Indoor gardening finds new fans
“Young people in particular are into new things and unusual plants.”
Kifumi Keppler
Owner, Exotic Plants
pandemic
Fifteen Minutes: Harry Greer, Watermelon Music
A Davis institution launches a series of virtual concerts even as school closings hurt its bottom line.
Surviving, digitally
The first exhibition of the year by Art Music Lit Space, Survival Sounds questions what it means to exist digitally during the pandemic During the…
A psychic aunt called me heartless at Thanksgiving. Things got weird at the funeral.
Sixteen years ago, Uncle Bill—which is to say my cousin’s Uncle Bill, an infrequent presence in my life whose reputation as a Southern-bred raconteur cast…
Sacramento should prepare for a COVID death wave
Infections are soaring around the region. We all know what comes next. If the past is any indicator, the Sacramento region will soon experience the…
Take a ‘Friday Art Break’
Today, Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s Office of Civic Engagement unveiled “Friday Art Break,” a weekly video series intended to keep Sacramentans in touch with the community’s artists while traditional arts venues are shuttered as a part of COVID-19 precautions.
A bid for accessible art
Verge Center for the Arts rolls out online art auction—while rolling with the punches Massiel Bobadilla, development director for Verge Center of the Arts, described…
What’s the sound of the other band clapping?
Essay: The COVID-19 pandemic ended live concerts. Live streams just aren’t the same, especially when no one is watching. “I miss live shows” is the…
Opening Easy Diner in uneasy times
The owners of Bambi Vegan Tacos food truck prepare to open the Easy Diner on I Street as other Sacramento restaurants close during pandemic Dozens…
City says it can clear homeless camps during COVID
Sacramento to levee campers: You have no home, but you can’t stay here. Days after a Sacramento County health order discouraged homeless sweeps to prevent…
Taking the BBQ online
Popular Burly Backyard event expands to raise money for Sac music venues.
Divorces have actually dropped during the COVID-19 crisis
If COVID-19, soaring unemployment, historic civil unrest, suffocating wildfire smoke and a chaotic start to the school year are laying siege to Sacramento families, it…
A selection of other Pandemic Heroes
Our readers nominated educators, business owners and community groups Julie Szukalski, teacher, Visions In Education charter school, Carmichael: My son’s teacher at his alma mater,…
From Tupperware, with love
And so I bake. I bake as an excuse to leave the house, if only briefly. If my friends are home, we’ll talk through screen doors, catch up a bit. If they’re working, or if their health doesn’t allow it, I’ll send a text in advance so the food doesn’t languish in Sacramento’s summer heat. However the food gets delivered, I’ve made a real, human connection with someone I love in a time when I—we—need it so much.
In solidarity, enough is enough
The world watched George Floyd lie face down with hands cuffed behind his back as then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin dug his knee into Floyd’s…
Stat of the week: Who was arrested during Sacramento’s George Floyd protest marches?
Sacramento police arrested nearly 50 people during a tense three-night period of civil unrest sparked by the Memorial Day murder of George Floyd, an African-American…
Snapshots from the protests
Demonstrators headed toward the Highway 99 overpass on 12th Avenue in Oak Park. (Photo courtesy of Kevin Gomez Jr.) No justice. No peace. (Photo courtesy…