At 60 years old, weighing in at more than 200 pounds, and with a 45-year history of substance abuse, Dwight Armstrong had tried nearly everything to stay clean and sober. The Sacramento native has...
Author - Karen Wilkinson
San Francisco hosts the Yoga Journal conference, Colorado gets the Hanuman festival, Squaw Valley has the coveted Wanderlust festival, and Joshua Tree is home of Bhakti Fest. These big-name yoga...
Food trucks, a singing competition, a classic car show, live funk and soul music, bounce houses, face painting and plein air painters. If the aforementioned sounds like a street fair, you’re...
Elizabeth Studebaker started scoping out spots in Midtown for a farmers’ market three months into her job. The director of the Midtown Business Association’s first pick was the parking lot adjacent...
A vehicle ran into the Safeway on Alhambra Boulevard Monday morning, making a mess out of its floral department and creating a big hole in its facade. Shortly after 9 a.m., emergency and law...
A woman was robbed of her phone Wednesday night while walking near I and 20th streets, according to the Sacramento Police Department. At 10:04 p.m., the woman was approached by four men who...
While much yoga in the West tends to be practiced at studios and parks, or in front of a TV screen with an instructional video playing, one Sacramento studio is bringing the ancient healing practice...
A little too much coffee and the desire to divert attention from hairstylist Jake Desrocher’s low retail sales is what spawned "Fly Fest," an annual mashup of music, art, fashion, vendors...
A 29-year-old man allegedly propositioned a woman for sex near Broadway and 34th Street early Tuesday morning, and when she refused, followed her before attacking and attempting to sexually assault...
For the past week I’ve been on a juice cleanse. Drinking vegetable and fruit juice three times a day, along with cutting down on caffeine and eliminating alcohol and other vices. There’s...
For the first decade of its nearly 17-year history, Two Rivers Cider was close to a one-man show, with founder and owner Vincent Sterne at center stage. While building his hard cider business, Stern...
Trish Wallis didn’t used to walk around her Midtown neighborhood carrying a personal taser, nor did she leave her purse at home when going out at night. But a few months back, when a wave of...
Before Insight Coffee Roasters opened its doors at 8th and S streets nearly 17 months ago, there were plans to open other locations. So when the Southside roastery announced its plans to extend...
A man found tangling from ropes and hanging from the 17th floor of a downtown high-rise building Monday morning apparantly accidentally died of asphixiation and was likely a graffiti tagger...
While the Midtown and greater community is uniting to raise money for the Josiah Humphreys reward fund, police are chipping away at the homicide investigation. Sacramento Police Department detectives...
Did you know that Sutter Middle School was built atop a former cemetery, and room 302 gives people the heebie jeebies? Or that a prostitute killed in the building that houses Biba restaurant on...
It didn’t happen overnight. Or in the span of a week, month or even year. Nothing worthwhile ever does. No, it’s still happening and taking on new forms every day. And my happiness has...
A man was killed early Friday morning in South Oak Park after being shot multiple times. At 35th Street and 26th Avenue, police responded to reports of shots fired in the area and found a man lying...
It’s hard for Veronica Humphreys to explain how the loss of her younger brother has impacted her life. The grief never ceases, she said, and normal activities like eating and sleeping have become a...
A man was walking home the night of St. Patrick’s Day in Midtown, near D and 20th when one man approached him and made gay-bashing comments. Then another man hit him with a bat while making...