Sacramento Ballet’s Beer & Ballet just got tastier this year with its new sponsor Ruhstaller, “Sacramento’s beer since 1881,” being added to the mix. Sip some fresh and delicious brews (or there is wine and soda too) while you watch edgy new works that were created by the dancers themselves up close and personal! It [...] [...more]
Throw away everything you think you know about politics, religion, superstition, astrology, ghosts and commonly held comforting beliefs, there’s an “intelligently designed” comedy tour full of “rationalist comedians” rolling through town to make your world flip upside down. The Evolution of Comedy Tour, which hits Sacramento Comedy Spot on Friday, May 18, 2012 was founded [...] [...more]
Last year’s Launch music/art/design festival, which went down on July 23, 2011 at Greens Hotel, was hands-down one of the high points of summer. The fashion show, the pop-up shops, the killer tunes from great bands and the overall sense of community were just amazing. This year, Launch is reaching new heights. Over the last [...] [...more]
Middle Class Rut, Lite Brite, Horseneck, DJ Whores at Concerts in the Park • May 11, 2012 [...more]
By the time you read this, hometown heroes Deftones will be working on their seventh full-length studio album, a follow up to 2010’s Diamond Eyes. While on tour with his new band Crosses, frontman Chino Moreno recently told Chilean website http://latercera.com/ in an interview that Deftones had finished writing and pre-production on the new record [...] [...more]
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in historic Old Sacramento this year where there are 12 bars all within two blocks of each other participating in a wild “Cinco de Old Sacto” party. Live music, DJs and dancing, stand-up comedy, great Mexican food and yup, you guessed it, plenty of margaritas and tequila shots to go around. [...] [...more]
Pandit Binay Pathak is the son of a legendary sitar player, the late Pandit Balram Pathak, and from a very young age Binay studied under his father, deeply rooting him in Indian classical music. His musical lineage goes back over 500 years! “Pandit” is an honorific term denoting a level of expertise and respect, and [...] [...more]
Sacramento comedian Johnny Taylor’s recurring gig “Comedy Kill,” which goes down every fourth Friday at Sacramento Comedy Spot, is quickly becoming one of the city’s premiere stand-up nights. Taylor started Comedy Kill to give him and his friends somewhere to highlight the type of stand-up they’ve been doing. “I thought it would be really rad [...] [...more]
In celebration of Earth Day on Sunday, April 22, 2012 Sacramento Vegan Challenge will present “1000 Vegan Cupcakes for Charity.” Ten local bakers will make 100 vegan cupcakes each with themes like Fresh ‘n’ Local, Cupcakes Around the World and Save the Rainforest, and from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Embassy Suites’ Tower [...] [...more]
