This year’s GoldenSky (Oct. 18-20) and Aftershock music festivals (Oct. 10-13) begin are expected to attract nearly 300,000 attendees, based on last year’s ticket sales for the two festivals combined. Here are some of the local and global acts they’ll be listening to. 

Processing emotional trauma and her disease through her work, Katharine T. Jacobs creates analog photographs, sculptures and intermedia works that address her identity as a mother, survivor of domestic abuse and a woman with a chronic illness.

For years, Joe Genshlea has been known as one of the best trial lawyers in California. Regularly lionized as such by his peers — including his being voted into the state’s Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame in a ceremony presided over by California Supreme Court Associate Justice Ming W. Chin — Genshlea’s reputation could give you the impression he’s a fiery, hellfire-and-brimstone orator.

Digital permanence is a myth. Last year more than two newspapers closed a week on average in the United States, according to a report from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. When web hosting bills go unpaid, what happens to online content?

For several days this winter, Sacramentans got to play “Spot the Movie Star” while Leonardo DiCaprio and William Baldwin were both in town filming two different movies at locations all over the city. It begs the question: Could Sacramento become Hollywood North? The city and nearby Placer and El Dorado counties have a growing film industry that brings millions of dollars and thousands of jobs into the region.

“A lot of my work stems from this idea of what I call being stuck in between,” says multidisciplinary Elk Grove artist Taner Pasamehmetoglu.

San Joaquin County — with its rich cultural and historical heritage in both rural communities and city centers — may soon have a unified creative and cultural front. For the first time since 2001, the county will again have an arts council.

Channel 24 is a new indoor midsized venue that aims to fill a gap in Sacramento’s live entertainment ecosystem. Meanwhile, the city wants to make it easier for restaurants to host live shows. Will it be enough to fill the voids in the market?

The prisoners made makeshift knives, or shivs, and used stolen razors during their siege. One prison guard died, and two were injured.