Dropping the taco tax
Food-truck customers no longer have to do math in their heads while standing in line. Thanks to the California Board of Equalization, starting July on…
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Smoke bomb bros throw a Jeep shot
Never trust a Jeep full of bros. According to the Sacramento Police Department, a silver Jeep Wrangler occupied by four white men in their 20s…
The gloves are off! Controversial food safety law repealed
Bare hands were sighted all over Kru Restaurant—and its sushi—last night. The chefs had been wearing latex in preparation for the new “glove law,” which…
Stevie Nader releases best local release of 2014 (so far)
By Blake Gillespie By the close of the 22nd annual Sammies awards ceremony at Ace of Spades in November of last year, Stevie Nader’s…
Scorekeeper: Last week's winners and losers
California budget fixes foster payment disparity
Starting next year, foster children who are taken in by relatives will no longer be penalized for doing so. As SN&R reported last month, due…
County gives Sacramento Steps Forward credit (the financial kind)
The biggest obstacle to Sacramento Steps Forward embracing its role as administrator of the county’s homelessness strategy was quietly ironed out earlier this month. On…
REVIEW: 'A Chorus Line'
Photo by Charr Crail. —by Jeff Hudson Sacramento’s venerable Music Circus—which has been staging familiar musicals for 64 years—launched this year’s summer series with a…
Justice, Blondie, Empire of the Sun headline TBD Fest
TBD Fest (ya know, Launch) announced its full lineup today, and it’s pretty wild. Acts are flying in from all over the world for the…
Still not satisfied
Joey on whether your man is lazy or tired. Plus: How to tell your girlfriends no and what to do on awkward summer vacations.
One Brown deserves another
Former Gov. Pat Brown's 1959 budget plan provides an outline for California's future.
ESSAY: Fake stash houses, real injustice
By Julie Mumma If you are poor and conspire to rob a fake stash house, go directly to jail. If you are Goldman Sachs and…
Domestic-violence fund shrinks
By Lovelle Harris A limited funding source has pitted three local domestic-violence shelters into a debate over who gets what. Sacramento County supervisors recently followed…
BLT Week, general bacon mania return July 7
Bacon is almost back. Not that it ever really went anywhere. But the dudes behind Sacramento Bacon Fest (full disclosure: one of those dudes is…
Poverty and solutions
If you like SN&R's cover story this week, then read Sasha Abramsky's book The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives.
Death: A love story
Joey advises a reader to transform grief into personal growth.