Renowned pitmaster Matt Horn expands to Elk Grove. With Michelin-rated brisket and ribs, the down-home Horn Barbecue delivers ...

The Nevada County Fair, Japanese Food & Cultural Bazaar, midtown's chalk fest and more. Here are the fairs and festivals ...

The Shops Around the Corner Talk about a Hollywood ending. Over two decades since Meg Ryan’s sweet little children’s bookshop lost the battle to Tom Hanks’ big bad Fox Books, it looks like indie ...

On the eve of his 100th birthday, Wayne Thiebaud—the Sacramento painter best known for his evocative portrayals of desserts that look good enough to eat—talks about the new pieces he’s working on (yes ...

Special K After decades of blight, one of Sacramento’s most critical blocks—linking the Golden 1 Center to the rest of K Street—is about to become an instant neighborhood, bursting into existence with ...

BEST MAKER OF SUSTAINABLE JOY Hope Suson is on a mission. What started as crafting her own soap and candles and a fondness for sewing blossomed three years ago into Ecojoyous—a maker-fueled charge to ...

Word Play How do you put the fun in fundamental? One Sacramento youth literacy group, 916 Ink, believes the answer lies in turning the traditional rules of reading and writing upside down. That means ...

“By Any Means Necessary, I Will Keep Being an Artist.” Painter. Bluesman. Filmmaker. Educator. After retiring in 2012 from UC Davis, where he was an art professor for 43 years—and on the eve of a solo ...

Foods we can’t live without. If you live here, or are even just passing through, here is our guide to 30 must eat things in the Sacramento region.

The Scene Setter If dining out is a theatrical experience, then Sacramento interior designer Whitney Johnson may be the city’s leading set designer, crafting visual feasts to complement the edible art ...

Dr. Shani Buggs seeks to answer the questions of gun violence in her work with the Sacramento-based Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis.