Opinion

Oh No, Not U2

There are many great rock bands both past and present; U2 is not one of them. Sure, they’ve had a lot of hits, made a buttload of cash and remain popular around the world, but what the hell does the world know about rock music, anyway? It’s been a long…

Submerge Your Senses: Special TBD Fest Edition!

What used to be known as Launch has morphed into a brand new, even bigger shebang called TBD Fest. From Oct. 3 to 5, 2014, TBD will invade The Bridge District in West Sacramento (hence the name “TBD Fest”), right along the River Walk next to Raley Field. Sweeping views…

Screaming the Body Electric

So, I tried yoga for the first time last weekend. The night before, I’d been at my favorite bar with my friend and girlfriend, and they were extolling to me the virtues of this ancient physical/spiritual/mental practice. You see, I’m very impressionable, especially when I’ve been drinking, and it sounded…

Baseball for Dummies

Baseball feels like it’s been around forever, but did you know that’s not the case? We’ve only been playing baseball for about 175 years! Before that, we used our sticks to crack the skulls of animals and man alike in a claw-scraping, 100-percent hustle that we called life in the…

Cop, Killer

Police officers of the United States: please stop killing black people! This has gone way past being an epidemic. Michael Brown and Eric Garner are only the latest in a long list of young black men killed without cause by the police. The problem isn’t restricted to any particular region…

Come Fly/Float Away With Me

We are traveling wrong. We cram our clothes into overstuffed carry-on bags to avoid luggage fees so we can look like scrubs on our vacation. We sit through miserable flights in close quarters with our fellow travelers who have somehow all managed to get sick just prior to boarding the…

Sketch Artists

Gentrification has become all the rage in cities all across the country. I love words like “gentrification” because they’re so heavily coded, but we all know what they really mean without having to say it. Like, if I just threw out the term “urban streetwear,” you’d know what I meant……