He is the most prolific public artist in Sacramento, and now, J.M. Knudsen is expanding his vision for a more creative city.

El Dorado County Fair. June 12-15 One word can describe this venerable fair that’s been going strong since 1859—and that word is racy.Not in the va-va-voom sense, but the vroom-vroom one. Whether ...

Soon after, the box found its way into the pages of The New York Times.The paper was seeking opinions from epidemiologists and airborne virus experts about plexiglass shields being used to guard ...

Portrait by Max Whittaker Stephen Kaltenbach at the Crocker Art Museum on Dec. 12 backdropped by his painting "Portrait of My Father" . S Stephen Kaltenbach stands in front of a portrait he painted of ...

Nixtaco’s Spicy Tofu Taco. Nearly a decade into Nixtaco’s stellar run as one of Northern California’s best taquerias—and with a three-year Michelin Bib Gourmand streak and raves in The New York Times ...

Rendering courtesy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill A rendering of the proposed 557-foot-tall tower at 301 Capitol Mall that would include 100 residential units on the top floors . In Korean culture, ...

Best Ray of Hope . It was the chant heard around the NBA world over the past year. Wherever the Kings went and won, whether it was Brooklyn’s Barclays Center or Phoenix’s Footprint Center or LA’s ...

As Mahatma Gandhi once said, “In the midst of darkness, light persists.” Through the fog of 2020, here are 25 people, places and things around the region—from our heroic health care workers fighting ...

BEST TRAIL FOR LOCKING EYES WITH A LOVE INTEREST. Winding 37 miles between Folsom and Camino, the El Dorado Trail crosses all manner of Sierra foothill terrain and has something for everyone. The ...

I If you could distill California—reduce it to its essence and sip it on a warm evening as the Delta breeze cooled the back of your neck or the sun dissolved into the Pacific—what would end up in the ...

At the base of Eagle’s Way, where the climb turns from rocks and boulders to sheer vertical granite, the timer will start. There, after bounding leisurely up nearly 800 feet in 36 minutes on the ...

T Take a look at The New York Times paperback best-seller list from Aug. 27, 1995 , and in the top 10 slots for fiction, you’ll recognize household names like Stephen King at No. 2, Tom Clancy at No.