City Beat
Aloha Comes Natural
Lauren Lundsten, called Lonnie by his friends, can explain why a $188 Hawaiian shirt is worth every penny.
“The design is from the Kahala company archives. Look at the rich colors. The printing is done in Kyoto on special rayon filament from a Japanese company that’s been making this fabric since the 1950s,” he says. “The tailoring is done in Hawaii. It’s engineered so the pattern lines up perfectly when you button it. You can’t even see the threads.” Lundsten has only a few special-edition shirts, and will let one go for $150, a steal.
Never Too Young
If Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to see a best-practice example of early childhood education, he doesn’t have to travel far. A trip to David Lubin Elementary School at 35th and M streets, about 23 blocks from the state Capitol, will reveal wonders.Lubin is one of seven schools in the Sacramento City Unified School District to offer a program called Parent Participation Preschool. The formula is not new—Sac City borrowed the idea from Oakland and Berkeley schools in the late 1940s. Twenty years ago, I enrolled with my two kids. The experience still pays dividends.
Bright Writes, Big City
Sacramento finally has a contemporary literary character worthy of the city’s cultural diversity, artistic sensitivity and sleazy criminal element.
Our hero’s name is Lincoln Adams. He lives on D Street, earns a fortune as a woodcarving artist, drinks too much and finds trouble. He doesn’t like cars and walks everywhere, especially along Midtown railroad tracks.
