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…
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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…
Remembering Sacramento reporter Amy Yannello
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…
Analysis: America has been the land of school killing grounds for 34 years, but only California and Tennessee police have shown glimpses of tactics that work
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…
Letters: Everything sucks everywhere all at once
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…