June 22, 2020
A conversation with Sacramento Ballet Artistic Director Amy Seiwert about virtual summer classes and how the company has adjusted to the coronavirus pandemic.
June 16, 2020
Photographer Kevin Fiscus joins the show to talk about his portrait feature in the Sacramento Magazine honoring local heroes in the COVID-19 battle.
June 10, 2020
We're updating a list of live musical performances from around the world, categorized by date and genre.
June 10, 2020
Books can be an effective escape from the reality of the world, but some people who write for a living are finding their creativity challenged right now. We talk about it with local author T.R. Ragan and her recently released book.
June 8, 2020
School’s out and summer activities are on hold. We’ll get into some ideas for arts and crafts you can do with your kids to cut down screen time; plus, you can make a visit to an outdoor museum in Woodland.
June 4, 2020
A handful of San Francisco missionaries gave sanctuary to Chinatown’s prostitutes and their children starting in the Gold Rush. Julia Flynn Siler delivers non-fiction accounts of the women who escaped prostitution and the women who helped them.
May 28, 2020
A look ahead to the weekend and updates on the Tiny Desk Contest with CapRadio Modern Music Director Nick Brunner.
May 27, 2020
Local artist and author Caren Halvorsen talks about her at-home jewelry and craft-making, and why she wants to donate her work.
May 26, 2020
A look at a trio of local film festivals and how you can enjoy movies virtually beyond your favorite streaming service.
May 19, 2020
Acclaimed writer John Freeman talks about his fourth collection of poetry “The Park,” and his experience of living in New York during the pandemic.
May 18, 2020
Filmmaker Marc Waszkiewicz and musician Lea Jones join the show ahead of Memorial Day to discuss their collaboration on the documentary ‘Vietnam: An Inner View.’
May 14, 2020
Insight talks with a pair of Nevada County women who launched a new podcast amidst the pandemic called, "Dating When the World Is Gonna End."
May 7, 2020
An El Dorado Hills couple talks about their new COVID-19-themed children’s book “Has Anyone Seen Normal? A Coronavirus Tale”
May 5, 2020
Sacramento-based musician Lori-Sacco Nelson talks about her new song ‘The Frontline,’ an anthem dedicated to health care workers.
April 30, 2020
Dr. Carolee Tran and her family escaped Vietnam in the ‘Fall of Saigon’ 45 years ago today. Tran wrote about it in her new memoir and sees parallels in life then, and now.
Arts and Lifestyle NEWS
July 1, 2020
Of the 819 artists and executives invited to join this year, the Academy says 45 percent are women and 36 percent are from underrepresented ethnic and racial communities.
July 1, 2020
Nearly a thousand arts organizations across the country are receiving funds from the CARES Act. But the National Endowment for the Arts says the $44 million in grants it announced today is not enough.
July 1, 2020
With their emphasis on interactive exhibits, children's museums must balance safety and survival in their decisions to reopen. Several have permanently closed since the onset of the pandemic.
July 1, 2020
Alums of the unscripted CBS hit say the show routinely stereotypes Black contestants. They state its production is hampered by systemic racism that makes it tougher for Black participants to succeed.
June 30, 2020
Anaya's 1972 classic Bless Me, Ultima — about a young Mexican American boy and his curandera mentor in New Mexico in the 1940s — inspired a generation of Chicano writers.
February 14, 2020
“Alabaster,” a new play by Sacramento’s Capital Stage, features talking animals on an obscure farm in Alabama. CapRadio Theatre Critic Jeff Hudson says it’s an absorbing trip into the lives of characters who are well worth meeting.
December 13, 2019
Sacramento’s Capital Stage is presenting another holiday season play recalling British writer Jane Austen. Critic Jeff Hudson says this nimble production will particularly appeal to fans of PBS serials like “Downton Abbey” and “Upstairs, Downstairs.”
September 19, 2019
The Capital Stage production of "Between Riverside and Crazy," about a retired black cop and the diverse assortment of locals who visit his apartment, continues through Sept. 29 in Sacramento.
August 2, 2019
The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival provides a funny, fiesty performance of "The Taming of the Shrew," with director Sara Bruner at the helm.
July 23, 2019
Think of “Million Dollar Quartet” as a nostalgic two-hour party in the great outdoors, studded with classic tunes by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
