The Seat at the Bar diner explores a restaurant visited by luminaries including Snoop Dogg, Ryan Coogler and the Timberwolves in an unlikely location — a busy shopping mall. 

I could, I felt, either wallow in sadness at this state of affairs or, with my wife, chart our own course and go to places that we had never previously visited, using the strangeness of new locales to ask myself a series of questions on, broadly speaking, what it all meant.

Through January, the only state-run monarch preserve in California becomes a magical stop for the overwintering western monarch butterflies.

The low-profile downtown Sacramento cocktail bar is making a comeback.

There will be nine new entries to represent the ninth year of the Golden 1 Center, including a chicken-and-waffle sandwich, porchetta fries and bao buns. And once again, the Kings and their food partner Legends Hospitality made the effort to have the ingredients locally sourced.

Paranormal tourism has been a steady draw for Sacramento’s waterfront over the years, and October is peak season for businesses that capitalize on the spooky atmosphere.

The first sight through the door is something like an aquatic gargoyle with long fingers, smiling fangs and the scaly tail of a mercreature from the lowest depths.

Here are a few highlights from the Slow Wine Coalition’s panels, and takeaways that may inform the Capital Region’s small winemakers.

A big international food festival inspired by the slow food movement debuts in downtown Sacramento this month. The event may help make the city a culinary destination — as it did for a relatively sleepy city in Italy three decades ago.