Join The Sacramento Press Saturday evening for Launch 2011, a design, music and fashion festival. The third annual Launch is a spectacular festival of sight and sound that provides the opportunity for creative people from Sacramento’s art, music and fashion communities to come together to showcase their talents and celebrate local and national works of art, music and design and share the experience with the community as a whole. Launch will include live music by Little Foxes, Exquisite Corps, ReSA, The Dreaded Diamond and many others. Artists on-site Saturday include Brady Tuazon, Chelsea Greene Lewyta, Jeff Dojillo, and too many more to mention. Fashion designers Miss Chief of Califor

The Greens Hotel was the spot for a Summertime Mixer  hosted by The Temp (Sacramento Temporary Contemporary Gallery) for an evening of socializing and networking, as well as a Fish Fry and a Preview of "Gone Fishing" - a group show featuring Ken Waterstreet's Water Series in the long, long Gallery. A woman walks in front of art in the Temp Gallery during the mixer.     Icky TheUgly Dog, (right) voted The Ugliest Dog online was there!       Nearby businesses had samples such as  Sweet Expressions Desserts and Fine Baked Goods. Cupcakes available for sampling were Orange Creamsicle, Smore's, Strawberrry Lemonade and Root Beer Float (below). At the Mixer, they were getting opini

One of the true gems of Launch, a Vchle Magazine event that took place Saturday, was the innovative stylings of both the fashion designers and those in attendance. The event, dedicated to Sacramento's fashion and design talent, explored the question: What is Sac style? "Who knows?" Mel Eligon, store manager of Cuffs, asked. "Style has everything to do with the individual, and there are a plethora of individualities here. This sounds generic, but the D.I.Y. thing, seeking out unique pieces, is really big. In big cities like L.A. and San Francisco, certain things are put in your face for what is fashionable. But because we are a small town, it's easy for us to make an extra effort to look

Claimed to be a "design revolution in the making" by its creators, the Launch design and music festival is coming to the Greens Hotel this weekend for a collision of great music and even greater fashion. Michael Hargis of Vhcle and Adam Saake, who has been helping Hargis organize, have been tirelessly promoting for the past few months, passing out fliers all over Sacramento and at events like Concert in the Park and Design Downtown block party. The main coordinator of the event, Michael Hargis, said that it's hard to tell how many people will purchase tickets the day of the event but 150 tickets have been pre-sold and there is a guestlist with around 150 additional people on it. They hav