The Sacramento performing arts community continued to provide residents with ample opportunities to see quality performances in both music and theatrical productions last year.  We attended over forty during the year, but we missed more than a few that may have made our final list.  With that caveat in mind, here’s our top twelve for […]

The performing arts have always been a source of great pleasure for me.  As a child, growing up as I did in a suburb of New York City, I was exposed early and often to the wonders of orchestral performances, dramatic and musical stage productions, ballet, opera, and jazz, pop and rock.  It was all […]

I had only a vague sense of where American Samoa was when my son first suggested that we might spend some of our vacation time there this winter.  And, having now returned from our trip, I do have a better understanding of its geography and, perhaps of a few other things about the island that […]

We found ourselves stuck in our hotel for a couple of days on a recent vacation and took advantage of the “down” time from hiking and otherwise being out and about by watching a half dozen DVDs of films we had missed when they were in theaters. Each, to a greater or lesser extent, was […]