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

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 ...

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 ...

In 2012, an Elk Grove mother of three caused a social media stir with a single Facebook post. By 2013, that post went viral, transforming Maria Kang into a polarizing figure at the center of a ...

Physical distancing takes on a whole new meaning with this update of our 2014 guide to 10 great bike trails around the region. Whether you’re looking for a two-wheeled version of a lazy stroll or the ...

Special K After decades of blight, one of Sacramento’s most critical blocks—linking the Golden 1 Center to the rest of K Street—is about to become an instant neighborhood, bursting into existence with ...

Departments are converting police cars into lowriders to strengthen community relations. Sacramento should be jumping up and down about it too.

The Humor, the Ardor and the Candor of Darrin Bell In 2019, Darrin Bell became the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and his nationally syndicated comic strip ...

The Passive House: Minimum Energy, Maximum Comfort As our climate changes, leading to colder winters and hotter summers—along with more intense wildfire smoke infiltrating the valley—one Sacramento ...

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 ...