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…
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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.
Scorekeeper: This week's winners and losers
Doughbot announces closure and leaves Sacramentans mourning
No more gourmet donuts, Sacramento. No more lemon lavender bliss. No more pillows oozing with lime-coconut cream. No more vegan donuts that still taste like…
Chando's Tacos makes Best Burrito in America list
Photo from Chando’s Tacos Facebook page (from SN&R’s 2013 Best Of issue). It looks like the Burrito Selection Committee from the America’s Best Burrito bracket…
Launch Fest morphs into TBD–which is totally a BFD
Organizers for Sacramento’s Launch Festival announced a big transformation today. The music fest, scheduled to take place this year October 3-4, will now be known…
Another reason to go to Sacramento Pride: free cats
You might score a new best friend at Sacramento Pride on Saturday. Of course, there are plenty of reasons to go already. International pop star…
New Midtown juice shop opens with $9 price tags
Expensive, refreshing, nutritious cold-pressed juice. I mulled over the trend last week in an essay, in which I mentioned a new Midtown juice shop opening…
Less gridlock, more governing?
Proposition 14 has changed the rules of the election game in California.