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Good eats abound at jazz festival

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Published May 31, 2010 at 5:28 p.m.

Loyal attendees of the Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee love the diverse music and upbeat crowd, of course. But perhaps of nearly equal importance to them are their favorite foods and drinks, which they depend on year after year ... So let's address first what we bet will be the most pressing question about the food scene at this year's festival: Will there be grilled oysters? ... Due to circumstances, the No. 1 favorite Jubilee food came close to being taken off the menu last year when the

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Art review: Lincoln's Gladding, McBean hosts imaginative ceramics show

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Published May 9, 2010 at 2:48 p.m.
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Bill Griffith's untitled piece was awarded second place in the juried show ... History and art come together in the 23rd annual "Feats of Clay" exhibition at the Gladding, McBean factory in Lincoln.  A holdover from the 19th century, the factory was founded in 1875 by Charles Gladding, Peter McGill McBean and George Chambers to create and ship vitrified sewer pipe to cities and townships in California and beyond ... In time, the factory expanded to make fire brick, roof tile, enamel brick and

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Fruit and Veggie Fest takes to the store aisles to teach healthy eating

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Lucas Henderson, 8, of Sacramento and other children from a future generation of shoppers watch and learn as pears are weighed Sunday during an educational tour of a FoodMaxx store in south Sacramento ... A group of children stood in front of a wall of neon-colored jugs of punch in a south-area grocery store Sunday ... They looked up at the yellow, orange and pink concoctions that made a tantalizing display ... The boys and girls were taking an educational tour of the FoodMaxx on Florin Road

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Region's officials in debt headlock

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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Teacher Laura Bowles, standing at right in doorway, watches her third-graders go to recess at Aero Haven Elementary from her classroom, which got new flooring. Budget and enrollment shortfalls have been blamed for the decision by the Twin Rivers district to close the school ... Think of it like buying a house with a hefty mortgage that looked good when home prices were spiraling upward – but threatens to pull you under now that the housing market has tanked and your pay has been cut ...

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Caution: Longtime capital law is nothing to spit at

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

Be careful where you spit ... More to the point: Watch it in Sacramento ... Laws against public spitting are historic relics, but Sacramento City Code 9.04.040 still prohibits spitting on sidewalks and in streetcars ... Occasionally – rarely – it's even enforced ... "It's still on the books and we use it when we see fit," said Officer Konrad Von Schoech ... Expectorators were cited three times in the past 12 months ... The only cited transgressor in 2010, said Von Schoech, was a high school

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Many baseball players use music for introductions

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Published May 23, 2010 at 10:39 a.m.
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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

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Back-seat Driver: Cal Expo monorail saved

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

In Sacramento this week, a beloved "people mover" is saved, two more projects are headed down the track, and a fourth is stalled at the station ... Cal Expo monorail rolling ... Fingers crossed, State Fair officials say they think they'll have their popular monorail back on track for July's fair after a year of tense fixes ... They've been updating the old trains, but for a while, it was going all wrong. Doors wouldn't open. Doors wouldn't close. Trains refused to leave the station. Trains

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A boy's life mended

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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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While he waits for a medical checkup, Lovensky Alexandre, 7, examines the scar left from the surgery that closed a hole in his heart. Doctors at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento donated their services after a Sacramento fire captain, volunteering in Haiti after the quake, met Lovensky and his mother ... Lovensky Alexandre, a tiny boy with a hole in his heart, came to Sacramento from the devastation of the earthquake in Haiti ... The frail 7-year-old showed up in March with an eager grin and a

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Lincoln welcomes highway bypass but worries about downtown

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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A Caltrans worker assists in the construction of a bridge over Markham Ravine for the Lincoln Bypass. The bypass is expected to reduce traffic on G Street in the historic downtown from 31,000 to 18,000 vehicles daily ... Downtown Lincoln's historic main street boasts picturesque brick buildings, quaint shops and one gnarly traffic jam ... Thousands of commuters and truckers rumble through each day on old Highway 65, kicking up dust and noise and generally making G Street – as it's known in

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Use of 'Asian American' wanes

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Brianna Haas, 6, prepares to go onstage with the Halau O Keikiali'i hula dance group from Elk Grove at Sunday's Pacific Rim Street Fest at Downtown Plaza and Old Sacramento. More than 15 Asian cultures were represented at the event ... Is the term "Asian American" fading into history, like "Oriental" before it? ... As Sacramento's growing Asian immigrant communities celebrated Sunday's Pacific Rim Street Fest, a growing number note that Asian American isn't a race and said they choose to

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