Caleb Shomo first hit the scene as the keyboardist and later vocalist for electronic/hardcore act Attack! Attack!, which lasted until his departure from the band in late 2012. However, Shomo had been writing songs on his own prior to his departure, which allowed him to quickly segue into his current…
Canon, arguably the most talked about new restaurant in Sacramento, celebrates its one-year anniversary this week. The philosophy of Canon is to use top quality, seasonal ingredients to create unique dishes and cocktails. Some late summer/early fall examples include confit tomatoes with smoked provolone and basil, and a pistachio-infused rye…
From Jersey Boys to Mamma Mia!, nothing breathes life into that old-favorite artist quite like a jukebox musical. You know the type: a non-stop hit parade strung together by a plot just good enough to keep the story moving. The latest of this kind to roll into the Broadway Sacramento…
Before Gabi and Ben Garcia purchased venerable Sacramento bar and music venue Blue Lamp five years ago, they were on the verge of moving to Costa Rica. They literally had their lives packed, flights booked and were ready to jet set out of here. Then the call came. At the…
Before his U.S. debut and solo art show entitled Exordium, the 23-year-old Australian street artist who goes by the name Leans is completing a series of unusual commissions. He has carved out a niche for himself by painting the exteriors of houses and large-scale public art in his native land…
Chris Barnum-Dann, chef-owner at Midtown’s Localis (derived from the Latin, meaning “belonging to a place”) takes his locally sourced, farm-fresh and seasonal cuisine seriously—so much so that Eater named it one of “California’s 38 Essential Restaurants.” While the menu at Localis rotates with the seasons, Barnum-Dann is looking to a…
Since 2012, La Luz has been making music together that is truly unique in a world where it seems like everything’s been done before. Their ghostly, hypnotically dreamy, organ-driven, steely, fuzzy, twangy, doo-woppy, surfy punk rock sound is unlike that of any band you’ve ever heard before. And on Saturday,…
Most athletically minded Sacramentans have probably been to a rock climbing gym at some point—unless you’re afraid of heights, that is. But let’s be honest; actually getting out of the gym and onto the crag is a daunting prospect. That’s why REI is holding introductory classes to bring your climbing…
You can easily see the diversity of Alie Ward’s career by turning on the television and flipping through the channels on a Saturday morning. If you stop on the Cooking Channel, you might see her crisscrossing the country, consuming tasty treats on a rerun of Unique Sweets or road-tripping with…
Glitch: a harsh term for the beautiful errors bred in the formidably rapid tide of new technologies. What resembles the machine’s first serious grasp of art begins as a mistake, a failure of precision or control. Where machines express error and humans express precision, the fertile world of glitch art…
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