A few basics should be mentioned first. It does not matter where UCD Med is as far as balancing populations. Also, look on a map and you will see that UCD and the Medical buildings running down Stockton Blvd. have an impact on several neighborhoods not only Oak Park or Elmhurst. UCD has been in District 5 since the start of redistricting. Oak Park has also always been in District 5. So, for 40 years UCD and Oak Park enjoyed the same representative on the City Council. There are benefits that come with being a Council member representing such a large economic and community asset and with the relationships that are formed. Otherwise, it would not have been prized so highly by the players.

 Bugs and children go together well, don’t they? Kids had the perfect opportunity Saturday to find out plenty about insects and arachnids at TrailMix.Net in Old Sacramento. The little hobby shop that specializes in kids’ outdoor activities played host to Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator at the University of California at Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology. She brought many specimens to examine, learn from and, yes, even feel. “Don’t worry!” she told the kids. “They don’t bite, and the stick ones only crawl a bunch!” Lots of children were there, with their parents in just as much awe as they were at the bugs. “They’re cool!“ Josh De La Rocha, 7, said. “I like the dogface

How to be a saxophone legend, step one: When you walk onto the stage with a five-inch afro, beard and dark sunglasses, don't even introduce yourself. Just start playing and let that do the talking. At age 79, Sonny Rollins is perhaps the greatest saxophone player around, and he proved it Thursday at the Mondavi Center in Davis. He treated the nearly full 1,800-seat Jackson Hall to an almost three-hour performance of jazz flecked with Caribbean and Latin vibes. After finishing his opener, a 10-minute cover of Noël Coward's "Someday I'll Find You," Rollins introduced his four backing musicians: guitarist Russell Malone, percussionist Victor See-Yuen, bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Kobie

For more than two hours, the full sounds of the University of California, Davis, Jazz Bands swelled through the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre in the Mondavi Center Wednesday night. Approximately 200 people attended the event, including family and friends of the student musicians. The audience sat in the cool, dim theater holding black seats, steps and floorboards. Soft fuchsia and blue lighting came down from the two-story-high ceiling. The performances were directed by Delbert Bump, jazz band and combo director. The night started with an organ trio consisting of Bump on organ, Steve Homan on guitar and Thomas "T" Moran on drums. The organ trio began with "F Blues," "Road Song" and "Enroll G

Free video chat by Ustream   Join us for the 4th Annual Celebrate Oak Park Party in the Park Saturday, May 8, 2010. The Sacramento Press will be live streaming video of ' The Party in the Park' today from 12 pm to 5 pm at McClatchy Park, 35th Street and 5th Avenue. Celebrate Oak Park brings residents from all neighborhoods together to celebrate the diversity and beauty of the Sacramento's oldest suburb . This wonderful family friendly event includes performances by local musicians, great food, and information about various organizations and agencies geared to enhancing our community. Kids will love the UC Davis Med Center Passport Play area featuring a Rock Climbing Wall, V

In the 1967 film "The Graduate," Mr. McGuire advises protagonist Ben Braddock, "There's a great future in plastics." A handful of recent UC Davis graduates have heeded that advice and are building the next generation of plastic. Their company, Micromidas, processes sewage sludge, the hardened layer of waste from sewage treatment facilities, into Polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHAs. Simply put, it turns poop into plastic. Founder and CEO John Bissell said he was motivated ethically and economically to form a truly "green" plastic company in all aspects of production. Micromidas uses bio-waste and biological methods to create biodegradable plastic. The idea that in the right conditions, bugs c