Sacramento County Art, Culture & Media Digest

In a November 14 press conference, City of Sacramento officials outlined a planned major investment in the Old Sacramento Waterfront. Read on for details.

A list of Dia de los Muertos celebrations taking place in Sacramento County.

An update of the first listening session with local arts groups hosted by Solving Sacramento.

Sacramento State has put a corrected version of the CapRadio audit report online.

Grab your costume and your merch bag for the "Not Your Typical Comic Con" Comic Con at the Sunrise Mall on August 17 & 18.

Officials citing a need for "clarifications and corrections" without naming a date for the report to be re-released.

Two Citrus Heights neighborhoods participated in the first city National Night Out on August 6.

Sacramento State University released findings from an audit of Capital Public Radio which included misuse of funds and mismanagement of records.

A list of National Night Out Events in Citrus Heights.

Join the folks participating in the Solving Sacramento journalism collaborative on September 5.

Video of the full Tiny Desk Concert by Sacramento's The Philharmonik.

In its May 21 meeting, the Sacramento City Council voted to put a measure on the November ballot to combine two existing library parcel taxes and extend them indefinitely.

More than half of the U.S. House supports a bill to extend the funds, but it can’t get out of committee.

Capital Public Radio is terminating its operating agreement this summer with the nonprofit that exists solely to support the NPR-affiliate station that operates under the broadcasting license of California State University Sacramento.

Reporters, photographers and an opinion writer for The Sacramento Bee earned five top prizes and were recognized as finalists in four categories Thursday evening at the Sacramento Press Club Journalism Awards.

I thought my journalism and others’ could change policy, perhaps even inspire a New Deal-style response equal to the challenge. Such was my naiveté.

It quickly became clear that Elon Musk’s SpaceX was responsible for the show. The lights were a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 new Starlink satellites into orbit. The rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:30 p.m., and it’s trail was visible from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree National Park.

By Helen Harlan | Solving Sacramento

Passion, policy and opportunity intersected on the evening of March 13 when Atrium 916 and Black Artist Foundry held a creative economy meeting.

The March 11 edition of the Los Angeles Times print edition will be its last at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.

Intro to Media Arts students at El Camino Fundamental High School are the voices and talent driving this area radio station.

A list of Sacramento area museums offering discounted memberships in March.

Capital Public Radio’s Board of Directors elected nine new members, four months after a majority of the board resigned in the wake of a scathing financial audit of the Sacramento-based NPR member station.

Tom Karlo has resigned his position as CapRadio’s interim president and general manager, but will remain on as a “special consultant,” the station’s board of directors announced after an emergency closed session meeting.

The nonprofit organization responsible for the annual 10-day-long summer arts festival is facing pushback after unveiling its newest murals on the WellSpace Health building in Little Saigon.

Journalism and democracy are undeniably intertwined. As the late media critic James Carey put it, “No journalism, no democracy; but, equally, no democracy, no journalism.”

The Crocker Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Black Artists in America, from Civil Rights to the Bicentennial,” showcases over 60 works from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, offering an artistic glimpse into a compelling era.

UC Merced will be highlighted on an Amazon Prime show that showcases universities around the world.

The Grateful Dead have broken the record for the most Top 40 albums to chart on the Billboard 200.

She toured the world wowing audiences, and she captured the public’s imagination for decades. No, not Taylor Swift; Ellen Beach Yaw, also known as Lark Ellen.

James Dean’s last stop before he died in a car crash was at Blackwell’s Corner, a gas station in rural Kern County. His memory isn’t the draw it once was.

A shrink-wrapped Endeavour was hoisted and then carefully placed in its final location at the still-under-construction Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.