Spoken word took over the capital last week as the city celebrated its inaugural Sacramento Poetry Week.

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.

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.

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.

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 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. 

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.

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.

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?