The Artists Collective helps Sacramento playwright wrestle with ‘Time of Death’ this May
Group that has been bringing writers, actors and directors together finds home at the city’s Ooley Theatre. Next production runs May 26 thru June 11…
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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…
How to get over writer’s block
The sincerest way to tell yourself to relax, or not. By Josie Klakström Right my fellow human, today is the day you’ll start/ finish/ rewrite…
May heats up for live entertainment and the arts across the Sacramento region
Northern California is rolling into its best weather month of the year and local stages are taking full advantage, hosting everything from Sacramento’s favorite musicians,…
Pink Mountaintops prepare to rock Goldfield in Midtown Sacramento
Frontman Stephen McBean: Gigs dried up, so here comes ‘Peacock Pools’ By Casey Rafter After a raucous show opening for Dinosaur Jr. at Ace of…
The Bitter Buddha is breaking into Sac’s beer garden
Eddie Pepitone makes his local debut with JT Habersaat on April 17 at outdoor taphouse By Casey Rafter The Greek god Helios recently seemed to…
Calling all Chromies! California Chrome owner shares ‘Our Story’ at Sacramento book event Saturday
Horse owner/breeder Perry Martin to sign copies at Avid Reader event in Downtown Perry and Denise Martin enjoyed the ride of a lifetime with the…
On a throwback track: Melissa Etheridge returns to her roots – and the road
By Evan Tuchinsky Before Melissa Etheridge became a Grammy-winning rock star, an Oscar-winning songwriter (for An Inconvenient Truth) and an icon among both cancer survivors and…
Positively comedic: The Body Pozi show at Sacramento’s STAB! Theater sees a host of voices get laughs
By Madelaine Church Derek Dozier recently walked on stage at STAB! Comedy Theater and quickly launched into a story. Dozier, who uses they/them pronouns, told…
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…
Upcoming Saint Patrick’s Day events in the Sacramento region
If the blockbuster turn-out for Sacramento’s recent Mardi Gras party in is any indication, Northern Californians are ready to be meeting in person again, as…
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…
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…
Sacramento dives into Mardi Gras season with major events in Old Town, Downtown on Feb. 26
Louisiana Sue is on the loose again, this time planning a party for the Capital City that will hit harder than the hurricanes she grew…
Mardi Gras travel: Shining brass and broken glasses in New Orleans
The Crescent City nocturnal. It’s horns crying under baroque handrails. It’s statue-shadows looming in the lamplight. Strangers have always been drawn to New Orleans. Anyone…