Joe Sun & Co. clothing store was a downtown fixture from the time it opened in 1918 until it closed in 2006. The store ...

Playground swings are for kids—or so we thought. In fact, these urban amenities are a surprisingly popular trend for "kids" ...

AA little more than a decade ago, it felt like the whole sports vibe around Sacramento, the idea of this area as a place where professional sports should be taken seriously, was circling the drain. It ...

This spring, a troupe of newcomers to the City of Trees is set to put on what you might call a “dress rehearsal” for a colorful annual outdoor pageant. For one to two weeks over the next month or two ...

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“I think we have a misconception about where painting comes from,” the late, great painter Wayne Thiebaud told Artweek in 1998. “It’s not a hermetic activity. It doesn’t come from an individual. It is ...

March 15 Did you ever return home from military service to find your former fiancée married to someone else, so you pursue a rebound relationship, but then your ex gets jealous and starts an affair ...

On the eve of his 100th birthday, Wayne Thiebaud—the Sacramento painter best known for his evocative portrayals of desserts that look good enough to eat—talks about the new pieces he’s working on (yes ...

April 9 True to its name, this New Orleans ensemble has been safeguarding the traditional sound of Big Easy jazz for over 60 years. Returning to Folsom’s Harris Center in April after last year’s brass ...

Painter. Bluesman. Filmmaker. Educator. After retiring in 2012 from UC Davis, where he was an art professor for 43 years—and on the eve of a solo show at the Manetti Shrem Museum—Mike Henderson ...