OK, number 1. What the hell happened to friendship tailor? The shop is totally cleaned out now. Did he really get firebombed? If so, why didn't the Bee report on it? Is this maybe just a rumor. He's pretty old.
Friday, April 30, 2010
mysterious sacramento mysteries
OK, number 1. What the hell happened to friendship tailor? The shop is totally cleaned out now. Did he really get firebombed? If so, why didn't the Bee report on it? Is this maybe just a rumor. He's pretty old.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
plant sale
May 1st she is holding a sidewalk plant sale at the home of her friend, Maryanne - 2131 F Street - it is near the home with the prominent red doors. Right near the Rite Aid store on F Street. 10 am to ?????? until the stock is sold out.
She has a lovely assortment of succulents/cactus for a mere $3.00 - $5.00 each. Last Sunday during the work party event, I got a delivery from June at the garden, and everyone was remarking how gorgeous her succulents are!
Sshe plants them in very chic and aesthetically appealing containers - not just stuck in a plastic pot - but tantamount to a work of art! For a plant of this quality - I would expect to pay at least $20 not $5.00 - her succulent pots are very pretty. The smaller succulents are a mere $3.00
Most of her vegetable starter plants are only $1.00 each. I bought a lovely nectarine tree sapling for just $10.00 and $4.00 for an Irisplant
It is hard to even find organic starter plants - I have paid
$2.50 to $3.00 each at Soil Born Farm plant sales and June is selling them for a mere $1.00!
She never uses GMO (genetically engineered seeds) she uses open pollinated seeds and is scrupulously careful where she sources her seeds. All of her potting soil and soil ammendments is from finest, certified organic sources such as Foxfarm and Arbico - if you want more details about her growing practices - you can contact her at:
719-3252 tropicacolors@yahoo.com
This is just a partial list - she will have different stuff for the big plant sale May 1st. She loves to specialize in heirloom, antique and hard to find varieties of plants. I try to plant perennials - and she has a nice selection.
Peppers:
'Anaheim'
Cucumbers:
'Tasty green' , 'Armenian', 'Sooyou Nishiki'
Zucchinis:
'Zucchini', Straightneck Yellow', 'Eightball', 'Tondo Scuro', 'Tondo Chiaro'
Beans:
'Kentucky Wonder'
'Romano'
'Red Noodle'
Tomatoes:
'Green Zebra'
'Boxcar Wille'
'Costoluto Genovese'
'Speckled Roman'
'Striped Cavern'
'Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge' (smaller than others)
'Kelloggs Breakfast "
'Black Krim' "
'Tumbling Tom' (weeping basket type) "
Melons:
'Prescot Fond Blanc'
'Sakatas Sweet'
'Tigger'
'Banana'
'Petit Gris de Rennes'
'Collective Farm Woman'
'Charentais'
'D'alger'
Watermelon:
'Orangeglo'
'Royal Golden'
'Moon and Stars'
'Picnic'
Purple tomatillio small
Nectarine 'Double Delight' is producing fruit 5 gallon $10
Others:
Yellow Clivia Minata 1 gallon $3
Sempervivum (hens and chicks) $1
Ceramic succulent pots with a variety of succulents $3
Japanese iris 1 gallon $4
I bought 2 different deliveries over the last 3 weeks - about 30 starter plants - June guarantees the quality of her starter plants and takes great effort in producing the finest quality plants - organically grown.
She has been working with horticulture and gardening her entire life - but just started her business last year.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
everybody's working for the weekend
Is it too early to start posting about the weekend? After all, everybody's working for the weekend. I know I am. A big-time Brew Awareness Alert (TM) is warranted. Odonata is having their hotly and highly and heavily anticipated saison release partay at The Shack this Friday, starting around 7. Well, actually, it starts around six but I'm hoping everyone shows up more at seven so that it's not too crowded when I get there. Gary is going to pair the saison with moules frites and other Belgian treats. Hopefully not Belgian broodjes, though (hint: those are just sandwiches, and crappy ones at that). Looks like the bottle release is delayed because of recalcitrant yeast, though.
Monday, April 26, 2010
4 out of 5 NBA consultants agree
mysterious "consultants" agree
Newer arenas often have three fan concourses, some with exclusive entrances for higher-paying fans. Arco has a single, tight corridor where elbow jostling can get heavy on busy nights. That's not good for making money, NBA consultants say, if fans think twice about leaving their seats to buy another beer and hot dog.
Many loyal fans love Arco's homey feel and ease of parking. But the NBA, where team player payrolls average $70 million, wants dazzling digs.
Newer arenas have loaded up on moneymaking luxuries: high-tech advertising, suites, wider upholstered club seats and upscale restaurants and bars, some with mahogany molding and cream-colored carpeting to offer the feel of a four-star hotel.
Arco, by comparison, is a concrete jungle. Its VIP lounge is a bunker-like converted storage closet near a loading dock.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/26/2705128/arena-plan-may-hit-snag-over-arcos.html#ixzz0mEkkcSAO
kitten mitten attack
Still, it's sad because Goodwill seems to be triumphing over all and it SUCKS. At least Deseret has the strength of the church of Mormon behind it and will never fall.
The new Saveur has an article about bananas that inspired me to go to SF Market and seek out some different kinds. They only had regular (Cavendish), plantains, and this one, from Mexico. Maybe a platano de bolsa? I was disappointed there weren't more. I'm bummed I missed out on my chance to try the Mexican banana-apples in Mazatlan. I was at the market and didn't think to get any. These are pretty good. Sweeter and more fragrant than a Cavendish, but kinda mushy.
Here are some pictures of Babs wilding out on the Kitten Mitten. I'm trying to be better about not letting her attack my arms, even though we both enjoy it.
Tuckered out.
Friday, April 23, 2010
quick, sha na na is playing!
They were kind enough to send out a complimentary dessert at the end. It's a grapefruit semifreddo, and I loved the bitter note from the grapefruit but I really hate any hint of white chocolate on anything. It's sprinkled with it. But thanks for letting me try it!
Here's the plant pot I got for ten bucks at a good estate sale. Please always let me know if you know of any estate sale! Who doesn't like a potted cat?
answer: jerks
why move the zoo?
The city has been working on development plans for Sutter's Landing Park. They recently finished a feasibility study on moving the Sacramento Zoo to this site. If the Zoo were to move to this site, it would involve building new roads to accommodate a million Zoo visitors a year. The Master Plan and Zoo Feasibility Study can be found at http://www.
A few important points:
• The Zoo Feasibility Study notes many problems with relocating to the site, and says that it would be cheaper to buy virgin land for the zoo than to use Sutter's Landing.
• The road access plans being discussed by the city. These would profoundly affect the entire area around Sutter's Landing, including residential neighborhoods.
• A survey of the Sacramento community showed that the public prefers passive recreational activities, like hiking, for the area.
• We have a zoo at Sutter's Landing park already--a "freedom zoo" (thanks, Robert Sewell) of animals in their natural habitat. This area and habitat could be restored, enhanced and loved as it is.
There will be two public meetings on Sutter's Landing Park plans that you can attend (http://www.cityofsacramento.
• Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 6:00-7:30 p.m. , Hart Multipurpose Senior Center, Marshall Park, 915 27th Street, Sacramento
• Wednesday, May 5, 2010, Parks & Recreation Commission, 7:00 p.m., Oak Park Community Center, 3425 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Sacramento
These meetings are important. They are our chance to have a say in how we want this area used and/or developed. Please attend and share your thoughts.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
more boring heckasac
Thursday, April 15, 2010
one more post
If you need easy, Mexi-crudites, just sprinkle lime and chili salt on jicama, cucumbers, and radishes. And mangoes! Why not?
OK, here's the real beer nerdery. Get in the car right now, because the Davis Co-op just got some Cantillon in! They have the Kriek and what's the other one? The Grand Cru Bruocsella? The beer dude at the co-op is putting it out today and he thinks it will be gone by the end of the weekend. Plus, it's picnic day, so I'm sure you are heading to Davis anyways to see the Four Eyes on the KDVS float.
I posted these last year, but here are some pictures from when I visited Cantillon. If you are ever in Brussels, you have to go!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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Friday 4/16: KDVS Presents... Psychedelic Horseshit, Ganglians, G. Green
Monday, April 12, 2010
Charity ball
The Bee had an article about local McClatchy High rockers Fanny. This song isn't that great. It's funny to write a song about a charity ball.
Friday, April 09, 2010
I smell like rotten eggs because I went to Wilbur Hot Springs yesterday. Other than that, it is gorgeous and wonderful! The drive up highway 16 through the Capay Valley right now with the insane bonkers wildflowers is a must see. Bucket list material. I had never seen any of those little towns before.
FRIDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY!! w/ Hailey, Mike C. & the Flower Vato spinning wild grooves that make you move. Funk, Soul, 60's psych & hard r&b stompers etc. | The Hub-a Rub-a | 8:00, $4, all ages KDVS 90.3 FM presents... |
Race to Nowhere
Admission: $12.00 ($10.00, students through 12th grade, with valid ID) - yes, this one's a bit pricey...
Director Vicki Abeles will be in attendance for a discussion and Q&A following the film.
Advance tickets can be purchased at http://www.rtnsacramento.
Tickets will also be available for sale at the door (cash only).
Director Vicki Abeles turns the personal political, igniting a national conversation in her new documentary about the pressures faced by American schoolchildren and their teachers in our achievement obsessed public and private education system and culture. Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people across the country who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried students aren't developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what's best for their kids, "Race to Nowhere" points to the silent epidemic in our schools: cheating has become commonplace, students have become disengaged, stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant, and young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired.
"Race to Nowhere" is a call to mobilize families, educators, and policy makers to challenge current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens.
And then at 7:30 PM
Separate $5.00 admission
The Intruder
This 1962 Roger Corman film deals with integration in the South, and was one of the few films at the time to do so. It stars William Shatner, in one of his best on-camera performances, as a racist provocateur who comes into town to stir up hatred just as the local high school is to be integrated. Written by noted Twilight Zone author Charles Beaumont and shot in the South, this low-budget indie production, as well as Shatner himself, received a number of threats from the KKK (along with much hostility from local authorities) and few theaters were willing to run it in its initial release because of the incendiary nature of it.
Please note that this film does contain use of racial epithets, which should be expected given the subject matter.
And next week, on April 18! The Man Who Would Be Polka King - a documentary on a corrupt polka empire?! Yep, that's what it is!
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
things to do tonight and tomorrow
Laureen Landau
Monday, April 05, 2010
where did she go? i don't know!
Spring has sprung in our yard.
These beautiful bulbs come up every year and we don't do a thing.
Every year there are more and more. This year a yellow crocus even snuck in.
Here's a kind of hard to read flier for a Mike C. production show tonight. Read about it on undietacos. The show last night in Oakland was beyond epic. It was more of an epoch. Splinters were cute punk young ladies. Mayyors were the odd band out on the poppy bill but a pit quickly started. They sounded really, really good and put on an entertaining show, complete with nipple tweaking, and a crowd surfer with no panties on! You know that I love the Rantouls, and that love was consumated for the first time in too long. Mike R. Mike didn't show up to play with the bananas but some guy with an afro wig stepped in and it was fine. The crowd went wild! I saw a girl with a big bananas tattoo on her sternum. No Bunny whipped the crowd into a real frenzy. He is a consumate showman. And what about that DJ? I want that soundtrack to be piped into my house. The Heats, FM Knives, and a million other bubblegum, glam, pop rock songs that I wished I knew the names of. After the show, I was the designated driver and the room sort of degenerated into absurdity. One person who I will not mention but that I will hereafter designate as "weed rage" was being sooooo funny. Not like "I'm laughing at you because you're drunk" but like "you are hilarious, sir!" or madam, as the case may be.
Now for some food talk. Much like the undercover caterer, I was inspired by the new Saveur's story on "Roman food" (as in the food of city of Rome). Instead of the bucatini alla amatricia that she made, I drooled over this oxtail stew.
On Saturday, I happened to be eating at the little lunch counter at Toledo's (which by the way, if my article with Rick Ele didn't persuade you to try that place I'm going to urge you once again to try the al pastor), when I noted that their spick n' span little meat department had oxtails (or "rabo" in Spanish). Easy!
Here's the holy triad to make the sofrito.
Here are the oxtails. Two pounds for around 9 bucks. One question-is that the spinal cord in the middle? OK, two questions-does this mean I'm going to get mad cow?
First you brown them in some oil for about ten minutes.
Then you take them out and saute the sofrito. My knife skills are bad so the ingredients are a long way from "mince".
After the saute, you add the tomato paste and cook for about 6 minutes. Then you add wine and evaporate it for 6 more. I used some nastay chardonnay so I really took care to evaporate it out. Then a whole can of San Marzano tomatoes, the oxtails, and some water. Simmer for almost three hours until the meat is sliding off the bone. You really need to skim some of the fat. Oxtails are really fatty.
Here's the finished product! The only bullshit part of the recipe was the whole stalks of celery. That prep just made them impossible to eat. The strings seemed to toughen up in the cooking.
This is a wall sculpture at The Graduate in Davis. Does anyone know anything about it? Is it Stan Bitters? No one there seems to know.
Friday, April 02, 2010
the greatest things in life are never sold
Thursday, April 01, 2010
April fools!
This is an April fool's joke, right? Please tell me it is. The commenter that called it America Live 2.0 has it right. So "Frisky Rhythms" is now called "District 30"? I bet all you people in other cities who are reading this are jealous right now that you don't live in Sacramento. Does your stupid city have a nightclub with a fake truck with a DJ booth in it? Suck it, New York!
Let's not forget that the city has given them almost 6 million dollars for this folly. In the worst budget crisis in decades.
In a good way
We had a MidMo meeting last night that was sooooo inspiring!!! I won't give anything away but we have got some hot shit coming your way! In a good way! I didn't even know we had our new website up yet, and there it is. And the "Old Timey" theme issue is out today, with an excellent cover of two old timey dudes. I ate some gross-ish old timey food in service to you readers out there. I'll work on posting extra pictures on the website today.
Justin V. made the Vice "dos and don'ts". The caption is total bullshit, though. There is a complete difference between and ipod shuffle-type dj and a real dj if you care about music. I think that guy that djs at the Hub is too ipod shuffle for my tastes. I said it! Will I regret it? I am so wired on coffee. Can you tell? Scott, what the hell did you do with the coffee this morning? I feel like I did a line. In a good way.