Oak Ridge High School’s Music Boosters and the Oak Ridge High School Jazz Band will transform the Cameron Park Community Center into a 1940s-style night club, complete with swing dancing and period-correct music. The Coconut Club Dinner and Dance will be hosted entirely by Oak Ridge music students greeting guests, serving dinner and performing instrumental [...]
Join El Dorado Musical Theater in celebrating all things big, beautiful and colorful in “Hairspray,” the musical adapted from John Waters’ 1988 movie. EDMT will perform the show Feb. 25 through March 13 at the Jill Solberg Theater at Folsom High School. “Hairspray” takes place in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, where loveable, plus-sized teenager Tracy Turnblad’s [...]
THE CLASSIC STORY of Hansel and Gretel with all the excitement of a Grimm’s adventure tale opens Friday, Feb. 19, at Sutter Street Theatre, 717 Sutter St., in Folsom. Written by award winning playwright Kathryn Schultz Miller and directed by Steve Read, “Hansel and Gretel” is suitable for all ages and features elaborate puppets and [...]
SHIRLEY VALENTINE, a middle-aged English housewife, gets the chance to rediscover romance and a zest for life when she takes off from the family to enjoy a vacation in Greece. This Bo and Ro Production runs from Feb. 18 through March 20 at the Studio Theatre, 1028 R St. Call (877) 532-7171 for tickets or [...]
Several local high school students are writing, producing and releasing their own music on their own terms. Alex Sacco, Patrick Kunkel and Dustin McCaffree, all seniors at Oak Ridge, have made their respective debuts as songwriters/recording artists without the assistance of a high-dollar production studio, record contract, radio play or even a physical, packaged CD. [...]
California’s gold country has an attraction that is all its own. Part fact, part fiction, part “je ne sais quoi,” Folsom’s Historic District has a history that dates back to the Gold Rush era and even further back into antiquity considering the Maidu people who lived there thousands of years ago. As a writer and [...]
Cowpatty, cowpie, cow poop or cow flop — whatever name you use — it just doesn’t sound like a tasty treat to most folks. If it’s made out of chocolate cake and covered in chocolate ganache, however, people are willing to give a cowpatty a try. Once a slice of a Carrie Stevenson’s Cowpatty Cake [...]
