Archive for the 'Life' Category

Sacramento’s Urban Wineries

By William Burg

Sacramento’s urban wineries reflected our city’s ethnic diversity, transportation network, and a close relationship with nearby vineyards. Read more »

The Fashion Issue

I loved the idea of going with a Fashion theme for this issue.

The Sactorialist and Small Medium Large are two of our most popular regular features, and we usually get plenty of feedback on articles about style and designers.  My own fashion sense is about an inch think, so I was happy to turn over the direction for the issue to our contributors. Read more »

Ed’s Threads

By Guphy Gustafson Photos by Scott Duncan

To walk into Ed’s Threads is to enter a tribute to bygone days.  Read more »

Caren Templet

By Niki Kangas  Photos by Scott Duncan

Do you realize that Sacramento plays host to a world-class fashion designer? Caren Templet’s flag is planted firmly at 1801 L St., where window shoppers are sometimes stunned to see haute couture residing in our often-thought-of-as-second-fiddle city. Read more »

Art School Confidential

By Becky Grunewald and Liv Moe Photos by Scott Duncan

“Arty” people have the best style. Many of them have a sort of uniform that they accessorize with bold glasses and unusual shoes. We picked a few of our favorite arty types around town Read more »

Watching Midtown Come to Life

By Tim Holt

When I was growing up here in the 1960s, the cool place to hang out was 35th Street in Oak Park, where the Guild Theater showed films from Europe Read more »

SML – Bags

 by Melody Stone

September is upon us and many folks are back in school, lugging around books and laptops in boring old backpacks. Now’s a great time to explore the custom messenger bag options Sacramento has to offer. Read more »

1911: The Great Annexation

By William Burg

In 1911, Sacramento was a city bursting at its seams. 44,000 people occupied the space between the levees on the Sacramento River, B Street, 31st Street (Alhambra Boulevard) and Y Street (Broadway), less than five square miles. Read more »

Small, Medium, Large

SML Men’s Clothing by Melody Stone

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Reader’s Choice: Life + Style

Compiled by William Burg, Tim Foster, Becky Grunewald, Michele Hebert,
Niki Kangas, Anthony King, Liv Moe, Sarah Singleton and Melody Stone

Photos by Scott Duncan

The answers for the Life + Style section of the Best of Midtown survey offered the most variety of the whole questionnaire. The competition for Best Boutique and Best Auto Repair was fierce, and the Best Annual Event question may have generated the most different answers to any single question. Here’s the winners… Read more »