Norcal Noisefest, Sacramento’s long-running festival of noise and experimental music, returns this weekend (Oct. 3, 4 and 5) with 37 performers, including many local musicians sharing the stage...
Author - William Burg
Sacramento Old City Association’s 39th annual Home Tour, scheduled for this Saturday, September 20, highlights the northern end of Midtown Sacramento, featuring seven historic Midtown homes...
The new film Cesar Chavez opened this weekend, helping raise awareness about the labor leader’s pivotal role in American labor and civil rights history. Sacramento has an opportunity to portray...
Downtown Sacramento with the central city “grid,” .5 mile and 1 mile radii indicated in red, green and blue. According to a recent report, Sacramento’s downtown core is among the most...
On Tuesday evening, the Sacramento City Council voted to dedicate $5 million to open a performing arts center in Midtown’s Fremont School. Located at 24th and N Street, the school was used as...
From 1967 to 1973, Sacramento was home to the world’s most respected journal of avant-garde music and art, called Source Magazine. The late 1960s were a period of dramatic social change in the...
On Sunday, September 15, Sacramento Old City Association presents its 38th annual Historic Home Tour in the Manison Flats neighborhood. Each year, SOCA showcases a central city neighborhood, giving...
My new book Sacramento Renaissance owes a lot to Sacramento Press. Several sections of the book were developed from articles originally written for Sacramento Press, including articles about how...
I call Stan Lunetta "the Maestro of Poverty Ridge." Neighbors who knew of my involvement with the Norcal Noisefest told me I should meet him, but we only met last summer while preparing for...
At 412 L Street, the Showcase Theater was one of the last downtown movie houses, opening in 1966 as an expansion of the older Lincoln Theater at the same address. With eight hundred seats, the...
The year 1979 was pivotal for Sacramento’s gay community. In March, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. banned discrimination against homosexuals in state employment, via executive order. On March 11...
The Town House was just one of those bars. Once every couple of years they closed for a few months–according to the rumor mill, due to another ABC violation for selling to a minor. Once a year...
Sacramento Press has carried several stories about the proposed McKinley Village development north of East Sacramento over the past few months. This Saturday, Sacramento Old City Association (SOCA)...
Yesterday, Sacramento Press contributor Tony Sheppard challenged fellow readers and contributors to share what they would do with a theoretical $250 million, in a way that might bring a greater...
In order to build a downtown arena, Sacramentans will have to give up that which they hold dearest: free parking. The funding plan requires expansion of on-street metering downtown, and will increase...
On Monday, March 18, Turn Downtown Around presents a Public Forum, a discussion of how downtown Sacramento reached its current state, what its situation is today, and what can be done by regular...
During the late 19th and early 20th century, American cities showed their stuff by holding elaborate fairs. They showcased the host city with specially designed fairgrounds and elaborate exhibits...
Join Sacramento Heritage, Inc. on Saturday, February 9 for a "Dessert Tour." This two-hour stroll through Midtown Sacramento’s residential and business district will visit...
Many who visit downtown Sacramento note that, on evening or weekends, it seems like a ghost town. There is little pedestrian traffic, and most businesses are closed. In some ways, downtown Sacramento...