Sammies 2013 winners here!
Congratulations to this year’s Sacramento Area Music Awards winners and thanks to everyone who attended the 22nd annual Sammies this past Friday! Hall of Fame…
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Sacramento city council approves Strong Mayor vote for 2014 at drama-free meeting (boring! So let’s watch an old video of K.J. chewing out his colleagues!)
In what Sacramento Bee City Hall reporter Ryan Lillis described as a meeting “without drama,” City Council voted last night to put the fourth incarnation…
SN&R hate mail No. 7,842
Sometimes, it’s fun to share: “You guys suck, and I will continually call your newspaper a rag. … Good luck with your whole life, man!”
Scorekeeper V: This week's losers include American River College administrators, Dickey's BBQ, absinthe drinkers and jerks who try to rob Safeway
Ill communication American River College communications professor Geoffrey Stockdale was put on paid administrative leave last week after a student suffered a head injury during…
New Kings arena photos, videos—and whether Sacramento needs more spaceships
Yesterday, the Kings unveiled arena design “concepts”—not renderings or actual images of what the arena will look like, mind you. Just concepts. (In fact, the…
This Halloween, dress up as a vegetarian
Mother is the forthcoming veggie-friendly restaurant by chef Michael Thiemann (of Ella Dining Room & Bar and Tyler Florence sidekick fame). It will open soon…
Scorekeeper IV Winners: Gavin Newsom, stoners, Losers: pizza girls, Bee employees, newspaper owners, Don Geronimo, strong mayor, craft-beer lovers
What the flip? Looks like someone just couldn’t wait for pizza. Last weekend, a driver managed to flip her Acura after hitting a parked car…
Yes, that was Sacramento punk band Get Shot! who filmed the porno on the Westboro Baptist Church lawn
Remember hearing earlier this month about a punk-rock band that filmed a porno on Westboro Baptist Church’s front lawn? And that it went viral online…
Major 'Dick' move on the Sacramento BBQ scene
The national chain stores keep coming to Midtown. The latest: Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, based out of Dallas, will be opening at the old Una Mas…
REVIEW: Treasure Island Music Festival, plus BONUS: On the mainstream’s assimilation of rave culture
The modern music festival is all about Molly, fuzzy boots, face paint, animal hats and dance, dance, dance. And that’s fine: The collision of deep,…
McKinley Village environmental impact report due next week
McKinley Village, the proposed 48-acre, 328-unit neighborhood just north of East Sacramento and McKinley Park, is contentious. Even the city staff report for next Thursday’s…
Gavin Newsom announces effort to legalize marijuana in California, aiming for 2016 presidential election
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom likes himself some counter-culture. Last year, when young kids occupied the state Capitol in protest of cuts to higher education, he…
CEO announces wage freeze at Sacramento Bee
Our local partners in journalism crime over at The Sacramento Bee received some bad news today. Two words: wage freeze. This means that, over at…
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…
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…
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…
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…