As summer’s heat begins to fade and evening shadows appear earlier every day, the advent of fall is good news for Sacramento-area residents who enjoy high-class artistic performances.  The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts (on the campus of U.C. Davis) will host its tenth season of the best of those performances with two […]

“Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.” -Bob Seger (“Against the Wind”)             I was five years old on December 7, 1951, the ten-year anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan, probably too young to have understood if there was a big deal made of the decennial.  That day of infamy […]

           The recently concluded 61st season of the Music Circus, Sacramento’s premier organization that produces seven musicals in the round every summer, was something of a mixed bag, with two less disappointing productions detracting from the otherwise solid offerings that even included a pair that were nothing less than great.            We’ll take it from the top, in terms of quality, […]

            So it wasn’t as bad as they said it might be.  The big bad hurricane that some had described as “the size of Europe,” ended up being a relatively weak storm as these things go, albeit it did enough damage with over 30 lives lost and who knows how many others injured psychically, if not […]