It didn’t take Rick Perry, the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, long to back away from his first comments on Social Security.  After he boldly called it a Ponzi scheme in a debate last week, suggesting it was an unconstitutional government sham, he tactfully reversed himself over the weekend by claiming that […]

            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, […]