This year’s California State Fair promises a nostalgia-fueled good time, the Marysville Peach Festival celebrates 25 years of ...

He is the most prolific public artist in Sacramento, and now, J.M. Knudsen is expanding his vision for a more creative city.

Mike Henderson is the only one at the $750-a-plate gala wearing blue jeans—and he’s the guest of honor. On this late October evening, throngs of art patrons in art-inflected cocktail attire are ...

Word Play How do you put the fun in fundamental? One Sacramento youth literacy group, 916 Ink, believes the answer lies in turning the traditional rules of reading and writing upside down. That means ...

A Viral Sensation When Dr. Richard Corsi floated an idea on Twitter for a highly effective, inexpensive, DIY air purifier to help lower the risk of Covid, his light-bulb moment went viral in the best ...

I “I am the Daniel Day-Lewis of design,” says Whitney Johnson with a laugh, from Booth 4 at the Shady Lady Saloon on R Street, the very first restaurant she took on back in 2008 when she was only 21.

In 2004, local developer John Saca proposed building two 53-story skyscrapers—the tallest residential towers on the West Coast—at 3rd and Capitol. And in 2005, celebrated architect Daniel Libeskind ...

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 ...

A Window to the World In 2021, a Lithuanian artist created a set of large-scale urban portals to allow people from one country to interact in real time with strangers in another. Now he’s expanding.

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 ...

W When the first neon red Jump electric bikes turned up on my corner in early 2018, I jumped.. I rode them everywhere—to work downtown, to Nugget Market, to Mayahuel, to Broderick Roadhouse. I wasn’t ...

Once Upon a Time in Mezcalifornia For centuries, mezcal—the ancient intoxicant steeped in Mexican tradition—has sprouted almost exclusively from the vast agave farms south of our border. But one Yolo ...