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The Calamari Sisters will be at Sierra 2 Center this month.

“Cooking With the Calamari Sisters” Playhouse Productions Through July 23 24th Street Theatre, 2791 24th St. playhouseinfo.com Bring your appetite for big laughs as the two larger-than-life Calamari sisters—stars of a fictional cable television show—take you on a tour-de-force of pop, show tunes, Italian songs, and cuisine as they sing, dance and tell jokes through a cooking lesson you’ll never forget.

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American Arts Auction Witherell’s Auction House Preview July 6, 1–5 p.m. (auction closes July 11) Witherell’s Annex, 1925 C St. witherells.com Don’t miss the chance to get your hands on a newly discovered Dale Nichols painting from the 1940s and rare Queen Anne furniture from the 1750s. The July auction covers the spectrum of American arts, including an elaborately carved wood desk and chair from the House of Representatives that belonged to Congressman George W. McCrary, which was recently featured on “Antiques Roadshow.”

This newly discovered 1940s Dale Nichols painting is one of the items up for sale at Witherell's.

Classical Concert: Anyssa Neumann Crocker Art Museum July 9, 3 p.m.

216 O St. crockerart.org World-renowned pianist Anyssa Neumann will return to her hometown to present a program of Central European composers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including pieces by Richard Strauss, Leos Janacek, Nikolai Medtner and Ernst von Dohnanyi.

Wild Games Sacramento Zoo July 29, 5–8 p.m.

Pianist Anyssa Neumann is performing.

3930 W. Land Park Drive saczoo.org Do all the fun activities you miss from childhood at this new zoo event: Ride the carousel, jump for joy in an inflatable bounce house, play-fight as sumo wrestlers, compete in giant beer pong and other lawn games, learn how to hula hoop with Resolute Circles, get your face painted and much more. Ticket includes all activities and one drink.

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Celebrate all things tomato at the SacraTomato Festival.

Cat & the Fiddle Music Festival Fairytale Town July 29–30, 11 a.m.–2:15 p.m.

Don't miss the International Celebration at Fairytale Town.

3901 Land Park Drive fairytaletown.org “Hey, diddle diddle!” Rock out to this two-day music festival on the Mother Goose Stage. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and relax as you listen to a variety of family-friendly musical acts—check the website for a full list of performances. All concerts are free with paid park admission.

International Celebration Fairytale Town July 2, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.

3901 Land Park Drive fairytaletown.org Kick up your heels for a day of international dance on the outdoor Mother Goose Stage. Enjoy back-to-back performances of ballet folklorico, Cambodian ballet and more. The program is free with paid park admission.

“On the Town” Music Circus July 11–16 Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1416 H St. californiamusicaltheatre.com This upbeat classic musical based on choreographer Jerome Robbins’ 1944 ballet “Fancy Free” tells the tale of three sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City and the three wild women who join them on an unforgettable adventure. You might recognize a few of these Leonard Bernstein tunes—this is the show that brought you “New York, New York.”

California State Fair takes place at Cal Expo this month.

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Seven Sounds Band Sohini Sangeet Academy July 22, 6 p.m.

Jean Runyon Little Theater at Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St. sacramentomemorialauditorium.com Lend your ears to bandleader Binay Pathak and his new Seven Sounds Band—part of Pathak’s renowned music school, Sohini Sangeet Academy—as they perform songs from the Bollywood Golden Years, classic ghazals (a rhyming poetic form similar to a sonnet) and more.

SacraTomato Week and Festival Sutter District July 17–22 Midtown between Sutter’s Fort and Marshall Park exploremidtown.org It’s that time of year again—time to celebrate the tomato!

Visit Midtown’s vibrant Sutter District all week long and enjoy local restaurants’, bars’ and nightclubs’ take on Sacramento’s iconic agricultural staple in creative tomato-inspired dishes and drink specials. The week of festivities culminates on Saturday, July 22, from 4 to 8 p.m. at a family-friendly festival at Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park featuring chef demonstrations, handson children’s activities, live music and more.

Jazz Night at the Crocker: Sandy Cressman Crocker Art Museum July 20, 6:30 p.m.

216 O St. crockerart.org The exotic sounds of singer Sandy Cressman will have you grooving all evening to a repertoire of contemporary Brazilian jazz songs sung in Portugese as part of Sacramento’s longestrunning summer jazz series. For the best seat in the house, bring your own chair.

Sandy Cressman will perform at the Crocker.

California State Fair July 14–30 Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd. castatefair.org It wouldn’t be summer in Sacramento without the California State Fair: free concerts, horse racing, midway rides, champion livestock, hands-on exhibits, more than 70 food vendors (you know you wanna try the deep-fried Snickers) and more. The biggest carnival in Northern California is the best place for fun in the sun.

“Hand to God” B Street Theatre Through July 23 2711 B St. bstreettheatre.org This irreverent comedy—about a possessed Christian-ministry hand puppet—has brought playwright Robert Askins plenty of accolades (the play was nominated for five Tony Awards when it debuted on Broadway in 2015), but it’s the story’s darkly hilarious honesty that makes it a show not to miss.

Sactown Wings Festival July 30, 2–6 p.m.

Southside Park, 2115 6th St. sactownwings.com For the fourth year in a row, this annual festival will serve up more than 40,000 chicken wings prepared by chefs from Barwest, Blue Cue, Logan’s Roadhouse, Adamo’s, Kupros Craft House, Chicago Fire and Flaming Grill Cafe. Guests can enjoy a wing-eating contest, craft beer from local breweries—proceeds will benefit Habitat for Humanity—face painting, bounce houses, live music and lots of family-friendly fun.

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A Shocking Theft INSPIRATIONAL SCULPTURE WAS STOLEN IN PLAIN DAYLIGHT

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or last month’s column, I wrote about how the nonprofit group Friends of East Sacramento restored Clunie Community Center, home to McKinley Library, and McKinley Rose Garden. The group (which I helped found) still manages the center and the garden using a lot of volunteer labor. Before the column was even printed, we were shocked by a brazen and heartbreaking theft at Clunie.

On the afternoon of May 24, a 50-inch-tall bronze sculpture titled “Journeys of the Imagination” by Gary Lee Price, was stolen from Clunie’s lobby outside the library. The piece, a whimsical depiction of an adventurous boy balancing on a paper airplane, was bolted to a console table in the center of the lobby. Also stolen was a moving cart stored in the nearby kitchen.

We heard a report that two men wearing “official-looking” vests had been seen in the lobby around the time of the theft. Lisa Schmidt, one of the founders of Friends of East Sacramento, was at the community center at the time, but she had stepped into the library for about 20 minutes to speak to McKinley librarian Bridget Laws. When she walked back into the lobby, the sculpture was gone.

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The "Journeys of the Imagination" statue was stolen from the lobby at the Clunie Center in late May.

The sculpture was purchased for the center in 2008 for $6,995, using funds Lisa and I had raised by holding East Sacramento home remodeling tours. The sculpture’s sentimental value is even greater than its monetary value. On many occasions, we have seen little children headed for the library stop and touch the statue with wonder and delight.

stealing the trellis and transporting it to his niece’s wedding in Natomas.

He pleaded no contest to the theft and was sentenced to one year in county jail.

The Clunie statue is part of a limited-edition series created by the Gary Lee Price Studios in Springville, Utah. Of the 150 versions of this statue that have been sold, this is

THE CLUNIE STATUE IS PART OF A LIMITED-EDITION SERIES CREATED BY THE GARY LEE PRICE STUDIOS IN SPRINGVILLE, UTAH. The piece reflects the charm of the historic library and the reason why the community fought so hard to keep it open.

Lisa and I had never worried about theft in the lobby because the space is so used so much. There are always people around. I suspect the thieves may have seen the sculpture and identified its value on the artist’s website, then arranged for a buyer before stealing it. Sheriff Scott Jones put out a bulletin to all the Northern California metal scrap yards. I’ve been monitoring eBay and Craigslist.

Our only hope is someone sees it in a yard or house and lets the new owner know it was stolen.

Sadly, we experienced another high-profile theft last year when a large metal trellis disappeared from McKinley Rose Garden. The trellis was recovered after it appeared in a photo on the thief’s Facebook page.

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the first one to be stolen. It will cost nearly $10,000 to replace the art piece, including a security camera.

If you have seen the statue or know anything about its whereabouts, please call 452-8011 or email friendsofeastsac@aol.com.

Fundraising efforts for the statue’s replacement have already begun. Developer Phil Angelides gave $500 to kick off the campaign.

I’ve donated 100 copies of our book, “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital,” to raise $5,000. A copy of the book will be given as a thank-you gift for each $50 donation to FOES. Books are available at the Clunie office, while supplies last. Donations can be made at the office, online at friendsofeastsacramento.org or by check mailed to FOES, 3014 O St. #222, Sac., CA 95816.

The American River Parkway is rated as the region's most appreciated amenity.

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important component of people’s lives,” said Christine Ault of Valley Valley Vision and Sacramento Vision.

State’s Institute for Social Research The survey found that 91 percent recently released findings from of respondents consider civic and a public opinion survey aimed at cultural amenities important to their capturing regional attitudes on civic personal well-being and quality of and cultural amenities. life. It also found that 95 percent When asked to rank the amenity consider amenities important for the that most influences their quality Sacramento’s image to people living of life, respondents overwhelmingly outside the region. chose parks and recreational trails. Of About 87 percent of respondents less importance were other physical consider public amenities important places, such as museums, art galleries, for attracting visitors, while 93 sports venues, riverfront attractions, percent consider amenities an theaters and recreational areas, and important factor for individuals and organized festivals and community families looking to relocate to the activities where people congregate. region.

Sports venues were at the bottom The survey collected responses of amenities that respondents think from 748 residents in Sacramento deserve public investment. Of note County and parts of Yolo, Placer and is that Golden 1 Center has drawn El Dorado counties.

1 million spectators to Kings games This is just the first in a series of and concerts in its first six months of public opinion polls that Valley Vision operation. and ISR plan to conduct multiple The survey defined civic and times annually, according to Valley cultural amenities as regional Vision. attractions that improve residents’ Another notable finding: A majority quality of life and enhance the of people across most demographics attractiveness of the region to would pay $21 to $30 annually in outsiders. increased taxes to support local “The research findings show cultural, art or natural amenities. that support for these amenities transcends age, gender, wealth and Cecily Hastings can be reached at political affiliation and illustrate publisher@insidepublications.com. n that civic amenities are a critically

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Zoo Babe A NEW MONGOOSE LEMUR IS BORN

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Mongoose lemur baby at Sacramento Zoo.

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he Sacramento Zoo’s pair of critically endangered mongoose lemurs, Catherina and Elmo, welcomed their fifth offspring on April 13.

The zoo participates in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Mongoose Lemur Species Survival Plans, a cooperative breeding and conservation program designed to maintain genetically viable populations of animals in human care. (Mongoose lemurs are critically endangered because of forest destruction in their native Madagascar.)

You’ll have to look closely if you want to catch a glimpse of the new arrival: Mongoose lemurs carry their infants across their abdomen like a fanny pack until the infant is older and more mobile. The sex of the baby will not be known for a few months.

Its throat will stay white if it’s a female but will change to rust brown if it’s a male.

Keep an eye on him or her at the zoo, located at 3930 W. Land Park Drive. For more information, call 8085888 or visit saczoo.org.

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DID SOMEONE SAY BRUNCH?

GROWING TOGETHER AT THE NBNA

Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Company recently began serving brunch seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

New menu items include Hangover Stew, Carnitas Chimichanga, Chicken Taco Salad and the vegetarian Falafel Wraptor, as well as several new twists on classic brunch cocktails: There Will Be Blood, a Bloody Mary made with bacon, gin and tequila, Rosé All Day (two different types of rosé wine, hibiscus, lemon, Aperol and soda) and the Health Nut (gin, a healthy green juice blend, mint and soda).

“Brunch has the potential to be more than just a meal,” says executive chef Matt Masera. “It appeals to everyone, especially industry people who don’t often have the opportunity to have brunch on the weekends.”

For more information, visit hookandladder916.com. Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Company is at 1630 S St.

On April 27, Newton Booth Neighborhoods Association honored Preservation Sacramento and Ryan and Carolyn Becker with its sixth annual 2017 Growing Together Awards.

Each year, NBNA recognizes individuals or entities from within the Newton Booth neighborhoods— Poverty Ridge, Newton Booth and the Alhambra Triangle—for contributing to the betterment of the community.

Past recipients include developers Indie Capital and Tapestri Square as well as Temple Coffee’s Sean Kohmescher and Gina Genshlea of Revolution Wines.

“As the Central City continues to blossom at this time of urban renaissance, it is especially important to encourage and strengthen new and existing bonds of community with the individuals who invest in maintaining the quality of life in our historic neighborhoods,” says Sean Manwaring, NBNA’s communications officer.

This year, Poverty Ridge residents Ryan and Carolyn Becker were honored for their rehabilitation of the historic A. A. Merkley Mansion from boardinghouse to stunning singlefamily home.

Preservation Sacramento (formerly known as Sacramento Old City Association) was awarded for its extensive contributions to historic preservation and adaptive reuse throughout the area, including overseeing a survey in 2013 that resulted in the designation of the Newton Booth Historic District.

PARTY IN THE PARK The city’s favorite free outdoor music festival, Concerts in the Park, continues Fridays from 5 to 9 p.m. through July 21 at Cesar Chavez Plaza.

Downtown Sacramento Partnership’s annual event brings together local and national music acts to wow a crowd that can reach 6,000 by summer’s end. Don’t miss it before it disappears until next May.

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For more information, visit godowntownsac.com. Cesar Chavez Plaza is at 910 I St.

IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK The Wide Open Walls mural festival will take place Aug. 10–20.

The festival is an offshoot of the wildly popular Sacramento Mural Festival, which was founded last year by event specialist David Sobon.

Sobon wanted to expand the ambitious mural festival to include more artists from around the world to help activate the city’s alleys.

Artists will travel to Sacramento from the United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Russia, Australia, Germany and Italy as well as U.S. cities like Philadelphia and New York to make their mark on walls in Midtown and beyond.

“We’re at such a partisan crossroads right now in our country,” Sobon says. “I can’t think of a better place than Sacramento to celebrate diversity and culture through art.”

For more information, go to wow916.com.

WELCOME TO COUNTRY DAY Sacramento Country Day School recently announced that two local eighth-graders (from West Sacramento’s Westmore Oaks and Leonardo de Vinci in the Sacramento Unified School District) will receive four-year high school scholarships for the coming academic year.

The scholarships are funded in part by a grant from the Elliott Family Foundation and include tuition, textbooks, class trips, oneon-one college counseling, an SAT preparation course and a schoolissued laptop computer for both students. The goal of the Scholars Program is to provide exceptional students from diverse backgrounds an opportunity to study at Country Day “who may not have the financial resources to access the college preparatory curriculum,” says head of school Lee Thomsen.

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The Wide Open Walls mural festival will take place in AuguStreet For more information about the school, visit saccds.org.

KUDOS TO THE CROCKER After a year of rigorous review by the American Alliance of Museums, Crocker Art Museum was awarded reaccreditation in May. Only 1,065 museums are currently accredited out of the estimated 33,000 in the United States. Receiving accreditation (or reaccreditation, in the case of the Crocker, which has been accredited since 1975) means that the museum has passed a battery of self-assessments, as well as a series of reviews and inspections by a team of nationally recognized peers to rate the institution’s achievements in public trust and accountability, mission and planning, collections stewardship, education and

interpretation, financial stability and facilities and risk management.

The Crocker didn’t just pass—in many categories, it exceeded the alliance’s ratings for museum standards and best practices, placing the Crocker in the top 3 percent of U.S. museums awarded this distinction.

“Reaccreditation is a marker of excellence in the field,” says Lial Jones, the museum’s director and CEO. “I am very proud of the museum staff, co-trustees and other volunteers. Our reaccreditation would not be possible without all of them striving to make the Crocker essential to the vitality of the Sacramento region on a daily basis.”

The Crocker is at 216 O St. For more information, visit crockerart. org.

The Urban Hive—the hip coworking space founded eight years ago on H Street by husband-and-wife PR team Brandon and Molly Weber— is expanding to a 14,000-square-foot space in developer Mark Friedman’s upcoming tech campus The Cannery off Alhambra Boulevard.

The Webers were ahead of the curve when they opened their first location—a start-up super space that offers shared work spaces, private offices, meeting and conference rooms as well as regular classes, workshops and networking opportunities to some 200 budding business owners.

The idea proved so popular that The Urban Hive outgrew its Midtown location. So the Webers signed a lease at Friedman’s tech park earlier this year and plan to be in by September.

(They’ll maintain their H Street space as well.)

Weber says the “sophisticated, industrial modern space”—designed

by HGA Architects and furnished by local Herman Miller supplier MTA— will include offices, meeting rooms and a bar as well as an “experience team” to provide coffee, beer, breakfast, kombucha, meditation groups, weekly massages and yoga and a partnership with local restaurants and food trucks for lunch.

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Crocker Art Museum was awarded reaccreditation earlier this year.

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Localis Stays Vibrant THIS RESTAURANT OFFERS BEAUTIFUL FLAVORS AND GORGEOUS VISUALS

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n the corner of 21st and S streets in the quiet neighborhood historically referred to as Newton Booth, a small space has housed short-lived but exceptional restaurants for a decade.

Ten years ago, chef Adam Pechal opened Tuli Bistro, a lively culinary enterprise that pushed amazing flavors and upscale cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. Throughout its short stint on the corner, it garnered

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its fair share of fans, me included.

Just six months ago, that same chef, Due to marketing miscues and bad Christopher Barnum-Dann, took over timing, two more restaurants came full ownership of the restaurant. and went.

Localis is a thoroughly Northern At some point, the Broderick group, California expression of dining. Each owners of Broderick Roadhouse in plate embraces the Sacramento ethos West Sacramento and of farm-to-fork dining Broderick Midtown, and local sourcing. came on board as But Barnum-Dann owners of the space. eschews the rustic They hired a young, charm of farm-topassionate chef to table presentation. create a locally sourced, Instead, he treats

By Greg Sabin fine-dining menu. The every dish like a work Restaurant Insider result was Localis. of art.

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The dishes at Localis are visually stunning. Even a simple salad is raised to high art, combining the freshest, most meticulously sourced ingredients with thoughtful preparation. Each farm and farmer is promoted to the level of superstar.

If you’re lucky enough to reserve a seat at the long, high counter at Localis, you’ll see the busy, expert kitchen at work. This is the type of dining experience in which kitchen staffers—saucing, sautéing, and conversing with guests—provide as

much entertainment as a Broadway show.

This is not modernist cuisine. The plates are not dominated by foams and emulsions. You will find a few of the techniques associated with molecular gastronomy.

For example, Barnum-Dann adds beet “dust” to his complex, lovely beet salad. Showcasing beets in multiple ways, the dish features ruby red and golden beets roasted, smoked and pickled with a light sifting of ingenuously engineered beet “dust.”

Rather than highlighting technique, the dust is there for an additional smattering of flavor and visual texture.

Other dishes satisfy with homey flavors and equally gorgeous plating.

A small plate of roasted octopus could not be more divine. Perched on a smear of root vegetable puree and delicately garnished with pickled cherries, it’s a plate not to be missed.

Simple fish-of-the-day and meatand-potato dishes hit home with deceptively simple ingredient lists and complex flavors. A healthy chunk of Wagyu beef with mashed potatoes is a gorgeous thing accompanied by morels and asparagus and some restrained yet powerful saucing. A lovely hunk of halibut sings over a joltingly spicy raft of coconut curry risotto.

Dessert is no less a thing of beauty.

On my last visit, the menu featured a strawberry bread pudding with buttermilk ice cream that was the best thing I’d put in my mouth this year.

Guests are welcome to pick and choose from the small but wellcurated menu, but the chef’s tasting menu is where the big guns come out.

A five-course, roughly $80 selection of always-changing dishes shows off the talents of Barnum-Dann and his kitchen.

Prices for small plates are in the mid- to high teens, entrees in the high 20 to mid-30. Portions are small, and the well-chosen wine list doesn’t have many bargain choices. Expect to pay

between $150 and $250 for dinner for two. But this will be an exceptional culinary experience, not just another weeknight dinner. If you care to dip your toe in without the high price tag, “Local Hour” offers discounts on drinks and small plates from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Or try Sunday brunch.

The serving staff shows care and delicacy in their suggestions, their attentiveness and their presentation.

During my dinner at Localis, I felt taken care of, not pandered to nor rushed through.

Reservations are a must. Given the small confines of the restaurant and the languid pace of service, Localis can accommodate a limited number of diners.

This is experiential eating. This is delicate eating. This is engagement with artistic vitality. Come with an open mind and expectations of a full evening spent surrounded by culinary creativity.

THE CHEF’S TASTING MENU IS WHERE THE BIG GUNS COME OUT.

Localis is at 2031 S St.; 737-7699; localissacramento.com.

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Sky High DOWNTOWN CONDOS HAVE SOARING VIEWS—AND PRICES TO MATCH

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t some point, we’ve all probably related to the lyrics from the 1995 hit “I Wish” by rapper Skee-Lo. Who hasn’t wished to be a little bit taller, a little more baller? Well, by the end of this year, select Sacramentans will have the opportunity to be both, and literally.

The Residences at The Sawyer, 45 luxury condos perched atop a 16-story boutique hotel, are part of

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the tallest residential development in Sacramento, and they offer what some might consider a baller lifestyle, both for their amenities and proximity to the home of the Kings, Golden 1 Center.

Located on the southeast corner of J and 5th streets, The Sawyer is a joint development by JMA Ventures and the Sacramento Kings, which will occupy the entire fourth floor of the building. The San Francisco-based Kimpton hotel group will operate 250 rooms out of The Sawyer, while The Residences will occupy the top five floors of the building.

“This is an offering unlike anything Sacramento has ever seen,” says Christopher Miller, director of sales for The Residences at The Sawyer, which are expected to open by the end of the year.

“I think people are drawn to that carefree lifestyle: lock and leave, everything taken care of for you,” says Miller, explaining the allure of living atop a hotel. “Drive up, the valet takes your car, you’re greeted

by your doorman, you enter through your residential-only lobby. If you have groceries, the doorman will take them up for you. There’s also a concierge and 24-hour room service.”

Miller adds that, thanks to partnership with the Kings, owners of The Residences will be able to buy tickets to sold-out Kings’ games and other select events, with preferred rates and underground access to the arena via tunnel between residential parking and the club level of Golden 1 Center.

The Sawyer’s third floor will include shared amenities with Kimpton guests: a fitness facility, bar and lounge, plus a terrace-level swimming pool overlooking Golden 1 Center’s plaza.

The Sawyer is named after Sacramento icon Lorenzo Sawyer, a California chief justice known for the Sawyer Decision of 1884, which

ended the use of hydraulic mining in California, one of the country’s first environmental controversies.

In allusions to Sacramento as the City of Trees and the capital of the Golden State, the walls of the building’s lobby will feature a goldveined leaf design.

Wide-plank oak floors and porcelain tile characterize the interior aesthetic throughout The Sawyer and The Residences, which were designed

by Puccini Group, a San Francisco firm. “You will see reoccurring aesthetics throughout,” says Miller.

“Sleek, clean lines, but not too contemporary.”

The Residences will have chefcaliber kitchens and floor-to-ceiling

glass windows to capture commanding views. Prices start around $600,000 for a one-bedroom, 789-squarefoot apartment, topping off at around $4 million for any of the six 3,323-square-foot penthouses on the top floor. So The Residences won’t be for every Sacramentan, but there still is plenty of interest.

As for availability Miller says, “We’ve been blown away by the response of the marketplace. It’s a really interesting demographic: everything from the empty nester to people who are priced out of the Bay Area, or people who are going to keep their home in El Dorado Hills.” Some, he adds, are looking at buying a condo as an investment.

“Forbes recently ranked Sacramento one of the top cities in the United States to invest in real estate in 2017—the only city in California,” says Miller.

Which might mean that people interested in purchasing one of The Residences at The Sawyer should look into them sooner rather than later.

“That would be very fair to say,” Miller agrees.

For more information about The Residences at The Sawyer, go to thesawyerresidences.com.

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Dance Like the Irish FORMER RIVERDANCE PERFORMER NOW TEACHES OTHERS

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ou could say that the luck of the Irish has been with certified Irish dance teacher and professional dancer Nicole McKeever, but that would underestimate the amount of blood, sweat and tears that have gone into her career.

The performer and instructor— whose McKeever School of Irish Dance found a permanent home in the E. Claire Raley Studios (CLARA) last year—fell in love with Irish dance as a kid in Columbus, Ohio.

“My family dates back to the late 1800s in Ireland,” McKeever says. “I grew up listening to Irish music, and

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the show and watched it every day. It we would go to events and see the became my life.”

Irish dancers. I wanted to dance so McKeever quickly moved up badly.” the ranks of international Irish When her family moved to New dance competition. She became an Jersey when McKeever was 12, she Open Champion, achieving the top enrolled at DeNogla School of Irish three standings at the Regional Dance, an hour and a half each way Oireachtas (an annual championship on the New Jersey Turnpike. competition), ranking “The year in the top five of I signed up American competitors for lessons, at the North American Riverdance came Championships and out,” McKeever medaling at the All recalls. “That Ireland and World summer, while

By Jessica Laskey Championships—for I was waiting to Artist Spotlight which she qualified six start lessons, I times. rented the video of

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After earning her bachelor’s degree in visual arts at Rutgers University, she moved to Ireland to earn a master’s degree in Irish dance performance at the University of Limerick while competing internationally. In 2007, McKeever was cast in Ragús, a popular showcase of Irish music, song and dance, thanks to her success on the international competition circuit.

“It’s very hard for an American to get discovered unless you’re a world champion,” McKeever says.

The following year, she was scouted

by Riverdance and began touring full time with the idols of her youth.

Nicole McKeever

“I spent seven years living out of a suitcase and dancing professionally— five of those with Riverdance,” McKeever says. “I danced across four continents and 26 countries, and we traveled the circumference of the globe in one year on a bus. I got to see places I thought I’d never get to go and got everything I ever wanted from Riverdance.”

But the demanding schedule eventually caught up with her.

“It’s so physically exhausting to tour. It has a shelf life,” McKeever says. “You spend up to 11 hours on a bus and go straight into a show, which is mentally and physically taxing. A lot of people don’t realize what the dancers go through when they see tours come through town. I was on an intense tour of China as I was turning 30, and I reached a point where I could see that I was missing some important things in my life. I wanted to build something for myself.”

McKeever left Riverdance in 2013, returned briefly to New Jersey and then moved to Sacramento. She held odd jobs and taught art while renting

studio space by the hour to teach Irish dance with the goal of opening her own school. On the first day of class at McKeever School of Irish Dance—Oct. 15, 2013—no one came.

McKeever told herself to be patient, that people would find her if she stayed true to herself and kept going.

Now, McKeever now has a school of 150 students who come to her with the same dreams as that starry-eyed 12-year-old kid in Columbus.

“I’m forming a culture and a brand,” says McKeever, who’s now 34.

“The kids in the studio have goals of becoming champions. I want to allow every dancer to have an opportunity to become what they want. My mission is to train dancers, athletes and artists and make Irish dance accessible to all people. I have what I always wanted.”

“I GREW UP LISTENING TO IRISH MUSIC, AND WE WOULD GO TO EVENTS AND SEE THE

McKeever School of Irish Dance is at 2420 N St. For more information, go to mckeeverdance.com.

IRISH DANCERS. I WANTED TO DANCE SO BADLY.”

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Creative Force IT TAKES PASSION TO CREATE THRIVING RESTAURANTS

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rnesto Delgado is the creative force behind three local restaurants that have taken Mexican cuisine to new heights.

His signature restaurant is K Street’s Tequila Museo Mayahuel, which he named after his daughter Maya. Last year, he opened Mesa Mercado at Milagro Centre in Carmichael. He recently added to his restaurant portfolio with La Cosecha in Cesar Chavez Plaza, serving workers from City Hall across the street, neighboring employees in the US Bank building and other nearby businesses.

Each of Delgado’s restaurants has its own unique personality. Mayahuel is rich in art and murals, including some of Delgado’s own mural designs.

The food is authentic regional Mexican, inspired by his mother’s home cooking. The restaurant also offers a wide selection of tequilas.

Mesa Mercado serves casual taqueria fare.

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La Cosecha features a walk-up taco bar, ample outdoor seating and a menu inspired by Mexico and Sacramento.

“I like to design restaurants based on the location itself, who we serve and the overall surroundings,” says Delgado. “Basically, restaurants have a short life span. It’s the experience that can make it over the long term.”

To that end, Delgado is always looking to refine the experience based on customer feedback. He’s changed Mayahuel’s menu and its tequila bar into a taco bar.

Delgado gets excited when talking about his three restaurants. Continued enhancement of the customer experience is always top of mind.

He’s happy to have La Cosecha open. He worked hard to be open by Cinco de Mayo.

“We’re rockin’ and rollin’ now, and since we opened, it’s been great,” he says. “Overall response is really enthusiastic. We’re still finalizing construction, but we should have that finalized soon.”

Delgado admits that building a restaurant is tough. He’s taken on the challenge of complex builds for each of his three sites. Each one came with complexities of design, permitting and construction. And since he

Ernesto Delgado at his newest restaurant, La Consecha, in Cesar Chavez Park.

loves unique spaces and finely tuned details, the process isn’t routine in any way.

“I’m at it all day, every day,” he says. “I like to inspire myself creatively, pay attention to the details and see the vision unfold. I look at a restaurant like a canvas and need to apply art, food, systems, licenses, customer service and more than 58 employees to create the experience.”

Delgado had this zeal from a very young age. Growing up in Napa, he was inspired by the food created by his mom in their home kitchen, and he fell in love with the cultural connection to food. As a young boy, he dabbled in design and photography.

At 14 years old, he started working in some of the Napa area’s notable restaurants including Chanterelle.

He started as a dishwasher, moved up to busboy and did some food prep and a little cooking. “I liked the work,” says Delgado. “I was wearing pressed pants, white shirts and shined shoes. If I worked hard, there were the older ladies and others that would drop me a $20 tip. That was nice.”

Delgado moved to Sacramento in 1993 to attend Sacramento State.

He waffled a bit in deciding what to study and found his way into graphic design under the mentorship of renowned Sacramento designer Gwen Amos, who took an active interest in

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Delgado’s future. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded a couple different design studios, where he worked with a variety of ad agencies and business clients, most notably restaurants.

Delgado’s fate took a positive direction when he connected with Sacramento restaurateur Ernesto Jimenez, owner of Ernesto’s Mexican Restaurant, who was creating a restaurant in a 6,000-square-foot corner space in the old Arnold Brothers Motor Cars building at the corner of 18th and Capitol.

Jimenez put Delgado in charge of the build-out of Zocalo, working on the construction, design, concepts and vision for what would ultimately become one of Midtown’s most popular restaurants.

“Ernesto really taught me how to see the whole restaurant experience,” Delgado says. “It was such a good lesson. I learned to embrace culture and apply passion, vision and a strong work ethic. He was a real motivation for me. We would meet every day at 6 a.m. to discuss plans.”

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Later, Delgado partnered with a friend to open El Patron on Folsom Boulevard, east of 65th Street. It was a challenging time and a learning experience, but the concept didn’t work. While it was a low point in his life, Delgado’s entrepreneurial spirit didn’t dim and he embarked on his signature Mayahuel restaurant.

At 46, Delgado is working nonstop but always has time for his 13-yearold daughter and a few vacation breaks. His attention remains on the details of each of his restaurants.

You’ll find him greeting guests, refolding napkins and making sure the flowers on the table are fresh.

“All my senses are going all the time,” he says. “I care and I’ll jump in to help. Good is not good enough.

It has to be right. We’re making a statement about our quality and the customer experience. That inspires me every day.”

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The Simple Life FOR CHEF RICK MAHAN, GOOD FOOD DOESN’T HAVE TO BE FANCY

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acramento may be synonymous with farm to fork, but this wasn’t always the case.

Rick Mahan, chef and owner of two restaurants, The Waterboy in Midtown and OneSpeed Pizza in East Sac, is considered a progenitor of Sacramento’s farm-to-fork movement, but he says that’s just how cooking should be done.

“We’re the farm-to-fork capital, whatever that means,” he says with a laugh, “but it’s one of those things that we used to pay attention to long before the phrase came around. Now it’s grown into its own thing.”

The Waterboy is now in its 21st year, and Mahan, who grew up in Carmichael, has come a long way from washing dishes at a family restaurant during high school. “I ended up cooking and loved it. They inspired in me a real sense of pride, and I decided from that point forward to be a chef,” explains Mahan.

At 19, Mahan moved to San Francisco to apprentice as a chef at the St. Francis Hotel, after which he was offered a position at a hotel in Boston.

“But when I was done with my apprenticeship, the hotel was about six months out from being built,” says Mahan. He moved back to Sacramento, where he found a job and

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Rick Mahan is the chef and owner of The Waterboy Restaurant and OneSpeed Pizza. met a woman. As it so often happens, he decided to stay.

After stints at several restaurants, Mahan became chef at Paragary’s, where in 1985 he bought his first box of organic produce.

“We established a relationship with a farmer,” says Mahan. “He would call and say what he had and we’d take what we needed. It was impressive to my young eyes what

he could bring versus a conventional supplier. At the time, this just wasn’t happening, but it made so much sense. This was how they do it in Europe. From that point forward, I made a commitment to support our local farmers as much as I could.”

After Paragary’s, Mahan and a partner successfully opened two restaurants and planned a third, until Mahan opted for a different course.

“My favorite restaurant on the planet always will be Chez Panisse in Berkeley. I’ve probably eaten there 50 or 60 times, and I’ve learned more from that restaurant than any other,” he says. At the time, a Chez Panisse chef was hosting culinary-inspired tours of the Bordeaux region of France. Mahan went on one.

“Going to France changed my life.

“Something happened. I decided that this is the kind of life I want to live.

I like the idea of taking a nap in the afternoon, or having a glass of rosé with lunch,” he says.

Drawn to what he calls the simplicity of life (“the no-BS atmosphere, the lack of pretense”), Mahan returned wanting to cook in a similar spirit. So he sold his interest in the restaurants and took six months to regenerate before opening The Waterboy.

Though a seasoned chef and restaurateur, Mahan admits this venture was unexpectedly difficult.

“Midtown was nothing like it is now,” he explains. “It was a lonely place in the evening, and I totally overestimated my popularity. I figured customers would understand how passionate I am about this, that we’re going to kill it, but the opposite happened.”

After a few successful first weeks, business slowed down, says Mahan.

“We opened with a barebones budget, and didn’t borrow money to open, so over the course of four years I pretty much lost everything: my house, my wife. There were plenty of nights I’d walk out with tears in my eyes, wondering what it would take.”

Around the five-year mark, something clicked, though perhaps

not how Mahan would have wanted.

At the time, two-for-one coupons were popular. But Mahan had said, “If I ever get to the point where I have to run a coupon, I’ll close the restaurant.”

Then, his friend and bookkeeper walked into his office crying and said, “If you don’t run a coupon, we’ll have to close.”

So Mahan did.

“I hated it. But it got people in.”

More than stimulating business, it humbled Mahan.

“There’s a time between your late teens and 30s when you’re as passionate about what you do as you’re ever going to be,” he says.

“The realities of the world haven’t set in yet, but eventually you step back and realize you’re not that great.”

There was a time when he wouldn’t carry certain wines, even if customers liked them, because he didn’t like the winery.

“But over the last seven or eight years,” he says, “I’ve totally released my ego.”

Now, Mahan is holding onto the lessons he learned in France.

“At the end of the day, the only thing I want now is for people to come in, to have a good time and be acknowledged.” And perhaps, as they do in France, enjoy a glass of rosé along the way. “The world would be a nicer place if we had a little bit of wine with lunch.”

There are restaurants that make dinner.

And there are restaurants that make history.

We do both.

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DRAWN TO WHAT HE CALLS THE SIMPLICITY OF LIFE, MAHAN RETURNED WANTING TO COOK IN A SIMILAR SPIRIT.

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A ‘Salt of the Earth’ House RETURNING A FORMER BOARDINGHOUSE TO ITS 1904 GLORY

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he last single-family home on 10th Street before downtown’s law offices and commercial buildings take over the landscape belongs to Mark Merin and Cathleen Williams. When the couple purchased the building 40 years ago, it was being used as a boardinghouse. Even in its rough condition, they appreciated the original Honduran mahogany paneling, box-beam ceilings, hardwood floors with intricate border patterns, airy upstairs and doublehung windows.

Over the decades, the pair completed numerous upgrades to the 1904 Foursquare house, but they retained many of the Craftsman design elements that were blended into the original design.

Foursquare homes were extremely popular in America from 1895 to 1930. As the Antique Home Style website explains, “It wouldn’t have hurt that it was a square house of dependable proportions and solid, honest construction in a country where a square deal was offered by then President Theodore Roosevelt.”

These houses generally had two or two-and-a-half stories. The simple floor plan was two rooms deep by two rooms wide on each floor. Hipped roofs often had a dormer window or a dormer on each plane of the roof.

Full or partial front porches gave growing families a bit more space, while large windows on the front of the house offered a street view of the neighborhood. Often, Craftsman or Prairie design elements were added to the homes. Rooms were generally large, with built-in cabinetry, window seats and buffets.

Merin and Williams purchased the house for $35,000. Their sensibilities matched the feeling of

the neighborhood. According to Williams, having both grown up in cities, they appreciated the “salt of the earth” population.

“We also felt the neighborhood was our place. Neither of us had grown up in suburbs. We related immediately to the vibe of the neighborhood,” she says.

Before moving in, they made a few small but important changes. The floors were worn and the beautiful woodwork paneling had taken a beating. The kitchen hadn’t been revamped in decades. Merin enlisted the help of his dad to refresh the home.

“The first was a quickie,” Merin says. “We painted and patched up the walls. We redid the kitchen, which needed a new dishwasher and a reasonable stove. And then we moved in.”

As the family grew over the years, so did their needs.

During the 1980s, the kitchen received a face-lift, including new cabinets, fixtures and an island. The dining room walls were faux painted. Many of the original windows upstairs were replaced with double insulated ones, which open up and pull out for easier cleaning.

In the 1990s, another major kitchen redo reoriented the kitchen to the backyard.

Counters were topped with elegant white Corian. Adding a family room with French doors brought more light into the back of the house.

“Before, the kitchen had been dreary. The side wall had frosted glass windows, and there was no sense of the outdoors,” says Williams.

A modern heater replaced the asbestos-wrapped boiler in the basement. Air conditioning installed upstairs made the second floor comfy during Sacramento’s summers.

In the 2000s, the pair again enlisted their favorite local architect, Donald Fugina of Donald Joseph Inc., who had designed their other projects.

“He can see within minutes how to do something,” Merin says. “He understands what people want.”

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They wanted a major remodel upstairs. The master bathroom received marble and new fixtures. A small space that had been a screened sleeping porch off the bedroom became a cozy reading area. A balcony on the south side offers a treetop view.

The home’s many little spaces and nooks are perfect for reading, writing or contemplation. The house is decorated with art and items from the couple’s travels.

The full basement is home to Merin’s photographic and stained-glass projects. A wine cellar and a pingpong table provide relaxation and fun.

The house has been a haven for many activists. The front porch is a safe place for those seeking shelter.

“We see our house as a resource and are proud that various hardworking activists have shared the house for a year or more,” Williams says. “Though we are surrounded by parking lots and continuous droning from cars on Highway 5, the house has given solidity and context to our lives 10 blocks from the river.”

The Merin-Williams home will be featured on Preservation Sacramento’s 42nd annual Historic Home Tour on Sunday, Sept. 17. The tour will showcase Sacramento’s oldest existing residential neighborhood, Alkali Flat. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 on the day of the tour. For the most discounted price ($10), volunteer for a two-hour shift. To volunteer, send an email with “volunteer” as the subject to preservation.sacramento@gmail.com. For tickets or more information, go to PreservationSacramento.org/hometour.

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Billion-Dollar Budget CITY SPENDING TO INCREASE 25 PERCENT OVER FIVE YEARS

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irst, there’s the headline number: The city is poised, for the first time in its history, to spend more than $1 billion in the fiscal year that begins on June 30.

Total general-fund spending (which pays for police, fire, etc.) is set to hit $450 million next year, while “enterprise” spending (primarily, the utilities department) consumes $584.2 million.

The city expects to employ 4,552 people next year, a slight increase over the current year, but an increase of 720 positions from five years ago.

The city expects to employ 130 fewer people than it did in 2008.

City officials are forecasting that the budget will sink into major deficit beginning in just two years, when a general-fund operating deficit of $11 million is expected to grow to $26 million by 2022. You would

expect that a city manager, facing the prospect of such red ink, would propose a city budget for next year that calls for major cuts in spending to head off the coming fiscal ditch. But you would be wrong. Fiscal discipline is a very foreign, even suspect concept at City Hall these days. In fact, city manager Howard Chan’s recently released budget forecast anticipates sharp increases in general-fund spending on city operations over each

of the next several years, rising from $412.9 million this year to $515.9 million in 2023, a 25 percent increase in operations spending over five years—a spending pace that’s more than twice the inflation anticipated during that period.

But here’s the sobering kicker: The city’s projected spending levels and deficits don’t factor in any increases in employee pay even though all but two of the city’s many labor contracts expire on June 30. Will the city council exercise some budget discipline in the pending labor negotiations? There is no reason to expect it will. Pay hikes agreed to in new labor pacts will not only deepen the city’s red ink in the near term; they’ll deepen the city’s already-ballooning pension liabilities since pension payouts are determined by the salaries of employees in their final few years of employment. (More about the city’s growing pension problems in a minute.)

Further, the city’s budget forecasts assume that Sacramento will avoid any recession during the entire fiveyear forecast period. Considering that we’re already in the ninth year of the current expansion, staff is assuming that we’ll experience 14 years of uninterrupted economic growth, a feat that would be unprecedented in American economic history. (The longest economic expansion in U.S. history was 10 years, from 1991 to 2001.)

SPEND IT ALL The city council has been on a spending binge this year, approving ad hoc spending as the whim strikes it and paying lip service to the annual budget process that requires making hard choices among competing spending priorities in the face of limited resources. The council has decided it wants to have it all and it wants it all now.

There’s a substantial budget surplus from the prior fiscal year?

Spend it on the mayor’s new homeless program. Want a new program to fund entrepreneurial art endeavors? Fund it. Complaints of deteriorating morale in the police department? Fork over $1.3 million in one-time bonuses to police. How about $950,000 more each

year for internships for high school students? Good idea. And $300,000 annually on a new legal defense fund for illegal immigrants? Sure, why not?

What’s so astonishing (and infuriating) is that each of these spending decisions entailed virtually no discussion of the city’s looming budget deficits. By caving in to proponents of the cause du jour, the council has abandoned any claim to budget responsibility. If Sacramento families spent money the way the city council has been spending taxpayer money this year, we’d see families lining up around the block at the federal bankruptcy court downtown.

Why are the city council and staff acting so recklessly in the face of the coming budget meltdown? It has everything to do with the scheduled expiration of the Measure U one-halfpercent “temporary” sales tax hike in March 2019. (It was approved by voters in 2012.) The implicit, highly cynical strategy of the council is to make the budget problems of the city so dire without the $43.7 million of revenues that Measure U is currently bringing in that city voters will be stampeded into voting to extend Measure U when the council puts it before city voters next year.

MEASURE U STRATEGY The more the council increases the city’s baseline spending, the more painful the loss of Measure U revenues will appear to voters next year. It’s one of the reasons the council has consistently rejected city staff’s repeated advice to set aside a portion of Measure U’s revenues to fund a “transition reserve” that would soften the budgetary impact of Measure U’s expiration. The council doesn’t want to soften the impact of Measure U’s expiration. It wants to double down on it. It’s a dangerous political strategy that does a grave disservice to the city voters who trusted city leaders when they were assured that Measure U would be a temporary tax to help the city over the hit to city revenues caused by the recession.

But city tax revenues are booming again and have been for several years. The two major drivers of city

revenues—the property tax and the sales tax, which together make up 49 percent of all city revenue—are expected to grow 5 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively, next year, according to city officials. Total general-fund city tax revenues— excluding Measure U taxes—are now 15 percent higher than they were in 2012 when Measure U was approved by voters and are projected to continue to grow at double the rate of inflation.

With city revenues from all sources booming, the council is breaking faith with city voters on Measure U and trying to frighten voters into renewing a tax hike that has outlived its original justification.

Keep in mind that Measure U was sold to city voters in 2012 as a measure that was projected to bring in $28 million per year for six years.

But within a year of Measure U’s passage, local media outlets were reporting on how the city had grossly underestimated how much it stood to collect under Measure U (“Measure U Provides Unexpected Windfall for Sacramento,” The Sacramento Bee, Feb. 14, 2015). In the first full year of the Measure U tax hike, the city collected $41.5 million in Measure U taxes—48 percent more than the city had represented to voters. Under the city’s proposed budget for next year, Measure U is projected to bring in $46.5 million, 66 percent more than the city had originally projected. Is it any wonder why many people are skeptical of the stories told to them by city officials?

It was an open secret at City Hall, from the day after Measure U was passed in 2012, that the city council would ask voters to extend Measure U in 2018. Councilmembers were overheard joking about it. The only people who believe in “temporary” tax increases anymore are small children and the congenitally gullible.

THE CITY’S PENSION NIGHTMARE But it’s hard to overstate the problems presented by the city’s unfunded pension liabilities. They’re huge and growing. With the recent decision of the CalPERS board to reduce forecasted earnings on its

portfolio from 7.5 percent to 7 percent, CalPERS has put the city on notice that its pension costs are poised to explode. According to CalPERS, the city will experience a $62 million increase in its pension costs over the next five years, increasing from $67 million currently to an unsustainable $129 million. Given the eight-year phase-in of the CalPERS action, the city’s annual pension bill is projected to hit $148 million in 2025. But that’s not the whole hoary story. Most pension experts consider CalPERS’ 7 percent earnings forecast to be a politically driven estimate that is still grossly overstated. Many believe that a 6 percent earnings assumption is more reasonable. If CalPERS’ actual earnings lag 1 percent below its latest 7 percent return assumption, the city’s annual pension bill could hit a bankruptcy-inducing $300 million.

Just how big is the city’s unfunded pension liability? Well, according to a June 30, 2016, city financial statement, the liability has increased from around $500 million to $650 million, but that was based on a presumed 7.65 percent earnings assumption. Based on the new 7 percent CalPERS earning assumption, the city’s unfunded pension liability is probably several hundred million dollars higher than that today. We know that at a 6.65 percent earnings assumption, the city’s unfunded pension liability would blow past $1 billion. At a 6 percent earnings level, it would approach $1.5 billion.

Within the next six years, absent pension reform, the city’s annual pension bill is expected to increase to 24.2 percent of the city’s total generalfund spending (up from 14.9 percent next year), crowding out a huge swath of general-fund services in its wake.

A REFORM PLAN Make no mistake: The city is, indeed, facing dire financial straits in future years. But its budget difficulties are, to a large extent, of its own making. There are a number of clear actions the city can take to deal with them without needlessly frightening voters into renewing Measure U. But the actions will require major changes in the ways the city operates and

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will take political courage to carry them out in the face of entrenched opposition.

First, the mayor should set aside his philosophical opposition to contracting out government services when to do so would significantly lower taxpayer costs and/or provide higher levels of service. The city’s own management consultants have advised the city to consider outsourcing ambulance services and residential garbage pickup. Basic park maintenance, parking operations, convention center and theater operations and fleet management are also attractive outsourcing candidates.

Second, the council must rein in unsustainable increases in salaries, supplemental pay items and overtime until total compensation of employees (salary plus all benefits) comes back into alignment with comparable pay packages offered in the private sector.

It’s unfair to taxpayers and ruinous to budgets for local government

to consistently pay above market labor rates. By adopting a system of “managed competition,” selected city departments can be required to compete head-to-head with private contractors for work currently performed by the city, a process that has served to reduce costs in cities where it’s been implemented.

Third, the city must, through executive action and tough labor negotiating, finally get a handle on multiple layers of waste in the fire department, including eliminating the costly requirement that all ambulance workers be cross-trained as firefighters, the requirement that a fire engine accompany every ambulance call and overstaffing fire engines outside of the urban core.

Fourth, a pension case currently before the California Supreme Court is expected by many to result in a ruling that would grant cities the flexibility to rein in their currently unsustainable pension costs. The

court may repeal the so-called “California rule,” which currently prevents governments from modifying future, unearned pension benefits after an employee is hired. If the California rule is repealed, the city should move quickly to reduce pension benefits for its existing employees with respect to pension benefits not yet earned or vested, while preserving reasonable pension benefits at a level the city could afford without slashing public services. Every city labor deal currently being negotiated should permit to reopen negotiations in the event the court repeals the California rule.

Fifth, the city’s $363 million liability for retiree health care benefits is coming home to roost as more and more baby boomers retire from the city workforce. A trust fund set up to cover such costs is 93 percent unfunded. The city should phase out such benefits for higher-income retirees, as well as for lower-income

retirees who’re eligible for subsidies under Obamacare or health care tax credits under Trumpcare.

Sixth, with total city liabilities more than doubling in the past five years, from $1.2 billion to $2.5 million, the city badly needs a time-out on new borrowings. Once existing city debt is paid down and city revenues grow organically to the point where resumed borrowing is prudent, the moratorium on new debt could be lifted.

Finally, the council needs to develop the discipline to “Just Say No” to the endless line of special pleaders who are always, but always, asking for a chunk of the city treasury.

Craig Powell is a retired 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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f you have access to a computer or a mobile phone, look up @chrisapappas on Instagram. That petite, stylish gamine you see smiling demurely or exuberantly from every shot, wearing stunning designer clothes, is Chrisa Pappas Sioukas, a Sacramento native and part of the famed Pappas real estate clan. She’s making a splash on the international fashion scene through Instagram and her blog (also called Chrisa’s Cut).

“I’ve loved fashion since I was a little girl,” Pappas Sioukas says by phone after returning from a whirlwind trip to Europe for Paris Fashion Week. (She attended six fashion shows in five days.) “I always knew it was something I wanted to do, but I struggled with what area to focus on. When I was little, I thought I wanted to be a fashion designer, but as I grew up, I got more interested in my family business. When I started working for them, I immediately got into the design aspect of real estate, which brought out the fashion in me again.”

If you’re wondering how a Sacramento fashionista could make herself known thousands of miles away in a world capital of chic like Paris, Pappas Sioukas’ secret is simple: the internet. After a move into a new home in the Wilhaggin area with her husband and two kids (a 7-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son), the fashion collector realized just how much merchandise she’d accumulated over the years. So she did what anyone with a closet bursting at the seams would do: She sold her highly coveted pieces (including hard-to-find items scooped up on trips overseas) to friends and family from her living room. When enough people told her that they would love to shop her closet more often, the idea dawned on her to widen her circle of friends through social media.

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Pappas Sioukas keeps an edited inventory of pieces in a private showroom in the Arden area that’s open by appointment. But her biggest retail audience is undoubtedly her

SHE’S MAKING A SPLASH ON THE INTERNATIONAL FASHION SCENE THROUGH INSTAGRAM AND HER BLOG

26,000 Instagram followers and readers of her delightfully candid and beautifully photographed blog. On the blog, you can follow in her fashionable footsteps as she attends events like Paris Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week and special luncheons for designers like Gn, who’s now a friend.

“I like to post what my followers want to see,” Pappas Sioukas says.

“I love attending special events and writing about them and sharing them with everyone. When I attended Paris Fashion Week for the first time last year, I posted photos for fun on my personal Facebook account. So many of my friends and acquaintances told me, ‘We had the best time following you—we got to live vicariously.’ My eyes were opened. I’m used to being very private and not putting anything out there. I don’t want to come off as bragging or boasting about this fortunate thing I’m able to partake in. But the fact that I can give people an insight into the fashion world and entertain them is wonderful. We’re not doing anything too serious. We’re not breaking any boundaries. But I

love investing in fashion and sharing it with people. There’s an art to putting an outfit together.”

Pappas Sioukas has that art down to a science. And she doesn’t plan on quitting her outfit alchemy anytime soon. In fact, she hopes to focus on attending events and taking her followers along for the ride—something she can do more now thanks to time and a tight-knit family.

“Being out of the country takes a lot of effort to plan,” she admits. “I

definitely couldn’t have done this a year or two ago when the kids were little. It’s usually a tag-team effort with my husband of ‘who’s going to watch the kids?’ But I’m very lucky that my family has been so supportive. I don’t know what the future holds, but so far it’s been a very enjoyable ride.”

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Tax Me LOCAL RESIDENTS APPEAR WILLING TO KEEP MEASURE U

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acramento residents are unique in many ways, but especially when it comes to taxes. They like to pay them.

In fact, they wish taxes were higher.

They want to pay even more.

In news that must have delighted City Council members and top bureaucrats in the city manager’s office, a poll by the public opinion firm FM3 indicated voters love the halfcent sales tax called Measure U. FM3 pollsters questioned 500 registered voters who live in the city.

Questions concerned quality of life, the economy, public services and the city’s budget.

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The poll was designed to help guide city manager Howard Chan and Mayor Darrell Steinberg when they put together the new budget.

The budget belongs among Chan’s responsibilities, but the mayor takes a leadership role. Chan’s budget can’t become law until the City Council approves it.

Practically everybody does polling these days, and many polls don’t mean much. They should be read with an awareness of the motivations behind the poll. Years ago, a wise old political pro told me, “The first question you should ask when anyone shows you polling is: Who paid for it?”

There are no exceptions to that rule. Even the most objective and respected pollsters like to have a reasonable idea about what conclusions their clients hope to see.

In the case of the city’s poll by FM3, the answer to the question of who paid is straightforward: The city paid. And sure enough, City Hall

received some highly encouraging answers for its money.

Measure U was sold to voters in 2012 as a temporary emergency measure to restore services wiped out by the recession. But that storyline quickly evolved into something more eternal.

Back in 2012, police officers were being laid off and some fire stations closed on a rotating basis.

Park maintenance was chopped to minimum levels and weeds grew wild.

Measure U raised about $30 million per year to help restore services and balance the budget.

Every City Councilmember knew Measure U was a windfall that, in a perfect world, would continue forever.

But the law was written to sunset in 2019. Councilmembers immediately began thinking of ways to extend it and pay for other things, including city pensions.

They talked constantly about the benefits and stabilities brought about

by Measure U. They figured city residents wouldn’t notice the halfcent sales tax but would appreciate the $30 million budget assistance plan. And they were right. The FM3 poll suggests voters are eager to pay even higher sales taxes.

The polling company asked voters if they would support making Measure U permanent and raising it to threequarters of a penny or even to one full penny. Seventy-three percent said yes to the three-quarter-cent raise.

Astonishingly, 76 percent said they preferred a full one-cent sales tax.

Voters were also fine with keeping Measure U at one-half cent but making it permanent—72 percent said sure, go ahead.

What they didn’t like as much was another extension. Only 65 percent said yes to extending the one-halfcent rate to 2025.

The results mean Sacramento voters are all but certain to see a permanent one-cent sales tax on the

BACK IN 2012, POLICE OFFICERS WERE BEING LAID OFF AND SOME FIRE STATIONS CLOSED ON A ROTATING BASIS. PARK MAINTENANCE WAS CHOPPED TO MINIMUM LEVELS AND WEEDS GREW WILD.

Reducing homelessness is important to Sacramento voters.

ballot in 2018. Don’t bet against its passage.

The poll produced several other interesting conclusions. Reducing homelessness has become a top priority for voters. The poll indicates 72 percent of voters consider the homeless problem “most or very important.” That’s up from 58 percent in February 2015.

Steinberg may have influenced the numbers with his emphasis on homelessness. He’s made indigent housing a cornerstone of his administration. But the number of homeless people on downtown streets appears to be multiplying, especially around X and 13th streets and under freeways. Voter anxiety over Sacramento’s homeless issue is reflected in the poll.

“I’m not surprised the constituents’ interest in homelessness has risen,” says Emily Halcon, the city’s Homeless Services coordinator. “This winter, especially with the weather

events, homelessness was more visible to the general public, and when the city engaged in such activities as the warming centers, it drew even more attention. Homelessness has been a priority for the Council for the past few years.”

Public safety is always a top priority for voters, but the Sacramento survey shows a more aesthetic side to community affairs. A whopping 40 percent said they want to see more public money spent on arts facilities and programs—up from 26 percent in 2015.

The arts can be a tough sell with taxpayers, especially when the conversation is dominated by public safety and homelessness. But in Sacramento, voters apparently believe there’s need for culture and beauty among the grim realities.

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Art Preview

GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JULY

Tim Collom Gallery’s second annual summer group exhibit runs through Aug. 3, with more than 20 local artists sharing their images of summer. Participating artists include Tim Collom, Cameron Walker, Deborah Ashley, Jill Allyn Stafford, Anthony Montanino, Shirley Hazlett, Keith Bachmann, Bob Miller and Patris. Shown above: “Lake Natoma Inlet #2” by Sue Chapman.

915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com

WAL Public Market Gallery shows the work of Oak Park’s Sarah Golden in July. A concurrent exhibit will take place at Oak Park Brewing Company. Shown above: a group of her colorful paintings.

WAL, 1104 R St.; Oak Park Brewing Company, 3514 Broadway

Through Sept. 1, Sparrow Gallery presents “Dissent,” a group show featuring the work of Laurie Stevens, Nadine Robbins and other nationally known artists. Sparrow’s new microART gallery features the work of Nicky Ruxton through Aug. 4. Shown above: Ruxton’s creative-reuse work, which fuses collage and jewelry design with found-object assemblage.

1021 R St.; sparrowgallerysacramento.com

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Elliott Fouts Gallery presents a one-man show of the work of Micah Crandall-Bear through the end of July. Shown above: “Bios II.” 1831 P St.; efgallery.com

Rebecca Garrison THE HEALING ARTS

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ebecca Garrison, an appointed member of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, reflects on her journey from gallerist to volunteer arts advocate.

How did you first get involved with SMAC? The arts commission played a role in my gallery days long before I totally appreciated its role in the larger community. (Garrison ran the Sacramento Temporary Contemporary Gallery from 2009 to 2014.) As a new gallerist with no experience, getting insurance to cover artwork was a challenge. Through SMAC’s nonprofit arm, I was able to purchase insurance for several months until a private insurance company was comfortable with the risk. Then-County Supervisor Roberta MacGlashen approached

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me about serving on the commission as her representative. I was elected co-chair in 2014, just as I was closing the gallery. Taking on those new responsibilities at SMAC was a good bridge for staying engaged with the arts community.

Why do you think SMAC is so important?

I’ve come to value the role of the commission in more than just the arts community. Last year, we hosted a public meeting to help guide our race and cultural equity policy development. One gentleman from the audience said something to the effect of, “Art heals, and my community needs to be healed.” That hit me over the head about the need to make the arts accessible to everyone, in every part of the city and county. On a good day, the commission’s role can be somewhat invisible—quietly providing a steady foundation of support and access. We’re celebrating our 40th year of existence this year, and in the last 40 years, the county’s population has doubled. The commission’s public arts collection is now worth more than $25 million, and the arts and culture sector is a more than $100 million industry in Sacramento County. But in the past

decade, we’ve seen arts education suffer in our public schools. SMAC’s overall budget has decreased and our grant program has been reduced from $700,000 to $422,000. As needs have increased, our resources have decreased significantly. Clearly, this needs attention.

What does art mean to you?

I’ve given up trying to define “the arts.” Art is certainly found at the Crocker Art Museum, but it’s also a crayon drawing on a refrigerator. It’s a philharmonic performance and a busker on the street. I guess art is in the eye of the beholder, but there’s no denying that art has critical value to a community, to a society. It adds to our enjoyment. It helps us cope. It prompts critical thinking. It helps us connect with each other.

How do we support the arts?

The first step is to be and stay aware of the value of the arts. Once your mindset is on the power of the arts (however you define them), I think you will know how you personally can support the arts, whether it’s to become a season ticket holder to a theater company, tip a street musician or drop off art supplies at a senior center. Now more than ever, there’s an economic reason

for supporting and nurturing the arts.

Those cool places that we compete with for jobs—places like Austin, Texas, and Portland—are investing more in their artist communities than we are. Per capita, Austin invests around $9 in the arts. In Portland, it’s around $6. In Sacramento, it’s less than a dollar. We’ve got to do better, and we’ve got to do better in a regional way.

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From Field to Doorstep THIS CAPAY FARM IS REINVENTING THE CSA BOX

Capay Organic Farm.

Photo courtesy of Bill Goidell.

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ears ago, my venture into buying CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), which came in the form of a heavy wooden box filled with produce and delivered by a handsome (ruggedly so, of course) farmer in a beat-up truck, wasn’t particularly successful. I didn’t know what to do with most of the vegetables that arrived every week— kohlrabi, fennel and daikon were not standard fare in our house then—but I liked supporting a local farm.

My taste buds, along with CSA’s skills in marketing and production, have evolved over time. Computers do a lot of the heavy lifting now, managing and processing huge amounts of information for farmers, and the internet has revolutionized the way people buy and consume produce from local farms. Today, customers can choose what they want in their CSA boxes, including artisan products like honey, a bouquet of flowers, organic milk and eggs. Log

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The Barnes-Barsotti family in 1985

into your account and you can add and delete items, set your delivery frequency, learn about the farm and the farmers, and find recipes. Box types are as varied as the produce they contain, ranging from traditional CSA to organic snack packs.

“Our company has broken the mold of the old production chain and [it has been] able to deliver something different,” says Thaddeus Barsotti.

“We’re going to make it really easy for you to support local agriculture.” He’s one of the co-owners and the co-CEO and chief farmer at Capay Organic and Farm Fresh to You, a CSA and home delivery service. With his

brothers Noah Barnes and Freeman Barsotti, Thaddeus has grown their mother’s tiny CSA in Capay Valley into a produce powerhouse, delivering to thousands of customers throughout California. (Farm Fresh to You partners with Suzie’s Farm to deliver local produce in Southern California.)

Twenty-five years ago, Kathleen Barsotti began packing produce grown on her farm into boxes and delivering them locally. The farm, Capay Organic, was founded by Kathleen and her then-husband, Martin Barnes. Thaddeus—their middle child, who was born in the family’s farmhouse—remembers

helping with chores when he was growing up, including selling produce at farmers markets and filling CSA boxes.

Today, bustling workers, with assistance from sophisticated software, large computer monitors, an efficient assembly line and forklifts, handle the packing duties in a clean, climate-controlled warehouse in West Sacramento. Delivery trucks rush the freshly packed boxes to distribution hubs and local porches. Rows of customer service agents, facing computer screens, field calls in the office.

Here’s a simplified version of the way it works. If your box is set for delivery on Wednesday in the Sacramento region, most of the produce will be picked in Capay Valley on Monday. Some produce, onions and potatoes, for example, is picked ahead of time and stored. On Monday night, the produce travels to the facility in West Sac. On Tuesday, workers pack it into boxes, sorting everything and putting it on trucks. On Tuesday evening, a delivery driver quietly places the box on your doorstep.

On Wednesday morning, open the door and there’s your box. It’s like Christmas and your birthday rolled into one—minus a ruggedly handsome farmer in a beat-up truck.

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This Month @ the Market

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

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ZUCCHINI

PEARS

NECTARINES

These fast-growing squash are low in calories, contain no saturated fats or cholesterol, and are a good source of protein, vitamin A and other vitamins.

To eat: Slice horizontally, brush with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and grill over a hot fire.

Pears are packed with dietary fiber, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins. They are low in calories, too!

To eat: Slice, top with a dollop of blue cheese and wrap with prosciutto for an elegant hors d’oeuvre.

Related to peaches, these delicious stone fruits are full of antioxidants and provide some B-complex vitamins and minerals.

To eat: Combine with raspberries to make a summery crumble or cobbler.

CUCUMBERS

TOMATOES

WATERMELON

This low-calorie vegetable has a surprisingly high amount of vitamin K. The peel is a great source of dietary fiber.

To eat: Peel and seed, then chop coarsely and combine with yogurt, garlic and lemon juice to make the zingy Greek dip known as tzatziki.

This summer treat—practically synonymous with Sacramento!—contains massive amounts of lycopene.

According to a study from The University of Montreal, a diet rich in tomatoes may help reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer.

To eat: Slice, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper for the perfect summer salad.

Low in calories, watermelon contains dietary fiber, potassium, and vitamins C and A. Drink watermelon juice after a grueling workout.

To eat: For a refreshing salad, serve with arugula and feta.

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For four hours on Sunday, May 21, a 2-mile commercial stretch of Broadway was a car-free paradise, thanks to Sacramento’s inaugural Sunday Street.

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Home Goods HER SHOPPING OBSESSION IS YOUR GAIN

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Ruthie McRonald is the owner of Haberdasherie in Midtown.

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or anyone who knows Ruthie McRonald, hearing that she finally realized her dream of opening a shop—the charming Haberdasherie at J and 23rd streets— is anything but surprising.

“I’ve talked about opening a shop for years,” says McRonald, who went from stay-at-home mom to wine industry expert when she wrote a letter to the late Patty Bogle of Bogle Vineyards offering her help in whatever customer service roles the winery might have available.

Bogle hired her on the spot and McRonald went on to manage tasting rooms and wine clubs in Napa and Amador counties before opening Haberdasherie in April.

“I have a love of beautiful things in my house, so the store is a collection of anything I find that I myself would love to have,” she says. “Nothing goes in the store if I don’t love it.”

McRonald loves to shop, which she says she does “all day long” looking for interesting items to add to her shelves. Her best friend, who works next door at Mojo Salon and helped McRonald find the space for Haberdasherie, also enjoys the thrill of the hunt. The pair spent three days in February perusing the 14 floors of a popular Los Angeles market to buy the store’s starting inventory.

The result is an eclectic mix of items including candles, hostess gifts, napkins, pillows, tea towels, throws, vases, products from Oakland-based artist Rae Dunn, tea sets, beach bags and more. It seems only fitting that the ever-shifting inventory should bear a name as whimsical as Haberdasherie.

“The word ‘haberdashery’ was traditionally used in Europe for sewing notions,” McRonald explains.

“It then morphed into Europe’s version of a five-and-dime in the 13th century, then into an apothecary, then into a store that sold hats, then men’s hats, then men’s clothing.

In my mind, it means anything you want. Plus, it’s fun to say.”

Haberdasherie is at 2318 J St. For more information, visit haberdasherie. net.

AS THE SPARROW FLIES When I catch up with Cynthia Lou on the phone, she apologizes if she sounds out of breath.

“I’m just doing one final sweep to make sure everything’s clean,” she explains.

Lou is the owner of Sparrow Gallery, an artistic venture that was born three years ago this month on K Street and that just moved to a new location on R Street below fellow gallery ARTHOUSE. Hence the cleaning spree.

Though Lou hails from New York, she graduated from McClatchy High School (after living in Asia for some of high school) and from Sacramento State University with a degree in studio art with a concentration in watercolor.

“I actually haven’t done much art since I started working,” Lou admits. “Once I came to the gallery side, talking to artists and educating clients became my art.”

The mission of Sparrow Gallery is to give Northern California artists a place to show their work—a niche Lou

YOU GET A LIVING LEGACY OF SOMEONE WHO MADE THAT ARTWORK WITH THEIR HANDS.

thought was missing as she came up through the gallery scene.

“There are so many good artists here who don’t have a chance to get shown because other galleries look outside of Sacramento for artists,” Lou says. “Once I opened, people started introducing me to friends of friends who were doing exciting or different things—styles and thematics that should be shown. So that’s been my main focus.”

With the recent move to R Street into a space that’s double the size of the old location, Sparrow will be able to accommodate more artists, including a permanent, rotating exhibit of Robert-Jean Ray’s micro art. She also plans to widen the gallery’s geographical reach to include artists from up and down the West Coast. Lou is excited to be on the front lines of the artistic renaissance that’s occurring along the R Street Corridor.

“It’s really exciting to see the art environment evolve,” she says.

“It was a stagnant, party-town atmosphere during Second Saturday for a few years. But I think in the last three years it’s started to revert back

to where it began—to people who want to see art. There’s a new pool of young art collectors, and it’s the gallery’s job to educate them. Sure, you can buy something from Ikea or Pier 1, but if you buy from a gallery, you can support someone who’s local.

You get a living legacy of someone who made that artwork with their hands. I want people to understand that you don’t have to spend a lot on art. You can spend less than $500 on regional art and it will be good.”

But most of all, Lou wants the climate of arts positivity to continue to grow.

“All of us in the arts community have to look out for each other,” she says.

Through August, Sparrow Gallery will feature a nationwide group show based on artists’ reactions to current issues through August. For more information, visit sparrowgallerysacramento.com.

Sparrow Gallery is at 1021 R St.

Sparrow Gallery owner Cynthia Lou

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