When Sacramento sizzles, the rest of the region beckons. Let the Bay breeze pull you westward to Berkeley and San Francisco, where curiosity and culture wait around every corner. Lose yourself beneath ...

As I looked down into my Claude Chana cocktail at The Hillmont, I realized I was in the hands of people who love Auburn and its history. Edible gold leaf draped around two ice cubes, in honor of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

T his story started, as so many do, with something small. In this case, magnitudes smaller than the period at the end of this sentence—a tiny droplet carrying the SARS CoV-2 virus. It all began on Jan ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the summer of 2020, when Elyse Benson and her husband Andrew Lebov stumbled upon a scruffy 1957 ranch house in Auburn with bedrooms the size of postage stamps and beige shagadelic carpet, they knew ...

The California poppies have yet to unfurl their petals, rolled up tight against the morning chill as 10 of us gather around a brick-paved circle at Soil Born Farms in Rancho Cordova, rubbing our hands ...