Going to seed
The nation’s largest organic garden supply company tries to keep with pandemic-fueled demand Patricia Boudier realized early on that 2020 would be a year like…
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Fifteen minutes: Jay Siren, burlesque instructor and performer
The Sizzling Sirens have been synonymous with Sacramento burlesque since 2008; founder Jay Siren has been performing with the Sirens and offering instruction to the…
Shape-shifting Secret Center
In an hour talking to Jason Dezember and Scott Miller, two of the three founders of Sacramento’s Secret Center Records, the words “funny” and “fun”…
New book revisits California’s ‘hellacious’ past
Sierra College history professor explores a long legacy of vice in the Golden State By Scott Thomas Anderson Whatever California was before the Gold Rush,…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of July 30, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is renowned for his buoyancy. In one…
Memories swirl around family-owned movie theater company threatened by COVID-19 lockdown
By Scott Thomas Anderson One of the few family-owned movie theater companies in California is fighting to hold onto everything it’s built over 40 years…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of July 23, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The creation of the world did not take place once and…
Heart to Art with Aida Lizalde
Multimedia artist Aida Lizalde explores identity, politics, decolonization and her experience as an immigrant. “It was difficult to feel like I understood what was going…
Your weekend watch list
Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ may be the first great movie of our terrible Trump era There’s a scene in Spike Lee’s new Vietnam epic…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of July 16, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of July 9, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that…
Heart to Art with Cloudy
Cloudy writes poetry about love, sexuality, Black bodies, romance, police brutality and self harm. And she’s only 17 years old. It was Chianne Rhodes Carrier’s…
Culture shock
Axis Gallery is among the arts institutions across Sacramento finding ways to face financial difficulties from COVID-19 closures When Richard Gilles first stumbled across Axis…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of July 2, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Marge Piercy writes, “The people I love the best,…
A prayer for janky Sacramento
Will downtown’s beloved hangouts come back? As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country and shut down California’s capital city, small watering holes that withstood Prohibition,…
Remember when…
Like everything else in the world, SN&R was shaken by the COVID-19 shutdown. But just because we hit pause on printing papers doesn’t mean we…
Look for the helpers
A medic, a teacher and a grocer step up during Sacramento’s time of unrest The term “essential worker” has carried new meaning during the coronavirus…