Four times a year Bows and Arrows holds their Makers Mart. The market offers visibility to local artists and creators while providing them the opportunity to show off their talents. A large variety of handmade wares will be available to browse at this summer’s Makers Mart this weekend. The concept behind Makers Mart is to support local artists and give them a space from which to sell their creations to the community. Vendors selling a wide variety of art – both culinary and design –will be at the market. Pushkin’s Bakery is one of this season’s vendors. Located at 1820 29th St., Pushkin’s offers a menu full of gluten-, wheat-, and dairy-free options, including the strategically-named “Aw

This past Saturday, I checked out Bows & Arrows’ High $5 Sale and picked up some great pieces. I have been checking out these biannual sales for years and am never disappointed with the sales. There’s always an eclectic mix of secondhand, DIY and vintage clothing at these sales, as well as Bows & Arrows itself. There were a couple different vendors at the High $5 Sale, including Racks Boutique and Cuffs, that filled the alley next to Bows & Arrows. The most exciting part about going to the sales Bows & Arrows puts on is the massive amount of clothes laid out and hung up on racks. It’s overwhelming but exciting at the same time, because you never know what you’ll find. I really appreciate B

April and May are the perfect months for enjoying the Sacramento sun. Sure, you can drink a decent beer outside on many a streetside table, but this is about back patios, gardens and out-of-the-way spots to drink out of doors. A lack of car traffic is key, and both fountains and live music earn you extra points. Before long it will be far too hot to sit and bask with a beer, so without further ado, here are five excellent places in the area to enjoy a beer outdoors.  If you agree, disagree, or wish to share your favorite spot in the area, I invite you to do so – secret spots welcome! Bows & Arrows This collective has a nice, albeit generally minimal, selection of beers; excellent food

People get gung-ho about repetitive dates, and so do we here at Sacramento365.com! In that spirit, we decided to get in the groove of 12/12/12 and round-up 12 fun things for you to do in Sacramento today. 1. See choirs from the Lodi Seventh Day Adventist Elementary School (11am) or the US Army Corps of Engineers (Noon) perform holiday tunes for free at the Capitol's annual Holiday Music Program. 2. Do a little shopping at Sacramento Downtown Plaza and then bring your receipt to the Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink for a free skate rental. 3. Learn about the local and regional impact of the arts at Pence Gallery's Art Grown Locally panel discussion. 4. Shop for wine while drinking wine at E

'Tis the season for holiday celebrations galore. This weekend arrives bearing holiday events of all ilks, from theatre and dance to concerts, kids' activities, local shopping, and more. Check out some of our picks below, and find even more options in Sacramento365.com's Holiday Events section. Celebrate with the whole family: Holiday Magic: Sacramento Zoo; Sat 10am-4pm See your favorite Sacramento Zoo animals receive their special holiday presents. Animals will get special treats delivered to them and staff will be on hand to share facts, secrets, and answer your questions. Christmas Memories: Governor's Mansion State Historic Park; Sat 10am-4pm Surrounded by docents in period costume,

Avoid the dreaded long lines and crowds at retail chains this Black Friday and consider turning your attention to the local shops and vendors in town. In fact, you can even take a pledge to shop local this season, courtesy of the Keep Your Green on the Grid campaign, organized by the Midtown Business Association and the Downtown Sacramento Partnership. Furthermore, Sacramento365.com's Local Marketplace section always fills up this time of year with myriad craft fairs, holiday shopping bazaars, and the like, which are great ways to get out and interact face-to-face with the people who create the gifts you are buying. In addition to pledging to keep your green on the grid, here are some sh

  La Raza Galería Posada (LRGP) and Bows & Arrows are teaming up to present an evening of "Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead" films on Tuesday, October 23 from 7 pm-10 pm. Bow & Arrows is located at 1815 19th Street between R and S Sts. in Sacramento. http://bowscollective.com. Dr. Fred Dobb, the Galería's film curator, will host the evening of "Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead" films. The main film will be the 1960 classic, Macario, from what is considered the "golden age of Mexican cinema." Dobb will give a short pre-concert talk on this classic Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead film (with English subtitles) and also show several animated Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead shorts.

This weekend (October 5, 6, 7) is Norcal Noisefest, Sacramento's annual gathering of experimental musicians, noise artists and musical outsiders from around the country. This Noisefest is the sixteenth held since the festival's founding in 1995, making it one of the longest-running festivals of its kind in North America. Because noise is a profoundly unpopular musical genre, most people are unfamiliar with noise--there have never been any commercially successful noise musicians, although many successful musicians (from the Velvet Underground to Sonic Youth and Radiohead) have experimented with noise. The linked video below is a four-minute summary of what you are likely to see and hear at

Launch 2012 is officially under way, and Tuesday July 24, day two,  features an avant-garde performance at Bows and Arrows and live music at Dive Bar. For an $8 admission fee, the audience at Bows and Arrows will be treated to a series of short silent national and international films accompanied by live music from local musicians. The Sacramento film group The Capitol Indie Collective selected scenes from five films to be featured: “The House of Usher”, “The Joy of Life”, “The Tantalizing Fly”, “Neighbors” and one “wild card” surprise film.The musicians include Ross Hammond, DD Walker, Gentlemen Surfer and MC Ham. Each band was assigned a specific film to score and will play that music li

Across Sacramento, knitted blankets and beanies are turning up in trees, on bike racks and on statues. A blanket made out of yarn covered a bike rack in front of The Golden Bear. Fire hydrants downtown were covered with beanies. These seemingly random acts of craftsmanship are the calling card of The Gorilla Knitting Crew. Candice Foster, known as Can, and her husband, Adam Foster, started the Gorilla Knitting Crew last June with their kids Bella, 13, Nieyah, 7, AJ, 6, and Lukas, 4, when Can suddenly found herself unemployed. Can said she heard people were “knit bombing,” putting knitting in trees around the world, so the family started hanging knitting projects around Sacramento. Th

This is not your fourth grade spelling bee. The Sacred City Derby Girls, Sacramento’s women’s roller derby league, along with Bows & Arrows, are bringing a grown-up spelling bee to Sacramento. The event will benefit the Gender Health Center, an organization that provides mental health counseling to the LGBT community with a focus on Sacramento’s transgender population. Participants may sign up to spell at the event, beginning at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Bows & Arrows store, located at 1815 19th St. The grown-up spelling bee will kick off at 8 p.m. Alice White, whose derby name is “Standard” and skates for the Sacred City Derby Girls, said she got the idea from her home state of Minneso

Sacramento shopkeepers Olivia Coelho and Trisha Rhomberg will open a new take on their vintage clothing store Bows & Arrows this Saturday. And this time, they will not be alone. The new Bows & Arrows, opening across from Safeway on 19th Street, will also sell the gourmet popsicles, panini sandwiches and other fare made by Jaymes Luu of Davis-based Fat Face cafe. The new store, located in a former recording studio, will continue to sell clothes from the 1960s through the early 1990s. Coelho and Rhomberg will also sell refashioned clothing under their own label, Miss Chief of California. The new store will also contain an art gallery, the cafe, and a beer and wine bar run by Coelho and Rh

The duo behind Bows & Arrows is reinventing the business in a new space devoted to nurturing local artists. In spring, artists Olivia Coelho and Trisha Rhomberg plan to open a new concept rooted in the vintage clothing store they've operated in Midtown for three years.  Coelho and Rhomberg, who are both clothing designers, will continue to sell vintage and repurposed clothing at the new space at 1815 19th St. But Bows & Arrows' new location will also be a place for the creative class to eat, drink, sell art and be exposed to other talent.  "We're the poorest philanthropists you'll ever meet," Coelho said.  Coelho's parents bought the building in June. Coelho and Rhomberg will lease it

I’ve been living in Sacramento for seven years now, and have watched Second Saturday grow from being a well-kept secret, to a street-surging bona fide party, complete with jugglers, a one-man-band in a purple van, remote-controlled robots, and terrible Tom Petty cover bands. The Second Saturday shooting that happened in September had everyone worked up about shutting down, scaling back, canceling, or drastically changing Second Saturday. Here’s the thing: that poor kid died, and it’s terrible what happened. I didn’t know him, but I know people that did, and he seemed to be a great kid with a lot of promise and a kind heart. The notion that this incident should shut down Second Saturday th