In a city that lacks a jazz club, where does one go to hear live jazz? For many local music fans, the unlikely answer lies in a quaint Thai restaurant located off the beaten path in a strip mall in the College-Glen neighborhood, a stone’s throw from Sac State.

After more than 10 years of planning, Sacramento’s cherry blossom park, Hanami Line, officially opened June 20 of last year — making this spring the park’s first bloom.

Teneral Cellars winery in Plymouth is an award-winning, women-owned and self-proclaimed disrupter in the industry. It’s also an oasis in the Shenandoah Valley that’s less than an hour’s drive from Sacramento, though reminiscent of a picturesque wine region in Italy.

In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Comstock’s followed four downtown Sacramento businesses and their broader sectors for a six-part series. On the fifth anniversary of the shutdowns, we checked in to see how they are faring.

Ahead of his annual bash, we caught up with the host of one of the Capital Region’s biggest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations — and the keeper of a vault holding 500 different whiskeys from across the world. 

Her sense of adventure and interest in new experiences led her from her upbringing in Ohio to now nearly four decades living in the Capital Region. It’s also what led her to shift from a 36-year career working in nonprofits to building the new Nevada County Economic Development Office from the ground up as its first program manager. Throughout her career, Parker says, she has felt an openness to learning new things.

As the ongoing bird flu crisis continues to decimate millions of infected chicken flocks across the country, and eggs become pricier and harder to find, Capital Region businesses weigh in on the impact of the shortage and what’s helping them through another major economic challenge so close on the heels of the pandemic.

The Solano County city of fewer than 30,000 residents is also an easy day trip for visitors from Sacramento and the Bay Area, with a 10-block stroll along Benicia’s First Street providing a unique opportunity to visit 300 eclectic businesses amidst 19th-century Victorian buildings — all while basking in bay views a couple of blocks away.