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The emergence of rock climbing in popular culture has become extremely apparent in the past year. As a climber of almost two decades, I have watched the sport become discovered by the world outside of climbing. The sport has always had athletes “living on the edge,” but with the ease…

If all of this rain and dreary weather are making you go stir crazy and if, like us, you’re always looking for new areas to get outside and take a hike in the area, you’re in luck. The Sacramento Valley Conservancy is opening up access to Deer Creek Hills Preserve,…

On Saturday, Feb. 2 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m., two dozen regional museums will take part in the 21st annual Free Museum Day, a popular cultural tradition that is “designed to encourage all members of the community to experience the Capital City’s incredible wealth of art, history, science and wildlife, free…

In Barry Jenkins’ previous outing, Moonlight, we were so immersed in the history of lead character Chiron that we felt caught in his life’s grip as it unfolded over three different time periods. The shock in seeing how much had changed with the character in the offscreen interludes spoke volumes…

I once heard someone describe The Art of Beer as “a Burning Man for beer lovers,” a comparison that The Art of Beer founding director Rawi Nanakul says isn’t really too far off. Nanakul has been deep in the beer game for years as a beer photographer (among other things)…

At the heart of most stories often lies a small grain of truth. For Kat Edmonson, it was a little more than a grain—more of a rock shaped as a realization. Back in 2016, Edmonson was fighting a lingering cold. She often found herself home in her Brooklyn apartment, recuperating…

One of the most promising young local acts in my (well-educated) opinion is a three-piece pop-punk/emo/indie band called Hi, Mom. Their songs are well-written and catchy as all hell, and their debut full-length album is being released on Thursday, Jan. 17 with a show at Holy Diver. If you check…

Birthed in 2013 in Compton, California, from the minds of Crip, Malachi “Chef Spank” Jenkins and Blood, Roberto “Sous Chef News” Smith, Trap Kitchen has changed lives and stomachs with five-star restaurant meals without the five-star prices. Spank and News have been given the opportunity to cater throughout Los Angeles,…

Peanut butter and jelly. Cigarettes and coffee. Middle-aged white people and the Nextdoor app. All natural and organic pairings that complement each other nicely. The only other element necessary was the imagination to put them together. But cannabis and yoga? It might sound like a stretch. I tried it on…

The older you get, the easier it is to forget events in your life. This applies to both the benign as well as important moments that helped shape you as a person. For Jake Desrochers—singer for local outlet Lonely Kings—it took an old friend to help remind him of who…