It’s been ten years since Midtown Sacramento’s most colorful resident shuffled off this mortal coil.  While Midtown has always had its fair share of eccentric and offbeat characters,… Read more

Melanie Dinos created 100 “Keep Midtown Janky” stickers last year and gave them out to friends for fun.  It’s a year later and the plain black and white stickers can be seen on… Read more

Much as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said, “I know it when I see it,” in regards to the rather nebulous definition of pornography, defining “janky” can be a bit of a… Read more

While Bobby Burns was the ultimate Midtown character, there are still plenty of folks who contribute to the quirky nature of Midtown in unique… Read more

It was a glorious din even from a half-block away. Was it junk percussionists Einsturzende Neubauten’s seminal Kollaps album or maybe an early slab by Japanese destructo-merchants Hanatarash cranked up to 11?… Read more

I am a proponent of the Dive Bar. A true dive bar has a few distinguishing characteristics.  1) Dive Bars open in the morning.  2) cheap beer  3) a good… Read more

The Loire Valley is a land flowing with chalk and honey. Tuffeau stone, the chalky soil in Vouvray, Montlouis, Savennieres, and Chinon, has been indispensable to the architecture, mycophagy (mushroom eating),… Read more

Sac City’s Kondos Gallery reopened in August with a show featuring works by former City College professors Wayne Thiebaud, Gregory Kondos and Fred Dalkey.… Read more

Begun twenty years ago as a simple celebration of chalk art, Midtown’s Chalk it Up Festival has grown to become one of the signature events of the Sacramento summer.  Held each… Read more