Just Be Theatre Company has announced that Sacramento's Artisan Theatre will host a trio of encore performances for the Anthony D'Juan play "3," conceived and performed by Danielle Moné Truitt, June 29-July 1, 2012. The one-woman show, which had its Sacramento premiere June 7-10, is the first in a proposed trilogy ("Nappy Hair and Other Black Girl Blues") that examines "the lives of three women connected by friendship and history, while delving into the social and cultural issues rooted in misconceptions of race and beauty." Tickets, priced at $20, are available at the door (1901 Del Paso Blvd., Sacramento), or online at www.brownpapertickets.com. Read more about the play's genesis by c

photographs by Barry Wisdom / For some, memories are jogged by a Top 40 ballad. Others find aromas initiate the trek down memory lane. For triple-threat Danielle Moné Truitt, it's not scents, songs or even Hipstamatic prints that prompt feelings of nostalgia. As wiggy as it seems, Truitt says the touchstones that trigger her internal "Way-Back Machine" are hairdos. "When I think about all of the major things that have happened in my life, what I remember is how I was wearing my hair," said the former Sacramentan now based in Southern California. "Ask me about my junior prom and I can tell you exactly what style it was in." It's a bit of a tangled connection between how a friend's disc

It’s been ten years since the last installment in the comic book inspired series but the Men in Black are back for Men in Black III. After all that time is it even something we want to see at this point? Only the box office results will really tell us what America thinks. But I can safely say it’s a welcome appetizer to what promises to be a huge meal of a summer. In MIB3 we find Agents J and K (Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones respectively) in a bit of a rut. They’re both feeling a little old and a little tired of each other. They’re forced to put their friendship issues on hold however when an especially nasty alien that K put away years ago (played by Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Cle

Campaign contributions to City Council candidates are not a secret. Citizens can access information about contributions online at the city of Sacramento’s Electronic Filing System. The city has published campaign contributions online since 2002, said Assistant City Clerk Stephanie Mizuno. In a Nov. 5 story, The Sacramento Press provided a guide to the city’s online system. Since then, the city clerk’s office has changed its website. “The navigation is a little bit different,” Mizuno said. To help the public understand the changes, The Sacramento Press is publishing the following updated guide to the online system. The city clerk’s website now has two separate links that connect you to