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The East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce held a mixer January 24th featuring Hawks Provisions and Public House, the Chamber’s New Business of the Year. According to the Chamber,“Public House features a gastropub style restaurant and bar, next door, Provisions offers everything you need to make your day a little sweeter, with artisan espresso drinks and fresh baked goods.� “Hawks� is located at 1525 Alhambra Blvd.

For more information visit www.hawkspublichouse.com. “Danzas Latin-Americans�

Millennium Series: Mexico City Wind Quintet will be held at Capistrano Hall at CSUS, Feb 1, 2017, 7:30 p.m. Per CSUS website, this quintet is “Mexico’s most distinguished wind ensemble.�

This will be their first appearance in Northern California.

The concert “will feature a rich array of music including, Astor Piazzolla’s Teme de Maria.� Tickets are $20 general, $15 student/senior.

Highly acclaimed pianist Yoonie Han will perform Goyescas Feb 18th at 7:30 p.m. in the Capistrano Concert hall. CSUS website reports, “In 2009, Ms. Han was honored with the Gawon Music Award as the ‘most brilliant pianist aged 17 to 31 of any nationality who possesses the most promising potential for global prominence.’ �

Tickets are $20 general, $15 student/senior.

DaDas Art Gallery and Boutique (3655 J Street) is hosting some interesting events in February:

• Feb 5th 1-4 p.m. Succulent Workshop. “Create a tabletop garden with succulents and cactiâ€? using cups, high heels, boots. $45. • Feb 11th 3-5 p.m. MicroARTCollection - Linda Nunes and Linda Welch • Feb 11th 3-5 p.m. Augustus Issac. “California-based photographer who chases the light. His photos have depth using light, shadows, and colors. He believes that light can add an emotion to a photo and hope that emotion can spark an interest that, invites the viewer of his work, to stare at his photos, and find a connection to what he sees as beautiful.â€?

Fancy Feet Academy has expanded its East Sac location in the former Crepe Escape which experienced a devastating fire. Located at 712 57th Street, the academy claims it is an “environment where ages 2- teens can express and grow through music and dance. The studio provides both a competitive and non-competitive environment where dancers are encouraged to open their minds and hearts to dance.�

For more information call 451-4900 or visit their website at FancyFeetDance.net.

On Friday, Feb. 17 and Saturday, Feb. 18, there will be a series of free community events. See the What’s Happening calendar for more information.

And what better biz could be next to a dance studio????

Royal Hush Massage of course! Located immediate-

ly next to Fancy Feet Academy. Call 916-589-7778 or visit www.royalhush.com.

A new concept in dining is coming, “Feast� by Canon. According to their website, “FEAST is a pop-up dining experience by Canon, a new restaurant scheduled to open in East Sacramento, Spring 2017.

The concept behind FEAST is to create a social and festive dinner party in an unexpectedyet-cool location. Led by Chef Brad Cecchi, FEAST will include six creative, delicious and hearty dishes, served family style. Along with dinner, guests will have the option to purchase generous and ever-flowing pours of wine or beer at an additional cost.� More to come soon....’ Update: Compton’s new hot deli completion date has been pushed out to late February. I’m really looking forward to it and will keep you posted!

Co-op competition? Raley’s wants to build a new organic market along the R Street Corridor named Market 5One-5. I contacted Raley’s for an update and was told, “We are working through the approval process and hope to open in late Spring. We will be able to offer an update to the community in the coming months.� Stay tuned!

Hats off ! To Jeannine who works at the Camellia Post Office. Jeannine laid out fruit and snacks for patrons and staff on December 14th. I visited the following day to hear rave reviews of customers. Talk about holiday spirit!

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Duke’s Up Love is Love protestors decried hate speech from Twelve Rounds owner, loyal customers support his free speech

By Pat Lynch

Beverly Kearney felt the January early evening chill as she protested Twelve Rounds Brewing on 57th Street in East Sacramento, Thursday, Jan 26. Kearney, organizer of a looseknit group called Love is Love, nodded at a police car parked nearby, obviously summoned for the demonstration. “We’re peaceful,” she said. She explained that she felt compelled to show her objections to Twelve Rounds owner Daniel Murphy’s now locally infamous Facebook posts condemning the Women’s March, assailing Muslims, deriding Hillary Clinton and calling Barak Obama a traitor. Murphy’s posts were “bad enough,” she said, “But when we saw the number of hateful posts supporting him, basically targeting everyone who wasn’t a white male, we knew we should do something.”

“I greatly admire her advocacy,” said fellow protestor, Christine Collopy, who had discovered Kearney’s group through Facebook.

Some passing cars honked in support, others turned into the Twelve Rounds parking area. Collopy said she didn’t like Murphy’s anti-Women’s March posts.

“I went to that march. It was awesome, life-changing.”

Did they think publicly objecting to Murphy’s opinions would escalate tension and divisiveness? “You have to push back against hate speech,” Kearney said. “Or else it sinks in. People start to believe it.”

A car tooted and Adele Sakler raised a protest banner in salute.

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tering Twelve Rounds. “He thought I was a protestor,” the woman said. “He was rude.” Unwilling to elaborate, she quickly left the area.

It was toasty inside Twelve Rounds. Patrons filled the tables, most in quiet conversation.

When approached a middle-aged couple said they would answer questions but wouldn’t give their last names. They were Tina and Don. Don, affable and eager to talk without attribution, said the protestors had a right to assemble. “As long as nobody hurts anybody,” he added. He said people feared the backlash to Murphy’s posts.

“But he had a right to say what he thinks,” Tina said.

“He’s entitled to his views.”

The couple considered the issue of free speech, said Murphy was exercising it when he posted on Facebook, just as the protestors exercised it now.

Both said they wholeheartedly supported Evelyn Beatrice Hall’s famous utterance, “I disagree with what you have to say but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

They said they also supported and understood Murphy’s decision to retreat from public comment and withdraw to do some “self reflection.”

“He made a wise choice there,” Tina said.

Recently Murphy’s prospects were injured when the Red Rabbit Kitchen and Bar, Pangea Bier Café, and Hook and Ladder decided not to carry Twelve Rounds beer. The Red Rabbit also withdrew from another food operation plan with Twelve Rounds. Pangea Bier Cafe (which hasn’t served Twelve

Rounds since 2015) owner Rob Archie said of Murphy’s heated posts, “You don’t ever want to hear people talk like that.”

When Tina and Don were asked if it was good business practice for Murphy to post views antithetical to his generally liberal East Sacramento customer base, Tina said, “I don’t know. We’re from Carmichael.”

Back on the street it was colder and darker. Beverly Kearney bent over, lettering a sign. A new protestor had joined the Love is Love group. He was Scott BrillLehn. “I’m an East Sac resident,” he said. “I’m a father of three. I don’t want businesses that support hate in my neighborhood.”

When asked if they wouldn’t all rather enjoy an artisanal beer in a warm pub than wave signs in the cold, Brill-Lehn said, “No. Because then I’d be participating in Murphy’s message.”

“I won’t support that hate,” Sakler said.

Kearney looked up from lettering her sign. “Hate is hate,” she said. “I don’t want any of it. That includes not picking on Trump’s son. I don’t agree with anything Trump says, but nobody should be insulting his ten year old boy.”

How did Trump become involved in this specific, local event?

“Everything’s about Trump,” an onlooker said drily.

“He encouraged the climate for this,” Brill-Lehn said. He inclined his head toward the entrance to Twelve Rounds Brewing.

A car came by and tooted support and the Love is Love protestors grinned and waved back.

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Where the Wild Things Are: Sacramento Philharmonic and Orchestra to narrate Max’s journey with music at McKinley Library By: LAURA I. WInn

For over 50 years, Max, King of the Wild Things, has been one of the nation’s most beloved children’s characters. His imaginative adventure to a mysterious jungle has delighted generations of children, and on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 1 p.m., McKinley Library invites those generations – young and old – to escape once more to Where the Wild Things Are, this time with help from the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera.

Julian C. Dixon, the Senior Director of Operations and Community Partnerships for the Sacramento Philharmonic and Orchestra, will narrate Max’s journey as the SP&O trio – harp, viola and flute – accom-

pany the words and pictures with musical excerpts from Mozart, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartok, Gounod and Ravel. After the story, children are invited to make monster masks and slime and join the band with instruments in the wild rumpus march. Costumes are encouraged.

The free event is part of Cre8tive Concerts, a Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera initiative to bring classical music to the public in eight key districts. Dixon designed the Where the Wild Things Are performance as a way to demonstrate how music is another form of storytelling.

“Music has a way of creating atmosphere and new dimensions.

It can magnify the story for a kid

and leave a deeper impression,” he explained.

For Dixon, it’s also an opportunity to step into the character of Max and transform into the boy he related to as a child “creating worlds” in his bedroom with his brothers and sisters on rainy days. “I related to the art and imagination of a room coming to life,” he said. “Everybody has an inner Max.” Max and “Where the Wild Things Are” has resonated with so many people for so many years because it’s a “simple but deep story that explores the monsters in our lives,” said Rivkah K. Sass, the Sacramento Public Library’s Executive Director.

The book, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak and first published in 1963 “is one of the most important pieces of children’s literature in the 21st century. It was the beginning of a revolution in children’s books,” explained Sass, who began her career as a children’s librarian and lists the Caldecott Medal winner as one of her favorite books.

Bringing the 338-word story to life with live music is an “exciting” way to fulfill the Sacramento Public Library’s literacy initiative, said Sass who stressed the importance of “talk,

sing, read, write and play” for early education.

Play is a key component of the twoand-a-half hour event, which includes an Instrument Discovery Zone – essentially a petting zoo for music where children can try small percussion instruments and learn basic beats to play in the wild rumpus march. “Music is not as prevalent in schools and a lot of kids do not have instruments in their home,” explained Dixon. The Instrument Discovery Zone is a “way to show children that music is safe to play and explore.”

In addition to making “fun, lasting memories,” Dixon said he hopes the event serves as a way for the community to get to know the orchestra and see that they do more than just play in a big hall. “Having a thriving philharmonic and opera allows us to be in service to the community.”

Sass said she is personally excited for the event, including seeing the monster slime for the first time, and hopes grandparents who read the story as a child will come with their children and grandchildren and show the lineage of the story’s legacy. “The book is still as alive and vibrant as ever.”

The McKinley Library is located at 601 Alhambra Blvd in Sacramento.

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It’s in their Harts: Seniors share love stories at local senior center

By Gavin Loveless and Monica Stark

meadow up around Highway 49 where his ashes were laid. We were young and he did die young, but he’s always with me. After 20 years and I still grieve. We are all older here and here I am telling you about a high school sweetheart. This is a sort of love letter for Charlie. Charlie Jenson was his name.

When I answer the phone, his picture is right there. We’re pretty stuck.” (Unfortunately, Flo refused to have her photo taken.)

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The East Sacramento News ventured to the Hart Senior Center and spoke with a few willing seniors regarding real life love stories that had major impacts on their lives. Many women refused to comment, however, mentioning briefly that their significant others returned from Vietnam negatively affected. At least one of the stories here has been edited down for space.

Mary Hamlett: “I thought I was once (in love), but it didn’t turn out very well. His name was Russell. I went to a night club, and he was there in the band. It was pop music. It was in a barn in Orange County that had been developed with housing tracks and the barn, had been converted into a night club. We went up and down the beach.

I practically lived on it. I always liked to swim.” Russell and Mary weren’t together very long, “just a month or two and he had to go to Vietnam and I never heard from him again. I was pretty young. I was 21,” she said. “I

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know he didn’t die; he wasn’t on any of and was very creative. He was a dreamthe lists.” And since then, Mary hasn’t er. But he loved children. He loved me. had any interest in love.

He was blond, blue eyes. We went to high school, the last part. I mean I reFlo Ware: “Charlie was a cowboy up in ally love him. I love him today. When Wheatland. Charlie loved people and you’re young 3, 4 years is huge. I was a he was a cowboy and that was sort of year younger than my whole class. He fun in itself. Also, I had a son and he was smarter. I would write him a letloved my son. But unfortunately, Char- ter like, ‘How are you? Hope it’s good.’ lie died in a fiery crash. Charlie actu- I still have things that he wrote. I have ally went to Vietnam and came back a poem that his mother wrote about a

Bonnie: “I met him through my best girlfriend who passed away and she had a family of three and I took care of her kids when she passed away at 30 years old of a heart attack. We knew each other ever since high school. So I knew him 20 years before I got married. Had four kids and lost two and had two beloved kids. One weighed a pound at birth and the other, three pounds. We’re still together because I broke my bones nine years ago and so now I need assistance and my daughter told him, ‘You take care of Mama like we’re supposed to take care of her.’

And, he is.”

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King of Jazz

The musicians of Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra, Paul with baton, in the “Rhapsody in Blue� sequence. Photo: NBC/Universal

Restored by NBC/Universal, premiering at Tower Theatre for benefit gala

By MatĂ­as Bombal

In 1930, an unprecedented mixture of art and technology melded elements of music, dance, theatre, design and visual artistry into a great melting pot of jazz on film. The movies had only been “talking� for three years. Sound for movies was new, so was an early Technicolor company process of taking movie camera images through red and green filters and reproducing almost all colors of the spectrum for color on screen. Added to this canvas of color and sound; music of all forms offered by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, comedy blackouts from famous vaudeville stars, dancers in impressive Broadway type choreographies staged by director John Murray Anderson and sets lavish in art-moderne design which would win an Academy Award. Universal Pictures released “King of Jazz� at FOX’s 1,652 seat Criterion Theatre in Los Angeles on April 19, 1930.

The film vanished somewhat into obscurity, after a second, shorter version rerelease in 1933. In 1975 a television screening by the BBC re-awakened interest in the movie, followed by versions for U.S. TV Cable channels in March of 1984.

This was a truncated version, far from the splendor and beauty of the original release. MCA then released it to home video in 1983 and 1995 on VHS, but a video engineer mixed blue into the picture, destroying the twocolor process’s original beauty and design and red-green color balance. It has not since been in any other format to be seen in any version.

After years of lobbying from film historians such as David Stenn, Ron Hutchinson and others, in December of 2013, the film was officially entered into The Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, triggering Universal Pictures to begin a serious and monumentally expensive restoration of more than three years. At

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the same time, a remarkable and scholarly 303 page coffee table book about the movie’s colorful history and restoration, “King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman’s Technicolor Review� was written and released by James Layton and David Pierce. (www. kingofjazzbook.com) The 2016 restoration,

by NBC/Universal, of the 1930 two-color Technicolor Universal Super-Production “King of Jazz� has created a sensation everywhere it is shown. Beginning a few months ago with the Museum of Modern Art New York, then The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, this early musical movie has begun to move across the United States and Europe in select road-show events and special film festivals, like Los Angeles’ Cinecon and screenings as far away as Australia.

It will be shown in Sacramento for its Northern California Premiere for one showing only, to benefit The

Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, February 22nd at 7pm at the Tower Theatre at 16th and Broadway, nestled at the south end of downtown.

The premiere will bring notable persons from Hollywood and New York to Sacramento, including historians, Universal Studios executives and musicians as this has not screened in the San Francisco/bay area as the state capital was chosen for the honor.

Why is it a big deal? Primarily because it captures exactly the best in entertainment in 1930 in a time capsule, now clearer, sharper and brighter than when it was new. The newly restored two-color Technicolor allows you to witness, with a palpable vibrancy, an era mostly seen today in black and white, if at all. Then there’s the music; along with some hot jazz renditions of tunes like “Happy Feet� written by Milton Ager with lyric by Jack Yellen, this film has the first ever performance on film of “ The Rhapsody in Blue� by the man and his or-

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chestra that commissioned George Gershwin to write it for them, Paul Whiteman.

Paul Whiteman was, without a doubt, the single most respected influence in the mainstream culture of emerging popular music and jazz in the United States in the 1920’s and early 1930’s. His acoustical Victor 78 rpm record of “Whispering� recorded on August 23, 1920 was a number one hit in the USA for 11 weeks, stayed 20 weeks in the charts and would sell over two-million copies. He made a hit record and created one of the nation’s first major dance crazes with his May 7, 1925 Victor recording of (the)�Charleston�.

He represented the zenith of jazz to the public of that era. He also was a brilliant and willing master of publicity and marketing. During his orchestra’s 1919 engagement at the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles, popular with the movie crowd, he See Bombal, page 8

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Patrick Powers recalls hippie days at the ‘saloon’ Local duo established popular midtown music venue in late 1960s

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In the late 1960s when many youth wore colorful clothing, bell bottom pants, turquoise and silver jewelry and listened to such bands as the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane and Country Joe and the Fish, two young Sacramentans set out to deliver a bit more of that tie-dyed era to California’s capital city.

In recognizing a need in the local music scene, Randy Paragary, who later established himself as a notable local restaurateur, and his high school friend Patrick “Pat” Powers, decided to open their own music venue at 3000 O St., which many locals recall as the former site of a popular midtown fish store, known as the O Street Aquarium. The business was founded as The Fish Co. by Phil Steiner in 1979.

In a meeting with this paper last week, Powers recalled the idea to establish a music venue in Sacramento.

“I was living in Southern California and I came home (to Sacramento), and I noticed that there was no place for people who were pot smokers and (young) music listeners to go that was public,” he said. “Everyone was at their houses, everyone was in their basement, everyone was in their attic. No one was going out, because there was no place that was hip to go.”

As a result, Powers and Paragary joined together on a project to find a building they could establish a music venue. And that search ended at the aforementioned 30th and O streets building, which was owned by a Greek woman named Mrs. Rotas.

Rotas lived upstairs and the available downstairs space had previously been home to Ritz Market.

After work was completed to prepare the downstairs space for its opening as a beer bar and music venue, the business opened as the Parapow Palace Saloon on Dec. 8, 1969.

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Powers said that the use of the name was quite significant at the time, considering that the state Legislature had recently passed a law allowing the use of that word, saloon, for the first time since Prohibition.

“We had other names, but this name sort of happened,” he said. “We had to call it a saloon, so we could get some coverage on that.

So, we ended up calling it the Parapow Palace Saloon.”

Powers added that although he and Paragary enjoyed telling people that Parapow was an old Indian word meaning party, in actuality it was simply a combination of parts of the business owners’ last names.

In working with a limited budget, Powers and Paragary used old, electric cable spools as tables and purchased as many used chairs from San Francisco as they could fit in a rented truck.

Powers recalled their efforts to obtain those chairs, saying, “We went to every Goodwill store we could find and bought every old chair for a buck or two bucks.”

And in creating a Western theme, the saloon’s owners also had their place lined with wood from old barns.

Although they were in their 20s and had no working experience in the bar world, except for Paragary’s time as a busboy, these two business partners found a way to create a successful business.

Powers said that part of the secret of that success was finding musicians on the street.

“We had live music every night,” he said. “We would take guys at the freeway ramp right there with a guitar, and we would say, ‘Come on, we’ll buy you dinner.

Come play your guitar.’”

But not all live music was performed by street musicians, as the venue actually maintained its own house band, the Sunland Blues Band. The band consisted of Gerald Eddleman, David Fraser, Evan Jenkins, Tony Montanino, Nate Shiner, Steve Starr and Howard Taylor.

Among the band’s shows at the Parapow Palace was a May 28, 1972 benefit for Gary Black, who was then serving time in prison as a “draft dodger.”

In addition to performances by local musicians, the Parapow drew a variety of touring acts from other cities. Those bands included Alice Cooper, the Sons of Champlin and Bitter Sweet.

Powers recalled one of the unusual evenings of music at the Parapow.

“One night we had this band that pulled in and they thought they were going to be playing a rock arena,” he said. “They came out with these speakers and stuff. So, the first set they played, everyone was plastered against the wall.”

Powers added that the force caused by the speakers moved several small figurines in the venue across a table. “(The figurines) shattered the window,” he said. “I told (the band), ‘No way. This is loud, so I pulled the plug.

Things like that happened every night.”

The success of the saloon is mentioned in an advertisement in the May 23, 1972 edition of The Sacramento Bee as follows: “Parapow Palace Saloon. The most popular beer bar in town, grossed over $90,000 in 1971, doing better this year.”

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Patrick Powers was one of the founders of the music venue and beer bar, Parapow Palace, in 1969.

In its March 23, 1973 edition The Bee notes: “ The Parapow Palace Saloon is called ‘a hip tavern modeled after a 19th century saloon, usually very crowded and noisy.’”

During its latter existence, the venue was the site of a tragic incident in which Ronald L. Quinn was knifed to death.

The stabbing, which occurred during a fight on Dec. 3, 1974, resulted in the then-36-year-old Andreas Carrillo being sentenced to prison by Superior Court Judge Robert W. Cole.

Paragary, who eventually bought out Powers’ share of the business, said that the Parapow Palace was sold in 1972 and closed “about three years later.”

In summarizing his time at the saloon, Powers said, “It was a party every night, a hardcore party.”

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first began to be informally known as “The King of Jazz”. By 1930, Universal’s “King of Jazz” film could be shown to many thousands more than could see him and his orchestra in live performance in just one theatre or ballroom at a time and it showcases his very likeable personality and big-hearted presence.

Whiteman’s orchestra personnel seen in this film and in color performing were and remain the who’s who of jazz greats of that era. They include: violinist Joe Venuti, guitarist Eddie Lang, saxophonist Roy Maier, violinist and song writer Matty Malneck, trombonist and violinist Wilbur Hall, trumpet player Harry “Goldie” Goldfield, clarinet and saxophone player Chester Hazlett, trombone player, vocalist and songwriter Jack Fulton, banjo player Mike Pingitore, pianist and songwriter Roy Bargy, violinist Kurt Dieterle and the very first movie appearance of Bing Crosby, then part of Whitman’s singing trio, “The Rhythm Boys”. To see and hear 27 year-old Bing Crosby at the height of his voice, singing with the trio is something you’ll long remember. Actors seen in the film’s comedy sketches and other musical numbers include John Boles, Slim Summerville, Laura La Plante and a very young Walter Brennan.

Jazz plays a great role in the movie, but it is also a product of its time when revue style shows on Broadway were popular, the kind of show that is a series of variety comedy acts, musical specialties and musical productions. Very much like one may have experienced in New York in 1930 at any of the deluxe musical theatres of that era, yet much more spectacular with all of the space of a movie studio in which to produce giant musical fantasy numbers and in the early two-color Technicolor process that predates “The Wizard of Oz” and “Gone with the Wind”. The Russell Markert girls that appear as chorines in this film would, just two years later, become the very first Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall in 1932.

I had the privilege to have seen this new restoration in Los Angeles at the Egyptian Theatre as part of the 52nd Cinecon Film Festival a few months ago. Like many film buffs my age, I first had seen the film in one of the VHS tape versions, in the mid 1980’s, which even then looked dismal, like a beat up 16mm film print poorly transferred. In spite of the mire and murk of the image, I was fascinated by what I saw and heard. Here was a slice of the best in entertainment preserved in a time capsule. I’d never seen anything like it. It fueled a passion to see it properly restored, marking 33 years of anticipation and hope to see it as it had been seen when new.

Quite sincerely, to have seen it, as if for the first time after all those years was highly emotional, for there were tears of joy in my eyes as I watched its sensational beauty of picture and sound.

As I sat there next to my pal and marvelous pianist/ historian Frederick Hodges in the Egyptian Theatre, things I never thought could be captured were right there before my eyes. In the “My Bridal Veil” number, a fly buzzes around actress Jeanette Loff and lands on her shoulder in a medium shot. This restoration is so good I can see a fly on the set! The amount of detail in that sequence, sourced from the original camera negative, made that musical number which had been my least favorite in the murky video version a spectacular revelation in beauty and subtle color design. I thought to myself; OK, now I get it!

In Bing Crosby’s first sequence with “The Rhythm Boys”, they sing “So the Blue Birds and the Black Birds Got Together” (Music by Rhythm

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Boy and pianist Harry Barris with words by Billy Moll). I was floored at the detail never present before on video; the sense of the brightly colored fabric pattern on the big arm chair behind Bing.

The metallic variegated metal leaf on the trim of the table behind Bing and next to the chair. Fellow Rhythm Boy Al Rinker’s shirt stud revealed a distinct subtle pattern never before known to be visible. It was just like standing there on the set while it was being filmed. I could go on and on with minute details of stunning beauty, but you must really see this for yourself. The “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Whiteman orchestra and Roy Bargy as the soloist is spectacular and alive.

Exclusive to the Sacramento premiere event at the Tower Theatre February 22nd are special guests from Hollywood, some who worked on the restoration. They will address the audience with stories of their efforts. Band leader Don Neely of the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra of San Francisco will chat with the crowd about Whiteman’s musical contributions. Members of the family of Jack Fulton, one of Whiteman’s trombone players who appears in the movie will be present talking briefly to the premiere audience about Fulton’s work with Whiteman at that time.

As this benefits the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, you may bet there will be live music, too. Outside, in front of the theatre, the young men and women of the “Crescent Katz”, well known for monthly presentations of traditional jazz in places like “The Shady Lady” will perform for the arriving guests and passers-by beginning from 6:10pm to 6:50pm. The “Crescent Katz” are Patrick Skiffington, Greg Sabin, Justin Au, Brandon Au and Priscilla Ornelas.

Inside the Tower’s largest auditorium of three, No. 1, more live music may be savored from the time the auditorium opens. The precise time for seating will be determined by the ending time of the movie showing there just before the 7pm time

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slot. Providing selections made popular by Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra inside the theatre will be the youthful, yet highly acclaimed Adam G. Swanson, noted pianist and authority of the popular song from ragtime to country-western swing. Mr. Swanson has also appeared at Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center and is featured summers at the historic Strater Hotel in Durango, Colorado.

The Sacramento Traditional Jazz Foundation, an educational foundation separate from the STJS which supports young musicians as they learn to master traditional jazz, will be purchasing premiere tickets to gift to young musicians in their programs enabling them to see, for free, the very music they study in its original context, enriching their musical education with this very special event on screen.

This is your great opportunity to see and hear how this music was heard and performed in its original context in splendid color and remarkable sharpness. This gala Northern California Premiere of the restored “King of Jazz”, will be shown only once, at 7 p.m., Wednesday night, Feb. 22 at the Tower Theatre, Broadway at 16th Street. Free adjacent parking. Tickets are only available in advance at www.sacjazz.org for $25 per person. No tickets will be sold at the door.

There will be one day where you may obtain tickets in person however, in order to avoid the online service charge. At the February meeting of the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society held at the Elks Lodge #6 at Riverside and Florin Road in the Greenhaven neighborhood of Sacramento, February 12th, tickets will be available from 11-4pm, if online tickets have not sold out by that date. Only 250 seats remain available at the time of this writing. What a splendid occasion to dress up and have a gala night in support of The Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, or as the film’s original tag line proclaimed, “Once in a lifetime a picture like this!”

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Sacramento Women’s March to the Capitol

By Leigh Stephens

In 1958, with my new college degree in hand, I, with my new husband, interviewed for a high school teaching position in Macon, Georgia. My husband was offered $3,500 a year, and I was offered $3,000. The school official told me I would receive less money because I was a woman and would probably teach for a while and then retire to home to raise our children.

In my youthful ignorance, having been raised a proper “Southern girl,” I accepted his remarks as a given.

This was my first professional job offer. Not until years later did this negative incident soak into my rebel soul and with the wisdom of experience form the core of my beliefs that women are just as valuable as men.

-Leigh Stephens The Women’s March to the Capitol on Saturday, January 22nd was an historic event for Sacramento. According to the Sacramento Police Department, approximately 20,000 people marched through the streets to express their support to save the social programs brought about by the Obama Administration. Women, men and children participated in the march. A bright pink sea of “pussyhats” covered hundreds of heads in the teaming crowd.

Under the threat of the proposed changes under the Trump Administration, people are coming together to express their displeasure. Although some of the nation’s marches were anti-Trump, the women’s marches are energizing women to run for office and encouraging women to express their displeasure at program cuts that benefit women.

Many women’s organizations throughout Sacramento and surrounding communities participated in the event. Marching began from various locations about 9:30 a.m., while the rally in front of the Capitol began at noon and lasted to 6:30 p.m.

Community activists, dignitaries, and entertainers spoke and performed throughout the afternoon.

Nancy McCabe, president of the Sacramento American Association of University Women (AAUW) said, “This march is a powerful time for women and men to come together to express our concerns about the direction government is taking on issues affecting women and girls. AAUW is committed to empowering women and being a leader in equity and education in critical areas impacting the lives of women and girls. We can’t let progress that has been made in education, pay equity, reproductive healthcare, and LGBT rights slip away. There is more to be done without having to revisit the isValley Community Newspapers, Inc.

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An estimated 20,000 people marched to the State Capitol on Saturday, Jan. 21. in unity with the National March on the same day in Washington, DC and other cities worldwide. The march drew solidarity with “our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families -- recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country,” according to the announcement of the march.

sues that we thought were settled. I am gratified at the community involvement in this march!”

The Sacramento March was one of more than 600 sister-marches throughout the United States, planned to coincide with the Washington D.C. Women’s March on January 21 where more than one-half million people marched on the nation’s capitol.

According to march organizers, the guiding principles are: “ We stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families – recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.”

or country. Migration is a human right and no human being is illegal.

• Support environmental rights. People have the right to clean water, clean air, and access to public lands. The environment must be protected, not exploited by greed, especially at the risk of public safety and health.

• Pay equity means equal pay for equal work. Women’s work earns 79 cents to men’s $1.

VOICES FROM THE MARCH:

Ginny McReyolds, Retired Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cosumnes River College: “It was wonderful to participate in this march. It Women march organizers affirm, was so heartening to see how many Women’s Rights are Human Rights: people – women, men and kids are • End violence against our bodies. simply not going to stand for the bul• Reproductive rights belong to lying and disregard for humanity that women. seems to be the standard for this new • Free our society from gender norms, administration.” expectations, and stereotypes.

• Civil rights are a birthright, includ- Sue Ingle from her wheelchair: “I’m at ing voting rights, freedom of speech, the march to support women’s rights and protection for all citizens re- and those of the disabled. I was so upgardless of race, gender, age or dis- set when Trump made fun of the disability. It is time for an all-inclusive abled journalist!”

Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Sharon Vintze (helping Sue Ingle • Include disability rights. Break bar- with her wheelchair): “I’m here to riers to access, inclusion, indepen- support the voices for decency and for dence, and full citizenship partici- women’s rights.” pation in our society.

• Rooted in the promise of America’s Young mother Isabel Damian holding call for “huddled masses yearning to 18-month old Alia : “I’m at the march breathe free,” immigrants and refu- to represent women and to take a stand gees have rights regardless of status for public breastfeeding. This is Alia’s

first march!” Alia’s dad was with them, supporting his wife and daughter.

Karen Knicriem : “I’m here to support women’s and elderly programs.” She carried a sign that read, “Keep Your Hands Off Obama Care.”

Two sisters from Elk Grove, Darcie Gore and Denise Sismeroz along with Darcie’s husband rode light rail up to the Capitol. Darcie: “I’m for all rights and not for eroding those in place.”

She carried a sign, “Our Rights are not up for Grabs and Neither are we!”

Denise: “I don’t want to have to go back to the 1950’s. I’m doing this for my daughter and my granddaughter.”

Ruth Burgess:“It was the inspiring and touching message of an 11-year-old girl named Kennedy who received a National Women’s March honor. This little girl put in the simplest terms what the march was about. She said from the time she was younger, her parents and teachers taught her to be kind to others and not say mean things to hurt other people’s feelings. She said it upset her to hear the things said during the presidential election.”

Retired CSUS professor Dr. Virginia Kidd: “I was 14 before women were even allowed to serve on juries in Texas where I grew up. In this march I wore my 1966 Equal Rights Amendment necklace. I think we have made progress, and we will progress more with the kind of support we have with the marches. It’s wonderful!”

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SATURDAY, FEB. 4 GROUND SQUIRREL DAY: Unwind on a relaxing stroll through the Effie Yeaw’s Nature Preserve. Learn about all sorts of underground dwelling creatures too!

Starting at 10:30am and admission is FREE. 2850 San Lorenzo Way, 95608.

SAC FINE ARTS RUMMAGE SALE: Time to clean out all those extra art supplies you no longer need. Easels, frames, paints, yarn, fabric, paper, thread, brushes, books, molds, clay tools, small mirrors, canvas and anything else. Call to sellers: Fee $20, no commission. Includes 1 table. Setup 8 am. Send or bring check and name, phone number and email address to SFAC in advance. Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 5330B Gibbons Drive, Carmichael; www.sacfinearts.org

SUNDAY FEB. 5 NIGHTTIME HUNTERS: Hosted at the Effie Yeaw Nature Center starting at 1:30 p.m., come find out everything there is to know about owls! Younger ages recommend and admission is free. 2850 San Lorenzo Way, 95608.

MONDAY, FEB. 6 READ TO A DOG – Read to a Dog is a fun and proven method for children to boost their reading skills by reading to a trained therapy dog. Children may bring their own books or borrow a book from the library’s collection. Tuesday, Feb. 6 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento.

FRIDAY, FEB. 10 VALENTINE’S CARDS & CREATIONS – Get ready for Valentine’s Day by making your own cards to give your special Valentines. Then make your own Valentine’s art out of buttons, pipe cleaners, pompoms and other fun decorations. This school-aged program takes place Friday, Feb. 10 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento.

SATURDAY, FEB. 11 SAC STATE JAZZ FEST: Enjoy a day full of New Orleans jazz when Sac State hosts the Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Sat., Feb. 11, in Capistrano Hall, 6000 J St. The non-competitive fest features a day-long series of clinics, jam sessions, and performances by musicians from middle school through

college. It concludes with the Clinicians Concert featuring trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso at 7 p.m. Day-long tickets are $12 at the door. Contact: (916) 278-5155.

make monster masks and slime and join the band with instruments in the wild rumpus march. Costumes are encouraged. 601 Alhambra Blvd.

SAC STATE YOONIE HAN CONCERT: Yoonie Han will perform the complete “Goyescas” of Enrique Granados as part of Sacramento State’s Piano Series, 7:30 p.m. in the Capistrano Concert Hall on campus, 6000 J St. Han has won top prizes in distinguished international competitions. In 2009 she received the Gawon Music Award as the “most brilliant pianist aged 17 to 31.” Tickets are $20 general admission, and $15 for seniors and students, available at (916) 278-4323 or www.csus.edu/hornettickets. Contact (916) 278-5191.

SHARE THE LOVE, FREE COMMUNITY DAY AT FANCY FEET: The following is the schedule for free classes on Saturday, Feb. 18 at Fancy Feet, located at 712 57th St. 10am-11am: Ballet 1, ages 5-8 with Miss Taylor 11am-Noon: Contemporary 1 with Miss Kiona Noon-12:50pm: Acro Dance (Ages 5+) with Miss Lindsay Noon-12:50pm: Tap 1, (Ages 6+) with Miss Alexis Noon-12:50pm: Jazz 1 (Ages 5-7) with Miss Taylor Noon-12:50pm: Hip Hop (Ages 5+) with Miss Ana Maria 1:00pm-1:50pm: Ballet/Tap (Ages 3-5) with Miss Kristin 1:00pm-1:50pm: Ballet/Tap (Ages 5-7) with Miss Dana 1:00pm-1:50pm: Hip Hop (Ages 8+) with Miss Ana Maria 2:00pm-2:50pm: Musical Theatre (Ages 5+) with Miss Ana Maria 2:00pm-2:50pm: Dance Conditioning/Turns & Tech with Miss Dana

FRIDAY, FEB. 17 LEGO MANIA! – Like building with LEGOs? Join the library for monthly Lego free-play afternoon! LEGOs and DUPLO LEGOs will be provided for this family program. Friday, Feb. 17 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento.

SHARE THE LOVE, FREE COMMUNITY DAY AT FANCY FEET: The following is the schedule for free classes on Friday, Feb. 17 at Fancy Feet, located at 712 57th St. 4:00pm-4:50pm: Lyrical, ages 5+ with Miss Kristin 5:00pm-5:50pm: Ballet/Tap, Ages 3-5, Miss Elizabeth 6:00pm-6:50pm: Jazz 2, Ages 7+, Miss Chelsea 6:00pm-6:50pm: Princess Ballet/Tap, Ages 3-5, Miss Taylor 7:00pm-7:50pm: Tap 2, Ages 7+, Miss Chelsea

SATURDAY, FEB. 18 “WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE” WITH MUSIC AT MCKINLEY LIBRARY: For over 50 years, Max, King of the Wild Things, has been one of the nation’s most beloved children’s characters. His imaginative adventure to a mysterious jungle has delighted generations of children, and on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 1 p.m., McKinley Library invites those generations – young and old – to escape once more to Where the Wild Things Are, this time with help from the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera which will narrate Max’s journey as the SP&O trio – harp, viola and flute – accompany the words and pictures with musical excerpts from Mozart, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartok, Gounod and Ravel. After the story, children are invited to

FEB. 22 and 23; FEB. 24 and 25 SACRAMENTO/BLACK ART OF DANCE 25TH ANNIVERSARY DANCE CONCERT: Sacramento/Black Art of Dance (S/BAD) celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special concert, it’s last under the directorship of Linda Goodrich. Performances are at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 22 and 23; 8 p.m. Feb. 24 and 25; and 2 p.m.

Feb. 25 and 26, University Theatre on campus, 6000 J St. S/BAD explores the Black Concert dance form originated by Katherine Dunham. Afro-Cuban music and dance group Ebo Okokan is the special guest.

Tickets are $5-$12, available at 278-4323 or www.csus. edu/hornettickets

ONGOING TEEN SPACE – Looking for something fun to do after school? Need a place where you’re free to hang out with your friends and have a snack? Come to the McKinley Library Teen Space, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 15 and 22 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento.

NANA’S NAUGHTY KNICKERS:At the Chatauqua Playhouse enjoy a racy, naughty little comedy show! Tickets are available for purchase on their website. 5325 Engle Road # 110, 95608 The show will run on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 2:00 pm through March 5 with an additional matinee at 2 pm on March 4.

RECOVERY FROM GRIEF WORKSHOP: All widowed persons can participate in the recovery from grief program sponsored by the Widowed Persons’ Association of California, Sacramento, Chapter, No. 1. There is no charge or donation required. The only criteria is that you must be widowed or the surviving member of a registered domestic partnership in the State of California. The next Recovery from Grief Workshop be Feb. 4 continuing till Feb. 25 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. The meetings take place at 2628 El Camino Ave., Ste. D-18. Enter through the breezeway. Call the office at 972-9722 between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to reserve a seat. If there is no answer at the office, leave your name, phone number and reference the workshop and someone will return your call. The Widowed Persons Association also sponsors Sunday Support Sessions which are held every Sunday at the office from 3 to 5 p.m., entering from the back parking lot at 2:30 p.m.

ELKS MONDAY NIGHT SPAGHETTI DINNER AND BINGO!: The weekly spaghetti dinner starts at 5 p.m. Attendance is limited to three or four visits per year until you will be requested to join the Elks Lodge as a member. The Bingo games are open to the public beginning at 6 p.m. and end at 10 p.m. Some lucky player will win the $500 jackpot. It might as well be YOU! Join the Carmichael Elks Lodge and Play with Kids Your Own Age! Bring friends and family. Invite them to Bingo to play a few games with you.. It will help Elks Bingo games increase contributions to the Scholarship Fund.

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SCUSD seeks community input on name change for Kit Carson Middle School Decades-old Kit Carson Middle School is looking for a name to match its students as the campus evolves into a high school.

Kit Carson Vice Principal Rich Haley who serves on the committee charged with bringing recommendations to the Sacramento City Unified School District said the group has begun gathering

input from the community.

“We want to know what the community wants – whether we should adopt a totally new name or only tweak the name by dropping the middle school designation,” Haley said.

Haley added that Kit Carson, an International Baccalaureate World School, which now accepts students

in grades 7-11, will graduate its first senior class next year.

The IB program is an internationally respected educational program with a presence around the globe.

As a middle school, Kit Carson enrolled students in grades 7 and 8 but in 2014, it began adding a grade a year. It also has evolved from a “neighborhood” school with bound-

aries to a campus that accepts youth from communities outside its immediate East Sacramento community.

“Kit Carson is evolving and changing, but it retains a strong respect for the traditions of a school that was constructed in 1933,” Haley said.

“We still honor the school’s ‘Pioneer’ traditions, even as we begin new traditions and

carve out a new path for our students.”

Serving with Haley on the committee are parents from Caleb Greenwood (a feeder school for Kit Carson), David Lubin and Kit Carson, students, teachers, a classified staff member, Principal Santiago Chapa, and district Area Assistant Superintendent Mary Hardin Young.

Haley urged the community to submit their suggestions as soon as possible. He said the committee expects to review community suggestions by mid-February and submit recommendations to the Board of Education in March.

Suggestions for the committee may be submitted online at scusd.edu.

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zpizza unveils selfpour tap room in East Sacramento zpizza, the first artisan-inspired pizza chain, announced the debut of the zpizza Tap Room in East Sacramento featuring a self-serve tap wall with 26 local craft beers and 4 taps serving wine.

Now open, the restaurant features zpizza’s brick-oven baked pizzas and the franchise’s new self-serve tap wall with 26 local craft beers and four taps serving wine. Customers will pour their own beer or wine by using wristbands they scan at the taps that also track the amount poured.

The restaurant has modern and industrial design elements that are friendly and inviting, as well as a large outdoor dogfriendly patio that will have water bowls and complimentary house-made treats.

The new zpizza Tap Room is located at 6601 Folsom Blvd., neighboring Sacramento State University. Hours of operation will be Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday 11 a.m. to midnight, Saturday noon to midnight, and Sunday noon to 11 p.m.

Like all zpizza locations, the zpizza Tap Room offers the choice of delivery, dine-in, takeout and catering, in addition to online ordering. For more information, call 330-3973 or visit www.zpizza.com.

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