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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.
California program to treat chronic conditions through healthy diets could end
The Legislature and governor will need to act this year if the state is to continue providing food as medicine for low-income residents. This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. When Nazifa Hakimzada met with her doctor in 2022, she...
Dream.Org comes to Sacramento
Dream.Org, a national organization based in Oakland, was founded as the Dream Corps in 2007 by entrepreneur-activist Van Jones with the goal of reaching across political divides to bring justice, and environmental and technological change to underrepresented populations. Until recently, despite its nearby Bay Area roots, Dream.Org’s training has never...
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.
Finding your cyber sabbatical through the wine, vines and views of ‘The El Dorado 8′
Les Heinsen keeps his hand on the wheel of a Kubota RTV, his eyes casting ahead at the bronze blanket of fallen leaves that’s scattered under dense pines. The dirt path gets steeper. Heinsen steadies his foot on the gas. The acronym for what he’s driving — Rough Terrain Vehicle — says a lot about the condition of this mountain trail in El Dorado County.
Save California Salmon advocates for the species and clean water rights
Commercial and recreational salmon fishing off the coast of California was banned for the second year in a row in April due to low numbers of salmon. The Chinook salmon, which enter the Sacramento River system on four runs throughout the year, have been declining for decades due to pollution, water management, dams and drought.
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.
Migrants detained in California are quietly being moved out of state
Dozens are relocated by ICE, cutting them off from their attorneys and, sometimes, their families. This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. San Diego immigration detention officials have been quietly transferring dozens of detainees out of state, cutting some off...
‘Progressive’ Sacramento’s race for mayor contributed to a lot of paper waste. Are campaign mailers even necessary anymore?
One nearly universal experience for voters during election season is a mailbox flooded with campaign messages. Communicating with an electorate is arguably the most vital part of a political race, and one of the oldest ways of doing that is through the U.S. Postal Service. The Sacramento mayor’s race is no different, with a deluge of mailers being left at addresses all across the city.
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.”
Courting landlords with vouchers: guaranteed incentives for willingness to rent to homeless
In an effort to get more homeless people into better living situations, several voucher programs offer opportunities that can transition the unhoused into temporary or permanent housing. Vouchers are part of a federal program funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that assists homeless, very low-income families,...
Countdown to carnage: Erik Larson’s new book ‘Demon of Unrest’ is a haunting reflection on the momentum of violence
“I’m really interested in the point where you sort of turned to history,” journalist Evan Ratliff asked Erik Larson during a 2015 interview, probing why the two writers no longer shared a profession. “Was there an epiphany there where you said, ‘I actually don’t want to interview live people anymore?’”
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...
Essay: Spotify’s CEO just made me throw up in my mouth
I am someone that really enjoys spreading positivity around. It makes life so much lovelier than spreading any kind of negativity. However, I have to call out the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek. He just publicly stated that “the cost of creating content is close to zero.”. “Content” is...
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