He is the most prolific public artist in Sacramento, and now, J.M. Knudsen is expanding his vision for a more creative city.

June 12-15 One word can describe this venerable fair that’s been going strong since 1859—and that word is racy. Not in the va-va-voom sense, but the vroom-vroom one. Whether powered by four wheels or ...

T his story started, as so many do, with something small. In this case, magnitudes smaller than the period at the end of this sentence—a tiny droplet carrying the SARS CoV-2 virus. It all began on Jan ...

Craig Reynolds, photographed on Sept. 24, is preparing for a November harvest at his agave farm in Woodland. He and others will use the sharp, long-handled coa de jima to slice away the plants’ ...

Portrait by Max Whittaker Stephen Kaltenbach at the Crocker Art Museum on Dec. 12 backdropped by his painting "Portrait of My Father" SStephen Kaltenbach stands in front of a portrait he painted of ...

The braised vegan spareribs at downtown’s Vegan Deadly Sins. Bacon bits from coconut? Fried chicken and oysters from mushrooms? Indeed, creative innovations in plant-based food have led chefs around ...

Rendering courtesy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill A rendering of the proposed 557-foot-tall tower at 301 Capitol Mall that would include 100 residential units on the top floors “So much han,” one of us ...

When Cal Expo’s soaring water tower was built in the 1960s, the task to design the art for the 152-foot-tall landmark structure fell to Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, a noted San Francisco designer ...

In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released provisional data for 2021, which was pretty shocking: Gun deaths in America hit an all-time high of 48,832. That’s an 8% increase ...

As Mahatma Gandhi once said, “In the midst of darkness, light persists.” Through the fog of 2020, here are 25 people, places and things around the region—from our heroic health care workers fighting ...

Dumplings to die for, a mistress of disguise, toothsome tacos, culinary classes paired with cinematic classics, health-forward push-pops, dance-powered lemonade purveyors, and much more. Here’s our ...

HHis mother calls them “monstrously huge” hands. Universally, it is agreed they are massive and preternaturally strong—the kind usually dubbed mitts or hams. The fingers are the size of ballpark ...