ESSAY: How I learned to hate Yelp
I’ve long fostered a love-hate relationship with Yelp. I love that the website can help me find supermarkets, restaurants and hiking spots when I’m out…
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New Orleans Jazz Fest: review and photo essay
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux. by Paul Piazza The 45th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, also known as Jazz Fest, more than lived up…
ESSAY: Challenge the law to save the environment
By Jan Ellen Rein & Mark Dempsey Environmental law needs a democratic makeover. Nationwide and locally, Move to Amend is mobilizing support for constitutional amendments to…
ESSAY: A taste of discrimination envy
Two weeks ago, I wrote a short news item about two golfers who got into club-swinging throwdown with each other over a skipped turn. When…
PHOTO ESSAY: March Madness
by Paul Piazza March is a traditionally a time of distractions due to office tourney pools in the workplace and busted brackets everywhere. This year,…
ESSAY: A couchsurfer's guide to Sacramento
Sometimes you just need a good stranger in your life to shake things up. Mine arrived a couple weeks ago. He wore a hooded sweatshirt,…
ESSAY: Earn your vote
By Scott M. Bruner “In a democracy, people get the government they deserve.” —Alexis de Tocqueville It doesn’t matter if you chant Neil Young while…
ESSAY: Mending families through soccer
By Tiffany Fraser and Lisa Wrightsman We coach the Sacramento Lady Salamanders, a Street Soccer USA program that helps women break the cycle of homelessness, addiction…
ESSAY: Foreign language follies
I thought I could learn French and Italian in a month via the newly released Mango Languages app. I like to think I’m pretty good…
ESSAY: State needs to spend money to make money
By Seth Sandronsky A wrong assumption reaps a false conclusion. Consider Greg Lucas’ February 6 column (“Budget boomer,” SN&R Capitol Lowdown), which looked at Gov….
ESSAY: Why not pair your most pretentious food and music tastes?
Imagine a pan-seared scallop, with yuzu gel and fried cellophane noodles, and some lemongrass ponzu and chili oil. Got it? OK, now taste it (most…
ESSAY: Ignore the political spin regarding the CBO's health-care projections
By Kel Munger A recent report by the Congressional Budget Office estimates that up to 2.5 million workers may choose to cut back their hours…
ESSAY: A Grimm tale of inconsistent justice
By Scott Thomas Anderson Michael Grimm is lucky he’s a politician. The Republican congressman from New York became an instant YouTube star and late-night…
ESSAY: Former UC Davis newspaper editor on saving her journalism alma mater
Around this time last year, I was editor-in-chief of the UC Davis student newspaper. And I was telling everyone that we were going to die….
ESSAY: The unjustly incarcerated can't be forgotten
By Eugene Alexander Dey Serving a life sentence is like walking through a never-ending nightmare. I would know. As a “three-striker,” I served 15 years…
ESSAY: California media employs too many white guys (like me)
“I’m a reporter and you’re not.” Odds are whatever third-party current event you’re consuming—whether it’s in a newspaper, on the radio or (shudder) television—was produced,…
ESSAY: Obamacare saved this writer money, but cost him one potentially important right
By Cody Drabble “Obamacare” naysayers may demonize every dotted “i” and crossed “t” in the Affordable Care Act, but not me. When I aged out…