Vanessa Richardson is a freelance writer in Sacramento who covers finance, startups and women in business. She also writes for Entrepreneur, Fortune and Money magazines.
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![Last year ZFG’s pop-up event “The Most Open Mic In The City” takes over outside Art Hotel. ZFG has multiple Art Street activations. (Photos courtesy of ZFG Promotions)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/zfg_art_hotel_0.jpg?1577874531)
For M5 Arts, Big Buzz Isn’t Translating into Big Bucks
Art Hotel drew thousands of people, but Art Street is struggling to raise thousands in donations — why aren’t businesses helping out?
What’s the main difference between the Art Hotel installation, held at the Marshall Hotel a year ago, and Art Street, opening Feb. 3 in a former lumber mill near Broadway and 1st Avenue?
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Can Sacramento Become a Capital of Entrepreneurship?
Startups and local government team up to turn the city into a high-tech hub
A booming tech-startup scene has done wonders for the Bay Area economy: Can the same thing happen in Sacramento?
![The Art Hotel exhibit in Sacramento attracted nearly 13,000 attendees. (Photo courtesy Jon Kramp) The Art Hotel exhibit in Sacramento attracted nearly 13,000 attendees. (Photo courtesy Jon Kramp)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/jonkramp_776.jpg?1577874531)
State of the Arts
With the success of the Art Hotel, is the timing right for a boom in Sacramento’s art scene?
Before the nine-day Art Hotel exhibit opened last February in downtown Sacramento, M5 Arts, the nonprofit group behind it, expected a max of 5,000 people to attend. What actually happened: Nearly 13,000 people lined up, many from the Bay Area, and some from as far as New York. People waited hours, the line often snaked around the block and several thousand people had to be turned away.
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A Good Mentor Is Hard To Find
Women need mentors, but the search for one isn’t always easy
Sarah Sciandri is looking for a woman, but finding one is tougher than she thought. The 34-year-old likes her job as a marketing manager for the Sacramento architecture firm Nacht & Lewis, but she wants a female mentor to help move her career forward.