True North Pizza finds its bearings
“We think an industrial-area pizza window is super-cool. … Consumers love to find these small hole-in-the wall restaurants and tell their friends.”
Vanessa Garcia
Co-owner, True North Pizza
sacramento
Sunday Farmers’ Market on the move
Visitors to Sacramento’s X Street Farmers’ Market face a longer commute beginning in March as the Sunday staple temporarily moves to the parking lot of Arden Faire mall as construction on Route 50 uproots the weekly event for up to ten months.
Shop local—it’s more important than ever
Essay: Sacramento can roar back from the COVID-19 recession if we support small businesses By Sean Loloee In the mid-19th century, Sacramento was founded on a…
Making Sacramento streets safer
Editor’s note: City Council considers next steps in plan to end traffic deaths by 2027 On Friday, the city of Sacramento launched its “slow and…
Back Black-owned businesses
Essay: If Sacramento’s Black entrepreneurs succeed through the pandemic, the entire community will thrive By Chris Logsdon As we start Black History Month, I encourage…
Hurdles for hemp
Editor’s note: Sacramento is relatively friendly to cannabis, but not so much to hemp The city of Sacramento is adding dispensaries for cannabis, but it’s…
Heart to Art with Kosono Okina
She began making art when she was five. Now in Sacramento, former Nintendo art designer Kosono Okina is showing what she’s really capable of. “It’s…
Alienate your friends in ‘Five Songs or Less’
Listeners to a new podcast can join the debate over bands Is there any more serious strain on a friendship than one friend forcing another…
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…
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…