Hella local bands at Colonial Music Fest next weekend
Sacramento Colonial Music Fest might be the biggest local music showcase in town. More than 60 bands will play three neighboring venues over three days—May…
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New band alert: Mike Farrell, Jeffrey Valentine and Mike Cordano debut new songs as GTM
It’s been no secret around town that Mike Farrell, the damn near-iconic local Sacramento musician, has spent his adulthood battling drug addiction. He’ll be the…
New Orleans Jazz Fest: review and photo essay
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux. by Paul Piazza The 45th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, also known as Jazz Fest, more than lived up…
Music picks for this weekend's Whole Earth Festival
Whole Earth Festival: the weekend that college bros sport tie-dye, sorority girls don floral headbands and everyone pretends to be a hippie. But seriously, I…
Unlock the mystery
Joey advises a reader to revel in the unknown of being single.
Happy 100th birthday!
Rotary has made a difference in the world and in my world.
Internet deal leads to real-world robbery
Selling items over the internet can be a sketchy affair, as yet another person learned Monday in Sacramento. According to the Sacramento Police Department, the…
'Mad Men' 7.4: Godlike computers, sex communes and the couch-fart conundrum
A glimpse into the future displaced the unhappy strivers at Sterling Cooper & Partners, in the form of a giant computer that commandeered the employee lounge…
'Mad Men' 7.3: 'Eat your candy.'
We enter a lunch already in progress between former neighbors. As Betty Francis (January Jones) primes a cigarette, Francine Hanson (Anne Dudek), now working three…
ESSAY: Challenge the law to save the environment
By Jan Ellen Rein & Mark Dempsey Environmental law needs a democratic makeover. Nationwide and locally, Move to Amend is mobilizing support for constitutional amendments to…
PSA: Don't be sorry, buy those Tig Notaro tix now
There’s more than a week to go until Tig Notaro’s show at Assembly (1000 K Street) but don’t be the sorry one who misses out…
Graham-a-Rama will relaunch as a cabaret, and become the name of a new record label.
Graham Sobelman is launching his own record label. And just like his popular Sacramento cabaret show of the same name (which will be revived later…
Sam Misner of Misner & Smith talks Woody Guthrie, blogging and playing in Davis
By Cody Drabble Misner & Smith, the Davis-based folk duo, will take the stage tonight at the Davis Odd Fellows Hall as part…
Marshall Tuck bucks the establishment
There is a real choice in the state superintendent of public instruction race.
Vacation in your happy place
Joey advises a reader to become the black sheep of her family.
Voters might go postal for California's June primary
Courtesy of Patrick Hoesly. By Cody Drabble With mail-in ballots for the upcoming statewide primary set to go out in a couple of weeks,…
Bob Erlenbusch thinks Sacramento can end homelessness by 2039
The tag-line celebrating Clash frontman Joe Strummer’s life can also apply to Sacramento’s next 25 years. When we asked Bob Erlenbusch to share what…