Station 16 brings seafood-centric dining downtown
Another seafood-focused restaurant has landed on the grid, but there’s nothing else quite like it downtown. Station 16 (118 16th Street) is softly open in…
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Two Rivers Cider launches tasting room
If you’re a cider fan, you’re probably frustrated that there isn’t a cidery you can visit to geek out over your favorite alcoholic beverage. Beer…
Sacramento's Hippie Sabotage goes viral for all the wrong reasons
The Sacramento brothers who make up Hippie Sabotage might have just sabotaged their music careers. At the feel-good, hippie-loving What The Festival in Oregon last…
Organized religion
What people do in the name of religion.
Roommates gone wild
A reader’s roommate is a little too forward about sex for her comfort.
First Festival organizer reflects on turnout, community discussion
Danielle Vincent remembers looking around at her near-empty festival in disbelief. “I was blown away,” she says. “Literally devastated.” Why did so few people show…
Off the Grid expands to Crocker Art Museum
We knew expansion was coming, and now it’s official: Off the Grid will host a weekly food truck festival every Tuesday from 5 to 9…
Poor turnout mars First Festival
By Mozes Zarate So there was a music festival at Southside Park last weekend. Judging from the crowds, you probably weren’t there. Yeah, I get…
The Sacramento city voters have spoken
The Metro Chamber and City Council should listen.
Daddy in absentia
A reader’s father wants to come back into his life after 35 years away.
Off the Grid launches weekly food truck festival
On a sunny day, few things beat hanging out by the river with a cold beer and fried food. Sacramento’s newest food truck festival capitalizes…
New Galt brewery makes name off special needs controversy
Testing the old adage that any publicity is good publicity, a new Galt business called Special Ed’s Brewery attracted immediate condemnation for a “tongue in…
Too Zen, Mom
A reader can’t get through to her mother because, as she says, “accomplishment is meaningless.”
Opiate addiction
When it come to this nation’s growing opiate addiction crisis, can we put the genie back in the bottle?
Aftershock Festival announces 2016 lineup
Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Slayer and Korn will headline the fifth annual Aftershock Festival. The city’s premier hard rock and metal festival is also arguably the…
Sacramento French Film Festival expands in 15th year
The 15th annual Sacramento French Film Festival returns June 17-26 with award-winning films and a new expansion into the Esquire IMAX Theatre. The latter is…
SN&R gets additional emails and documents from Mayor Kevin Johnson's OMKJ account
SN&R’s legal battle with Mayor Kevin Johnson was delayed, but earlier this week Ballard Spahr, the legal team that represents Mayor Kevin Johnson, released a…