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Since opening three weeks ago, Brown Sugar Boba has made a name for themselves locally with their own collection of boba bottles called BSB bear bricks and BSB buddies. (Photo by Gwen Mahler)

Sacramento County businesses are still expanding in the midst of a pandemic

Gwen Mahler, Staff Writer May 6, 2021

Even though the hustle and bustle that is normally Sacramento County has quieted down in the last year doesn’t mean that this county still isn’t expanding and waiting for residents to visit again....

Journalist Dave Kempa stands near the Capitol Mall  in Sacramento, California on Sept. 7, 2017. Kempa is a winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and recently founded Voices: River City, a news website focused on keeping Sacramento weird, bright and talking, according to Kempa. (Photo by Luis Gael Jimenez)

Award-winning journalist and ARC professor launches local media outlet

Ashley Hayes-Stone September 11, 2017

The neon red cross that reads “Jesus saves,” hangs over The Union Gospel Mission’s front door. The red glow illuminates the barbed wire fence that holds back the line of sweaty, hungry men waiting...

All leftover proceeds from the concert will go to the nonprofit Community Against Sexual Harm. (Photo courtesy of Bryan Herndon)

Nonprofit hosts benefit concert to help ex- sex workers

Cheyenne Drury April 20, 2017

Someone very dear to his heart is involved in the world of sex trafficking, she has been a sex worker since she was 14 years old; she is what inspired him to spearhead the benefit concert, Sounds for Safety....

The Crest Theater will be hosting the A Place Called Sacramento film festival on Oct. 7 (Luis Gael Jimenez 2016)

Film festival coming to “A Place Called Sacramento”

Luis Gael September 22, 2016

The 17th annual “A Place Called Sacramento” film festival will be taking place on Oct. 8 at the Crest Theater in Downtown Sacramento. It starts at 7 p.m. The festival serves as a showcase of Sacramento’s...

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