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…
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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…
Distant callings: renowned fiddler from Scotland helps the region find its past
Fiddle-firebrand Alasdair Fraser, performing with Natalie Haas, plays the historic State Theater in Auburn Feb. 9 There’s still an echo of Celtic wanderers who…
Tool brings a fearless ‘inoculum’ to Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center
By Casey Rafter After hours of melting the minds and faces of ecstatic audience members, Danny Carey, drummer for the band Tool, climbed back into…
Charlie Chaplin and the Crocker Museum
How ‘Handsome Harry’ Crocker conquered Hollywood and created the family’s second museum By Kevin Taylor On New Year’s Day in 1928, Edwin Schallert, film critic…
Wine tasting with writers’ ghosts in the Valley of the Moon
For more than a century, Glen Ellen was a refuge for outcasts: From Jack London to Hunter S. Thompson, lost loners flocked to this hideaway…
Sacramento’s Golden Road for game fanatics: The beer and vegan victories have you covered
Newest team at Golden Road’s ‘Pub Midtown’ focuses on brews, bites and year-round game fun By Casey Rafter Holding glasses of beer that glint yellow…
Waiting to tell the tale: After 50 years, Chez Panisse’s first waiter decides to dish
Memoir from Sacramento-area restaurant veteran adds a new flavor to the California Cuisine legend Drinkers stepping into the Double A Tap on the Southside of…
From bee to mead showcased at The Hive in Woodland
New experiential honey center opens this weekend This roadside attraction is sure to get people buzzing. Featuring the first varietal honey-and-mead-tasting room of its kind,…
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…
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…
Virtual Village Feast celebrates, supports women working in Sacramento food and Ag
Registration is open for Oct. 9 farm-to-fork experience Here’s your chance to feast like a Dame – and support women who work in food and…
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…