Solar-powered benches are an emerging design trend. With nearly 300 blue-skied days a year, Sacramento is the perfect place ...

We’ve always thought the perfect end to a nightclub crawl in midtown’s Lavender Heights would be to grab a great big crispy, cheesy slice of New York-style pizza after closing down the drag show or ...

Interior designer Whitney Johnson at Shady Lady, her first restaurant project, which was completed in 2009 (Portrait by Jeremy Sykes) I“I am the Daniel Day-Lewis of design,” says Whitney Johnson with ...

TThe first thing you notice as you enter this classroom is that it doesn’t look like a classroom at all. There are no desks, no wood-backed chairs, no front rows, no back rows. Instead of cold gray ...

Dumplings to die for, a mistress of disguise, toothsome tacos, culinary classes paired with cinematic classics, health-forward push-pops, dance-powered lemonade purveyors, and much more. Here’s our ...

Mike Henderson is the only one at the $750-a-plate gala wearing blue jeans—and he’s the guest of honor. The guests take their seats at tables inside the Manetti Shrem for the 6-year-old institution’s ...

Chef-owner of Q1227 in Roseville and former executive chef of downtown Sacramento’s Echo & Rig Four Sisters Cafe for brunch, in Roseville. They’re so friendly, and I just like how it’s a family-run ...

Feb. 9–14 Lions and tigers and love birds, oh my! When it comes to the life science of mating, we could all take a cue or two from the animal kingdom, and for nearly a week leading up to Valentine’s ...

Why did you name the museum after Sojourner Truth? It’s because I saw the strength of my own mother and my grandmother in her. She represents, to me, the strength of the Black woman. She had a really ...

After taking a snowy hike on the Sierra Discovery Trail outside Nevada City, be sure to visit the nearby Omega Diggings Scenic Overlook for a panoramic mountain view on your way home. (Photograph by ...

Downtown Sacramento Partnership has retained you to advise them. Can you talk about the scope of the consulting that you’ll be doing here, and how long the role will last? Our conversations have been ...

Darrin Bell has asked to meet me where he does most of his work these days—at a picnic table overlooking a lily pond in a leafy Sacramento park. I recognize him, bent over an iPad working on a cartoon ...