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 ...

The Picasso of Positivity He is the most prolific public artist in Sacramento, with hundreds of works—from large-scale commissioned murals to decidedly uncommissioned guerrilla pieces—beautifying the ...

Out and About in May and June 2025 There’s an Englishman in Wheatland as Sting takes the Hard Rock Live stage; the ninth annual Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival lights up the screen at The Sofia ...

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 ...

Field of Dreams Build it, and they will come. On March 31—after decades of trying to land a Major League Baseball team—Sacramento finally got its civic wish when the Athletics played their first home ...

A Sporting Chance Nearly 30 years after 2Pac’s “California Love” debuted, a snippet of its lyrics—“from Oakland to Sactown”—rings prophetic these days as the team formerly known as the Oakland A’s ...

Meet Wes Samms, the master of ceremonies behind the City of Trees Parade—one of Sacramento’s biggest, loudest and most joyful civic celebrations.

A floor-to-roof renovation transformed a modest mid-century ranch house in Auburn into a modernist jewel box.

BEST MAKER OF SUSTAINABLE JOY Hope Suson is on a mission. What started as crafting her own soap and candles and a fondness for sewing blossomed three years ago into Ecojoyous—a maker-fueled charge to ...

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.

Double the Dumplings For many, the journey to Journey to the Dumpling just got a whole lot easier. The celebrated Elk Grove restaurant has expanded into midtown, introducing its signature 18-pleat XLB ...

Out & About in May and June 2024 From Boyz II Men harmonizing at Thunder Valley and Pearl Jam lighting up the G1C, to the tapping feet of 42nd Street kicking off Broadway at Music Circus. Here are 10 ...