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See red in your decor for Valentine's Day and beyond

By Debbie Arrington - Published: 12:00 am

Vibrant, snappy, lucky, cheerful, romantic – how can one color do so much?

Seeds: Weavers guild showcases Navajo-style creations

Published: 12:00 am

In her Fair Oaks home, Marilyn Greaves teaches the art of Navajo weaving. The results will be showcased this weekend during the 53rd annual Sacramento Weavers and Spinners Guild open house and sale at Shepard Garden and Arts Center in McKinley Park.

Community Favorite: Baby Sun coreopsis

Published: 12:00 am

This is one in a weekly series featuring the UC Davis Community Favorites, 75 can't-fail, easy-care plants well-adapted to our region and recommended by local gardeners.

Garden Detective: The basics of the anthurium flower

Published: 12:00 am

My fiancée told me her favorite flower is anthurium. It's imported from possibly Hawaii or the Philippines, and it's considered an exotic flower.

Sacramento Connect: Sacramento Vegetable Gardening

Published: 12:00 am

The Sacramento Bee hosts a network of high-quality news providers and bloggers in the Sacramento region. Here is a sampling of the best of the current Home & Garden blogs. Check out the full postings: sacramentoconnect.com.

Tell us your furniture story

Published: 12:00 am

There's one in almost every family; a piece of furniture with history.

Home and garden calendar for the week of Feb. 11

Published: 12:00 am

Bring non-genetically modified seeds to share at the fourth annual Seed Share Event, a day of seed sharing, free workshops and hands-on demos, presented by the Foothill Collaborative for Sustainability.

Things to do blog

Home and Garden

See red in your decor for Valentine's Day and beyond

Vibrant, snappy, lucky, cheerful, romantic – how can one color do so much?

Health and Fitness

Sacramento bicycle commuters sold on benefit of pedaling

All over town and out in the suburbs, folks hop on their bikes for the simplest of reasons, leaving their cars behind.

Outbound

Fishing Line: 02/09/12

AMERICAN RIVER - There are still quite a few steelhead coming up the river, and quite a few that have been in the river for awhile.

Food and Wine

Brewster's Bar & Grill in Galt gets new ownership

Brewster's Bar & Grill in downtown Galt, housed in a 19th century renovated building that once was the post office and a general store, will be closed until Monday as the business undergoes an ownership change.

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Sac Moms Club & Family

More Sacramento-area newborns suffer withdrawal resulting from moms' drug use

The neonatal unit isn't supposed to be a drug rehab ward. But the drugs their mothers took are causing more newborns in the Sacramento area to spend their first days of life suffering through the pains of withdrawal.

More health and medical news from the region and beyond

Books and Media

Sacramento's RCCTV wants to serve more religions, gain broadcasters

For $80, local faith groups can broadcast their message on TV for half an hour. Many Christian groups do. Now, because of the troubled economy, station officials are scrambling to fill air time and are reaching out to other religions.