It all started with The Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, Buffalo Springfield and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Since the sixties I’ve been an obsessive consumer of music — first on vinyl, then cassette and for the past 30 years on CD. My selective…
The opportunity may not be as dramatic as “Speak now or forever hold your peace,” but for some students one particular class assignment may have changed their lives. For most of us our high school years are remembered, for better…
The memories conjured by recent death of Russ Solomon, the founder of Tower Records, were those of disappointment and despair. Not for Solomon, RIP, but for the failure of his stores. This includes the first one on the corner of…
Not since the heyday of Tower Records and the Webber-era Kings has Sacramento’s profile raised to the national level achieved by the Academy Award nominated film “Lady Bird,” written and directed by Sacramento native Greta Gerwig. We can only hope…
It began innocently enough – all fun and games. While earning college credits as a staff photographer for the Sacramento State Hornet student newspaper in the late seventies, I wrote a letter to the media relations director of the Oakland…
Guest essay by Tiffany Paige, Director of Artisan Mind Every one of us has a collection of stories that define our lives and make up who we are. For someone living with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, those stories…
What’s in a name, anyway? The state legislature may establish a new California Department of Community Living. The proposed department, recommended by a coalition of legislators of a half-dozen senators and assemblymembers, would be housed within the Health and Human…
