Why writing matters
It was a big week for pop entertainment, a kind of stress test for whether the newly reborn Hollywood studio system could keep its pre-COVID…
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The future of Sacramento’s District 5: a report on the entire race
On a recent morning in south Sacramento, all four people vying to be District 5’s next councilmember sat in front of an outdoor crowd. The…
Man who ambushed, executed Sacramento librarian convicted of 1st-Degree Murder
Senseless killing led family into gun violence prevention work The deranged stalker who left Natomas in fear, Sacramento’s libraries in shock and a family in…
Journalist from Sacramento takes readers behind the conservative media curtain in ‘Write Wing’
J.P. Ba sets his literary aim on a news landscape gone awry A journalist who was raised in Sacramento – cutting his teeth on the…
Revisiting the Watch: In the wake of a numbing, gang-related murder, the Hawk Institute keeps pulling youth triumphs from the shadow of tragedy
Following the horrific mass-causality event in Downtown Sacramento on April 3, community interest in meaningful gang-prevention initiatives is at an all-time high. The following in…
Four months after Sacramento redistricting, coverage chaos descends on City Hall
The Mayor: “We have a real problem here.” Who’s the Sacramento City Council member representing your district until November? Ask that one question in City…
It was Saturday night
A slow return to the scene that changed everything They just prayed their way through the wind. It was the first Saturday night in Downtown…
Editorial: ‘True at first light’
Sunday morning was like a bad dream. But not a person’s rough, restless hours in the dark, rather the horrible hallucination of an entire living city….
UPDATE: Sacramento’s worst sunrise: Pre-dawn scenes from a nightmare that left 18 people shot
At least six people are dead, 12 hospitalized, as detectives search for answers Fred Harris woke up just after 2 a.m. to his phone…
Mutual Housing still under fire in South Sac for alleged harassment, retaliation, displacement
Some tenants are moving out of the affordable housing provider’s units and paying double in rent to escape the site’s manager When television crews first…
Finnegan’s is perfecting the Irish Coffee cocktail on Sacramento’s waterfront
The city’s newest Irish pub finds its feel in one of the old quarter’s timeworn structures When Sean Derfield was little, he and his…
Cuts from Celtic survivors: A hard-drinkin’ playlist to put Ireland on your mind and in your glass
The Dublin novelist Frank Delaney wrote, “I liken Ireland to whiskey in a glass – a cone of amber, a self-contained passage of time, a…
Celtic travel: Rebels, death and beauty in the Irish Republic
William Butler Yeats called it “the Celtic Twilight,” a push to save Ireland’s wandering hearthside storytellers of the past — those oracles who could cast spells of…
All the Governor’s Men: Life and love in the Delta town Newsom’s tunnel would destroy
Hood is a Sacramento County testament to farming know-how and the migrant dream – and an obstacle to the state’s most powerful lobbyists There’s a…
The Boxing Donkey pub in Roseville keeps up that fightin’ Irish spirit
A longtime Saint Patrick’s Day favorite is prepping for a flurry of festivities on March 17 There have been changes of late to the…
The upcoming Mardi Gras Masked Ball at Harlow’s grew out of the city’s affinity for fangs and fun
Shannon McCable’s big Mardi Gras Masked Ball happens March 12 at 6 p.m. The only true Gothic gaslight in Sacramento flickers in the winter shade…
Editorial: From one river city to another, Sacramento has its pieces of the New Orleans magic
Food, music, cocktails and style, California’s capital has its spots if you know where to look The late piano master Ellis Marsalis said of his…