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Q&A with Gulshan Yusufzai
One in nine Afghan natives living in the United States reside in Sacramento, and Gulshan Yusufzai is among them. She fled Afghanistan with her family in the 1980s during the Soviet invasion of the country, landing here when she was…
A Star Is Born
Nearly 15 years in the making, the SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity is ready to open a portal to both the past and the future on the banks of the Sacramento River, pairing a historic 1912 power station with Northern California’s most advanced planetarium. Its mission: Reinvigorate the waterfront, position our region as a tech and health sciences powerhouse, and ultimately inspire generations of kids from all walks of life to dig deeper, reach further, dream bigger and discover for themselves that the sky’s the limit.
Trash Talk
The Idea For Baltimoreans, their harbor has long been a point of civic pride. But while serving as the director of the Baltimore Maritime Museum, John Kellett would walk by the harbor on his way to work every day and…
Super Natural
California’s oldest living tree, the Jurupa Oak, is believed to have sprouted thirteen thousand years ago. St. Peter’s Basilica? Notre-Dame? Those man-made monuments have nothing on California’s sometimes millennia-old cathedrals—the groves of oak, cedar, spruce and sequoia that dot our…
The Art of Hot Chocolate
Inspired by ancient Mayan jars, like the one she spotted on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website, Cru Chocolate co-owner Karla McNeil-Rueda (pictured above) commissioned spouted cups for her Roseville-based business that specializes in Central American “heritage cacao.” Cru’s modern…
Best of the City 2021
Best Bagels with 50 Shades of Everything but Gray They beckon you from Instagram, doughy kaleidoscopic pinwheels—green and white for St. Paddy’s Day or red, white and blue for the Fourth of July, or full-on swirling rainbows just for…
Fright Bites
Eat, shriek and be merry with the Ghost Mont Blanc desserts from Ettore’s, billowing right on cue for Halloween. Eyeing the similarities between the mountain-top-like contours of the traditional chestnut-flavored European pastry and the charming bedsheet embodiment of a cartoon…
Big in Japan(ese)
Daisuke Tsuji has clowned around (literally) for Cirque du Soleil, appeared on stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, voiced the lead character in the blockbuster video game Ghost of Tsushima (a role that earned him a BAFTA nomination), and acted…
Stronger Together
Patrick and Bobbin Mulvaney are arguably Sacramento’s First Couple of Farm to Fork. With Sacramento celebrating our region's agricultural bounty in September, we sit down with the owners of Mulvaney’s B&L to talk about the impact of the pandemic on…
Canon owners to open French-inspired wine bar and cafe
Drawing from the outpost-style optimism of West Sacramento, Brad Cecchi and Clay Nutting, owners of East Sacramento’s popular Canon (which recently retained its coveted Michelin Bib Gourmand status), will open an all-day French-focused wine bar and cafe called Franquette this…
Doughbot returns with a new space, new owner and a menu with vegan doughnuts, baos and katsu sandos
The time to rejoice is nigh for fans of Sacramento’s erstwhile Doughbot: A new iteration of the beloved, partly vegan doughnut shop is reopening in early November near Southside Park—on 10th Street between T and U, a stone’s throw from…
Birds of a Feather
“No matter who you are or where you come from, fried chicken is a thing,” says Alexa Hazelton, the eponymous maternal half of Mom & Pop Chicken Shop in the El Dorado Hills Town Center complex. In its short, nearly…
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