New Glory Craft Brewery is inconspicuously located in the depths of an industrial district off of Power Inn Road with nothing but modest signage to guide patrons to its door. Despite being off the beaten path, where there is good beer people will come. When I visited New Glory one…
For the Hoffman brothers (Mason and Spencer), it was nigh about time to pull up stakes and head north to Portland. Spencer, the younger of the two, had already started school there; their band, Honyock—rounded out by bassist Tyler Wolter and drummer Christian “Sunshine” Meinke—was pumping along into their eighth…
Devin Dawson has had a charmed career in music thus far. Back in December 2014, Dawson was attending Belmont College in Nashville when he and fellow student Louisa Wendorff posted their mashup of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” and “Style” on YouTube. It featured the two artists standing back to back…
It was late 2007 when Sacramento local Zack Lopez mailed his band’s three-song demo to KWOD 106.5’s Andy Hawk. His fledgling band was Middle Class Rut, and among those three tracks was “New Low,” a catchy staccato rock song with an anthemic chorus that resonated with Hawk from the moment…
Have you ever heard the phrase, “You’ve got to laugh to keep from crying?” It sure does seem to be more true nowadays than ever, doesn’t it? What with the everyone-is-always-outraged-about-something world we live in, it’s nice to find distractions from scrolling through our mostly hate-filled social media timelines. My…
Here in the Sacramento area, we are restored by our proximity to natural wonders like Lake Tahoe, the mountain ranges that surround us, Yosemite, the coast, the confluence of great rivers and even our tree-lined avenues and parks. Sacramento is also a place that is increasingly more urban, with a…
The first time I was offered an invitation to go rafting down the American River, I prepared myself for the whitewater. Years later, I was offered an invitation to go rafting down the American River and I prepared myself for a float. Both times I was ill-prepared. There are two…
Sacramento’s already impressive street art scene is about to grow significantly when the 2018 Wide Open Walls open-air art festival returns Aug. 9–19. Just like last year, W.O.W. is bringing a well-rounded group of dozens of international and regional artists together to paint various locations around town, most notably is…
With parents who consider the Sierra Nevadas their home away from home, it’s easy to understand why siblings Karlee and Connor Hormell grew up constantly being inspired by the mountains of Northern California. The siblings spent their summers hiking trails and swimming in alpine lakes, all while learning how to…
Language is a form of freedom. The ability to string sounds together into coherent thoughts is our way of expressing our emotions. However, a spoken language isn’t enough for some. That’s where music comes in, and for Sacramento’s Mino Yanci, it is their expression of freedom. The quartet’s name itself…
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