Chalk It Up was born in 1991 and returned to celebrate it’s 27th year this Labor Day weekend! September 2nd-4th artists decorated the sidewalks of downtown Sacramento’s Fremont Park with amazing chalk art. Chalk It Up is a family friendly event with food trucks and live music that included Blue Oaks, The Brodys and Humble … Continue reading
Just because it’s not October doesn’t mean the living dead can’t come out and play! Saturday, August 26th, the dead met up for the 17th annual Sacramento Zombie Walk in Roosevelt Park and flooded out into the streets of downtown Sacramento. You could hear hungry howls and screeches as the living dead wandered the streets. … Continue reading
Once a year we team up with the Crocker Art Museum, in Sacramento CA, to curate their monthly event titled ArtMix. This year the theme was vintage so we brought along some of our favorite local designers and stylists, a banjo and washboard player, traditional circus performers and a vinyl spinning DJ. We built a … Continue reading
Ready for Halloween? Well, the horror comes a little early this year with the return of Sinister Creature Con! The convention, which is in its second year, is all about movie effects and horror. It features guests including Lori Petty (Orange Is The New Black, Gotham), Katherine Isabelle (Hannibal, Freddy vs Jason, Ginger Snaps), and renowned make up artists … Continue reading
The annual Sac Open Studios program, now in its 11th year, includes 150 artists in over six cities in Sacramento County. From 10am – 5pm on Saturday and Sunday, participating Sac Open Studio artists welcomed visitors into their normally private studio spaces where they answered questions about their ideas and processes, talked about past and future … Continue reading
What I’m Listening To is a series where we talk to exciting artists and musicians and get a five song slice of their current playlist. – “I’m definitely gonna continue being a musician after I graduate. I don’t know what else I would do. I’m a barista right now but that isn’t really a career.” … Continue reading
A large, enthusiastic crowd of music-lovers of all ages gathered at Bonney Field at Cal Expo for the second City of Trees festival, hosted by Radio 94.7. The daylong music festival on Sept. 10 featured a Sacramento tent where people could hear local bands like The Color Wild, Arden Park Roots and Pacific Skyway, … Continue reading
Chalk It Up is a free yearly event that takes place during Labor Day weekend. This past weekend was the event’s 26th anniversary. They celebrated by creating many chalk masterpieces all over the sidewalks of Fremont Park in Downtown Sacramento. Over 200 artists worked alongside the public to create chalk artwork over the span of … Continue reading
The Sacramento Mural Festival is now over, but long before it began, the city was known as a home to amazing murals and street art. Here is a photographic tour of some of our favorite pieces in Sac. This art, which features a variety of subject matter, styles, mediums, and artists makes our city beautiful and unique. … Continue reading
Angela Tannehill has been creating since she was a child living in the country. “I’d make things out of whatever was on hand—milkweed pods became mice, seashells turned into frog faces, the paper lining from my mom’s pantyhose became a sketch pad,” she remembers. Growing up in the country gave her a love of nature … Continue reading
News travels fast online and apparently, in Sacramento, so do good deeds. On Aug. 31, artists at the Panama Art Factory were shocked to find someone had broken into their studios and stolen tens of thousands of dollars in art supplies. In the early hours Wednesday, someone made off with camera and photo studio equipment, … Continue reading
2500 minutes, Sarah Marie Hawkins’s most recent series, consists of 50 pen and ink illustrations of anonymous female figures, each rendered within 50 minutes or less and priced in relation to the amount of time they took to complete. Most of the drawings in this series feature a single female figure, which is fragmented or … Continue reading
Comedy at the Ooley Thursday Aug, 11th at the Ooley Theater, 2007 28th St, Sacramento, is having another night full of laughter! Don’t miss out on sets from Ooleys regulars along with some out of town faces, and headliner Myles Weber. Show starts at 8pm. Learn more about the event here. PFM Presents: The … Continue reading
San Kazakgascar describes itself as “quasi-Middle Eastern/Indian psychedelia.” The description is a fitting one as the Sacramento band takes Middle Eastern and Indian sounds, which are already often associated with hippy mind-altering experiences, and weaves them in hypnotic patterns. Their sound is somewhat reminiscent of Dead Can Dance and the sitar music of Ravi Shankar that inspired … Continue reading
King Bloom, The Chili Banditos, Ease, Passing Time, and The Spotless Mind at The Colony King Bloom, The Chili Banditos, Ease, Passing Time, and The Spotless Mind for a show you don’t want to miss. This Wednesday, July 27th, At the Colony, 5322 Stockton blvd, Sacramento. Doors open at 6pm with a $5 entry. So … Continue reading
What I’m Listening To is a series where we talk to exciting artists and musicians and get a five song slice of their current playlist. – “It goes without saying that I work to inspire myself first, but when I put out music I want it to have an effect on people beyond my chin … Continue reading
People put on their cowboy boots for country night this week at Concerts in the Park. The acts this week were Taylor Green, Colleen Heauser, Hannah Jane Kile, Tyler Rich, and DJ Yee Haw played in between sets on the Sacramento Republic FC Electronic Stage.There was line dancing and break dancing, and people blowing bubbles in the summer … Continue reading
ZFG, J*Ras of Soulifted with IrieFuse, and Arden Park Roots kicked off this week’s Concerts in the Park with those fun reggae rhythms. Cesar Chavez Park was packed with hundreds of people dancing or milling about the food trucks or other vendors enjoying themselves and good conversations. One of the highlights was seeing a large … Continue reading
British musician Eliot Sumner is making a solo debut splash. The singer, formerly of I Blame Coco, is the third of Sting’s children and has a remarkably androgynous sound. This is appropriate as the singer recently stated they did not believe in gender labels and did not identify with any particular gender. Sumner’s vocals are low … Continue reading
What I’m Listening To is a series where we talk to exciting artists and musicians and get a five song slice of their current playlist. – “Anything you’re working on should never become too comfortable. Otherwise you’ll start to sleepwalk through the experience, instead of really connecting to it.” Jeremy Greene, singer of Sacramento’s glam … Continue reading
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