My first introduction to Chef Bryan Widener came on a cold New Year’s Eve not even an hour into 2012. After ringing in the new year in Southside Park, word spread that Doughbot, the new doughnut shop down the street, was serving fresh doughnuts into the morning. I ran the…
I Am Not Okay With This Rated TV-MA If Stephen King is your spirit animal, watch I Am Not Okay With This. Hear me out. I was recently reading (OK, re-reading) Stephen King’s book about writing. A large part of the book involves his journey to becoming, well, Stephen King—and…
When it comes to the soundtracks of our lives, few things scream pop-punk as much as our teen years—or at least that’s how new local punk collaboration Lousy Advice sees it. Formed by Shelby Murray and Eric La Febre of Sad Girlz Club, and Jacob DeSersa of Lightweight, Lousy Advice…
Monday through Friday, Shane Quidachay, better known as Shane Q, gets up early in the morning, starts his day with a cup of coffee and drives a minivan for the Sacramento organization, United Cerebral Palsy, where he has worked for the last six years. This has been an average weekday…
While you are busy playing on your phone, Sacramento’s own Cory Barringer finds the time to be in a band, perform stand-up comedy, produce numerous live variety shows, draw hilarious comic strips and produce perhaps the most thoughtful podcast about Digimon that has ever been created. A man of many…
If you wander from Sacramento’s state capitol toward K Street, you’ll probably see some construction and a collection of storefronts that have rotated ownership, branding or both over the last several years, like most of downtown’s restaurant and retail scene. However, tucked away snugly in the former Senator Hotel, you’ll…
People who assumed that the fire and flash of early career hits like “Kerosene” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” described the extent of Miranda Lambert’s musical persona have been wrong-footed time and again in the ensuing years. Her rightly earned celebrity has continued to grow in the past decade on the strength…
Keith Lowell Jensen and Johnny Taylor Jr. are two Sactown natives who followed their dreams in comedy. They’ve shared almost everything together, from countless travels on the open road to the stage, where audiences burst into endless laughter. This year, these brothers from other mothers want to bring their show…
At the far end of a large exhibit room on the second floor of the California Museum, a child’s voice plays with subtitles on a dark screen. He talks about life in solitary confinement and how the prison guards don’t take his ankle irons off even to take a shower….