Who to see at High Sierra Music Festival
Of all of Northern California’s many music festivals, High Sierra consistently remains one of the best intimate shindigs around. Every Fourth of July weekend, 10,000…
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Oblivion Comics & Coffee wins Calling All Dreamers competition
Geeks, you’re getting your very own cafe. That’s thanks to Laura Benson and Neil Estaris as well as Sacramento Downtown Partnership’s annual Calling All Dreamers…
Sunday, bloody Sunday: Multiple stabbings at Capitol clash between white-power groups and anti-facists
Story and photos by Kris Hooks Hundreds of anti-fascist protesters from all over California, many dressed in all black and wearing masks and bandannas…
Removal of artist's paintings at 58 Degrees and Holding Co. sparks controversy
Photo courtesy of Christopher Fairman Musician-artist Christopher Fairman expected to have an “America”-themed show at 58 Degrees and Holding Co. during the month of…
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…
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.”