Local hip hop artists Carey Johnson, RV Watson and Jonathon Bauman came together to make the newest movement in Sacramento rap. Cooley Mac’n, as they have come to be known, is starting its pursuit of the rap music industry, playing local venues, recording and producing mix tapes and spreading the buzz about its scene. Johnson, “Cooley Boy Fresh” and Watson “Mainy Manny” put melodic, soft-spoken yet hard-hitting lyrics over Bauman’s smooth and crisp instrumentals. Surprisingly catchy, the songs off Cooley Mac’n’s first mix tape, “From Scratch, Vol. 1,” are guaranteed to be stuck in your head after your first listen. After gaining popularity, the single “I’m Cooley Mac’n” from the “From S

Danielle Carpenter was to tell us some of the highlights of her portion of the investigation, “Downstairs, when I was with Robert near the old bar and where we would later hold the séance, the meter varied in temperature and instead of maybe getting colder as in other buildings it got a little warmer since it was already so cool in the building. Also during the séance, I got the name of David/Davey and was later told that was the name of one of the owner’s deceased relatives. The other feeling that I sensed was a man with a long white beard. After explaining what he looked like, I was shown a picture of Captain Joe who is the man they see sitting at the bar and who built the building. It c

The weather could not have been more frightful, terrible, unaccommodating and spooky, the night of December 1, 2008 as we approached our destination, Pinky’s Bar and Grill. Located at the Verona Village Resort on the beautiful Sacramento River a few miles north of Sacramento, California, we had been told the place had stories to tell. Nestled directly on the water in a little hamlet called Nicolaus, it should not have been a chore to get there from our Gold Rush Ghosts Paranormal Headquarters in Placerville, about 30 miles away in the heart of the Gold Rush Country. But this day was different. This investigation, headed by major ghost hunter with GRG Judy Cooper, was to prove there are sti