Celebrate Oktoberfest All Year Round
Here’s where you can enjoy German food, beer and culture in the Capital Region
You don’t need to fly all the way to Munich to get an authentic Oktoberfest experience, even after October draws to a close. Whether indoors or outdoors, in Sacramento, Rocklin or Elk Grove, this area has many biergartens and other German-style spots to choose from.
The First Rule of Art Is to Enjoy It
FROM THE PUBLISHER: I’ve always loved art, in every form I can think of: music, dance, painting, sculpture, film, theater, literature, architecture and even conceptual. After all, art is about taste, memory, the senses — and just as often, can be about political preference, sexual orientation and religious affiliation. In short, art is highly personal.
This Parkside Cottage Is Depression-Era Perfection
Owners Tom Gaudio and Rob Eastwood meticulously blend antique with chic in their eclectic forever home
They are the fourth owners but the first to make major renovations. The property has been updated to the highest standard, from the front yard, designed and planted by Eastwood, to the sophisticated, art-filled interior, and through to the jewel box of a backyard complete with a saltwater pool of their own design.
Comstock’s Concert Hall: Fall Concerts at Discovery Park
This year’s GoldenSky and Aftershock festivals include both global stars and local legends
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.
Art Exposed: Katharine T. Jacobs
This rural artist uses her own body to process trauma and chronic illness
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.
Legendary Trial Lawyer Joe Genshlea Still Lives 2 Blocks From the Land Park Home Where He Grew Up
At 86, the star of 3 one-man shows is still writing and fulminating
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.
Leading the Way on Housing
Multifamily unit construction in Sacramento 'is booming'
In the last four years, Sacramento has approved more than 11,000 housing units, the third-highest total in the state, according to figures from the California Department of Housing and Community Development. The city’s total of approved housing trails only Los Angeles and San Diego, both of which are much larger cities.
Fighting for Land
We need more housing, but we also want to protect wildland
The region has been suffering through a housing shortage for several years. But environmentalists worry about the impacts of greenfield development: It increases greenhouse gas emissions as people commute longer distances and causes the loss of habitat and open space, which gives the region its character and makes it a good place to live.
Calpers CEO to Earn More Than $1 Million Thanks to Big Bonus for Pension Fund Performance
CalMatters: The chief executive at California’s largest public pension fund will earn more than $1 million for the first time since she joined the agency — after its administrative board awarded her a bonus that was more than triple the size of her last performance incentive.
Page Not Found: Sacramento’s Disappearing Digital News
While libraries, museums and government archives preserve print copies of newspapers and magazines, news websites can disappear when the business closes
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?