A long, dark winter of COVID-19
Editor’s note: Sacramento region stays in lockdown as county officials plan how to slow the spread The Sacramento region’s ICU situation isn’t as dire as…
Read MoreSearch Results for After the war
Sacramento Artist Corps puts artists to work to serve their community
Marie Acosta drew inspiration from the Works Progress Administration to help artists during the pandemic In response to mass unemployment caused by the Great Depression,…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 24, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your capacity for pioneering feats and impressive accomplishments will be at…
Sacramento’s tenant protections get their first big test
Mass eviction attempt in the River District sparks face-off with city attorney’s office By Scott Thomas Anderson A corporate landlord has been ordered to halt…
Tenants facing eviction reach back two millennia to symbolize their plight
As the end of California’s eviction moratorium looms, protesters use live animals and a timeless tale By Scott Thomas Anderson On Wednesday evening, a procession…
Heart to Art with Janine Mapurunga
A Sacramento photographer’s lifelong project documents her grandmother’s house in Brazil The Warehouse Artist Lofts in Sacramento were still under construction when developer Ali Youssefi…
CARES Act funding, the sequel
Editor’s note: Sacramento County officials say it’s only bookkeeping, but advocates oppose any federal COVID-19 relief money going to the sheriff or probation After the…
Fifteen Minutes: Tenzin Yunuen, @ShopBIPOCSac
Tenzin Yunuen created the rapidly-growing Instagram account @ShopBIPOCSac just in time for the holidays.
Making police reform work in Sacramento
Editor’s note: Citizens commission recommends millions more for community groups to respond to mentally ill After all the debate and protests for police reform this…
Making music in Trump era
“I have to acknowledge that Trump won,” Charles Albright says. “He didn’t just do a mildly successful local band based on the fakeness of celebrity. He rules the world with the fakeness of celebrity.”
The spirit of art lives on at Project 25
Project 25 is Sacramento’s newest gallery and it’s got a mission: Cultivate community, not competition Eight years after the Solomon Dubnick Gallery closed its Midtown…
Cannabis connoisseurs
California to recognize marijuana growing locations, just like for fine wines If you’ve ever argued that specific locations provide unique characteristics for growing cannabis, so…
SLAPPing back
Judge tosses Sacramento City Councilman-elect Sean Loloee’s slander lawsuit against labor organizer who alleged worker abuse at his grocery Days before taking office as a…
New surveillance tools allow cops to spy on everyone—including you
Amazon’s Ring may have helped catch a killer. What else does it catch? Homicide detectives Christopher Britton and Courtney Bartilson arrived at the short, gabled…
State’s largest water district ignores tribes, conservationists, ratepayers on Delta tunnel
Metropolitan Water District will spend millions more planning an embattled conveyance system despite an outcry from its constituents By Scott Thomas Anderson The Metropolitan Water…
Out with the old, in with the new
Essay: After all the travails of 2020, we must keep hope alive for a better 2021 By Reuven H. Taff If ever the saying “Out…
A living quilt
A Santa Rosa-based artist creates an inspirational flower bed in Sacramento’s Sojourner Truth Park This “quilt” was sown, not sewn. Threaded with double meanings, it’s…