Q&A with Richard Florida, author of 'Who's Your City?'
In 2002, with his best-selling book The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida kick-started a national conversation about how cities can attract the kind of people that will help them grow and compete. A professor of business and creativity at the University of Toronto, his new book, Who’s Your City?, focuses on helping people choose the city that fits them best. He tells Sactown why our geography and diversity will help propel Sacramento to new heights.
Through the Glass Darkly
A strong, moody new album finds Roseville-raised singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe on the verge of rock stardom
The Art of the Matter
With a Jeff Koons sculpture on the way, tumult in the air, and the clock ticking on the biggest public art opportunity—and gamble—in Sacramento’s history, one key question demands reckoning: Are our artists ready?
Trailer Made
An Auburn composer goes Hollywood with music for movie trailers and television shows.
Eye in the Sky
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s 20-year-old Dusty Schuh, putting his best feet forward in his awe-inspiring, vertigo-inducing photographs of Sacramento
The Vinyl Frontier
Since 2007, when Dilyn Radakovitz, owner of the Sacramento-based Dimple Records chain, helped create Record Store Day, the national event has grown into a beloved rite of spring for music collectors across America. With this year’s celebration on track for Saturday, April 18, and with the recent resurgence in interest for LPs, we’ve spun up a list of the region’s coolest vinyl vendors.
River Cats GM Chip Maxson
After 15 seasons with the Oakland A’s organization, the Sacramento River Cats thrilled San Francisco Giants fans throughout the region last fall by switching affiliations to the reigning World Series champions. With the new season starting April 9, River Cats general manager Chip Maxson talks about what the change means to fans, what else is new at Raley Field for 2015, and our one-of-a-kind ballpark cuisine that has them buzzing all the way down in Florida.
Here He Builds
The governor of California lives in one of his loft projects; the mayor of West Sacramento is moving into one of his townhomes. Even Barack Obama dropped by his office en route to the presidency. The scion of one of Sacramento’s most prominent power couples, developer Mark Friedman is now stepping onto center court, hoping to shape the way we live and play through forward-thinking design, starting with the city’s highest-profile building since the State Capitol. Meet our city’s newest game changer.
Drawn From Life
Illustrator Pascal Campion turns ordinary moments into extraordinary works of art
The Naked City
Stripped of people, cars and color, Dennis Bylo’s streetscapes tell a story of a Sacramento that we rarely see, even when we are staring right at it.
Lester Holt Q&A
Among the ranks of weekend warriors, Lester Holt has few equals. As anchor of Friday evening’s Dateline, as well as Nightly News and the Today show on Saturdays and Sundays, the indefatigable NBC newsman proves why he’s earned the nickname “Iron Pants.” With the 2012 presidential election coming up on Nov. 6, Holt—who grew up in Rancho Cordova and attended Sacramento State—talks about covering politics, cutting his journalistic teeth as a cub reporter for KCRA and KRAK, and kicking butt in bubble soccer.
Actress Analeigh Tipton
Three years after her breakthrough performance in Crazy, Stupid, Love, Analeigh Tipton is revisiting matters of the heart this fall as the star of the new ABC comedy Manhattan Love Story. The 25-year-old actress and America’s Next Top Model alum talks about being in a New York state of mind, bonding with Steve Carell over figure skating, and getting the film bug at St. Francis High School.
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