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Fairfield delays awarding Garcia reward money

Matt Garcia

FAIRFIELD — Fairfield will take a little longer before deciding how to divide the $50,000 reward it offered in 2008 for information in the murder case of City Councilman Matt Garcia. Another candidate for the money has stepped forward, according to the city manager’s office. That means the city is doing more vetting work, with [...]

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Emily Qvistgaard is living a rock-star lifestyle

Emily Qvistgaard, 14, performs her song "Dreaming Uncontrolled" in front of a packed house at the Ruby Skye nightclub in San Francisco. Qvistgaard, who has renal disease, was performing her song as part of a wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. (Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic)

FAIRFIELD — Dreaming uncontrolled. Not only did Emily Qvistgaard choose that as the name of her first single, it also represents how the 14-year-old Fairfield girl recorded the tune, had a release party and made it onto iTunes. Qvistgaard, who will be a freshman at Rodriguez High School, has end stage renal disease and is [...]

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Community Calendar for Friday, July 29, 2011

Today 3-4-5 Jump ‘n’ Jive 10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Free. Interactive program featuring stories, music, movement and crafts for children 3 and older. Fairfield Cordelia Library, 5050 Business Center Drive. Info: 866-57ASKUS or http://www.solanolibrary.com. Friends of the Library Summer Book Sale 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be thousands of books and other [...]

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Late-comer to the baby craze

My children were all buzzing around me one day recently. I finally cracked, as I sometimes do, and offered a general, “Oh, good grief. Where did all you people come from, anyway?” To which one of my daughters immediately responded, “Well, Mom, you see, when a man and a woman love each other very much [...]

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Dustin Diamond

Dustin Diamond

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Week in Preview, July 29

IFairfield 8 p.m. today, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, 7 :30 p.m. Sunday Dustin Diamond Pepperbellys Comedy Club, 849 Texas St. 422-SHOW.  9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday Farmers Market Corner of Green Valley Road and Vintage Lane. totallylocal@gvagconservancy.org. 2 p.m. Saturday Feral Moon Winterhawk Winery, 4537 Abernathy Road. 864-3135. 2 p.m. Sunday Wake the [...]

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Make a Wish

Emily Qvistgaard, 14, performs her song "Dreaming Uncontrolled" in front of a packed house at the Ruby Skye nightclub in San Francisco. Qvistgaard, who has renal disease, was performing her song as part of a wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. (Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic)

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Air Supply brings classic and new hits to the Solano County Fair

Air Supply performs at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Solano County Fair.

FAIRFIELD — Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock have a union that’s lasted 35 years, more than many marriages. Why the duo behind the multimillion-selling Air Supply have managed to stay that way is something Russell can’t pinpoint. Rather, it’s a variety of things, he said in a phone interview from San Antonio. Air Supply 8 [...]

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The Bard meets ‘Glee’ in new Solano College Theatre show

Solano College Theatre's, from left to right, Levi Duncan, as Longaville, Aris Roberson, as the King of Navarre, Chris Raymond, as Dumain, and Conner Watson, as Berowne rehearse a scene from Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost". (Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic)

SUISUN CITY — Shakespeare, with a “Glee” moment, is the next offering from Solano College Theatre. “Loves Labour’s Lost” opens Aug. 5 with an indoor show at the Harbor Theatre. It’s followed by outdoor shows at the fireplace outside Cast Iron Grill & Bar and a single performance at the Tenbrink Winery in Fairfield. The [...]

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Time to Screech: Dustin Diamond comes to Pepperbellys

Dustin Diamond

FAIRFIELD — Detroit got Kid Rock. And San Jose got Screech, so said Dustin Diamond, who played Screech on TV’s “Saved By the Bell.” Diamond was born in San Jose and is happy to be returning to Northern California. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Diamond stops by Pepperbellys. Dustin Diamond 8 p.m. Friday, 7:30 p.m. and [...]

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Entertainment calendar July 29

ART EXHIBITS Arts Benicia: Arts Benicia Artists in Residence Project, through Aug. 14, open noon to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, 991 Taylor St., Suite 114, Benicia. Free. 747-0130, http://www.artsbenicia.org. Benicia Plein Air Gallery: July spotlight artist is Pat Ryll; August spotlight artist is Michael Dadasovich, reception is 10 a.m. to noon Aug. 6; open [...]

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Editorial Cartoons for July 28, 2011

by Lisa Benson

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