The Philharmonik won NPR’s career-catapulting Tiny Desk Contest in 2024. Now, the Sacramento singer-songwriter gets ready to ...

We’ve always thought the perfect end to a nightclub crawl in midtown’s Lavender Heights would be to grab a great big crispy, cheesy slice of New York-style pizza after closing down the drag show or ...

As I looked down into my Claude Chana cocktail at The Hillmont, I realized I was in the hands of people who love Auburn and its history. Edible gold leaf draped around two ice cubes, in honor of the ...

Nov. 22 We may be just ordinary people, but as one of only 27 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winners in history, John Legend is anything but. After last year’s swoon-worthy Thunder Valley stop, the ...

It’s still hoodie and beanie weather on a spring morning at the 28th and B Street Skate Park near the American River when Deven Esquivel steps onto the surface of a skateboard for the first time in ...

The California poppies have yet to unfurl their petals, rolled up tight against the morning chill as 10 of us gather around a brick-paved circle at Soil Born Farms in Rancho Cordova, rubbing our hands ...

The new Deftones: (from left) Stephen Carpenter, Sergio Vega, Chino Moreno, Frank Delgado and Abe Cunningham. (Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Records) You were almost done with a different album, Eros ...

The first thing that greets you in the entryway of Horn Barbecue in Elk Grove is a giant mural of a 12-foot-tall bull that is mythic, muscular and regal, wearing a golden crown and charging at you ...

July 18-19 Surprise, surprise—California has one juicy secret. Georgia may be known as the Peach State, but we grow more of the blushing fruit than every other state in the nation combined. The ...

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 ...

In a city that prides itself on heritage architecture—think late 19th-century midtown Victorians and ’20s-era East Sacramento Craftsmans—its diverse tableau of mid-century modern (MCM) design has ...

“I think we have a misconception about where painting comes from,” the late, great painter Wayne Thiebaud told Artweek in 1998. “It’s not a hermetic activity. It doesn’t come from an individual. It is ...