Legacies both ragged and rich: Michelle Tea on poverty and the American Family
“Growing up within the poorer half of our country is my history.” By Michelle Tea for The Economic Hardship Project What is family for broke…
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Investigations into Facebook, Instagram and Big Pharma are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to A.I. danger
By Scott Thomas Anderson What’s the best nonfiction read you should dig into this fall? It’s not actually a book, but rather a massive civil…
Essay: Embracing the great outdoors is a vital step in developing Sacramento’s next generation
By Trent Murphy In today’s fast-paced digital age, where screens dominate the landscape of childhood experiences, it’s easy to overlook the profound impact that nature…
Against ‘poor’ reporting
By Alissa Quart, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project This article was produced with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and was originally published there…
On bad writing and sympathy for the Demon
By Scott Thomas Anderson Is creativity dead in California? As the Hollywood writers come off their months-long strike, some of us who scribble for a…
Remembering the music promotor who helped create a place ‘where everybody knows your name’
By Scott Thomas Anderson The Stockman Club opened on a hangover from the Roaring 20s and made itself the drinking den that got Fair Oaks…
A Tribe’s open letter to West Sacramento leaders: Your re-naming plan for Tower Bridge Gateway shows arrogance, historic indifference
Dear City of West Sacramento, Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians is writing to inform you of your failure to notify, consult, and engage with…
Essay: Jimmy Buffett was an existentialist
By Holly Calderone If we ever needed more proof of Oscar Wilde’s adage, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” it would be…
Essay: Calling all dreamers to an electric evening in Grass Valley August 19
AVL Entertainment’s Hybrid Live Music Experience “DREAMLAND” is coming By Artemis Arthur You’re covered in sweat, heavy beats and addictive melodies swirling around you. A…
Report card from the trenches: the ‘Solving Sacramento’ experiment 16 months in
By Scott Thomas Anderson “Is there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?” Shakespeare pondered in Act III of ‘A Midsummer Night’s…
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…
Regional rhythms: Named state champ, Monk’s Cellar is craft beer’s community hub reaching for new heights
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…
Letters: A governor against his Capital Region, why CEQA matters, and the Sacramentans we’ll always remember
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…
Essay: Ladies and gentlemen, the next President of the United States?
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…
Essay: Normalizing Mother Nature – women and girls shouldn’t live in shame about their bodies
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…
Essay: Gun culture – America’s deadly fasciation is killing us
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…
Essay: Going green in Sacramento – how to stretch your dollars for a new EV
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…