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When his wife embarked on an arduous cancer journey, Dave Webb—a Davis-based multimedia artist—walked alongside her, processing his emotions through film, images, words and music. A new exhibition at the Pence Gallery, the grateful chair, chronicles the couple’s shared experience of going to the brink and coming back. Hillary Louise Johnson.
Our 100th Issue - A Look Back - Sactown Magazine
Dec 15, 2023 · THE STARS ALIGN. To this day, we still don’t know how director Joe Carnahan—then a rising Hollywood director who still lived part-time in Fair Oaks—saw our first issue, but he called to tell us about his new film Smokin’ Aces starring Jeremy Piven (then riding high on HBO’s Entourage).We immediately asked for an interview and a cover shoot with both of them and, improbably, they agreed.
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About Sactown Magazine. Sactown magazine is Sacramento’s city magazine, with an average circulation of 35,000 and with dozens of national awards for publishing excellence in the areas of editorial, design and photography. Among those awards is the Maggie Award for Best City & Metropolitan Magazine by the Western Publishing Association.Sactown
Best of the City - Sactown Magazine
Best of the City 2019. As they say, there must be something in the water here—Sacramento’s got it going on. From a cool moonlight hike to a cooling moo-less milkshake, from fiery hot street food to a fire-breathing street dragon, and from an Olympic-caliber butcheress to an Olympic-caliber aquatic center, here is our list of the places, people and things making big waves this year.
Sactown Magazine - November-December 2022
Nov 2, 2022 · As Brian Posehn gets ready to take the stage at Punch Line and release a new special this December, the “forever nerdy” 6-foot-7 stand-up comic—who is also a proud metalhead and Dungeons & Dragons podcast host—shares tall tales (literally) from his childhood and how he got his comedy start right here in River City. Hillary Louise Johnson.
Sactown Magazine - July-August 2024
Jul 5, 2024 · It was in Tokyo in 1964 when Native American Billy Mills—an orphan who had battled poverty, racism, illness and depression—shocked the world with one of the most unexpected, come-from-behind victories in all of sport. “Running helped me understand that there is no end when we die,” says the now 86-year-old gold medalist and Fair Oaks ...
Sactown Magazine - January-February 2024
Jan 2, 2024 · Dinner and a Showstopper All the culinary world’s a stage at the ambitious new omakase restaurant Okesutora. After honing his skills at the celebrated sushi chain Nobu, chef Hieu Phan returns to his native Sacramento to deliver sea-worthy flavors with a dash of storytelling and a splash of spectacle in midtown.
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Sactown Magazine - November-December 2023
Nov 7, 2023 · The Unofficial Ted Lasso Cookbook. Our favorite fish-and-chips-out-of-water “football” coach—Ted Lasso—might’ve left his team for good, but thanks to a new cookbook by two local food bloggers, we can relive some of the tastiest TV moments (yes, even those biscuits!) from the glorious eponymous series that made us all believers.
Sactown Magazine - March-April 2022
Mar 1, 2022 · Where She Was From Sacramento native Joan Didion, who was one of America’s greatest writers, passed away on Dec. 23, 2021, at the age of 87. We spoke with the literary giant 10 years earlier, as she reflected on the deaths of her husband and only child, and her memories of growing up in River City.