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Just in time for the start of Sacramento Cocktail Week comes a new cookbook dedicated to Sacramento cocktails and the mixologists behind them. Authors Garrett McCord and Callista Polhemus join us to talk about how the book came to be.

A village of small houses for the homeless is now open in the city of Marysville.

California wines contributed $57.5 billion to the state's economy last year.

The stage of Sacramento's Community Center Theatre is packed with 10 pianos, side by side. On Sunday, 200 young pianists from around the globe will take turns playing simultaneously. It's part of the biannual Suzuki International 10 Piano Concert.

Downtown Sacramento merchants are tentatively in support of proposed parking rates for events at the Golden 1 Center. The Sacramento Business Journal's Digital Editor Sonya Sorich has details on that story...plus news about beer and ramen.

This nostalgic musical at the Music Circus blends 1920's Gershwin tunes with a script from 2012 involving Prohibition-era bootleggers. Critic Jeff Hudson says the high energy dancing is great fun but the characters are cliché, the story cartoonish.

California lawmakers churned through more than 500 bills one-by-one in the blink of an eye Thursday. The Senate and Assembly appropriations committees froze some measures while advancing and amending others – all without any debate or explanation.

Remember when school started after Labor Day? If you can you may be dating yourself a bit. The first day of class for California schools is getting earlier and earlier.

A new report finds fewer Sacramento area homeowners were underwater during the second-quarter, meaning they didn't owe more than their home was worth. Research firm ATTOM Data Solutions says 8 percent of homeowners were underwater.

With just a few week remaining in California's legislative session, many are asking about some of the major bills that will pass or fail. Today in Capitol Chat, Capitol Bureau Chief Ben Adler joins us to discuss what might survive the session.