T Take a look at The New York Times paperback best-seller list from Aug. 27, 1995 , and in the top 10 slots for fiction, you’ll recognize household names like Stephen King at No. 2, Tom Clancy at No.

Maybe it’s something in the riverine waters, but Sacramento seems to have developed a knack for turning out female writers who exquisitely put pen to paper about their hometown. Think Joan Didion, ...

Sept. 8 Chart-topping Mexican ranchera singer and humanitarian Alejandro Fernández has earned three Latin Grammys, dedicating his last golden gramophone win in 2020 to hurricane victims and donating a ...

The headlines that began appearing last fall each delivered a small dose of dread as I knew then that war would come. For the second time in six months, Russian President Vladimir Putin had commenced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...