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By Scott Thomas Anderson It was a big week for pop entertainment, a kind of stress test for whether the newly reborn Hollywood studio system…
Read MoreBy Scott Thomas Anderson It was a big week for pop entertainment, a kind of stress test for whether the newly reborn Hollywood studio system…
Read MoreThe 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…
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,…
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…
SacTree unveils plans for new cherry grove overlooking Sacramento River at Matsui Park A special place to celebrate cherry blossom time is coming to Sacramento’s…
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…
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…
By Kevin Taylor Mrs. Amy Crocker Ashe Gillig – scandal-magnet and renegade daughter of Sacramento’s great philanthropic family – had gathered a circle of Buddhist…
The venue that launched a thousand bands is now midway through a potential sale By Jennah Booth Kim Kanelos calls herself the “black sheep” of…
By Patti Roberts Dance is both a personal and a collective art – live performances a melding of the two. On stage, dancers have a…
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…
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…
The city’s newest Irish pub finds its feel in one of the old quarter’s timeworn structures By Scott Thomas Anderson When Sean Derfield was…
By Scott Thomas Anderson The Dublin novelist Frank Delaney wrote, “I liken Ireland to whiskey in a glass – a cone of amber, a self-contained…
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…
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…
March 19 fest at Hollywood Park cider house includes multiple bands, chefs and artists of all stripes By Casey Rafter With the first-ever Infinity…