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…
The art of re-emerging: Upcoming Sacramento Arts Festival breaks through roadblocks to regain in-person connections
By Casey Rafter A shimmering mauve ribbon with gold lettering clings to an image of red, yellow and blue fish pursuing each other in a…
What the ghost stories of Venice 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,…
Behind the funk: Sacramento’s The Gold Souls come storming back with ‘Downtown Sound’
Local musicians jump into the fray again with big Halloween night show at Harlow’s With live music selling out large-scale festivals and filling independent venues…
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…
Monk’s Cellar’s new whiskey club brings a reveling reverence for the art
Roseville brewery to host a big event this weekend, but its bourbon bravado is generating its own excitement The gold-glinting allure of whiskey flows from…
Is Sacramento City Hall’s support of live music a mirage?
Venue owners, promoters and performers see a chasm between leadership’s claims and city staff’s tactics, while talk of Sacramento being ‘the next Austin’ seems like…
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
By Scott Thomas Anderson There was a line out the door Thursday evening as people waited to pay their final respects at something akin to…
The photo oracle: Sacramento’s Elle Jaye has an eye for capturing the music scene’s creative lightning
Pink hair, lenses and hugs are part of a rare approach the city’s musicians can’t get enough of By Casey Rafter It’s a beat frozen…
The battle of wine and fire: Inside the struggle to save El Dorado County’s acclaimed vineyards from Caldor
By Scott Thomas Anderson Randy Rossi throws some muscle against the gear-shifter of his Kubota ATV as it plows through broken powder on a mountain…
Where did all these yellow butterflies flooding Sacramento come from?
Orange Sulphurs invade city from Yolo County fields “Where did all these yellow butterflies come from?” That’s been a common question this week in Sacramento’s…
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’
By Scott Thomas Anderson During a recent lunchtime rush, a small team of workers at Corti Brothers’ delicatessen called out orders as they wrapped and…
Sacramento-area favorite Antsy McClain wants to run for the burning hills
Southerner with one foot in the Sierra foothills copes with being cut-off from a cherished place By Casey Rafter The reek of smoke lingers in…