Checking in: SAMMIES 2020 winners and nominees
In any normal year, we at SN&R would be in full-on SAMMIES mode, asking readers to vote for their favorite performers and prepping a big…
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Doggy Dash, at a Distance
On June 5, celebrate the Dash by walking—safely, distanced and masked—in your own neighborhood, sharing on social media by using the hashtag #SSPCADASH2021 on Facebook and Instagram.
Checking in: SAMMIES 2020 winners and nominees
If there’s any time we need the comfort of music, it’s now. For the next few weeks, we’ll be checking in on some 2020 SAMMIES nominees and winners and nominees to see how they’ve stayed creative over the last year.
How the region’s ports can pour the winter away
By Scott Thomas Anderson When the wind’s fierce and the rain’s cold, those are the perfect evenings for the most devilish kind of wine indulgence….
Fifteen Minutes: Olivia Siu, NASA Scholarship Winner
The average person may dream of space travel, but few people actually consider the changes that take place in the human body as a result….
Moxie: Girls (closer) to the front
I need to explain from the outset that the game was rigged. In Moxie—released this past Wednesday on Netflix—a teenager empowered by her mom’s feminist…
Checking in: SAMMIES 2020 winners and nominees
We’ll be checking in on some 2020 SAMMIES winners and nominees to see how they’ve stayed creative over the last year.
WandaVision: Omens, trauma and the seduction of the past
Marvel Studios finds itself in the unlikely position of creating a poignant pandemic show By Scott Thomas Anderson Tonight, viewers around the world are tuning…
Author Carmen Maria Machado to give a virtual reading at UC Davis
Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House. Carmen Maria Machado’s 2017 National Book Award nominated short story…
Checking in: SAMMIES 2020 winners and nominees
In any normal year, we at SN&R would be in full-on SAMMIES mode, asking readers to vote for their favorite performers and prepping a big…
By people of color, for everyone
Each Thursday, B Street Theatre at the Sofia hosts the virtual event Re-Imagine, with the tagline “By Us. For Everyone.” The event—currently virtual but with intent to be on the stage post-pandemic—highlights performers and artists of color.
Nomadland: a road after Empire
Reporters witness events unfolding in snapshots of time, then they pass on those glimpses of people and places to audiences. The chroniclers, recording history in…
Sunday Farmers’ Market on the move
Visitors to Sacramento’s X Street Farmers’ Market face a longer commute beginning in March as the Sunday staple temporarily moves to the parking lot of Arden Faire mall as construction on Route 50 uproots the weekly event for up to ten months.
Documenting dystopia
Sacramento Is Dead fights against a boosterish view of California’s capital city.
Developer influence, fears of community disintegration woven into new Sacramento thriller
Local author June Gillam tackles a divisive time for the city in her novel ‘House of Hoops’ By Scott Thomas Anderson In 2014, a prolonged…
Keith Lowell Jensen brings the joy in his new podcast
The podcast begins with an enthusiastic announcer: “Keith Lowell Jensen presents The Keith Lowell Jensen Show with Keith Lowell Jensen.” Our host immediately follows up:…
Planet V: Mardi Gras at Revolution Wines
Whatever mental associations Mardi Gras conjures—religious observances or rowdy partying in the streets—it’s called “Fat Tuesday” for a reason. The day’s Christian roots call for…