectly with the Reveszes’ mission to provide both traditional medicine (Thomas Revesz operates a satellite practice out of the building and it was his daughter, a certified Pilates and aerial yoga instructor who convinced him to start the business) and a more holistic practice to encourage movement and well-being.
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All Major Credit Cards Accepted “When Tom and his daughter first had the idea for the business, aerial silks seemed like a natural extension of aerial yoga,” Grace explains. “You have to use sheer strength and your own body weight to manipulate the silks, so if you’re not strong enough yet, you can use yoga to train to the point where you’re strong enough for silks. “But it goes both ways: Someone who’s already into fitness but isn’t particularly flexible can get so much out of yoga. That’s why community is huge in our classes. The students are very supportive of each other and their goals, which is what we all wanted to begin with: to cultivate a place of healing.” Sounds like Carmichael Med+Fit is just what the doctor ordered. Don’t miss the opening celebration on Jan. 28. For more information and class schedules, visit carmichaelmedfit.com. Carmichael Med+Fit is at 6240 Fair Oaks Blvd. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com n
Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few, however, know the incredible journey that proceeded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a sniper to her struggle to succeed as a single mother newly arrived in America, playwright St. Germain deftly illuminates this remarkable woman’s untold story.
SHREK THE MUSICAL
Sacramento Theatre Company Jan 13-15 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 SacTheatre.org Based on the Oscar-winning film, Shrek The Musical is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure that brings all the beloved characters you know from the film to life on stage and proves there’s more to the story than meets the ears. Shrek The Musical is performed by Sacramento Theatre Company’s School of the Arts Young Professionals Conservatory students. The Young Professionals Conservatory is a ten-month program for students (Ages 12 to 18) that prepares students for careers in theatre through master classes and performance opportunities with professional actors, directors, and designers.
SHOWBIZ DIVAS & DAMES
Sacramento Theatre Company Jan 19 – 22 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 SacTheatre.org From Ethel Merman to Carol Channing, from Bernadette Peters to Kristin Chenoweth, show business has long-produced leading ladies known for their artistry, big personalities, and that certain “it” factor. Enjoy great music, from toe-tappers to powerhouse ballads, in this evening that reminds us “there is nothing like a dame.” Sacramento Theatre Company’s Cabaret Series consists of three professionallyproduced Cabarets each year, in which the Main Stage Lobby is transformed into a wonderful performance venue, with seating for up to 100 guests at cocktail tables. The atmosphere is intimate and relaxing. Beer and wine is available, as are light appetizers of fruit, cheese, and desserts.
Chautauqua Playhouse Thru Jan 15 5325 Engle Rd, Carmichael 489-7529 Cplayhouse.org Under a full moon on this unpredictable night of romance, these four rollicking tales take you on an around-the-globe journey of unexpected and hilarious twists and turns. A slick, successful used-car-selling Romeo in Texas is set up by three fed up “Juliets”; a group of fun-loving gals from Georgia, accidentally crash a Hawaiian honeymoon in progress; two strangers start to connect in a rooftop London Bistro only to be thwarted by an oddball tourist and an ancient; and sousaphone playing waitress and finally a man tries to battle his way out of a mid-life crisis with every possible comic distraction. Love conquers all and your sides will ache from laughter.
KINKY BOOTS
Sacramento Community Center Theater Jan 31 1301 L St, Sac 808-5181 CaliforniaMusicalTheatre.com “A big-hearted, high-kicking hit!” – Chicago Tribune Kinky Boots is Broadway’s huge-hearted, high-heeled hit! With songs by Grammy® and Tony® winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper, this joyous musical celebration is about the friendships we discover and the belief that you can change the world when you change your mind. Inspired by true events, Kinky Boots takes you from a gentlemen’s shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father’s expectations and continue the family business of Price and Son. With the factory’s future hanging in the balance, help arrives in the unlikely but spectacular form of Lola, a fabulous performer in need of some sturdy new stilettos. Note: Children under Age 4 are not permitted.
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Nod to the Past AN EAST SAC HOME GETS A HISTORICALLY SENSITIVE MAKEOVER
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hris and Amy Cookson spent five years looking for a new house. With a growing family, they knew they would need more space than their home on 47th Street provided. While looking at a house on 44th Street, Chris noticed a For Sale sign on another home down the street, a stately blue Colonial Revival. Cookson knew right away it was the perfect home for his family. Chris
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and Amy both harbor an affection for older homes and loved their East Sacramento neighborhood. “I really wanted that house,” he says. The couple purchased the house in April 2014, the day Amy found out she was pregnant. “We loved the house right away,” Amy says. “We even kept the blue color. Everyone in the neighborhood knew it as the Blue House.” The 3,700-square-foot house originally had four bedrooms and one bath. The building permit, issued in 1922, estimated the house’s cost at $8,750. According to California Resources Agency records, it was built by William J. Rooney, office manager
for Wright & Kimbrough Company, a notable real estate firm. Because Chris had grown up doing construction, he understood what would be necessary to modernize the house. Though structurally sound, it had never had a complete makeover. Following 14 months of construction, the family moved in in July 2015. During the process, the entire house was taken down to the studs. Major changes included adding a first-floor bathroom and mudroom next to the kitchen. The couple retained the original wood flooring upstairs but replaced worn flooring downstairs. They reconfigured the bedrooms and added three full bathrooms and a laundry room. They replaced the broken panes in the fan-shaped
window over the front door and repainted the exterior shutters. They finished off the basement into a play room for their children and are now working on creating a wine cellar. By taking down the sunroom on the first floor and building up the foundation, they were able to add a bedroom on the second floor. Their backyard was given new life with a design by local landscape architect David Gibson. The kidfriendly yard now sports a saltwater pool with a wall fountain, blue-slate patio and lots of grass for the kids to run on barefoot. When the couple submitted their plans to the city during the permitting process, they got a surprise. The city suggested they submit their home for
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inclusion on the Sacramento Register of Historic and Cultural Resources. Working with the city was positive experience. The resources provided by the city staff ensured the couple was not overwhelmed during the process. “The city was really good,” Chris says. “They wanted to keep it as a historic structure, but they also realized that a family would be living here.” One reason the couple loved the house so much was the amount of light provided by floor-to-ceiling windows in most of the rooms. The couple kept all the old windows and had them refurbished so they functioned properly. When they approached craftsmen in town, all declined, saying the job required too much work and time. They ended up getting much-needed help from a family member: Chris’ father, Larry Riggs, who is retired from the construction business. “My dad, I can’t leave him out of this,” Chris explains. “He drove down every couple of weeks, took out the windows and redid all the weights and roping. He found old, wavy glass to replace broken panes. It was very time consuming. We couldn’t have done it without him.” The Cooksons expressed nothing but praise for their construction and design team: Martha Lewis of Lewis Custom Classics and designer Chris Merenda-Axtell. Amy stressed the importance of research and planning when considering the remodel of an older home. “We spent a lot of time planning out what we wanted and made sure it fit the historic style of the house,” she explains. “ It’s best to go into a project loving the house before the construction begins. By picking a style of home you like, there will be fewer changes required.” If you know of a home that you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster.julie91@yahoo.com n
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Real-Life Lessons NATURE BOWL GETS SACRAMENTO KIDS OUTSIDE
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how a picture of an African animal like a zebra or giraffe to a child in Sacramento and likely they’ll be able to tell you what it’s called. But show them a photo of a local sandhill crane or coyote and few will know its name. Time that kids used to spend exploring nature outdoors is now more likely to be spent inside or on a sports field. Ironically, care for the environment as a value has been rising at the same time that actual understanding of local ecosystems has been falling. Children may feel a responsibility to protect endangered species of the rain forest even though they can’t identify animals, birds or plants that live right here.
Nature Bowl isn’t just about learning information. It’s also about engaging with real life. For more than 30 years, Bruce Forman of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has been working to change that. In 1986, he launched
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Nature Bowl, a program exclusively for third- to sixth-grade students in the Sacramento River valley that, according to Forman, “serves to increase science and conservation literacy with a focus on local environments.” Most Nature Bowl teams are coached by school science teachers who integrate the Nature Bowl curriculum into their regular classes. Parents, scout leaders and others can organize teams, too. Ninety to 95 percent of teams are from public schools. Some Sacramento schools
have participated for decades. In Nature Bowl, students learn about local habitats—riparian, grassland/ prairie, vernal pools, oak woodland, wetland, etc.—and the species that live within them. Field trips to local wilderness areas such as Effie Yeaw Nature Center and Cosumnes River Preserve can greatly enhance student interest and learning. Classroom study includes an impressive list of vocabulary words (do you know what “endemic” means?) and study of the principles of ecology such as food webs and energy pyramids.
Nature Bowl isn’t just about learning information. It’s also about engaging with real life. In one Nature Bowl event, students create a oneminute “enviro-mercial,” which is a persuasive speech describing an environmental problem or issue specific to the Sacramento area. Forman strongly encourages students to not only make their presentation but to take some action on the topic— for example, to write a letter to the newspaper or a county supervisor, to go out and clean up trash, or to set up a compost bin at home.
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ew car sales have recovered since the Great Recession. Dealers are selling at a brisk pace, nearly 18 million vehicles a year. Yet the average age of the U.S. automotive fleet, according to analytics company IHS Markit, reached a record high of 11.6 years last year. That means many people are going to be considering replacing their old wheels with something brighter, shinier and, if they are careful, considerably safer. Cars are safer than they were years ago. The focus in car safety in the past generally was on protecting car occupants when crashes occurred. Seat belts, air bags, collapsible steering columns and other innovations made crashes more survivable. Now, new technology enables cars and drivers to prevent crashes from happening in the first place. That’s the best possible protection. Car buyers are faced with a choice of safety features that vary quite a bit by manufacturer and from model to model by the same maker. Some features are standard on high-end models only. Individual features may be optional or come in a technology package at additional cost. Here’s a rundown on some safety features to consider if you’re thinking about buying a new or used car. The features you select may depend on when and where you drive, driver
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skills and age, and whether your insurer offers a discount for them. Forward collision warning and braking. Collision systems can come with a driver warning only or with added automated emergency braking. The braking may operate only at city speeds or at city and highway speeds. Twenty car manufacturers have agreed to make front collision safety systems standard by September 2022. In the meantime, this is an option that can save your life and the lives of your loved ones. Experts highly recommend it. Backup cameras. Backup cameras will be required on all light-duty vehicles starting in 2018. A camera can prevent property damage from backing collisions. Related systems alert drivers of rear cross traffic when
backing. More importantly, some years ago the federal government estimated there were 292 fatalities and 18,000 injuries annually from “backovers.” Many victims were small children or the elderly. Adaptive cruise control. This maintains consistent spacing from the car in front of you when you are using cruise control on freeways or highways. Blind-spot monitoring. Warns a driver with a visual or audible (or both) signal when another vehicle enters a car’s blind spot. This might be especially useful for new or older drivers. Lane monitoring. As with forward collision systems, this feature can either simply provide a warning when
the car drifts to the edge of a lane or can actively keep the car in the lane. Adaptive headlights. They can help illuminate dark curves, turns and hills by adjusting headlight direction and intensity. If you do a lot of night driving, especially on rural roads, this might be your ticket. If you are in the market for a used car instead of a new one, you should look for some other important safety options that aren’t on all older cars. Electronic stability control became standard on 2012 models and was available on some cars before then. It prevents loss of steering control. AAA and other safety experts rate the benefits of ESC very highly and recommend choosing a car with it. While all cars after 1998 came with front driver and passenger air bags, side and side curtain air bags came later. They are an optional way of providing side impact protection. Some cars have side bags for both front and back seats. The side air bags cushion the torso, and the side curtain bags cushion the head. According to Cars. com editor Joe Wiesenfelder, side air bags are “undeniably one of the most important passive-safety technologies of all time, second only to the seat belt.” On its website, Consumer Reports lists all auto manufacturers’ models along with what advanced safety features are standard and optional. You’ll probably need to do your own research on whether a used car has ESC or side air bags. Your insurer can advise on discounts for safety features. Choose wisely. Walt Seifert is a bicyclist, driver and transportation writer. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net n
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Driven to Succeed REAL ESTATE AGENT BY DAY, PAINTER BY NIGHT
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or Tim Collom, it’s all or nothing—whether in his job as one of the top real estate agents in town or as an in-demand painter. “If I love something, it becomes an obsession,” the 39 year-old says. “Real estate is my job—and I love it—but painting is my passion. It’s not a hobby, but it’s also not just a talent. It takes practicing over and over again. I don’t need to be the best, but I am driven to get better.” “Driven” doesn’t even begin to describe Collom, who was something of a wunderkind in real estate when he passed the licensing exam when he was only 21 at the behest of one of his strength and conditioning clients. At the time, Collom was training the Sacramento State tennis team after growing up around trainers who worked with greats like Jerry Rice. (Collom is a Bay Area native.) His interest in art was sparked early on by his computer programmer father, who would sketch and paint in the evenings to relax after a long day at companies like Oracle and Apple. But Collom didn’t give his artistic tendencies free rein until about 10 years ago. “I showed interest in art in high school, but I was more interested in being a teenager,” Collom says. “It was also seen as somewhat unnatural to be interested in art as a male, so I pursued sports training instead.”
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After following a roommate from Long Beach State to Sac State to finish his
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degree, Collom found himself face-to-face with local art luminaries like Wayne Thiebaud (whose late son Paul was a close friend) and Gregory Kondos.
lot,” Collom recalls. “I would watch and see what they did. I even played tennis with Wayne a few times.” But Collom’s rekindled creative instincts took a back seat to a real
estate career that started to skyrocket fairly soon after he received his license. The clever businessman knocked on doors and introduced himself to neighbors to get his name out there at the start of his career—a move he credits for his success as a real estate agent and as an artist. “I knocked on 8,000 doors a year as an agent, so I did the same thing with galleries as an artist,” Collom says. “I’m not afraid of rejection. In fact, it drives me more.” His perseverance clearly paid off, considering he routinely sells his colorful paintings depicting vibrant California landscapes and other relatable scenes for $2,000 and beyond here in Sacramento and in Carmel. Tim Collom Gallery, the industrial gallery space he runs on 20th Street, was originally intended as a place to exhibit his own art when he bought it four years ago. But when his pieces flew off the walls (he sold 28 of 30 paintings at his most recent show), he decided to offer the space to fellow
ultimately, his desire to make the world a little bit brighter. “Why do I paint?” he says. “I want people to smile.”
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Collom uses social media to market his real estate and his art. “The internet is both your best and worst friend,” he says. “You can post a picture of a piece and sell it immediately, which is great until you run out of pieces, since there’s more demand than supply right now. But you’re also letting people in on the process. They can see your evolution.” Collom has evolved a great deal over his past 17 years in real estate, decade of painting and four years as a gallery director. But you can chalk it all up to his enviable drive and,
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Cutting Back NOW IS THE TIME TO PRUNE
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hen the new year begins, Sacramento gardeners sharpen their shears, bundle up in layers and head out into the garden to prune. Some advocate getting this task done before Christmas. To me, that’s the talk of an overachiever. December is for parties and sitting by the fire with a lap cat and good book. January is time to get to work on many fruiting and flowering shrubs, trees and vines. Why prune? Most plants require little or no pruning, but others need to feel the steel to look and perform their best. You prune to control plant size and shape, to encourage new growth and to improve flowering and fruit set. Much of gardening is about trying to impose your will on your plants. Pruning is the ultimate expression of person over perennial. Actually, January is a little early to cut back most perennials. Even if they are frost damaged, it’s better to leave last year’s stems in place until the risk of freezing is past in March. Wait to prune ornamental grasses until February, and delay pruning spring-flowering plants such as camellias, azaleas and forsythia until after they bloom. Apricot trees are better pruned mid- to late summer to discourage the transmission of diseases into fresh wounds. Prune roses and other woody ornamentals, fruit and nut trees, berries and grapes now during winter
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dormancy, when they slow down growth and lose many or all of their leaves. When a plant goes dormant, it is resting until it is time to push new buds and leaves. Before you start, gather your tools and make sure that they are clean and sharp. A sharpening steel or stone will help restore a tool’s edge. Sharpen the beveled side of your tool, maintaining the correct angle (often 23 degrees). Lubricate the mechanism and blade with penetrating oil when you are done. There are good videos on YouTube that demonstrate the technique. What tools do you need? Hand shears and a pruning saw and lopper for bigger branches are in order. Don protective gear, including gloves, longsleeved shirts and safety glasses when pruning. Flowering and fruiting habits of plants vary. You need to adjust your pruning treatment accordingly. Some fruits and nuts bear only on spurs that grow off the main branch, while others bear on long shoots. Repeatblooming roses bloom on new growth produced on new and old canes alike. Once-blooming varieties bloom only on growth at least 1 year old. There are some basic pruning techniques. Thinning cuts remove
an entire branch to a main branch, the trunk or the ground, and are used to guide growth and open up a plant to air and sunlight. Heading cuts shorten branches and stimulate new growth. When heading back, it’s important to cut to just above a growing point, such as a promising bud or side branch. Try not to leave a stub longer than a quarter of an inch because it will just die back. Before you make any cuts, examine the plant. Determine the size and shape that you want. Start by taking out the obvious: dead, diseased, weak, damaged or crossing and crowded growth. Make sure that you retain strong, newer growth to establish the future framework of the plant. Wild whacking is not wise. When I first began to prune, I lugged books and diagrams to the garden and struggled to match what they said to the plants in front of me. Pruning workshops helped me understand what to do, as did years of experience. I’m still tentative with fruit trees, but roses and perennials are now less intimidating. Still, I proceed with caution and stop to evaluate as I work. The words of my gardening mentors echo in my head. “Clear out the clutter.” “Stubs don’t grow.” “If it’s not beautiful, cut it off.”
Sacramento rose growers aim to complete pruning before Valentine’s Day, but often that’s too late. Stop as soon as leaves start to emerge. Don’t despair if you run out of time. Enjoy your first flush of bloom and shape roses as you deadhead spent flowers. There are many places where you can learn about pruning this month. You can join master rosarians at the McKinley Park “prune-a-thon” from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan 7. Master Gardeners will demonstrate winter pruning of deciduous fruit trees, blueberries, cane berries, grave vines and landscape tree at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 14. On this same date, world-renowned rose expert, author and raconteur Stephen Scanniello will return to the Sacramento Historic Rose Garden and teach pruning techniques for climbing roses at 9 a.m. and mature shrub roses at 1 p.m. Even if you’ve pruned perfectly, your plants may not grow as you’ve expected. You can attempt to impose your will on your plants, but Mother Nature still has the last say. Anita Clevenger is a Sacramento County Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners at 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu n
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40 Years of Singable Songs Raffi in Concert Saturday, Jan. 28, at 1 p.m. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St. 877-987-6487, ticketfly.com If you sang along to “Baby Beluga” (or sang it to your own little one), you probably have a special spot in your heart for beloved singer/songwriter Raffi. This exciting tour marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Raffi’s first (and still best-selling) album, “Singable Songs for the Very Young.” “It’s great fun singing for children and families,” Raffi says. “As well as singing many of my fans’ favorites, I look forward to sharing a song or two from my ‘Love Bug’ album and my new one, ‘Owl Singalong’—and to the sounds of all of us singing old favorites from my very first album!” In 2010, Raffi founded The Centre for Child Honouring on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. With the motto “Respecting Earth & Child,” the center is at the heart of a global movement that views honoring children as the best way to create sustainable, peacemaking societies. Proceeds from the Jan. 28 concert will benefit the center. For more information, go to childhonouring.org.
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All Hail Horvitz “Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection” Jan. 22 through May 7 Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org Early this year, the Crocker Art Museum will unveil three beautiful exhibitions focusing on Japanese and Japanese American art and culture. The first of these, “Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection,” highlights the diversity, creativity and technical virtuosity of 20th- and 21st-century ceramic artists working in Japan. Forty artists, including many of Japan’s greatest living ceramicists, will be represented by 75 works that range from tea vessels, biomorphic shapes, geometric design and sculptural forms that explore juxtaposed themes such as form and functionality, traditional and modern, national and international.
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This piece by Ogata Kamio is part of the exhibition of Japanese ceramics at Crocker. Photo courtesy of Randy Batista.
“Silk & Steel,” new works by Shirley Hazlett and William Ishmael Jan. 6 through Feb. 16 Opening reception on Friday, Jan. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. Beatnik Studios, 723 S St. 400-4281, beatnik-studios.com Sacramento artists Shirley Hazlett and William Ishmael have cooked up something special for Beatnik Studios this month. Inspired by a recent collaboration this past fall for “William Ishmael and Friends” at Archival Gallery, Hazlett and Ishmael are building a new installation entitled “Silk & Steel,” which will feature Hazlett’s luxurious acrylic-on-silk paintings and Ishmael’s luminous steel panels.
If It Ain’t Baroque … Classical concert featuring Christina Mok and Miles Graber Sunday, Jan. 8 at 3 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org Listen as the history of the European Baroque period comes to life through virtuoso violinist Christina Mok and pianist Miles Graber. The dynamic duo will present a program of complex and beautiful works by French, Italian and German composers who worked from 1600-1750. Known for her elegant phrasing and careful study of historic periods, Mok joins sought-after accompanist Graber for an afternoon of musical delights with works by JeanMarie Leclair, Arcangelo Corelli, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Space is limited and advance registration is recommended.
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Bowie and Vivaldi Pop and classical concerts presented by the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera “The Music of David Bowie: A Rock Symphony” Saturday, Jan. 14, at 8 p.m. Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” Saturday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. 808-2000, sacphilopera.org Though David Bowie and Antonio Vivaldi might not exactly seem like two peas in a pod, the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera is bringing these two music masters from different centuries to local audiences for two very fun, and very different, concerts. “The Music of David Bowie: A Rock Symphony” on Jan. 14 will be conducted by Brent Havens and will feature some of the late legend’s masterpieces. On Jan. 21, Andrés Cárdenes will both conduct and play violin for a program that includes Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” as well as Gioachino Rossini’s “Italiana in Algeri Overture” and Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 101, “The Clock.”
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside “Artist Time Machine,” a Winter Camp for kids ages 6-9 Jan. 3-6, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. crockerart.org It might be wintertime, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop until the warm weather returns. The Crocker’s Winter Camp will have kids time traveling through the galleries on a mission to investigate how artists have used shapes, colors and styles throughout history. Campers will learn new skills, create experimental works and imagine new art for the future with tons of tactile experience and games galore. The camp is $200 for members and $240 for nonmembers. Space is limited, so register now!
Young art lovers are sure to enjoy an art camp at Crocker
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HAVE INSIDE, WILL TRAVEL 1. Ginny Douglas, Eileen Hayes,Nancy Harris, Nancy Aaberg, Dorothy Calkins, Lynn Hall, Jini Bauer, and Patti Malhoski in Holland 2. John Mott and three Quechuan women in Cusco, Peru 3. Angie Wei and Jerry Ray at the Arenal Volcano near La Fortuna, Costa Rica 4. Karl Dolk, Jim Day, Ettore Ravazzolo, Denis Zilaff, Greg Patton and Jeff Witterer hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc through France, Italy, and Switzerland 5. Nancy Bothwell and Bill Ainsworth cycling the city walls of Lucca, Italy 6. Robert J Forsman in Emmonak, Alaska
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Young and Talented Winter concerto concert presented by the Premier Orchestra of the Sacramento Youth Symphony Saturday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Blvd. sacramentoyouthsymphony.org Curious what the future of music sounds like? Lend an ear when the winners of the Sacramento Youth Symphony’s annual concerto competition perform with the SYS Premier Orchestra under the direction of Michael Neumann. Winning violinist Rena Wang and winning clarinetist Omar Wahby will present works including Carl Maria von Weber’s “Concertino for Clarinet” and “Jubilee Overture,” Pablo de Sarasate’s “Zigeunerweisen,” Franz von Suppe’s “Light Cavalry Overture” and the finale from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Fourth Symphony.” The Sacramento Youth Symphony is proud to be celebrating 61 years of musical excellence by young musicians from the Sacramento region.
The Doctor Is In “Becoming Dr. Ruth,” a play by Mark St. Germain presented by the B Street Theatre Jan. 14 through Feb. 26 B Street Theatre, 2711 B St. 443-5300, bstreettheatre.org Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few, however, know the incredible journey that preceded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a sniper to her struggle to succeed as a single mother newly arrived in America, playwright St. Germain deftly illuminates this remarkable woman’s untold story. “Becoming Dr. Ruth” is filled with the humor, honesty and life-affirming spirit of Karola Ruth Siegel, the girl who became “Dr. Ruth,” America’s most famous sex therapist.
Shirley Hazlett is one of the artists featured at Beatnik Studios
An Affair to Remember “Betrayal,” a play by Harold Pinter presented by Capital Stage Jan. 25 through Feb. 26 Capital Stage Company, 2215 J St. 995-5464, capstage.org Emma and Jerry, former lovers, meet at a cafe in the present. Emma’s marriage to Jerry’s best friend, Robert, is falling apart and she seeks out Jerry’s consolation. From there, the play (which won playwright Pinter a Laurence Olivier Award) travels backward through time—from the end of Emma and Jerry’s affair to its beginning—and unearths the little lies and oblique remarks that reveal more than direct statements or overt actions ever could. Sacramento favorite Janis Stevens directs this fraught and intriguing drama. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com n Christina Mok will play at Crocker classical concert
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Chowder in All Its Glory I A WELL-MADE CUP OF SOUP SHINES AT RIO CITY AND ELSEWHERE
n my nearly 40 years of living in Sacramento, the term “riverside dining” has rarely been a signifier of great cuisine. Restaurants have come and gone on the banks of the Sacramento and the American, and few have left a mark on the sandy shores of our city’s aquatic arteries. Sure, there’s the riverside party patio that is Swabbies on the River. It’s known for good bands and decent fish tacos. There’s the seasonal, floating berth-of-fun, Crawdads. They’ve good bloody marys and tasty fried dishes. There were old riverside haunts like The Rusty Duck and Hungry Hunter, beloved more for their hulking presence than the quality of cuisine. A quiet player in the riverside dining arena, though, is Rio City Cafe. A bit dwarfed by its brash next-door neighbor, Joe’s Crab Shack, Rio City has been a fixture on the Old Sacramento riverbank for more than 20 years. A recent lunch there was cozy and memorable. Tucked away next to a flickering fireplace, with a view of the slowly running winter river, I was enchanted. The food was solid and enjoyable, a better-than-average offering being the brisket tacos, which had southwest flair and smoky punch. The revelation, however, was the clam chowder. I’d forgotten how much I liked clam chowder. It took Rio City’s near-perfect rendition of this commonplace consumable to make me into a bowl-scraping, bread-swiping, spoon-licking fool. Truly it was something special. There are no hip ingredients, no exotic additions. My grandfather, who spent many good years of his life working in the restaurant industry in New England, would have recognized every flavor, every texture (save for the sourdough bread bowl, which is particularly San Franciscan). What makes this chowder so good, then? For me, it’s the balance: neither too thick nor too thin, neither too
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creamy nor too briny, neither laden with potatoes and other vegetables nor smooth and uniform. It is a benchmark bowl of chowder. This got me thinking: Who else in town serves a fine bowl of chowder that warms up the soul on a cold winter’s day? Here are a few spots you might want to check out. Rio City Cafe is at 1110 Front St.; 442-8226, riocitycafe.com
ON THE GRID Jamie’s Broadway Grille: Jamie’s chowder almost crosses the line of being too creamy—almost. It’s dairy forward and stuffed with more bacon than clams, which purists might object to, but not strenuously. Served with a half sandwich, it’s a great lunch or dinner. Bonus points for being served in a coffee mug. Jamie’s Broadway Grill is at 427 Broadway; 442-4044; jamiesbroadwaygrille.com Blackbird Kitchen + Beer Gallery: Blackbird’s “Captain’s Chowder” wanders a bit off the well-trodden chowder path, but it’s still a thing of beauty. Start with smoked cream, salmon and a host of shellfish and you’ve got an interesting, addictively flavorful bowl. The $15 price tag is a bit high, but the $7 happy hour special is right on the money. Blackbird Kitchen + Beer Gallery is at 1015 9th St.; 498-9224; blackbirdkitchen.com Coconut’s Fish Cafe: This new Hawaiian export does things in a distinctly island fashion. The chowder starts with a New England base, then gets brought to the Pacific with the addition of ono, mahi-mahi, clams, garlic and mushrooms. It’s got an intense fish flavor delivered by a boatload of seafood. No skimping on the ocean’s bounty here. Coconut’s Fish Cafe is at 1420 16th St.; 440-0449; coconutsfishcafe.com
either. Plump whole clams ride along in the chowder with a well-cooked trio of onions, celery and carrots. The seasoning is spot-on, and the flavors are just on the creamy side of briny. All in all, a total and utter treat. Evan’s Kitchen is at 855 57th St.; 452-3896; chefevan.com
Evan’s Kitchen: Served only on Fridays, in the old-school Catholic fashion, Evan’s chowder is thick and satisfying. No chopped clams here,
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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JANUARY
Patris Studio and Art Gallery will feature a group show through end of January. Shown below: “Donuts.” an oil by Patris. 3460 2nd Ave. patris-studio.com
ARTHOUSE on R presents “Sacrifice Zones”, featuring the work of Leisel Whitlock.. Shown above is a painting by Whitlock. 1021 R Street; arthouseonr.com
Artistic Edge will feature works by Don Tackett, Phyllis Eymann and William Miller. Shown above: “Magic in the Air,” a watercolor by Phyllis Eymann.
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The KVIE Gallery features the work of Gary Dinnen with ”Wall Dogs and Rabbits” through Jan. 18. KVIE Gallery is at 2030 West El Camino Ave.
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The Waterboy
ITALIAN RESTAURANT
$10 OFF Total DINNER food order of $50 or more
With coupon. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Expires 1/31/17.
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
$5 OFF
EAST SAC
Total LUNCH or DINNER food order of $25 or more
33rd Street Bistro
With coupon. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Expires 1/31/17.
3301 Folsom Blvd. 455-2233 B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Pacific Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting • 33rdstreetbistro.com
5723 Folsom Boulevard 457-1936
Burr’s Fountain
4920 Folsom Blvd. 452-5516
Dine In & Take Out • Cocktail Lounge • Banquet Room Seats 35
B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties
Lunch 11-4 pm • Dinner 4-9 pm Sundays • 11:30-9 pm • Closed Mondays
www.Espanol-Italian.com
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Cabana Winery & Bistro
Nopalitos
5610 Elvas 476-5492
5530 H St. 452-8226
LD $$ Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2. • cabanawine.com
B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting
Roxie Deli & Barbeque
Clubhouse 56 723 56th. St. 454-5656
3340 C St. 443-5402
BLD Full Bar $$ American. HD sports, kid's menu, breakfast weekends, Late night dining
B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh. Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com
5340 H St. 736-3333
3145 Folsom Blvd. L D Full Bar $$ The rustic, seasonal, and nourishing flavors of Italy. Counter service • oboitalian.com
B L D $$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar • sellands.com
5723 Folsom Blvd. 457-3679 L D Full Bar $$ Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere
OAK PARK La Venadita 3501 Thurd Ave. 4000-4676
Evan’s Kitchen 855 57th St. 452-3896 B L D Wine/Beer $$ Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere • Chefevan.com
L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com
Oak Park Brewing Company 3514 Broadway L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com
Formoli’s Bistro 3839 J St. 448-5699 B L D Wine/Beer $$-$$$ Mediterranean influenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com
Hawks Public House
Vibe Health Bar
B L D $-$$ Full bar, casual, locally owned European style café with table service from 5 pm and patio dining • bellabrucafe.com
Cafe Bernardo B L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio Seasonal, European-influenced comfort food • Paragarys.com
Café Vinoteca
B L D $-$$ Clean, lean & healthy snacks. Acai bowls are speciality. Kombucha on tap • vibehealthbar.com
L D $$-$$$ Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com
LAND PARK
Kru
2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809
3145 Folsom Blvd. 551-1559 L D $$-$$$ Beer/Wine Raw and refined, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.com
La Trattoria Bohemia 3649 J St. 455-7803 L D Wine/Beer $-$$ Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting
L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • Cafevinoteca.com
Ettore’s 2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. 482-0708 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, and desserts in a bistro setting • Ettores.com
The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Way 568-7171 D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com
3515 Broadway
1525 Alhambra Blvd. 558-4440
1110 Front Street
5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883
3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331
Español
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Bella Bru Café
Pavilions Shopping Center
Selland’s Market Cafe
OBO Italian
ARDEN AREA
Casa Garden Restaurant L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire Wine/Beer. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagardenrestaurant.org
Freeport Bakery
La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104 L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting
Luna Lounge 5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full neighborhood bar serving dinner nightly. Open at 11am daily. Weekend breakfast. • bellabrucafe.com
Matteo’s Pizza 5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727
2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256
L D Beer/Wine $$ Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes
B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com
The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Way 488-47794
Opa! Opa! 5644 J St. 451-4000
Iron Grill
L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service
13th Street and Broadway 737-5115 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com
D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out
Roxy 2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000
Jamie’s Bar and Grill
B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere •
427 Broadway 442-4044
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455-6000
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heavenlysyogurt.com
Buy 8 oz. yogurt or higher,
GET UP TO 8 OZ. OF YOGURT FOR FREE! Limit one free 8oz. yogurt per coupon 11 to 10:30 Daily
L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986
Riverside Clubhouse 2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com
Taylor’s Kitchen 2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154 D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.
Willie’s Burgers 2415 16th St. 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com
Sam’s Hof Brau 2500 Watt 482-2175 L D $$ 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. 488-5050 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com n
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ADORABLE EAST SAC HOME! The front sets the scene & welcomes you to this lrg 2bd/1ba hm with rmdld kitch. Lrg bckyrd great for entertaining. $459,000 POLLY SANDERS & ELISE BROWN 715-0213 CaBRE#: 01158787, 01781942 OUTSTANDING BRICK TUDOR! On lovely East Sac street with oodles of traditional charm. 4 bds, 3 full baths and family rm. Art Studio. $819,000 THE WOOLFORD GROUP 834-6900 CaBRE#: 00680069, 01778361, 00679593
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DESIRABLE POCKET LOCATION! Located in River Oaks Ranch this grand home offers 5 bed/3 bath, over 3000 sq ft, CH&A & 3 car garage. MIKE OWNBEY 616-1607 CaBRE#: 01146313 SOULFUL CRAFTSMAN BUNGALOW Over 2100 sqft of vintage charm, 3 bed, 1.5 ba, finished full basement & new garage. PALOMA BEGIN 628-8561 CaBRE#: 01254423 PRIME LOCATION! Open flr plan, 4bds, spacious family, living & dining rms. Tons G a nice wrap around of strge & lrg indoor lndry. Bkyrd offers N N D& Igrass covered patio, 9ft deep area to play. $579,000 P Epool TOM LEONARD 834-1681 CaBRE#: 01714895
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EAST SAC TUDOR! 3bd/2ba boast remarkable charm! Beautiful Living Rm, stunning woodwork, updated kitch, & entertainer’s bckyrd. $899,000 MIKE OWNBEY 616-1607 CaBRE#: 01146313
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L STREET LOFTS West Penthouse: City skyline view, 18’ ceilings, Gourmet kitchen, fireplace, loft bdrm, 2BA, soaking tub & deck. Fantastic! $994,000 MICHAEL ONSTEAD 601-5699 CaBRE#: 01222608 FANTASTIC FORTIES LOCATION! Center of beautiful East Sacramento with 3BD/2BA, single story Mid Century hm. Great floor plan, newly refinished hardwood floors, 2-car garage. Make it yours! POLLY SANDERS & ELISE BROWN 715-0213 CaBRE#: 01158787, 01781942
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