Photo Essay: For 2 Weeks in October, Sacramento Transforms from Heavy Metal to Country Music
Back-to-back music festivals Aftershock and GoldenSky draw headbangers and boot-stompers by the tens of thousands.
Bring Back the Dinner Party
Let’s slow down and enjoy good food and conversation with friends
“A dinner party, to me, is putting people around a table and feeding them and nourishing them and having great conversations and lingering over the table and connecting,” Peg Tomlinson-Poswall says. “Food is universal. It’s what connects all of us, no matter what country you go to, once you sit at the table.”
This Midtown Jewel Box Was a Diamond in the Rough
The condemned Victorian sat vacant until a visionary couple took notice
For years, Mike Baddley walked his dog from his J Street office past a dilapidated little house on the corner of 24th and I Streets in Midtown. “I was fascinated with it,” he says. The abandoned folk Victorian-style house, built in 1893 for H.L. Cuthirth, had been deemed by the city a substandard building, meaning not safe for occupancy.
Startup of the Month: Red Line Safety
Wearable tech on track to transform fire services
Red Line Safety, Scott Holman’s Sacramento-based startup, is enhancing firefighter safety and efficiency with wearable technology that monitors a firefighter’s location, vital signs, environmental conditions and toxic gas exposure in real time.
Dilemma of the Month: Can I Go on Vacation While I’m Baby Bonding?
I know I was singled out because I’m an HR employee and was told,
“It looks bad,” but do you think I should tell my boss
(nicely and professionally) to shove it and that I’ll bond with
my next baby any way I see fit?
How Did We Get Here?
A politician, a pastor, a PR exec, a psychologist and a professor try to get at the root of the ugly discourse in our country
The drivers of divisiveness were decades in the making. From the 1950s to 1980s, the “Big Three” networks of ABC, NBC and CBS created a sort of monoculture — a shared set of TV shows, water cooler talk and facts that society could agree on. Today, the news media is fractured, and we can’t even agree on the facts.
The Capital City Celebrates Inaugural Sacramento Poetry Week
The week was a host to a variety of events featuring new and veteran poets
Spoken word took over the capital last week as the city celebrated its inaugural Sacramento Poetry Week.
My Curious Fascination with Cemeteries
My fascination with cemeteries began when I was a child, when my father would take me to our local one in New Jersey to pay our respects to lost relatives. While he stood in thought over the grave of his father or brother, I’d wander.
Capital Region Haunts
Visit these four local spots to commune with the spirit world — or just enjoy a day out
As the weather turns chilly and leaves go golden, it’s that time of year when we start to think about the spectral presences that may be in the room with us, unseen. Our area offers some visitable haunted spaces for those who like the idea of stopping by to possibly commune with ghosts — and then safely return home.
How the $20 Minimum Wage Is Playing Out
The law was written to target big fast-food chains — but that’s not how it’s working in the Capital Region
As economists and advocates debate the merits, the experiences of restaurant owners in the region offer some evidence of what happens in practice.