Rob Turner

In 2010, a new kind of swivel chair emerged, acting as a people magnet in cities around the world. It’s time for Sacramento to make some heads turn too.

Companies have broken out, taking their shows into parks and playgrounds with environmental theater. We should think outside the black box too.

A new cereal bar, Cerealism, opens in Old Sacramento and serves up everything from Corn Pops to Instagrammable backdrops.

Frank Fat’s is Sacramento’s oldest restaurant. Fat Family Restaurant Group CEO Kevin Fat talks about the challenges facing both downtown and the restaurant industry.

Pocket forests are sprouting in cities around the globe as a surprisingly effective way to fight climate change. It’s time to branch out.

Last year, Sacramento lost Wayne Thiebaud. We should remember our greatest hometown artist with a museum befitting his global stature.

Many cities have combined street furniture with great literature to create book benches, beautifying urban landscapes and improving literacy.

Read about our proposal for a Tower Bridge climb and other fun ideas down below. (Photo by Eli Margetich)When my co-editor and wife Elyssa Lee and I launched Sactown in 2006, our mission was to shine a bright spotlight on the people, places and things that make our region the amazing place that it i…

In Baltimore, a school of large-mouth garbage gobblers is keeping the harbor clean. We should reel one in right here in Sacramento.

In many cities around the country, people are looking down on public art—about 5 to 6 feet down. It’s time to wash that gray right out of our streets.

In recent months, proposals emerged for two of the last opportunity sites on Capitol Mall. Each tells a very different story about civic ambition, smart planning and political prudence—or the lack thereof.