The 29th Annual Snowfest runs March 5 -14 The North Lake Tahoe and Truckee areas have been celebrating their rich Alpine traditions for 29 years in an event called, Snowfest, and you're invited.   Whether you're an Olympic skier, veteran, expert, beginner or noob, there's something for you.  Maybe you don't even ski or snowboard, but love being in the great outdoors, the recent storms have piled several feet of new snow all around the mountain tops just in time for this celebration.  Events are scheduled and stacked all through the week starting today and there really is something for everyone and everydog.  Resorts and dozens of restaurants throw their unique spin on the event and th

If you live in or around midtown, you've seen 'em for sure. Kustoms; the stylin' one-off cruisers that catch attention. I'm talking about your super cool, hand painted, hand crafted works of art that you can ride. If you attended the Appetite Enhancement Ride last Thanksgiving or any one of the numerous bar-hops, you've seen them. Albeit, most of them were purchased off the line as is, but if you're really into seeing art that you can ride, this weekend is your chance to check out Bike-O-Rama, held inside Autorama at Cal Expo. Now in it's 60th year, Autorama has expanded it's showcase to include kustom bicycles, and who bettter than than College Cyclery to host the program. Bike-O-Rama, n

G. Love & Special Sauce have been touring for nearly 20 years but you probably never heard of them, and that's okay, they aren't mainstream, and probably really don't want to be. G. Love, aka Garrett Dutton, hails from Philadelphia and oddly enough, cracked off about the same time another great band from Philly started making rounds, The Roots. Now that I think about it,  The Roots played with G. Love & Special Sauce at the Honda Free Ski Tour back in '07. The band's style is super chill, blending blues and hip hop, R&B, a little folk and a pinch of rock 'n' roll to keep it steady. The band's sound is gritty, organic and the free-style flow is fun. There's not much heavy about this music

Relentless, dedicated, original and professional are a few words that describe the band called Sol’Jibe. With more than 200 shows and festivals under their belts world-wide, they bring their unique flavor of international music to Harlows; a show that will sure to be talked about all summer.   After driving 15 hours straight from their last show in Washington, they arrived last night in Sacramento where we met for dinner at Aura for some tasty pizzas. There’s a reason they’ve been called the hardest working band around. They’ve won “Best Band in the Reno News & Review Reader’s Choice” three years in a row. Last year, they stole the show at the High Sierra Music Festival with a review stat

The biggest brew festival in Sacramento turns 10 today at the same location is was launched - on the banks of the Sacramento River at Miller Park surrounded by giant Sycamores and the gentle breeze from the Delta.  Last year, the festival saw the first 100 degree mark and today it seems it may also scrape the tripple digits making it the best event in town to cool off with. The West Coast Brew Festival has been drawing thousands of beer lovers from all over Northern California for years and this year, event organizer, Matson Breaky stated last night that the numbers are up and over any year before including pre-event ticket sales. The festival features more than 50 micros bringing in an

Santigold is a self-professed non-person.  Rather, Santigold (born Santi White) is a musical collective whose front woman can be described as one of the most fun and serious artists today.  The poignant and righteous lyrics are blended so sexily, super freaks around the globe from Michael Jackson to Libyan ruler Moammar Qaddafi are known to have even downloaded Santigold's music as leaks (probably bit torrents) before they were even published in 2008.  A relatively unknown artist until about 2007, Santogold changed her name to Santigold in 2008 (Santogold was taken already by a third rate B move wanna-be movie producer/singer) and went on to tour and or play with Bjork, Coldplay, Kanye W