This Saturday from 2-7pm is Sacramento’s best beer festival for families, the 5th Annual Midtown Community Festival. Rubicon Brewing and the Northern California Brewers Guild shut down Capitol between 20th and 21st and fill it with a beer garden, BBQ, bands, and plenty of games, activities and fun for all ages. Proceeds will benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Sacramento, which provides a safe and positive environment for all kids, but especially at-risk youth, to help them reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. Admission is FREE!!
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Crush!
Wine drinkers rejoice, as Fall is coming and the crush is drawing nigh.
This weekend, the six wineries of the Old Sugar Mill will be celebrating with their annual crush party. In addition to the usual tastings and such, they will feature barrel tastings, a grape stomping contest, live music, super discounts, local food vendors and the opportunity to bottle your own wine. Personally, I really dig the self-bottling as it it allows you to personalize bottles for gifts, create custom blends and have access to small batch wines. Last year, I bottled some tremendous Carvalho tempranillo for half the price of the standard bottle.
Tickets are $15 advance/$20 door.
California Brewers Festival 2010
This Saturday is the 16th annual California Brewers Festival hosted by the Point West Rotary Club. It is held every September to coincide with the beginning of school, as the beneficiaries of your $30 donation is Operation School Bell, a project of the Assistance League of Sacramento. Children in 34 schools throughout the Sacramento area will have new clothes for school thanks to this program and Sunday’s 4,000 swollen livers. Don’t miss Sacramento’s largest brewfest with more than 60 breweries, tons of food and entertainment by Utz and the Shuttlecocks and Velvet Tongue. I am especially looking forward to trying an Irish brewery called Strangford Lough and Manteca’s Fossil Fuels Brewing Company, which uses 40 million year old yeast.
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Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Free!
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Egg recall
Since I haven’t seen anything in the Sacramento media on this yet, I figure I had better alert readers about the massive egg recall due to salmonella contamination. Supposedly, all of the eggs have been cleared from local stores, but some were spotted at an SF area Safeway, and you might have some sitting in your fridge right now. Click here for details about brands, etc.
Mr. Lobo tapes live today!
Sacramento’s two best kept film secrets activate their Wonder Twin powers tonight to bring you some awesomely campy horror.
Movies on a Big Screen welcomes Mr. Lobo and his weekly show Cinema Insomnia, which is syndicated throughout the US but (sadly) not broadcast locally. Mr. Lobo provides hilarious commentary and insight to misunderstood and under-appreciated gems from late night film vaults.
Tonight’s feature is The Undertaker and His Pals, a macabre tale of motorcycle riding psychopaths, groovy chicks turned into lunchmeat, and acid-fu. Be there and be square.
Who threw it?
Join the SacRag’s crack investigative team as we crack the case and reveal….WHICH SACRAMENTAN TOSSED SOMETHING AT JUSTIN BIEBER’S CABEZA?
The latest viral video mystery.
The place: Sacramento
When? Last December
Join the SacRag’s investigative team as we crack the case and reveal….
WHICH SACRAMENTAN TOSSED SOMETHING AT JUSTIN BIEBER’S CABEZA?
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Local Bands Play Beach Boys
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Wine, Cheese and Bread Faire
Why do people sometimes put an “e” at the end of “faire”? For me, it conjures up images of Renaissance Faire, artificially sized smoked turkey legs (and other body parts) and overuse of the phrase “ye olde”. Alas, I shouldn’t unnecessarily grouse about it, as it seems appropriate in this context. You can’t get much more olde schoole than wine, cheese and bread. Archaeological evidence indicates that all three predate any known archeological evidence and were among the first staples of both ancient diets and religious ceremonies. Enjoying this trinity of basic foods is at the heart of the modern slowe foode movement, subconsciously awakening palates to flavors of times passed.
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Award winning beer and wines at State Fair
During the closing weekend at the State Fair, make sure you find your way to my two favorite spots; the Wine Garden and the Brewfest. While the Wine Garden is open every day, the Brewfest is only on Saturday at 5pm.
The Wine Garden has changed things up this year. Instead of offering nothing but award winning wines, they have a smaller selection of award winners with a large selection of inexpensive bottles for you to enjoy while you see acts such as Foghat and Weird Al. If you are buying by the glass, spend the extra $8 to get a commemorative glass, giving you double pours for the same price.
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