April 14-15

April 9, 2012 - Resorts and Towns' Update: Some North Tahoe ski resorts have extended their season due to recent snowfall and fantastic spring conditions. Homewood will reopen for the weekend of April 13-15 (Friday - Sunday) giving skiers and riders an...

Woodland Museum Day offers a rare opportunity to sample a lot of the town's historic legacy when eleven unique venues are open this Saturday: * The Christian Church Museum, 509 College St.* The Gibson House Yolo County Historical Museum, 512...

April 14 at Alpine Meadows is where top ranked professionals will compete in the freestyle ski and snowboard contest called “Trains”.  The Trains Contest is presented by High Fives Foundation, a Tahoe-based non-profit that raises money and awa...

If you live in Northern California, this coming Saturday, April 14, is shaping up to a blockbuster plant sale day. Not one, not two, not three but four plant sales sure to excite any gardener. It’ll be hard to decide which one(s) to go to! Where will...

Special guest lecturer April Farnham, former collections manager of the Maidu Indian Museum, will speak at the Sacramento History Museum about indigenous people in Sacramento's early history. Although their names are largely forgotten, individual members of the local Nisenan Maidu,...

The Ubuntu Green G-Squad will be spending this Saturday transforming a blighted lot into a bright spot for the entire community, when they turn a vacant lot at 44th Street and 14thAvenue into a long-awaited community garden. The project began last summer by Ubuntu Green’s Green Youth Leadership Team (aka The G-Squad), when they cleared...

April 9, 2012 - Members of Occupy Nevada County say that Spring will bring a resurgence of nonviolent direct actions around the country. They are making plans to ensure that local demonstrations will be peaceful and effective as they continue the stru...

Phil Kline went through a long, introspective process in coming up with "Zippo Songs: Poems From the Front."If you were a soldier during the Vietnam War, odds are you had a Zippo lighter in your breast pocket. And if you did, it was likely engrav...

Our condolences go out to the Babin Family and to his many friends at the Sacramento Bee. A memorial service will be held in his memory on Sunday April 15 from 2-4 PM in the Courtyard between the California Museum and the Secretary of State’s Office. Mr. Babin was the co-writer and co-director of...

By Nicola Hil Tickets are selling fast for the annual V-Day Sacramento community production of The Vagina Monologues!  For a second year in a row, local nonprofit Sacramento Women Take Back the Night is proud to participate in the worldwide V-Day Campaign by hosting a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s celebrated play. This year,...