Your 2025 Guide to Outdoor Movie Screenings in the Sacramento Area
Break out the lawn chairs and the popcorn, bring a light jacket for when the Delta Breeze rolls in, and cozy up with your friends and family for a summer night movie (and a few fall ones, too). Whether you’re in the mood for classics like The Goonies and Big, recent blockbusters like Wicked, or animated family fare like Moana 2, these grassy lawns, museum courtyards, and even swimming pools are the place to be.
Pretty Enough To Eat
Over the past year, Jeff Nebeker’s ceramic doughnuts have gone deliciously viral, with each new batch attracting lines around the block outside midtown’s Elliott Fouts Gallery. With National Doughnut Day fast approaching on June 6, we talk to the 68-year-old Sacramento artist and former baker about his “yum aesthetic.”
Q&A with NBA Great Bill Cartwright
As a five-time NBA champion, Bill Cartwright is unequivocally the winningest basketball star to ever emerge from Sacramento. The 7-foot-1 former big man is best known as the starting center who competed alongside Michael Jordan on the Chicago Bulls team that three-peated in the early ’90s. Now 67, the Elk Grove High alum and Gold River resident talks about growing up on a farm, his thoughts on today’s NBA, and why Sacramento “is the place to be.”
Out and About in May and June 2025
There’s an Englishman in Wheatland as Sting takes the Hard Rock stage, the ninth annual Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival lights up the screen at The Sofia, Channel 24 welcomes Leon Bridges to midtown at the city’s newest music venue and more. Here are 10 can’t-miss events rounding out the spring.
Where She Was From
Life for E.A. Hanks, who grew up in the Fabulous Forties as the daughter of Tom Hanks, may have looked like it was coming up roses. Too often, though, the reality was anything but, as the self-described “Sacramento girl” details in her poignant new book, "The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road", which follows a childhood shaped by her mother’s mental illness and a writer’s search for the truth, thorns and all.
The Art of Appropriation
A new museum retrospective spotlights the late Sacramento painter and professor Wayne Thiebaud as a master student of art history. From da Vinci to Picasso, great artists have always studied and copied their predecessors on the way to creating their own singular masterpieces. As this exhibit shows, Thiebaud is still teaching. The lesson: Imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery.
Out and About in March and April 2025
Proud Mary keeps on burning in Broadway Sacramento's Tina Turner musical, everything beautiful happens at night for Capital Stage, Jack Gallagher is both funnyman and front man with his musical comedy show at The Sofia, and more. Here are 10 events helping this spring bloom that much brighter.
25 Can’t-Miss Events to Check Out in 2025
Concerts, food festivals, films, art exhibits, plays, musicals, comedy & more.
The Maestro of Mardi Gras
Meet Wes Samms, the bedazzled master of ceremonies behind the City of Trees Parade—one of Sacramento’s biggest, loudest and most joyful civic celebrations.
Can't-miss events kicking off in February
A seldom-told part of World War II history lands at the California Museum, Drag Race winner and author Sasha Velour takes the Mondavi Center stage, star-crossed lovers dance a world premiere at the SAFE PAC, and more.
Start 2025 Off Right with Can't-Miss Events Around the Region
Concerts, art exhibits and more are starting the year on a high note.
Out and About in January and February 2025
High-flying adventure abounds in Cirque Kalabanté's Mondavi Center debut, The FORCE is with LL Cool J at Thunder Valley, we’re going nuts for the 110th Capay Valley Almond Festival, and more. Here are 10 local events to help start the year off right.
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