Archive of: Features

Troubled Waters

On Feb. 7, following heavy storms, a massive crater was discovered in the main spillway at Oroville Dam, the tallest in the United States, which led to the use of a second, emergency spillway. Days later, over 180,000 people in the region were forced to evacuate amid threats of the emergency spillway’s collapse. Photojournalist Max Whittaker chronicled the crisis as residents fled to seek safety and shelter.

The Place Maker

If you felt the pulse of the city quickening the last time you spent an evening out dining, shopping or gallery hopping in midtown, Oak Park or the R Street Corridor, Ron Vrilakas likely had a hand in that.

By Hillary Louise Johnson

The Man Who Fell for Earth

The New Yorker has called him “one of the most important political writers working in America today.” Time magazine has called him a hero of the environment. But it’s being a science fiction author that has landed Kim Stanley Robinson on the global literary map and The New York Times bestseller list.

Back to the Future

By Barbara Harvey

Home Grown

By Tori Masucci Cummins

New Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg

by Rob Turner

Top of the Town

Coliseum as Canvas

Rebecca Huval

Coloring Outside the Lines

Hillary Louise Johnson

A Mighty Heart

Hillary Louise Johnson