Tonight: The Koffin Kats
Cafe Colonial, 8 p.m., $10 Straight outta Detroit comes three-piece psychobilly band the Koffin Kats. These guys blend elements of punk and old-time rock ’n’…
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Scorekeeper III: This week's winners and losers
Striker, out! How does the oldest rattlesnake in captivity celebrate his record-setting 32nd birthday? By chilling in a locked terrarium while his guests—visiting him at…
Sacramento coroner restricts agreement with Garden of Innocence
Well, that was fast. Hours after SN&R’s October 10 story on Garden of Innocence National hit stands, the charity that buried 20 miscarried fetuses in…
Allen Warren asks hilarious questions about gender identity
At least the first-term councilman did for six squirming minutes during a Tuesday afternoon committee hearing on the city of Sacramento’s evolving non-discrimination policies. Sacramento…
KHTK gives Don Geronimo the boot. I'm going to miss the guy.
It’s been more than a pleasure covering Don Geronimo’s latest stint in Sacramento on KHTK 1140 AM. First, I wrote about Don’s feud with Sacramento…
For love or money
Joey advises a reader to stop swinging between extremes.
We have a choice
Maggy Krell provides an alternative in the district attorney's office.
And the most overpriced craft beer in America goes to …
OK, so I get that there’s always mark-up on beer and food at sporting events. But Sacramento, home of the $14 craft beer? Damn. This…
Sacramento prosecutor deems foot fetish a 'sexual perversion'
Does this do it for you? Sicko? A sexual batterer’s attraction to feet got an unusual shout-out in a press release issued Tuesday by…
Handicapping tonight's Strong Mayor vote at Sacramento city council
It’s less than two hours until tonight’s City Counil debate of Sacramento Tomorrow's “Strong Mayor 4.0” proposal. I was on Capital Public Radio’s Insight program…
Kings owner Vivek suggests that newspapers will die
So Vivek Ranadivé doesn’t just own the Sacramento Kings. He made his millions with Tibco, a software company that among other activities helps Wall Street…
Tonight: Modern English
Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 8 p.m., $17.50 One of the classic ’80s new-wave rock bands, Modern English has broken up and reunited twice now. Though…
Voters for a Fair Arena Deal forms today to gather initiative signatures, change tone of arena discourse
Voters for a Fair Arena Deal, a small coalition of Sacramentans in favor of increasing residents’ input and ensuring fiscal responsibility on the new Kings…
Tonight: Joe Pug
Joe Pug Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, $10, 7:30 p.m. Joe Pug is the good kind of cranky: Highly skeptical of the music-industry status quo (and…
Fungus-grown-on-plants soup
It’s one week into the Sacramento Vegan Chef Challenge, and so far, I’ve dined at only two of the 13 participating restaurants. At this rate,…
Latest Sacramento brewery Bike Dog opens tonight
West Sacramento just got a little cooler: Bike Dog Brewing Co. will make its debut tonight and this weekend. Bike Dog’s new taproom opens in…
Sacramento threatens Food Not Bombs for feeding hungry in downtown park
For more than 20 years, unpaid volunteers with nonprofit Food Not Bombs have given free vegetarian meals to hungry Sacramentans on Sunday afternoons in downtown’s…