Sacramento dives into Mardi Gras season with major events in Old Town, Downtown on Feb. 26
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Shining brass and broken glasses in New Orleans
By Scott Thomas Anderson The Crescent City nocturnal. It’s horns crying under baroque handrails. It’s statue-shadows looming in the lamplight. Strangers have always been drawn…
Essay: Homeless crisis in Sacramento demands the ‘urgency of now’
By Jim Gonzalez All over California, the term “state of emergency” has become the operative description of our homelessness crisis. In Los Angeles, billionaire developer…
Orchestrating above the chaos: Part I on teaching performing arts in Sacramento during COVID
By Patti Roberts Performing arts such as theater, orchestra and dance are usually done before a live audience – and often based on a wide…
Most Kiley endorsers as mum as he on ‘radical associations’
By Jeff Burdick for SactoPolitico This story was produced by the Sacramento-based political publication SactoPolitico.com and co-published here with permission. As Kevin Kiley launched his…
House of a thousand laughs: Comedy at Sacramento’s ‘Orange House’ hints at new possibilities in entertainment
By Luis Gael Jimenez “Everything you see was either found, built, or stolen,” David Samuel says, taking a drag from a spliff.His long mustache hides…
Why is a tenant protection bill failing in the California Legislature, again?
By Manuela Tobias for CalMatters Tenant advocates, racial equity groups, YIMBYs and even some of their usual opponents wanted to see the bill pass. The cities of San Francisco…
Ready for the main event: A look at regional MMA fighter Nick Maximov
By Jason Cassidy Mixed martial artist Nick Maximov got his big break on Oct. 6, 2018. He was fighting on the undercard of a King…
The Long Flight Home: revisiting how detectives finally grabbed one of the Capital Region’s worst serial killers
By Scott Thomas Anderson Special agent Martin Ryan could hear the tiny plane’s engine droning against the clouds. Far below the jet stream was the…
Study: global warming eliminates Tahoe as Olympic venue; boosters remain optimistic about winter sports
Unless mitigation measures are followed, all but one host city will be too warm for games By Frank X. Mullen A new climate change analysis…
Sacramento’s Mr. P Chill keeps up the crate diggin’ and spittin’ rhymes
By Casey Rafter One of Sacramento’s longest-running hip hop performers is a tall-ass white dude with a goatee. That description – along with a hat,…
Former Stockton mayor launches nonprofit to end poverty in California
By Alejandro Lazo for CalMatters Former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, who made a political name championing a guaranteed income program, is hoping to take his policy…
Circling shadows: One family’s dual nightmare in a state with no answer for mental illness
By Scott Thomas Anderson Daisy Switzer has spent 21 years knowing how much suffering can be unleashed by failures in the legal and behavioral health…
Essay: Three years ago, one of Sacramento’s working-class heroes was murdered at a library – don’t let it be in vain
By Kelly Clark It’s been more than three years now since my wife Amber was senselessly murdered. Three years since she was shot 11 times…
Why single payer died in the California Legislature, again
By Alexei Koseff for CalMatters Despite, or perhaps because of, an aggressive last-minute push by progressive activists ahead of a crucial deadline, legislation to create…
Looking back: A Sacramento heiress and Murder on the French Bulldog Express
By Kevin Taylor At the close of the Industrial Revolution, English breeders developed a smaller, lighter toy bulldog, around 12-25 lbs in weight, some with…
Theater creator takes his final bow in Sacramento
Buck Busfield looks back on decades of bringing life to the local stage By Patti Roberts After more than 35 years as one of the…