Week in Preview

OK, it would have escaped my notice, despite being on the cover of Explore in The Bee, but I had dinner last night at Lucca with a quartet of former Bee colleagues - Marcus Crowder, Chris Macias, Rick Kushman and Edward Ortiz - and Eddie told me about The Pirates of Penzance, and recommended it for kids, as a great introduction to opera. So, note well that The Pirates of Penzance plays at the Community Center Theatre on Friday, Sunday and Tuesday. Check it out.

On my more usual tip:

Los Lonely Boys play Sac State's University Ballroom tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008) night. Here they are at their brief commercial peak:



Saturday, Alan Jackson plays Arco Arena.

Prodigal freak Anton Barbeau and his current musical crew will play Luigi's Fungarden on Saturday night. Anton doesn't play out much these days in his ol' hometown, so this could be a nice old home week for the grooverati.

And that's about it! Still not the most exciting town, is it...

Also, tomorrow on Insight, I'll have local singer/songwriter Autumn Sky on the show, and Friday I'll have Dave Shapireau and Steve Randall, two of this town's most rippin'ist fret gods. They'll be playing acoustic stuff from Shapireau's new album.