Sacramento’s haunted history is more than a ghost story
It’s October in the Capital City and there’s a scarlet flair coloring sycamores and Japanese maples, ushering in a witching season for harvest moons and…
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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…
What ghost stories tell us about … us
You can glean a lot from a culture by how it remembers its dead. In our corner of California, most ghost stories involve unlucky prospectors,…
Haunted Travel: Scotland’s shadows of roguery and genius
Old Town Edinburgh was once known as the murky fishbone, a medieval fossil spine that descends in a deformed slope from its castle-head to the…
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…
Last call at de Vere’s
There was a line out the door Thursday evening as people waited to pay their final respects at something akin to an Irish wake. But…
Revisiting a groundbreaking novel from Nevada City’s great western writer
Oakley Hall’s ‘Warlock’ remains a towering achievement in California literature Writers, like cowboys, can find themselves penned-in. They get locked in corrals of category. They…
After generations of community building, East Sacramento gets recognized as ‘Little Italy’
During a recent lunchtime rush, a small team of workers at Corti Brothers’ delicatessen called out orders as they wrapped and bagged sausage links, cheese…
‘Reminiscence’ and the noir of the inevitable
Last August, when wildfires hung a red sun on dim skies radiating a hellish kind of hopelessness, some Californians began to notice how much the…
Scammers target Sacramento artists through crypto currency: a first-hand account of going down the rabbit hole
Minting NFTs of your artworks can be a costly scam, if you are not aware By Ken Magri “Never drive a hard bargain with an…
Memoir of Sacramento teen’s fight for animal rights gets endorsed by the world’s best-known conservationist
Justin Barker’s story of battling local officials over numbing zoo conditions gets a thumbs-up from Jane Goodall By the time Justin Barker was 15, he…
Dueling pens, torch-wielding mobs and a march to Alcatraz: Looking back at the region’s most fiery newspaper war
The waning days of the Gold Rush were overshadowed by tense journalistic standoffs around the Civil War In 1861, California’s Capital region was far from…
Retired reporter in Sacramento uses the region’s intrigue as fuel for her mystery novels
For some mystery aficionados, storytelling with a sense of place is so crucial to a book’s lasting appeal that every quirk and nuance of a…
Summer sunsets draw a light on the riddles of the Delta
In a dim corner of Giusti’s bar, near some photos of dangling sturgeon, there’s a newspaper article from 1970 nailed to the wall. It’s a…
Lights come on at the Sacramento region’s oldest theaters, signaling hopes of survival
At the height of the pandemic summer, Northern California’s grand movie palaces of yesteryear were in trouble. Historic theaters like The Crest in Sacramento, The…
The Crocker comeback: Art’s inspiring appeal on full display as the city’s historic museum comes back to life
Kids’ summer camps, ‘Louis Comfort Tiffany’ exhibit & ‘For America’ showing all on the horizon Sacramento’s dedicated art community leaned on virtual experiences to connect…
Progressive blues movement plants roots in the Sacramento Delta
The unorthodox performer Blind Lemon Peel gets his footing in the Capital Region By Chris Elliott Blind Lemon Peel is a Sacramento newcomer, but he…