When Northern California Ballet in Paradise lost its studio and storage unit in the Butte County Camp Fire late last year, its annual holiday performance of “The Nutcracker” was put on indefinite hold due to the devastating loss of its costumes.
Despite predictions of a rainstorm, 85 volunteers descended on the McKinley Rose Garden in early January for the annual prunathon organized by the Friends of East Sacramento, the nonprofit that manages the care and events at the city’s public garden.
Originally called Y Street, Broadway was the southern edge of Sacramento’s Grid and home to the Buffalo Recreation Grounds, a former baseball stadium. Renamed Broadway after Tower Theatre opened in 1938, the street was essentially cut off from the rest of the Grid following construction of the W-X Freeway in 1968.
Reylynn Imai makes beautiful music, from classical to rock, with perhaps the most versatile musical tool ever invented—the violin.
“I love how the violin sings,” Imai says. “You can hear it humming and resonating through its whole body as you play. It’s as close to singing as I can get. I started playing at age 10 and I’m still not done learning this instrument.”
The security camera video shows a Pocket nightmare. A woman runs toward her house, screaming that a man with a gun has commandeered her vehicle. “He’s in my car!” she shouts as she reaches her front gate.
While best known for the charming pet portraits she calls PawTraits, local artist Nikki Solone hosted her first “collaborative art piece” during last September’s Sac Open Studios. Called “What Color is Your Freedom?” and held at Solone’s studio in East Sacramento, the event invited people of all ages and skill levels to select and mix a paint color, and then add it to a 4-by-4-foot canvas. The finished work was displayed at Clunie Community Center in McKinley Park in October.