From her public art to a career retrospective at the Crocker, venture into the darkly whimsical world of Sacramento artist Suzanne Adan.

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 ...

Gone are the days when only wax-mustachioed hipsters understood the dark art of the light roast—today’s third-wave specialty coffee scene is as diverse as our city itself. Allow us to introduce you to ...

Mike Henderson is the only one at the $750-a-plate gala wearing blue jeans—and he’s the guest of honor. The guests take their seats at tables inside the Manetti Shrem for the 6-year-old institution’s ...

Darrin Bell has asked to meet me where he does most of his work these days—at a picnic table overlooking a lily pond in a leafy Sacramento park. I recognize him, bent over an iPad working on a cartoon ...

Dumplings to die for, a mistress of disguise, toothsome tacos, culinary classes paired with cinematic classics, health-forward push-pops, dance-powered lemonade purveyors, and much more. Here’s our ...

The Squeeze Inn's Squeeze With Cheese is justly famous for its cheesy skirt. (Photo by Ryan Donahue) Boy, are we full—of both nosh and nostalgia. That’s because we’ve spent the past two months ambling ...

The braised vegan spareribs at downtown’s Vegan Deadly Sins. Bacon bits from coconut? Fried chicken and oysters from mushrooms? Indeed, creative innovations in plant-based food have led chefs around ...

Chef-owner of Q1227 in Roseville and former executive chef of downtown Sacramento’s Echo & Rig Four Sisters Cafe for brunch, in Roseville. They’re so friendly, and I just like how it’s a family-run ...

Craig Reynolds, photographed on Sept. 24, is preparing for a November harvest at his agave farm in Woodland. He and others will use the sharp, long-handled coa de jima to slice away the plants’ ...

With the onset of the annual Sacramento swelter, the rattle and rumble of archaic air-conditioning units all over the city compose a kind of struggling symphony—the sound of survival, if you ask us.