Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 17, 2020 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Temporary gods are deities who come alive and become available for particular functions, and…
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Heart to Art with Janine Mapurunga
A Sacramento photographer’s lifelong project documents her grandmother’s house in Brazil The Warehouse Artist Lofts in Sacramento were still under construction when developer Ali Youssefi…
Fifteen Minutes: Tenzin Yunuen, @ShopBIPOCSac
Tenzin Yunuen created the rapidly-growing Instagram account @ShopBIPOCSac just in time for the holidays.
Making music in Trump era
“I have to acknowledge that Trump won,” Charles Albright says. “He didn’t just do a mildly successful local band based on the fakeness of celebrity. He rules the world with the fakeness of celebrity.”
The spirit of art lives on at Project 25
Project 25 is Sacramento’s newest gallery and it’s got a mission: Cultivate community, not competition Eight years after the Solomon Dubnick Gallery closed its Midtown…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 10, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to Taoist scholar Chad Hansen, “Western philosophers have endlessly analyzed…
On the fast track
The Atrium, a new arts nonprofit, pulls in city money and builds political clout The sunlight is fading on the Old Sacramento waterfront as a…
Free fares, feeding families
The “Holiday Bus” will offer free rides throughout the Sacramento region, giving riders the option to donate their fare to the Food Literacy Center.
A living quilt
A Santa Rosa-based artist creates an inspirational flower bed in Sacramento’s Sojourner Truth Park This “quilt” was sown, not sewn. Threaded with double meanings, it’s…
Heart to Art with Benjamin Della Rosa
Benjamin Della Rosa has spent more than a decade creating designs for Sacramento entrepreneurs. Now he’s designing for himself “I loved cross-stitching as a kid,”…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 3, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): An anonymous blogger on Tumblr writes the following: “What I’d really…
Planet V: Buy an omni dessert
Sacramento has flourished in the past decades, with restaurants offering vegan food—desserts, even —that are not just edible but crave-worthy.
Take a ‘Friday Art Break’
Today, Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s Office of Civic Engagement unveiled “Friday Art Break,” a weekly video series intended to keep Sacramentans in touch with the community’s artists while traditional arts venues are shuttered as a part of COVID-19 precautions.
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Nov. 19, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Back in 1974, poet Allen Ginsberg and his “spirit wife,” Aries…
The strangest sheriff’s race: Hunter Thompson’s flight from Northern California led to a groundbreaking campaign
Directors of ‘Freak Power: the Ballot or the Bomb’ discuss bikers, provocateurs and visionary politics Beginning in 1965, an obscure Bay Area reporter embedded himself…
Review: ‘The Queen’s Gambit’
The Queen’s Gambit tells a familiar story in a refreshing way, but struggles with making its side characters feel real The show begins in a…
A bid for accessible art
Verge Center for the Arts rolls out online art auction—while rolling with the punches Massiel Bobadilla, development director for Verge Center of the Arts, described…