Sacramento's Freeport Bakery cheesecake hits the sweet spot with a sampler of New York-style slices, from lemon curd to chocolate ganache.

TThink of Suzanne Adan as the City of Sacramento’s unofficial greeter: If you arrive via Sacramento International Airport’s Terminal B, it’s hard to cross the threshold without catching a contagious ...

When your health is on the line, trust matters. That’s why we’ve once again partnered with national research firm Professional Research Services to survey and vet Sacramento-area physicians. The ...

March 11–April 5 Who says you can’t go home again? Not Jack Gallagher. After nearly 40 years in Sacramento, the beloved comedian decamped to his native Massachusetts in 2024 to be closer to family.

We’ve always thought the perfect end to a nightclub crawl in midtown’s Lavender Heights would be to grab a great big crispy, cheesy slice of New York-style pizza after closing down the drag show or ...

Nov. 22 We may be just ordinary people, but as one of only 27 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winners in history, John Legend is anything but. After last year’s swoon-worthy Thunder Valley stop, the ...

The California poppies have yet to unfurl their petals, rolled up tight against the morning chill as 10 of us gather around a brick-paved circle at Soil Born Farms in Rancho Cordova, rubbing our hands ...

The first thing that greets you in the entryway of Horn Barbecue in Elk Grove is a giant mural of a 12-foot-tall bull that is mythic, muscular and regal, wearing a golden crown and charging at you ...

Aug. 6-10 Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the “fairest” fair of all? Why, that would be the one unfolding under the towering pines at the beautiful Grass Valley fairgrounds of the Nevada County Fair ...

July 18-19 Surprise, surprise—California has one juicy secret. Georgia may be known as the Peach State, but we grow more of the blushing fruit than every other state in the nation combined. The ...

You’ve made a career out of being a particularly hard-working basketball player. Can you talk a little bit about your childhood and how that shaped your strong work ethic? I grew up on Bean Ranch ...

Maybe it’s something in the riverine waters, but Sacramento seems to have developed a knack for turning out female writers who exquisitely put pen to paper about their hometown. Think Joan Didion, ...