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New City of Sacramento grant aims to assist ‘creative venues’
As the Sacramento creative arts community looks for new ways to attract patrons to their work and businesses, the City of Sacramento is offering a Creative Venues Grant to help achieve that goal. After receiving funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the City of Sacramento’s Office of...
Sacramento theater review: ‘Topdog/Underdog’ a stunning exploration of being Black and male in an unforgiving USA
Is it the clothes he wears? His sexual prowess, or capacity for violence? The amount of money he has, or the way he attains it?. Over two decades after playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” opened off Broadway to immediate acclaim, it is striking how her Pulitzer-winning drama — which the New York Times in 2018 called the best American play in 25 years — continues to capture and distill the here and now.
The LGBTQ+ Historic Experience Project is working to solidify a diverse narrative of Sacramento’s queer history
The first draft of the LGBTQ+ Historic Experience Project Historic Context Statement (HCS) was unveiled online and at the Sacramento LGBT Community Center’s booth at Sacramento Pride June 8. The document offers the public a preliminary look at the findings of a year-long historical investigation underway with the City of Sacramento’s Community Development Department’s Historic Preservation program.
Fearless in darkness, fearless in light: Katie Knipp’s ‘Me’ plumbs the depths of struggle – album release show this Saturday at Harlow’s
The brush strokes capture a woman throwing her head back in a mess of wet hair and abandon, her mouth opening in what might be an untamed cackle or a passionate cry of ecstasy. In either case, what Spanish painter Joan Lalucat conjured when framing this wild woman is a...
Farm to Fork to compost in Sacramento
Brooks Truitt Community Garden — a pearlescent oyster shell sits atop a softly steaming pile of mulch next to the light rail track, the cherry on a compost sundae. The mulch, now in its fourth week of rotations, is waiting for the worm to turn. Community members take a...
Gallery: Sacramento Pride 2024 goes down as a celebration of community joy
More than 30,000 people filled the streets of California’s capital last weekend to take part in its annual Pride Festival. The gathering marked the largest and most inclusive annual celebration of LGBTQ+ culture in the Sacramento region. First launched in 1979, the event is hosted by the Sacramento LGBT Center and commemorates the historic Stonewall Rebellion that happened a decade before its inception.
The return of trickle-down economics
In Kansas, Mississippi and other states, tax cuts for the wealthy could bring devastating reductions to education, health and other vital programs. This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Heather Ferguson loves to talk about her daughter’s school in Johnson...
New ordinance gives Grizzly Flats residents a chance to build their own affordable housing after Caldor Fire
In fall 2021, the Caldor Fire scorched 221,800 acres across the Sierra Nevada and incinerated two-thirds of the El Dorado County town of Grizzly Flats. While several efforts to replant conifer trees throughout the Caldor burn scar have continued since 2022, rebuilding almost 500 structures destroyed in Grizzly Flats is more challenging due to high construction costs and restrictive county codes. But a new ordinance gives residents hope of moving out of their camper-trailers and into houses they built themselves.
Lifetime in the arts: visual artist William Ishmael
Change is a constant for artist William Ishmael. Twenty years ago, he made the leap to full-time artist after a long and successful career as a civil engineer. “The similarity between being an engineer and an artist is that as a civil engineer, I had to think in three dimensions — topography, hillsides, cuts and grades, and slopes,” Ishmael said during a recent interview at his art studio. “That’s what you do with art too. You’re thinking it through.”
Five Sacramento Solvers
Here at Solving Sacramento, we like to look for the solvers — the people who see what’s wrong in their communities and say what can I do to fix it?. What is it about solvers? Many start looking to solve problems before they even reach adulthood. It’s as if being of service is in their bones, their blood, their very genes. We found five such people who are working to make the greater Sacramento region a better place to be.
From Jackpot to The Truth, Lee Bob Watson remains the mysterious rhythm master of Sacramento songwriting: Next performance is June 8
SN&R catches up with Watson before his show this Saturday at The Side Door. Lee Bob Watson strolls into Old Soul Coffee and the image of the Preacher in Pale Rider jumps into my head. Then, I hear the resonating voice of Johnny Cash say, “And I looked, and behold a pale horse. And his name that sat on him was Death.”
Survey finds 29% drop in Sacramento County’s homeless population, following years of growth
Rows of RVs, tent encampments and other make-shift homes still line Sacramento County’s streets and sidewalks, as they have for years. But progress on the region’s vexing homelessness crisis is underway, according to a closely-watched report released on Wednesday. The county’s unhoused population dropped 29% over the past...
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