Calaveras County Fair Full of Sentimental Moments! The Calaveras County Fair was a good old-fashioned country fair, and a pretty successful one! More than 47,500 folks from all over California enjoyed a multitude of attractions! The Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show, a 15-member troupe out of St. Cloud, Florida, demonstrated their logging skills and timber humor! […]

It’s Memorial weekend and I’m packing my car with camp gear and my guitar and heading out to Camp Mather, Yosemite, for the Biannual Strawberry Music Festival. First billed as the Strawberry Bluegrass Festival in 1983, it took place at Leland Meadows just 4 miles past Strawberry. But was moved the following year to its […]

Not-So-Cosmic Battle
Angels & Demons
(Rated PG-13) 138 mins
 
 
 
So what happens when a movie based off one of the biggest books of all time turns out to be critically lambasted and turns out far fewer box-office receipts than expected? You make a sequel of course! Introducing Angels & Demons, the sequel to 2006’s The DaVinci Code, complete […]

 
The opening day of the first rookie session for the Dark Side Roller Derby Team will take place at the Mother Lode Fairgrounds at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26. Those interested in joining are welcome to come down to and check it out. Dark Side Roller Derby is comprised of passionate women who love […]

“What do YOU like best about the county fair?”
(asked at the Calaveras County Fair in Angels Camp)
 
 
“I really like watching the frogs jump, because you get to hear them ‘ribbit’ and you get to see how high and far they jump! I like the rides! I went on one today called Ranger! You go […]