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5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
6 vanished Sacramento landmarks reshape the city's memory
Stories by Sacramento Bee journalists, with AI summarization Sacramento's cityscape has shifted as famed sites like the original Tower Records building make way for modern developments such as new five-story apartment complexes with retail space. The beloved Capital Athletic Club downtown now hums to fresh life as the Capital YMCA, offering renovated facilities and attracting former and new members alike. Grand movie theaters like the Alhambra and Fox Senator once drew crowds but have largely vanished, replaced by office towers and housing, while only a few, like the Tower Theatre and Crest Theatre, continue to operate. The closure of downtown staples such as the Macy's department store and the uncertain future of landmarks like the Renaissance Tower and the Sacramento Zoo's relocation plans reveal ongoing debates about how Sacramento balances its historic legacy with changing economic demands and community needs. Each vanished landmark leaves memories and influences decisions about what the city will become next. The YMCA is in the early stages of its renovation before its grand opening early in 2025. | Published September 20, 2024 | Read Full Story by Chris Biderman It was the city's tallest building for a time. | Published October 21, 2024 | Read Full Story by Annika Merrilees In 1973, a decades-old cinema was demolished in favor of a Safeway grocery store. | Published November 2, 2024 | Read Full Story by Graham Womack A new residential future on Broadway is taking shape – and it has some scale. | Published November 9, 2024 | Read Full Story by David Caraccio What's next for Sacramento's downtown Macy's building? | Published January 14, 2025 | Read Full Story by Annika Merrilees 'We truly believe that ending the Elk Grove project is the most responsible choice for the long-term sustainability and success of the zoo,' the CEO said. | Published April 30, 2025 | Read Full Story by Darrell Smith Marcus D. Smith The summary above was drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division. All stories listed were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Explore five Sacramento budget-friendly dining and shopping options in 2025
Stories by Sacramento Bee journalists, with AI summarization Sacramento offers many ways to have fun without spending a lot. Try affordable meals at places like Rice Theory, where you can pick up musubi and onigiri, or look forward to new budget-friendly options as The Habit Burger Grill expands nearby. For unique entertainment, visit the city's only drive-in theater or check out Urban Roots Brewery & Smokehouse, known for its reasonable prices on food and craft beer. Shopping at Ross Dress For Less and exploring thrift stores can also make for a fun day out while saving money. Rice Theory's mix of low-commitment items, cute branding and bold flavors tempered by sushi rice have brought steady lines since Day 1. | Published February 21, 2025 | Read Full Story by Benjy Egel Childcare. Rent. Car payments. How do you manage it all? | Published February 20, 2025 | Read Full Story The fast-casual restaurant chain already has more than a dozen locations across the capitol region. | Published February 21, 2025 | Read Full Story by Marcus D. Smith You can get beer, burgers and barbecue at decent prices at this local brewery. | Published March 26, 2025 | Read Full Story by Camila Pedrosa The discount retailer chain sells clothing, home decor and more for 20% to 60% off department store prices. | Published April 24, 2025 | Read Full Story by Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado Help us, help you. Submit your tips and questions about affordable dining and entertainment in the capital region. | Published February 24, 2025 | Read Full Story by Sacramento Bee Staff The summary above was drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division. All stories listed were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
This rare, modern Sacramento home has Folsom Lake as its backyard. Take a look
Inside Look is a Sacramento Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. One of Bruce and Lisa Bodlak's favorite features of their lakefront home in El Dorado Hills has been watching their kids grow up freely exploring nature. After all, Folsom Lake and its trails are part of their backyard, so the children were inclined to spend more time outdoors than in front of screens. The couple's rare, 5,000-square-foot, single-story modern home, 30 miles east of Sacramento, is for sale for $3.4 million. 'I loved waking up knowing that my kids couldn't wait to go outside and go exploring,' Lisa said. 'They'd take the ATV, pile all their friends in it, go drive around ... My daughter raised 50 chickens. My kids got to have that kind of experience.' Hiking along scenic trails and fishing, swimming and kayaking in the lake are all part of the experience of living on rural Fredlena Lane in El Dorado Hills, the couple said. 'We went from always looking out the front door ... to (here) where they can explore freely,' Bruce said. The secluded property unfolds across three, mostly flat acres and hooks up with trails that lead down to the lake, a two-minute walk. Because it backs onto protected state land and is flanked by sprawling neighboring properties, the residence feels even more cocooned in privacy. The lot sits back on New York Creek Cove, a popular spot for boating and fishing on the south fork of Folsom Lake. In front of the house, a gated courtyard welcomes visitors with a modern streamlined water feature and 'low-maintenance' koi pond, according to Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, the brokerage holding the listing. The upscale interior design of the house is just as impressive as the outdoor space. The Bodlaks purchased the four-bedroom, four-bathroom house in 2014 for about $1 million, according to public property records, and renovated the home to the tune of another million. The open-concept floor plan is augmented by high ceilings, high-end finishes and custom woodwork throughout. The interior is spotlighted by expansive windows, exquisite crown molding, Restoration Hardware lighting, custom furniture-grade cabinetry, designer tile treatments and wood-grain tile flooring. Among other highlights: ▪ An oversized office with access to a covered patio and an attached library with built-in bookcases. ▪ Luxurious primary suite offering outdoor access and a spa-like bathroom with a Hydro Massage tub featuring oxygen and light therapy, large walk-in shower with multiple shower heads and a walk-in closet with floor-to-ceiling built-ins and shoe walls. ▪ Gourmet kitchen appointed with Thermador professional-grade appliances, eight-foot, double-door wine refrigerator, 12-foot Carrara marble slab waterfall island, breakfast nook, informal dining area under a vibrant Restoration Hardware chandelier, two walk-in pantries and expansive windows for lake views. ▪ A great room with a dramatic stone fireplace and access to an outdoor covered patio with lake views. ▪ Formal dining room, big enough to accommodate a 12-foot table, with recessed lighting and views of the front courtyard. ▪ 1,000-square-foot theater and billiards room with platform bar seating and built-ins. Bruce Bodlak's vision for their home always allowed for future versatility. The turnkey home offers buyers the options of enjoying its luxury amenities now or jumping into any number of possible upgrades, such as building a guest house on the upper property, adding a bedroom, dropping in a swimming pool or converting some of the 9,000 square feet of lawn into a vineyard or tennis court. As it lies now, the grassy area is ideal for lawn games, outdoor weddings and large parties. Bruce installed a $75,000 agriculture sprinkler and drip system to pave the way for putting in a wine vineyard or adding more fruit trees. There are four mature citrus trees on the property already. The expansion possibilities attract an even larger pool of potential buyers, according to listing agent Angela Dameri of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services. 'This could be a couple with no kids, who just wants to be kind of off-grid and just have a nice view, or it could be somebody (who) wants to expand and turn into multi-family,' she said. 'Somebody who buys this (might be) living in a subdivision when they want to get into some open spaces.' The grounds are punctuated by a quaint and picturesque historic water tower from the days when a farmer owned the land in the 1940s, Bruce said. The structure can still be used to collect water, according to Dameri. Bruce meticulously built the 3,000 square foot garage with a 13-foot ceiling to match the contemporary architecture of the rest of the house. The spacious garage offers a showcase or a work space for car collectors. It's wired for electric vehicle charging. There also enough space to convert a section of the garage into a game room or in-law suite. The sellers are prominent figures in the media buying and advertising industry. Bruce and Lisa Bodlak founded Express Media, having started the company in 1999 and working out of their previous home's garage before growing the firm into a $40 million business based on annual billing. The couple decided to move to be closer to their adult children in Tennessee. 'They had a very good vision... and they imagined this being a legacy home for them,' Dameri said. This luxury Folsom Lake home breaks sales record as one of priciest in Sacramento region
USA Today
15-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Sober since his mom's birthday in 2013, club pro Tom Johnson is having a blast in first PGA
Sober since his mom's birthday in 2013, club pro Tom Johnson is having a blast in first PGA CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Tom Johnson met Rory McIlroy on the putting green and Scottie Scheffler on the range on Wednesday. He had lunch with Justin Rose and then his old college teammate, Luke Donald, joined them. Johnson smiled the smile of a man who is living his best life this week at the 107th PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. Johnson, 43, is competing in his first PGA Championship, one of the 20 club pros to qualify after finishing T-9 in the 2025 PGA Professional Championship last month. 'This is the ultimate, this was the goal and it's a dream come true,' he said on Wednesday at the practice putting green at Quail Hollow Club. 'I've had so many unbelievable experiences this week that it could end now and it would be awesome and I haven't even hit a shot yet. It's only going to get better.' Johnson has been teaching the game since 2016, currently as the director of instruction at Meadow Club in Fairfax, California, but lived the life of a Tour pro for several years, including in 2007 when he had full status. 'It was what I dreamt of doing but when I got out here I didn't feel like it was a dream.' Johnson suffered from performance anxiety, recording just one top-25 finish ($56,667 represents his largest check for finishing 18th in the 2007 Bob Hope Desert Classic) and finishing 196th on the money list. 'Just imagine the worst kind of butterflies to the point where you think you are going to throw up,' he said. 'I know I'm not alone. I've read how Bobby Jones lost lots of weight when he played.' Dealing with performance anxiety using alchohol, drugs Johnson learned to calm his nerves in unusual fashion. Experiencing yips so severe at the Northeast Amateur when he was 18 that he putted one-handed, he took a shot of whiskey during a rain delay 'that made me feel warm and at ease,' he told the Sacramento Bee in 2015. When he qualified for the PGA Tour at the six-round pressure-cooker known as PGA Tour Q-School, he smoked marijuana before every round and finished in eighth place. He's not the only golfer to ever smoke pot, but he may be the only pro to use it to enhance his performance. 'I thought that worked, I'll do it again,' said Johnson, who has admitted to smoking marijuana before all 70+ rounds he played during the 2007 season. 'It got to be where I was abusing it ever closer and closer to my tee times and I can think of a time I even did it during play, which I'm not proud of, but at that time I really needed something.' Tom Johnson has been sober nearly 12 years Johnson hit rock bottom when he was arrested for driving under the influence in 2013. For her birthday present that year, on July 4th, his mother asked him to get sober. Johnson knew it was time to seek help. He has been drug- and alcohol-free since July 5, 2013. 'That was a major turning point in my life. I went to meetings every day for three years because I knew I couldn't keep sober on my own. That's where I learned the 12 steps and the tools to deal with it. I needed a new operating system. With the help of a lot of people on that same path of sobriety, I no longer feel that way. My life is good.' The other turning point was meeting his now-wife Caitlin in 2016. At the time, he was still competing on the Asian Tour, but he knew he had reached a fork in the road and decided to commit to her and start a family. For a time, he covered sports for the Trinity Journal, the region's weekly newspaper, and was a substitute teacher. Before long, he began teaching golf at Golden Gate Park Golf Course, a par-3 course with a driving range, consisting of hitting into a net 25 yards away. The Olympic Club hired him and he learned under the director of instruction Richard Sheridan. "It's so gratifying to teach, and to give back, and to basically share the gift of golf," he told NCGA Golf Magazine in 2021. Johnson played college golf at Northwestern alongside European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald and grew up playing against the likes of James Hahn, Nick Watney and Ricky Barnes, who are still toiling on the pro circuit. When Donald was asked to name his favorite story involving Johnson from his college days, he replied, 'I'm not sure they're appropriate for this audience. We had some fun in college, though, for four years. That's for sure.' Since his touring days, Johnson has been named the Northern California PGA Player of the Year for three straight years running and made the cut in back-to-back years at the Tour's annual stop in Napa. Asked how he deals with his performance anxiety these days, he said, 'I use prayer, meditation and have a better perspective. It's been a spiritual journey.' 'I like the life I'm living right now,' he said. 'I like being home and being a presence in my son's life. I'm grateful that I'm not on Tour, honestly. I'm not trying to rekindle my career out here. I like my life.' But how Johnson has remained competitive with two children under age 3 and a busy schedule as a teaching professional is a story in its own self. 'For starters, I believe that fitness is as important as swing mechanics. If you feel strong, you'll play strong. I get up at 4:45 a.m. three times a week and work out with a neighbor, who happens to be a Titleist Performance Institute Level 3 Certified Trainer and sports chiropractor,' he explained. 'My practice comes during my lunch break, and it typically involves games. I like my practice to be purposeful, competitive and quantifiable, and it can't take longer than 30 minutes. I'm competing against myself, and I keep records of each day's results to quantify my progress.' During his college days at Northwestern, a trainer told him that athletes are motivated to work out by the desire to improve performance, but that goal is fleeting. It eventually will change to managing pain. 'I couldn't relate then, but alas, here I am,' he said. These days, some form of daily workout is a necessity, especially if I expect to play decent golf. I cannot overstate how helpful it is to engage with a fitness professional – even if means a 4:30 a.m. wake-up call!' Another key for Johnson's game holding up after age 40 is the speed training work he has done ever since seeing Matt Fitzpatrick win the 2022 U.S. Open. In a post-round interview, the 5-foot-10, 155-pound Englishman attributed his newly gained distance to the Stack System. 'I find that swinging a heavy club is great for building speed through strength, whereas the benefit of swinging a light club is giving my body permission to rotate as fast as possible,' he said. 'A realistic expectation from speed training would be a 3-5 mph gain of swing speed, or 10-20 yards of distance.' All the hard work has paid off for Johnson, who is finally living a dream that had been deferred.
Black America Web
05-05-2025
- Black America Web
Sacramento White Supremacist Sentenced To Life With No Parole For Killing Black Man In Drive-By Shooting
Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Source: JasonDoiy / Getty A white supremacist in Sacramento, California, has been given the maximum sentence for killing a Black man in a drive-by shooting last June for no discernible reason outside of the victim's race. According to the Sacramento Bee, 48-year-old Joseph Paul DeMarco, who was found guilty in February of the murder of 38-year-old James Roseman in a 7-Eleven parking lot, was given a sentence of life without the possibility of parole by Sacramento Superior Court Judge Maryanne G. Gilliard. During the sentencing hearing, which took place Friday afternoon, Gilliard reportedly gave DeMarco four separate opportunities to speak and show contrition for the hateful and senseless killing of Roseman. DeMarco not only refused to apologize each time, but on the fourth opportunity, he spoke up only to proclaim, 'I'm not guilty, ma'am,' to which the judge responded by reminding him that the evidence against him in the trial was 'overwhelming.' 'Mr. DeMarco, you took somebody from our community who was loved. You heard what his family said, they loved James. You didn't even know him,' Gilliard said. 'The fact of the matter is the jury of your peers found you guilty, and they were right.' Several members of Roseman's family had spoken to the court before sentencing, including his eldest sister, Latrina Davis. 'You couldn't see past the color of his beautiful Black skin,' Davis said. 'I think about his last breath every single day. I imagine him fighting for his life after watching the video of him standing up after being shot, trying to survive, only to fall again alone on the cold ground.' Davis said her brother, a father of three daughters, was fixing a light on his car when he was shot by DeMarco, whose conviction included a special circumstance enhancement for intentionally killing Roseman because of his race. In other words, a hate crime. 'You are the reason why our world will never be the same. You are the reason why my parents cry when they think no one is watching,' Davis told DeMarco. 'You are the reason we sit in silence, feeling the weight of what's missing.' So, why Roseman? Besides the fact that he was a Black man, what was DeMarco's motivation for shooting and killing him specifically? Well, according to prosecutors, the killing carried a motive that is as ole as white supremacy in America itself: a Black person was accused of a crime, and a white man decided someone needed to pay, and any old Black person will do. In fact, Roseman was reportedly not the only victim. From the Sacramento Bee: Deputy District Attorney Matthew Moore, who prosecuted DeMarco, said the defendant is a white supremacist who was angry over an armed robbery that he claimed was committed by a Black person and went 'hunting' one night looking to shoot any Black person he encountered. There was another man who was shot earlier that night nearby. The prosecutor said the other Black man wounded by gunfire survived because the bullet didn't hit a vital organ. He said the surviving victim had never met or interacted with DeMarco either. 'I think that really strikes at what is so tragic about this case is that this was completely senseless,' Moore said while asking the judge for the maximum prison sentence. 'James had not done anything to him.' According to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, the shooting was reported shortly before 12:30 a.m. on June 9 after people heard gunfire outside of the 7-Eleven in the 1300 block of Fulton Avenue at Hurley Way. Deputies arrived at the scene and found Roseman wounded on the ground. He was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after. DeMarco not only used his .22 caliber pistol to kill Roseman, but he also fired it at others from inside his vehicle with the intent to kill. Thankfully, this monster has been taken off the streets for good. We wish Roseman's family peace and healing. SEE ALSO: Bill Cosby Forced To Sell His $7M NYC Mansion After Foreclosure Trouble Black Woman Sues Nashville Cops Who Falsely Detained Her After She Was Nearly Hit By Truck SEE ALSO Sacramento White Supremacist Sentenced To Life With No Parole For Killing Black Man In Drive-By Shooting was originally published on
