You’ll be mesmerized when the 40 dancers and 16 musicians that make up Mexico’s oldest and most celebrated dance company, Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández, spin through town on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, at the Sacramento Community Center Theater. The costumes will be nothing short of awe-inspiring and…
Like supporting local artists? Enjoy lining the pockets of normal people like yourself instead of multinational corporations? If so, make the trek to the R Street Corridor and bring the family for a night to remember. For those who’ve never owned anything by any of the vendors in attendance, chances…
Day one of TBD Fest 2015 is in the books and boy oh boy what a party it was! The crowd was massive, the food and drinks plentiful, the music and art top-notch. As we sit here this morning editing photos, sipping on Temple Coffee cold brew, reminiscing about the…
Art School TBD Fest 2015 will pop up in the Bridge District from Friday, Sept. 18 through Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. The festival’s impressive three-day music lineup will be paired with local food, beer and wine vendors, handmade good vendors, amusement park rides and a number of noteworthy art exhibits…
You don’t need to love cartoons or any bastardization thereof to thoroughly enjoy yourself at Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Thankfully, the new ownership at the Crest Theatre have retained many relationships with previous clients so Sacramentans can experience one-of-a-kind soirees like this one. If you’ve…
Now it its 10th year of existence, the Sac Open Studios Tour (produced by the Verge Center for the Arts) is the largest open studio art event in Sacramento County, spanning two weekends (Sept. 12 to 13 and Sept. 19 to 20) and including artist’s studios and galleries all over…
There’s truly no end to the amount of amazing events held at Sacramento’s most beloved museum and this special installment is certainly no exception to the rule. Fans of Comic-Con and simply anyone who enjoys reading deliriously entertaining stories should come out en masse to this special Thursday night gathering….
Painting Her Heart Out MJ Lindo speaks with vulnerability and self-awareness that is sometimes rare for a 27-year-old. The Santa Rosa-based artist has always painted what she felt, using her childhood, dreams and nightmares as muses, but she knows this opens up her insides to criticism, and she doesn’t pretend…
One weekend a year, hoards of artists converge upon downtown Sacramento to create hundreds of temporary masterpieces. Their canvas: The sidewalk. Their tools: Chalk. Lots and lots of chalk. You guessed it folks, it’s time for Chalk It Up, Sacramento’s sidewalk chalk art and music festival. This Labor Day weekend…
Vanity and Impermanence My first memory of Kim Scott’s work is also one of my first memories of Sacramento. Scott was showing with several other artists at the Toyroom Gallery back in 2002. I was wandering down K Street with a companion, and we had just started hanging out; you…
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