Sacramento County Local News: Art, Culture & Media


All Local Art, Culture & Media News articles contributed by our local media allies and other local newsrooms.

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12/30/2023
From elders and entertainers to victims of mass shootings and other violence, the Black community saw an exceptional amount of loss this year.

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12/27/2023
Under new state laws, five cities will test cameras to catch speeding drivers and cruising bans will be lifted statewide. The first is supposed to improve road safety, but critics of the second say it will endanger the public.

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12/25/2023
State audits of the University of California and the California State University found both systems have failed to comply with decades-old state and federal laws mandating the return of Native ancestral remains and cultural artifacts. Only UCLA and Cal State Long Beach have returned a majority of their collections.

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12/21/2023
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In the realm of music, there are those who play the notes and those who transcend them. Enter Max Hart, a virtuoso who started in Sacramento and made it all the way to arena lights around the country.

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12/21/2023
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By Casey Rafter Detroit-born storyteller, multi-instrumentalist, composer, playwright and puppeteer Dalrymple MacAlpin has spent much of his life interpreting the vivid images of his dreams...

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12/19/2023
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Performing arts organizations count on revenue from holiday productions.

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12/19/2023
In the sun-lit chapel of Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael, four Certified Music Practitioners performed Christmas carols, introducing themselves to the patients.

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12/18/2023
It has been an unprecedented year at CapRadio. And one of extreme hardship.  This summer, CapRadio laid off 12% of its staff. And that was just the start of its financial challenges.

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12/06/2023
Relying on newly digitized federal records and other sources, Black Americans are discovering direct bloodlines to Native American ancestors.

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12/04/2023
In conversations about the history and present of Sacramento’s LGBTQ+ communities, the Lavender Heights district in Midtown is often the first area to come to mind.

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11/30/2023
Book bans and racism in publishing make giving the gift of a book written by a Black woman akin to gifting revolution.

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11/20/2023
With its hilly terrain, parts of Los Angeles aren’t always the easiest to build in. But that didn’t stop an architect from building a unique structure in Silver Lake.

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11/17/2023
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How audio masters keep the beat for the city's live entertainment.

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11/03/2023
Sacramento’s Cal Expo will soon be adorned with bright festive light displays with the return of Imaginarium. The “largest holiday light festival” in the capital city will light up Nov. 17 to Jan. 7, and will feature a circus, Santa, an ice skating rink, and games.

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11/02/2023
The Colour of Music Festival is a classical music festival with one important detail: every musician identifies as Black or African American.

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11/01/2023
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Meghna Bhat’s project “Gulabi Stories” uncovers taboo topics and promotes healing within South Asian communities.

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10/31/2023
The San Diego Union-Tribune, which has operated for 154 years, sold to controversial Alden Global Capital last year. It’s not looking great for the paper’s future.

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10/30/2023
Robert Irwin, an artist and MacArthur genius grant recipient, died in San Diego at 95 on Oct. 25. Michael Govan, who heads the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, offers a colorful retrospective on Irwin's work.

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10/27/2023
A video released by comic Hasan Minhaj, who grew up in Davis, tackles elements of a critical article that left the impression he had made up or exaggerated racism in his life.
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