Sacramento

Follow your tax dollars here to check out city-wide art openings the second Saturday of every month.

Santa Barbara

Home of surfing's number-one mainland institution of higher learning. And the pollen count's high this time of year, unless you wander through 65-acres of the Botanic Garden from the comfort of your own home. 411 tells you what to see and what to skip.

Want to hear violins? Want to hear them outside? Check LA Music. And because there are more actors per-square-inch here, an up-to-the minute guide on what's playing at 120 theatres in the city in Performing Arts.

San Diego

Peruvian skull surgery, Mark Rothko, Native American beads, and African folk art which has survived the Middle Passage and slavery in"What's New."