My first introduction to Chef Bryan Widener came on a cold New Year’s Eve not even an hour into 2012. After ringing in the new year in Southside Park, word spread that Doughbot, the new doughnut shop down the street, was serving fresh doughnuts into the morning. I ran the...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
I Am Not Okay With This Rated TV-MA If Stephen King is your spirit animal, watch I Am Not Okay With This. Hear me out. I was recently reading (OK, re-reading) Stephen King’s book about writing. A large part of the book involves his journey to becoming, well, Stephen King—and...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
When it comes to the soundtracks of our lives, few things scream pop-punk as much as our teen years—or at least that’s how new local punk collaboration Lousy Advice sees it. Formed by Shelby Murray and Eric La Febre of Sad Girlz Club, and Jacob DeSersa of Lightweight, Lousy Advice...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
Monday through Friday, Shane Quidachay, better known as Shane Q, gets up early in the morning, starts his day with a cup of coffee and drives a minivan for the Sacramento organization, United Cerebral Palsy, where he has worked for the last six years. This has been an average weekday...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
Humor is a great medicine for fear. I understand that better than anyone. My mother often marvels—which is to say, recoils—at my ability to find humor in just about any situation. I admit that this is my chief defense mechanism for situations that I can’t curl in a ball and...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
While you are busy playing on your phone, Sacramento’s own Cory Barringer finds the time to be in a band, perform stand-up comedy, produce numerous live variety shows, draw hilarious comic strips and produce perhaps the most thoughtful podcast about Digimon that has ever been created. A man of many...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
If you wander from Sacramento’s state capitol toward K Street, you’ll probably see some construction and a collection of storefronts that have rotated ownership, branding or both over the last several years, like most of downtown’s restaurant and retail scene. However, tucked away snugly in the former Senator Hotel, you’ll...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
People who assumed that the fire and flash of early career hits like “Kerosene” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” described the extent of Miranda Lambert’s musical persona have been wrong-footed time and again in the ensuing years. Her rightly earned celebrity has continued to grow in the past decade on the strength...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
Keith Lowell Jensen and Johnny Taylor Jr. are two Sactown natives who followed their dreams in comedy. They’ve shared almost everything together, from countless travels on the open road to the stage, where audiences burst into endless laughter. This year, these brothers from other mothers want to bring their show...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
At this point in the 21st century, living a life void of technology is practically impossible. Though electronic advancements have evolved leaps and bounds for people in terms of convenience, daily interactions with devices has created stress, insecurities and anxiety among all us humans. Come Thursday, March 19 to the...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
Sausage. A summer barbecue staple or a morning breakfast. However you eat these meaty delights, hopefully they turn out totally tasty. Making these grilled links may seem simple, but making the best of the bratwurst is truly a culinary art form. For the curious and eager, come learn how to...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
We like to think we know everything, but it’s not true. That’s certainly the case when it comes to presidents of the United States. There have been 45 presidents so far, but can you honestly say you know much about any one of them? I’m even willing to wager that...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
Have you ever wanted to fly or see the world from a bird’s eye view? The truth is we can’t all be Superman, but just because we can’t physically whisk up into the air whenever we want doesn’t mean we can’t zoom in the sky somehow. That’s where drones come...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
At the far end of a large exhibit room on the second floor of the California Museum, a child’s voice plays with subtitles on a dark screen. He talks about life in solitary confinement and how the prison guards don’t take his ankle irons off even to take a shower....| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
Before industrial music claimed a mass youth audience in the ‘90s, thanks in part to the danceable brutalism of Nine Inch Nails and the parent-scaring theatricality of Marilyn Manson, it belonged to a much larger, less-publicized musical underground, just one untamed species among others as disparate as hardcore punk and...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
Occasionally, I get a chance to write about a band I’ve gotten to know personally in Sacramento’s punk scene. In writing up those interviews, I tend to quell my excitement and make a point to stay out of their narrative. But with Pisscat—a three-piece punk band from Sacramento whose new...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
Are you a fan of electronic music or simply want to rack-up some new skills on a new instrument? Look no further, the Library of MusicLandria (2181 Sixth Ave.) is hosting an introductory class on the basic functions of synthesizers on Feb. 29, which will be taught by Dumbledog, a...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
There are more than 7 billion people on Earth. That’s a lot. I mean, seriously. It’s so fucking many. And, as a population, and this goes down to every one of us, we’re not doing a great job of holding our shit together. Look at the people we’ve elected as...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
Jam out at this indie rock winter concert hosted by the ASUCD Entertainment Council at the Mondavi Center’s Jackson Hall located at UC Davis, where Brooklyn-based Beach Fossils will be performing with support from Urbanation (Bianca Ocampo) a Bay Area multi-instrument artist who will be accompanied on stage by guitarist...| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
Local reggae/rock band Riotmaker is set to release their new EP Between Love and Light this Saturday, Feb. 15 at PowerHouse Pub (614 Sutter St., Ste. D, Folsom) alongside fellow locals Arden Park Roots. The EP features guest spots from Tyler Campbell of Arden Park Roots and Bles Bundy from Shakedown| Submerge Magazine | Music + Art + Lifestyle
