Have you gotten a parking ticket lately? Feeling a little aggression? If so, Nate Weldon's new music video for his song "Ode To The Meter Maid" will help you laugh off a little steam. The music video follows Weldon through the streets of Sacramento encountering meter maids and their trusty ticket books. Take a peek and enjoy the satire. Sea Serpent Records Meter Maid album graphic by Ted Weldon

The cars parked at the California Stage on Thursday were marked with bumper stickers proclaiming peace and social change. These people were there to see Dave Lippman perform as "Wild Bill Bailout, The Bard of the Bankers." Lippman played guitar and sang political satire songs for "Soapbox TV," a Sacramento-based progressive talk show that airs Monday at 8 p.m. on Channel 17, Access Sacramento. Lippman, a Mira Loma High School graduate and Sacramento native since age 13 has been strumming his guitar and singing songs with a progressive and activist point since the times of the Vietnam War. He has done shows all over the United States, Europe and other places globally. He is actually no lo

Leave it to a performance collective from San Francisco to deem our nation’s current economic state to be a subject for parody. The city’s half-century-old Mime Troupe (which, as one of our other writers Tina explained in her preview, has actors who actually speak) gave its last show of the season to an audience of 100 or so locals at Southside Park on 2115 6th St. Titled “Too Big to Fail,” the almost two-hour long play was a wry commentary on how America got into its financial crisis, told through a style mimicking African parables. The main story followed newlyweds Filije (Adrian C. Mehia) and Jeneeba (Velina Brown), who don’t have much money and are in need of a loan. After the marri

 As an experiment, and as a personal interest to myself, I brought the Nicholas Jeff Story from my personal blog, www.pyersedandridge.com, to this site. The idea is to see if a serial story would work on this online newspaper. Nicholas Jeff uses satire to explore the life and job of busser Nicholas Jeff through his point of view and thoughts. This shows the stupidity and foolishness of the restaurant industry, which seems to focus more on brown-nosing customers and employees as opposed to motivating and strengthening hardworking employees, like Jeff. But what do you guys think of this? Does serial story work on this site? Or if serial story do work, does Nicholas Jeff work well for this