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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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Art review: Theophilus Brown collages at Sacramento gallery

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Published May 16, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Theophilus Brown's abstract collages mark a new style for the Bay Area painter ... All kinds of things can happen when you are making a painting, many of them bad. But then there is the happy accident, the kind that opens a new realm of endeavor. Such an accident led illustrious Bay Area figurative painter Theophilus Brown to the start of a new series of abstract collages ... "I was painting one day," said Brown on the telephone from his studio in San Francisco, "and I noticed a place on my

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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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Boat races add excitement at Auburn River Festival

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Published May 23, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.
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Katie Scott of South Lake Tahoe competes in the whitewater rodeo competition at the first Auburn River Festival on Saturday ... About 3,500 cubic feet of icy, serpentine-green water rushed by every second at the China Bar water-play park on the north fork of the American River, in the Auburn State Recreation Area. In whitewater terms, that made it a Class 2 to 3 flow – not technically "extreme," but you wouldn't want to fall in ... The rock-and-dirt parking lot nearby was jammed with SUVs,

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Counter Culture: Big flavor in a small slice of San Francisco

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Published May 14, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

Last week, I was reminded that San Francisco is an international dining destination while touring North Beach with lunch pal Bill Hawkins, a construction supervisor from northeastern Georgia who was visiting the city for the first time ... His observation: "This town is all about eating and drinking." ... And just think: Not a sausage biscuit in sight ... We camped at the Kensington Park boutique hotel near snazzy Union Square. The refurbished property is housed in the gorgeous Elks Building, a

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Gunther's Ice Cream parlor serves up 70th birthday party

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Published May 14, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Sarah Namestka, 20 months, enjoys her first visit to Gunther's Ice Cream with grandfather Don Namestka, 78. The ice cream parlor celebrates the 70th anniversary of its founding Saturday with a party featuring its first employee ... There are memories here, from the mint chocolate chip ice cream to the words scratched into worn wooden booths to the neon Jugglin' Joe flashing above the tiny corner shop ... On a sun-soaked, made-for-ice cream May day, Jenifer Namestka and daughter Sarah of El

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Mormon volunteers will perform variety of services in area parks

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

A small army of Mormon volunteers Saturday will be refurbishing parks hit hard by cutbacks ... Volunteers will remove invasive and very tall-growing non-native weeds at the Effie Yeaw Nature Center in Carmichael's Ancil Hoffman Park. They will also restore a pond, build a natural playground out of fallen trees and do other work at Effie Yeaw ... More than 10,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will pull weeds, clean up, paint, plant trees and build Saturday in state,

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Pro criterium-style race to kick off Tour of California

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Published May 6, 2010 at 9:56 a.m.

Peter Graf lives about a mile from the course, so he's excited to ride in the Sacramento Grand Prix, a pro criterium-style cycling race that will serve as a prelude to the Tour of California ... "I ride through town every day," said Graf, who competes for American Lung Association Cycling. "It's great to be able to race in front of a crowd." ... The Grand Prix includes two one-hour races May 16, each covering a 1.4-mile course that starts and finishes at 11th and L streets in downtown Sacramento

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Missouri rapist once a suspect in Sacramento's Oak Park assaults

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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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

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No injuries as chemical explosion hits cabinet in UCD research center

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

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 ...

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