Like other great artists from the Sacramento area—such as Robert Arneson, Mel Ramos and Wayne Thiebaud—Gregory Kondos can be easily found in any number of encyclopedias and reference books. But unlike ...

From right: Married chef-owners Courtney McDonald and Eric Alexander opened Restaurant Josephine in November; the Auburn eatery’s logo features the signature of Alexander’s great-grandmother Josephine ...

Why did you name the museum after Sojourner Truth? It’s because I saw the strength of my own mother and my grandmother in her. She represents, to me, the strength of the Black woman. She had a really ...

As we’re talking right now in early June, you’re preparing to move to Sacramento. Have you found a home here yet? Yes! For the first time ever, my husband and I found a home before we moved. I’ve been ...

March 11–April 5 Who says you can’t go home again? Not Jack Gallagher. After nearly 40 years in Sacramento, the beloved comedian decamped to his native Massachusetts in 2024 to be closer to family.

The Davis Farmers Market turns 50 this summer and marks the milestone anniversary with a new cookbook by its co-founder and a James Beard Award-winning author. Boasting almost 100 recipes using ...

When I spied a batch of tender, farm-fresh Persian cucumbers alongside a clutch of sun-ripened, on-the-vine cherry tomatoes at the produce stand, I excitedly flipped through my advance copy of Ann ...

TThink of Suzanne Adan as the City of Sacramento’s unofficial greeter: If you arrive via Sacramento International Airport’s Terminal B, it’s hard to cross the threshold without catching a contagious ...

WWhen I first see James Ellison III at the Celebration Arts theater, he’s in his 80s—or so it seems. Ellison totters on stage with a cane playing Thurgood Marshall in George Stevens Jr.’s Thurgood, a ...

Step inside Casa Lola, and you’re transported to a vibrant Mexican village captured right at the “magic hour,” with warm, sunset-hued lighting giving everything an incandescent glow. “Pink is the ...

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