Five Horror films to watch this Halloween weekend
Will you stick with the classics or dare to try something else? By Josie Klakström The week leading up to Halloween is that turning point…
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The art of re-emerging: Upcoming Sacramento Arts Festival breaks through roadblocks to regain in-person connections
By Casey Rafter A shimmering mauve ribbon with gold lettering clings to an image of red, yellow and blue fish pursuing each other in a…
Evening streets and island mist in Scotland
By Scott Thomas Anderson Old Town Edinburgh was once known as the murky fishbone, a medieval fossil spine that descends in a deformed slope from…
‘Golden Rule’ in Sacramento still applies two decades later
HIV/AIDS Crusader Clarmundo Sullivan continues to educate, elevate services to underserved community in the south city and county By Genoa Barrow, the Sacramento Observer While…
California issues rule banning new oil wells within 3,200 feet of homes and schools
By Dan Bacher After years of grassroots organizing, protests and political pressure by environmental justice advocates, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced at a press conference on October…
Essay: Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign demands filibuster end for the sake of local families
By Faye Wilson Kennedy and Dr. Pamela Anderson If our democracy is to survive, the filibuster must end now. Since 1841, the filibuster has been…
35 days and counting: Sacramento Kaiser’s essential workers are battling to keep their pensions
By Scott Thomas Anderson In a moment of extreme uncertainty, as panic began gripping the region, the clinical technicians, stationary engineers and bio-medical engineers of…
Essay: Folsom’s ‘Negro Bar’ should be renamed, but the contributions of Black pioneers shouldn’t be forgotten
In 2018, Phaedra Jones did not know much about Folsom. She accepted a delivery assignment from her employer, UberEATS, bringing food from Stockton to the…
California schools are running out of money
By Emily Hoeven for CalMatters California school districts have two choices: Bite the bullet and make budget cuts now, or delay them and face even…
Essay: CEQA can increase affordable housing in Sacramento while protecting communities
By Ralph Propper, President of the Environmental Council of Sacramento The City of Sacramento signed a deal this summer to build a U.C. Davis campus…
In Rancho Cordova, a darkened stage finds its lights again with ‘Into the Woods’
As the pandemic tapers down, Hummingbird Theatre Company is trying to reconnect with audiences By Casey Rafter A clutter of colorful condominiums surround Village…
Monk’s Cellar’s new whiskey club brings a reveling reverence for the art
Roseville brewery to host a big event this weekend, but its bourbon bravado is generating its own excitement By Scott Thomas Anderson The gold-glinting allure…
Extinction’s Edge: biologists continue to find zero Delta smelt in Sacramento-San Joaquin waterways
Department of Fish & Wildlife’s Fall midwater trawl survey is jarring By Dan Bacher For the fifth September in a row, the California Department of Fish…
The forgotten fire?
A year after the North Complex Fire, Berry Creek residents say rebuilding hindered by costs, crime and splintered community By Ken Smith Until the night…
Is Sacramento City Hall’s support of live music a mirage?
Venue owners, promoters and performers see a chasm between leadership’s claims and city staff’s tactics, while talk of Sacramento being ‘the next Austin’ seems like…
Newsom Administration issued 138 offshore well permits in California waters prior to new oil spill
By Dan Bacher As birds, fish and other wildlife die from the over 126,000 gallons of crude oil unleashed by the devastating oil spill off Huntington…
Last call at de Vere’s
By Scott Thomas Anderson There was a line out the door Thursday evening as people waited to pay their final respects at something akin to…