‘Momtrepreneurs’ Discover Success in the Central Valley
Makers build themselves a platform through mutual support
For stay-at-home mothers like Andrea Green, Khairunnisa Ismail and Shani Dharmasena, the Central Valley’s maker network gives them opportunities to make sales and talk with customers in the community.
Comstock’s Concert Hall: Peter Petty’s Holiday Revue Returns to The Sofia
The man made of pizazz to host ninth-annual celebration
On Dec. 21, Petty returns to The Sofia for the ninth-annual Hepcat’s Holla’ Daze Swinging Yuletide Revue, with tickets available through B Street Theatre’s website and box office.
Art Exposed: Julie Bernadeth Crumb
Weaving cultural memory and communal care into artistic practice
Whether creating elaborate jewelry inspired by pre-colonial harvest rituals, collaging woodcut prints into an altar homage to her Filipino homeland or sculpting clay into aquatic life forms for an underwater installation, award-winning multidisciplinary artist Julie Bernadeth Crumb uses her hands to forge materials into meditations on culture, identity and Indigeneity.
Local Journalist Receives $100,000 Grant to Support Hmong Daily News
Website covers an ethnic community that comprises about 1 percent of the Capital Region’s population
A coalition of funders is trying to save journalism, and one of the first to receive their aid is a little-known website serving a small ethnic community in Sacramento. Eighteen Press Forward grantees were based in California with only one in the Capital Region: Hmong Daily News.
Sacramento Kissaten: Hi-Fi Heaven, a Stone’s Throw from DOCO
Legend Has It features audiophile-level sound, local beers and natural wine, and a passionate optimism for the future of Sacramento’s music scene
The hi-fi bar, which opened Sept. 14, is in many ways the opposite of most bars in Sacramento (and anywhere). Traditionally, music is an ancillary element to the bar experience. At Legend Has It, the bar experience is ancillary to the borderline religious appreciation of music pressed to vinyl.
The Man Who Buys the Capital Region’s Dying Newspapers
Paul Scholl has accumulated 18 print newspapers in under two decades
Paul Scholl started a newspaper about two decades ago to promote his services as a hospice chaplain. Now he brings relief to papers on their deathbeds. How did Scholl come to not only own 18 papers but to make them financially sustainable?
Photo Essay: For 2 Weeks in October, Sacramento Transforms from Heavy Metal to Country Music
Back-to-back music festivals Aftershock and GoldenSky draw headbangers and boot-stompers by the tens of thousands.
The Capital City Celebrates Inaugural Sacramento Poetry Week
The week was a host to a variety of events featuring new and veteran poets
Spoken word took over the capital last week as the city celebrated its inaugural Sacramento Poetry Week.
The Value of Art
4 years out of the pandemic, Sacramento’s arts scene brings in tourism and tax dollars
A 2022 study conducted by Americans for the Arts in partnership with Sacramento Alliance for Regional Arts found that nonprofit arts- and culture-related activities in Sacramento County injected over $241 million into the local economy.
Roseville’s Unique Shopping and Entertainment Gathering Place
Family business spotlight: The Denio family embraces the future while honoring their roots
Eric and Tracy Denio remember Roseville before it was a suburban powerhouse — back when their childhood days were spent roaming among fields, ranches, ponds and gravel pits. Flash forward to today, and Denio’s Farmers Market & Swap Meet is surrounded by oceans of homes and shopping centers that span for miles in every direction. But one thing that hasn’t changed is its ethos.