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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…
Read MoreIt 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…
Read MoreOn 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…