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Event: All Ages Yoga and Creative Movement at ArtBeast, Wed, Jun 9 11:30a


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Published May 27, 2010 at 1:14 p.m.

A fun-filled and enriching class ensured to engage your young ones in exploring yoga, dance and music. This class is a wonderful way for children to begin practicing self expression in a healthy and creative way! Teacher: Jenna Maggard ...

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Event: The Cloud Foundation Fundraiser for Wild Horse/Burro Preservation at BrickHouse Art Gallery, Wed, Jun 9 6:00p


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Published May 25, 2010 at 12:43 p.m.

Speaker: Ginger Kathrens, Emmy-award winning filmmaker and founder of The Cloud Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to protecting wild horse herds on their public lands, will speak about the important work of saving the Mustangs and Wild Burros, as well as her latest work, “Cloud, Challenge of the Stallions.” Included: Hors d'oeuvres, Wine, Dessert, Silent Auction and Music Event sponsorships: Wild Burro Sponsorship $250 Wild Mustang Sponsorship $350 Pryor Mustang Sponsorship $500 ...

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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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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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Ailene Voisin: Get over it, guys! Gray's a big upgrade


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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:59 a.m.
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Jim Gray ... Based on my messages, phone calls and brief chats at the corner market, many male fans are disappointed the Kings hired Jim Gray and dumped courtside reporter Kayte Christensen ... We get that ... We couldn't miss the looks ... Theirs. Hers. On some nights, tissues should have been distributed at Arco Arena to mop up the drool ... But in terms of her professional skills – which is supposed to be the issue, right? – Christensen lacked the poise and presence of Kara Lawson but was

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Kings interview guards Crawford, Rautins


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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:12 a.m.
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Jordan Crawford of Xavier interviewed with the Kings at the NBA draft combine. Crawford says he'd fit in well with Tyreke Evans ... CHICAGO – Enough with the dunk, already ... That's the feeling of Xavier guard Jordan Crawford. He gained acclaim last summer for a dunk on LeBron James. Since then, Crawford has tried to downplay the event ... "How many times you see LeBron give up a dunk when he's playing hard?" Crawford asked rhetorically ... The Kings' interest in Crawford has a lot more to do

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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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Sacramento pot farmer's mom went to jail for what he does legally


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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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David Tat Chow's mother and stepfather were sentenced to three years in state prison on marijuana charges. Now Chow grows marijuana for medicinal uses on his small farm and teaches the art of cultivating the weed. "My parents were made an example," he says. "(The authorities) said, 'If you grow marijuana, we're going to put you in prison – and we're going to take your property.' " ... Down a rutted dirt road from Garden Highway and the Sacramento River levee, organic farmer David Tat Chow

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Long-abused public sculpture to get dignified home in Crocker


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Published May 22, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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The sculpture, made of fiberglass covered with sparkly acrylic paint, was brought to town in 1985 by Phil Hitchcock, chairman the California State University, Sacramento, art department ... It's the end of the trail for a young vaquero and the red-eyed longhorn cow he first lassoed in downtown Sacramento a quarter-century ago ... "Progress II," the flashy Luis Jimenez sculpture that was loved, loathed and routinely vandalized when it stood at 16th and K streets, has a new home ... It was

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Victoria Dalkey: 'Brilliant Earth' rocks eyes, ears at Roseville's Blue Line Gallery


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Published May 21, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Judi Stickney's "Sentinel," a sculpture of sandstone, bronze and steel. It's in the "Brilliant Earth" exhibit at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville ... Deanna Marsh and Judi Stickney have taken a rocky road to art ... Marsh and Stickney, both rockhounds, are the featured artists in "Brilliant Earth," a show on the beauty of nature at Blue Line Gallery in Roseville ... They use natural materials, ranging from geodes and petrified bamboo to semiprecious stones such as lapis lazuli and amethyst

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