He is the most prolific public artist in Sacramento, and now, J.M. Knudsen is expanding his vision for a more creative city.

El Dorado County Fair. June 12-15 One word can describe this venerable fair that’s been going strong since 1859—and that word is racy.Not in the va-va-voom sense, but the vroom-vroom one. Whether ...

Four Sisters Cafe for brunch, in Roseville. They’re so friendly, and I just like how it’s a family-run restaurant and they put a family touch on it. As the name implies, it’s four sisters running the ...

Ngo’s longtime friend and business partner in Kru 2.0, restaurateur Kimio Bazett (Bottle & Barlow, Hook & Ladder, The Golden Bear), recalls how the chef’s natural gravitation to soup helped him ...

Firestone’s Brandy-Fried Chicken. With its tender, savory meat and shatteringly crisp golden exterior, the Wong family’s brandy-fried chicken—made with, yes, a slug of brandy in the marinade—earned a ...

The New Golden Age By weekday, they’re construction workers, utility mechanics and registered nurses. But on weekends, they abandon their respective vocations and venture far up into the storied ...

In 2012, an Elk Grove mother of three caused a social media stir with a single Facebook post. By 2013, that post went viral, transforming Maria Kang into a polarizing figure at the center of a ...

Special K After decades of blight, one of Sacramento’s most critical blocks—linking the Golden 1 Center to the rest of K Street—is about to become an instant neighborhood, bursting into existence with ...

SEPT. 30-OCT. 2 It’s not the cinnamon and brown sugar sweet potato fries with marshmallow dipping sauce or the hand-feeding of raw sweet potato cubes to resident camel Addy that draw people to the ...

For Hanks and Stuart, the childhood friends who inaugurated their Los Angeles-based production firm Company Name with All Things Must Pass, “persisted” is one way of putting it.On the first day of ...

Patio 29—the name is a tribute to the origin story, with the atomic number for copper thrown in to sweeten the distilling pot, which is made of said metal—launched in August 2019, with a vodka ...

18 Grams Coffee Roasters. Elk Grove was a specialty coffee desert before Justine Lee and Danny Chuong opened 18 Grams in 2017. Still in their 20s and entirely self-taught in the coffee business ...