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Yes, the Sacramento Candlelight Concerts Are Real — and They Have Fans

We spoke with the European company behind the ubiquitous ads and the local musicians and venues helping create its global vision

The ads for Candlelight Concerts seem so prevalent, with photos so grand, that some are skeptical. Has anyone ever gone to their concerts? How was it? Are they worth attending? Another question remains: Who is behind them?

Dec 12, 2025 Eric Schucht

Folsom Powerhouse State Park Celebrates 130 Years

The Back Story: This American River treasure used to light up the Capital Region

The former utility is a celebration of an earlier time’s creative engineering and is now a verdant state park and learning center just above Lake Natoma.

Dec 11, 2025 Ed Goldman

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Overspending

How to bring joy to your loved ones (and your wallet) this holiday season

While many of us plan to pull back on the reins when it comes to spending, we still want to celebrate, create a sense of normalcy and maintain beloved traditions. To do that, we will have to approach the season with mindfulness and care.

Dec 10, 2025 Susan Burns

Sacramento Afghan Community Reacts to Suspension of Asylum Cases

In Sacramento County, home to the country’s largest Afghan American population, asylum seekers fear for their safety

The Sacramento region welcomed thousands of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. After retaliatory changes in immigration procedures following the shooting of two National Guard members, many are worried.

Dec 9, 2025 Sasha Abramsky

Companies Are Racing to Fuel and Cool AI

Data centers that power AI use massive amounts of water and electricity. Here’s how companies are working to reduce their strain on resources

In a region like Sacramento, where the grid strains under demand and droughts loom, some critics see data centers as hulking, water-hogging threats to local communities.

Dec 8, 2025 Russell Nichols

Startup of the Month: Alcheme Bio

Taking the bitterness out of plant-based proteins

For many, plant-based proteins leave a bad taste in the mouth: bitter and “beany,” according to Vanessa Small. At her food tech startup Alcheme Bio, she strips that tart taste at the cellular level to enhance flavoring.

Dec 5, 2025 Russell Nichols

A Seat at the Bar: A Southern Food Surprise in … Roseville?

Chef Q brings California modern comfort food to his restaurant Q1227

The Seat at the Bar diner explores a restaurant visited by luminaries including Snoop Dogg, Ryan Coogler and the Timberwolves in an unlikely location — a busy shopping mall. 

Dec 4, 2025 Your Seat at the Bar Diner

Employees Aren’t Washing Their Hands. Is It My Job as HR to Tell Them What They Should Have Learned in Kindergarten?

Dilemma of the Month: The Evil HR Lady addresses personal hygiene in the workplace

While I agree that non-handwashers are gross, the reality is that life is gross.

Dec 3, 2025 Brad Branan

New UC Davis Research Center Will Help Central Valley Provide Food Sustainably

The Resnick Center for Agricultural Innovation will explore the future of food

Agricultural research is about to get supercharged at UC Davis, thanks to a $50 million donation from the co-owners of one of the biggest names in almonds, The Wonderful Company.

Dec 2, 2025 Brad Branan

A Thriving (but Manageable) Metropolis | Opinion

FROM THE PUBLISHER: An ode to Sacramento, despite what Joan Didion wrote

For most of us who live and work here, Sacramento, the once-called “cow town,” has grown with the region into a thriving but manageable metropolis.

Dec 1, 2025 Winnie Comstock-Carlson

Essay: Nostalgia Bomb at the Sunrise Mall

Reflections on the melancholia of dying malls

For children of the ‘80s and ‘90s the mall was the church of our youth, but for later generations the mall is just an inconvenient vending machine. What happened to the mall, will happen to each of us. And like the mall, ultimately, we will simply be forgotten. 

Nov 27, 2025 Won Song

Possible Last Causeway Classic in 71-Year History Is One to Remember

The classic game between football rivals Sacramento State and UC Davis may come to an end

If Nov. 22’s Causeway Classic was truly the 71st and final chapter of the storied series between I-80 rivals Sacramento State and UC Davis, then the sendoff couldn’t have been more dramatic.

Nov 26, 2025 Steve Martarano

Art Exposed: Jessica Wimbley

A Davis-trained artist returns to the Capital Region after more than a decade in Southern California

Jessica Wimbley’s moving-image series “True Story of Edges,” which premiered in the 2022 exhibition “Coordinates,” invites viewers to question the politicization of Black bodies while evoking love, joy and compassion.

Nov 25, 2025 Melissa LuVisi

As Niche Magazines Gain Popularity, Capital Region Publishers See Value in Paper and Ink

Meet the small-business magazine publishers who say print isn't dead

Comstock’s is one of the last remaining monthly magazines based in Sacramento, but it’s now part of a trend. Across the region and beyond, niche print magazines are gaining momentum.

Nov 24, 2025 Eric Schucht

Food Banks Brace for ‘Perfect Storm’ of Food Insecurity Heading Into the Holidays

SNAP food benefits are back, but anxieties linger

The record-breaking government shutdown and suspension of SNAP food benefits led what one food bank director says is the worst food insecurity crisis she has seen. 

Nov 21, 2025 Dakota Morlan

Essay: An Empty Nester’s Melancholy Travels Without His Children

For the Last Word essay column, a writer shares his recent travels through Europe without his children

I could, I felt, either wallow in sadness at this state of affairs or, with my wife, chart our own course and go to places that we had never previously visited, using the strangeness of new locales to ask myself a series of questions on, broadly speaking, what it all meant.

Nov 20, 2025 Sasha Abramsky
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