Sacramento RegionCalifornia’s skater historian José Vadi chronicles culture, community and California in motionNovember 22, 2024Vadi began skating as a teenager, grinding metallic ledges, curbs and loading docks near his home in Pomona. Now, in his late 30s, he's a filmmaker, playwright, journalist and essayist. He's authored two books about skateboarding.
Sacramento RegionA look back at Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s contributions to Sacramento’s arts and creative economyNovember 14, 2024Since Steinberg’s first election bid, Sacramento’s artistic landscape, amid a 14.2% increase in its population and a global pandemic, has shifted and expanded into a culturally rich biosphere.
Arts and LifestyleAt 70, Sacramento Ballet plots a new course — looking beyond ‘Nutcracker’ to contemporary works and boundary-breaking choreographersOctober 21, 2024This year's lineup includes four world premieres as well as works by acclaimed choreographers Michael Pink and Young Soon Hue.
Sacramento RegionCalifornia Museum’s 11th annual Día de los Muertos Fiesta honors important figures with artOctober 16, 2024The exhibit showcases work from California artists who were each asked to create an altar dedicated to an important Californian figure.
Sacramento RegionAdults forge friendships while playing D&D at There and Back CafeOctober 10, 2024There and Back Cafe owners Ross and Heidi Rojek have created a space where people can spin fantastical stories and, most importantly, forge new friendships.
Sacramento RegionSacramento’s first hi-fi bar debuts with tracks pressed to vinylOctober 4, 2024Short for hi-fidelity audio, hi-fi bars are spaces that prioritize the listening experience, particularly of pressed music, over all else. Sacramento's first bar of its type, Legend Has It, opened on Sept. 14.
Sacramento RegionOak Park’s Black Film Festival to highlight Black culture and uplift communityOctober 2, 2024The film festival highlights Black culture while allowing viewers to “challenge your thinking and your imagination about certain things,” according to Cassandra Jennings, St. Hope board president and CEO.
Housing and HomelessnessSacramento’s annual Solidarity Summit on Homelessness highlights needs, resources for the unhousedSeptember 17, 2024The third annual Solidarity Summit on Homelessness highlighted the ties between affordable health care and rental housing, harm reduction versus punishment and the needs of the Black unhoused community.
Sacramento RegionMurals at Sacramento City College add splash of color to campusSeptember 10, 2024Prof. Gioia Fonda has been teaching the mural class for the last two years. She said that being able to create murals presents potential paid opportunities for local artists in a city where murals have come to dominate our landscape.
EnvironmentThe Center for Land-Based Learning grows opportunities for beginning farmers with training programAugust 30, 2024Over seven months trainees attend Beginning Farmer Training Program classes twice a week, work in the 1-acre training plot at the Center for Land-Based Learning in Woodland, write their own business plan and sell produce at a farmers market.
