On July 1, the Crocker Art Museum will welcome its first new director in over 25 years. Agustín Arteaga talks about his ...

Fairs and Festivals this July to Celebrate Summer This year’s State Fair promises a nostalgia-fueled good time with everything from a full-size Back to the Future DeLorean to jumbo corn dogs; the ...

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 ...

Homecoming Queen Greta Gerwig proves that you can indeed go home again with her stunning directorial debut Lady Bird, a semi-autobiographical story about the Sacramento native’s senior year in high ...

“By Any Means Necessary, I Will Keep Being an Artist.” Painter. Bluesman. Filmmaker. Educator. After retiring in 2012 from UC Davis, where he was an art professor for 43 years—and on the eve of a solo ...

The best—and safest—cure for your pandemic-induced cabin fever right now might be an expedition into the great outdoors with cool Sacramento hikes.

A Tale of Two Towers In recent months, proposals emerged for two of the last opportunity sites on Capitol Mall. Each tells a very different story about civic ambition, smart planning and political ...

As Mahatma Gandhi once said, “In the midst of darkness, light persists.” Through the fog of 2020, here are 25 people, places and things around the region—from our heroic health care workers fighting ...

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 ...

The Scene Setter If dining out is a theatrical experience, then Sacramento interior designer Whitney Johnson may be the city’s leading set designer, crafting visual feasts to complement the edible art ...