Beer makes me dance. I’m guilty, I admit it. I like to dance, and beer makes me do it even more. Or at least that’s what my shirt says. So I walk into this sandwich shop in Oakland last weekend wearing my purple cotton t-shirt that proclaims to the whole world, “BEER MAKES ME DANCE!” … Continue reading
Category Archives: Out and About
TUBE hits CHALK IT UP!
For the last week or so I have heard people talking about where they were going on their Labor day weekend whether it was catching the man burn in Black Rock City, taking the boat out in Tahoe, or laying low to BBQ with some friends. They were all great ideas with memories to be … Continue reading
The Vespertine Circus Rolls into Town
Imagine yourself as a child at the turn of the century, say, in the year 1900. Imagine you beg your parents to take you to watch the circus that has just pulled into town. You enter the tent, you hear the ringmaster shouting, “Come one, come all, come feast your eyes on my amazing circus, … Continue reading
music / Out and About / sacramento / Shows
Launch at Bows & Arrows
In the early days of the first motion pictures, sound could not be captured on film. Audiences watching silent films were treated to live music accompanying a film. By the late 1920s, a sound system called the Vitaphone allowed the audience to watch a movie alongside a score played on phonograph records. Launch’s Tuesday night … Continue reading
The Sizzling Sirens are Here to Rock Your Boat!
The Sizzling Sirens Burlesque Experience began percolating inside Jay Siren after a vacation to Chicago where she was enamored by a local burlesque show. There’s something truly magnetic about glitter, pasties and corsets. After returning to Sacramento in the Spring of 2008 Jay ran a Craigslist ad to begin recruiting her sirens. The ad ran … Continue reading
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