Author Archives: CoolDMZ

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"X-ray vision to see in between / Where's my kimono and my time machine?"

The Fair’s a-Comin’

I share in the Sac Rag’s love of Big Fun, but heat, crowds and cost usually conspire to make me skip out on the event, if we’re being honest. For me, the real fun is the smaller but still very … Continue reading

Concerts in the Park removing beer gardens?

Carla Meyer’s article in today’s Bee celebrating the start of this year’s Concerts in the Park program includes the detail that this year there will be no designated beer garden (“at least for the first performance,” she writes.) I don’t … Continue reading

Sacramento Parent goes glam

Sacramento Parent is one of those free advertorial magazines you see in places that moms tend to gather. Typically it features local parents, mostly moms, and articles of interest to families. The cover of this month’s edition features “The Real … Continue reading

“What would you say you do here?”

Ryan Lillis, one of the Bee’s big three reporters doing actual professional journalism on the topic of the arena, reports today that Mayor Kevin Johnson and Kings co-owner George Maloof have decided on a sit down meeting this week to … Continue reading

“We like Mitzi for this one… The M.O. matches”

Mrs. Cool and I got an inappropriate amount of enjoyment from this KCRA article about a roving gang of aggressive dogs that is terrorizing folks from Woodland to West Sac: String Of Dog-Biting Incidents Investigated Sheriff’s deputies said Thursday that … Continue reading

Maloofs trying to sink the deal?

The big news yesterday was the latest snag in the arena deal, which came when the Maloofs suddenly read the non-binding term sheet we all had already stopped talking about weeks ago, and realized they were on the hook for … Continue reading

River Cat called up to majors

But it’s not a player. Announcer Johnny Doskow will be announcing some Oakland A’s games in place of Ken Korach, who is recovering from surgery, reports Sac Biz Journal. Doskow is excited about the opportunity to announce games for a … Continue reading

Sactown Royalty on Evans trade rumors

Want to kill public support for a big arena project? Start rumor you’re going to trade the team’s best player. Tom Ziller of Sactown Royalty posted an impassioned plea for sanity last night in the face of rumors to that … Continue reading