Gallery: Scenes from Halloween time in Sacramento
Sacramento’s season of screams has plenty decorative feats and gothic galas for celebrating the dark side this year. Spooky-side revelers who wanted to dance to…
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This week’s events and outings that make for a hellacious Halloween in Sacramento
It’s that time again for offering a nod to all things mischievous and nocturnal. Whether its ghoulish drink pop-ups and horror screenings in the bloody…
‘Dorothea Puente Tells All!’ is an intriguing look at one of Sacramento’s most famous notorious crimes
By Patti Roberts Welcome back, Dorothea. It’s been a while. First, we got to know you through your scandalous gardening techniques of burying bodies in…
Breakaway Festival and Good Vibes Cali Tour light up Cal Expo venues
By Steve Martarano Entering the parking lots at Cal Expo the weekend of Oct. 11-12, the signs told a story: One sign pointed left for…
School board members battle it out in a most woke way in CapStage’s ‘Eureka Day’
By Patti Roberts Playwright Jonathan Spector must have used an Ouija board when he wrote “Eureka Day,” which premiered in 2018. It was before both…
B Street Theatre’s Jerry Montoya and the heart of storytelling
By Chris Woodard For Jerry Montoya, storytelling began at home. Growing up in a Mexican-American household, he recalls the power of stories to bring family…
Inside Sacramento’s strong-rooted poetry community
By Marie-Elena Schembri Sacramento is home to an evolving poetry community, one that has been emerging over decades from the quiet corners of the city’s…
Sacramento sharpens its fangs for a ‘Castle Dracula masquerade’ at this year’s Vampire Ball on October 25
Somewhere between a medieval Romanian sadist, a diseased Irish Victorian and a rogue copyright-violating film director from Germany, a ghoulish folk tradition born in old…
Elk Grove’s Bayanihan Festival brings people together during Filipino American History Month
By Justine Chahal Music swelled in the air as bamboo poles were placed parallel to each other against the concrete floor at Elk Grove’s District56…
‘Sanctuary City’ is a Sacramento production that explores sacrifice, love and identity in the post-9/11 world and feels perfectly suited for our times
By Odin Rasco It starts with a knock at B’s window late at night. G is there, cold, shaken by a rough night, looking for…
There and back again: Regional guitar phenom Mark Holzinger opens up about his storied career while finishing latest album
Holzinger’s upcoming solo effort ‘Juke and Jive’ is the culmination of a long, unpredictable journey through music of generations past When Mark Holzinger first walked…
The Snares to be featured at latest live podcast event supporting hometown journalism in Sacramento on October 21
Band will be interviewed and perform at The Torch Club for Solving Sacramento’s ‘Creativity in the Capital’ podcast as special fundraiser The Snares’ brand…
A legend returns: Daniel Day-Lewis is great in the otherwise mediocre ‘Anemone’
By Bob Grimm When it was announced that Daniel Day-Lewis was coming out of retirement to star in Anemone, I rejoiced and waited with anticipatory glee….
Gallery: The final blow was big for Day 4 of Aftershock
Words and photographs by Sugarwolf One might have expected the fourth day of this year’s Aftershock Festival to serve as a cool-down, but the parting…
Gallery: The momentum continues at Day 3 of Aftershock
Words and photographs by Sugarwolf After the raucous party that took place Friday night, on Day 3 of Aftershock, Discovery Park felt like a post-apocalyptic…
Gallery: Festival overdrive at Day 2 of Aftershock 2025
Words and photographs by Sugarwolf For many attendees, Day 2 of Aftershock was the day the festival really came alive. Hotter temps, heavier riffs and…
Sick fantasies: Netflix’s ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ tastelessly glorifies a serial killer
By Bob Grimm Horror producer Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) and showrunner Ian Brennan miss the mark big-time with the third season of the Monster anthology series….