By Will James Hometown Sports When it comes to showdowns, few will match the anticipation and expectations of Friday's midseason confrontation of epic proportion when Sierra Foothill League rivals Folsom and Oak Ridge collide in El Dorado Hills. The Game will be...
By Will James Hometown Sports When it comes to scheduling elite high profile opponents, Monterey Trail Head Coach T.J. Ewing reaches as high as possible. Friday night in Elk Grove the second part of a grandiose home-and home package unfolds when the fabled De La Salle...
Access Sacramento Celebrates 24th Season of Game of the Week Coverage by Will James Hometown Sports Summer vacation has ended, school is back in session, and a new high school football season gets underway Friday evening with explosive action all across the...
Local Powers Monterey Trail, Elk Grove in Classic Runfest by Will James Hometown Sports If you enjoy the sophisticated elements of football's running game, then this is the ideal match-up for you to see on Access Sacramento's Hometown Sports Game of the Week. The...
CIF-SJS Football Playoffs Quarterfinal Round by Will James Hometown Sports Playoff opponents with two distinctly contrasting styles will collide head-on in second round action of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Football Playoffs Friday evening when the 4-seed Antelope...
#4 Antelope and #5 Inderkum Battle for Conference Crown by Will James Hometown Sports It's week eight of the high school football season, and contending teams striving to capture a league championship, or also-rans chasing a berth in the rapidly approaching CIF...
Bulldogs Brace for Spartan Invasion by Will James Hometown Sports When it comes to promoting a high profile football game, all too often the promotion far exceeds the actual attraction of the event. Fortunately, that's not the case for Friday's eagerly awaited marquee...
Sleepers Look to Surface in Delta League Win Column by Will James Hometown Sports Thus far, after just one week of play in the Delta League, the balance of power is taking shape as expected. After posting victories last week, Jesuit, Cosumnes Oaks, and Sheldon occupy...
by Will James Hometown Sports The high school football season has reached Week-5; a crucial juncture punctuated as a greater measure of seriousness and intensity emerges with the start of league play. The centerpiece among the top pairings this week unfolds Friday...
by Will James Hometown Sports Fall football in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section enters Week-4 of the rapidly advancing season, traversing the calendar at a better rate than the games actually being played. COVID-19 and lingering poor air quality in the region since the...
LISTEN UP
This Wednesday May 30 on Access Sacramento's Live Wire show, host Ray Tatar interviews the director of the most recent theatrical production by "The Forgotten Theatre Company" and we enjoy four of the stars in a scene from their latest show. Tune in Wed. May 30 at 5pm...
This week on LiveWire Host Ray Tatar presents the International Kids Festival and Access Sacramento's High School Public Service Announcement (PSA) Contest Winners. Tune in Wed. May 23 at 5pm on Access Sacramento's channel 17. Looking for a fun way to spend the...
Musical Youth- Part 1 Listen Up! Sacramento has featured many young musicians over the years. These creative and musically talented kids have often been seen performing at the Jammies and Skip’s Stairway to Stardom. Most of them have now grown up and gone off to...
“Fo’Shang’s Thang” on Listen Up! Sacramento Listen Up! Sacramento presents “Fo’Shang’s Thang” with Poet, Vincent Kobelt. We introduced you to Fo’Shang a couple years ago and they’re back with a new line up and neo- poetic style. The band includes Poet, Vincent Kobelt...
“Amiah” Listen Up! Sacramento is happy to present Amiah. She is a young lady with an amazing voice that may make you think you’re listening to a seasoned performer. At the young age of 9 she began her singing career and now, at age 13 she performs for Listen Up!...
“The Hey Nows!” on Listen Up! Sacramento Listen Up! Sacramento is happy to present “The Hey Nows!”. The group is comprised of a handful of local multi-talented musicians lead by Lee Milhous and Roger Trott. Their style is a bit of southern rock, classic rock, and a...
Brian Rogers This week Listen Up! Sacramento is happy to present Brian Rogers. He is a one man band in best way possible. No harmonicas taped to bass drums are mounted on his shoulders. Brian uses the ‘loop’ system on his electronic device and creates an awesome...
Storytellers Part 2 Listen Up! Sacramento has created medley programs featuring many of our past guests. This episode features some of our favorite local storytellers. Guests on this episode include...
Flashback #20 Get ready to go back to the early 90’s with Listen Up! Sacramento. We’ve compiled several great performances from the Oak Park Concert Series that originally aired in 1990 and 1991. Performances include John Heartsman and his blues band (1991), Pancho...
Xochitl Listen Up! Sacramento proudly brings you “Xochitl”. She is a local guitarist and songwriter who recently traveled the country to return and perform just for you on Listen Up. She has an honest and lovely personality and brings that to her music. She plays...
LIVE WIRE
Sacramento Gay Men's Chorus - June is Pride Month Today is June 1st and the beginning of Pride month! This is a time to celebrate and rejoice! It is also a time to look at how far we have come. Our historic Pride flag will always fly and remind of us how far we have...
This week on Live Wire, Black Womxn United joins Ray Tatar to talk about their organization that has reached hundreds of thousands, lifting Black Women voices around the world. Black Womxn United’s mission is to educate, protect, and advance Black Women. To achieve...
Gary Martin Access Sacramento Executive Director Retiring This Wednesday on Live Wire, Ray Tatar talks with Gary Martin Access Sacramento's Executive Director who will be retiring April 2nd. Gary Martin took the helm of the nonprofit organization Access Sacramento on...
This Wednesday on Live Wire, Ray Tatar discusses with the Mills Station Arts and Culture Center’s (MACC) curator on their current photography exhibit “Facing the Inferno”. “Facing the Inferno” showcases the photography of Kari Greer, a Sacramento State graduate...
In case you missed it, watch the replay of Robert Urbino and Joyce Mitchell Local Documentary TV and Filmmaker Joyce Mitchell and Musician/Songwriter Robert Urbino join Ray to talk about the documentary music video about the Homeless issue one that is in the forefront...
This Wednesday on Live Wire, the CMAVM returns to have a more in depth discussion with Ray Tatar on the memorial and its committee. Known as “El Soldado”, the California Mexican American Veteran Memorial (CMAVM) dedicates Latino Veterans; Men & Women serving in...
Live Wire this Wednesday will feature Veterans Affiliated Council, Sacramento and Vicinity (VAC), as well as California Mexican-American Veterans Memorial (CMAVM). Serving veterans since 1921, The VAC continues its mission to provide a...
Live Wire features Capital Storytelling as they discuss their virtual event "A Different Kind of Love" with host Ray Tatar this Wednesday at 5pm on ch. 17. Capital Storytelling's upcoming virtual event features true stories told live by five different...
Live Wire features the B Street Theatre's "Re-Imagine" with host Ray Tatar this Wednesday at 5pm on ch. 17. B Street Theatre's virtual show "Re-Imagine" is a new social justice series that showcases various plays readings, music, dance, poetry, movie screenings and...
Winter Bird Festival join host Ray Tatar this Wednesday. The 14th Annual Winter Bird Festival is going virtual to provide an online celebration of birds. A Galt tradition, the Winter Bird Festival connects the community to nature and help it grow in the...
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
By Kayle Melicher How many of you have said “I haven’t felt connected to my therapist or I don’t want to go to therapy?”, probably all of you who are reading this have said that at one point in your life, and don’t worry, I have said it too. Since I was five years old...
“Becoming Santa,” a film short written by Shawn Romias and Brian S. Black, was the top winner in the 22nd annual “A Place Called Sacramento” (PCS) Film Festival, as Access Sacramento presented the world premiere of 10 original short films Oct. 14 at the Crest Theatre...
Story by Isaac Davis What is an HBCU? Where are HBCU's located? What does HBCU stand for? These are the questions that curious minds drive to ask when hearing the acronym HBCU. An HBCU, Historically Black College University, is a college or university that was...
By: Kayle Melicher Anxiety! This is a word many people know all too well, and I don’t mean that I get test anxiety or normal everyday anxiety; no, the type that is crippling. Now I don’t want to minimize any anxiety so if you get test anxiety or just everyday normal...
By Bella Richmond The mask mandate was lifted on March 1 in Sacramento, but the coronavirus disease hasn’t gone away yet. It is getting kind of rare to see a mask out in the world. And yet, last week one of my meetings was canceled due to COVID shutting down a site....
Access Sacramento Celebrates 24th Season of Game of the Week Coverage by Will James Hometown Sports Summer vacation has ended, school is back in session, and a new high school football season gets underway Friday evening with explosive action all across the...
Alchemist Community Development Corporation, or Alchemist CDC, is a nonprofit located in Sacramento dedicated to feeding those without access to a meal. With temperatures reaching over 100 degrees in the coming weeks, they have also started offering another service...
By Isaac Davis On 2251 Florin Road, Florin Square holds its annual African Marketplace event on the first and third Saturday of every month. This event will draw you to various parts of African culture through food, clothing, hair and skin products, and accessories....
Written by: Kayle Melicher Who am I? Well that’s a good question. I am the type of girl who is described as optimistic, I love to see the positive in a situation. I am the girl who believes that there can be hope even when hope seems to be all lost. So this article is...
By Bella Richmond: Sacramento Pride showed up this year for a spectacular celebration! Pride month is in June to honor the Stonewall riot on Jun. 28, 1969. According to the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Making History exhibit, patrons of the Stonewall Inn in...
ACCESSLOCAL FILM
“Becoming Santa,” a film short written by Shawn Romias and Brian S. Black, was the top winner in the 22nd annual “A Place Called Sacramento” (PCS) Film Festival, as Access Sacramento presented the world premiere of 10 original short films Oct. 14 at the Crest Theatre...
Access Sacramento's 21st annual "A Place Called Sacramento" (PCS) Film Festival postpones the release of 10 original local films for at least nine months to promote the health and safety of the film crews and expected theater audience. In consultation over the summer...
Ten Films to be produced over the summer before world premiere Oct. 3, 2020 Sacramento -- Access Sacramento's 21st annual "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival named 10 winning writers during a live televised and streamed virtual volunteer Cast and Crew Call...
Access Sacramento presents full televised coverage of the stage presentations and world premiere of 10 original 10-minute movies as part of the 20th annual "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival beginning Friday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. The program presents the...
Access Sacramento's 20th annual "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival named 10 winning writers today during a huge volunteer cast and crew call at Sacramento's Coloma Community Center. The announcement broadcast live on Access Sacramento revealed the names of the...
Ten Winners to be named in "A Place Called Sacramento" Script Competition Volunteer Film Actors and Technicians called for Live Announcement Access Sacramento's 20th annual "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival will announce this year's 10 winning writers...
by Danya Barrows Tonosommesso@gmail.com When a blind woman with heightened senses pursues her dream of becoming a Master Sommelier, she discovers a family secret that could keep her from ever reaching her goal. Awards: "BEST DIRECTOR" Dawn Spinella "BEST ACTOR in a...
The very single and amused Will banters with the very committed and disenchanted Vanessa about the challenges of relationships and finding true romance in the hyper technological world of online dating. by Nathan Reedy swiperightflick@gmail.com
Jane and Jo may see each other every day, but will they ever hear the music of their hearts? by Eric Sanderson janeandjoemovie@gmail.com
by Amy Lawrence never2latte4love@gmail.com Finding a partner is a project that requires time, energy and an extra clip for the Glock.
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