Posted at 9:48 AM by CoolDMZ in Crime, Local Media (11 comments)
This is one of the good ones.
Marcos Breton’s Metro column today features his take on the search for the men responsible for the murder of Satender Singh a month ago. Once again it’s important for me to state that those people need to be caught and punished, and that Singh’s death is a real tragedy.
Breton takes Sacramento to task for being the kind of place where culprits don’t walk into the police station and turn themselves in routinely. He also brings up the “unwanted attention” this case brings on the area’s “Slavic community.” Although he acknowledges that only “some members” of that community belong to Evangelical churches who have engaged in anti-gay protests, he goes right on ahead and assumes that the attackers should turn themselves in because “[a]ttacking a man, causing his death and then hiding from the law is the opposite of Christian principles.” He’s obviously read his stuff, this Marcos Breton.
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Posted at 9:34 AM by sac-eats in Local Media (4 comments)
90.9 actually. That’s where we’ll be tomorrow, August 1, between 2-3pm. The Sac Rag will be featured on “Insight,” the local topics show hosted by Jeffrey Callison on KXJZ. Keep an ear to your Filco and you might hear the dulcet tones of sac-eats and CoolDMZ mixing with the subtle Scottish brogue of the show’s host. If you do miss it, check out the archive here.
Insight-90.9 KXJZ, 2-3pm
August- “The Writers of The Sac Rag”
Posted at 3:16 PM by sac-eats in Local Media (No comments)
Sorry for the outage folks. If you tried to connect to the ‘Rag this morning and were rudely turned away, we apologize. No helping those pesky technical difficulties.
Two media notes today:
1) The “Perfect Timing” award goes to “Sactown” magazine for featuring Natalie Gulbis, local LPGA golfer, on the cover of their most recent issue. Despite her good looks and good game, Gulbis had never won an LPGA event as of printing. Gulbis just won her first LPGA event yesterday in France. Nice timing, guys.
2) Thanks to Sam McManis at the Bee for including CoolDMZ in his recent piece about local blogs. Also, thanks to Jennifer at Sacatomato.com for her kind words.
Posted at 3:41 PM by sac-eats in Food, Local Media (11 comments)
Hey there readers. I know you were just as excited as I when you saw that this month’s issue of Sacramento Magazine featured a special reader’s poll on all the best places to eat. After last year’s good showing for local restaurants, I’m sad to say that Sacramento Magazine readers have slipped a bit and are back to their chain-eating ways. Here’s a few examples: Best Chips & Salsa-Chevy’s, Best Brewpub-BJ’s, Best Burger-In ‘n’ Out. Do I need to say that the region’s best chips and salsa are not at Chevy’s? No, I don’t think so. I would have voted (actually I did vote) for Caballo Blanco which is on the corner of Franklin and Fruitridge. NOTE: Keep your eyes out for a Sac Rag reader’s choice awards coming soon.
Oh, and one more thing: no matter what the Sac Mag readers think, Texas West BBQ is not the best BBQ in Sacramento. Period.
Posted at 9:21 AM by CoolDMZ in Hirings & Firings, Local Media (5 comments)
Sam McManis blogs today that CBS13’s Charlotte Fadipe will be leaving the station at the end of the month. Those of us who enjoyed her lilting accent will miss her. Some background on Fadipe, which is also on her bio page but I never really heard before:
A former British Broadcasting Company (BBC) reporter who was educated at Oxford and earned a master’s degree in communication at UC Berkeley…
Wow, no offense to Charlotte, but how did she get stuck at CBS13? I guess she’s a holdover from before the Sam and Pallas era began. And what a dark day that was…
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Posted at 7:51 AM by RonTopofIt in Bargains, Free Stuff, Links, Local Media, Recommendations, Television (3 comments)
Forecasting the weather in Sacramento during the summer months can seem a touch repetitive. Warm this morning, hot in the afternoon, the evening will remain warm. Tomorrow? See today. However, if you are an Internet junkie like me you have no doubt been frustrated with the poor level of detail provided online. That’s not to say that there aren’t enough resources online or 5 day forecasts with sun icons lined up back to back. But, when I am searching the Internet for weather forecasting I’m basically looking for a “cut to the chase” sentence or two. Well, my friends, I have found such a sentence or two at kcra.com. As always, I must disclaim that I’m never first on the scene with anything technology related so please forgive me if this is old news.
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Posted at 4:40 PM by CoolDMZ in KCRA, Local Media, Local Nooz (7 comments)
My YouTube buddy just hooked me up with the news that Hearst-Argyle Television has reached a content agreement with Google to provide a new channel on YouTube. Finally, online video from KCRA.
KCRA’s YouTube Channel … will be populated with news, weather, and entertainment videos as well as with original, local television programming such as “Chronicle,” one of New England’s most honored television programs.
Where the news from back east comes first.
Interesting bit at the end there about a digital video initiative to cover “local amateur entertainment.” Wonder how that will take shape…
Posted at 7:48 PM by RunnerGirl in Local Celebs, Local Media, Radio, Recommendations (21 comments)
If your radio dial hasn’t quite made its way to 650 on the AM, do yourself a favor and move it there between 6am-10am Monday through Friday.
Once Shawn & Jeff left the airwaves, I quickly became a convert to the Armstrong & Getty morning drive program after hearing my friend Elizabeth start virtually every sentence with, “This morning on Armstrong & Getty they were talking about…” Continue reading “I Heart Armstrong & Getty” »
Posted at 10:57 AM by CoolDMZ in KCRA, Local Media, Local Nooz, Show your Sacto, The Natural World (13 comments)
“Whale Watch” is getting out of hand. The entire KCRA 6 PM newscast last night was dedicated to “Whale Watch.” At about 10:15 last night Edie Lambert was talking to Toby Ross, the City Manager of West Sacramento, who cautioned would-be whale watchers to stay off of levees that are not meant for car traffic. Would it be cruel to suggest that drivers too stupid to stay off of non-roads in order to watch whales too stupid to stay out of fresh water rivers are a match made in heaven?
However, it does reflect well on the kind of news that KCRA likes to present. Flipping over to CBS13 at 11 is like watching the Great Britain PR spot on “Children of Men.” War. Famine. Dead horses. Only CBS 13 still soldiers on…
Posted at 4:08 PM by SinghCity in Hirings & Firings, Local Media, Radio (3 comments)
By now many of you have heard of controversy that nationally syndicated (and future former) radio host Don Imus has put himself in:
The drama started when Imus referred to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as a group of “nappy-headed hos.” The remarks were a seemingly off-the-cuff reference to the squad, which had just lost the annual NCAA women’s national championship, but Imus’ insensitivity to a group of college athletes who were coming off a remarkable season aroused public ire that seemed to increase with each passing day.
Interestingly (and why I’m writing about it here, of course), it turns out that Imus used to work as a radio host in Sacramento:
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