From a Creepsylvania metal kickoff to a benefit supporting Sacramento’s unhoused community, this week’s calendar has more than big-name shows.
https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/whats-going-on-october-1521-1cf51381
#Sacramento #LiveMusic #CultureSky

This week, Butte County stages stretch from an Oroville splatter-zone musical to Chico Latin music and anime fandom. Very different scenes, shared local rooms. #ButteCounty #CultureSky #TheaterSky
https://chico.newsreview.com/artsculture/whats-going-on-october-1521-bff4ec04

Great music and record fall heat set the scene at Discovery Park. See sugarwolf's Aftershock Day One photos here:
https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/photo-gallery-parade-of-black-day-one-aftershock-2026-8c4906c6
#Sacramento #LiveMusic #CultureSky #Aftershock

📽️ REVIEW A super-soldier movie with a $15 million budget reaches a trailer park—and struggles to escape it.
https://chico.newsreview.com/artsculture/not-so-super-soldiers-the-plot-and-budget-of-onslaught-fail-to-deliver-on-the-films-lofty-premise-9a962f3a
#FilmSky #MovieSky #CultureSky

📽️ REVIEW Digger will unsettle. Bob Grimm calls Tom Cruise’s apocalyptic oil-baron satire loud, angry and deeply polarizing. #FilmSky #MovieSky #CultureSky
https://chico.newsreview.com/artsculture/magnate-madness-full-of-twists-and-craziness-digger-is-disturbingbut-definitely-worth-seeing-16b3a609

📽️ REVIEW
Reality-TV spectacle gets turned inside out in Primetime, with Robert Pattinson playing a frighteningly ratings-driven Chris Hansen. #FilmSky #MovieSky #CultureSky
https://chico.newsreview.com/artsculture/creeps-and-crazies-primetime-skewers-to-catch-a-predator-host-chris-hansen-89dafb26

Billy D. Thompson brings a massive smile to the drum kit—and helps make space for other Sacramento artists as well. #Sacramento #LiveMusic #CultureSky

https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/gold-souls-drummer-billy-d-thompson-brings-joy-to-sacramentos-music-stages-47cddf1b

Chico’s stages are busy with first visits: Dean Johnson, Ian George and The Knee Pockets all make local appearances this week, alongside Pat Hull and more. #ButteCounty #LiveMusic #CultureSky
https://chico.newsreview.com/artsculture/whats-going-on-october-814-4736d63c

Midtown porches, a Fair Oaks amphitheater and the Shady Lady all become stages this week. Sacramento’s music calendar is full of local reasons to get out. October 8–14.
#Sacramento #LiveMusic #CultureSky
https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/whats-going-on-october-814-7185b2ff

A comedian’s opening stand-up set becomes a tense account of a Jewish comic going undercover at a white nationalist gathering. A challenging story. #Sacramento #TheaterSky #CultureSky
https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/jack-greenberg-takes-audiences-undercover-in-just-for-us-fb75f280

📽️ REVIEW A show built to expose predators becomes its own spectacle? Robert Pattinson’s Chris Hansen is riveting in *Primetime*. #FilmSky #MovieSky #CultureSky
https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/creeps-and-crazies-primetime-skewers-to-catch-a-predator-host-chris-hansen-83653223

A toy squirrel held together with tape becomes something more in Sacramento artist Gioia Fonda’s new Pence Gallery show. #Sacramento #ArtSky #CultureSky
https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/from-the-print-shop-to-the-deeply-personal-1db226c0

Jazz history sounded very alive at Monterey: 88-year-old Charles Lloyd revisited *Forest Flower*, while student musicians shared the festival’s stages. #MusicSky #LiveMusic #CultureSky
https://chico.newsreview.com/artsculture/hardly-strictly-jazz-54124b97

What happens when jazz legends, emerging artists and high school musicians share one festival? Monterey offered an answer worth hearing. #MusicSky #LiveMusic #CultureSky
https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/hardly-strictly-jazz-b696a6e2

What does it feel like to see your art on a wall for the first time—next to a paper-mâché volcano and dinosaur costumes ... now at Flower Fist. #Sacramento #ArtSky #CultureSky
https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/a-prehistoric-vision-my-toy-dinosaur-at-flower-fist-through-oct-31-213d62b3

What does it take for young people to feel seen in the culture they inherit? At Sacramento’s Naija Fest, families found food, music and conversation. #Sacramento #CultureSky https://sacramento.newsreview.com/news/sacramentos-naija-fest-fosters-connection-across-cultures-generations-7a112fde

What changes when you meet the person behind the ceramics, jewelry or textiles? Artazan comes to Sac Oct. 16–18. #Sacramento #ArtSky #CultureSky
https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/get-crafty-artazan-brings-three-days-of-handmade-goods-and-creative-workshops-to-east-sacramento-77418f89

What does Chico’s fall culture scene look like when punk-ska superheroes, Broadway theater and acoustic folk share one week? #ButteCounty #LiveMusic #CultureSky
https://chico.newsreview.com/artsculture/whats-going-on-october-17-28ef433a

What keeps a neighborhood festival going for 63 years? In Sacramento, part of the answer is 400 volunteers, baklava and a community ready to share its heritage. #Sacramento #CultureSky
https://sacramento.newsreview.com/artsculture/for-63-years-sacramento-has-gone-greek-for-a-weekend-fa808137

📽️ REVIEW Can a *Resident Evil* movie be genuinely scary, funny and made for people who don’t know the games? #FilmSky #MovieSky #CultureSky
https://chico.newsreview.com/artsculture/hilarious-and-horrific-weapons-director-zach-cregger-cements-his-horror-master-status-with-resident-evil-754ee240