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Hometown High School Sweethearts Bring Cajun Cooking to Benicia

Lines often form for their homemade cooking

The story of The Workshop, the popular 600-square foot Cajun-Creole walk-up restaurant in Benicia, starts with a teen romance between Danny Glassmaker and Naomi Buskirk more than 30 years ago. 

May 26, 2023 Steve Martarano

Comstock’s Magazine Wins First Place for General Excellence in the California Journalism Awards

Plus first place feature story in the open contest, both first and second place for environmental reporting, and more

Comstock’s 2022 stories, designs, photographs and illustrations won 12 California Journalism Awards, including seven in first place.

May 25, 2023 Jennifer Fergesen

Neighborhood Favorite: Stand Up Kabob

A Persian restaurant at a Davis car dealership aims to support the Iranian women’s revolution

There are many clues that Stand Up Kabob, a Persian restaurant literally welded onto the side of a used car dealership on the outskirts of Davis, is no ordinary kebab shop. 

May 24, 2023 Jennifer Fergesen

Art Exposed: Betty Nelsen

On the art of how to look in the mirror

In revisiting her early self-portraits, Betty Nelsen has zeroed in on the strongest elements, cropping the drawings into pages that will go into a series of handmade books.

May 23, 2023 Miranda Culp 

Share the Road

Can Sacramento become a safe, welcoming place for cyclists?

Despite a surge of cycling participation in the pandemic, focused spending on bike lanes, and geographical advantages, how is it that California’s capital is barely above average when it comes to bike infrastructure?

May 22, 2023 James Stout
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How to Communicate With Your Audience During Crises

Responding with empathy, action and clarity

In times of crisis, CEOs, business owners, government officials and other public figures have a responsibility to effectively convey important — and sometimes life-saving — information to the public. Understanding how best to deliver that information could make or break your reputation and your organization.

May 19, 2023 Patrick Harbison

Business Book Review: Is Community the Last Great Marketing Strategy?

When community becomes your business brand

In his newest book entitled “Belonging to the Brand,” bestselling author and marketing guru Mark Schaefer asserts that the next — and last — great strategic marketing approach will be predicated on a healthy dose of community, connection and belonging. 

May 18, 2023 Michael Scott

A Japantown Jazz Star Comes Home

1936 film starring Sacramento-born singer Betty Inada is screened in Sacramento

Betty Inada, a Japanese American jazz singer born in Sacramento in 1913, sought fame in Japan in a time when American screens and stages had little space for Asian women. 

May 17, 2023 Jennifer Fergesen

Saving the Rain

Flooding our fields helps store water in belowground aquifers

California’s shrinking aquifers represent both an opportunity and a problem.

May 16, 2023 Becki Robins

Drought and Deluge

Experts are racing to protect the Central Valley from a catastrophic flood

Unlike “The Big One” earthquake that is overdue along the San Andreas Fault, experts don’t have an ominous name for a flood of biblical proportions that is likely to inundate the Central Valley within the next 500 years.

May 15, 2023 Dakota Morlan

Mangoes and Agave in the Central Valley?

California farmers try new crops to cope with climate change

Hustling to adapt, farmers around the state are experimenting with new, more sustainable crops and varieties bred to better tolerate drought, heat, humidity and other elements of the increasingly unruly climate.

May 12, 2023 Alastair Bland, CalMatters

A Hometown Hero Races On

Alexander Rossi of Nevada City, rookie winner of the 2016 Indianapolis 500, joins McLaren team

At 31, Alexander Rossi is still moving up in the IndyCar world and recently joined the team Arrow McLaren, an offshoot of the world-famous Formula 1 powerhouse McLaren Racing.

May 11, 2023 Ray Sotero

The Next Best Thing

Chef N’Gina Guyton, formerly of South, reopens Sacramento institution Jim-Denny’s while building her own brand

When the restaurant opens in late spring, you will still be able to get a chili dog or a hamburger griddled to a dark sear on the flat top grill. But you can also order a hot dog called a “Catalina wine mixer”: chicken based and topped with kale, avocado and pungent garlic-anchovy mayonnaise. 

May 10, 2023 Jennifer Fergesen

The Back Story: That Other Time We Had a Local Baseball Team

The Sacramento Solons still evoke fond (and funny) memories

As a team, the Solons had more stops and starts in the area than light rail at rush hour. There were iterations of the club in 1903 and 1905, from 1909 to 1914, from 1918 to 1960, and finally, from 1974 to 1976.

May 9, 2023 Ed Goldman

Women Who Wine

The new face of women winemakers emerges from California universities’ viticulture programs

The viticulture program at UC Davis, as well as its sister programs at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and Fresno State University, are quickly growing a new crop of women winemakers who could steer the industry in new directions. 

May 8, 2023 Scott Thomas Anderson
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