May 1, 2019
The job of visiting every restaurant in Pocket and Greenhaven has produced a surprise. While I expected diverse menus and a wide terrain of tastes and kitchen talent, I was not prepared to see local restaurants acting as community gathering spots and meeting halls. I expected to see people eat and run.
But quick meals and fast exits are not how every restaurant works in Pocket, especially during the afternoon. The food comes quickly, but customers are in no hurry to leave. In this way, our restaurants become unique alternatives to home and work. They become the “third place” identified by sociologists—places where people linger and experience their neighborhoods in neutral settings.
May 1, 2019
As the Kings rolled to their annual demise without the playoffs in sight, my friend Peter Monson, who owns the Fox & Goose pub on R Street, mentioned how things were getting better.
The Downtown arena had delivered on its promise to enliven a neighborhood devoid of charm and relevance. The Kings had shown improvement and potential for next season. But there was something different about the NBA crowds at Golden 1 Center.
“They aren’t the same as they used to be,” he told a few of us at the pub. “They’re just not.”
May 1, 2019
The State Hornet, Sacramento State’s student-run news organization, celebrates its 70th anniversary this spring with a series of community events and alumni gatherings to honor The Hornet’s influence and impact.
The newspaper, which published a four-page inaugural issue in January 1949, has produced evocative and memorable news coverage, careers and experiences.
From the university’s cornerstone-laying ceremony in 1952, to Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Sac State in 1967, to coverage of protests, 9/11 and sports successes, State Hornet student journalists reported, photographed, wrote and edited stories that would propel them to bright futures.
May 1, 2019
This month’s culture and entertainment highlights.
May 1, 2019
Hoping to strengthen ties between the city of Sacramento and UC Davis, university leaders announced a year ago they would build a mixed-use development called Aggie Square on the UC Davis Health Campus in Oak Park.
“Aggie Square will have all the features you’d expect in a live, learn, work, play ecosystem,” UCD Chancellor Gary S. May says. “There will be new housing, new offices, smart classrooms, state-of-the-art research and lab facilities. It will truly be a place where university, industry and community come together.”
May 1, 2019
Community weighs in on proposed path near River Park.
The Two Rivers Trail Phase II project is designed to provide a 2.4 milelong multiuse path between Sutter’s Landing Park and H Street, near Sacramento State. The city released an environmental document on the project—which will rim the River Park neighborhood—in October 2018.
Numerous comments were received.Concerns have been raised about the section of the proposed trail where levee alterations are needed. At issue is the policy of the American River Flood Control District that recreational trails be kept off the levee crown, except where not feasible.
