Now that the calendar has turned, it’s time for our picks for the best performances we saw in and around Sacramento in the year just past.  We’ll start with these “honorable mentions”: o Alicia Hunt’s bravura solo performance in George Brant’s “Grounded” at B Street in July and August; o The Sacramento Philharmonic’s performance of […]

The last of the ten episodes of the second season of “Fargo” aired just before Christmas, and if it was disappointing for its lack of excessive violence (with only one gruesome killing), that shortcoming was more than made up for in the preceding installments of this excellent series.  The show is written by Noah Hawley, […]

Is it really time for another new calendar?  Time, it seems, doesn’t slow down for anything.  The minutes continue to pass at the same inexorable pace, each one gone before you know it.  And those minutes quickly become hours that become days, and then weeks, and months, and before you know it, you’re wishing everyone […]

My wife and I didn’t really know what to expect when we decided to travel to Cuba with our sons.  We studied all the guide books we could get our hands on and talked to the few friends who had been there recently.  Our sons also did a lot of homework, and we shared our […]