The bossa nova beat, rapped gently on a Gretsch mod orange drum set, cuts through the cool AT&T Park air in a quick 4/4 time ... You know the day destroys the night, ... Night divides the day … ... Two measures later, in perfect syncopation, the Fender/Rhodes piano bass and Vox Continental organ join in, followed by the Gibson SG electric guitar's evocative riff ... Tried to run, Tried to hide … ... Then, descending from the ether and settling upon the diamond, the feral and haunted voice of
Bernard Jackson had been charged with five felonies in an Oak Park sex assault ... For 22 years, five felony counts in a sex assault case against Bernard Jackson sat pending in Sacramento Superior Court ... No action was taken on the matter after it was filed in 1984 as part of the investigation into the Oak Park rapist case, which consisted of as many as 17 assaults that began in 1983 ... Then, on Nov. 13, 2006, the charges were dismissed and the case file was either carted away to archives or
Sacramento Fire Department officials say a solvent-type chemical was responsible for a small explosion Thursday afternoon at the UC Davis Medical Center's Oak Park Research Building ... Capt. Jim Doucette said the incident occurred in a lab on the second floor of the two-story building at 2700 Stockton Blvd. He said employees heard an explosion and found the door had blown open on a cabinet used to store waste materials. About 40 people were evacuated as a precaution. No one was injured ...
Over the back fence, over coffee at the kitchen table and now at a coffee house near you - civil discussion returns to Sacramento on Tuesday with "Community Conversations," a partnership of The Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Capital Public Radio and The Sacramento Bee ... Beginning at 6 p.m. at eight locations around town, we are inviting people to gather to discuss our future. The topic of the first discussion -- "What will it take to propel our region beyond the present slump into a
The mixed-media sculpture "Chinese Tower" by Lois Anderson stands out in the Gallery of California Art at the Oakland Museum of California ... OAKLAND – Picture the late 1960s. In nearby Berkeley, anti-war protesters raged against the establishment. Across the bay in San Francisco, hippies frolicked in Golden Gate Park. And just across the street at the Alameda County Courthouse, Black Panther Party member Huey Newton stood trial for murder ... The Oakland Museum of California debuted in an
A Sacramento jury today convicted an Oak Park man of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 20-year-old woman who lived across the street from him ... Jurors also found Ronald Duran Mitchell guilty of trying to kill the homicide victim's mother in a planned, July 16, 2008 attack ... Mitchell, 58, faces the likelihood of a life prison term with no chance of parole, thanks to the jury's finding on the special-circumstance allegation that he was lying in wait when he killed Laprea Tyson ...
Lawrence Brown, seated in the lobby of the federal courthouse on I Street in Sacramento, served as acting U.S. attorney for most of 2009. Among the big decisions of his tenure were to not prosecute former state Senate leader Don Perata for alleged abuse of power and signing off on a settlement with Mayor Kevin Johnson over alleged financial abuses at his nonprofit St. HOPE Academy ... You might call 2009 the Year of Larry Brown's Great Adventure ... Brown didn't sign up to be U.S. attorney when
Ambience executive chef and owner Morgon Song, above, "is the most artistic, eclectic and skilled chef I have encountered in our area," says Bee restaurant critic Blair Anthony Robertson ... The year 2009 began with a 90-minute wait for our food – at Grange, the hot new hotel restaurant downtown that would soon establish itself as an enlightened and exciting fine-dining fixture ... Grange was my first review as The Bee's restaurant critic. It was a chance to introduce Sacramento to a chef
Justus Pongyan Jr., 10, holds his 7-week-old sister, Mikayla, outside the Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center's family shelter in Oak Park. The two are living there with their parents and five siblings ... Six-year-old Paige Pongyan has two requirements for a winter coat. She wants it to be orange. And she wants it to be thick enough to keep her warm, be it in wind or rain ... Those also happen to be the things her current coat is not ... Paige lives at the Sacramento Area Emergency Housing
Supervisor Roger Dickinson is vacating his District 1 seat to run for state Assembly. The board's most liberal member hasn't had a contested run since 1994, but this race will be different, politicos say ... Sacramento County voters will see something unfamiliar next June: real competition for the District 1 supervisor seat being vacated by Roger Dickinson ... Since 1994, Dickinson hasn't faced a contested election for supervisor, and now he's stepping aside to run for the state Assembly ... The