The Davis Farmers Market turns 50 this summer and marks the milestone anniversary with a new cookbook by its co-founder and a James Beard Award-winning author. Boasting almost 100 recipes using ...

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 ...

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 ...

July 17–Aug. 2 As its theme “Wish You Were Here” suggests, the 2026 Golden State fête offers plenty of reasons to head out to Cal Expo this summer. Put on your boogie shoes for a concert by KC and the ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...