Chalk It Up chalk art festival at Fremont Park, 16th & P Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, this Labor Day weekend, September 4, 5, & 6, 2010, from 10:00AM to 6:00PM.  The festival will bring hundreds of sidewalk chalk artists and dozens of live music acts together.  Continue Reading »

The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento presents its 2010 Capital Artists Studio Tour on the weekend of September 11th and 12th, 2010. This annual event features close to 100 working Sacramento artists, giving visitors first-hand knowledge about the Sacramento art scene. Continue Reading »

This sold-out nationally televised match-up of the Folsom Bulldogs and the Grant Union Pacers starts the high school football season with a bang.   The game will air live tonight on ESPN2 at 7:00PM, August 27, 2010, making it Sacramento’s first ever nationally televised high school sporting event.  You can check out highschoolsports.net for info about all your favorite high school teams.

That frightful time of year is almost here, (Halloween, in case you need me to spell it out).  I know haunted houses seem like they just happen but those ghouls don’t just wander in off the street.  If you think you could scare the pants off Freddy Krueger you have to prove it.  So if you’re feeling you could be the next Count Dracula or maybe just a little Twilight Saga in your future, you can show your stuff at the Callson Manor Casting Auditions on September 4, 2010, from 4:00PM to 8:00PM.  Just show up at the Roseville Fairgrounds, 800 All American City Blvd., Roseville, CA (Parking Lot C…look for the trailers and fenced off area) and show them a haunting performance to earn your spot in the Callson Manor Haunted House.  

The Sacramento NAACP Branch Annual Rhythm & Blues Festival at Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Boulevard, Sacramento, CA, is Saturday, September 4, 2010.  The theme this year is Standing Up For Justice.

You can enjoy the soulful R&B group the Zapp band, Grammy gospel singer Lady Tramaine Hawkins, Johnny Guitar Knox, Marshall Wilkerson, the Blues Society, V101, artists from the Home Grown Soul Show, the Sac Metro Community Chior, the Soul Line Dancers and much more!

Tickets are only $10, $20, $30. For ticket info and to check out corporate sponsorship and vendor opportunities visit their website at www.sacnaacp.org

Gold Rush Days on September 3-September 6, 2010, are presented by Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau at Old Sacramento State Historic Park, 111 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814.  This is a FREE event!  For more information go to www.sacramentogoldrushdays.com or call (916) 808-7777. Continue Reading »

12^th Annual Sacramento Race for the Arts is Saturday, August 28, 2010.  Click on this link to learn how you can support your favorite organization or school program.

Something new is coming to Sacramento!  The Grand Opening of the library for the Pocket-Greenhaven area is on Saturday, August 28, 2010.  To make it official the ceremony begins at 10 am with the ribbon-cutting at 11 am and cake to celebrate at noon.  It’s sort of like a wedding, even if you aren’t really into the ceremony come for the cake.  Oh yeah, and lots of books for FREE too!

Sacramento may call itself the “City of Trees” but lately I’m starting to think of Sac as the “City of Wildlife”.  There were some zebras on the loose in Carmichael, bats in Midtown and a couple of days ago at Natomas  Regional Park I saw a coyote just ambling across the park hardly seeming to notice there were people walking all around.  I think he was much more interested in the rabbits scurrying around the edge of the canal and the geese that were in charge of the water in the reservoir.  Continue Reading »

Have you ever wished you didn’t have to hassle with leaving your car at the airport or maybe you got a ride and now you have to figure out how to get home without spending your life savings?  Wouldn’t it be easier if you could just catch the RT?  If you would like to have some input in this instead of just wishing and waiting for something to happen, Sacramento Regional Transit District (RT) invites you to participate in the Green Line Community Review, an interactive and collaborative community planning workshop for the future Green Line to the Airport light rail extension.  For all the details click on this link to Green Line Community Review.