The Sacramento Lady Lions, the official cheer squad for the Mountain Lions UFL team, held their final team tryouts Friday night at Dream Ultra Lounge. The event bore little resemblance to last month’s preliminaries, which were six hours long, closed to the public and held in a barn in Rio Linda. The finals had a party atmosphere, befitting the locale. The public was welcome, so the 51 hopefuls were supported by friends and family as they vied for the 32 spots on the team. When I arrived at 5:30 p.m., there was already a line to get in, perhaps 100 strong. Dream is basically a large, square venue with an ample, curved, wrap-around bar smack dab in the middle. As you enter the club, the

For the fourth year, PODS Sacramento provided the sleighs for Santa, teaming up with News 10 Coats for Kids, Chips for Kids, Toys For Tots and the Salvation Army to donate $8,500 in logistics and storage containers. PODS Sacramento, part of the PODS Enterprises, Inc. national franchise network, donated logistics services and 29 portable storage containers to several local nonprofits this holiday season, allowing organizers to concentrate on fundraising efforts instead of expenses. Over the holidays, from November through December, PODS Sacramento supported News10 Coats for Kids Winter Coat Drive, Chips for Kids Toy Drive, Toys For Tots and the Salvation Army local chapters. It is the fou

PODS, ABC News 10 and Swansons Cleaners team up to collect coats for 20th annual charity drive in Sacramento. PODS of Sacramento, part of the PODS Enterprises, Inc. national franchise network, is donating portable storage containers to collect donated coats in support of ABC News10 and Swansons Cleaners annual Coats for Kids Winter drive. Donations of new and gently used coats will be accepted now through Dec. 3 at nine Swansons Cleaners throughout Sacramento. Now in its 20th year, Coats for Kids has collected and distributed more than 475,000 coats to children and families in need. This year, goal is to collect 500,000 coats or more. For more information about donations or to get invol

Is bigger always better? That is the question that has been circulating the landscape of college football for the past few weeks in the aftermath of revelations that the Pac-10 conference had not so quietly been trying to lure several teams from other conferences to join its Pacific coast alliance. Teams that were initially mentioned to join the Pac-10 have included the usual suspects of Utah, BYU, Colorado, Boise St, and even Texas was thrown in the mix. For area college football fans particularly those fans and alumni's of Pac-10 town near you. Let the chaos begin now that the first two dominoes have fallen in the pond of reshuffling, as Colorado and Nebraska are leading the wave to gree

With the national tour of the smash Broadway musical Rent making its last stop in Sacramento, fans from all over the world are flocking to Sacramento's Community Center Theater to experience it one last time. The tour features a multitude of original cast members, including Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal. Some fans wait all day for the $23 rush tickets, which go on sale at 6 p.m. the day of the show, and provide the opportunity to see the musical from the first two rows. Morgan Macri, Beth Furmoff and Kayla Guminiak had been waiting in line together since 9:30 a.m. Friday morning. They were visiting California for the first time, and had paid more than $500 to visit Sacramento and see Ren

Sunday, May 10 at Raley Field was not your typical Mother's Day. In the heat of the afternoon, high schoolers, middle schoolers, parents and other concert-goers screamed under the glaring sun for Endfest's lineup of popular artists. The theme for the evening seemed to be "undress to impress," as many of the artists took off their clothes or didn't wear much to begin with. White Tie Affair kicked off Endfest by beginning their set around 4 p.m. to a screaming crowd of mostly girls. Their short set of straightforward rock was over well before 4:30 when 3oh!3 took the stage. That was when it really started to heat up. 3oh!3 singer/rapper Nathaniel Motte described his last visit to Sacrament

Ne-Yo, Rihanna, and the Jonas Brothers -- these are some of the hugely successful artists who have performed at 107.9's Endfest in the past. The radio station's festival consistently brings popular artists as well as up-and-comers to Sacramento, and this year is no exception with Flo Rida, Lady Gaga, and headliner All-American Rejects. This year the crowd will definitely include a diverse amount of audience-goers, many of them hip youth, who will also be there to see opening bands 3oh!3 and White Tie Affair, both on the brink of the big-time. Colorado pop duo 3oh!3 recently had their single "Don't Trust Me" go platinum, and White Tie Affair's single "Candle (Sick and Tired)" recently rea