California State Fair July 11-27 The 2025 State Fair is shaping up to be a ludicrously—or should we say Ludacris-ly—good time. The rapper and Fast and Furious star headlines opening night at Cal Expo, ...

Auberge alums and Milestone owners Nick Dedier and Alexa Hazelton team up again to launch Mom & Pop Chicken Shop. The result? Twenty-hour-brined chicken with 20 herbs and spices that’s finger lickin’ ...

Born in the same year that the B Street Theatre was launched, Lyndsay Burch has risen from an intern at the local troupe to succeeding co-founder Buck Busfield as its artistic director. Now she’s ...

Where the Chefs Eat Who’s hungry? We are! Which got us thinking: “Who better to ask for great restaurant recommendations than a bunch of the region’s top chefs?” We’re talking Michelin-rated chefs, as ...

AAccording to Han Dynasty legend, one particularly hell-bent koi, having attempted to ascend a raging waterfall on China’s Yellow River for 100 years, was richly rewarded for his perseverance on the ...

Firestone’s Brandy-Fried Chicken With its tender, savory meat and shatteringly crisp golden exterior, the Wong family’s brandy-fried chicken—made with, yes, a slug of brandy in the marinade—earned a ...

In 2012, an Elk Grove mother of three caused a social media stir with a single Facebook post. By 2013, that post went viral, transforming Maria Kang into a polarizing figure at the center of a ...

Special K After decades of blight, one of Sacramento’s most critical blocks—linking the Golden 1 Center to the rest of K Street—is about to become an instant neighborhood, bursting into existence with ...

For Hanks and Stuart, the childhood friends who inaugurated their Los Angeles-based production firm Company Name with All Things Must Pass, “persisted” is one way of putting it. On the first day of ...

Anchor & Tree Coffee Roasting This LGBTQ-owned coffee roastery launched in December 2022, with its founder Donovan Albert getting started in a 100-square-foot space lent to him by his peers at Seasons ...

In the Name of the Father After graduating from UC Davis in 1967, Stephen Kaltenbach headed east and thrived in the heady New York art world, exhibiting alongside future greats like Richard Serra and ...

Denver Dan’s Apple Patch Just around the corner from Rainbow Orchards lies quaint Denver Dan’s, established in 1961, where an antique apple peeler-corer has proved so riveting an attraction that its ...