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This October 28th, PepperBellys, Fairfield is pleased to be hosting the MJ Thriller Halloween Ball featuring the bay area's HAUNTING band Foreverland, An Electrifying 14 piece tribute to Michael Jackson. ... Coming Friday, October 28th to terrorize y’all’s neighborhood!

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Amazon has announced its tablet entry for the 2011 holiday shopping season, the Kindle Fire. The device is a 7 inch multitouch multimedia tablet.

First and foremost, the Kindle Fire *is* a Kindle. Reading is center stage in Amazon's marketing. Color ebooks, on a touch sensitive display is really competetive to the Nook Color which is also a 7" tablet focused on reading. Also, the Kindle Fire is $50 cheaper than the Nook Color. 

Where Amazon really blows the Nook out of the water and competes very strongly against the iPad is its multimedia content. Movies and TV shows from Amazon Prime (a compelling alternative to Netflix and/or iTunes rentals), Cloud storage, Amazon MP3 Store, Amazon "AppStore" and a Webkit based browser called Amazon Silk.

Once purchased, Amazon sends the Kindle Fire pre registered to your Amazon account. No setup, and content in the cloud on Amazon's servers. The device is geared to upsell customers on Prime memberships to enjoy the video content. And Prime memberships exist to move retail goods via free 2 day shipping. Gruber and Inhatko both quipped that it's a digital version of the good old fashioned Sears catalog.

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Fight Club is a timeless movie, as true today as it was in 1999. The narrator's dreary life becomes more compelling after meeting nihilistic Tyler Durden. The duo takes on modern commercialism and culture, raging at the failures of society and relearning what a man should be. 

"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives."

The film may have not done well in theaters but has since become a cult hit, even real life fight clubs were started in its wake. The philosphical struggles in the film ring true with many teenaged and 20-30 year old men in modern society. "What do you want? Wanna go back to the shit job, fuckin' condo world, watching sitcoms? Fuck you, I won't do it." This is the movie's best strength: its ability to connect emotionally with its audience. Thanks to director David Fincher, actors Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham-Carter the film is very true to Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel.

Vaca Jazz Society is hosting its 12th annual Jazz Festival Friday, September 16th thru Sunday September 18th at two locations in Vacaville: Town Square and Nut Tree Village. 
http://www.vacajazzsociety.org/jazz_festival.htm
"More of that Jazz" Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabiovenni/432334050

Dixon's Scottish Cultural Association is hosting its 8th annual Highland Games September 24 at the Dixon Fairgrounds. Musical performers include Brother, who performed at this year's Vacaville Medieval Fantasy Festival. Admission is $8 - ages 18 to 61, $6 - ages 9 to 17 & 62 and older. Admission is free for kids, ages 8 and younger; and active military with ID card. 

Hiking is a great physical exercise coupled with scenic views of nature. There are several great locations to hike in and around Solano County for beginners or experienced hikers.  Most of these locations are right along the Interstate 80 corridor.

Pena Adobe Park

Adobe park in Vacaville is good for beginners or moderately advanced hikers. The park features paved trails for beginners leading down to Hume Grove, a garden of native flowers and trees. Dirt trails lead up the hills, some of which are fairly steep and challenging but certainly worth the view of surrounding hills and the lagoon. Speaking of the lagoon, a dirt trail surrounds it called the Eagle Trail and is a 3 mile circuit of flat terrain. The steeper hills above the lagoon and grove is about a 300-400 foot climb. Animal lovers rejoice, the park welcomes leashed dogs and has horse rentals nearby for riding. Beginners needn't worry about being removed from civilization however. The park is on the southern outskirts of Vacaville and has excellent cell phone coverage. The park has BBQ pits and picnic tables along the lagoon. Early spring is the time to go as the vegetation is vibrantly green and the daytime temperature is mild. Proceed with caution as the ground and or grass maybe muddy from early morning dew. The park is maintained by the city of Vacaville. A small area of free parking is available and paid parking is $3.00. Pena Adobe is part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail.

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Rockville Hills Regional Park

Rockville Hills is on the western outskirts of Fairfield and near Solano Community College. 633 acres of grassland and oak groves, the park has mostly intermediate trails with some difficult trails for advanced hikers. Picnic tables are scattered around the pond and lake. Elevation is up to about 400 feet. Bay Area Hiker has an extensive review of the park. The park is maintained by the city of Fairfield, which has a trail map. Admission fee is $3 per person, $1 per dog. Rockville Hills is part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail.

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Skyline Wilderness Park

Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa is in the gorgeous hills that separate Napa and Solano. Some parts of the trail run along a creek and a few lakes. The park is comprised of grasslands and scattered oak groves. Skyline has an RV park and campsites near the entrance on Imola Ave.  The park has several trails running through it: Marie creek trail leads to Chaparral trail on the north shore of Lake Marie, while the Buckeye will lead to the south shore. As this is a wilderness area there is a higher chance of seeing more animals like deer. The elevation is up to 1600 feet at Sugarloaf Peak. The park's website has detailed trail maps. Skyline Wilderness Park is part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail.

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Suisun City will be hosting a memorial ceremony for 9-11, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sunday, September 11th. The ceremony begins at 12:30PM. Suisun City Fire Department has been selected to recieve two peices of steel from the World Trade Center. The steel will later be incorporated into a sculpture honoring the fallen.

Winterhawk Winery in Suisun Valley is hosting a charity drive for the Food Bank of Solano and Contra  Costa this Sunday, September 4th. Donations of food can be made and 20% of sales will go to the charity. The event features food, wine and live music performances.

http://foodbank.winterhawkwinery.com/