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With winter comes new farm to fork menus from our local chefs and energized tour participants ready to take on a food tour! In honor of the winter ahead of us we want to offer a great ticket deal for our customers and their friends & family. Use promo code: "SPRINKLE" for any adult ticket and receive $12 off each ticket making adult tour tickets $45 to $56 each!
Hurry for this awesome offer: Sale will end December 31, 2014 so now's the time to save! Limit ticket sale to 5 tickets per ticker order and per person.
Origins of Sacramento Food & History Walking Tour
Gourmet on 'K' Culinary Walking Tour
Urban Art Food & Libations Walking Tour
Murphys Food & Wine Walking Tour
Local Roots Food Tours offers a great menu of gift certificate options for your holiday shopping needs.
Choose any food tour and send as a gift in either a physical gift certificate or virtually…either way it will warm the heart of those who love food!
HOLIDAY SPRINKLING GIFT CERTIFICATE SALE: Choose any gift certificate(s) and receive 10% off your entire order by using the promo code "SUGAR"! Buy Your Gift Certificate Now!
Our Gift Certificates are good throughout the entire year and can be used for any walking food tour on our menu.
Book your food tour ticket(s) for one of our scheduled walking culinary tours within the date range specified:
Origins of Sacramento Food & History Walking Tour
Gourmet on K Culinary Walking Tour
Murphys Food & Wine Walking Tour
Receive $15.00 off each ADULT TICKET by using promo code: HONOR.
Ticket sale is valid for tours schedule on Friday, November 7, Saturday, November 8 and Tuesday, November 11th ***VETERANS DAY.
Our culinary walking tours are 3.5 hour long in length and offer the opportunity to taste and drink from 6 to 8 establishments within the local routed area. If you are a food lover, love to get outdoors and walk and enjoy great company – come check out Local Roots Food Tours and know we appreciate everything you do for our country. For more details on our tours please visit us at: http://www.local-food-tours.com
Air is turning crisp, nights are short but simmering with wonderful flavors in our kitchens.
Why not join us for a fall walking food tour and explore the new flavors of the season!
Between October 15th thru November 15th you can SAVE $5 per adult ticket by using promo code: FLAVOR
Our tour menu has 4 wonderful options to choose from….once you participate in one of our tours, you definitely will want to experience the rest!
Urban Art Food, & Libations Walking Tour Offered Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
Gourmet on K Culinary Walking Tour Offered Wednesdays and Saturdays
Origins of Sacramento Food & History Walking Tour Offered Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays
Murphys Food & Wine Walking Tour Offered Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays
Local Roots Food Tours is in the last few weeks of summer offering culinary walking tours. Time sure flies by! We would like to thank all our loyal and tasty customers by inviting them to come explore their palates with us – this time bringing someone new with them to introduce them to Local Roots Food Tours. Even though its hot outside its nice and cool at the 6 to 9 stops we take our hungry tour participants. Our routes are blessed with the shade from our City of Trees landscape…what a wonderful way to spend an afternoon. Offering to 4 different culinary walking tour options the world is your oyster during these dog days of summer to get out and explore your palates!
Be adventurous and don't let the heat dictate your options of fun these last few weeks of summer! Dog Days of Summer Ticket Sale is offering a special DISCOUNT CODE on any ADULT FOOD TOUR TICKET between July 30th thru Sept. 30th, 2014. Use Promo Code: "DOGDAYS" to receive $7.00 off any adult ticket purchased online. ***Excludes all gift certificate orders or private group tour experiences. Limited to 5 tickets per order. We can't wait to see you on another one of our summer fun food-filled days! Buy Your Tickets ONLINE NOW by CLICKING HERE.
Picture angry Italians protesting with bowls of penne at the base of the iconic and beautiful Spanish Steps in Rome shouting "We don't want fast food… we want slow food! It's not a scene from a Fellini movie, but how Carlo Petrini started Slow Food. He and his pasta-wielding compatriots were outraged that a McDonalds was going to open there (and it did.)
His protest against the commercialization of a beloved landmark with the "Golden Arches" turned into an international organization founded in 1989 that today has over 150,000 members in more than 150 countries.
Slow Food's mantra is good, clean, fair food for all. They want you to eat what is seasonal and local; respect the farmer and the produce/product; nurture the earth. Sound familiar? They believe that food should taste like, well, food and eating should take some time. Slow Food calls it the "pleasures of the table." And it is not possible when a clown is looking over your shoulder. Or a creepy looking king. Or in your car. Or at your keyboard.
Slow Food opposes the homogenization of modern fast food and life. Life is diverse. Culture is diverse. Food is diverse. It should not all look or taste alike. Preservation of traditional or heritage foods, methods of preparation, and the culture associated with them is a worth while effort. That is the entire focus of the Center for Biodiversity. The premise is that if unique and tradition food products that are endangered can have an economic impact they can be saved from extinction. Enter the Presidia – local projects that devise a pathway for bringing a food or method of preparation back from the brink of being lost. The Ark of Taste is a catalog of foods worldwide being preserved through the efforts of Presidia. And these projects are not somewhere else. They are here: Blenheim Apricot, Charbono wine or Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple sound familiar? Clarksburg's Chenin Blanc grape is close to be being listed.
Petrini wanted to make the connection between the plate, the palate and the planet. He calles it an "eco-gastronomic" movement that connected environmental sustainability (eco) to the study of culture and food (gastronomy). He took this idea even further by creating the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy (full disclosure, I'm an alumni) to create a new type of food professional, one who understands the entire food-production spectrum, from agricultural origins through industrial transformation and distribution, with particular attention to environmental and sustainability issues. These leaders, or Gastronomes as he calls them (us?), understand how to connect food processes to economic as well as communication systems, and the relationships within food-and-wine tourism, marketing of high-quality products, and promoting of the rich value of regional food traditions.
On the local front, California is now it's own Slow Food Region. Our local chapter, Slow Food Sacramento bestows their annual "Snail of Approval" award upon local businesses that best represent the Slow Food Principles of good, clean, fair food for all. And to toot our own horn, Local Roots Food Tours has received the Slow Food Sacramento Snail of Approval because of our commitment to support business using fresh, local, organic, seasonal and sustainable, or as we say FLOSS!
We congratulate our partners have also received a Snail of Approval for their use of seasonal, local and organically grown foods, including Centro, Café Bernardos, Hot Italian and Kupros.
Slow Food Sacramento is always looking for volunteers to get involved, from being an ambassador at community events, to hosting one of their monthly book clubs. Get involved today!
Local events for this fall include:
September Book Club: September 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Farm to Every Fork Fundraiser Dinner: September 13 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Joining with several organizations that service the homeless, your $150 ticket buys you dinner as well as dinner for someone from the homeless community.
National Food Day at Sacramento State : October 24
The fourth annual Food Day at Sacramento State is a national movement created by the Center for Science in the Public Interest to encourage healthy, affordable and sustainably-produced food, as well as a grassroots campaign for better food policies.
Look for the Sacramento Food Film Festival coming March, 2015!
If you're looking for something bigger, and I do mean much, much bigger, you should check out Slow Food International's biennial Salone del Gusto/Terre Madre event happening the end of October in Turin, Italy. Held in the former Fiat automobile factory, it's been called the Olympics of Food. That might be an understatement. Get a taste of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWlBg9nr-HE
Move over Cheese Whiz and Velveeta, for the first time in over 10 years the American Cheese Society (ACS) is coming to Sacramento with over 1700 craft cheeses. Whey to go Sacramento! It's quite a Feta in our cap. (By Lisa Frank)
Celebrating the American Cheese Plate! will highlight the growth of the artisan and specialty cheese community throughout North America. Nearly 1,000 industry leaders are expected to participate in the four-day event. Tuesday, July 29 – Friday, August 1. The conference also includes:
a cheese competition to be "Best In Show" from over 1700 cheeses entered in 20 categories like Cheese Curds, Rindless Blue-Veined Cheese, Cheese Spreads or Butters along with the usuals like Cheddar, Fetas, and Soft-Ripened Cheese;
the Certified Cheese Professional Exam – if you think you know enough to be a cheese sommelier;
Educational seminars from how to build a cheese cave to improving industry standards, to cheese spider grafts explained.
While most of the conference is for those in the cheese industry, the public is invited to several events:
Festival of Cheese, will feature the cheeses entered in the cheese competition, highlighting the winners. In addition to a staggering number of cheeses, the Festival will have artisan producers and local purveyors of cheese accessories, such as crackers, charcuterie, preserves, honeys, and craft beer. It's a Muenster cheese tasting. Friday August 1, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm at the Sacramento Convention Center. Tickets for the general public are $60 via Brown Paper Tickets.
Cheese Sale, this is your opportunity to buy the best cheeses made in North America at a great price. Feeling adventurous, buy a $25 cheese grab bag and see what you snagged. Proceeds from the Cheese Sale benefit the American Cheese Education Foundation. Cash is king, but credit cards are accepted. Edam while you can, it's a ewe-nique opportunity. Saturday, August 2nd, 11:00 – 2:00 at the Sacramento Convention Center, admission is free. Brie there or brie square. Okay I'll stop.
And if you think Sacramento is curd-less, think again. While specialty grocery stores usually carry a nice variety of cheeses, we have several cheese-centric locations that bring you craft cheese every day!
The Rind, 1801 L Street, opened 11 am until at least 10 everyday. 916.441.RIND (7463)
The Rind is a cheese bar where you can taste unique artisanal cheeses paired with interesting wines and beers. Cheese-heads can sample everything, from buttery to blue, nutty to stinky. And if you need more than a taste, try their grown-up grilled cheese sandwiches or mac & cheese. Definitely not a blue and yellow box with electric-orange powdered cheese.
The Cultured & The Cured, 3644 J Street opened Tuesday – Sunday, 11am until 9 pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday; 10pm on Friday and Saturday; 5pm on Sunday; Closed Monday. (916) 732-3600 This East Sac shop focuses on local and west coast cheeses and charcuterie, bringing to Sacramento the tradition of a cheese monger who will help guide you to find exactly what you're looking for even when you don't know what you're looking for! Soups, salads, charcuterie plates, grilled cheese, mac & cheese, sandwiches, and pantry items, this shop takes their cheese seriously and so will you.
The Block Butcher, 1050 20th Street, 916.476.6306 11AM to 12AM every day.
Block Butcher Bar is a boutique salumi, spirits and wine bar. The menu features charcuterie, fine artisanal cheeses and seasonal bites. Choose from the "pickled, cured, fermented and marinated" selections; make your own charcuterie boards or cheese slabs; or salads and sandwiches. With over 30 cheeses (cow, sheep, goat and blues) to choose from it's hard to limit it to 3/5/7 choices. But they are there to help. And over 100 different whiskeys – it's kind of hard to leave.
Northern California has some options if you are looking to incorporate more cheese into your life.
The Cheese School in San Francisco if where to head if you want to become a cheese monger, learn how to make cheese or just learn more about cheese by tasting! They have a wide variety of fun, tasty and educational classes.
The Cheese Trail is a list of Marin and Sonoma dairies that offer tours and purchasing options, please note: not all dairies are open to the public. Go to the source: The Cheese Trail Map They have mapped out your route so fill up the gas tank and head west!
And for a Certificate in Dairy Arts (who knew there was such a thing?) you can attend the College of Marin Cheese Making Program
Cheese, it's a Gouda thing. All puns intended, cuz I'm Quark-y that way. . .hee hee hee.
Cheese 101 – a cheat sheet
Fresh: Retains fresh milk flavors with little or no aging such as cream cheese, cottage cheese or queso fresco.
Soft-ripened: A beneficial mold sprayed on or added to ripening cheese to create a bloomy rind, such as Camembert or Brie.
Surface-ripened: A wrinkly, surface-ripened rind or a thin rind barely contains the runny cheese, such as French goat cheeses
Semi-hard: Complex taste with a firm, sometimes crumbly texture that good for melting, such as Fontina, Gruyere or Monterey Jack
Aged (hard): Crumbly, sweet, pungent, low in moisture and good for grating, such as Parmigiano
Washed rind: Characteristically creamy and smelly with a tacky surface and pinkish or orange-colored rind, such as Epoisses or Taleggio
Blue (pierced): A mold injected into the cheese that created various types of blue veining, such as Gorgonzola or Maytag Blue
Word to know in the Cheese World:
Artisan: Cheese made primarily by had in small batches with special attention to the tradition
Cheesemonger: A knowledgeable person who sells cheese.
Curds and Whey: Milk naturally thickens and forms curds when left in a warm place or when a coagulant like rennet is added. Cutting the curds allows them to release water, called whey. The whey is drained off leaving the curds that are formed or pressed into molds, rounds or other shapes.
Farmstead: Cheese made on the farm with milk from the farmer's own herd.
Go out and EXPLORE your own backyard w/ these fun & tasty July events in & around Sacramento:
Bonjour Bastille Day. If your vacation is now a "staycation" July is the time to get your French on and storm Midtown! The Sacramento Chapter of the Alliance Francaise will be celebrating Bastille Day, when the peasants stormed the Bastille Prison and started the French Revolution, with their Annual Waiters' Race & Bastille Day Street Festival. July 13th 12 – 3pm at 18th & L Streets, Sacramento
Don't lose your head at the 12th Annual "Let Them Eat Cake!" Fundraising Event.
Sample Sacramento's finest French foods and outstanding local wines and coffees, enjoy live music, and feast your eyes on magnificent and mouth-watering cakes created by talented local bakeries and chefs. There will be a cake raffle and a silent auction as well. July 14th 5:00 pm until 9:00 pm at The Grand Ballroom 1215 J Street $40 in advance; $50 at door
Are the Islands calling? Grab a lei or make a grass skirt and head to the Summer Luau Beer & Wine Tasting at New Glory Brewing. Celebrate summer in Hawaiian style at this fun wine and beer sampling event! The evening will offer tours of the brewery, and playing beer and wine trivia for prizes. Food trucks will be on site selling delicious food. July 13th, 1 pm at New Glory Craft Brewing, 8251 Alpine Ave $20
Feeling more local? GATHER is a unique event that takes place in the Oak Park neighborhood. It is a social experiment based around the idea that a neighborhood that eats together, stays together and strengthens the community.
Outdoor communal tables encourage a sense of community while you enjoy the warm (hot?) summer nights. The event offers a craft beer area, artisanal food vendors, designers, food demos interactive are, live music and a modular kids park. July 10th 5 – 9pm or August 14th 5 – 9pm in Oak Park at Broadway & 3rd Avenue
Something edgier? SactoMoFo's Food Truck Mania will be at McKinley Park. It's great music, lots of kid fun, a beer garden, and all your favorite food trucks! July 11th or August 8th from 5 pm – 9 pm at McKinley Park on Alhambra Blvd.
This camp has more than s'mores! Mad Food Science Fun Camp makes food and science in fun and educational. Campers learn nutritional concepts and explore the scientific properties of food through a series of fun hands-on experiments, including magical floating eggs, color changing milk, ice cream making and more. The week of July 21 through July 25 1pm – 4pm at Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive $130
Banana mania is here again. The 5th Annual Sacramento Banana Festival highlights different cultures in Asia, Africa and the Americas who use the banana as a source of food, art and culture. This is a two-day, family-friendly festival for all ages. Banana cuisine, live entertainment, a Chef's Challenge, line and salsa dancing, banana split-eating contest, kiddie rides, and more. August 9th from10 am – 7 pm and August 10 from 10 am – 5pm at William Land Park
Fair Fare.
If you love food, people watching and entertainment then consider the annual California State Fair from July 11th – 27th at Cal Expo. You haven't vacationed until you've experienced the deep fried mac -n -cheese on a stick, deep fried cheese curds and deep fried twinkies at the fair. Discount tickets available at big box retailers: Raleys Supermarket, Big O Tires…etc.
Don't pass up the chance to participate in some spectacular food and libations focused events while at the State Fair:
- Whiskey Festival Sample over 40 premier whiskies and fine spirits, and learn from master distillers how your favorite libation is made. July 11th from 4 pm – 8pm at the Miller Lite Grandstands at Cal Expo 21 & older? (valid ID)?Tickets: $35 ?/ VIP Admission: $60
- Brewer's Festival Taste award winning beers from the State Fair's Craft Brew Competition.?July 19th from 3pm – 6pm at the Miller Lite Grandstands at Cal Expo?21 & older (valid ID)?Tickets:? $15 in advance?/ $20 day of
- Sweet – California's Tasty Journey (Expo Center Building 5)?In this sweet exhibit, you'll take a tasty journey through the Rock Candy Mountain. With candy-themed displays and hands-on activities, this exhibit highlights the California connection to many of our favorite sweets. Learn about the ingredients that are magically blended into amazing morsels, the process candy factories go through to invent something new, and how candy is delivered from a gumball machine.
- The Farm?The State Fair Farm is 3 acres showcasing agriculture and food production in California. Taste samples prepared by chefs at the outdoor kitchen grill. Learn about fish farming by visiting our aquaculture and aquaponics displays. Check out water-efficient gardens and get gardening tips from the Master Gardeners booth. See what's buzzing at the insect pavilion. Visit Urban Farming to learn about backyard and container gardening.
Head to the hills and cool off while you Eat, Walk, and Learn. Murphys Food & Wine Walking Tour
A great day trip outside of Sacramento venturing to the lower Sierras. Aptly named "Queen of the Sierra," and one of Budget Travel magazine's Top Ten Coolest Small Towns, Murphys has 1800's-era Italian brick and stone buildings where talented chefs and vintners produce their mouth-watering dishes and award-winning wines. This tasty walking tour includes 9 different stops including a beer and food pairing, two wine tasting rooms and a gourmet of fresh local ingredients from different chefs. Advanced ticketing required. Fridays and Saturdays at 11 am. To learn more or purchase tickets visit: http://www.local-food-tours.com
Raised, glazed or crazed, donuts in their many forms are once again glamorous. The lowly fried hunk of dough has recently been elevated to the ranks of the highfalutin croissant with a bastardization called the cronut (trademarked name FYI) or the dosant or doughssant. The buttery goodness of a flakey croissant with the deep fried crunch of a donut, it might be what has been missing in your life. It could be another fad like the donut hole craze (there are cronut holes too) or the ill-fated expansion of the South's beloved Krispy Kreme franchise (there are still a few around), but then again, donuts have been around in one form or another since at least the 1800's so they clearly have staying power.
Sacramento's donut scene is clearly keeping up with players in the big cities. So here is where to fill the need for all that yummy, fried goodness, whatever country it originated in.
Donut meet Happy Hour: Ella's has a Fried Brioche, with Bourbon Butterscotch Glaze and Candied Almond Dust. How can that not be good? And for only $5 during their award-winning happy hour menu – order me up 2 batches, please! Okay while not technically a donut, it is fried dough so counts in my book. Ella Dining Room, 1131 K Street (Corner of 12th & K Street, Valet parking available), Sacramento. Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 3pm to 6pm.
Estelle's Patisserie supports TGIF. Check out their Doughnut Fridays with a filled brioche donut, or Croixnut Tuesdays AND Sundays. With flavors like Vanilla Earl Grey, Salted Caramel or Cinnamon Sugar, your taste buds will thank you. If you want to dream donuts all day, visit their mouth-watering Facebook page where they post their amazing croixnut and donut "fresh out of the oven" photos. This is where you can keep up to date what their flavors of the week are! Estelle's Patisserie, 901 K Street (9th and K Streets), Sacramento.
It's all the rage still. Warm, dripping with sweetness….cronut dreams can come true at two local "donut dive joints" in Sacramento: Sweet Dozen Donuteri who introduced their Doissant (donut + croissant) last year, Sweet Dozen, 5207 Madison Ave, and at Bakers Donuts who have a wide selection (Red Velvet or maple espresso anyone?) AND a 24 hour drive-thru window, Bakers Donuts, 5880 Florin Rd, Sacramento.
If you prefer your fried dough with a New Orleans twist, say bonjour to beignets! There are several brunch options available — I suggest you try them all. And if you don't get powdered sugar up your nose, you are not eating them with enough gusto! My little secret just might get out after I tell you that you don't have to travel to New Orleans just to get your beignet fix! Right here in Sacramento, people….there is a wonderful aroma of fresh beignets being fried up at three local hot spots in downtown Sacramento!
The Porch has you covered (pun intended). Warm and fresh all while being slathered with powdered sugar, jam on the side and a bit of fresh fruit to make it look legit. Genius! The Porch, 1815 K Street, Sacramento.
The Shady Lady makes no apologies about their beignets, liberally tossing them with powered sugar. You can find these on their delectable brunch menu. $3.00 out of your pocket is worth every single dime! You can almost hear the riverboats working on the ole Mississippi. Chicory coffee optional. Shady Lady Saloon, 1409 R Street, Sacramento.
Beignets are always available at IRON Steaks. While you can order a half dozen at brunch or lunch, they are also an option instead of toast when ordering breakfast. Smaller ones are complimentary appetizers at dinner. Not bad for a steak joint. IRON Steaks, 2422 13th Street, Sacramento.
If you're not sure if you need a burger or beignets head to Willie's Burgers downtown location. They do NOT taste like French fries I promise (do I still have powered sugar on the face?) And Willie's Burgers has a charm all its own, including paper towel dispensers on the walls instead of napkins. Willie's Burgers, 2415 16th Street, Sacramento.
If you're feeling island-ish, say Madeira or the Azores, head for Taylor's Kitchen Brunch and try their Malasadas aka Portuguese Donuts. These are served with honeyed whipped cream that should be used, generously. All of it. Taylor's Kitchen, 2924 Freeport Blvd, Sacramento.
Churros anyone? This tubular fried dough covered in cinnamon sugar treat is muy bueno. And Zocalo wants you to have some. Theirs are served with a vanilla cream filling and a side of vanilla ice cream. Más por favor? Zocalo, 1801 Capitol Ave, Sacramento.
Ink, a popular late, late night eatery (open until 4 AM) also has Churros on its Late Nite menu. Like in Spain, eat churros and hot chocolate before going to bed before the sun comes up. . . Ink, 2730 N Street, Sacramento.
Trying to cut back on your donut intake, Roxy is the place to go. Their brunch serves a bag of house made Doughnut Holes with three dipping sauces. Just the holes, so automatic portion control (unless you order several bags). Now what do they do with all those donuts??? Roxy, 2381 Fair Oaks Blvd, Sacramento.
And if you absolutely must have a hamburger served on a doughnut "bun", you'll have to go to San Francisco. There The Straw has the ringmaster: a burger on a home-made glazed doughnut bun (two donuts, not one cut in half) with cheddar & jack cheeses. Bacon, avocado and a fried egg are add-ons. And yes, you can make it a double. But it will be a happy food coma. The Straw, 203 Octavia Boulevard at Page, San Francisco
And don't forget National Donut Day is June 4. Get out there and make Homer Simpson proud! Have a donut you've been DREAMing about? We want to know! Share it in the comments section below, or send us a Tweet at @LocalRootsFood
It is the beginning of festival season in the Sacramento Region. Calendars ready? Adventure out to the colorful and educational Pacific Rim Street Fest in Old Sac & Downtown Plaza May 18th from 10am to 5pm – great food, amazing costumes and family-friendly! If you are looking for something fun, energetic and different check out Spanglish Arte's unique Pinata Festival at Southside Park in Sacramento May 24th from 11am to 6pm. Have you ever been to a pinata-hitting contest? Guaranteed laughs….and of course lots of candy! Ready to get down and dirty? Kick it up a notch with crawfish and blues? Cajun and Blues in Isleton, the grand daddy of jazz festivals will be June 14th and 15th (Father's Day Weekend).
You are probably asking….but where is the FOOD DRIVEN EVENTS and FESTIVALS? Good point….we got you covered! If you want to spend A Day on The Farm you can visit American River Ranch on May 18th for a day of learning, eating, music and celebrating the local farms bounty…..even cooking classes will be offered. Two great events to consider on Saturday June 7th - Sacramento VegFest – a food event celebrating plant-based foods and products with some world-class speakers. All takes place at the Red Lion Hotel – 11am to 6pm. Wanting more that weekend…head on over to Cesar Chavez Plaza for Sacramento Region's Premier Wine & Food Festival – Grape Escape. Over 60 of the region's wineries and 40 local restaurants – you won't walk away hungry or dehydrated for sure! Advanced ticketing required for this event. If you are looking for a more Intimate Affair with food and smooth tequila then reserve your seats for a Pre-Father's Day Tequila Pairing 4 Course Dinner at Mayahuel Tequila Museo Friday June 13th at 7pm. You can book your tickets thru Local Roots Food Tours who is sponsoring the event! Buy Tickets Here.
Futbol is here, fellow soccer fans! Say hello to the Sacramento Republic FC. Now that we have a team, let's join the rest of the world and call it futbol. The Republics are currently tied for third place in the USL Pro standing. A great match up against LA Galaxy II should be your next sporting event in Sacramento – Saturday May 17th at Hughes Stadium. A few pointers: It is a match, not a game. It is a pitch, not a field. There are no time outs.
The boys of summer are back! The Sacramento River Cats are well into the swing of their season. And home games abound. Forget about Fix50, pull into Raley Field and take in American's pastime on June 13th and 14th when they vs. Iowa. And for the second year, fireworks after every Friday night home game and Saturday game. If it's good food and good beer you are after then you have come to the right place! Sure there are peanuts and cracker jacks, but also An Honest Pie – a food truck featuring sweet and savory pies, as well as an expanded menu from Broderick Roadhouse in the Jack Daniels Solon Club. There are gluten-free and vegetarian dining options. And don't forget the beer garden. Going to a game has never been this delicious before.
You might not need a pig, but you definitely need to go to a market and ALL of our local Certified Farmer's Markets are open. Over 11 to choose from in the area!! Find a market near you: CLICK HERE If you are looking to learn about the farm before you pick up your fork you should check out Sierra Foothills Farm & Wine Tour in Placer County on Saturday, May 31st or Friday, June 6th. Meet farmers, vintners and a pig named Gordo! Buy Tickets Here
Local Roots Food Tours will be going strong all summer long offering farm to fork walking food tours! What better time to learn about Sacramento and the hidden neighborhood eateries. They have Sacramento covered: Downtown, Midtown and East Sac all have delicious and interesting tours. Want a day trip? How about the charming town of Murphy's in the foothills or a farm to fork tour in Placer County? Check out their food tour menu and dates to go: Local Roots Food Tours
Be a kid again and take to your bike! Sacramento has so many (can it ever be too many?) bike trails. Grab your helmet (and allergy medicine) and pedal out and about and enjoy the sunshine and (mostly) flat trails. This interactive map will help you plot your course: American River Bike Trails
Get down and boogie with the locals! The Downtown Sacramento Partnership has begun their Friday Night Concert Series at Cesar Chavez Park. Food trucks, libations, great music being performed in a beautiful setting and lots of people watching! Dancing like you don't care who's watching is optional. Find out when your favorite local band is playing here: Upcoming Concerts
Beer here. Sacramento is a great beer town. Check out the local brews at a beer fest!! A note to the wise and not so wise: sip the beer, drink plenty of water and bring sunscreen or a hat! The 15th West Coast Brew Fest is May 17th at Miller Park or Raley Field Brewfest, June 20th, is expected to have more than 55 local brewers.
And that's just for starters. Who knows where the summer will take us. . .
We are thrilled to announce our first quarterly series of special culinary venues for our loyal customers and their friends & family. We listened to our customer feedback and one of the biggest request we received was special culinary venues with local establishments. We are excited to announce our upcoming culinary venues in downtown Sacramento. These food events are limited seating and only being offered for a specific date and time. No time to think it over, these seats will be spooned up quickly. Sure to please everyone's palate and appetite to learn more in our delicious culinary community with our local chefs and purveyors. Keep checking back with us on a quarterly basis for more event offerings. We are on a roll now!
Experience the true way to pair some of the smoothest tequila with the tastiest meats and produce. Get up close and into the action pairing tequila with a taste of Mexico. Get your tequila notes ready and join us on Friday, June 13th at 7:00pm for a magnificent evening by advanced ticketing only. The dinner is being offered by Local Roots Food Tours and Mayahuel Tequila Museo in Sacramento. Come learn & taste your way thru Mexico with a bountiful 4 course meal with a hand-selected flight of tequila. Each course will be paired with the right tequila to perfection. One of Mayahuel's Tequila Master will educate and entertain the participants with their wealth of tequila and all its nuances – participants will walk away from the event knowing more than they ever thought they would about tequila and unique ways to pair food with it. After your palates are replenished you will be leaving this exclusive culinary event with the knowledge on what type of tequilas pair nicely with what food. Bring your spouse, your best friend or your lucky neighbor and enjoy an evening you will always remember. Call 1-800-407-8918 for more information. Limited tickets available – intimate evening. Click Here to Purchase Tickets Online. $75.00 Per Person Not Including Ticketing Fee. Additional Tequila Cocktails Can Be Purchased w/ Ticket Purchase As Well.


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Second World War 'Ghost Army' helped Allies win war
Using hundreds of inflatable tanks and artillery, deploying the latest sound technology and posing as drunken military officers in order to spread disinformation, the Ghost Army is credited with helping the Allies win the war in Europe and saving thousands of British and American lives.
Over the course of five major campaigns, the unit arranged 20 intricately-planned battlefield deceptions, from Normandy to the Rhine, in order to trick Hitler's armies into believing that Allied forces were in places they were not.
For decades the soldiers were not allowed to talk of their extraordinary war record and the existence of the unit was denied by the Pentagon.
But now, more than 65 years on, the extraordinary work of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops is being detailed in a documentary and an exhibition in the United States.
The top secret unit, which carried out its mission without firing a shot, consisted of around 1,100 make-up artists, actors, sound technicians, painters, photographers and press agents, many of them drawn from Hollywood.
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February 2nd, 2014 08:51 PM #1Senior Member
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What do you think?
Full disclosure: I've had two miscarriages in the past six months. We're TTC again, but given my age (44) chances are good that I won't be naming anybody. But just in case...
My husband suggested Erasmus half-jokingly during my last pregnancy. At first I thought it was comically quirky... then I started to like it... then I adored it. The meaning (beloved, desired) was the icing on the cake.
Erasmus Darwin is an interesting namesake, and then there's the hero of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, Erasmas. I think Raz would be a great nickname. We live in NYC where a lot of kids have unusual names, so I'm not too concerned about teasing on that score. Middle name would be Avery, after family.
I know this name won't be to everyone's taste, but does anyone like it but me? What associations does it bring up?
February 2nd, 2014 09:00 PM #3
I do really like the sound of Erasmus, but my one hang-up with it is the prominence of the European year abroad university program. It's not a bad thing at all, but it is the first thing I think about, and my only real association with the name.
Erasmus Avery is SO handsome!
Also, so sorry for your previous losses, but hoping for the best of luck ttc again!Lucia
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Thanks, Lucia! I hadn't heard of that program, so good to know.
And thank you for your kind wishes. We're staying hopeful.
February 2nd, 2014 09:09 PM #7
Erasmus is an excellent name. I'd love to see it used.Emily • Nineteen • United States
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The U.S. Empire's Shameful Multiplier Effect »
By Robert Higgs | Monday July 15, 2013 at 11:15 AM PST | 24 Comments
Let X = number of persons who died in the USA as a result of the 9/11 attacks. X ≈ 3,000. Let Y = number of persons who have died in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan as a result of direct war violence associated with the U.S. attacks and occupations since 9/11. Y ≈ between...
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The American Society of Photographers (ASP) is a Who's Who of the worlds best photographers. To be considered for membership you must be have earned the prestigious Master of Photography degree or Craftsman designation by the Professional Photographers of America. So many of my mentors and hero's in the industry are included in this elite group. This years president Ernie Johnson befriended me years ago. He is...Read More
This morning I made my third appearance on WTOC TV's Mid Morning Live with Jody and Sonny. Click here to watch the interview on WTOC. They invited me on the show to tell them about the ornament and our White House visit. You will be happy to know that Sonny joins you in being an addicted Lori Grice blog reader! So THANKS Sonny, for not only reading my blog – but also having me on your show again. Jody...Read More
On Sunday, the Statesboro Herald published a full page story about the creation of the White House Ornament and my trip to the White House. On Monday, they placed the video interview on their online show – "Studio Stateboro". The interview was really great and they used a lot of the images I took at the White House. Thanks a million to all the great folks at the Statesboro Herald for this great story!...Read More
I have had a busy few weeks since returning from the White House reception. Of course, my main priority has been to get all of your Christmas portrait surprises completed in time for Santa to deliver on Christmas. I have also been a little busy with the merger and partnership of Regency Photo and the launch of the new consumer options with Lori Grice Express Photo. In between all of this I have been talking and...Read More
I have been so overwhelmed by your calls, notes and emails about the White House selection. Several of you have actually been to the White House and saw my ornament on the tree. You all keep asking for more and I am working on a slide show which I hope to have up soon. Until then here are a few more images from inside the White House which is what most of you keep asking about. Here are a few of my favorites. The photograph of...Read More
For Immediate Release: December 9, 2008 STATESBORO ARTIST TO REPRESENT GEORGIA'S 12TH DISTRICT WITH WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT DESIGN Washington, D.C. – Congressman John Barrow (GA-12) has chosen Statesboro resident and Master Photographer Lori Grice to create the Christmas ornament to represent the 12th District of Georgia on the 2008 official White House Christmas tree. The tree is decorated with 369 ornaments which were...Read More


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If, as some contend, it's fair to say the NFL approached the network and told ESPN to distance itself from the PBS "Frontline" investigation of the league's handling of concussions and ESPN acquiesced, would you think less of ESPN?
Or did you never have any illusions about what the "Worldwide Leader" would do when it came to remembering who butters its bread?
For the NFL preseason game between the Patriots and Broncos played in Spokane on this date in 1974.
In the mid-1960s, Coca-Cola bottlers around the country ran a promotion featuring the images of pro athletes inside bottle caps.
The idea was, you collected complete sets of NFL players or whatever. Then you could redeem them for various modest prizes.
I'm sure the marketing concept was to get little kids like me to badger their mothers into buying more Coke products. But there's only so much sugar water one family can drink. So, I devised a plan.
If I taped a magnet to the end of a long section of wire clothes hanger, I could reach into vending machines and withdraw the caps from the cap-catching chamber directly below the built-in bottle-opener.
That's what I did. And my haul was impressive, if gooey.
Oh, there were a few run-ins with store employees who initially suspected that I was helping myself to coins. But mostly I was unmolested as I went around town making my rounds.
I ended up exchanging my many completed bottle-cap sheets for footballs, NFL pennants, NFL book covers and what have you.
I can't remember if other kids caught on and copied my magnet gambit. Maybe every town had one of us.
If the Internet had been around back then, we could have formed some sort of association and traded tips.
"Hi, Bob in Evansville. I understand what you are saying about the merits of asking permission to harvest caps when you first go into a store. But I've found that just gives someone the opportunity to say No."
The game was not played at Riverfront Park, of course.
But on this date in 1974, Spokane hosted a preseason NFL game. The Denver Broncos beat the New England Patriots (who had changed their name from Boston Patriots just a few years before). According to what I've read, the score of that Saturday night contest was 27-21.
They came with football players' pictures. And If you got enough of them, you could exchange them for junky prizes.
As you can see, this was before the NFL was its current size.


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In a distant galaxy three escaped female convicts crash land on a primitive world inhabited by a race of warlike apes. They fight for survival as the humanoid apes fight for their possession, body and soul. A daring escape is their only way out. Hot on their heels are the blood lusting gorillas and a prison warden bent on their return to the prison ship they escaped from. Treachery, alliances and battle await the fighting factions. Who will survive on a planet where apes rule and humans are only breeding stock.
The plot's pretty simple. Three female fugitives are held captive aboard a prison ship in space. The warden has cut a deal to sell the women to an alien race for a substantial profit. The women escape in a shuttle landing on a planet that bears a strong resemblance to back woods Pennsylvania, go figure.
The planet is ruled over by a violent race of ape humanoids that confront, pursue and imprison our three female protagonists for most of the movie. Eventually the warden from the prison ship tracks them down because anything else at this point would be a plot complication.
He confronts the apes, they confront him and a deal is struck for safe passage via his ship to leave their world in exchange for gems that look like diamonds. And for the 172nd time in the movie the women escape yet again.
To make a long story short, the women get away and one leaves with an ape. The warden's treachery is discovered whereupon he's imprisoned and executed. The final scene in the movie concerns our main female protagonist, Dane, giving birth to a baby ape. I never saw that coming.
I know "Empire…" is low budget, I get it, and for the first forty minutes I was actually into the movie but the script fell apart and lost me. It was almost as if writer / director Mark Polonia threw his hands into the air and said, "Well, that's all I got folks, where do we go from here?"
There's no excuse to allow the writing to drop off mid-way through a project. Regardless of the genre, the script has to be tight because it doesn't have a cost related to it in the budget unless you hired someone to write it which is unlikely. When the script is good a lot can be forgiven. Not so in "Empire…" It went from bad to embarrassing in a heartbeat. I can deal with poor special effects, after all, money's tight and I can get around the weird fire animation, the bad chimp sound bites and the space ship that looked a kid's toy bought at a garage sale, that's ok, it is what it is, I'm OK with that.
Instead my attention was trained upon how bad the movie truly was. There were moments when I had to remind myself that I wasn't watching public access TV although in retrospect I wish I had been. The main sticking points for me were the absurd costuming issues and eighth grade acting that plagued this movie from start to finish.
Costuming should be a huge priority in any sci-fi / fantasy film and with this movie it looked like an afterthought, if that. I'm still trying to figure out why two of the three female protagonists were dressed in black spandex leggings and sports bras while the third looked like she was either going to or coming from a Blake Shelton concert. It didn't make sense. It struck me that Polonia might've been debating over "do we make them sexy or not?" and couldn't come up with an answer which is bad. The actors portraying the apes wore cheesy Halloween masks, I kid you not. I could see no visible effort to hide this fact or play it down. I was bothered that it didn't look like any effort was made to fix this issue which gave me the impression that Polonia was either taking the audience for granted or just didn't care.
That's a big oversight to make and it should've been corrected. I love low budget movies but I get offended when production values appear as if ignored or no one cared. I don't know if this was the case but that's the impression I got.
"Empire of the Apes" looks like something a group of high school kids with their dad's credit card and a video camera produced over a weekend of bong hits and too many vine videos. At best this movie, and I use that term loosely, is live action role playing at its worst. I don't recommend buying nor renting "Empire of the Apes." It's a disaster.


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Tayna Fogle sat just behind Sen. Rand Paul, nodding her head and listening as he pressed the case with Kentucky state senators to restore felon voting rights.
"Kids do make mistakes. White kids make mistakes. Black kids make mistakes. Brown kids make mistakes," Paul told the Kentucky state Senate committee considering a constitutional amendment to restore the voting rights of some felons on Wednesday. "But when you look at the prison population, three out of the four people in prison are black or brown."
Fogle whispered: "Good for you. I'm glad someone is speaking up."
She felt as if he was narrating her life.
"Somewhere along the line he gained a lot of knowledge," Fogle said of Paul's push to restore voting rights to nonviolent felons.
"He has seen the disenfranchisement," said Fogle, a community organizer with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a nonprofit grassroots organization that has pushed to restore the voting rights of felons.
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I was interviewed by BBC correspondant Anna Bressanin for a show called Trending, talking 'bout Miranda July's Somebody app. I've been using the service a bit, and it's a lot of fun. The app is imperfect; the software is buggy, and I don't like that it only works for iPhone, but the idea itself is interesting.
Hess' Triangle on Atlas Obscurawww.atlasobscura.com
More on the odd-shaped mosaic I photographed this morning:
Hess' Triangle sits on the ground outside of a cigar shop on the corner of Christopher and 7th Avenue, just a bit larger than a generously-sized pizza slice. Village Cigars bought the triangle in 1938 for $1,000.
The Future of Mesh Networksblog.art21.org
I was honored to be included in Ben Valentine's "Future" series on the Art21 blog.
Howard Zinn quotationstrikemag.bigcartel.com
I like this poster from Strike Magazine:
"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." —Howard Zinn
Neil Freeman interviewed about his Electoral College Reform map
You may have seen Neil's map before, where each of the US's 50 states are redrawn to balance for population. It's nice to see his project's motivating ideas laid out like they are in this Paris Review interview:
I think that the biggest cultural change would be with the profusion of city-states. Many states overrepresent rural areas when it comes to divvying up funding for infrastructure projects and other spending. The alignment of metro areas and states would mean that decision-making power in land use and transportation would shift away from rural areas, which would probably mean less sprawl and more livable cities.
See also: Neil's 50 states and 50 metros
The fifty largest metro areas, disaggregated from their states. Each has been scaled and sorted according to population.
Microscope Gallery screening: now what
Ellie screened one of her videos last night at Running Rebel Studios, a video production space next door to Microscope Gallery. Here are a few of the videos from the program:
- 14 x 14 by Alberto Cabrera Bernal and Albert Alcoz
- God Bless De-territorialized America (endo-colonization in the age of techno-fetishism) by Josh Bricker
- Increase the Joy by Denise Iris
- Movements by James G. Mattise
- Fate-calculating: Get Yale Interview Prepared by Kit Yi Wong
- Manifest Destiny III by Ellen Mueller
- Phytoplastic by Ellie Irons
- 21 by Erin Grant
Doug Henwood vs. Adam Davidsonlbo-news.com
Last January Doug Henwood, one of my favorite lefty blogger-radio people, wrote a nasty response to Adam Davidson's New York Times Magazine article on Wall Street:
For a while, I've been thinking about writing a piece on how NPR is more toxic than Fox News. Fox preaches to the choir. NPR, though, confuses and misinforms people who might otherwise know better. Its "liberal" reputation makes palatable a deeply orthodox message for a demographic that could be open to a more critical message.
The full critique will take some time. But a nice warm-up opportunity has just presented itself: a truly wretched piece of apologetic hackery by Adam Davidson, co-founder of NPR's Planet Money economics reporting team, that appears in today's New York Times magazine.
So I was excited to see that Davidson recently appeared on Henwood's radio show, Behind the News:
Adam Davidson, host of NPR's Planet Money and columnist for the New York Times Magazine, on finance, innovation, bourgeois ideology, journalism, and being mean on the Internet.
The discussion starts out with a lot of Henwood talking uninterrupted, and coming off a bit defensive, but then they get into an interesting big picture discussion about the nature of ideology in popular media. The blog post Henwood mentions in the introduction on Scott Walker's victory in Wisconsin (and its follow-up) is also worthwhile.
Gizmodo will pay you for photos of Mark Zuckerberggizmodo.com
Two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg told startup publicist Mike Arrington that "people have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time."
Facebook has evolved over time too. No longer privately held, it is itself a public company, with a public CEO. We think it's time he evolves along with his company. In short, it's time for Mark to go public too.
Here's the deal: We're going to pay for photos and videos of Mark Zuckerberg taken between now and Labor Day. Snap a photo or shoot some video of Mark. At a bar, after a conference, on the street. Totally great. We want pictures of him that he isn't expecting to have made. If we run it, we'll send you a cool $20.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say $20 is low compared to standard paparazzi rates. This reminds me a little of Rob Cockerham's paparazzi contest, which was great fun to participate in.
Star Wars and Modernism introductionstarwarsmodern.blogspot.com
John Powers aka @starwarsmodern:
Earlier this week on twitter I 'tweeted' what might be thought of as an 8-bit art history lecture. By "8-Bit" I mean that, in the same way an 8-bit portrait is accurate, if radically simplified, this is a blocky generalized history. I was spurred to give this lecture after Todd Florio passed on the artist, Tom Sachs' observation that "Darth Vader IS Hitler. Yoda IS Buddha." Sachs owns Foamcore, police barricades, and can make an almost entirely air-tight claim on NASA, but Star Wars is mine. Sorry Tom.
I'm pretty sure this is what the internet was invented for.
Income inequality as seen from spacepersquaremile.com
From Tim De Chant's Per Square Mile blog:
Last week, I wrote about how urban trees—or the lack thereof—can reveal income inequality. After writing that article, I was curious, could I actually see income inequality from space? It turned out to be easier than I expected.
He makes some interesting comparisons from satellite images of cities around the world. Here is where I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn compared with the place in New York State with the highest per-capita income, Hewlett Bay Park.
Link via BoingBoing
The 20 All-Time Worst TED Talkswww.buzzfeed.com
I feel slightly bad linking to this since I know a couple of the speakers on the list. But I still chuckled a bit as I was reading it. Now I see some chatter about a TED parody event.
The paralyzed rat is not walkingwww.reuters.com
I've seen this video going around, advancing the idea that science has enabled a paralyzed rat to walk. This follows on some other impressive medical feats like the brain-controlled robotic arm.
The thing that struck me in the video, though, is that the rat is moving involuntarily. The rat's body is walking, but it's an advanced QWOP-style computer algorithm that's in control. To me this research seems more similar to those creepy Boston Dynamics robots than other advances in rehabilitative medicine.
The rat, in this case, is just a meat-based robot. Now watch the video with that in mind, watch the spasms of the front legs, and the cooing encouragement from the lab tech. Creepy right?


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Colorful Art Mural Paintings at the Los Robles Academy
Saturday, Mar 23, 2013 9:30a to 1:00p
Los Robles Academy East Palo Alto, CA
Artist Florence de Bretagne and members of the community are getting together at the Los Robles Magnet Academy, a dual immersion program for elementary students in the Ravenswood school district. We will together be drawing then painting 5 large colorful art murals on the walls, with themes of diversity, respect, safety and responsibility. This is a multi-week project and we will have lots of fun.
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Magne Furuholmen
|Sir Magne Furuholmen
|Background information
|Also known as
|Magne F, Mags
1 November 1962
Oslo, Norway
|Synthpop, new wave, alternative rock, indie rock
|Musician, artist, singer, songwriter & painter
|Guitar, vocals, keyboard, harmonica, piano, bass guitar, percussion
|Associated acts
Magne Furuholmen (Norwegian pronunciation: [mɑŋnə fʉ:ɾʉhɔlmən]) (born 1 November 1962 in Oslo, Norway), better known by his stage name Mags, is a Norwegian musician and visual arts artist. He is best known as the keyboardist of the synthpop/rock band A-ha.[1][2]
Life and career[edit]
Furuholmen is the son of jazz trumpeter Kåre Furuholmen (1940-67) and Anne-Lise Furuholmen (b. 1940).[3] He was raised in Manglerud, Oslo (along with A-ha colleague and co-writer Paul Waaktaar-Savoy). He has one sister, Line, and two half brothers, Thorstein and Trygve Christian. His father, a jazz musician who played trumpet with Bent Sølves Orkester, was killed in an aeroplane crash over Drammen, south of Oslo in 1967, when Magne was just five. Remarkably, this very accident was witnessed by an eight-year-old Morten Harket, thirteen years before the two were to meet for the first time.[2][4]
Furuholmen married Heidi Rydjord, his high school sweetheart, on 8 August 1992, in the garden of their Nesøya home. They have two sons, Thomas Vincent (born 20 April 1990) and Filip Clements (born 2 October 1993).[2]
Furuholmen has also revealed in an interview published by Norway's third largest newspaper Dagbladet (in its additional magazine Magasinet) that he is suffering from a heart disease. The news was picked up the same day by Side-Line music magazine.[5]
Along with fellow band member Morten Harket, Furuholmen is a supporter of English premier League football club Stoke City.
Furuholmen has been the keyboardist with A-ha since their formation in 1982, though he also plays guitar. He has co-written many of the band's hits with Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, including "Stay On These Roads", "Manhattan Skyline", and the band's first and biggest hit "Take On Me". When A-ha went on hiatus in 1994, Furuholmen began working on other music projects. The band reconvened in 1998, though announced they would split in 2010.[1]
In 2012 the three members of a-ha, Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar Savoy, were appointed Knights of the 1st Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for their contribution to Norwegian music. The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav is granted as a reward for distinguished services to their country and mankind. The official ceremony took place on 6 November 2012.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Solo projects and collaborations[edit]
Furuholmen's projects outside of A-ha include Timbersound, formed in 1994 with Kjetil Bjerkestrand, and later, Swedish singer, Freddie Wadling. Their work has been used on film soundtracks such as Ti Kniver I Hjertet (1994), "Hotel Oslo" (1997) which also featured vocals by Anneli Drecker, 1732 Høtten (1998) where the album Hermetic is featured.
Furuholmen also recorded "Past Perfect Future Tense" in 2004, with appearances from Guy Berryman and Will Champion of Coldplay, and from Andy Dunlop of the Scottish band Travis.
In 2008 Furuholmen collaborated with Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman and Mew vocalist Jonas Bjerre under the band name of Apparatjik for the theme to the BBC Two series, Amazon.[14] The theme was made available (along with exclusive tracks from various other artists) on the Survival International charity album, Songs for Survival.
In 2010 Apparatjik released their first album We Are Here, a digital album also available physically via their website.
Magne announced on Jo Wiley's show on BBC Radio 2 in October 2010 that he intends to work with his friends in MEW and Coldplay after retiring from A-ha in December.[15]
In 2012 Magne Furuholmen was a mentor on the show The Voice – Norges beste stemme. His talent Martin Halla won the contest and had his first album produced by Furuholmen himself who is also an estimated songwriter/producer for other artists.
In 2014 Furuholmen agreed to compose the songs and supervise the recordings for the Norwegian film "Beatles". [16] [17]
Visual arts[edit]
Magne Furuholmen is also a well known visual arts artist working with glass, paint, etching and woodcut and has exhibited his works all around the world. His art has been displayed at The Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, and he has also shown his work at The London Art Fair. In 2001, Furuholmen was commissioned to design an official Norwegian postage stamp. In 2005 he decorated the 11 floors of the Royal Caribbean International cruiseship Adventure of the Seas with sheets of glass of his work.[1][3]
Main solo exhibitions[edit]
- 1989 Maleri
- 1995 Kutt / Cuts
- 1997 In Concert
- 1996, 1998 Y Project
- 1998 Credit
- 1999 New Works
- 2001 Pincette
- 2003 Foci
- 2004 Payne's Gray
- 2004 Stjerneskutt
- 2006 Building Ruins
- 2006 Morceaux Choisis
- 2007 Monologues
- 2007 Scrabble
- 2007 Anticlimax
- 2007 Climax
- 2009 Camera
- 2009 Alpha Beta
- 2011 Echo
- 2011 Futura Plus
- 2012 Bouquet
- 2013 Norwegian Wood
- 2014 Norwegian Wood Remix
- 2014 Self-Portraits
- 2007 Climax The Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
- 2009 Climax Sculpture Hydro, Norway
- 2009 Confusion, Bølgen & Moi (with Snøhetta), Oslo, Norway
- 2010 Umsteiger, commission, Berlin, Germany
- 2012 Bouquet Wall Painting, Asker, Norway
- 2012 Code One, commission, Aglaia
- 2012-2013 Aker Solutions, Fornebu, Norway
Works on permanent display[edit]
- 2003 Resonance, Bergen, Norway
- 2012 Rudolph the chrome-nosed reindeer, Tjuvholmen, Oslo, Norway (with Apparatjik)
- 2013 The Sound Of Silence, Tjuvholmen, Oslo, Norway (with Apparatjik)
- 1980 Fakkeltog (Bridges)
- 1985 Hunting High and Low (A-ha)
- 1986 Scoundrel Days (A-ha)
- 1987 The Living Daylights - 007 James Bond Soundtrack (A-ha)
- 1988 Stay On These Roads (A-ha)
- 1990 East of the Sun, West of the Moon (A-ha)
- 1991 Headlines & Deadlines (A-ha)
- 1993 Memorial Beach (A-ha)
- 1994 Hope To Die / Ti kniver i hjertet (Timbersound)
- 1996 Hotel Oslo (Timbersound)
- 1996 Archivalia Vol. 1 (producer)
- 1998 Hermetic (Timbersound)
- 2000 Minor Earth Major Sky (A-ha)
- 2001 Dragonfly, EP
- 2002 Lifelines (A-ha)
- 2004 Past Perfect Future Tense (Magne F)
- 2005 Analogue (A-ha)
- 2005 Indian Ocean, Yusuf Islam, single (performer)
- 2007 The longest night in Shanghai - (Umi No Shanghai) soundtrack (writer/performer on Bass Theme, writer of Guy Romance Theme)
- 2008 A Dot of Black in the Blue of Your Bliss (Magne F)
- 2008 Thor Heyerdahl – På jakt etter paradiset soundtrack (writer)
- 2008 Ferreting, song (Apparatjik)
- 2009 Foot of the Mountain (A-ha)
- 2010 The Bolshevik Box (Apparatjik)
- 2010 We Are Here (Apparatjik)
- 2010 Word Symphony (Limited Edition) (Magne F)
- 2010 a-ha 25 (A-ha)
- 2012 Square Peg In A Round Hole (Apparatjik)
- 2012 If You Can, Solve This Jumble, Lowell, album (writer and producer)
- 2013 Winter Days, Martin Halla, album (writer and producer)
- 2013 Breathe, Backstreet Boys, single (writer)
- 2013 Majors & Minors, Marius Beck (producer)
- 2014 Beatles movie Soundrtack, (writer, performer)
- 2014 Undo My Heart, Tini (writer, producer)
- 1995 Kutt / Cuts, Henie Onstad Art Center
- 1997Blue Note Boulevards, Grøndahl Dreyer,
- 2002 Lerkrukker & Glasmosaik, Liebeskind, Denmark
- 2004 Foci, Lillehammer Art Museum
- 2004 Stjerneskudt, Nansensgades Antikvariat
- 2004 Stjerneskutt, Press Forlag
- 2004 Payne's Gray, Hatje Cantz Verlag
- 2004 Art In The Statoil Collection
- 2005 Norwegian Artist Yearbook
- 2005 Paul Stolper Editions
- 2006 Gap Hanoi, OCA
- 2007 Monologues
- 2009 This Is The Way We See It, Erich Weiss
- 2010 Alphabets - A miscellany of letters, black dog publishing UK, ISBN 978-1-907317-09-5
- Landscape and Room, a selection from H.M. Queen Sonja's art collection ISBN 978-82-8294-001-6
- 2011 Electric - Some Magazine ISBN ISBN 978-3-86019-083-8
- 2012 Illustration in Norwegian Books
- 2012 Music, Some magazine ISBN 978-3-86019-092-0
- 2012 I wish this was a Song, Museet for Samtidskunst, ISBN 978-82-8154-068-2
- 2013 In Transit (Monograph), 2013 Press Publishing, ISBN 978-82-7547-413-9
- ^ a b c "Magne Furuholmen Biography". Store Norske Leksikon. Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ a b c "Magne Furuholmen Biography". LeninImports.com. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ a b Danielsen, Guro (2009-06-19). "Multi-Magne: Magne Furuholmen (46) hviler aldri, han bare finner på noe nytt. Ellers kan det gå skikkelig galt" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ Vogt, Henrik (2008-05-13). "De døde foreldres klubb" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ "A-ha member Magne Furuholmen struck with heart disease - The real reason behind the end of A-ha?". Side-Line.com. 2010-07-24. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ "A-HA RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS AWARD". MusicExportNorway.no. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ "Utnevnelse til St. Olavs Orden" (in Norwegian). Kongehuset.no. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ "A-HA TILDELES ST. OLAVS ORDEN" (in Norwegian). MusicExportNorway.no. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ Gjestad, Robert Hoftun (2012-11-06). "Morten Harket: Jeg føler meg stolt, men kanskje mest forlegen" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ Steen, Thea (2012-11-06). "Nå er de riddere av 1. klasse - a-Ha hyllet med St. Olavs Orden" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ "a-ha fikk St. Olavs Orden: - Jeg er mer forlegen enn stolt" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 2012-11-06. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ "Kommentar: Ridderlige a-ha" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 2012-11-06. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ Ratvik, Elise Hellem (2012-11-06). "Kongens orden til kongene av pop" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ "Coldplay and A-ha team up". Teletext. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
- ^ Whiley, Jo (2010-10-21). "a-ha in concert". BBC. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ "Magne Furuholmen to score music for Norwegian Blockbuster". a-ha.com. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ^ "Magne at Abbey Road Studios recording music for 'Beatles' movie". a-ha.com. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
External links[edit]
- magnef.org
- Official A-ha website
- magne-f.net
- Magne F Archive fan site
- Magne Furuholmen on Facebook
- Magne Furuholmen on Myspace
- Stolper + Friends Gallery, Oslo
- Paul Stolper Gallery, London
- Official Apparatjik website
- Apparatjik on Myspace
- 1962 births
- Living people
- A-ha members
- Norwegian guitarists
- Norwegian songwriters
- Norwegian keyboardists
- Norwegian pianists
- Norwegian artists
- English-language singers of Norway
- Musicians from Oslo
- Norwegian multi-instrumentalists
- The Voice (TV series) judges
- Norwegian New Wave musicians
- Synthpop new wave musicians


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SolarWorld Applauds Trade Panel For Vote To Counter Illegal Chinese Trade Practices
SolarWorld , the largest U.S. solar producer for more than 35 years, cheered the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) today for its unanimous final finding that illegally subsidized and dumped Chinese imports of crystalline silicon solar cells and panels have hurt domestic manufacturers. The decision, along with all major preceding rulings, validates the central contention of SolarWorld's trade cases that the government of China is staging an illegal, anticompetitive export drive at the expense of U.S. manufacturing and jobs, the company said.
However, the company said in light of China's apparent determination to prop up its excessive production capacity at any cost, it would continue to pursue all relevant options to address China's improper trade practices. The goal, according to the company, is to revive the domestic industry, fair competition and economic growth in the U.S. solar-manufacturing market at a time when demand is robustly expanding.
The 6-0 vote by the ITC will activate final anti-subsidy and anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports that the U.S. Department of Commerce issued in October, ranging from a combined rate of about 24 percent up to more than 250 percent, depending on the company, according to SolarWorld. The ITC determination is the final step in the trade case investigations, among the biggest brought against China, filed in October 2011.
"U.S. producers are grateful for the diligence that the ITC and its staff invested in this complex case at the crossroads of the world's energy future," said Gordon Brinser, president of SolarWorld Industries America Inc., based in Oregon. "The vote comes too late for hundreds of American workers laid off from more than two dozen U.S. factories that China's state-sponsored export campaign drove into financial peril. But the decision offers some hope to survivors that China might be held accountable to its legal obligations and that this U.S.-pioneered industry might see a fair chance to play a growing role in the nation's energy independence."
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Investors have driven the yield spread between Turkey's two-year and 10-year lira notes to the highest in two years on speculation that the central bank's balancing act will tilt toward growth.
The spread, also known as the yield curve, widened to 133 basis points on Feb. 21, the steepest since February 2011. Then, Turkey's growth rate exceeded China's and inflation jumped to 10.5 percent by year-end. The 10-year yield rose to 6.99 percent on Feb. 22, 17 basis points above Russian debt due in July 2022, and up from a record low of 6.53 percent on Dec. 18.
The jump indicates investors are pricing in growth-driven inflation risk as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey's economy needs to "fly" after the central bank engineered a slump last year by depressing loan growth. Bank Governor Erdem Basci cut two of his three main interest rates on Feb. 19, saying he was also tightening lenders' reserve-rate requirements to offset any unwanted credit growth.
"There is huge political pressure on the central bank," Murat Gulkan, head of Unlu Portfolio Management, an Istanbul- based asset management company, said in e-mailed comments on Feb. 22. "Credit growth is back above 20 percent, inflation is going to stay high and the current-account gap is going to widen as growth picks up."
Meeting Target
Turkey's gross domestic product probably expanded less than 3 percent last year as Basci depressed lending to rein in the current-account deficit, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek told NTV television on Feb. 20. This year the government will "comfortably" meet its 4 percent growth goal, he said.
The government's 2013 target matches the median estimate of 23 economists surveyed by Bloomberg and compares with 8.5 percent growth in 2011 and 9.2 percent in 2010.
The yield on two-year notes has fallen 50 basis points this year as the central bank lowered its overnight lending and borrowing rates twice by a total of 50 basis points each to boost the economy while leaving its benchmark repo rate unchanged.
At the last rate meeting on Feb. 19, the bank increased reserve requirements on lira liabilities to 11 percent from 10.8 percent and on foreign currency liabilities to 11.5 percent from 11.1 percent, citing "significant acceleration" in credit growth and saying the moves would withdraw about $2 billion in liquidity from the market.
Balancing Act
"This is in fact a balancing act, and a difficult one," Sertan Kargin, chief economist at Eczacibasi Securities in Istanbul, said by e-mail on Feb. 22. The rate cuts and Simsek's "growth-friendly" remarks prompted investors to drop longer- term debt while maintaining "bullish exposures at the short end," he said.
Basci introduced an interest-rate corridor in October 2011 that allows him to vary rates daily to control inflation and lending, stabilize the lira and reduce the current-account deficit. Turkey's currency tumbled 18 percent against the dollar that year, the biggest drop worldwide, as the shortfall swelled to $77.1 billion, or about 10 percent of GDP.
While Basci's monetary policy has reined in the current- account gap, his limits on lending have restricted a driver of economic growth. Last year's slowdown coincided with a loan growth of about 15 percent, while 2009's economic contraction coincided with credit growth of 6.8 percent. In 2010 and 2011, lending grew 30 percent and 34 percent and GDP expanded 9.2 percent and 8.5 percent, respectively.
Controlled Expansion
Loan growth was 19 percent in the year to Feb. 8, according to the latest data on the state statistics agency's website. Both the government and central bank are targeting 15 percent growth rates.
The government will take necessary steps to restrict loans and achieve a "controlled" expansion, Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said in televised comments from Istanbul on Feb. 22. About half of Turkish growth this will come from domestic demand and the other half from exports, he said.
State-run Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi TAO (VAKBN) will probably expand its loans by 17 percent, CEO Suleyman Kalkan said in an interview with CNBC-e television on Feb. 21. Akbank TAS (AKBNK), the bank part-owned by Citigroup Inc., will increase lending at an average pace of 20 percent annually between 2013 and 2015, CEO Hakan Binbasgil said in a presentation in Istanbul on Feb. 12.
More Curbs
Increased lending may prompt policy makers to take further action against the banks, according to Mariya Gancheva, a credit strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities in London.
"If the central bank is so obsessed with controlling lending and keeping it at 15 percent, then why does every single bank plan to grow by 17 percent to 20 percent?" Gancheva said by e-mail on Feb. 22. "These massive accelerations have always been penalized, so they will get a slap soon."
The lira fell 0.3 percent to 1.8002 against the dollar at 7 p.m. in Istanbul on Feb. 22.
Five-year credit-default swaps on Turkey rose two basis points to 142. That's less than the cost of 149 for Russia and 171 for South Africa, though both nations have better credit ratings. Rising prices indicate worsening perceptions of creditworthiness. The contracts pay the buyer face value in exchange for the underlying securities or cash equivalent if a borrower fails to adhere to its debt agreements.
The extra yield investors demand to hold Turkey's dollar debt over U.S. Treasuries jumped five basis points, or 0.05 percentage point, to 209, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s EMBI Global Diversified Index. Turkey's spread is 76 basis points below the average for emerging markets, compared with a discount of 89 at the end of last year.
While the central bank's rate cuts were intended to deter so-called hot money inflows, the reserve requirements were meant to offset any stimulative effect those cuts might have on lending, Tim Ash, chief emerging market economist for Standard Bank Group Ltd., said in e-mailed comments from London Feb. 21.
"This is a central bank that loves to tweak its policy tools," Ash said. "I fear they are still perhaps trying to do too much. The central bank might be forced to move to tighten policy by hiking policy rates in a more orthodox fashion."
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