n CONTENTS
May 2019
DEPARTMENTS
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18
EVIL HR LADY
How and when to give feedback to rejected
job candidates
26
132
9
by Suzanne Lucas
20
LEADERSHIP
Employers and workers both have a role to play in
reducing stress
10
Sacramento Ballet Artistic Director Amy Seiwert
talks about her visions and goals — and taking risks
The arts are key to laying the foundation that will make
Sacramento a city that not only works,
but thrives
rsvp
16 worth noting
TASTE
Over the past 27 years, Sonny Mayugba has
transitioned from struggling musician to restaurant
entrepreneur
SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL SECTION
City of Sacramento
Comstock’s, in collaboration with the City of
Sacramento, highlights a new urban development,
pitches for a remake of the waterfront, the RAILS
program and more.
6
opinion
12
by Blair Anthony Robertson
75
A renovated Sacramento Convention Center is
important to an expanding next-generation economy
by Stacey Shelnut-Hendrick, Crocker Art Museum
DISCOURSE
interview by Sena Christian
26
letter from the publisher
by Winnie Comstock-Carlson
by Jessica Kriegel
22
THE USUAL
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Sacramento Ballet Soaring with Sacramento Gala |
Social Venture Partners of Sacramento SVP Fast Pitch |
Sacramento Children’s Home Impact Luncheon | United
Way Women United Luncheon
Buzzword of the Month: design thinking / Readers sound
off on social / ICYMI: Last month’s hottest
web exclusives
132 in the making
134 seed round
Joe Triglia creates custom planters from concrete
Meet the founder of IndiPUB, our May Startup of
the Month