SN&R Best of Sacramento 2008:
Best blog
1. The Sac Rag
Best blogger
2. Sac-Eats
T3. CoolDMZ
Best Sacramento Web site
2. The Sac Rag
Congratulations to sac-eats, who for my money is the best blogger this town has seen or will ever see. (I may be a tad bit biased.)
As in previous years, we must extend a hearty Thank You to all of our readers. Without your participation this site would not be what it is today!
CBS13 has some timely advice for victims of the latest credit card scam, which unfortunately has ties to a local sham company. (My transcript from the video below)
CBS13: Criminals actually tapping into credit cards and charging people for things they didn’t buy. … Investigators say these worldwide complains have been traced right back here…. Officials say this could be just the tip of the iceberg…
CBS13: Opening her American Express bill, [Granite Bay resident Amy Galloway] found charges from a company she’d never heard of called 24 Hour Corp.
Galloway: I finally called American Express and said can you check this out?
CBS13: They did, and credited her account….
Barry Goggin, CEO, Better Business Bureau chimes in with some helpful advice:
When times get tough and the future seems in doubt, always remember two things:
You may now return to your watching of the Palin/Clinton video…
Burglar wakes men with spice rub, sausage attack
– The Associated Press
Published 4:05 pm PDT Sunday, September 7, 2008Fresno County authorities have arrested a man they say broke into the home of two farmworkers, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.
Fresno County sheriff’s Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez of Fresno was found hiding in a nearby field wearing only a T-shirt, boxer shorts and socks.
Burrimond said Vasquez was arrested after deputies found a wallet containing his ID at the ransacked house just east of Fresno.
The victims told deputies they awoke Saturday morning to the stranger applying spices to one of them and striking the other with an 8-inch sausage.
Burrimond said money allegedly stolen in the burglary was recovered. The sausage was tossed away by the fleeing suspect and eaten by a dog.
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If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, why not take 10 minutes and enter the voting booth for the News & Review’s Best of Sacramento 2008. More than one opportunity to vote for your favorite, ahem, website/blog/blogger.
Voting ends September 5 and the winners are announced September 25. This year, we are planning to announce our picks in many of the fine categories. We’ll do that next week. So if having to come up with your own original thoughts is too hard, and you’d rather let us tell you what to think, then sit where you are and stare at your computer until then and we’ll take care of you.
Spend less dough getting into the fair so you have more to spend on the fried dough inside! Here are some ways that the State Fair folks are saving you money this year:
Today is Tuesday, so that means all children 12 and younger get in for free, and those carnival rides will cost you just $1 each today.
 This applies to next Tuesday, too.
Today, August 19th, is First Responders Day, so all First Responders (in our out of uniform) with proper identification gain free admission. (OK, so I have a First Responder card from my CPR/AED/First Aid/Bloodborne Pathogens certification — would that get me in? They mean firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, and the like, right?) Continue reading “Enjoying the Fair for Less”
Via zokuga, two photo blogs to check out for images from Beijing–Paul Kitagaki’s images on the Sac Bee photo blog, and former Bee photog Kevin German’s photoblog “Wandering Light.” German lives in Vietnam and does kickass photo documentaries of Southeast Asia, as I learned in the last five minutes. Here is my favorite of his so far:
Why is it that we can be out in public, hear a song we like, and purchase it instantly from our iPhone, but it still takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R to get a green light at certain intersections? I know of at least one awful light, perhaps the worst intersection ever: Sierra Boulevard and Howe Avenue.
The greater Sierra Boulevard area was the haven for many of my friends way back in our single days (including the more-than-a-friend sac-eats) so there have been countless hours lost while sitting on Sierra, waiting to turn left onto Howe. The poorly timed signal almost threw off the benefit of the location’s close proximity to our leisure activities like the bike trail, Thursday nights at Mace’s, and the formerly quintessential singles’ joint: the Lucky supermarket at Loehmann’s Plaza.
It’s practically more time conscious to drive east on Sierra, turn right on Fulton (no right turn on red, mind you), and go west on Fair Oaks, rather than wait for the left at Howe.
There have got to be other lights like this in the region, so do us all a favor and let us know the ones to avoid and any recommended alternative routes.
Took the family up Oregon way last week for a real old-fashioned Summer Vacation. I had never been up I-5 past Woodland, oddly enough, and although you don’t see much up that way–and the air was still smoky–it was a great drive. The flat area of Siskiyou County, the part containing Yreka, is just about the most beautiful country you’ll ever see. It would be bonkers at sunset.
Our destination was Ashland, which is a great little town. More charm in that town per square inch than most other entire other cute small towns. Slideshow after the jump…
Continue reading “CoolDMZ’s trip to Ashland (PHOTOS)”
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