Best Fruitful Endeavor Over the past four decades, the Happiest Place on Earth has been all the sweeter thanks to a frozen treat invented by a UC Davis alum. That makes this iconic, creamy creation ...

The Scene Setter If dining out is a theatrical experience, then Sacramento interior designer Whitney Johnson may be the city’s leading set designer, crafting visual feasts to complement the edible art ...

We asked 15 local chefs and restaurateurs where and what they eat after they’ve hung up their aprons at the end of the day. Their answers didn't disappoint.

“By Any Means Necessary, I Will Keep Being an Artist.” Painter. Bluesman. Filmmaker. Educator. After retiring in 2012 from UC Davis, where he was an art professor for 43 years—and on the eve of a solo ...

BEST MAKER OF SUSTAINABLE JOY Hope Suson is on a mission. What started as crafting her own soap and candles and a fondness for sewing blossomed three years ago into Ecojoyous—a maker-fueled charge to ...

On the verge of his first solo American museum show in over 40 years, Stephen Kaltenbach reflects on the man who inspired his masterwork—his father.

A Life of Crime (the Perfectly Legal Kind) John Lescroart became an “overnight” success at 45, and the Davis author has since published 19 New York Times best-selling legal thrillers, with his 30th ...

Something’s brewing in Davis. The new UC Davis Coffee Center is America’s first academic facility dedicated entirely to the research of coffee.

Q&A with NBA Great Bill Cartwright As a five-time NBA champion, Bill Cartwright is unequivocally the winningest basketball star to ever emerge from Sacramento. Drafted by the New York Knicks in 1979 ...

The Humor, the Ardor and the Candor of Darrin Bell In 2019, Darrin Bell became the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and his nationally syndicated comic strip ...

As one of the world's most accomplished and record-breaking climbers, Carmichael native Alex Honnold sets new standards in fearlessness.

What’s old is new and what’s new is newsworthy in Sactown's Best of the City 2023—the local people, places and things that have caught our eyes this year.