Period pieces are an acquired taste. You’re either on board with the royal intrigue and fluffed-up bosoms and bustles, or bored stiff as a powdered wig. The Favourite, while containing much of the delightful trademarks of the genre (Costume design! Haughtiness! Side eye!), has got moves you’ve never seen. Directed…
On a recent flight home over the Atlantic, I ran into a couple of nice young fellows from Belgium who were heading to the States to catch the seven-date western leg of Metallica’s Hardwired … to Self-Destruct Tour. They would start in Las Vegas, and one of the guys would…
When it comes to holiday shopping for loved ones or friends, we’re really lucky to live in an area where we don’t have to do all of our shopping at crowded, sterile, one-in-the-same big box stores or malls. There are so many cool local businesses, local makers and awesome, unique…
With all the great coffee shop options in Sacramento, it’s easy to become what I like to call “Coffee Lazy.” You can walk to The Trade from Temple (it’s like five steps), Old Soul Weatherstone to The Mill, or, if you’re feeling ambitious, from Insight on 16th street to Identity…
Where is the last real bar in California? Everyone from Crescent City to San Diego probably claims it’s their own local dive, but for Sacramento musician JonEmery Dodds, the answer is the Black Cat in Penngrove, Sonoma. The place was a lesbian bar, and every Wednesday night, patrons would pile…
It feels like just last week that I was writing about summer-y things to do in this column, but if you can believe it, the holiday season is already upon us and in full swing. Whether you’re looking for a fun date night idea, or just a reason to pack…
Beachbum Berry’s Sippin’ Santa comes to grace Sacramento’s presence at The Jungle Bird through the entire month of December. Born in 2015 at New York City’s The Boilermaker, Sippin’ Santa started as a way to bring tiki and Christmas together (because, duh). Now, this pop-up has expanded its horizons and…
I listen to Lillian Frances’ “Bailamos con el humo” under the miserable, smoke-stained November skies in Sacramento and delight in the incongruity. The song snaps open like a can of effervescent joy, immediate and playful, starkly at odds with anything I’ve been spinning currently. Smoke creeps, it smothers, it infiltrates,…
Local chef Russell Middleton cut his culinary teeth working with notable Sacramento chefs such as Submerge coverboy Brad Cecchi, Oliver Ridgeway and others. He’s recently returned to the City of Trees after a stint in Los Angeles in order to start Peridot. This moveable feast, as it were, will hold…
Avoid hectic malls and shopping centers this holiday season (at least for a couple of days) and craft your own jewelry for that special someone in your life. Metal Arts Academy in Auburn (1039 High St.) is offering a few Jewelry Fabrication Workshops to not only help you check a…
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