Sacbee Picks

If you like Oakville cabernet with a side of electric guitar, here's a music festival that just might rock your world. Look for Bottle Rock Napa Valley to take over Napa wine country from May 10 - May 12, featuring 50 bands along with showing off the...

Nader Shirakh phoned to say he and wife Fariba have sold their Amore Cafe, Bakery and Espresso Bar in Gold River, one of our favorite go-to's. The new owners are husband-wife Abhishek and Nina Paul, who took over Jan. 21 after the Shirakhs trained ...

"It's going to be a two Lipitor kind of night." So said Darrell Corti, the influential gourmand and grocer, who was among the judging panel for the Bacon Fest 2 chef's competition on Sunday. A sold out crowd of 260 crammed Mulvaney's Pig on the Corn...

For one night Jimmer Fredette was the backup point guard. Kings coach won't promise that will be the case tonight. Smart went with Fredette ahead of Aaron Brooks in Friday

Carefully, calmly, confidently, Judy Gregory handles Steve, a red-tailed hawk, in front of a group of mesmerized visitors at the Sacramento Zoo. His talons sink into her leather glove. His sharp beak is just inches from her face. Once a wild hawk, his intense piercing eyes have become blind from cataracts, so now he...

In 1977, Steven Koenig, 18, who hadn't given any indication that he was suffering, shot himself. "He was the one I didn't worry about," says his mother, Marilyn Koenig. Through tears and prayers she struggled to keep her household with six other children going. In 1982, Koenig met another mother who lost her son...

Curiosity-seekers check out the Sports Corner Cafe on Tuesday.Second Saturday. The Thursday night market on K Street. And now, the New Year's Eve fireworks show in Old Sacramento. Once again, officials in Sacramento are scrambling to reassure...

EL CALLAO, Peru (AP) -- Fishermen living around Peru's largest port have harvested the sea as a means of survival since the 16th century. Their way of life, however, is soon bound to change. Many of them fear a...

Today is Veterans Day, the federal holiday that honors the nation's armed forces veterans. It's appropriate to suggest a few related titles. • "Commanding the Storm" by John Richard Stephens (Lyons, $27.95, 336 pages): In their own word...

An apprentice picks green beans during the summer at Soil Born Farms in Rancho Cordova. Nearby, an amphitheater has sprouted, with big help from Leadership Sacramento.Sacramento is finding its identity, unearthed in its fertile fields. The ci...