Back on the Aftershock Festival beat with my story on the 2023 lineup drop \m/

Have fun with this one #Sacramento ... also #2 erryday

Sacramento, it may be gray out but according to our most reliable indicator--the Osaka-Ya snow cone window--it is spring for real

Required reading from José Vadi at KQED KQED Food if you like any combo of the following: #Sacramento, pizza, skateboarding, punk rock kqed.org/arts/13928196/…

Props to mi hermano @Nattotodd for this rad story on Fanny, a pioneering all-female rock band with ties to #Sacramento and Davis. A screening of their documentary, "Fanny: The Right to Rock," is going down Monday at the Crest Theater datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/fanny-ri…

News is breaking around the #Sacramento restaurant community that Chris Jarosz has passed away. RIP to the founder of Broderick Roadhouse, Bones Craft Kitchen and other spots as well.

Shout out to Mariecar Mendoza for the fun chat and pic today! Don't sleep on that #BottleRock coverage this weekend in the San Francisco Chronicle \m/

Had tons of fun writing about the N-Men, a legendary #Sacramento skateboard crew that's the subject of an award winning documentary. Enjoy and long may you roll! sacbee.com/entertainment/…

“‘I appreciate the fact that he has advanced skills and is very well-educated,’ she says, ‘but never makes you feel stupid.’” for KQED Arts & Culture KQED, take a sneak peak into Ted Barrow’s new Thrasher Magazine series THIS OLD LEDGE kqed.org/arts/13931352/… big thanks to Gabe Meline

cover reveal 🫣 Introducing my new book CHIPPED out April 16, 2024 on @softskullpress 🎉 Designed by Michael Salu w/ Nicole Caputo as art director. You can pre-order it today through the link below or by calling your local bookstore: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738576/c…

R.I.P. to Juanishi Orosco, a pillar of the #Sacramento arts community, educator and card carrying member of the Royal Chicano Air Force. Will always cherish these works of his (and others) that I collected over the years. C/S

Always fun to be on the Aftershock Festival beat for The Sacramento Bee \m/ Here's how it's going down and the future for Aftershock and its sister festival, GoldenSky Festival

Aftershock, we’re dropping a 2024 bombshell that's about to rock your world. You asked for epic, but we're delivering legendary. Prepare for a metal invasion like no other, as we announce a headliner for Aftershock 2024–the legendary, the relentless, the face-melting…

A cocktail and spirits scene is booming in #Napa wine country. My story in the San Francisco Chronicle explains why and what's next. Cheers!

If this is a taste of how 2024 is going down, might as well stay under the covers all year. R.I.P. Sam's Hof Brau :( sacbee.com/food-drink/res…

“In skating, Vadi found “a compass, a lens, a portal to joy only found by trying.” “Chipped” offers the same even to those of us who have never stepped onto a board.” — Los Angeles Times 📚 In bookstores Tuesday 4/16 Soft Skull Press

Author and essayist José Vadi joins us to explore skating’s mainstream appeal, models-slash-skaters, and his new book “Chipped: Writing From a Skateboarder’s Lens.” 🛹 interviewmagazine.com/sports/literar…