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

Dec. 7–21, 2025 Bundle up in your woolies, pop some chestnuts on an open fire, and pour yourself a draught of mulled wine—it’s time to roll back time to celebrate Victorian Christmas, named by Fodor’s ...

Best of the City 2021 If there’s one thing we’ve learned during the pandemic, it’s that the human spirit perseveres through the darkest times. The dozens of Sacramentans featured here—struggling like ...

HHis mother calls them “monstrously huge” hands. Universally, it is agreed they are massive and preternaturally strong—the kind usually dubbed mitts or hams. The fingers are the size of ballpark ...

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 ...

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 ...

IIt was the best of times, it was the loudest of times. It was an eruption of youth, a climb into middle age, a collapse and slump into repose. It was short stories crafted from long memories. It was ...

To step up your home bartending game, just add ice—artisanal ice. The sibling-owned Block Ice company, whose clients include buzzy eateries and watering holes like The Snug, Beast & Bounty and Kru, ...

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 ...

Portrait by Max Whittaker Stephen Kaltenbach at the Crocker Art Museum on Dec. 12 backdropped by his painting "Portrait of My Father" SStephen Kaltenbach stands in front of a portrait he painted of ...

From nearly the womb, most Sacramentans are raised with the civic-pride-inducing belief that we have more trees per capita than any other city in the world after Paris. Now, thanks to Treepedia, a new ...