Party with Pride 2011 this Saturday at Capitol Mall. More than 20 performers will entertain festivalgoers with dancing, drag queens, cheerleaders and more at this annual event to raise money for the Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center. Guy Farris, Emmy award-winning anchor of “Sacramento & Co” will lead the parade as this year’s Grand Marshall. Don Geronimo, host of Sports 1140 KHTK, and LaRoy, a gay radio correspondent, will emcee. Club queen singer Luciana Caporaso and Sacramento native Raquela bring raucous disco while Miss Coco Peru does her unique brand of storytelling in a day of non-stop entertainment. “We were extremely lucky to book Luciana, Raquela and Miss Coco for the festival,”

Sunday night, the Hilltop Tavern in East Sacramento held a Fling Ping Pong Tournament. This was the first attempt for the bar at hosting a ping pong tournament, though plans for a second are already underway. Sixteen Sacramento locals competed in the event, which took place on the final day of Beer Week. The tournament was sponsored by Pyramid Brewery, hence the name Fling, which is the company's newest seasonal Pale Ale. Challengers first competed in a traditional 21-point game of ping pong, followed by a side game of Pyramid Fling Pong. Fling Pong is played on a miniature collapsible ping pong table, small enough to stow away in a school bag, and with paddles the size of large sand-dol

"Exhilarating, like running naked through a bee storm," said music magazine NME of Middle Class Rut, or MC Rut for short. The duo headlines Friday's Concert in the Park in which Lite Brite, Consider The Thief and Early States will also play (click links for MySpace pages). MC Rut's style has been compared to Jane's Addiction and Rage Against the Machine, but the duo evokes a simpler feel than the The White Stripes, a band with similar instrumentation. Even so, the two-piece packs a fury of sound that never lets up. They recently released an eight-song EP entitled 25 Years and completed a tour of the United Kingdom. Lite Brite is a rock and roll trio that exudes a punk attitude, but can