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Nonprofit arts and culture sector pumped $241.7 million into Sacramento County in 2022, $151.7 billion into national economy
Findings from the sixth Arts & Economic Prosperity (AEP6) study revealed. The sixth Arts & Economic Prosperity (AEP6) study revealed that the arts and culture sector generated $151.7 billion in nationwide economic activity in 2022. The study, conducted by Americans for the Arts in partnership with 297 organizations across the...
The Foilies 2024: Recognizing the worst in government transparency
We’re taught in school about checks and balances between the various branches of government, but those lessons tend to leave out the role that civilians play in holding officials accountable. We’re not just talking about the ballot box, but the everyday power we all have to demand government agencies make their records and data available to public scrutiny.
Editorial: Newsom & big donors – a love affair for the ages
For people acquainted with the real Gavin Newsom, the start of March felt a bit like the movie “Groundhog Day.”. Just weeks before California’s new minimum wage hike went into effect for fast food workers, investigative reporters at Bloomberg News discovered that Newsom had insisted that this law be crafted with a special exemption: This is how the Associated Press describes the carve-out: The new minimum wage will apply to everyone except fast food operations “that have their own bakeries to make and sell bread as a stand-alone menu item.”
Equity in the Capital: Reporters Chris Nichols and Ben van der Meer on creative solutions to the housing crisis
The issues of lack of housing affordability and availability are likely to hover around Sacramento for some time, but there’s no shortage of ideas around how to tackle those issues. It’s an election year and while Super Tuesday may be over, we’re likely to hear lawmakers and candidates beating the drum around the topic all year.
An Irish elegy: Sacramento mourns the loss of Celtic fiddle sensation Sinjin Fraser
The strings have settled for One Eyed Reilly performer who now ‘moves into another expression of being’. The Irish have a toast that’s often uttered when a loved one has passed on:. “May you be in heaven a full half-hour before the devil knows you’re dead.”. It...
Sacramento artists bring forth community-centric solutions at city arts commission meeting
Artists reconvene to further discuss Wide Open Walls following failed mural project. Artists of all stripes gathered for the monthly meeting of the Arts, Culture and Creative Economy Commission on March 11, anticipating the discourse around one item on the agenda: the improvement of Sacramento’s creative climate following an ongoing debacle with a recent Wide Open Walls’s mural project.
California’s proposed foster care cuts could increase homelessness, advocates say
Advocates for California’s foster youth are criticizing Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to cut several programs they say are critical to keeping foster youth from falling into homelessness. Newsom proposed the cuts in January as part of his plan to close the state’s multi-billion budget deficit. They would...
Writers’ group hosts talk for the public with SN&R’s editor on new documentary crime podcast ‘Trace of the Devastation’ March 20
Free event to be held in Auburn City Hall, with Q&A included. We are pleased to welcome Scott Thomas Anderson for a presentation to Gold Country Writers that will be free and open to the public. On Wednesday, March 20, Mr. Anderson – the current editor of Sacramento News & Review – will present “How I Wrote and Produced the Crime Documentary Podcast Trace of the Devastation.”
Alchemist Public Market planned for Sacramento’s River District
In the emerging residential and commercial River District in Sacramento, Alchemist Community Development Corporation is planning a public market for the community to gather and enjoy food. The Alchemist Public Market, will serve as an incubator for food entrepreneurs and is slated to open to the public by early 2026....
Call of the Celtic soul: Nuala Kennedy brings sounds from her Irish roots to The Sofia on March 16
For Nuala Kennedy, community, tradition and her home are the threads that weave the music she creates. After moving from Ireland to Edinburgh, Scotland, in her late teens, Kennedy found herself feeling homesick. Music, specifically the Irish folk music she grew up with, helped her feel more at home. “I...
Why it is time for Newsom and the Legislature to get serious about mental health in California
It is one of the state’s greatest health needs, companies fail to live up to their policies, and the state does not invest what is needed for enforcement. This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. California Gov. Gavin Newsom...
Sacramento’s only high school-run radio station provides real-world tools and fosters community
It was business as usual in Room S1 at El Camino Fundamental High School just after 9 a.m. on a recent Friday morning. Twenty-seven Intro to Media Arts students worked on audio and video projects at individual Mac workstations as media teacher Matt Sumpter sat at an unassuming desk upfront and Vanilla Ice’s “Ice-Ice Baby” played over the loudspeakers.
Why has the white working class embraced Trump?
This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. What do unions do? Theda Skocpol and Lainey Newman argue in their new book Rust Belt Union Blues — Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away From the Democratic Party that an overlooked aspect of being in a union is the identity and personal meaning that unions provide. Unions, as Skocpol and Newman view it, are institutions that are potentially liberating rather than repressive. As jobs and unions disappeared in the industrial heartland — their book focuses on western Pennsylvania — the social and political vacuum was filled by alternative institutions — gun clubs and megachurches — that pushed former Democratic voters to the political right.
South America’s Grupo Corpo brings a new physicality to live interpretive dance in Davis on March 13
It’s no great secret that Brazilian communities are growing in the Sacramento Valley and surrounding areas. Yet some say there’s been a drought when it comes to heritage Brazilian acts performing in these parts: The Grupo Corpo dance company’s upcoming show at the Mondavi Center looks to fill some of that void.
Harder leads coalition urging Army Corps of Engineers to deny permit for Delta Tunnel ‘water grab’
Representative Josh Harder (CA-9) is leading a group of his Delta region colleagues to urge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny a permit for the now-infamous Delta Tunnel – what Harder calls “the zombie project” that just keeps coming back. “The State recently released an...
From Suffolk to Sacramento’s Fox & Goose, writer captures the essence of community pub life
Local press releases memoir exploring one man’s journey through public house connections – and across the pond and back. On a morning like this, Fox & Goose is usually quiet. The first hour or so of the pub’s business is a manifestation of Sacramentans on their day off, local pseudo-celebrity sightings or freelancer writers meeting to talk business.
In the Oscar zone
German actress Sandra Hüller stars in two Best Picture nominees. The extraordinary German actress Sandra Hüller is featured in two films that are Oscar nominees for Best Picture—The Zone of Interest, which plays at the Pageant Theatre March 3, and Anatomy of a Fall, which is currently streaming. Hüller is exceptional in both, and her performance in the latter has earned her a nomination for Best Actress.
Protecting pets in Sacramento’s unhoused community
Seven months ago, Joseph Rival drove to California from Oregon with his mother, who’d recently had a stroke, because she wanted to see the Pacific Ocean at stops along the West Coast. In a series of unfortunate events, their car broke down at a truckstop and shortly after they became homeless after exhausting all of their expenses.
Creativity in the Capital: Tavarus Blackmon and Andru Defeye on the realities of making a sustainable living as an artist
Tavarus Blackmon (aka Blackmonster) is a Sacramento talent who’s dipped his toes in music, fashion, collages and curations. His art has been seen digitally and in the real world at Crocker Art Museum, Axis Gallery and on his website, which tantalizes visitors with vibrant colors and themes. Blackmon teaches artistic methods at Sacramento State and has taught at UC Davis, which is also where he got his master’s degree in fine arts.
After three-year community battle, development planned for Rancho Cordova’s last open space is stalled
On an overcast Saturday afternoon, two kites hover above a 41-acre swath of lush California green dotted with the remnants of a black walnut orchard — poised on the soft breeze lifting off the American River. The Kassis property is a portrait of near stillness, the fate of the land suspended in post-proposal rejection.
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