AAPI Night Market 2024
Immediately when you look up the AAPI Night market you will find aapinightmarket.com where you’re greeted with a video that has you drooling, dancing, and longing to be there. The AAPI Night Market is May 31st, 2024 from 5PM–10PM on Capitol Mall. Tickets start at $20 for students and seniors and are only $25 for everyone else. If you […]
Evolving Downtown Takes a Village and Vision
Downtown is ripe with potential. I see it when there’s live music in Old Sac, groups of friends in line at the bars, coworkers eating lunch and hanging out in Cesar Chavez Plaza, and at festivals on Capitol Mall. During these moments — people build core memories downtown, they recognize its magic, and imagine their […]
Found Downtown: PLA
Within our Found Downtown series we’ve highlighted the communities that call downtown home, deserve to have some limelight, and make downtown special. We give you: PLA PLA Skateboard Supply is a skateboard shop that opened in 2006, selling apparel, boards, and tools. They’re known for having the sickest gear and apparel, but also connection. Skaters from […]
_____ Downtown with Community Builder Danielle Foster
How would you like to live two blocks away from your favorite restaurant? How about five blocks away from a state-of-the-art arena where you can see some of the best performers in the world? How do you feel about walking to work, the gym, a coffee shop, your salon, restaurants, bars, a park, and more […]
_____ Downtown with Photographer Will Thompson
Sacramento has a thriving community of creatives. It’s evident by the photographers roaming parking garage roofs, the murals greeting you above every block, and now the film crews in the streets. Sacramento’s creative accolades are only growing. In our next installment of _____ Downtown, we sat down with one of those creatives who has captured […]
_____ Downtown with Chef Ravin Patel
By now you’ve probably read The New York Times feature “How Sacramento Turned Into a Great Restaurant City” by Ella Quittner. If you live here, it wasn’t anything you didn’t already know about our food scene, but there was a specific quote from Ben Roberts, owner of Pizza Supreme Being, that was incredibly refreshing to […]
Gift Guide: For the Style Icon
Style is quite personal, but if you know the person well enough, you’ll be able to add unique pieces to their collections. Theadeco Threadeco reclaims discarded items from big brands and sells them at affordable costs. This is a plus for the sustainability lover in your life! $15-$50 Mea Vita This coat linen coat is […]
Gift Guide: White Elephant Gifts
Marlee Wallace Here are some white elephant gifts that are sure to get stolen because people will actually want them! Golden Gifts Everyone these days has a Stanley, go the extra mile and get it bedazzled. Bedazzled Tumbler $30-$40 American Legacy Okay hear me out, this shirt is so funny. We all know that person […]
A Night at the Citizen
Jordan Alwood View this post on Instagram A post shared by Downtown Sacramento (@downtownsac) It’s almost summer– which means this is the perfect time for a vacation! However, you don’t need to drive 2 hours away for some time to relax. The Citizen is here and ready to give you the vacation you need without […]
The Most Instagram-able Places in #DowntownSac
After being cooped up in your home for so long we know that you are eager to go out into the world and start having some sense of normal. One of the things you could be thinking of while you are getting ready to go out is, “where can I take my next Instagram picture?” […]