Northern California charity group the Atomic Angels are throwing a Mad Men-themed pool party extravaganza on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012 at the Greens Hotel (1700 Del Paso Boulevard) to benefit Wind Youth Services of Sacramento. For just $8 you can check out a multitude of themed contests (vintage swimsuit competition,…
(Photo above: Ken Doose w/ Lys Mayo of Dead Dads) This has been a great summer for music festivals in and around Sacramento, if you read this column you already know that. Launch was a success, Punch and Pie Fest was rad, every Friday at Cesar Chavez Plaza felt like…
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you’ve got to respect how far punk-rock giants Green Day have come. It’s been a long time and a helluva lot of albums sold since their early days gigging at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, Calif., and their early releases on Lookout! Records. Just this…
Top notch chefs prepare for Sacramento’s first-ever burger battle The first time Rodney Blackwell bit into a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, he fell in love. But that was child’s play. Blackwell, a Sacramento resident, entered the burger big leagues as an adult, ordering variations of the classic stack at fine diners,…
It might sound like a cliche, but it’s true: We here at Submerge are a family. It’s just a small group of us who put out each issue every other week, and long before we started working on this publication, we were friends first. Contributing Editor Mandy Johnston has been…
Ziggy Marley is a musician all his own The name Marley is synonymous with reggae. Obviously, that’s due to the transformative music and brilliant songwriting of Bob Marley. Though he was just a young man when he died, his music has affected people from all walks of life in a…
So, at this point we’ve all heard the comments and felt the heat of the Facebook outrage. Missouri republican and candidate for the U.S. Senate Todd Akin said that in cases of “legitimate rape” that the female body can launch some sort of biological defense to shutdown the mechanism of…
Sacramento ex-patriates By Sunlight make a home in Seattle “What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.” — Joseph Joubert, French moralist/essayist Though starting with a quote is a bit cliché, especially by anyone like Joubert, who doesn’t exactly get remembered for much other than cute little…
Sunrise MarketPlace’s Sunrise at Night Concert Series is coming to an end on Sept. 14, 2012 and in Submerge’s opinion, they saved the best show for last: Blondie and Devo! New wave fans eat your hearts out! Hear classics like Blondie’s “Heart of Glass,” “One Way or Another” and Devo’s…
Put on by Alison Kranz and local photographer Nicholas Wray (who frequently contributes to Submerge), 400×400 is a proximity based photo project where the organizers asked for community contributions that would capture the character of our city block-by-block. “The idea for 400×400 is to get people–even people who wouldn’t necessarily…
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