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Local artist and DJ, Larry "DJ Larry" Rodriguez, collaborated with his brother Mike Rodriguez on dumpster art debuted Friday. The Midtown Association and Republic Services hosted the beautif…
Sacramento's Midtown Association and trash collection firm Republic Services on Friday unveiled a decorated Dumpster. The graffiti-covered blue Dumpster that sat between The Press Club and C…
John Travolta imprinted himself on the consciousness of a generation in 1977 as moody Tony Manero in "Saturday Night Fever." Growing up in working-class Brooklyn, Tony dreams of leaving the …
Roy De Forest has been called a funk artist, a visionary, a mythmaker and a nut. Of these, he preferred the last appellation and wrote what many consider to be … Click to Continue &raq…
May 3 will now be known as "Papa Roach Day" in Vacaville. The multi-platinum rock band based 35 miles from Sacramento was honored by Mayor Len Augustine on Wednesday, when … Click to C…
If museums are charged with the task to preserve, educate and inspire, then the spring exhibitions "YuYu: Marc Johnson," "Dear 1968: Sadie Barnette" and "Recent Gifts" at the Manetti Shrem &…
The Crocker Art Museum has awarded the first John S. Knudsen Prize, which supports a California artist with $25,000. The award has gone to the late Cyrus Tilton, an Oakland-based … Cli…
Sacramento Theatre Company's ambitious new musical "The Donner Party" lurches about looking for an appropriate tone and mood it never quite finds amid much beautiful music in its score. The …
"Ten cuidado!" (be careful) is a call you might hear when listening to Latin jazz, especially when the conguero is freed up for a solo or even better when several … Click to Continue &…
Close, lasting friendships, which are not so simply close, lasting relationships, require tending. They need understanding, forgiveness and acknowledgment of faults " others' and maybe more …
Having jumped on "The Americans" bandwagon last year, I can only watch the current fifth season unfold at the glacial pace of one-hour episodes each week. The noirish FX television … C…
If you heard that Sacramento Theatre Company will produce a world premiere musical based on the story of the legendary Donner Party, you might have thought, "Hmm, that's a nervy … Clic…
When B Street Theater producing artistic director Buck Busfield asked company members Tara Sissom, Amy Kelly and Stephanie Altholz to write a play for themselves, they replied, "What?" More …
References to past art and a sense of mystery, characterize many of Patricia Altschul's quiet yet compelling paintings of women at Archival Gallery. In "Woman with Flowers in Her Lap," ̷…
The new touring production of "The Bodyguard" follows a long and fruitful tradition of turning films into stage musicals. The parade of adaptations included originals that already had music …
The 1961 American courtroom drama film "Judgment at Nuremberg," directed by Stanley Kramer with a screenplay by Abby Mann, fictionalized a military tribunal against German judges and prosecu…
Shaun Burner works on a mural Wednesday of his friend and fellow artist and DJ Daniel Osterhoff on a Sacramento building. Osterhoff, also an electronic music DJ, was well regarded and respec…
Capital Stage co-founder Stephanie Gularte will temporarily return to the theater company she helped create during the upcoming 2017-18 season. The company's original artistic director will …
Daniel Osterhoff, a central figure in Sacramento's visual arts and electronic music scenes, died Saturday from complications following a cardiac arrest. He was 37. News of Osterhoff's death …
Daniel Osterhoff, a central figure in Sacramento's visual arts and electronic music scenes, died April 8 from complications following a cardiac arrest. He was 37. News of Osterhoff's passing…
I was introduced to Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) through my mother's album "Ella Sings the Cole Porter Songbook." That album, the first of Fitzgerald's eight classic Verve songbooks, became t…
Broadway Sacramento must be feeling bullish about the new presenting season of national touring musicals it has just announced. The six show 2017-18 season includes four Sacramento premieres…
Artspace1616 "Large Thoughts " Little Packages" is the title of a show of small, whimsical, wooden sculptures by Roy Tatman. They are up with strong abstractions by Sandra Beard and … …
This time of year makes Gaw Vang Williams want to sing. It's Festival of the Arts at California State University, Sacramento. "The fact that we get to contribute a whole … Click to Con…
A new Sacramento Kings mural stretches the length of a basketball court where teens play every day " but it's not visible to the public. The artwork featuring the Sacramento … Click to…
