The Philharmonik won NPR’s career-catapulting Tiny Desk Contest in 2024. Now, the Sacramento singer-songwriter gets ready to ...

While this jazz-themed restaurant was inspired by the bygone supper clubs of the Midwest, it’s both nostalgic and international. Some dishes from executive chef Christian Viau are unapologetically ...

Dec. 7–21, 2025 Bundle up in your woolies, pop some chestnuts on an open fire, and pour yourself a draught of mulled wine—it’s time to roll back time to celebrate Victorian Christmas, named by Fodor’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a city that prides itself on heritage architecture—think late 19th-century midtown Victorians and ’20s-era East Sacramento Craftsmans—its diverse tableau of mid-century modern (MCM) design has ...

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 ...

The Squeeze Inn's Squeeze With Cheese is justly famous for its cheesy skirt. (Photo by Ryan Donahue) Boy, are we full—of both nosh and nostalgia. That’s because we’ve spent the past two months ambling ...

Portrait by Max Whittaker Stephen Kaltenbach at the Crocker Art Museum on Dec. 12 backdropped by his painting "Portrait of My Father" SStephen Kaltenbach stands in front of a portrait he painted of ...

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 ...