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Alan Ball’s comic play about five bridesmaids wearing incredibly ugly dresses at a wedding for a woman they all dislike is a sort of Steel…

Playwright Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ymous), a mythical and mystical tracing of immigrants’ hardships and journeys, is the perfect vehicle for one of the region’s most creative,…

Placerville experimental band Pregnant will enter new experimental territory with its next album—the subject for this week’s music feature—dropping Friday, Nov. 14. John Raw is…

The Pachamama Coffee Cooperative’s Midtown headquarters is a special place. Full disclosure: I buy my beans there every month. It’s such a feel-good buying experience…

Sizzling Siren Lucinda Buttons shows off some pasties. Photo by Steven Chea Sacramento’s thriving burlesque scene is facing some serious roadblocks. With the closing of…

‘Tis the season to party rock for men’s-health awareness. Once reserved for tank-top-rocking, Tucker Max-reading young men who refuse to stop listening to Sublime, the…

The University of California announced a plan this morning to raise tuition by 5 percent annually over the next five years. It will be considered…

When I told friends about my Tuesday night destination—the Black Keys concert at Sleep Train Arena—I got a lot of initially excited responses. Like, “Awesome!…

by Cosmo Garvin I’ve been pretty tough on Jay Hansen since he came onto the school board. He has a way of saying obnoxious things…

By Brooke Purves A multi-year drought has claimed another cruel casualty—duck love. According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s waterfowl breeding population survey…

Once again, changes are coming to Sacramento’s live music scene and life on K Street. Eric Rushing and Bret Bair, owners of Ace of Spades…