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Looky Loos
In Tokyo, a world-renowned architect conjured up an elegant solution to a not-so-elegant urban problem: public toilets. Sacramento needs to take the plunge on his very creative idea to build restrooms with, yes, see-through walls.
A Sacramento vegetarian food blogger launches an online plant-based charcuterie shop
After retiring from her 12-year career as a competitive ballroom dancer, Chelsea Farrah leapt into her second act, turning her vegetarian food blog The Dancer’s Pantry into a plant-based charcuterie business that launched on Oct. 7. “Cooking has so much…
Spreading His Wings
Every time cult musician Anton Barbeau returns to his native Sacramento from the various European cities he’s lived in during the last 14 years, it’s always the quality of the sunlight that makes the place feel like home. “There’s…
Community refrigerators pop up around Sacramento offering free donated food
An out-of-place refrigerator, illustrated with vibrant vegetables and a pair of interlocked hands, is tucked into an alcove on Powerhouse Alley between P and 25th streets. It’s brimming with fresh produce, containers of homemade soup and freshly baked bread, free…
A sneak peek at the colorful new Devil May Care Ice Cream shop
In a setting that would make Willy Wonka proud, Devil May Care Ice Cream & Frozen Treats will open downtown in mid-November on K street between 7th and 8th streets. It’s the second outpost for the West Sacramento artisanal ice…
A 65-foot Ferris wheel rolls into Old Sacramento
Sacramentans can go out for a spin in Old Sacramento with the debut of a 65-foot Ferris wheel in the historic waterfront district. Located in front of Rio City Cafe, the Waterfront Wheel—hosted by Downtown Sacramento Partnership, it will be…
No Annexation Without Representation
A billion-dollar plan to demolish and rebuild the State Capitol annex, design an underground visitors center, and dig up part of our historic Capitol Park for an exclusive parking garage for legislators is at least partly ill-conceived and entirely ill-timed. But there is the potential to create something great, if we just invite more people into “the people’s house.”
The team behind Preservation & Co. sets opening date for Sacramento's first distillery since Prohibition
On Nov. 11, Sacramento’s long booze-making tradition—even in Prohibition, the city was deemed the “wettest” in the U.S., a defiant distinction based on the era's sheer number of illegal downtown speakeasies and local rumrunners—continues when Midtown Spirits opens at 19th…
Sneak Peek: Sacramento chocolatier Ginger Elizabeth Hahn to launch her first pâtisserie
The new Ginger Elizabeth Pâtisserie will open on Oct. 14 with a tempting selection of incurably buttery and shatteringly crisp French-style pastries, also known as viennoiserie, in addition to the artisanal chocolates that have made confectioner extraordinaire Ginger Elizabeth Hahn…
Take a Covid-cautious joyride this fall with these drive-in, drive-thru events
Since Sacramento's traditional outdoor gatherings like concerts and movies in the park are on hold, venues and organizers have taken a cue from an American mainstay—drive-in theaters, steering toward car-centric experiences to ensure physical distancing. From al fresco movies for fall to a moonlit Día de los Muertos celebration with roadside memorials, rolling out has never been so entertaining.
Sacramento chefs take you back to school with live cooking classes
Despite our best efforts to channel our inner Ina Garten or Chrissy Teigen these past months, for many of us, the pandemic has confirmed something we had long suspected about ourselves: cooking will never be our forte. If you too…
A new Sacramento food box delivery service stocks your pantry with locally made gourmet goods
During pre-pandemic times, SacTown Bites was guiding tours of area restaurants like Magpie and The Porch, with groups sampling locally sourced, farm-to-fork dishes along the way. But since shutdowns have forced eateries to offer only takeout and patio dining, the company…
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