Summer Feast and Book Signing Tomorrow at Bushnell Gardens!

A fresh in-season afternoon of treats is taking place at the Bushnell Gardens Nursery in Granite Bay tomorrow. It will be a chance to meet Placer County Real Food Cookbook authors Joanne Neft and Laura Kenny, celebrate the richness of eating fresh local in-season food and learn about the local farms producing in Placer County.

You'll learn how to shop local farmers markets and purchase all the meat, fruit, vegetables and nuts necessary to prepare meals from scratch. A number of their dishes from the cookbook will be offered for tasting tomorrow too. Cookbooks will also be available to purchase so you can have Joanne & Laura sign them.

Afterwards you can enjoy the paring of dishes from Hawks Restaurant with the authors' summer inspiration. Enjoy tasting some of their most requested dishes created out of crispy, slow roasted, sizzling, chopped fresh ingredients.

It will be a great afternoon and you'll leave with new gardening ideas, locally grown recipes and a weekend activity designed you can take home and use!

TIME: 10 a.m. - noon

WHERE: 5255 Douglas Blvd. Granite Bay

For more info, check out bushnellgardens.com

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Free 8-Week Wellness Program for Sacramento-Area Residents

If you're looking to get a little more fit, there's an upcoming free wellness opportunity is this area to make it happen. Yes, you read that right...free!

Lean Up Sacramento is designed by fitness professionals for people who have been unable to take the necessary steps to a healthier life because of fear, past failures, lack of time, or other reasons.

Those individuals selected for the 8-week fitness program will participate in a small group boot camp three days a week, meet with a personal trainer once a week, attend a nutrition and motivational group meeting, and enjoy other fitness activities at one of eight participating sports club.

From September 12, 2011 through November 4, 2011 selected participants will enjoy free, unlimited access to the club and all its amenities.

Just be sure to make your application compelling and let them know why you would be the perfect candidate.

(Anyone 13 and over is welcome to apply, although individuals under 18 must obtain parental consent. All selected participants must receive medical clearance from their health care provider.)

The deadline is August 15, so hurry up and visit leanup.net to get fit now!

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Save the Date! Harvest of Hope

You won't want to miss the upcoming fundraising event held at the Dalla Terra Estate, Harvest of Hope-A Starry Night. Hosted by Hanson McClain, it will be a night of gourmet cuisine, libations, auctions, activities and entertainment. Not to mention held on such a gorgeous estate!

The Harvest of Hope is a fundraising night for the American Cancer Society in the Folsom Lake Region and each year has more than 350 guests attending the gala. This year's theme, A Starry Night, will include a special "red carpet" entrance for all of our extraordinary survivor stars, sponsor stars, guests and even some "real" stars (or at least some very good look-a-likes!). To date, past Harvest of Hope events have raised over $324,000.00 for the American Cancer Society.

Definitely get your tickets and support this great cause!

Where: Dalla Terra Estate, 5862 Eureka Road, Granite Bay
When: September 10 (Saturday)
Time: 6 – 10 p.m.

Tickets: $200.00 per person; Sponsorship opportunities are also available.
For more information call 916.446.7933 or visit gala.acsevents.org/harvestofhopegala

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Summer Concerts at Paul Martin's

We love that summer means great outdoor concerts, but what we dig even more is when you can enjoy tunes and amazing dining. You won't want to miss the Paul Martin's concert series that begins tonight!

Here's the lineup so you can mark your calendars and make sure you work up an appetite for some of their amazing entrees.

August 4 & 6 - Breez (tropical jazz)
11 & 13 - Joey V Jazz Trio (jazz standards)
18 & 20 - Rhythm Vandals Trio

Go early and try their small plates and specialty beverages (from 4-7)

Concerts begin at 7 p.m.

1455 Eureka Road, Roseville
For more info about Paul Martin's visit paulmartinsamericanbistro.com

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Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival...Twelfth Night

A visit to Lake Tahoe in the summertime typically entails barbecues aplenty, soaking up the sunshine, hiking, biking and other recreational endeavors. But this year, my boyfriend and I were yearning for something different…something cultural…something we could reminisce about long after summer’s end. Enter the 39th Annual Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Held at Sand Harbor State Beach, “the most scenic venue in the world,” this event was just the ticket to a memorable weekend in Tahoe.

Our enchanted evening of theatre under the stars began with dinner in “Shakespeare’s Kitchen.” With the main gate open at 5 p.m., we had plenty of time to enjoy a mouthwatering feast of gourmet burgers and salads as well as a pre-show cocktail. Before heading into the amphitheater, we relished the lovely lake views and basked in the late afternoon sun.

The Lower Gallery Reserved seats provided a perfect view of not only the stage but the lake and surrounding snowcapped mountains, too. Sitting in a high-backed beach chair, toes in the sand and glass of wine in hand (small coolers with food and drink are allowed in) was an ambiance that no other theatrical experience can compare to.



At 7:30 p.m. sharp, the performance of Twelfth Night went off without a hitch. The play is a comedy of mistaken identity and passionate romance, teeming with stunning sets and costumes, music, swordplay and revelry – a story that will have the entire family laughing and sitting on the edge of their “beach chairs” with excitement!

For a truly unique summertime experience and one you’ll definitely want an encore of, check out the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival!

- Megan Wiskus, Style managing editor

The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s 2011 season runs until August 21. ‘Twelfth Night’ tickets are $20-$85. For more information, visit laketahoeshakespeare.com/tickets.

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Wine Tasting, Ant Bee & Dane Drewis

Save the date for this Friday and Saturday and head to David Girard Vineyards because there will be some fantastic wine tasting and a concert with Ant Bee and Dane Drewis. Enjoy nights of live music, wine tasting, and a picnic dinner including artisan cheese & salami with crackers and rustic breads, fresh fruit, hummus and vegetable roll up, house mix olives and cherry chocolate chip brownies for dessert.

We are definitely loving the sound of that!

6 - 7 PM Wine Tasting & Picnic Down at the DGV tasting room patio
7 - 9 PM Concert at the Hilltop Amphitheater

Purchase tickets to Friday Night with Ant Bee by clicking here
Purchase tickets to Saturday Night with Dane Drewis Band by clicking here

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Roseville Arts Receives Grant!

We couldn't be more thrilled hearing that the Roseville Arts has received a $46,000 grant from The James Irvine Foundation! And it's going to fund creative arts for youth in our community!

Roseville Arts has been delivering and supporting the arts in our community for 45 years and so the news that The James Irvine Foundation is supporting our youth art is fantastic!
The program is designed to take art programming to the community in a variety of locations throughout the city in order to engage children and families spontaneously at their familiar locations.

Children ages 5-18 can expect to access active creation in arts with local artists while gaining creative experiences that are becoming less available in schools and the community.

The Blue Line Gallery has a variety of youth based programs including the annual Children’s and High School Show, after school and weekend art workshops, spring art camps, 8 weeks of summer camps and in the fall of 2011 the gallery will administer a public art project in Sculpture Park in Roseville, available to every 5th grader in the community.

The gallery was vote the Best of the Best by the Press Tribune this year and we couldn't agree more!

For more information about the gallery visit www.rosevillearts.org or call (916) 783-4117.

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