The Sounds of an Endless Summer
Concerts in the Park closes out its 2014 season Friday, July 25, at 5 p.m. with performances from the Brodys, Jeremy Briggs, the Kimberly Trip,…
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State Fair ATM launches probe into credit card fraud
A multi-agency operation resulted in the apprehension of an accused financial fraudster Wednesday morning in Sacramento, 12 days after a victim learned a credit card had…
REVIEW: 'South Pacific'
photo by Charr Crail -by Kel Munger Music Circus has now produced Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific 13 times, putting it in the rarified category…
Drop-kick the self-judgement
Joey advises a reader to trust her intuition when it comes to her meth-addicted husband.
We need to fight back: Thoughts on Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The pendulum has swung toward income inequality, so what’s next?
Philthy Rich cancels Sacramento performances following alleged gang threats
A controversial Oakland rapper abruptly canceled two gigs in Sacramento this week after online threats of violence reached the clubs’ owners. Philip Beasley took to…
Wanna burlesque? Sizzling Sirens holding open casting call Aug. 3
By now, you’re hopefully aware of Sacramento’s bustling burlesque scene. Maybe you’re even inspired, secretly dreaming of tassles at night. If so, note that the…
B-Boy Morris to compete in the Red Bull BC One North America Final
Sacramento’s B-Boy Morris is one of the world’s best B-boys. If you don’t believe me, here’s some video proof: Morris has already won pretty much…
Farm To Fork gala dinner to return to Tower Bridge. $175 gets you a seat!
The rumor was that last year’s Farm To Fork Week gala dinner, which took place on the Tower Bridge last September, wouldn’t return to that…
That was nice, OK Go
Band + screens + crazy graphics = OK Go tour 2014. (Photo courtesy of OK Go’s Facebook page.) If you don’t have anything nice…
Sandwiches vs. burritos
Jason Segel dissed burritos on Twitter back in 2011. “Sandwiches are better than burritos,” he tweeted. He got a bunch of backlash—deservedly so, in my…
Winners: Sacramento waiters, Michael Jordan. Losers: cops, dudes who run from the cops, and Marcos Breton, of course
Eat free ice cream for charity
Is there really anything better than eating free ice cream? What about knowing that for every scoop of free ice cream you eat, a dollar…
Six Californias initiative would give us wine country, Lake Tahoe and Marin
So this whole Six Californias thing… Surely you’ve joked about cutting up California before. What good Northern Californian wouldn’t want to disassociate themselves from Orange…
Eat and drink tomatoes for Sacratomato Week starting Monday
Heirloom tomato salad from Centro Cocina Mexicana. Photo courtesy of Callista Wengler I used to think I hated raw tomatoes. They were too often mushy,…
Capitol's utility boxes to get vinyl makeovers
A ProWraps employee, right, applies a reprinted piece by aritst Ianna Frisby to a “test” utility box near Drexel University in April. Many more such installations…
The future of journalism
In the past, advertising revenue funded journalism. Now, we have to find a new way to fund independent reporting.