Planet V: 2020 comfort food and hope for 2021
Vegan food can be delicious, and frequent exposure to compassionately-produced meals is likely the best conversion technique available.
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Sacramento Artist Corps puts artists to work to serve their community
Marie Acosta drew inspiration from the Works Progress Administration to help artists during the pandemic In response to mass unemployment caused by the Great Depression,…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 24, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your capacity for pioneering feats and impressive accomplishments will be at…
Fifteen Minutes: Klinger Creative
Graphic designer and self-proclaimed “Paper Nerd” Heather Klinger has been focusing on greeting cards for half a decade, with holiday cards making up a significant…
LowBrau settles labor suit amid pandemic lockdown for restaurants
The Midtown beer hall and East Sacramento’s Mimosa House were each sued last year Two Sacramento restaurants are fending off separate labor lawsuits as California’s…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 17, 2020 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Temporary gods are deities who come alive and become available for particular functions, and…
Heart to Art with Janine Mapurunga
A Sacramento photographer’s lifelong project documents her grandmother’s house in Brazil The Warehouse Artist Lofts in Sacramento were still under construction when developer Ali Youssefi…
Fifteen Minutes: Tenzin Yunuen, @ShopBIPOCSac
Tenzin Yunuen created the rapidly-growing Instagram account @ShopBIPOCSac just in time for the holidays.
Making music in Trump era
“I have to acknowledge that Trump won,” Charles Albright says. “He didn’t just do a mildly successful local band based on the fakeness of celebrity. He rules the world with the fakeness of celebrity.”
The spirit of art lives on at Project 25
Project 25 is Sacramento’s newest gallery and it’s got a mission: Cultivate community, not competition Eight years after the Solomon Dubnick Gallery closed its Midtown…
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…
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…
Free fares, feeding families
The “Holiday Bus” will offer free rides throughout the Sacramento region, giving riders the option to donate their fare to the Food Literacy Center.
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…
Heart to Art with Benjamin Della Rosa
Benjamin Della Rosa has spent more than a decade creating designs for Sacramento entrepreneurs. Now he’s designing for himself “I loved cross-stitching as a kid,”…
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.