Editor’s note: Revolving door
Sacramento’s former cannabis chief goes to work for a cannabis company In April, Joe Devlin, the city of Sacramento’s cannabis czar, wrote an essay for…
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Editor’s note: Does our strong mayor want more power?
Mayor Darrell Steinberg just pulled off a huge triumph on the city budget and Measure U money. It’s only the most recent time he has…
Editor’s note: Calling all writers
SN&R is having a fiction and poetry contest, and the winners will be published on July 18. See the rules for entries below. Lots of…
Editor’s note: Reimagining Sacramento’s waterfront
By Foon Rhee Many of my favorite cities share at least one thing—an exciting waterfront: Barcelona, Paris, Vancouver, Venice and, of course, San Francisco. We’ll…
Dear high school seniors,
Enter your college essays in the SN&R’s tenth annual College Essay Contest… for prizes and fame!
The Man Who Saved Reading
Dana Gioia’s battle for the future of the Arts, literature and critical thinking in America Dana Gioia stepped through a Romanesque archway, looked at the…
Melinda Welsh: One person's tough love makes all the difference
One person's tough love makes all the difference.
Review: 'My Fair Lady'
photo by Charr Crail —by Jeff Hudson The 2015 Music Circus season opened on Tuesday, June 9 with a one-week run of My Fair Lady, the…
NBA 4.20: Sacramento Kings should sign the biggest stoner in basketball
by Blake Gillespie The trade deadline is over. The dust settled and a mostly intact Sacramento Kings roster remains; the swap of Ramon Sessions for…
Attention Christian shoppers! One writer reflects on Hobby Lobby's move to get crafty with your reproductive rights
By Tiffani Dangelico Growing up I frequented many craft stores. My mom went through an intense puffy paint and iron-on phase in the mid-'90s, for …
New Midtown juice shop opens with $9 price tags
Expensive, refreshing, nutritious cold-pressed juice. I mulled over the trend last week in an essay, in which I mentioned a new Midtown juice shop opening…
I know squat about T.C. Boyle
“I am T.C. Boyle. I do word magic.” Acclaimed fiction writer T.C. Boyle is scheduled to gab at the Crest Theatre on Friday night and…