Broadway Sacramento blew the roof of the Community Center Theater with another highly popular musical built around music by individuals or groups who greatly changed popular music in the last half of the 20th century. “Million $ Quartet” revolves around Sam Phillips (an excelent Christopher Ryan Grant) — owner, record product and just about everything else at Memphis-based label Sun Records — and his four most famous discoveries Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Jonny Cash, and Elvis Presley.  The show gives us insight to how Phillips, through his artists, bridged racial, social, economic, and other divides to create music that endures and influences music a half century later. The scene i

There are very few known details about the closing of the Hard Rock Café downtown. Manager Kim Templeton deferred answering questions to a public relations firm. That firm would not answer phone calls. According to a Sacramento Bee article, it will close March 27, but is that before or after the private event listed the same day on the Hard Rock website as "Morgan's Bat Mitzvah?"  One thing is for sure. With the Hard Rock closing, Sacramento is losing several important things: a restaurant, a music venue, a 36-foot guitar with neon highlights and a small museum chock full of Rock 'n' Roll memorabilia. Not to mention an employer. The following is a photo essay depicting some of Hard Rock

Sacramento-raised painter David Garibaldi delivered a poignant speech at Wednesday's "For Art's Sake" meeting. The 26-year-old thanked Mayor Kevin Johnson and the city for its support and guidance when he was growing up in Sacramento. While Garibaldi was a high school student interested in the arts, the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission recognized his potential and sent him to California State Summer School for the Arts on a full scholarship, he said. Garibaldi credited this and his high school art program with helping him redirect a creative fire that led him to graffiti the streets of Sacramento, inspiring him instead to become a performance artist. The "For Art's Sake" initiativ