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After nine years, Elk Grove detectives won’t let an infamous case stay cold
In Elk Grove, on an anonymous strip of East Stockton Boulevard, there’s a short-running section of divider that shields the avenue from the gagging exhaust…
Is Sacramento’s big bet badly timed?
Can Sac’s spruced-up convention center and theater succeed in a post-pandemic world?
In control
Sacramento gamers talk about the games they’re playing while staying at home
Bao is back
One of Sacramento’s most popular dim sum spots reemerges When my brother would visit on his return from serving in the Coast Guard abroad, our…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of April 30, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): I always hesitate to advise Aries people to slow down, be…
Snapshots from a pandemic
Roxanne Rhodes, a local portrait photographer based in Folsom, suspended all scheduled portrait sessions due to safety concerns over the pandemic. But she’s still taking…
A hard to watch video, a hard to stomach truth
The only reason we know what a Sacramento sheriff’s deputy did to a child is because someone with a cellphone recorded it The video clip…
Editor’s note: Workers unite!
On this May Day, we should think about what the economy will look like after the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19 cover?
Critics cry foul as Sacramento passes embattled telecommunication plan with public’s voice lowered by lockdown By Scott Thomas Anderson Last year, Sacramento City Hall was…
Walking the tightrope
Pancake Circus, a Sacramento institution, could close down for good
Complications of COVID-19
Likely delay in 2020 Census will push back new election districts and perhaps 2022 primary
Stopped in their tracks
Amid COVID-19, Sacramento Roller Derby’s permanent home is on hold.
Planetary do-over?
The coronavirus shutdown is removing 6 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere—but it won’t be enough to save Earth The new coronavirus causes a…
Snapshots from a pandemic
Stay home. Stay healthy. Near the 48th Street crossing Interstate 50overpass. (Photo courtesy of Charlene Jones)
Your weekend binge list
Kill some time with the ’90s Bulls, classic sci-fi and weird Tom Hanks art It’s been an impossibly long week, hasn’t it? And in these…
Letters: COVID-19, mental health, bookstores, etc.
A place to be heard Re: “15 Minutes: David Bain, executive director of NAMI Sacramento” by Lindsay Oxford (15 Minutes, April 23): NAMI Sacramento is…