A small group of 15 escaped the cold darkness of Alhambra Boulevard as they stepped into the Natural Foods Co-Op Learning Center and Cooking School Monday night. The class settled into four set tables for the “Curries From Around the World” class. Dionisio Esperas instructed the class and taught four recipes: Indian lamb vindaloo; gaeng mussamun; Indonesian chicken and lemongrass curry; and crab ginataan. The place settings included a cooking class pamphlet, a recipe pamphlet, evaluation form and coupon for Natural Foods Co-op. “It seems like there are always people who wanted to learn how to make curries,” Esperas said. He is the co-owner of A Healthy Kitchen with his wife, Terese. He

The gray sky over Broadway darkened further Friday night as the City Cemetery kicked off this year’s Lantern Tours. The cemetery holds numerous tours throughout the year. The Lantern Tours are held at 6, 8 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights before Halloween. Visitors are guided through the cemetery as costumed volunteers act out true stories of select people buried there. President of the Old City Cemetery Committee, Inc. Lynda Walls led the 6 p.m. tour accompanied by an America Sign Language interpreter from Say-Hey Interpreters. “It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year,” Walls said. “We use the proceeds to support our cause at the cemetery. Our job is to preserve, protect and beau

Once a month, hundreds of pets and their owners break the Saturday morning quiet on Ahern Street. Dogs bark and pace, cats meow in travel cases and owners talk to one another to pass the time. Many will wait up to six hours to be seen at the Loaves and Fishes’ location for free veterinary care for the homeless by UC Davis’ Mercer Veterinary Clinic. The clinic has been coming to Loaves and Fishes for more than 15 years to help the animals of the homeless clients. They visit the second Saturday of each month from 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. On Sep. 11, 148 animals were brought to Mercer to be seen. Client Lisa Lafont of Sacramento brought her three dogs, Muffin, Missy and Sam, to be vaccinated, spaye

A group of six gathered at Old Sacramento’s Trail Mix store Sunday morning to hear author and avid outdoorsman Jordan Summers teach the workshop, “Leave no trace.” “Leave no trace” consists of seven principles to promote responsible outdoor recreation. “It allows you to preserve the resources of which no more is being made,” Summers said. The back country was the focus of the workshop. Summers said the first six-mile stretch of a wilderness area is considered front country. Past that is considered back country. He said five times more people visit front country than the back country. Summers has been a hiker and active in the outdoors since his childhood in Virginia. He has lived in Ca

The start of the 10th annual Trash Film Orgy film festival adds to this month's Second Saturday events. The festival will have a showing every Saturday at midnight, starting July 10. It runs through Aug. 14 with a special showing on Halloween. "It's a midnight movie festival," TFO Producer Christy Savage said. "A lot of people think it's the most terrible movies out there, but we're about the best exploitation horror movies." Saturday's inaugural film, "Evil Dead 2," will be preceded by a Zombie Walk beginning at Sub-Q at 7 p.m. Participants of all ages dressed as zombies will roam Second Saturday, stop at Pyramid Alehouse for happy hour and watch zombie band Children of the Grave perfo