Editorial: Decoding Sacramento’s sense of self
By Scott Thomas Anderson Visit Sacramento held a cultural tourism symposium last week, focusing on how to properly showcase the deepest fibers of the Capital…
Read MoreBy Scott Thomas Anderson Visit Sacramento held a cultural tourism symposium last week, focusing on how to properly showcase the deepest fibers of the Capital…
Read MoreBy Scott Thomas Anderson Lately there have been some barbed headlines from satire sites pointing a mirror at society. Of course, the original gangsters of…
By Scott Thomas Anderson I don’t know how many times I’ve sat at the bar in Monk’s Cellar jotting down notes for different stories I’ve…
Re: “Newsom’s war with California environmental groups keeps Sacramento County in its cross-hairs” by Dan Bacher (News, May 26) We are seeing the same assault…
By Michael Lacey Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Democratic candidate for president (and polling at 20 percent against Biden according to CNN), is a man whose…
By Destinee Lang I was 10 and my favorite show was Hannah Montana. I loved Bratz dolls and getting up on Saturday mornings to watch…
When it comes to making predictions, sometimes it’s fun to be right – sometimes it’s not. Readers of SN&R’s weekly newsletter will recall that, back…
By Janet Rechtman The other day I woke up with a Carpenters moldy-oldy ear-worming through my brain: We’ve only just begun … Except the words…
By Scott Thomas Anderson When a global strategist for one of the oldest lending institutions in Europe announces that corporate greed has reached such “unprecedented”…
By Lawrence Lomeli The thought of “going green” on the road while keeping some green in our pockets can turn even the biggest spender a…
By Scott Thomas Anderson One of Amy Yannello’s first stories for SN&R in the summer of 2007 was called “Death Watch.” Her words ran under…
I wasn’t a journalist back when the Columbine High School massacre happened in 1999. In fact, I wasn’t too much older than the shooters who…
Sleep in the fentanyl-dealing bed you made Re: “Money, Snapchat and implied malice: Why a fentanyl dealer was charged with murder as Placer’s deaths soared…
The memoir Life’s Work, released last fall, is a glowing testament to a writer having one last gift to give. David Milch first made his name as a…
It’s a social responsibility problem, too Re: “Response to animal abuse case raises questions about Sacramento’s Front Street Shelter” by Scott Thomas Anderson (Crime beat,…
By Maggie Coulter and Zoe Harrison Sacramento city officials continue to press for the densification of established single-family neighborhoods, ignoring the need for trees and…
It’s been a few years since SN&R has been able to mark the holiday season with its annual “Grinch’s” list. In the wake of the…