It is finally that time of year again, where picnic’s and barbecues become almost the norm, and those hot summer days are spent being lazy and feeling young again. Why not create some special memories with your children and go on a picnic?
The A’s Gio Gonzalez outpitched his cross-bay counterpart, Matt Cain, on Saturday. Gonzalez retired the final 20 batters he faced, while Cain had a frustrating outing and dropped to 2-4 despite a 2.88 ERA. Gio Gonzalez got into such a groove he didn’t even realize how quickly he was setting down the San Francisco Giants
The Tour of California announced Friday the final rosters for this month’s race, which will include 16 teams and 127 cyclists. The Tour, which runs May 16-23, begins with a leg that starts in Nevada City and ends in downtown Sacramento. The rosters feature riders from 23 countries, according to a news release.
Noah, left, and Logan Miller made the movie “Touching Home” based on their father, a hard-drinking laborer, and their hardscrabble upbringing in Marin County. The movie, starring Ed Harris, has a special red- carpet opening Friday at the Crest Theatre. Filmmakers Logan and Noah Miller are those identical twins you hear about.
Ed Harris plays the alcoholic father of two aspiring baseball players in “Touching Home.” The elegant opening shots of “Touching Home” portend good things for the Miller brothers, Logan and Noah, who wrote, directed and star in this, their first feature film. Over the credits, we see four hands in close-up planting a memorial garden, and there’s beauty in the precision of the gestures and in the ways the hands work together and help each other. The film is set in a hardscrabble world in which people are broke and the only ticket out is a miracle
Football fans pay thousands of dollars every year to travel to the Super Bowl. But for many homeowners in North Texas, it’s the cost to stay that might be too high
Traffic was hellacious in downtown Davis on Saturday. Total gridlock
A hubbub of hubs and spokes was assembled today in Davis for the opening of the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame in its new digs at Davis’ Central Park. Visitors came on beach cruisers with baskets and hipster single-speeds with messenger bags.
Ryan McKinney, right, works with actors Zach Taub, left, Patrick Steichen, Samantha Adair and cameraman Jeffrey Vanacore during acting class at his It Factor Studios in Rancho Cordova.
When he’s not at school or winning junior cyclocross races, Oak Ridge High School senior Cody Kaiser can often be found wrenching on bikes at the family bicycle shop. Before-and-after contrasts can be so telling, so jaw-droppingly stark, that you wonder whether you’re seeing the same person. To look at Cody Kaiser now, at 17, is to find him on the cusp of adulthood and in full athletic form.
