From her public art to a career retrospective at the Crocker, venture into the darkly whimsical world of Sacramento artist Suzanne Adan.

Why did you name the museum after Sojourner Truth? It’s because I saw the strength of my own mother and my grandmother in her. She represents, to me, the strength of the Black woman. She had a really ...

The Market Memories Cookbook celebrates 50 years of the Davis Farmers Market with nearly 100 farm-to-fork recipes from its co-founder.

March 11–April 5 Who says you can’t go home again? Not Jack Gallagher. After nearly 40 years in Sacramento, the beloved comedian decamped to his native Massachusetts in 2024 to be closer to family.

WWhen I first see James Ellison III at the Celebration Arts theater, he’s in his 80s—or so it seems. Ellison totters on stage with a cane playing Thurgood Marshall in George Stevens Jr.’s Thurgood, a ...

June 13–14 The region’s largest Pride gathering takes over Capitol Mall with more than 25,000 revelers over two days. Watch for hometown favorites like the Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus to join new acts ...

As we’re talking right now in early June, you’re preparing to move to Sacramento. Have you found a home here yet? Yes! For the first time ever, my husband and I found a home before we moved. I’ve been ...

We’ve always thought the perfect end to a nightclub crawl in midtown’s Lavender Heights would be to grab a great big crispy, cheesy slice of New York-style pizza after closing down the drag show or ...

TThe first thing you notice as you enter this classroom is that it doesn’t look like a classroom at all. There are no desks, no wood-backed chairs, no front rows, no back rows. Instead of cold gray ...

Darrin Bell has asked to meet me where he does most of his work these days—at a picnic table overlooking a lily pond in a leafy Sacramento park. I recognize him, bent over an iPad working on a cartoon ...

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