Flipping through The Sacramento Bee's new food section
With its new Sunday section, The Sacramento Bee places a huge bet on the city’s appetite for food news. It’s called Feast, and its tagline…
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ESSAY: Mending families through soccer
By Tiffany Fraser and Lisa Wrightsman We coach the Sacramento Lady Salamanders, a Street Soccer USA program that helps women break the cycle of homelessness, addiction…
City planning commission is McLovin' the McKinley Village development
It’s no secret that most East Sacramento and Midtown residents dislike McKinley Village, the proposed 336 home development adjacent to their neighborhoods. Just drive down…
Fahrenheit 250 BBQ opens tomorrow, sneak preview here
Sacramento’s newest barbecue joint tries to be a number of things at once. As one Fahrenheit 250 BBQ guy put it: “We’re going for that…
This weekend is Sacramento’s most overlooked beer festival
It’s easy to sleep on Hot City Pizza. The place is nothing to look at. The pizza’s affordable, occasionally inventive and always filling. But…
KJ favors a strong mayor, weak press
Mayor Kevin Johnson’s push for a strong-mayor regime got the town hall treatment tonight in downtown Sacramento. The event took place at SEIU 1000’s union…
Repeal of California's glove law clears first hurdle
The gloves may soon come off. Repeal efforts against a controversial new state law, which bans bare hands on ready-to-eat food, gained momentum Tuesday. The…
California victims' board revisits denied rape claims
Photo courtesy of Joel Kramer. The state of California is trying to make up for stigmatizing rape survivors. Last week, the Victim Compensation and Government…
Fight or flight?
Joey advises a reader to understand the difference between arguing and fighting.
Want a longer life?
Doctors should prescribe a “Commitment Prescription.”
Peek inside Witch Room, Sacramento's newest music venue
Cool folks from Submerge Magazine enjoy the new booths at With Room. At events like the opening of a new music venue, everyone likes to…
Sac State to finally study local realignment efforts
In an agreement inked today, Sacramento State University will spend the next year evaluating a criminal rehabilitation program it designed three years ago to make…
Juvenile offenders pay their graveyard dues
If Bellview Cemetery near Sacramento County’s Rosemont neighborhood looks nicer than normal, it’s because of juvenile delinquency. During five consecutive weekends spanning December 2013 to…
A Nicolas Cage art show is a great reason to drive to San Francisco
Nicolas Cage is the butt of so many internet jokes that it’s totally logical that someone decided to make him the focus of something more…
Hacker Lab co-founder loses nearly everything in house fire
Bad news, Hacker Lab co-founder Gina Lujan and her family lost nearly everything when their Oak Park rental burned down Thursday night. In addition to…
ESSAY: Foreign language follies
I thought I could learn French and Italian in a month via the newly released Mango Languages app. I like to think I’m pretty good…
Jeremy Briggs booted off The Voice but lands gig at Harlow's
Jeremy Briggs earned a spot on Team Shakira on The Voice with his rendition of Bad Company’s “Bad Company” but the network ride made its…