Anthony OnFire walks into the building looking like a time traveler from the year 2008. His long, highlighter-colored hair is chopped up into anime character proportions, with bangs held back by a sweatband. His left wrist is practically weighted down by a nest of rubber bracelets, a la the Livestrong…
The Crocker Art Museum (216 O St.) is full of pictures, each worth a thousand words apiece—far more than the old-time films in their new Silent Film Series, starting on Thursday, Feb. 6. Before each film, moviegoers will be taken on a docent-led tour of the Crocker’s private collections, with…
When Swedish hardcore punks Refused broke up in infamous fashion in 1998, the world was a very different place. The President of the United States was being impea … Oh, wait. There were major tensions in the Middle East, culminating with a covert bombing operation in Iraq … Yeeeeah, OK….
Paula Poundstone is a comedy oddball who has used her quirky charm, Dick Tracy-villain fashion sense and relatable humor that can be completely different from one stand-up show to the next, to ride a successful career that spans more than 40 years and counting. Cutting her teeth at open mics…
**This piece first appeared in print on pages 16 – 19 of issue #308 (Jan. 1 – 15, 2020)** IT WAS OCTOBER 30, 2019. The Kings were at home facing the Charlotte Hornets. After a feisty 2018–2019 season that saw the Kings as surprise contenders for a playoff spot, the…
The Monk’s Cellar Brewery and Public House in Downtown Roseville has been bringing a taste of Belgium to the West Coast for more than five years. It all started when owner Andy Klein became acquainted with the beer culture of Europe during trips abroad when he was in high school…
Cirque du Soleil is famous for telling beautiful and colorful stories around the world with jaw-dropping acrobatics. From Jan. 22–Feb. 23, the innovative performing arts company will bring their new tale, Amaluna, to Sacramento’s Sutter Health Park. In this story, a fantasy island is dominated by magical goddesses. Queen Prospera,…
The dazzling Kifumi Keppler, Japanese-born and Sacramento-native for more than 50 years, displays her passion for the natural forms of life at her “Swig and Dig Mounted Staghorn Fern” workshop this January. The event takes place at Kepplers’ business HQ (1525 Fulton Ave.), where she’s scheduled to showcase her inventive…
From my perch in the upper right corner of the theater this Friday last, I surveyed the matinee audience for an opening day screening of 1917. As one might expect, it was a largely grey-haired crowd, typified by a middle-aged woman who turned the corner of the entryway only to…
Ask Michael Carbonaro if he’s a magician, a comedian or an actor and he’ll cop to the fact that he’s not really sure. But he also doesn’t care, so long as he’s entertaining people—a calling he’s heard since he was a child. On his TruTV show, The Carbonaro Effect, he…
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