Lindsay Oxford

Even with kraft paper over the windows, light is peeking through cracks at Pressed Record Cafe on L Street in Midtown Sacramento, which opens May 19. Upbeat funk emanates from a turntable as the three co-owners prep the final stages of their opening. “I can’t remember who asked me — it might have been one of the landlords — they’re like, is it going to be a record shop with a cafe or is it going to be a cafe with a record shop?” says co-owner Dean Bardouka. According to Bardouka and his busine

ANDERSON VALLEY — Losing Pinot Fest was a blow, said Ken Avery, proprietor of Lula Cellars winery in Philo. “Not just for Lula, but for all of the other wineries that call the Anderson Valley home,” Avery said. He’s right: The Coronavirus’ shelter in place orders have resulted in full or partial closures of the 54 wineries that make up the Anderson Valley Winegrowers Association. The yearly festival normally draws 150 people to area wineries in just a day, but without their tasting rooms, even

Seven solo albums in, Thurston Moore is still consistently producing the kinds of records you can sit with for hours, contemplate and re-contemplate, trying to tease something new out of what you missed on your last listen. It’s something he’s been doing successfully for four decades, and By The Fire continues the streak . By The Fire’s first track, “Hashish,” came out as a single with an accompanying video in June. It’s great as a standalone piece, but it’s also an excellent album opener, too,

“Collapse,” the first video from Christian Singles’ Maybe Another Time LP, begins with Rob I. Miller performing on the screen of a television in a wood panelled den. He’s alone on the screen: also a member of Oakland-based band Blues Lawyer and formerly of Mall Walk, Christian Singles is Miller’s solo project, so it seems fitting to see him strumming there, disembodied hand hitting the snare behind him. Miller escapes the TV, driving a cardboard sedan to an auto graveyard of real-deal machines.

Why do gender swap movies and shows exist? It’s rare for a reboot to right some pop culture wrong, some bit of sexism so egregious that there’s industry penance to be done. Most often, gender-swapped media—think the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot—are at best an attempt at capturing a different viewpoint. At worst, they’re a cynical “X, but Y” cash grab that allows a studio to recycle a property. Luckily, while it doesn’t dive deep into the waters of what it’s like to be a woman in a male-dominated s

“I don’t know that he knows that. I don’t know that he knows we drive in from Folsom,” says Jami Smith. She and her husband are Pancake Circus regulars, arriving every Saturday and Sunday morning for breakfast at the circus-themed diner—something they’ve been doing since their first visit five years ago. The “he” Jami is referring to is Nicholas Ruebel, part of the father-son team that has run Sacramento’s 60-year-plus instit