Description of name changes to well-known, major locations in Sacramento. How long before we get used to, and start to think and use, the “new” names? A person who left and returned to Sacramento after a few years (or less!) might become confused in a conversation with a Sacramentan who has stayed in place. For […]
Sacramento Dine Downtown Restaurant Week
Description of the 2020 Sacramento Dine Downtown Restaurant Week taking place over eleven days from January 10th to 20th, 2020. I am really excited about the 2020 Sacramento Dine Downtown Restaurant Week. It is the 15th year the event will been held! Once again there is a great list of participating restaurants – some of […]
Notable Sacramentans – Joan Didion
Joan Didion, the internationally celebrated author, was born in and spent most of her childhood in Sacramento. The Didion House, located in the Poverty Ridge neighborhood, was her home during her last two years of high school. In early November I joined approximately 85 other members of the Sacramento Historical Society on a Saturday morning […]
Sacramento Bee California Priorities
Description of the 2nd Annual Sacramento Bee California Priorities forum. On the agenda: Housing, Proposition 13 and Transportation. Last week I attended the 2nd Annual California Priorities event held by the Sacramento Bee, Sacramento’s last mainstream newspaper. I had also attended the inaugural event in 2018. The Sacramento Bee Influencer Series of opinion articles, and […]
Lava Cap Winery
Description and review of Lava Cap Winery, a family-owned winery located in Placerville, CA and the beautiful Sierra Nevada foothills. During a recent visit to Apple Hill, three friends and I stopped by Lava Cap Winery before heading home to Sacramento. The three others in our party had been there previously, but this was my […]