She glowers at the controls of a mixer in a dimly lit music venue, microphone poised like a dagger in her hands over a faintly spreading smile. Dressed in garters and a quicksilver bob-cut, for a moment she becomes a mannequin, and in the void of motion, the roar of…
Growing up as a punk kid, artist Kristen Napier hated goth and post-punk music. “I used to think it was so boring and what old people listened to when they don’t listen to punk anymore!” she says. Fast-forward years later, and suddenly Napier is a goth/post-punk music embracer. She loves…
Look, nature photography as a subset was never something that really compelled me. When I first found out about Douglas Parks, I honestly didn’t think I’d be that into his work. But then I saw it and was blown away. I love being wrong like that. It’s not nature photography;…
Combined, the nearly 20 Northern California-based photographers and videographers that will take part in the upcoming Rise of the Reel 2 event on Sept. 22 at Crest Theatre (1013 K St.) have nearly 300,000 followers on Instagram. Will that be enough to fill the historic downtown Sacramento theater? You’ll have…
Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose is likely one of the best contemporary art exhibits the Crocker Art Museum has ever displayed. It’s evocative, delightful and sometimes surprising. But mostly, it’s accessible, which was a goal for both its curators at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art,…
Capital Dance Project is a dancer-run collective of some the most talented dancers in our city, who formed a company where they have free reign to imagine innovative programming. A nonprofit, they seek to collaborate with one another while making dance at once edgier and more accessible to our community….
Race for the Arts sounds like what happens in my world every weekday at quitting time! I punch out at my day job and hurry home to make something. But what we’re talking about here is the annual 5K run/walk and Kids Fun Run that goes down in William Land…
On April 8, Sacramento lost one of its most beloved artists and musicians, Daniel Osterhoff, better known to many as DJ Whores. Dan was an amazing friend to many, a loving father to a daughter and an extremely talented and creative guy. He was a true gem, and he is…
Standing in front of a blank wall bigger than a basketball court with 800 cans of spray paint and a surgical mask at the ready sounds like a scary adrenaline rush. But it’s a small piece of heaven for Michael McDaniel—an opportunity for the heart, mind and spirit to relax…
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