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The film, starring Gene Kelly as a dashing leading man in Hollywood’s golden age, is considered “The Greatest Movie Musical of All Time.” But have you ever seen it live? With glorious dance sequences, riotous comedy routines and unforgettable songs— including “Make ‘Em Laugh,” “Good Morning” and the showstopping title song—you don’t want to miss this classic.

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They sold the newspapers, until they made the headlines. Based on the hit Disney film, this Tony-winning, crowd-pleasing smash-hit features a band of spirited New York newsboys, facing insurmountable odds, standing up to the powerful publishers. With stirring music

by Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast) and breathtaking dancing, it’s a new classic with the power to inspire.

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With iconic choreography and a Tony®-nominated score, this rollicking musical based on the beloved MGM movie features a crafty and assertive young bride living in the 1850s Oregon wilderness. She attempts to civilize and marry off her six rowdy brothers-in-law, but her plan goes comically wrong.

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This landmark show, with a celebrated score by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, is based on the life of burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee. A singularly-focused mother takes her daughters on a crosscountry adventure in pursuit of fame and fortune on the dying Vaudeville circuit. With “You Gotta Get A Gimmick,” “Let Me Entertain You” and the showstopping “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.”

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Nerdy floral shop worker Seymour would do or give anything to gain the love of the object of his affection, Audrey. The depth of his desire is tested when a strange and precarious addition to his floral shop brings him sudden and unprecedented popularity.

This hit musical, based on the campy 1960s cult horror film, features music by Alan Menken.

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“The Nutcracker” Sacramento Ballet Dec. 9–23 Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. • sacballet.org Ron Cunningham’s crown jewel of holiday entertainment returns for its 30th year. Select performances will feature live music by the Sacramento Philharmonic Opera & Orchestra.

Bel Tempo Handbell Choir will ring in the holidays.

Stop by the Camellia Waldorf Winter Faire for some festive family fun.

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“Dancing Through December”

Sacramento Ballet Saturday, Dec. 16, 4:30–5:30 p.m.

Sacramento Children’s Chorus Sunday, Dec. 3, 4 p.m.

1400 L Street, Room 202 • sacballet.org Join the Sugar Plum Fairy on a magical journey to the Land of Sweets for a whimsical tea party for all ages. Mingle with beloved characters from “The Nutcracker” while enjoying a high tea sponsored by Ettore’s Bakery.

Carmichael Seventh-day Adventist Church, 4600 Winding Way • sacramentochildrenschorus.org Get ready to tap your toes as four choirs get the whole family in the holiday spirit.

Winter Faire Camellia Waldorf School Saturday, Dec. 9, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

7450 Pocket Road • camelliawaldorf.org Start the holidays right with a day of crafts, food, shopping and entertainment that includes storytelling, puppet shows, a gallery of student work and live music. The Children’s Store is stocked with treasures designed to fit a child’s budget.

“Jingle All the Way!” Sacramento Master Singers Saturday, Dec. 16, 3 p.m.

First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St. • mastersingers.org Don’t miss this 45-minute special performance of holiday songs for children and their families.

“Christmas Angels” and “The Nutcracker” Sacramento Civic Ballet Saturday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 17, 2 p.m.

The Center at Twenty-Three Hundred, 2300 Sierra Blvd. • deanedancecenter.com Sacramento Civic Ballet, along with Crockett-Deane Apprentice Company and Deane Dance Center, will present two Christmas ballets.

Holiday Magic Sacramento Zoo Saturday, Dec. 9, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

3930 W. Land Park Drive • saczoo.org Watch the animals receive special treats and listen as zoo staffers share facts and answer your questions. Members receive 25 percent off at the Zoofari Market; visitors can donate to Loaves & Fishes’ holiday drive and receive $1 off admission.

Don’t forget to wear your PJs to the zoo’s free-admission Pajama Party day on Sunday, Dec. 24, 10 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

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Sacramento Zoo is throwing a pajama party.

“Wells Fargo Home for the Holidays” Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra Saturday, Dec. 9, 2 and 7:30 p.m.

Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St. • sacramentochoral.com Join the Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra and guests Sacramento Children’s Chorus, narrator Matt Hanscom, puppets by Green Valley Theatre Company and the Vibrance Barbershop Quartet under director Alexander Grambow and conductor Donald Kendrick.

“Kings of America” Sacramento Theatre Company Through Dec. 10 Pollock Stage, 1419 H St. • sactheatre.org Don’t miss the world premiere of a play by local playwright Sean Patrick Nill. The timely production explores the flaws and legacies of American leadership through the recurring dreams of a struggling teenage boy.

"Ground Swell" by Kathy Dana and Donald Satterlee can be seen at Beatnik Studios.

“The Sound of Music” Holiday Event Crocker Art Museum Thursday, Dec. 28, 1:30 and 6 p.m.

216 O St. • crockerart.org The Crocker’s screening of this beloved movie returns for its sixth and final year with costume contests, door prizes, yodeling, singing and lots of laughs.

“Winter Wonderland” Fairytale Town Saturday, Dec. 9 and 16; Sunday, Dec. 10 and 17, 1–7 p.m.

3901 Land Park Dr. • fairytaletown.org Celebrate the holiday season in Dr. Seuss’ Whoville with festive décor, dazzling lights and Grinch-themed hands-on activities. Don’t miss the snowfall nightly at 7 p.m.

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Holiday Craft Fair Sierra 2 Center Saturday, Dec. 9, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

2791 24th St. • sierra2.org Shop for jewelry, soaps, candles, fiber arts, winter wear, wooden home and kitchen accessories, furniture, succulent arrangements, planters and more. All proceeds benefit Sierra 2 Senior Center.

“Intersection” Beatnik Studios Dec. 1–Jan. 25 (Opening reception Friday, Dec. 1, 6–9 p.m.)

723 S St. • beatnik-studios.com Artists and longtime friends Kathy Dana and Donald Satterlee collaborate on several stunning works of acrylic on photography and showcase new individual works. Still gift shopping? Check out Beatnik’s Handmade Holidays craft fair on Saturday, Dec. 16, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

“A Master Singers Christmas” Sacramento Master Singers Sunday, Dec. 10, 3 p.m.

Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 N St.

Saturday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 17, 3 p.m.; Tuesday, Dec. 19, 7 p.m.

First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St. • mastersingers.org From a meditative candlelight processional to exuberant spirituals, this concert delivers the beauty and joy of the season.

Holiday Art Sale Gregory Kondos Gallery Dec. 6–9 Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd. • scc.losrios.edu Shop for one-of-a-kind artwork created by students and professionals at this annual art show.

Sacramento Theatre Company Stages world premier of Kings of America.

“A Joyful Noise” Sacramento Symphonic Winds Sunday, Dec. 10, 2:30 p.m.

Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, 5321 Date Ave. • sacwinds.org The 60-piece adult symphonic band conducted by Timothy M. Smith will perform Timothy Mahr’s "Fantasia in G," Alfred Reed’s setting of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” Frank Ticheli’s “Joy Revisited” and more.

“Ring We Now of Christmas” Bel Tempo Handbell Choir Sunday, Dec. 17, 4 p.m.

Northminster Presbyterian Church, 3235 Pope Ave. • northminsteronline.org Enjoy an afternoon of handbell music, violin, marimba, English horn and a variety of percussion instruments. Proceeds benefit Family Promise of Sacramento, which provides a safe and secure haven for displaced families.

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Sacramento Civic Ballet presents two Christmas ballets.

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Public Art is Alive and Well SACRAMENTO METROPOLITAN ARTS COMMISSION CELEBRATES 40 YEARS

Gerald Walberg’s Indo Arch sculpture, located the corner of 4th and K streets, was the first piece of public art commissioned in 1977.

Walberg is an internationally renowned sculptor living in Sacramento.

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create. The lessons learned about local politics and land-use decisions were integral to the type of coverage our publications brought to our community.

Just over six years ago, another civic experience dramatically shaped our coverage.

In 2011, County Supervisor Susan Peters appointed me to the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. During my six-year term, I learned not only about the farreaching work of the commission, but also the arts community in general.

This year, SMAC is celebrating its 40-year anniversary, so I want to share both the history and current work of the commission.

SMAC was established in 1977— under Mayor Phil Isenberg—by city and county ordinances as a public agency devoted to supporting, promoting and advancing arts in the region. It is jointly funded by both the city and county.

The commission provides funding to local artists and arts groups, and promotes the arts through marketing, outreach and education initiatives.

SMAC also provides resources to support and increase regional arts education activities.

SMAC is guided by 11 commissioners, five appointed by the city council, five appointed by the county board of supervisors and one appointed by the current commissioners. SMAC also has a small staff led by Jonathon Glus, director of cultural and creative economy.

When I was appointed to the commission, I assumed incorrectly that the only thing it did was select

MY APPRECIATION FOR THE BREADTH OF THE LOCAL ARTS COMMUNITY WAS SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCED BY MY SIX YEARS ON THE COMMISSION.

and administer public art. A decade earlier, I served as a community member on a selection panel for public art that now appears on the water tower on Alhambra Boulevard in East Sacramento.

Sacramento’s nationally renowned Art in Public Places program was also established in 1977 to expand visual artwork in public spaces.

Sacramento’s most iconic public art pieces—including the giant red rabbit at the Sacramento International Airport and the Jeff Koons’ sculpture at the Golden 1 Center—get most of the media and public attention.

But the APP collection now includes more than 650 artworks, of which more than 60 percent are by local and regional artists.

APP is managed through SMAC, and funded by 2 percent of eligible city and county capital-improvement project budgets that are set aside for the commission, purchase and installation of artworks. For the past couple of years, I chaired the public art committee, which oversees and approves projects and artist selections. For all but smaller budget projects, a panel is assembled of community members, artists and project representatives to select

artists for specific projects and review their plans with the entire commission for approval.

In the early decades, public art was restricted to paintings, sculptures and murals. But in recent years, it has grown to take a much broader approach that includes functional or utilitarian urban components, such as benches, bike racks, tree protectors and flooring elements.

While public art is easily the most visible to the community, SMAC also does significantly more. The commission’s arts education program provides access to, and engagement in, learning experiences for regional residents of all ages.

Arts and cultural organizations are also offered grant opportunities to encourage their growth and to broaden their contributions to the community. Earlier this year, the commission established a community task force on cultural equity to ensure that the policies and procedures of SMAC lead to grant awards that reflect the rich diversity of our community.

SMAC’s gallery program also provides visual art experiences in public locations, including the gallery in the lobby of City Hall and

at the SMUD headquarters. These free public exhibitions showcase the artistic and cultural resources of the region.

This month, if you are traveling, you may be lucky enough to hear the Holiday Music Series that brings high-quality, diverse performances to the airport. In recent years, Supervisor Peters also presented holiday music performances at shopping centers in the county.

In addition, SMAC administers the Sacramento Poet Laureate Program designed to bring the spoken word to our community through the power of poetry.

I believe one of the most impactful programs that SMAC manages is the Sacramento365.com website.

The site features comprehensive listings of music, theater and dance performances, museum and gallery exhibitions, film screenings, poetry readings, cultural festivals, kids' activities and much more, showcasing all things artistic that Sacramento has to offer.

When I joined the commission in 2011, the arts community was still reeling from the recession. Donations were down, and arts and cultural organizations were on life support.

Funding for the commission is based upon apportion of the city’s hotel tax.

As city budgets were slashed, funding for the commission was severely cut, as were funds for staff, programs and grants. In recent years, a good portion of the budget has been restored.

As a commissioner, I was asked to attend monthly public meetings and arts events in the community. I have always loved the arts, but frankly my appreciation for the breadth of the local arts community was significantly enhanced by my six years on the commission. In addition, our business developed a program to sponsor the cost of advertising for a number of arts organizations.

My goal during my tenure was to bring as much attention to the local arts community as we could through our publications’ coverage. When I stepped off the commission in August, I felt confident that I succeeded in fulfilling that goal. And we look forward to continuing—and further expanding—our coverage well into the future.

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Legends of the Arts Awards As part of Sacramento Metropolitian Arts Commission’s 40th anniversary celebration a special awards program to honor those who have made major contributions to the arts over the past four decades. The celebration was held in October at the lovely East Sacramento home and studio of internationally renowned artist Gerald Walburg. Walberg’s studio was selected because his Indo Arch sculpture was the first piece of public art commissioned in 1977. Not pictured is former SMAC commissioner Susan Willoughby who presented her award to ceramicist and arts educator Ruth Rippon.

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Arts philanthropist and artist Marcy Friedman presented her award to Shelly Willis for her public art contribution and arts advocacy.

Arts philanthropist Joyce Raley Teel presented her award to Ron Cunningham, artistic director of the Sacramento Ballet.

Former county supervisor and arts advocate Muriel Johnson presented her award to Donald Kendrick of the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra.

Arts advocate Dennis Mangers presented his award to Estella Sanchez, the founder of Sol Collective.

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Theater actor and producer James Wheatley of Celebration Arts presented his award to Shonna McDaniel, founder of the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum and Arts Education Program. Daphne Burgess accepted the award for McDaniel.

Arts philanthropist and former mayor R. Burnett Miller and Mimi Miller presented their award to Bob Stanley, Sacramento’s ďŹ rst poet laureate.

SMAC commissioner Steve Winlock was emcee of the Legends event.

Former county supervisor and arts advocate Sandy Smoley presented her award to John Crowe for his work in arts philanthropy.

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Curtain Up NEW THEATER WING TO OPEN AT MCCLATCHY HIGH

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.K. McClatchy High School’s Visual and Performing Arts Program will celebrate the grand opening of its new 800seat, state-of-the-art Visual and Performing Arts wing with a black-tie event on Saturday, Jan. 20.

The event will feature music, theater and dance performances, an art show and a silent auction of items donated by local artists, arts instructors and businesses.

The modernized theater and stage, makeup room, black-box theater and cutting-edge sound system will allow students to produce professionalgrade art shows.

For more information, go to ckmvapa.org.

CHRISTMAS HOME TOUR SCHEDULED The 43rd annual Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour returns to East Sacramento this month, with six elegantly decorated Fabulous 40s homes open for viewing. The popular walking tour, expected to draw more than 5,000 visitors, opens Friday, Dec. 1, and runs through Sunday, Dec. 3.

The featured homes showcase elaborate renovations while also preserving historic design. The custom interior decorations and

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Anthony Krutzkamp is Sacramento Ballet's new executive director. creative holiday touches are sure to ignite the spirit of the season. Homes on this year’s tour range from a chic California bungalow to a classic Craftsman.

Tour hours are noon to 8 p.m.

Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

There will also be a holiday boutique and cafe at Sacred Heart Parish School. It’s open to the public.

The school is at 856 39th St. All proceeds go to Sacred Heart Parish School to help fund programs and financial aid for children who could not otherwise afford a private Catholic education.

Tickets to the tour are $30 in advance, $35 the days of the event.

For ticket retailer locations, or to purchase tickets online, go to sacredhearthometour.com.

SEE’S CANDY FOR SALE Soroptimist International of Sacramento will hold its annual See’s Candy fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily from Dec. 1 to Dec. 24 at Loehmann's Plaza at 523 Munroe St. “Inside Sacramento: The most interesting neighborhood places in America’s farm-to-fork capital” also will be for sale to benefit the nonprofit service club, which supports at-risk women and girls in Sacramento.

For more information, visit soroptimistsacramento.com.

NEW DIRECTOR FOR SAC BALLET The Sacramento Ballet recently announced the appointment of Anthony Krutzkamp as its new executive director.

Krutzkamp took over for Charles Ansbach, who stepped down in

September, following a cross-country search.

Krutzkamp received his first professional contract from the Kansas City Ballet and went on to dance with the Cincinnati Ballet, where he was promoted every season until reaching the rank of principal dancer at age 23.

Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda Cunningham, the Sac Ballet’s co-artistic directors, welcome Krutzkamp and his vision for the future.

“Anthony comes to us at a critical juncture and a turning point of the company,” the Cunninghams said in a press release. “We’re pleased to welcome someone with Anthony’s executive background to join us in leading the Sacramento Ballet.”

The feeling is mutual.

“I’m excited for the opportunity to work alongside two artistic directors of such high standing with a rich history of creative accomplishments,” said Krutzkamp.

For more information, visit sacballet.org.

SCIENCE WEEK AT COUNTRY DAY During the week of Nov. 6, students at Sacramento Country Day School participated in PhUn (Physiology Understanding) Week.

PhUn Week is an annual K–12 outreach program coordinated by the American Physiological Society that allows students to meet and learn from research scientists. More than 14,000 students across the nation participated this year.

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ZOO BABY GETS A NAME The Sacramento Zoo recently announced the name of a male Wolf’s guenon that was born on Sept. 24 at the zoo.

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In the zoo’s recent naming contest, “Rori” took the lead early on and held first place for the entire competition.

The contest raised $1,383 for the zoo and primate conservation in Africa.

The name Rori continues the zoo’s tradition of giving new members of its Wolf’s guenon family names ending with the letters “i” or “ie.” But the name has an even deeper significance.

The zoo’s director of facilities, Anthony Bailey, has a daughter named Rori who fell ill two years ago. Rori had to be hospitalized, and zoo staffers donated their time off so Bailey could spend time with his daughter during her hospital stay and recovery.

The winning name of Sacramento Zoo’s male Wolf’s guenon is Rori.

The entire Wolf’s guenon family group of five can be seen in the Small Wonders of Africa exhibit. For more information, visit saczoo.org.

CAMELLIA WALDORF PLANS WINTER FAIRE Celebrate the wonder of the season at Camellia Waldorf School’s 29th annual Winter Faire on Saturday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy puppet shows, candle dipping,

gingerbread-house making, food and drink, artisan vendors, a children’s store for young shoppers and the “Camellia’s Got Talent” showcase.

Camilla Waldorf School is at 7450 Pocket Road. Admission to the faire is free. For more information, call (916) 427-5022, email frontdesk@ camellliawaldorf.org or visit www. camelliawaldorf.org.

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reeport Boulevard is a wellworn stretch of road. Talk to longtime area residents and they’ll tell stories of the old airport, Ford’s Hamburgers, Sacramento City College and a host of other important landmarks that were, or still are, part of the Freeport landscape.

As the years have moved on, the landscape has changed somewhat. At the south end of the boulevard, the regional airport became Executive Airport, the local college became the city JC and the new high school

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(McClatchy) became the old high school.

Food, too, has changed along Freeport. Where once there were steakhouses and tiki bars, there now sit Korean barbecue joints and karaoke lounges. But with new tastes come new flavors, and two new food spots on Freeport stand out as refreshing, unique and delicious.

DELILAH’S MARKET CAFE The Hawaiian dish of poke (pronounced poke-ay) comes from, like so many other great dishes, humble origins. Combining chunks of raw fish, hearty sauces and generous heaps of fresh herbs and veggies, poke was originally seen as fishermen’s grub. Like the San Francisco creation of cioppino, it involves the trimmings and leftover bits of fish, mixed with strong flavors and served with a

hearty starch. (For cioppino, it’s SF sourdough; for poke, it’s rice.)

In the past few years, poke has seen a huge upswing in popularity and notoriety. Throughout the West Coast, poke shops are poking up everywhere from San Diego to Vancouver. Hawaiian flavors and dining places are seeing a strong push, whether it’s loco moco (hamburger patty and gravy over rice) at nearly every new restaurant with a hip flair, or Hawaiian-plate lunch spots popping up in strip malls.

What makes Delilah’s Market Cafe a treat is that it combines the fresh flavors of the islands with the decadent and the divey. When you first arrive in the sparse environs of Delilah’s, you’re faced with a decentsized cold case filled with at least half a dozen types of seafood. Ahi, octopus, salmon and more line the shelves.

At the counter, you can choose from a grab-and-go selection of musubi, perhaps the greatest Hawaiian culinary creation of the 20th century. For those unfamiliar with it, musubi is a ball of sushi rice topped with a slice of grilled spam, all wrapped with a slender ribbon of seaweed. This might not sound like your cup of tea, but you have to try it. It’s the low-budget indulgent treat you didn’t know you loved. Delilah’s dresses up its musubi with optional bits of jalapeno, barbecued eel and other odds and ends, should you want a few more flavors.

A menu of made-to-order grilledcheese sandwiches is also available at the counter. The sandwiches feature seafood-focused combos, such as lobster with Swiss and cheddar, and salmon with cream cheese. They’re panini-style pressed sandwiches that blend surprising tastes and go far in

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To top off the Hawaiian immersion, you can also pick up a Dole whip. The icy, sweet pineapple treat brings up thoughts of palm trees, sea breezes and maybe Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, depending on your age.

No matter what your demographic, the bright, bold flavors of Delilah’s genuine recreation of a Honolulu food counter are going to please.

It’s a totally novel and ultimately delicious experience. For the kids, and your inner child, grabbing a treat at 8F is a delight.

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8 FAHRENHEIT It’s a bold move to open an ice cream shop between Sacramento’s two most iconic ice creameries: Vic’s and Gunther’s. But the folks at 8 Fahrenheit have a different story to tell.

Instead of old family recipes and slow-churned creamy treats, 8F goes for a new style of frozen treat: “rolled” ice cream.

Sometimes referred to as Thai ice cream, it relies upon a unique style of freezing cream right in front of the customer. The server starts with an ultra-cold metal plate (presumably at 8 degrees). She pours flavored milk and cream over a few add-ins, like brownies or Oreos, and then starts chopping up the add-ins and spreading out the cream into a thin layer.

After a few passes over the supercool surface, the cream freezes into a thin sheet, which the server scrapes off with a spatula to create frozen rolls. The six or so rolls are wedged into a cup and topped off with garnishes like toasted marshmallows and cookies.

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Old Sac, New Plan NEW IDEAS WOULD FOCUS ATTENTION ON THE WATERFRONT

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hat Old Sacramento isn’t the newest, hippest destination in town is old news. Local publications printed articles about Old Sacramento’s dysfunction as early as 1973.

There are plenty of opinions about the district, but most Sacramentans would probably agree that Old Sac hasn’t lived up to its potential. Which is why Richard Rich, the city’s riverfront project manager, gave a presentation before the City Council in June. His topic: How can we revitalize Sacramento’s riverfront, specifically in Old Sacramento?

“It’s not hard to find ideas,” said Rich, citing decades of city plans. “My job was pretty much to go through them and pull out the great ideas and present them back to council.”

Noting that Mayor Darrell Steinberg has made the riverfront a focus of his administration, “we have a once-in-along-time opportunity right now,” Rich said.

The question is this: How can we make ours a 21st-century riverfront?

Rich proposed focusing on family attractions, improving building façades, expanding barges for music events, creating new riverfront terraces and bike paths, extending the promenade to Miller Park, adding water taxis, even creating a Sacramento monument. But, Rich conceded, the dots must connect first.

Old Sacramento is divided into three groups of owners: state, city and private.

“While those groups try to work together, they have different missions, and that creates gaps,” Rich said. The goal is “to get those major groups working toward a single vision and operating style to give a better rendition of the story of Old Sacramento.”

Another problem, or a symptom of it, is a retail-and-office vacancy rate that is two-and-a-half times the regional average,

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HOW CAN WE REVITALIZE SACRAMENTO’S RIVERFRONT, SPECIFICALLY IN OLD SACRAMENTO?

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and sales per square foot that are less than half the regional average.

Rich said that lack of signage and place making, especially at the I Street entrance to Old Sac, contributes to the lack of visitors.

He cited a 2011 study by Visit Sacramento showing that 11 percent of business travelers to other cities go to those cities’ waterfronts.

In Sacramento, only 1 percent of business travelers go to the riverfront.

Rich believes the solution lies in Old Sacramento’s history and stories.

“We don’t tell them well enough,” he said.

“Exactly right,” agreed Shawn Turner, the tour manager at Sacramento History Museum. “There is nothing, on your own anyway, that tells you what this is,” he said, gesturing to Old Sacramento’s historic buildings.

Deciding what stories to tell—and how to tell them—remains on the table. Meanwhile, the city is already moving forward in other areas.

Renovation of the Front Street Embarcadero is nearing completion.

“The new Embarcadero will give us a theater, if you will,” said Rich.

“We’ve added lights and power so that we can actually stage events along it.

Before, you really couldn’t use it but for strolling, and even that was a huge maintenance issue.”

The city also recently reacquired the old public market between Old Sac and the waterfront.

“We’d like to refurbish the building, clean and open it up, and make a series of retail spaces, like a ‘Made in Sacramento’ market, with food, wine, handmade goods,” said Rich. “It could open soon because the amount of work that has to be done can be done in a couple months.”

“Therein may lie the solution,” Rich continued. “Instead of focusing on Old Sacramento just as a historic district, we evolve the focus to historic entertainment and include activities and entertainment for people to do.

The market has changed dramatically, and by the market I mean us.”

This isn’t a knock against candy shops and novelty T-shirts, but while districts like Midtown, R Street Corridor and Downtown are evolving

with new venues, restaurants and bars, Old Sacramento remains, well, old. In particular, Old Sac fails to create spaces that could appeal to families and children.

“Other than the Railroad Museum,” said Rich, “we have nothing on the other end [of Old Sac] to draw people through the district to get them to the waterfront.”

Rich proposes the city transform Waterfront Park, the underused space adjacent to the Old Sacramento Schoolhouse Museum, “into a fun area for kids, in a presentation that fits within the theme of Old Sacramento.”

The city has gone so far as to consider a Ferris wheel. Said Rich, “It’s something that I’m not seriously proposing, but everybody else that I talk to loves it.”

Ferris wheel or no Ferris wheel, Rich said, “Once Old Sacramento gets relevant again, people’s reaction will be: Duh, what took it so long?”

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

Hands-On Help VOLUNTEER ROLLS UP HER SLEEVES FOR THE COMMUNITY

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f Gayle Kono could pick the one thing that distinguishes the Sacramento Senator Lions Club from other service organizations, it would be the group’s hands-on approach to volunteerism.

“We’re considered ‘the workers,’” says Kono, president of the local chapter. “Whatever needs to be done, we’ll roll up our sleeves and do it.

Fundraisers are nice. It’s nice to have money to give back to the community.

But our main focus is service projects.”

The Sacramento Senator Lions Club has two signature service projects: building and maintaining the Japanese Garden at Fairytale Town and sponsoring and maintaining the Sacramento Zoo’s Sensory Garden. The chapter also sponsors the Sacramento ZooMobile, which visits schools in areas where students might not be able to afford to go to the zoo on their own, as well as the Kindle Project, in which students at Sierra Enterprise Elementary School participate in a reading contest for a chance to win one of six Kindle readers.

“For every book a child reads, they enter to win a Kindle,” the South Land Park resident explains. “A child who might not be a big reader can still win, so it encourages kids who maybe aren’t the best readers to read.”

Kono says the group’s primary mission has evolved over time to focus on children.

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“I really feel that if you’re going to put your efforts into anything, the best place to see results is in helping kids,” Kono says. “If you can get to them early and put them on the right track, you won’t have to deal with other issues down the line. I’ve been the recipient of many acts of kindness throughout my life, especially as a child. Those little gestures that show a kid that someone cares can make them persevere.”

Kono also volunteers for the Buddhist Church of Sacramento (where she plays the organ), and she serves on the board of the Sacramento Buddhist Women’s Association. She encourages anyone interested in volunteering to figure out what kind of club best fits their goals.

“I always tell people they should visit different clubs to see where they feel most comfortable,” Kono says, adding that there are 54 service clubs in her district alone. “Come and volunteer at a service project and see if it’s something you’re interested in. And if you have an interest in a particular cause, the Lions Club can help you organize a service project and provide manpower. There’s strength in numbers.”

The Sacramento Senator Lions Club will hold its DandeLion Arts & Crafts Show on Saturday, Dec. 2, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Buddhist Church of Sacramento, 2401 Riverside Blvd. The club meets on the first Thursday of every month at Aviator’s Restaurant at Sacramento Executive Airport, 6151 Freeport Blvd. For more information, go to sacramentosenatorlions.org.

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

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An Artist at Last

Annik Gunther

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SHE GAVE UP ART, THEN LATER TURNED TO PAINTING FOR SOLACE

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nnik Gunter’s motto is “When you have a lemon, you squeeze it on caviar.” This gustatory phrase is appropriate not only because Gunter used to own a restaurant, but also because it’s gotten the artist through some pretty tough times.

Let’s start at the beginning. In her last year of high school in La Rochelle, France, one of Gunter’s teachers encouraged her to apply to

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art school, but her father told her there was no way a daughter of his was going to be an artist. Gunter pursued her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics instead.

Looking for a way to leave Europe with her two young children, Gunter got a grant to study linguistics at UC Berkeley. Her studies into the medieval evolution of the vowel “e” in French led her to UC Davis and, eventually, to a 38-year-long

career teaching ancient and French civilization at Sacramento State University.

“I loved my job,” Gunter says.

“Absolutely loved it.”

Early in her teaching career, Gunter was looking for a way to supplement her income to take care of her two sons, one of whom was disabled. She decided to open a French restaurant in an old A&W

stand on Munroe Street, near Fair Oaks Boulevard.

“I thought people would get a kick out of it,” she says. “You go to A&W and get a gourmet French meal.”

At first, her restaurant was open only for lunch, since Gunter cooked everything from scratch by herself.

When she realized that the wait list for reservations was getting impossibly long, she brought in help, and the restaurant flourished for

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years. While scrambling to cater her own wedding, however, she started to think about selling the restaurant to focus on her marriage and career.

She sold it to Trong Nguyen, a former student and creator of La Bou. While she misses the restaurant and still cooks occasionally, Gunter really misses the classroom. She retired from Sac State after suffering a stroke and mild aphasia, which made lecturing difficult. Gunter says she got one very good thing out of it: her rediscovered love of art.

“When I had the stroke, I saw all these psychedelic colors,” Gunter recalls. “I wanted to capture these colors, so painting became a necessity.”

That necessity increased when Gunter’s disabled son passed away in 2015. After deciding she’d “better do something to soothe me,” she began studying with painter Gary Pruner and pastel artist Reif Erickson. She eventually joined Sacramento Fine Arts Center, where she now serves as the vice president of Northern California Arts, which promotes the visual arts.

“NCA has about 160 members with various skills in watercolor, pastel, acrylic, oil, fiber and textures,” Gunter says. “I’m responsible for selecting the artists for the 2018 program and organizing their demonstrations and workshops.”

Gunter is wildly inspired by her work with SFAC—and it shows.

The walls of her house off American River Drive are filled with vibrant landscapes in watercolor and soft pastel. But there’s a new love

in her life: PanPastel, which are professional-quality colors in a cakelike pan format.

“I’ve discovered the treasure of the world,” she says as she runs her fingers lovingly over the pans of brilliant color.

Who needs caviar when you’ve got pastels?

Sacramento Fine Arts Center is at 5330 Gibbons Drive. For more information, go to sacfinearts.org. n

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Starring Sacramento THIS FILM COMMISSIONER WORKS TO BRING MOVIEMAKERS TO SACRAMENTO

Lucy Steffens

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y some magical quirk of karma, the very day this interview with Lucy Steffens was scheduled in her modest Midtown office near 16th and I streets was the same day that Clint Eastwood’s prestigious film company, Malpaso Productions, announced plans to film “The 15:17 to Paris.” The movie is about a trio of good buddies from Sacramento who achieved global acclaim by disarming a heavily armed terrorist aboard a train bound to Paris in August 2015.

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shocked the casting world by having the three Sacramento pals play themselves, a highly unconventional leap of faith and a huge gamble for a high-budget enterprise. But Eastwood didn’t win a fistful of Oscars and Golden Globes by playing his cards close to the vest.

The first question for Steffens, who is Sacramento’s film commissioner, was an obvious fastball right down the middle: “How awesome will this be for Sacramento?”

Then the phone rang. An associate was calling with urgent news that the movie starring three Sacramento homeboys—Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone—would be filmed in Georgia, of all places.

Smiling wryly and exhaling deeply, Steffens replaced the phone in its cradle, sighed and said, “Such is the glamorous life of a big-city film commissioner.”

Sacramento has had a history of not quite being able to close the deal.

The city has suffered for decades as San Francisco’s “ugly little sister.”

It has taken years of grunge work and grinding away to help create the current resurgence of a bustling, reinvigorated town whose heartbeat is the pulsating new Golden 1 Center.

The German-born Steffens was already thinking aloud about ways to convince the filmmakers to shoot background scenery, establishing shots and historical sites in River City.

“Sacramento may have lost the leading role,” she explained, “but we can salvage some important elements that will ensure its footprint in the movie.”

That’s the kind of commissioner Sacramento has had in Steffens for the past 25 years: realistic, forward thinking and unbowed. In other words, stay calm, take what you can get and never give up.

Steffens has been on hand for some glittering success stories shot

in Sacramento, including “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “American Beauty” and “Almost Famous.” While Sacramento can’t boast the spectacular cityscapes of San Francisco’s breathtaking skyline, it does have an “Everytown USA” quality.

Steffens laughs at the misconceptions people have of her work. “People tell me how they envy my opportunities to mix with the

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These days, she said, moviemaking is all about incentives and tax breaks. San Francisco sweetens the pot by waiving most permit fees. Sacramento, like most other California cities, can offer 20 to 25 percent in tax credits for productions with $1 million-plus budgets.

“Obviously, the state of Georgia can do better,” she said, clearly still smarting from the recent Eastwood news.

Local trivia buffs can rattle off a list of celebrities with Sacramento roots, connections or work history: Jessica Chastain, Tom Hanks, Timothy Busfield, John Travolta, Kevin Spacey and an Austrian-born former governor with box-office appeal. Steffens has a special place in her heart for a rising star from River Park, Greta Gerwig.

“Greta,” said Steffens, “is not only a savvy, charming young woman, but

as an actress and director and writer, she really gets what local filming is all about.” Gerwig filmed parts of her well-received 2012 comedy, “Frances Ha,” in Sacramento.

“What I like about her is not only her gracious manner but how she fully understands all the intricacies of a home-based production,” said Steffens. “She is not a one-and-done thinker. Her ultimate dream is to help make Sacramento a thriving, selfsustaining center of moviemaking.”

Gerwig’s most recent film, “Lady Bird,” which she wrote and directed, opened last month to rave reviews.

The story of a young woman living in Sacramento, it has already received Oscar buzz.

Gerwig shot parts of the film locally, but because she didn’t fully qualify for incentives she used other locales as well. “We take what we can get,” said Steffens.

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Holiday Delight A NEUTRAL HOME GETS A FESTIVE MAKEOVER

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tephanie and Todd Mirell had two children and wanted another. Unfortunately, their East Sac house wasn’t big enough for five people, so they began hunting for a larger home.

“We were looking for a house with four bedrooms upstairs so we could all be together,” Mirell says. “But it was just too hard to find.”

As luck would have it, Caramazza Construction was remodeling a twobedroom, one-bath bungalow a few streets away from where the Mirells lived, adding 2,100 square feet to the

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existing 1,100-square-foot structure.

The couple began taking notice of the house when it was about halfway done.

“It was still too raw to tell if we would like it or not,” says Stephanie.

But they kept tabs on the project and eventually decided it was the right home for them.

Today, the revamped structure is perfect for the family, which now has three children, and it blends nicely into the neighborhood.

New floors and windows were installed throughout the house. The

tiny galley kitchen was opened up and is a sleek, contemporary family space with granite countertops, a glass-tile backsplash and a nifty built-in bar that Mirell uses as a buffet area when

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NEUTRAL COLORS CREATE A SOOTHING ATMOSPHERE IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT CAN BE OVERWHELMED WITH THE PERSONAL EFFECTS OF THREE ACTIVE CHILDREN. entertaining guests. The living and dining rooms remained mostly intact, and the living room’s original fireplace and built-in bookcases were retained.

Mirell prefers a neutral color palette for both interior finishes and accessories. Neutral colors, she says, create a soothing atmosphere in an environment that can be overwhelmed with the personal effects of three active children.

“I needed to have clean, uncluttered colors,” she says.

This holiday season, that neutral color palette will get shaken up when the house is featured on the Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour.

The theme of this year’s tour is “The Nutcracker."

"The Nutcracker”—perfect for the Mirell family, since one of the daughters will be in Sacramento Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” this year.

Designer Elizabeth Lake figures she will put in about 300 hours decorating the couple’s home for the tour.

“I am going to follow the Nutcracker storyline as you go through the house,” she explains.

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THERE ARE PLENTY OF COZY SPOTS WHERE SHE CAN LINGER AND ENJOY THE OUTDOORS.

The living room will be decorated for a Christmas party like the one that opens the ballet, with a tree and custom-made stockings on the fireplace mantel. Traditional colors of red, green and gold will provide the background for plenty of fresh greens. Lake hopes to track down candle-shaped lights for the tree.

“I want it to feel like it was a long time ago when you walk in,” she says.

The dining room will be decorated in rich jewel tones in homage to the battle scene between the Mouse King and the Nutcracker Prince. The kitchen and family room will nod to the ballet’s Land of Sweets scene, with a palette of pinks and silvery touches. A pink tutu will encircle the kitchen counter, and a flocked Christmas tree will adorn the family room.

“It will be light and elegant without being too cute,” says Lake.

Lake had access to anything in Sacramento Ballet’s warehouse that won’t be used on stage during the dress rehearsal, which coincides with the tour. “The Nutcracker theme of the Sacred Heart Home Tour marries the two biggest holiday traditions in Sacramento,” Lake says. “People see ideas on the tour that inspire them to do something special for the holidays in their own home.”

The 44th annual Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour takes place Friday, Dec. 1; Saturday, Dec. 2; and Sunday, Dec. 3. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 on the days of the tour. For tickets and more information, go to sacredhearthometour.com.

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

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Housing and Homelessness A MARSHALL PLAN FOR SOLVING SACRAMENTO’S TWINNED CRISES

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n 1973, fresh out of high school, I spent six months working for Sacramento-based Woodmore Homes, which built and sold starter homes for the munificent sum of $19,500 each. Woodmore typically built dozens of houses at a time, from start to finish, in under a month.

I was a 17-year-old making $1.75 an hour, but even I was conscious enough to marvel at the vivid sight of progress. I used to drive by a few weeks after completion to see the eager young families—with breadwinners making not much more than I was—moving their belongings into the very corporeal embodiment of the American Dream: a home of their own.

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What happened to those days?

That’s the one question that is never asked by our state and local politicians, who were recently falling over each other to enact so-called “solutions” to our twinned crises of escalating housing costs and rapidly increasing homelessness. But how can they offer coherent solutions when they’ve never bothered to assess how we got ourselves into our current crises?

In the 1970s, California home prices were typically about 20 percent higher than they were for homes in the rest of the country. Today, California’s new home prices are 250 percent higher than the rest of the country. Obviously, we’re doing something very wrong.

The American Dream of owning a home is dying for most Californians, particularly young families, despite historically low mortgage interest rates. We’re seeing increasing outmigration of young families and those at the lower end of the income

spectrum. They’re fleeing California’s high costs of housing, rising gasoline prices, double-digit annual hikes in utility rates and escalating taxes of every imaginable type.

And if the current burden of local taxes wasn’t enough, Mayor Darrell Steinberg assures us that more taxhike measures are coming: an effort to double the Measure U “temporary” half-cent sales tax increase, a city housing tax, a city housing bond, a city schools arts and music tax, a repeat effort to double the countywide half-cent Measure A sales tax, and further double-digit annual hikes in city water, sewer and storm-drainage rates.

Viewed in isolation, tax-hike measures can appear reasonable and digestible, often expressed by proponents as costing each taxpayer “no more than just one Starbucks Mocha Grande a week.” But the cumulative effect of multiple tax hikes, coupled with escalating housing costs, is beginning to hollow out

(and drive out) the middle class and devastate the working poor, pitching increasing numbers of the “housing insecure” into actual homelessness.

The working poor aren’t big buyers of Starbucks Mocha Grandes.

The economy may be humming along for those with the resources to insulate themselves from the increasing burdens. But for middleclass and working-class families, and the poor, the California Dream is morphing into a nightmare of steadily eroding living standards, dashed hopes and, in extreme cases, the quiet terror of homelessness. And the current economic recovery hasn’t done much to restore household incomes: Median real household incomes in Sacramento County remain 10 percent below what they were in 2000—a dismal state nine years into our current expansion, particularly with local economists predicting that Sacramento may end up in a recession in 2019.

Recent hikes in the minimum wage are also likely playing a role in the falling incomes and living standards of the working poor by pricing out unskilled workers from the bottom rungs of the job market, excluding them from jobs they used to hold.

LINK BETWEEN HOUSING AND HOMELESS CRISES Before I started studying homelessness, I thought homeless people were, in very large part, comprised of folks afflicted with drug and alcohol addictions, those with serious mental health issues and societal nonconformists who simply preferred to live outdoors (with considerable crossover among categories), plus a small few struck by incredibly bad luck (i.e., medical crises, spousal abuse, family disintegration). I didn’t believe that large numbers were homeless as a result of declining economic fortunes (i.e., job losses, unaffordable or unavailable housing).

While my initial view of the homeless population in Sacramento may have been accurate several years ago, I no longer believe it’s an accurate depiction of homeless people in Sacramento today. Make no mistake, the addicted and the mentally ill still comprise a major portion of the homeless population, but in recent years it has become increasingly apparent that the rapid run-up in the number of homeless people is attributable to something different.

The big rise in “newly” homeless people increasingly consists of those who could and should be legitimately considered “economic refugees,” an often brittle population of people who have dropped off the bottom rung of the housing ladder due to declining living standards, declining real incomes, increasing nonhousing costs of living, rising housing costs, limited housing availability, job loss, limited job skills, limited coping skills, absence of a family safety net, poor decision-making skills and poor money management. This is a population that has been most

severely impacted by the housing crisis.

I reached this conclusion by comparing changes in the homeless populations in cities with recent, rapid run-ups in housing costs with changes in the homeless populations in cities that have experienced much more moderate increases in housing costs. For the most part, cities that have had the biggest spikes in housing costs are also experiencing rapid growth in homeless populations.

Now, correlation does not necessarily mean causation. It’s possible that the same cities that have mismanaged and distorted their housing markets are also providing more generous than average levels of homeless services, which may be acting as an attractant to the mobile, nonnative portion of the homeless population, which most studies put at around 30 percent of the total.

Major cities along the West Coast (including Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego) share both traits: They’ve experienced a much higher than average run-up in housing costs, while they have also dramatically increased their spending on homeless services. So it’s possible that the major increases in the homeless populations in those cities are made up of both a large new contingent of economic refugees and a large number of transient homeless people drawn by the superior homeless service levels offered by such cities. In any case, a real solution to the housing crisis will likely help staunch the flow of economic refugees to Sacramento’s streets, alleys and parks.

CAUSES OF CURRENT HOUSING AND HOMELESS CRISES It’s not terribly difficult to figure out the causes of our current housing mess if you’re willing to look for them. We just need to examine what changes have occurred in California’s housing market in recent decades compared to housing markets in the rest of the country.

Building homes is a business with certain major cost components,

including land costs, government fees or “exactions,” and the actual cost of construction. Let’s take a quick look at them in turn.

ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY OF BUILDABLE LAND IS DRIVING UP LAND COSTS Land costs are determined by scarcity: how much land is available on which builders can build homes.

California has adopted perhaps the most stringent environmental land-use regulations in the country.

Laws greatly discourage what are called greenfield developments, meaning traditional suburban-type subdivisions built on the undeveloped perimeters of urban areas, which is where the great majority of California homes have been built in the past 60-plus years. State law instead seeks to limit growth to infill development in existing urban areas, particularly favoring “transit-oriented developments.” The problem is that infill lots cost considerably more than open suburban land, and the costs of constructing houses on infill lots is much higher.

Local governments are required to adopt general plans and zoning laws that must comply with the strict land-use directions of the state, which creates an artificial scarcity of buildable land and, consequently, drives up builder land costs.

Most states have nowhere close to the strict land-use controls that California imposes. As a consequence, builders in most states are free to develop and build homes in suburban subdivisions on land that’s dramatically cheaper than buildable land in California.

LAW DRIVES UP HOUSING CONSTRUCTION COSTS Construction costs are also higher in California than elsewhere, primarily due to higher skilledlabor costs and higher costs of most building materials, which reflect the impact of higher taxes, gasoline costs, utility rates, etc. Gov. Jerry

Brown recently signed into law a bill that requires the payment of the “prevailing wage” on all housing projects that receive government financing. The prevailing-wage rate is always the union wage rate, which can be twice as much as the market rate for nonunionized skilled labor. The bill was part of a package of legislation that was intended to increase construction of new housing in California.

The California Legislature required the prevailing-wage mandate on such projects under pressure from unions, even though such a mandate guarantees that fewer homes will be built as a consequence of the costly mandate.

REAL COST DRIVERS: LOCAL GOVERNMENT FEES Few realize the magnitude of the heavy fees local governments impose on new house and apartment construction. In Sacramento County, total impact fees can run from $45,000 to $90,000 per house. East of the Rockies, impact fees are largely unknown. (In Texas, a builder pays only a modest fee of a few hundred dollars to obtain a building permit.)

Such heavy fees are likely the most significant factor in driving up the cost of new housing and making it unaffordable for all but the most affluent. With few eligible buyers able to purchase at such high prices, the volume and pace of new housing construction falters. Result: a constricted housing supply and spiking housing costs.

Why are housing impact fees so high in California? Because it’s very easy for cities to raise revenues by loading up new housing with exorbitant fees. Housing fees can be approved by a vote of a city council.

Local tax hikes, by comparison, require voter approval.

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Four Years and Out

SAC STATE PRESIDENT WANTS STUDENTS TO GRADUATE FASTER

Sac State President Robert Nelsen often walks the campus and interacts with the students.

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he only thing Robert Nelsen enjoys more than welcoming new students to Sacramento State University is watching them leave—loaded with education and armed with degrees, all in four years.

The four-year exit plan is especially important to Nelsen.

Timely graduation rates have become something of an obsession with the university president, who arrived in Sacramento two years ago from Texas, determined to improve the experiences of Sac State’s extraordinarily diverse student population.

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Soon after moving into the president’s second-floor office at Sacramento Hall, Nelsen quickly learned there is much to love about Sac State students. Many have made remarkable sacrifices to study at 6000 J St. They work nights. They juggle family responsibilities. They sweat under tight budgets. And they transfer skills learned during military deployments.

But for all their charms and qualities, under no circumstances can Sac State students be considered speedy. Only about 9 percent graduate in four years. Nelsen wants to see that number climb to 30 percent in the next five years.

“We understand that life can get in the way, and not everybody can or should graduate in four years,” Nelsen says. “But unless you think $23,000 is chump change to pay for a fifth year, why not try to graduate in four?”

The president has been making his pitch to parents, who tend to see a more direct connection between college and cost than their children.

Students often view tuition, room, board and books as somehow abstract.

“We used to focus our orientation sessions on new, incoming students,” Nelsen says. “Now we make a point of discussing how much money parents can save by having their children graduate in four years.”

A snail’s pace toward graduation is not unique to Sac State students. Low four-year graduation numbers are common across the California State University system, which staggers behind the national average. About 34 percent of students nationally graduate within four years from public schools. CSU averages 21 percent.

In the search for explanations, Nelsen focused on an institutional trigger. For a student to become eligible for federal Pell Grant money,

only 12 units per semester are required. As Nelsen notes, it doesn’t take an engineering degree to know 12 units multiplied by eight semesters equals 96 units. Most Sac State undergraduate degrees require 120 units.

“The Pell Grant requires a minimum of 12 units, so that’s what a lot of students take,” Nelsen says.

“But obviously, you need 15 units per semester if you want to graduate in four years.”

Sac State doesn’t want to discourage students from seeking Pell Grants, which can provide about $6,000 annually toward college. The grants are based on financial need and determined by family income. A majority of Sac State students qualify.

But even with grants, college can be expensive. Nelsen has been asking students to make “Finish in Four” pledges. His pitch is working. About 65 percent of Sac State freshmen signed up last year, with 84 percent on board this year.

In recent years, leisurely students haven’t been the only reason for poor graduation rates. Sometimes, even the most motivated Sac State student couldn’t secure enough degreefulfilling classes to reach the 15-unit threshold. Classes weren’t always offered. Or they were oversubscribed.

“We have to provide the opportunity for a student to graduate in four years,” Nelsen says, admitting class availability has been a problem at Sac State.

To ensure enough classes, Nelsen has added 671 courses, which works out to around 12,000 seats that didn’t exist in 2015. He brought in 60 additional instructors last year, with 82 added this year. The teachers aren’t necessarily tenure-track professors, but their courses count for credit.

And Sac State is using analytics to help students piece together four-year plans. Every student can see a course map charting a four-year diploma in

all major disciplines. The program lets the university schedule instructors and courses on demand.

Sac State traditionally has attracted a significant student population that needs remedial instruction. Remedial courses don’t count toward graduation. They slow progress.

This summer, the CSU system eased the burden by announcing it would remove placement exams and remedial requirements for math and English. Starting in 2018, students

can still get remedial help, but they can earn credit while satisfying general-education requirements earlier in their Sac State careers.

“It’s going to take some time, and some of our students will have to learn how to handle a full load of 15 units,” Nelsen says. “But we will get there. It comes down to one thing: You just have to study harder.”

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costs by easing California’s stringent environmental land-use controls, the Legislature and Gov. Brown have placed on the November 2018 ballot a $4 billion housing bond, with the proceeds to be used to build lowincome and subsidized housing.

The biggest problem with such a plan is that the government wastes gobs of money paying way too much to build each housing unit ($600,000 per apartment in the case of Sacramento’s pending Twin Rivers housing project), now aggravated by a new prevailing wage requirement.

Even Jerry Brown has said that government-subsidized housing is too expensive to build, exclaiming that there isn’t enough money in California to build our way out of our current crisis with government funding. Yet that’s the principal solution he and the Legislature have come up with. And Mayor Steinberg plans to place a city housing bond on the ballot next year to be funded by a new parcel tax.

The smart solution is for governments in our region to join together to adopt the equivalent of an emergency Marshall Plan that would place a moratorium on all impact and other fees currently imposed on the development and construction of new houses, condominiums and apartments. As part of the plan, local leaders should temporarily suspend all climate-based local land-use restrictions on the construction of new housing to the extent permitted under state law, restoring a sensible balance between our region’s dire need for new housing and the governor’s climate-control priorities.

I’ll discuss such a plan in further detail next month. If you’d like to offer your suggestions or input, I’d appreciate hearing from you.

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Reducing Homelessness THE COUNTY TAKES A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH

By Phil Serna and Patrick Kennedy

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ore than two years ago, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors challenged itself and the county agencies we govern. That’s when board members began making regular and increasingly passionate overtures from the dais. We said things like “What we’re doing is not enough to reduce homelessness” and “We need to do things differently to effect the outcomes we all want.”

These statements stemmed from all five of us seeing what our constituents did every day: the person talking to himself in Cesar Chavez Plaza, the huddled figure asleep in a storefront alcove, the growing tent complexes along the American River Parkway.

This prompted us to develop a comprehensive and deliberate approach to ameliorate homelessness, the likes of which is unparalleled during our tenure.

The following summary explains Sacramento County’s calculated and intensive work in this regard and reflects current measures to reduce homelessness. It is by no means exhaustive, and it denotes only recent developments to augment many well-established and effective county programs in place for years.

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FAMILY CRISIS RESPONSE AND SHELTERS This initiative will shelter more families dealing with complex health and behavioral health obstacles, and services will be deployed to rapidly rehouse families into permanent and stable living conditions. Entry into family emergency shelters will be simplified by way of a new electronic bed-reservation system managed by the county’s Department of Human Assistance, and DHA bureaus will serve as entry points to the broader crisis-response system, thereby exposing clients to interim supportive services. This initiative is expected to shelter approximately 268 families each year, and transitional housing opportunities will be expanded for an additional 25 families annually.

PRESERVE MATHER COMMUNITY CAMPUS Facing the loss of significant federal funding for more than 200 residential units serving individuals and families in Volunteers of America’s residential and employment programs, this initiative identifies replacement funding,

including new county General Fund support, to continue operations at Mather Community Campus, one of the region’s most successful models offering comprehensive assistance to formerly homeless individuals. With this funding, MCC will transition residents to stable employment and permanent housing in an environment supportive of drug and alcohol recovery.

FULL-SERVICE REHOUSING SHELTER To reach people experiencing homelessness who are difficult to engage in traditional shelter environments, the county will open innovative low-barrier, full-service sites complete with rehousing, and addiction and mental health services. This approach will serve up to 300 individuals each year and welcome people with pets, partners and possessions—the most common reasons given for refusing help. This first-of-its-kind program is intended as a structured “point of entry” to the county’s broader Homeless Continuum of Care, where people can

stabilize and participate in their own recovery and pursue self-sufficiency.

FLEXIBLE PROGRAM The county is implementing a new Flexible Supportive Rehousing Program that will provide adaptive rehousing and stabilization services to people experiencing long-term homelessness and who frequently utilize expensive county and local hospital services (e.g., emergency rooms and/or jail), but who could, with appropriate assistance, stabilize

THIS APPROACH WILL SERVE UP TO 300 INDIVIDUALS EACH YEAR AND WELCOME PEOPLE WITH PETS, PARTNERS AND POSSESSIONS— THE MOST COMMON REASONS GIVEN FOR REFUSING HELP.

in permanent supportive housing.

FSRP will rehouse up to 250 individual and family households in the first year of implementation and provide ongoing services and rental assistance to ensure long-term housing access.

PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY RESOURCES This past spring, the Board of Supervisors (acting as the Sacramento County housing authority) directed the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency to initiate a process that will increase publichousing resources. This initiative hinges on expanding the applicability of a “voucher” system for people suffering homelessness and includes: • A limited-preference allocation of 150 “turnover vouchers” annually.

• Up to 375 project-based vouchers over three years to support new or existing permanent supportive housing, including conversion of “problem property” motels.

• 75 Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing vouchers authorized to shelter homeless veterans over three years.

• 50 vouchers over three years to help current supportive housing tenants progress to affordable housing, and that serve new families in need of intensive services.

• 100 vouchers for homeless youth participating in a new federal grant called P3.

Altogether, the reprioritized voucher system under the sole discretionary control of the Board of Supervisors aims to permanently house 1,050 formerly homeless individuals and families over the next three years.

WHOLE PERSON CARE The Board of Supervisors has been carefully considering the city of Sacramento’s request for assistance to implement a federal grant program called Whole Person Care. The program offers significant funding to enhance navigation, case management and outreach efforts

that direct homeless individuals, and those at risk of becoming homeless, to mental health and other services as well as housing resources. The grant, however, does not fund actual service delivery or expand the availability of housing.

Following careful analysis, including many appropriate inquiries from supervisors, the board acted on Nov. 7 to apply $44 million in Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63) funds to provide vital services that will complement WPC grant objectives and those of the county’s other initiatives. Moreover, the board acted to improve upon the grant’s purpose and intent by thoughtfully identifying millions in Proposition 63 funds to continue helping homeless individuals past the grant’s threeyear lifespan, a very significant development that underscores Sacramento County’s long-term commitment.

Over the coming weeks, Sacramento County will refine an associated implementation plan that, while moving swiftly in its development, will strive to include input from stakeholders and the public. It is expected that this partnership with the city of Sacramento will help thousands of homeless people to stabilize their mental health condition, initiate recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, and secure much-needed housing.

Like many others, we agree that homelessness is the most complex and nuance-laden humanitarian and local public policy challenge we face.

Regardless of how much some may believe it is intractable, we as county supervisors and especially as native Sacramentans refuse to be defeatist or accept the status quo. Instead, we will continue redoubling our efforts and pursue productive partnerships to affect the change we all want. All of our constituents, including those suffering homelessness, deserve nothing less.

Phil Serna and Patrick Kennedy serve on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, representing Districts 1 and 2, respectively. They can be reached at supervisorserna@saccounty.net and supervisorkennedy@saccounty.net. n

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MACY’S THEATRE OF LIGHTS

Sacramento Theatre Company Thru December 24 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 Returning after a five-year hiatus, this adaptation of the classic Dickens novel is by local artists Richard Hellesen and David de Berry and stars Matt K. Miller reprising his role as Ebenezer Scrooge. The Christmas tale traverses Scrooge’s greed-filled past, his regrettable present void of forgiveness, and his fated future if he doesn’t change his avaricious ways.

KINGS OF AMERICA

Sacramento Theatre Company Thru December 10 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 Sactheatre.org Through the recurring dreams of a struggling teenage boy named Noah — dreams which happen to be populated exclusively by former presidents — this timely new play explores presidential figures of American history, their flaws, and the legacies they have left behind. But, for Noah, these episodes might be more than just fantasy; they could be a means for forgiveness and personal healing.

A MOVING DAY

B Street Theatre Thru December 24 2711 B St, Sac 443-5300 BstreetTheatre.org Every building has a history. Every building has a secret. When one man is forced to move out of his family home, he must confront the history and secrets buried in the building. With the help of a moving company and a mysterious companion, our hero sifts through the mystery of the past and reconciles with his future in this funny warm story for the holidays.

Downtown Sacramento Partnership at Old Sacramento Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve OldSacramento.com 970-5226 Clement Clarke Moore’s classic Christmas poem will come to spectacular life from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve on the balconies of Old Sacramento at K Street and Front. This year’s show will premiere the night before Thanksgiving with the grand lighting of the Umpqua Bank Christmas Tree at 6 p.m. The event will include the premiere performance of this year’s Theatre of Lights at 6:15 p.m. The production is a live dramatization of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” a special appearance by Jack Frost, and the lighting of the 60-foot Christmas tree by St. Nick himself.

SILENT SKY

Big Idea Theatre Thru December 16 1616 Del Paso Blvd, Sac 960-3036 BigIdeaTheatre.org When Henrietta Leavitt is offered a position at the prestigious Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she leaves her rural Massachusetts home to pursue her passion for astronomy. Upon arriving, however, she learns that she won’t have access to the telescope but instead will be working with photographic plates, cataloging the stars with her fellow female “computers.”

Undaunted, she dedicates her spare time to exploring her own ideas — juggling work, family and burgeoning love on the way to making a groundbreaking discovery.

This true story of the celebrated astronomer explores female solidarity in a maledominated world, challenging conventional ideas of one’s place in the world and the universe.

MISSD BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Capital Stage December 6 – December 30 2215 J St, Sac 995-5464 Capstage.org

This instant holiday classic continues the story of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and has delighted audiences since its premiere in 2016. Miss Bennet will be directed by Capital Stage Co-Founder Peter Mohrmann and is a special production in addition to the 2017/18 season.

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Tackling Disease

LOCAL DOCTOR WANTS TO PREVENT ILLNESSES BEFORE THEY START

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acramento doctor Ernie Bodai has a new mission.

Twenty years ago, Bodai came up with the revolutionary idea for a breast cancer research stamp. It was the first U.S. postage stamp to sell for more than face value. Proceeds went—and still go—to breast cancer research.

Since 1998, more than 1 billion stamps have been sold, raising more than $86 million for research. Bodai’s efforts to get the stamp

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BODAI TARGETS POOR DIET, WHICH RESULTS IN INFLAMMATION, AS A MAIN CAUSE OF AVOIDABLE DISEASE.

approved required a monumental lobbying effort, with Bodai making many trips to Washington and meeting with elected representatives, government officials and the White House.

Now, Bodai is on a new crusade: promoting a healthy lifestyle to prevent disease and illness. In the process, he is challenging big, powerful forces, including the medical community, the pharmaceutical industry and the U.S. health care system.

“There are industries that don’t want to change,” he explains.

“A bunch of misinformation is consistently being pushed out to the public from government, the food industry and pharmaceutical companies. It has to change.”

According to Bodai, more than 80 percent of chronic conditions could be avoided through the adoption of a healthy lifestyle. Killers like cardiovascular disease and cancer account for more than half of U.S. deaths. He finds it unacceptable that these diseases are rampant in the world’s wealthiest country, which spends more per capita on health care than any other advanced country.

Bodai, who founded Kaiser’s Breast Cancer Survivor Institute, was the lead author of a 2017 study on “lifestyle medicine.” Now, he is speaking around the world on the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.

He tells audiences that if we don’t change our views on health, there will be a “growing health crisis, escalating

health care costs and a decline in life expectancy that will only continue.”

He sees unhealthy eating, sedentary habits, stress and drug overuse as the main causes of diseases that cause pain, suffering, disability and death. “Our lifestyles are now fueled by technology, so we sit; we are sedentary,” Bodai says. “It’s leading to obesity, unhealthy eating and other problems. We need to exercise.”

Bodai targets poor diet, which results in inflammation, as a main cause of avoidable disease. “For the unhealthy, their lives are in a state a constant inflammation,” he says. “This inflammation has been implicated as a factor in nearly all chronic diseases. The chemicals in processed foods are considered a foreign body by our immune system, and there’s growing evidence that what happens in our gut impacts our entire body.”

Bodai believes the public is being brainwashed about processed foods.

“The labels on processed foods are garbage,” he says. “We need to move to a plant-based diet, no processed foods and only low-fat dairy.”

Bodai also says no to meat. Animals are given drugs and consume foods that contain chemicals, antibiotics and hormones that cause harm to the body. As a cancer doctor, he’s seen how hormones—such as too much estrogen—fuel cancer in women. He believes dietary changes would have untold health benefits.

According to Bodai, there’s a direct correlation between inflammation and

obesity, which can lead to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and various cancers.

With diabetes on the rise, so is the number of drugs to treat the disease. But Bodai says drugs aren’t the answer to diabetes.

Exercise and weight reduction, combined with healthful eating, can prevent the disease.

Another study shows that consumption of animal products is also a contributor to diabetes.

“There are a lot of problems associated with prescription medications,” says Bodai. “Americans are taking a lot of these drugs. We don’t know how these medicines react to each other in our body.”

According to a Mayo Clinic study, 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription medication, and 20 percent take five or more medications.

Prescription drug use among

Americans has steadily increased over the past 10 years.

Bodai is encouraged by research that shows a healthy lifestyle can prevent chronic illness and disease. But he faces resistance and apathy from powerful forces: the health care system, food producers, Big Pharma, the media and a public that hasn’t yet embraced prevention over treatment.

“It’s scary,” he says. “It’s going to take a dedicated mindset to change things, to change our lifestyles. For far too long, patients have experienced chronic illnesses because our health system has not taken a proactive role in promoting healthy eating and active living. We are running out of time to reduce a destructive trend.”

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

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Marketing Food Memories THIS BRANDING EXPERT LOOKS FOR THE ‘WHY’ BEHIND FOOD STARTUPS

Meghan Phillips started Honey Agency in 2008.

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eghan Phillips loves wine, tacos and her dad’s savory crepes with cheese rarebit sauce. She owns one of Sacramento’s only culinary marketing firms, Honey Agency, which has cornered the market on the Farm-to-Fork brand and local caviar. Most of all, she loves telling the story of food (and beverages).

Phillips’ marketing firm buzzed into existence after she left a job at Java City. She worked in the coffee industry when craft coffee was just beginning to market itself as cool—a tactic that winemakers were already successfully using. Phillips had a background in wine marketing from early jobs in Sonoma County, where she grew up and went to college. Her

talents transferred naturally into coffee, but Phillips didn’t want to work on a single brand. So she started her own agency in 2008, bringing Java City on as her first major client.

Honey Agency’s next big break was landing a startup wine company’s business. The company wanted a female-run agency to develop an “Anthropologie-esque brand,” Phillips says. That winery was Cupcake Vineyards, which is now a major wine brand.

Since those early clients, Honey Agency has gone on to represent both local and national brands under Phillips’ leadership. On Aug. 1, she took sole ownership of the company from her longtime partner, Rebecca Plumb, who left to start her next creative venture.

Phillips uses a client survey to capture the “why” behind each business. Cupcake Vineyards, for instance, was founded to meet consumer demand for a consistent product at a low price. “If you know why a product was created, you can help tell the story,” she explains.

Phillips started in the food marketing business before craft was king. Today, food is romanticized in an ever-more competitive space, dulling the unique voice that craft food once held. To make it in a crowded market, brands need marketing expertise.

“Food became romantic because we could shoot it with a camera and become proud of what we’re eating.

What’s forgotten is how it got there,” Phillips says.

Phillips grew up around farms and farmworkers, and she deeply appreciates great cuisine. For her, a food’s story doesn’t start with a photograph on Instagram or Facebook. It starts in a farm field and lives on as remembrances.

Phillips helped Sacramento embrace its neglected story of its agricultural roots. Her company created Visit Sacramento’s Farm-toFork website and several brand items.

She believes the campaign has forged a sense of civic pride in a community that was yearning for something authentic to align with as a city.

“Meghan and her team really helped us bring Farm-to-Fork to life,”

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That vision permeates Phillips’ passions and inspires her approach.

“The reason I love food-andbeverage marketing, and what’s stuck with me, is this idea of ‘farming to memories,’” Phillips says. “There are so many memories created around a table.”

Client Michael Passmore, the owner of sustainable freshwater fish farm Passmore Ranch, met Phillips when he was seated next to her at a dinner event. She left him with a good impression. The next day, he called to learn more about her company.

Eventually, Passmore signed on with the firm.

Honey Agency helped launch Passmore Ranch’s caviar, a product once available only to restaurant chefs, to the public. The agency’s approach to the Passmore brand won the businessman over.

“Meghan is relentless,” says Passmore. “I am an earlier riser and appreciate that when I fire off thoughts to Meghan at 5 a.m., more often than not I get a reply right away.

I do not think she can help herself, really. When she takes on your brand, it is personal to her. She will continue to drive until she has it.”

This tenacity makes Phillips’ work relevant in the noisy food-andbeverage industry. She keeps her eye on trends. The next big one she sees coming: lifestyle takeovers. One of her newest clients wants to reimagine the plastic water bottle. Phillips and her staff spent weeks carrying water bottles of various shapes and sizes with them as research.

Food and beverage isn’t just a business for Phillips. It’s also her lifestyle.

Amber Stott is founder of the nonprofit Food Literacy Center. She can be reached at amber.stott@gmail. com. n

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN DECEMBER

The work of California artist Sharon L. Barnes is showing at the newly opened CK Art Gallery.

Shown above: “De’tente” by Barnes, acrylic and gesso on industrial roofing paper.

2500 J St.; ckart-gallery.com

“Big Show of Small Treasures” showcases intimately scaled works of art at Sparrow Gallery and various art venues around the city. Through Dec. 31. Shown above: “Box Girl” by Linda Nunes, encaustic.

1021 R St.; sparrowgallerysacramento.com

Archival Gallery presents selected works By Jian Wang and “Hometown” paintings

by Earl Boley through Jan. 27. Shown above: an oil painting by Boley.

3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalgallery.com

“Intersection” is a two-person show at Beatnik Gallery featuring Kathy Dana and Donald Satterlee collaborations, along with a showing of new individual works. Show runs through Jan. 25. Shown above: “Rolling Stones” by Dana and Satterlee, acrylic on photograph. 723 S St.; beatnik-studios.com

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Fat City Bar & Cafe

1116 15th St. • (916) 492-1960

1001 Front St. • (916) 446-6768

L D $$ Full Bar Classic American lunch counter with a millennial vibe • cafeteria15l.com

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

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters

Rio City Cafe

400 P St. • (916) 400-4204

1110 Front St. • (916) 442-8226

Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolatefishcoffee.com

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

de Vere’s Irish Pub

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INSIDE PUBLICATIONS MIDTOWN Biba Ristorante 2801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 455-2422

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

1521 L St. • (916) 231-9947

The Firehouse Restaurant

L D $$ Full Bar Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com

1112 Second St. • (916) 442-4772

L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • biba-restaurant.com

L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • firehouseoldsac.com

Café Bernardo

Ten22

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

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

Centro Cocina Mexicana

Thai Basil

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

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

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

Firestone Public House

L D $$ Full Bar American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com

Willie’s Burgers L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com

R STREET Café Bernardo 1431 R St. • (916) 930-9191 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com

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

806 L St. • (916) 442-7092

Iron Horse Tavern

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • fatsrestaurants.com

1800 15th St. • (916) 448-4488 L D $-$$ Full Bar Gastro-pub cuisine in a stylish industrial setting • ironhorsetavern.net

1431 L St. • (916) 442-7555

Magpie Cafe

L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com

1601 16th St. • (916) 452-7594 L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com

926 J St. • (916) 492-4450

Shoki Ramen House

B L D $$$ Full Bar Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangesacramento.com

1201 R St. • (916) 441-0011 L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese fine dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com

Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. • (916) 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region’s rich history and bountiful terrain • hockfarm.com

THE HANDLE The Rind 1801 L St. #40 • (916) 441-7463

South 2005 11th St. • (916) 382-9722

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

L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com

Zocolo 1801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 441-0303 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com

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2431 J St. • (916) 442-7690

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

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

Easy on I

The Waterboy

1725 I St. • (916) 469-9574

L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical American menu • firestonepublichouse.com

Grange Restaurant & Bar

2730 J St. • (916) 442-2552

110 K St. • (916) 573-3897

Fish Face Poke Bar

Ma Jong’s Asian Diner

2115 J St. • (916) 442-4353

1022 Second St. • (916) 441-2211

1132 16th St. • (916) 446-0888

Frank Fat’s

2726 Capitol Ave. • (916) 443-1180

Tapa The World

L D $-$$ Full Bar American eats, including BBQ, local brews & weekend brunch • easyoni.com

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

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

OAK PARK La Venadita 3501 Third Ave. • (916) 400-4676

1627 16th St. • (916) 444-3000

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

L D $$ Full Bar Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, gelato • hotitalian.net

Oak Park Brewing Company

Hot Italian

3514 Broadway • (916) 660-2723

Mulvaney’s Building & Loan 1215 19th St. • (916) 441-6022

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

L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting

Vibe Health Bar 3515 Broadway • (916) 382-9723

The Red Rabbit 2718 J St. • (916) 706-2275 L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net

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

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

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

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