Second Saturday was an ideal, almost-Victorian evening.  People wore heavy coats, gloves and hats, and seemed genuinely happy just to be outside.

Ground zero of that, at 20th at J streets, was the festive, lively, movie scene of an ice rink.  Around 8 p.m., the rink swarmed with more than 100 people, some skating, some sitting along the edge, some pinwheeling and flopping.

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It was a great day to skate, and shop, as it turned out.

They glided across the ice, tottered and wobbled on their skates, and on a midtown street-turned-frozen pond Tuesday found an alternative to the crowded holiday shopping mall.

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Why go now: Sacramento’s happening Midtown has spawned perfect-for-December hot spots with great eats mixed right in with the shopping, so you can warm up and refuel as you go.  Where is it, again? On Sac’s easy-to-navigate street grid, Midtown stretches from 16th to 29th Streets; businesses cluster J, K, and L.

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Midtown’s MARRS Building has a full house again with the three new tenants coming on board this month.

Two spaces have been vacant for several months after business owners left without a word and without paying all their bills-which really hurts after the effort the company made to help them be successful, said building owner Michael Heller of Heller Pacific.

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