Oakley Hall’s ‘Warlock’ remains a towering achievement in California literature By Scott Thomas Anderson Writers, like cowboys, can find themselves penned-in. They get locked in…
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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…
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…
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,…
Worker shortages, supply chain chaos, constant rule changes, public fear, bad air and petty criminals – life is never boring for the indie kitchens making…
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.’…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
The models and the funds are already there – if we step back from a narrow picture frame By Waverly Hampton III Pope Julius II…
Justin Barker’s story of battling local officials over numbing zoo conditions gets a thumbs-up from Jane Goodall By Scott Thomas Anderson By the time Justin…
Second rare corpse flower blooms in Curtis Park Is Sacramento smelling more like Sumatra? For the second time this summer, the fragrance of one particularly…
SpaceWalker releases new album, plays hometown Aug. 6 at Russ Room By Casey Rafter Echoes filled an otherwise empty room as the cosmic, one-woman show…
Dick Cooper’s vision, with advice from the guru of Corti Brothers, launched Plymouth’s international wine phenomenon By Scott Thomas Anderson In the late 1970s, a…
Commercial customers can get up to $100,000 for taking their property in a new direction This could be a good time to downsize the lawn….
The waning days of the Gold Rush were overshadowed by tense journalistic standoffs around the Civil War In 1861, California’s Capital region was far from…