Summer has come and gone but crowds at Second Saturday still remain large. Second Saturday events have grown in popularity and other communities participate in Second and Third Saturday art events. During fall several cities stop their art walks. Folsom and El Dorado Hills had their last Second Saturday of the year in September and October respectively. Popularity of similar events in smaller towns continues to grow. Attendance and art displays expand in the smaller venues but none of these can compare to the popularity of Midtown’s event. This Saturday I attended a handful of galleries and events. Since there are so many places to view and experience art I made a list of places I was i

Looking to make Sacramento a safer place after dark, two citizens' patrol groups will be out this weekend. With their first training Wednesday night, the Lavender Angels will be joining the long-established Guardian Angels in serving as extra sets of eyes and ears for police and providing basic community services. Now headed by the Gay and Lesbian Center, the Lavender Angels program is designed to make the Lavender Heights area anchored around 20th and K streets a safer place at night. The intersection has a high concentration of bars and night clubs, and according to police, about 10 robberies per month are committed in Midtown against people out after dark, usually on their own in poo

Saturday, June 20 9:30 a.m.-noon The 22nd annual Pride Festival, sponsored by the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center, will begin with a march and parade from the west steps of the Capitol to Southside Park. This kicks off a two-week-long schedule of events including the all-day Pride Festival at Southside Park. View the Pride Festival's schedule here. 3,000 are expected to participate in the march, parade and festival. Sunday, June 21 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Karma Productions 12 LLC will be shooting a film on the west steps of the Capitol. 700 people will participate in the filming.  

 There was a strange combination of emotions in Headhunters Video Lounge and Grill around 10 a.m. when the California Supreme Court decided to uphold Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages. Perhaps it was the nature of the initial announcement, which was shouted by an on scene KOVR 13 reporter while hearing the breaking news through a cellphone. Several people cried, but most didn't have time to react, because stations like KXTV 10, KOVR 13, and KTXL 40 were already on the scene videotaping and interviewing people about their initial reactions outside of Headhunters. After the crowd of nearly 100 calmed down a bit, Laurie McBride and Paul Curtis of the

On Monday evening March 23rd,  at the Doubletree Hotel, 200 guests attended  the 17th Annual Lambda Awards. The annual event, a fundraiser for the Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Community Center, is held to celebrate those who support the LBGT community and nurture the community’s dreams of equality.  A spirited live auction started the evening’s events. The evening turned serious when Lester Neblett, the Executive Director of the Center, addressed the assembled guests and talked about the needed services provided by the Center. The primary purpose of the event was to raise funds to continue to finance and expand the Center’s mental health services program.   Awards were presented to organizat