Patrick and Phoebe are two of the hardest-working and talented restaurateurs in Sacramento. I've had the pleasure of interviewing them several times, enjoying the food often. They're making a decision not based on desperation but on what's right for their family and the future of the property. Bravo, for 28 great years!

Poor Shoki. A great restaurant with difficult customers.

Why did he resign?

$200,000? You sure there's not a comma and another 0 missing from this magical price for renovation?

Folsom, Roseville, Davis, Berkeley, Oakland, Anaheim and LA -- and too many other cities to name here -- all figured it out. Not rocket science. Only Sacramento makes it complicated. Elaine Corn

set foot (food on the brain and in the fingertips).

To SGt. Leong: crowds gathering? I haven't set food in Arden Fair in 8 years because of THAT crowd. But the trucks at Northgate? They welcome a crowd that's orderly (at least the several times I've gone on a Saturday night). People stand politely in line, talk about the food, order take-out and yes, listen to mariachi music. So festive and delicious.

Pointing out that many so-called taco trucks are Vietnamese-owned. So if there's bigotry, at least spead the ignorance evenly. Sacramento is one of the most fractious, frightened cities I've ever lived in. Don't like loud music late at night? Ban the music, not the food. I've never seen such a spiteful, mean place. No wonder we're not San Francisco. We're the outlying province we deserve to be. Over mobile food, of all things. Wake up, you Neighborhoods of No.

Most Indian restaurants here, in fact, are Punjabi/Sikh. Our huge Sikh population is reflected in a prevalence of northern Indian menus. It's southern Indian restaurants that are rare here.

I looked at this fantastic event for just ONE James Brown album. Anyone find it?

When the headline misleads or confuses, which this did, we end up with misled and confused readers such as you -- and me!

The title of this panel was confusing, not a good sign.

And if you get a good seat in the middle, you're dead in a fire. In a city and state obsessed with safety, this theater has to be one of the most dangerous in the world.

You can't fart in Sacramento without a permit. Target sells alcohol and will need an ABC license. Target will be intalling plumbing, electrical wiring, struts that hold loads -- ALL require permits, inspections.

To Steve Hammond, you can't be serious. I've been to professional conventions in cities across the country, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, Cincinnati to St. Louis, New York to Miami. Not once did schedules or budgets permit the live viewing of professional basketball in downtown areas with arenas. Why do city leaders put so much stock in sports? ARCO isn't exactly falling down, and last time I saw a game on TV, it's not exactly bulging with an overflow crowd.

Bikes on the same pathway as pedestrians? Get real. You can't even get a waiter to cross a sidewalk safely on J Street to bring food out of Kru to an outdoor table. Bikes careening on pedestrian walkways is an incompatible and dangerous folly. Not against bikes at all, just don't want to compete them when eating or shopping. Make a dedicated area for bikes; leave the desired pedestrian in safety.

Why 3 thumbs down on this piece? The writing?

Here they all are: http://www.beeguildnow.org/

Of the four newspapers I've worked at across the country, the B-minus was the worst staffed, worst managed and meanest snake pit of them all. Two clowns who were my bosses were poseurs at best, and of course got promoted to 6-figure posts. Where did they go? One destroyed marketing. The other went to sacbee.com, and we know how that worked out. Thanks for getting the names. I don't know any of them. On the bright side, they'll be helping the cause for single-payer universal health care now that their "daddy" employer won't be taking care of them anymore. Next up, filling out the questionnaire for individual insurance. It is rigged, and you won't qualify.

It's not a list for rejoicing. Some of us want to know who's been hit. We might like to send them a nice note, like your life will get better now that you're not working for one of the meanest newsrooms in America.