By Nolan Higdon and Sydney Sullivan This Dispatch is informed by our forthcoming 2025 article, “Media Literacy in the Crosshairs: NATO’s Strategic Goals and the Revival of…
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SN&R chats with a musical legend and activist who is bringing her energy to the area in late August By Ken Magri Cyndi Lauper, that…
By Chris Woodard Sacramento’s oldest museum has enlisted the expertise of Agustín Arteaga to help guide the Crocker Art Museum toward a more expansive and…
By Odin Rasco Thanks to a confluence of creative calendars, Sacramentans are spoiled for choice when it comes to picking a play this August. In…
After 29 months without a contract, a new hospice union resists the financialization of end-of-life care. By Jesse Baum, Capital & Main This story is…
By Marie-Elena Schembri As summer starts to wind down, enjoy these cool art events throughout Sacramento. From thought-provoking activist art to immersive outdoor experiences, you’ll…
By Bob Grimm The great Billy Joel finally gets a worthy documentary, a five-hour, two-parter in which he, and a lot of figures in his…
By Steph Rodriguez Savor summer’s final stretch with high-energy gatherings, cultural pride and live musical performances that span generations. Whether you’re catching a dreamy doo-wop…
By Orson Aguilar and Catherine Bracy for CalMatters Just days after abandoning its planned conversion to a for-profit entity and proclaiming it would remain a nonprofit, OpenAI…
By Steven Yoder At the start of a Friday morning seminar at UC Davis this past spring, a student we’re calling Tiana, a junior studying…
By Odin Rasco Every time I walk away from a Sutter Street Theatre show, I will inevitably think of the old idiom, “big things come…
Why a state senator may finally win his battle against powerful pharmacy benefit managers. By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main This story is produced by…
Medicaid cuts threaten women’s health services at WellSpace Health in Sacramento By Hannah Ross On July 4, the ”big, beautiful bill” reached the presidential desk…
Even a curator for the Crocker Art Museum wrote for the pulps By Kimberly A. Edwards On any given day, you’ll find my phone clicking…
President and Kennedy throw Head Start into reverse, seek to use the venerable children’s care program as an anti-immigrant weapon. By Mark Kreidler, Capital &…
By Angie Eng One late morning on a winter day at the Museum of Modern Art, my friend stood in front of a Cy Twombly…
By Casey Rafter In a cramped radio station studio at Sacramento State, Pinkie Rideau sang the last few words of “Bring Me Sugar,” signaling blues…