Vintage fashion costumes adorned the entrance to Sacramento City College's campus' Student Center. The SCC City Fashion Club presented an enchanting evening of fashion on Wednesday night, May 8. The Spring 2013 Fashion Show featured a classwork runway and designs by seven student designers. Excitement and anticipation were apparent backstage as models and designers worked on last-minute details. Also backstage were beauty and esthetician school representatives from Paul Mitchell. Faculty members Lynne Giovannetti and Jean Winchell represented the fashion club and managed the activity backstage and at the door. Giovannetti, Applied Apparel Studies Program professor, shared some inform

At 1 p.m., Saturday, April 20, Shirley Burman will speak about the history of women in the railroad industry. This event is sponsored and hosted by the SCC Railroad Club and will be held in the Sacramento City College Student Center. Burman is a documentary photographer and historian who received the Fred A. and Jane R. Stindt Photograph Award for her “‘accomplishments as a railroad photographer, especially the documentation of women’s contributions to railroading’” in 2012. In 2013, she received the Hall of Fame Award at Winterail. She is the first woman to receive this award in the organization’s 35 years.  About the award, she said that she hadn’t been thinking about the award becaus

Imagine you’re in front of an admiring crowd, all of whom are smiling and cheering as you inch toward the microphone. You’ve just received a prestigious award, and as everyone quiets down for you to humbly accept, your mind goes blank. Not long ago, Eddie Arcilla found himself in just this situation. A 25-year-old Sacramento City College graphic design student, Arcilla received top honors in the student categories of Sacramento’s 2012 Addy Awards held March 21 at Elks Tower. “I was really shocked,” he said. “I didn’t even know I was going up there to make a speech. I was in awe.” The Addy Awards, hosted every year by the Sacramento Ad Club, recognize excellence in the local marketing an

American Idol winner Kris Allen came to Sacramento on Wednesday, Feb. 13, for a concert performance as part of the Out Alive tour to promote his sophomore album, “Thank You Camellia.” The tour gets its name from the title of the fourth track on the album. His stop in Sacramento was one out of eight stops in California. His previous stops on the West Coast also included one at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas. The season eight champion and his band performed at the Sacramento City College Performance Arts Center, for an intimate audience of about 200 people, curious newcomers as well as longtime fans, including one woman who confessed it was the 30th time she’d seen Allen perform live. Twee

“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. The words of Martin Luther King Jr. were quite evident as the 32nd annual March for the Dream took place on Monday, Jan. 21.  An estimated crowd of 30,000 marched to the Sacramento Capitol  Building and the Convention Center. Marchers of all ethnic persuasions came to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. as they marched from the Oak Park Community Center, Sacramento City College and Grant High School. Community representatives, local employers, healthcare professionals, small business vendors and others attended the event to supply guests with valuable information about educa

Shannon Jane Morgan’s first exposure to the ancient art of glassblowing was when friends invited her to an arts and crafts conference in the Bay Area. While there, she saw a glassblowing demonstration and was “blown away” by what artistic hands could do and by how smoothly all the glassblowers worked side by side in sync. Shortly thereafter, Morgan enrolled in a Glassblowing 101 class at San Francisco State. When the instructor asked why she was there, she answered, “Because I’m supposed to be.” Morgan says she “was terrible at it,” but when a local glass artist came to the class he noticed her. Morgan attributes the attention to her age - she was in her thirties and older than the rest

The future can’t come fast enough for Paul Petrovich. The prominent Sacramento developer has spent nine years and more than $25 million to bring the controversial Curtis Park Village project online, and he’s so close now, he must be able to taste it. So at last week’s emergency meeting of the Sierra Curtis Park Neighborhood Association, called to discuss the developer’s latest proposed changes to the project, he did something entirely out of character. He apologized for scaring the bejesus out of the neighborhood and withdrew most of his proposed changes. “No one has a bigger vested interest in making sure this project turns out the best that it can be than me,” Petrovich told the SCNA bo

Developer Paul Petrovich has abandoned a plan to increase the commercial footprint and alter the residential mix of the controversial Curtis Park Village project, according to a city councilman.  “I know many of you are deeply concerned with the Curtis Park Village project and the proposed amendments that have come forward in recent months,” District 5 City Councilman Jay Schenirer stated in an email to constituents. “Yesterday, my office was informed by Mr. Petrovich that he will not be moving forward with any of the changes initially proposed to the commercial area of the project.” The Curtis Park Village project is located between Sacramento City College on the west and the Curtis Par

Sacramento city staff presented their final recommendation for the Freeport Boulevard Bike Lane Project to an overwhelmingly skeptical crowd of Land Park and Curtis Park residents at McClatchy High School on Thursday, Oct. 25. At issue was a 1.2 mile section of Freeport Boulevard, a four-lane, two-way roadway that runs north from Sutterville Road to the railroad and light rail crossing at Fourth Avenue. The project is estimated to cost $1.4 million. The funding source is still to be determined. The section of road is scheduled for resurfacing in 2014, and the city wants to take the opportunity to transform a major thoroughfare into a “complete street” more amenable to bicyclists and pede

The Sacramento City Council will consider approving a contract Tuesday for a project which aims to link bicycle and pedestrian traffic between Land Park and Curtis Park. The Sacramento City College Bicycle/Pedestrian Improvements Project will create a pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly route on 12th Avenue between 23rd Street and Panther Parkway, according to a city staff report. The route will link with the light-rail station, and eventually, with Sacramento City College via a pedestrian bridge that will extend from the parking-garage area on the college campus, over the train tracks and into the proposed Curtis Park Village development, according to the report. A bike lane will also be

photographs by Barry Wisdom /   Iambic pentameter. The very words strike fear in those who equate classic Shakespearean verse with a foreign language. Luther Hanson, a Sacramento City College professor who also serves as the coordinator for the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival, hopes to change the common perception that the Bard is for Brainiacs. His newly reworked play, "King Arthur," which kicks off the 2012 Sacramento Shakespeare Festival season June 29, is not part of the Shakespeare canon, but is an homage to the playwright (1564-1616) whose legacy has tormented more high schoolers than Columbus, Susan B. Anthony, and FDR combined. Written in Shakespeare's familiar style of verse

Although the four-letter word “hate” doesn’t get censored, the actions that are fueled by it do. According to psychology Professor, Dr. Gayle Pitman, hate stems from individual psychological issues—fearing or hating what people are, or psychological issues projected outward caused by social, institutional and religious teachings. “In some ways, religion is a good thing, but it can also be used as a powerful and dangerous tool,” said Pitman, who has taught psychology of sexual orientation and psychology of women for 11 years at Sacramento City College. In 2009 and 2010, two hate crimes were reported in the Los Rios District—both occurred at City College, according to Los Rios District P

It is fitting that during Earth Week, and a week before the Whole Earth Festival, the city of Davis will host the region’s largest professional art function that embraces earth —literally. That is earth of the ceramic variety. The John Natsoulas Art Gallery is hosting the 23rd annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art (CCACA) in downtown Davis April 27-29. Pronounced “caca,” like the natural fertilizer that animals drop to the earth, the CCACA’s festivities will showcase ceramic art from three Los Rios District colleges, CSU Sacramento, UC Davis and more than 40 West Coast colleges, universities and high schools. Of the 5,000 who attend, 2,000 students will exhibit

PINK!   There’s no pink in baseball!.... Well actually there is…and quite a bit…at the 4th Annual Albie Swingin’ For Life Baseball Match-Ups which take place at Sacramento City College on April 28, 2012. First Game at 10am. (Gates open at 9am) “Pink-think” comes into play because all the players and umpires will be sporting pink…and when they round the bases, the runners will be tagging…you guessed it…pink bases. This line-up of baseball games, held to raise money for Albie Aware Breast Cancer Foundation, pits some of the area’s best high school teams in a four game program. Game 1 - 10am - Franklin vs. Antelope Game 2 - 1pm - Roseville vs. Oak Ridge Game 3 - 4pm - Elk Grove vs. Pio

Through a collaborative effort between faculty and students, Sacramento City College will host the first Los Rios District-wide LGBT Conference Friday, March 16, from 1–5 p.m. in the Student Center. The grassroots effort for LGBT education, rights and services in the Los Rios district is an attempt to increase understanding and support for all students and faculty throughout the system.“Even though we are one district, we are four different satellites, and [the conference is] kind of getting everyone together to start a dialogue,” said Queer Straight Alliance faculty adviser and Workability counselor Derrick Wydick. “We are hoping to support the efforts that are already established at eac

Administrators at John F. Kennedy High School organized a mega fieldtrip this week: They brought every freshman student – all 500 – on a college campus tour. The JFK ninth graders visited Sacramento City College on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. While college visits are not uncommon for Sacramento City Unified School District high school students, this is the first time a large campus has ensured that every member of a class gets to see a college in action before graduation. “We want every student to know that they can go to college if they choose,” said JFK Principal Chad Sweitzer. “No matter what academic achievement level or income level you’re at, there are opportunities open to you

The Feb. 15 groundbreaking of the 72-acre lot that neighbors Sacramento City College brought the campus one step closer to becoming a bridge between the Land Park and Curtis Park neighborhoods. The vacant lot east of Hughes Stadium and the Union Pacific rail line, which once served as a rail yard, is being transformed into a neighborhood by Petrovich Development Company. The new community will be called Curtis Park Village, a residential and retail development featuring a pedestrian bridge connecting it to the City College light rail station. “On the north side, it’s going to be single family housing, parks, low-income senior housing, apartments and condominiums,” said City College Vice

The growing season is over. In the California capital, dead autumn leaves lay heavy on the damp, manicured lawns of Sacramento City College as students learn that through death, something else will eat. City Farm, Sacramento City College’s organic urban farm, concluded its first semester cultivating students into stewards of the land outside of Lillard Hall on Dec. 2 with an experiential learning experience—naturally recycling organic waste to create healthy, valuable, nutrient-rich compost for the next growing season. “It's also called ecologically intelligent design,” says Robyn Waxman, City Farm faculty coordinator and graphic communication instructor. “Instead of taking, making and

The City of Sacramento Transportation Department is considering a redesign of traffic lanes along Freeport Blvd between Sutterville Road and 4th Avenue. This part of the roadway is scheduled for resurfacing in 2013 and last August the city approved a Bike Lanes Project to study options for redesigning Freeport Blvd into a "complete street" as part of the resurfacing effort. From the National Complete Streets Coalition website: "...a complete streets policy ensures that transportation planners and engineers consistently design and operate the entire roadway with all users in mind - including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities."

Not everyone has this coming Monday off (alas!) but for those that do, Sacramento has a few options for using your day off to celebrate the man it honors—Martin Luther King, Jr. MLK365 is presenting the 31st Annual March for the Dream, which includes a peaceful march (choose to begin from the Oak Park Community Center, Grant High School, or Sacramento City College) that convenes on the Sacramento Convention Center for an afternoon of celebration. There will be something for all ages and interests—vendor booths, kids’ crafts & activities, entertainment, an art village featuring local artists, and more. The Crocker Art Museum is opening their doors for their free Holiday Monday program. Mo