Opinion

Right now I’m drinking a coffee from McDonald’s. Don’t worry; I know it’s HOT. But it’s not as hot as it used to be. We can thank the late Stella Liebeck for that. You remember Stella. She was a meme before memes were memes. She’s the lady who sued McDonald’s…

Just last week it was announced that America’s largest and most prestigious cycling event, the Amgen Tour of California, is returning to Sacramento in 2014. The race is a Tour de France-style cycling road race that will see some of the top athletes in the world travel more than 700…

After a brief hiatus, one of Sacramento’s most beloved and longest running reggae dance nights, Get Down to the Champion Sound, is returning, this time at a new home. Starting on Nov. 17 and continuing weekly on Sunday nights after that, Get Down will now be at Blue Lamp, located…

One of our favorite midtown bars (they’ve got Big Buck Hunter AND free popcorn, um, fuck yes), Pine Cove Tavern, is turning 60 years old. To celebrate, they are throwing a three-day bash from Nov. 15 to 17, 2013. There will of course be live music: Whiskey Dawn will play…

Crocker Art Museum’s creative monthly event Art Mix is going all Comic-Con on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, where from 5 to 9 p.m. guest artists like John Cottrell (from Dark Horse) and Timothy Green (from Marvel, DC and Dark Horse) will be on-hand along with Eben E.B. Burgoon from Eben07…

Part hip-hop cypher, part jazz lounge, Flow is an exciting new monthly event going down every second Thursday at Assembly (1000 K Street). Hosts Jay Siren and Andru Defeye welcome you to enjoy the sounds of your house band for the evening, Element Brass Band, while new guest MCs take…

Here’s an event where people willingly go in knowing that what they’re about to hear is going to be bad. Real bad. It’s the second annual Non Drummer Drum Off, presented by ZuhG Life! This year’s Non Drummer Drum Off, a drum off consisting of local music scene members whose…

A few friends of mine went to Treasure Island Music Festival last weekend. Most of them said something like, “It was awesome, but it was freeeezing!” which reminded me of an even colder music fest in our region, South Lake Tahoe’s SnowGlobe! They just recently announced the lineup for the…

Winter typically isn’t when you would expect to see big, arena-level concerts rolling through Sacramento. Larger acts mostly tour in the summer and festivals are almost always in fair weather months. If we’re lucky, each year there will be one or two giant Christmastime shows at Memorial Auditorium or Sleep…

Halloween can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For some, it might be dressing up in costumes, be they of the normal, scary, silly, creepy or sexy variety. For others, it’s about trick-or-treating, haunted houses and carving pumpkins. Naturally, each experience is a little…