In a move that all but guarantees the Sacramento Kings are staying put, a committee of NBA owners voted unanimously today to block the team’s pending sale and relocation to Seattle.
Mood is pretty upbeat but it sounds like that’s warranted.
Happy Birthday to us! The Sac Rag turns 8
On this date in 2005, RonTopOfIt and I launched this here web log. If memory serves, it was after a killer lunch at Mayflower and a discussion about tracking which local establishments served the Coca-Cola brand beverage–Google Maps having been launched just weeks prior.
Bringing in our first compatriate SinghCity and then Sac-eats and Stickie shortly thereafter is what really made this thing take off. I’d like to send a personal thank you to those dudes, as well as the five or six of you that I know have been reading this for those 8 years.
Brake for costumed heroes Saturday UPDATE: Cancelled
UPDATE: Commenter Junior points out that the event has been since canceled. Thanks, Junior!
If you see a team of super powered individuals strolling Capitol Mall Saturday, don’t be alarmed — it’s just the participants in local actor Charlie Holliday’s Super Hero improv acting seminar. Participants will be congregating at Embassy Suites downtown, and then presumably chewing up scenery and super powered baddies up and down the Capitol Mall.
Participants will be given free(!) admission to Digital Odyssey 2013, a one-day film showcase and digital media workshop sponsored by the California Film Foundation.
Digital Odyssey Conference
Saturday, April 27 10AM-5PM
Information and tickets on CaliforniaFilm.net
Sacramento named best city to be single
Real estate blog, movato.com/blog, recently named Sacramento as the best city to be single.
From the post…
So in coming up with the criteria for the best single cities in California, we had to narrow it down to what we thought were “typical†requirements for today’s single. This included:
- A lower percent of the population that is married
- Number of bars in the city
- Number of romantic restaurants in the city
- A lower cost of living
- A lower percent of people who drive to work
- A lower median age
So to sum up: Fewer married people + places to mingle + young people to mingle with + a price you can actually afford = the singles’ mecca – which was apparently Sacramento.
The folks at Movato did a good job explaining their methodology, give it a read.
Do you single folks out there agree?
RIP Scott Miller (1960-2013)
Scott Miller, leader of the bands Loud Family and Game Theory, died this week. While fame eluded him, Miller was influential and respected among musicians and critics. His passing is noted in an obituary in Spin Magazine.
Miller was also a music writer, publishing Music: What Happened? in 2010.
According to his website, Miller had reformed Game Theory and was planning a new album. He was 53 years old.
N.B. Scott Miller, founder of 80s Sacramento record label Secret Center, is alive and well.
Built to Spill visiting Harlow’s April 26
The venerable Built to Spill are on tour, and making a stop in Sacramento. The band, whose current lineup features front man Doug Martsch and guitarists Brett Netson and Jim Roth from the original ’90s lineup alongside new band members Steve Gere (drums) and Jason Albertini (bass) will be at Harlow’s next Friday.
Built to Spill released its most recent album There Is No Enemy in October 2009. It was the band’s first album since 2006’s You In Reverse. Previous studio albums include 2001’s Ancient Melodies of the Future, 1999’s Keep It Like A Secret, and their major-label debut, 1997’s Perfect From Now On. In 2012 Built to Spill remain an influential force in compositionally intelligent, lyrically thoughtful, melodic, guitar-centric rock music.
Holy crap, looks like Yo La Tengo and Man Or Astroman? are playing back to back nights at Harlow’s in May. Everything’s coming up late ’90s college radio today! Was anyone else at the “Clone Project Alpha” show at Old Ironsides back in the day?
RIP Chi Cheng
Chi Cheng, bass player for Sacramento’s Grammy-winning Deftones, has passed away at age 42. Cheng was injured in a 2008 traffic accident and never recovered.
A candlelight vigil will be held in Cesar Chavez Park on Sunday at 6:30pm.
Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle 1, Homeless 0
I’ve been passing this sign recently along a newly protected area on the American River Parkway and finally stopped to see what was going on. It is adjacent to the Capital City Freeway near Cal Expo.
As someone who has incessantly chronicled the displacement of the homeless along the bike trail, I must say that I find it odd that the valley elderberry longhorn beetle gets a better deal than the homeless.
Sacramento one of real estate blog’s “Nerdiest Cities”
You heard it first on Ransacked Media, but Sacramento has made another list, this time real estate blog Movoto’s 10 Nerdiest Cities in America. We also made their list of top cities for gamers, as well as their list of places where you might be eaten by a dragon. In fact you could say we are definitely on Movoto’s radar.
This is a real source of pride, personally. I don’t get out much, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but I don’t think I would have pegged us for a very nerdy town. Maybe there are enough LARPers to account for what I assume was a zero in the “people per science museum” category?
P.S. We’ll forgive Isaac for not knowing what LARPing is. Anyone know where the attached photo was taken?
Southgate Branch librarian one of this year’s Movers & Shakers
Christy Aguirre, branch supervisor at the Southgate Branch of the Sacramento Public Library, was named one of 2013’s “Movers & Shakers” in the library world by Library Journal in March. Aguirre was recognized as a Community Builder for her work partnering with local businesses on literacy programs:
As a result [of literacy programs], the summer reading program at Southgate tripled in size from 2010 (699) to 2012 (2,100-plus). Nearly half (47 percent) of those who signed up finished the program. That’s the highest participation rate among all 27 SPL branches. The youngest participant was four days old; the oldest, 96, prefers audiobooks. Participants read 5,859 books.
Aguirre had also been named the 2012 Outstanding Librarian in Support of Literacy by the California Library ÂAssociation. Way to go! Love to see SPL getting national recognition.
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