Hard work, dedication, and perseverance is no easy ride, but it eventually pays off. A group of local artists who call themselves WhoRide knows first-hand that making it big isn’t something that happens over night. Four friends from Roseville who came together on a series of coincidences are no strangers to late night recording sessions in their garage turned recording studio. With limited budgets, full-time jobs, and other responsibilities, it is truly a testimony to their passion for music that has brought them this far. WhoRide will perform on stage Sunday, December 16 for their fifth time at Ace of Spades in Downtown Sacramento. They will be opening for Snoop Dogg, the famed rapper,

Dig it!  Responding to the demand for more Old Sacramento Underground tour availability, tours are now available on Mondays through Labor Day.  On most Mondays, four tours have been added and are offered from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.  Then, on Labor Day (Monday, September 5), an expanded tour schedule is available with tours departing every half hour from 10:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.  With schedules that fluctuate with the seasons, Old Sacramento Underground tours continue through Sunday, November 27.   Interested tour participants are encouraged to check the website -- www.historicoldsac.org -- for tour dates, times and availability. “For a variety of reasons, possibly long weekends or

The largest storm in California's recorded history peaked in January 1862, turning the Sacramento Valley into a 250- to 300-mile-long inland sea. Since the previous winter, Sacramento had received 400 percent of its annual average rainfall. The storm moved as far inland as Tennessee, slowing down troop movements in the Civil War. After 10 inches of rain in December 1861, Sacramento newspapers declared Christmas canceled. By January 1862, steamboats sailed through what is now Old Sacramento, rescuing people from their homes, and boat-makers charged inflated prices to capitalize on the new demand. On Jan. 10, newly elected Governor Leland Stanford had to travel to the Capitol via boat for

Imagine walking through a series of underground tunnels, skylights from the sunny streets above pouring in ambient glow. Citizens hurriedly walk across the glass skylights above, going about their modern-day business, oblivious to the group of people underground viewing architecture, photographs and artifacts more than a hundred years old.  This occurred recently while surveyors walked into a number of hollow sidewalks underneath Sacramento streets, and one day, more might be able to view this buried historical treasure.  William Burg recently wrote this article on Sacramento Press about the City's plan to survey underground sidewalks in Sacramento . The goal of the survey was "to ident

Monterey Bay Underground UFO Base By Paul Dale Roberts, Resident HPI Ufologist Is there a UFO base underneath Monterey Bay? Many citizens have reported hearing buzzing or humming noises underneath this bay. Many UFO sightings have been seen at Monterey Bay, Salinas, Monterey and Santa Cruz. When people encounter UFOs, most of these witnesses do not want to go public with their information. Instead they seek out other journalists that they feel confident with. I recently telephonically talked with a Mr. O’Brien who claims that he has been abducted all his life by aliens. He describes the aliens as your run-of-the-mill ‘Grays’. When the abductions are about to take place, there is a buzzin