The Davis Farmers Market turns 50 this summer and marks the milestone anniversary with a new cookbook by its co-founder and a James Beard Award-winning author. Boasting almost 100 recipes using seasonal homegrown ingredients, Market Memories helps bring the farm to your kitchen table all year long.
Over six decades after first showing her work, the Crocker Art Museum is launching a major career retrospective of Sacramento artist Suzanne Adan in June. Touching on themes from mortality and sex to humor and truth (or the lack thereof), the multimedia artist’s pieces have been collected by the likes of art doyenne Marcy Friedman and Tower Records founder Russ Solomon. Oh, and if you’ve ever flown Southwest out of SMF over the last 15 years, she has touched your soles (and perhaps even your soul) with her bird-themed floor mosaic positioned at the entrance to the airport’s people mover. Now at 80, it appears that Suzanne Adan is flying high as well.
Stephen King once wrote, “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” So whether you're venturing to a faraway beach vacation this summer or simply looking to escape to your favorite reading nook, we've conjured up a list of 10 magical new books—all published by homegrown authors in 2026—that will inspire, thrill and transport you.
Comedian Nate Bargatze shows what it means to be the greatest average American at Thunder Valley, B Street Theatre takes flight with Around the World in 80 Days, Sacramento Pride brings the party to Capitol Mall, the Japanese Food & Cultural Bazaar cooks up some summer fun, and more.
Many celebrities grow up in a place, move to Hollywood, make it big, and never look back. Danielle Moné Truitt is not that kind of celebrity. Her résumé ranges from serving as the visual inspiration for Princess Tiana in Disney’s The Princess and the Frog to starring as Sergeant Ayanna Bell alongside Christopher Meloni in Law & Order: Organized Crime. But Truitt has always kept one foot firmly planted in the River City thanks to her family and also her work, like 3: Black Girl Blues—the one-woman show she performed at the B Street Theatre in 2022. And now, having moved back to Sacramento, she is standing 10 toes down on her hometown, shooting a short film she wrote about her childhood and directing Douglas Lyons’ play Don’t Touch My Hair, which runs June 12–28 at Celebration Arts.
Wheelbarrow races, classic carnival rides, jumbo corn dogs, and more. Here are the five can’t-miss county fairs bringing sunny festivities from May to August in 2026.
