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…
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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…
Riding by the River: New book explores Sacramento’s long love affair with life on two wheels
Native daughter channels family history into the Capital’s broader legacy with motorcycles By Scott Thomas Anderson The late Italian motorcycle racer Marco Simoncelli once said,…
Post-COVID Kitchen Confidential: Sacramento’s tough-willed cooks and pastry chefs soldier on through an upside down world
Worker shortages, supply chain chaos, constant rule changes, public fear, bad air and petty criminals – life is never boring for the indie kitchens making…
Sacramento’s Blues beast remains a force on stage, inspiration to new generation
Mick Martin has become a sage of raw wisdom for Capital City musicians: ‘When they’re going through moments of self-doubt, kick them in the ass.’…
While focusing on poverty and small biz fallout, Sacramento’s new ‘rescue plan’ makes a major investment in the arts
City Council on track to steer $10 million directly to the Capital’s creative economy as venues and artists try to recover By Scott Thomas Anderson…
‘Reminiscence’ and the noir of the inevitable
By Scott Thomas Anderson Last August, when wildfires hung a red sun on dim skies radiating a hellish kind of hopelessness, some Californians began to…
Scammers target Sacramento artists through crypto currency: a first-hand account of going down the rabbit hole
Minting NFTs of your artworks can be a costly scam, if you are not aware By Ken Magri “Never drive a hard bargain with an…
Just Mercy: Even as the pandemic roiled Sacramento’s art scene, Mercy Hawkins pushed her sculptures to the next level
U.C. Davis grad to embark on prestigious art residency, national showcase By Casey Rafter Surrounded by white walls, an armless fiber sculpture stood tall –…