From her public art to a career retrospective at the Crocker, venture into the darkly whimsical world of Sacramento artist Suzanne Adan.

The Market Memories Cookbook celebrates 50 years of the Davis Farmers Market with nearly 100 farm-to-fork recipes from its co-founder.

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 ...

HHis mother calls them “monstrously huge” hands. Universally, it is agreed they are massive and preternaturally strong—the kind usually dubbed mitts or hams. The fingers are the size of ballpark ...

Gone are the days when only wax-mustachioed hipsters understood the dark art of the light roast—today’s third-wave specialty coffee scene is as diverse as our city itself. Allow us to introduce you to ...

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 ...

As we’re talking right now in early June, you’re preparing to move to Sacramento. Have you found a home here yet? Yes! For the first time ever, my husband and I found a home before we moved. I’ve been ...

July 17–Aug. 2 As its theme “Wish You Were Here” suggests, the 2026 Golden State fête offers plenty of reasons to head out to Cal Expo this summer. Put on your boogie shoes for a concert by KC and the ...

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From nearly the womb, most Sacramentans are raised with the civic-pride-inducing belief that we have more trees per capita than any other city in the world after Paris. Now, thanks to Treepedia, a new ...

Welcome to our life of pie. From deep-dish pesto pizzas to thin-crust margheritas to savory vegan or bacon-topped wedges, we’ve eaten our way through town to find the best pizza emporiums in the ...

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 ...