Sacramento comedian Jack Gallagher quietly left town in 2024. He now returns for his latest (and last) one-man show at the B Street Theatre.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

T his story started, as so many do, with something small. In this case, magnitudes smaller than the period at the end of this sentence—a tiny droplet carrying the SARS CoV-2 virus. It all began on Jan ...

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 ...

Interior designer Whitney Johnson at Shady Lady, her first restaurant project, which was completed in 2009 (Portrait by Jeremy Sykes) I“I am the Daniel Day-Lewis of design,” says Whitney Johnson with ...

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 ...

When Cal Expo’s soaring water tower was built in the 1960s, the task to design the art for the 152-foot-tall landmark structure fell to Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, a noted San Francisco designer ...

With California bracing for what could be a record-breaking wildfire season this summer, air quality is one of the most pressing issues facing our region right now. Alberto Ayala spent over 15 years ...

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 ...