Arts+Culture

Pandemic Heroes

Cover by Serene Lusano SN&R highlights arts groups, businesses, nonprofits and people who have gone above and beyond for the community during the COVID-19 crisis…


Journey to Scovidria

After months at home, Luna Steele makes a strange discovery that brings her to the kingdom of Scovidria This is the story of a Dungeons…


Adventure in place

How Dungeon & Dragon’s fantasy world has carried people through the pandemic You’re standing in front of a simple wooden door with a brass handle….


Walls apart

City investigates Wide Open Walls and its founder as Sacramento mural festival faces uncertain future Raphael Delgado acknowledged the obvious: This year, Wide Open Walls…




Anton Barbeau returns to Sacramento with Manbird

“I think originally after we saw Lady Bird, we thought, ‘Let’s make our own film called Manbird’—just kind of a joke where I wandered around the streets of Sacramento or whatever. But then I thought, ‘Wow, gotta make a song out of this.’”


Summer garden woes

Extreme heat and wildfire smoke kill tomatoes and zucchini Record heat and falling ash—what’s a pandemic gardener to do? Many Sacramentans got seriously into food…


Free Will Astrology

For the week of Aug. 27 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes, “Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff…



Free Will Astrology

For the week of Aug. 20, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We never know what is enough until we know what’s more…




Music review: Free Advice, Cindy

This record is—in the best way—not for dancing; it’s for swaying. Or, to make my recommendation hyper-specific to Sacramento, it’s a record to be absorbed while laying on your floor under your wall-unit AC on 100-degree-plus days.



Free Will Astrology

For the week of Aug. 13, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Motivational speaker Les Brown says his mission in life is to…