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Sacramento's Crocker Art Museum marks 125th birthday

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Published May 9, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Retired attorney Karl Munz, 73, pauses to admire a painting by William F. Jackson on his way to get cake Sunday at the Crocker Art Museum's 125th birthday party. "I remember coming here as a kid," Munz said. "It's been a real pleasure to see the changes." ... Sacramentans turned out by the hundreds Saturday to celebrate the Crocker Art Museum's 125th birthday ... Admission was $1.25, and almost everyone sang the birthday song at 1:25 p.m ... Just to the west of the existing museum sits the

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Dining review: House Kitchen & Bar sees a future on Capitol Mall

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Published May 11, 2010 at 10:49 a.m.
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Server Desiree Bush prepares to deliver a meal at House Kitchen & Bar ... Let's see. Open a restaurant in a part of downtown that's pretty much empty after 5 p.m. Have floor-to-ceiling windows so everyone can look out at how dead it is. Create a menu that is decidedly lowbrow, largely unadventurous and moderately affordable. Feature a dish that involves impaling a chicken carcass with a can of beer ... Sit back and watch the money roll in ... If I were a banker and someone came to me with a

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May a milestone month for three Northern California museums

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Published April 30, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Crocker Art Museum ... Three of Northern California's most important museums will celebrate milestones over the next couple of weeks – and you're invited to their parties ... Oakland Museum of California reopens this weekend with free entertainment for 31 continuous hours (a nod to California being the 31st state admitted to the Union.) It's just undergone a two-year, $62.2 million renovation to better showcase its art and history collections. (The second phase, reinstalling the natural

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Dining review: Red Hawk Casino steakhouse will help spend your jackpot

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Published April 25, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Chef Mark Wermiel presents a crab cake at Henry's Steakhouse ... An ambitious menu with plenty of options, steaks the size of brontosaurus burgers, food that mostly hits the mark for quality and execution ... Oh, and then there's the condition known to medicine as a "food coma" that could hit without warning. Same with the price tag when you add it all up – digits that will make your credit card statement look more like a car payment ... It all takes place in the wonderful/bizarre world of Red

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Counter Culture: You'll be drawn to Loomis' High Hand for lunch

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Published April 2, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

It was lucky that my two lunch pals and I arrived early at the High Hand Conservatory in Loomis. We had no reservation, and already a crowd of fashionably dressed women was being shown to tables and handed menus. A gender count showed I was one of only four men in the place, not counting employees ... The High Hand compound is 41/2 acres occupied by the restaurant inside a glass-walled conservatory; a nursery with thousands of trees and smaller plants (and a koi pond and statuary); and a

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Casey Hayden, from pastry to the Stanford Mansion's director

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Published March 29, 2010 at 1:43 p.m.
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Casey Hayden, Leland Stanford Mansion director, at work ... Casey Hayden was one of California's hottest young pastry chefs in the 1980s and '90s, wielding whisks and sugar shakers at the legendary Spago in Los Angeles and Postrio in San Francisco, as well as his eponymous Sacramento bakery and cafe ... Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, for whom he worked at Spago and Postrio, called him "one of the most creatively inspired pastry chefs in the country." ... Hayden turned out caramellos, ciocolatos,

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Dining: At these Sacramento-area spots, the sweets are something special

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Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 3:21 p.m.
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Share the love with an assortment of cookies from Freeport Bakery.The fresh strawberry heart tart is a specialty of Freeport Bakery in Land Park ... When money is tight but you still want to go out for a treat or take something home that's something special, dessert is the way to go. And you don't need to spend a lot to get the very best ... On a dizzying dessert-buying spree, crisscrossing our region in a hunt for sugary things, I was pleased to learn that my decadent ways were not breaking the

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Counter Culture: New Yorkers would feel at home in Dominick's

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Published Jan. 29, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.

We were inside Dominick's New York Pizza & Deli in Folsom, taking in the aroma of pizza bubbling in the stone oven, looking around the spacious, expertly decorated room. We liked what we saw ... "You are absolutely transported into an upscale New York pizzeria-delicatessen," owner Dominick Bellizzi said on the phone later ... On one of our visits, a cook behind the counter was tossing pizza dough high in the air and deftly catching it, a rare sight at local pizzerias ... "A family was in here

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Dine Downtown specials begin

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Published Jan. 8, 2010 at 5:44 p.m.

Tonight begins the fifth annual Dine Downtown Restaurant Week, a chance to sample the cooking of dozens of participating Sacramento restaurants for one fixed price ... The event, sponsored by the Downtown Sacramento Partnership, continues through Jan. 17. The event has been extended to two weekends to give diners a chance to visit more restaurants ... The restaurants will offer three-course, prix fixe dinners at $30 per person ... Restaurants include 3 Fires Lounge, 4th Street Grille, 58 Degrees

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Counter Culture: 10 of '09's memorable midday meals

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Published Dec. 18, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.

Sometimes it's more than just lunch, if you pick the right spot for midday casual dining. With another year's food adventures concluding, here's my totally subjective list of the 10 places we especially enjoyed in 2009, listed in order of preference ... 1. Bamiyan ... 1121 White Rock Road, El Dorado Hills; (916) 941-8787 or www.afghancuisine.com ... Afghan cuisine is an adventure here, as in patak (crisp veggies-filled dumplings with cilantro-walnut-vinegar sauce), mantoo (steamed, beef-filled

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