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The Crocker Art Museum will conclude its "Adult Summer CAMP!" series Thursday with. With us to talk about the end is historian and film lover Jacob Greenberg. He'll go over the community's reaction to the summer-long series.

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Rudy Van Gelder, Definitive Jazz Recording Engineer, Has Died

August 26, 2016

The man who captured hundreds of jazz's greatest recordings — by Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock — died Thursday at his home studio. He was 91.

Arts and Lifestyle

Theatre Review: A Novel Musical Twist On Hugo's Classic 'The Hunchback Of Notre Dame'

August 25, 2016 | Jeff Hudson

Sacramento’s Music Circus is staging a Disney musical based on the Victor Hugo classic, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame." It features a talented deaf actor and a classically-trained singer sharing the title role.

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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Local Author Draws Literary Material From Personal Experiences

August 25, 2016 | Cody Drabble

Local author Jodi Angel, who is best known for her short stories, will share excerpts from her newest memoir at Stories on Stage this week. We’ll talk with Angel about how she mines her life experiences for literary material.

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Arts and Lifestyle

Beauty In Progress: Mural Artists Leave Their Mark On Sacramento Alleys

August 24, 2016 | Melody Stone

This week, international and local artists are taking over blank walls in Sacramento’s Midtown and Downtown Neighborhoods and transforming buildings into landmarks. It’s all part of the first Sacramento Mural Festival.

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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Makes Debut At Music Circus

August 24, 2016

Glenn Casale, director of the Music Circus production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, joins Insight Wednesday to talk about the Northern California premiere of this Victor Hugo-inspired piece and how Quasimodo is played by deaf actor John McGinty.

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Professional Dancers Unite For Performance-Packed Evening At Crest Theater

August 23, 2016

An independent collective of professional dancers is returning to the Crest Theatre this weekend with an evening of world premieres. For Tuesday's Insight, we’ll talk with members of the Capital Dance Project about the collective.

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Theatre Review: 'The Last Lifeboat' Examines Drama Behind The Sinking Of The Titanic

August 22, 2016 | Jeff Hudson

Main Street Theatre Works in Jackson is staging this drama about the Titanic. It raises the morally challenging question: if you were on a crippled ocean liner about to go down… what would you do?

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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Week-Long Mural Festival Comes To Sacramento

August 15, 2016 | Cody Drabble

For a little over a week artists from Sacramento and around the world are taking over walls in alleys and on streets and transforming boring concrete structures into works of art. We'll talk to the people behind Sacramento's first mural festival.

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New Cocktail Book Joins Mix Of Sacramento-Based Recipes

August 15, 2016

Just in time for the start of Sacramento Cocktail Week comes a new cookbook dedicated to Sacramento cocktails and the mixologists behind them. Authors Garrett McCord and Callista Polhemus join us to talk about how the book came to be.

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