Sacramento brings out the superhero in BLVD, said the quartet's lead vocalist, MC Souleye. Despite being based in San Francisco, the band members feel a unique connection with Beatnik Studios in Sacramento. Drummer Dylan McIntosh grew up in Sacramento, and the group has made many friends from playing shows in the area. Before their show there three months ago, band members pulled into the back of Beatnik Studios. They emerged from the doors directly onto the stage. "I felt like I was Batman coming out of a cave or something," Souleye recalled. Friday, at Beatnik Studios, the super-quartet will save the day once again with its unique style of dance music, which blends electronic, hip ho

Clive Matson is more than a legendary Beat poet. He's a little bit younger than the Beats, and a lot more honest and raw, which he'll tell you himself. He's a nature lover, a teacher and a father. And on Monday, June 15, he will be teaching a free public workshop entitled "Let the Crazy Child Inside Write" at the Sacramento Poetry Center. Poets Q.R. Hand and H.D. Moe will also be reading at the event, which begins at 6 p.m. Matson plans to read from his heralded 1966 poetry collection Mainline to the Heart, along with some more recent works. When Mainline was published, it was described by one reviewer as "more edgy than the Beats," a critique Matson agrees with. "I'm carried away eith