By Serena Smith All-female mariachi bands are growing in popularity in Northern California, changing the genre and breaking traditional barriers. Mariachi is a storied genre…
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By Scott Thomas Anderson When I recently published a column about Google’s complacency in allowing click-baiters to gaslight the public with Artificial Intelligence – including…
By Michael Moberly The world of spirits is full of legends and marketing tall tales designed to make you feel like the bottle on which…
In a truly great economy, everyone — individuals, families, businesses and industries — benefit together from growth. Given that, there’s a grass-roots effort underway to…
By Keyshawn Davis About six years ago, Dr. William Sands, the director of special projects for University of the Pacific’s Pacific Health Care Collaborative, was…
By Dan Bacher As salmon, steelhead and other fish species move closer to extinction – and the Delta smelt is now functionally extinct in the…
By Matthew Dolin Folsom residents may soon decide whether to raise an additional 1% sales tax in response to a projected structural budget deficit. The…
By Bob Grimm Are you feeling the sting of Curb Your Enthusiasm coming to an end on HBO? Never fear: Conan O’Brien has come to the rescue—and…
By Rachel Becker for CalMatters In an effort to protect more than 5 million Californians from a cancer-causing contaminant, state regulators today set a new…
By Ken Magri Despite the legal cannabis market initially seen as a golden enterprise for generating local tax revenues, Sacramento dispensary owners say they are…
Interesting and goofy facts to entertain stoners on their favorite day By Ken Magri This year’s celebration of 4/20 cannabis holiday, we thought it would…
By Hannah Ross The Sacramento arts scene may be on the brink of transformation. Since a pandemic that had threatened to gut local arts scenes…
By Bob Grimm Writer-director Alex Garland, often a purveyor of excellent sci-fi and horror (Annihilation, Ex-Machina), drops a full-blown cinematic grenade with Civil War, a hypothetical look…
By Nick Brunner Does it ever cross your mind how the food you eat gets to your plate? Getting produce and more from farms to…
By Molly Mellon Citrus Heights’ first affordable housing development in 20 years now sits on what used to be a vacant Christmas tree lot. Sunrise…
By Scott Thomas Anderson A couple of months ago, newsrooms began discovering that the algorithm for Google News is now boosting articles that are plagiarized…
By Keyshawn Davis Dariyn Choates came to Sacramento from Monterey County’s Seaside on a full-ride scholarship to play football for Sacramento State from 2016 to…