Arts+Culture

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…

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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…



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…



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.



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…




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…


Indoor landscapes

Public Land sells plants and homemade products, but also exhibits art We stood in the back room of Public Land store holding a Calathea roseopicta….


Free Will Astrology

For the week of Nov. 12, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Love can’t always do work,” wrote novelist Iris Murdoch. “Sometimes it…



Sentimental journey

Jason Burt honors his grandfather by releasing a jazz album recorded during World War II First, you hear the sound of a needle roughly dragging…