Amber DeLaRosa’s solo music takes a complex, moody turn By Jennah Booth This article was published in the Sacramento News and Review on 08.15.19 When 6-year-old Amber DeLaRosa belted out Bette Midler’s “The Rose” at a karaoke party, her mother knew she was destined for something special. “I just had this feeling that she was more than I’d…

Caleb Duffy’s chaotic clown-fueled comedy delivers a dark, whimsical joy By Jennah Booth This article was published in the Sacramento News and Review on 04.18.19 Comedian Caleb Duffy looks like James Franco’s double in Pineapple Express if he rode a unicycle. Rolling up on one wheel, arms flailing to keep a wobbling center of balance steady and grinning behind…

New to Sacramento beer? Where to begin. By Jennah Booth This article was published in the Sacramento News and Review on 04.25.19 With more than 70 breweries, it can be intimidating to navigate Sacramento’s craft beer scene. SN&R asked local experts—the folks who try everything and even make some of it—to dish their favorite brews, brewers and local…

Six brews for the hop-averse By Jennah Booth This article was published in the Sacramento News and Review on 04.25.19 Not all of us like beer. Some just can’t handle those hops, and in a city in a deep love affair with IPAs, it can be hard to find something for milder taste buds. So out of 10…

By Ariel Caspar & Jennah Booth Over multiple semesters, American River College’s Students of American River with Disabilities (SOARD) club has advocated for students like themselves, who they say feel invisible on this campus and within society. “We as disabled people, we feel as if we’re shut out and as if they don’t care,” said…

By Jennah Booth December 12, 2019 The last time Diane Bryant stepped foot on the American River College campus in 1983, she was a struggling engineering student. Last spring, over three decades since she graduated from ARC, Bryant stood on the campus once again. The framework of the campus’s new Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) center,…

By Jennah Booth November 20, 2019 By Oden Taylor & Jennah Booth In a move that could reshape each Los Rios Community College District campus’s food services offerings, students, clubs and faculty alike have banded together in an effort to advocate against the district’s contract with its current food service provider, Aramark. Many believe the 10.5 billion dollar company has…

By Jennah Booth September 19, 2019 Sacramento Metro Fire District engines 24 and 103 visited American River College  morning to practice emergency procedures and test the standpipe water system in the ARC parking structure. Because fire engines are too large to drive into the garage, Captain Matt Owston said the parking structure uses a standpipe, which pumps…

By Jennah Booth October 23, 2019 A flyer posted outside of the UNITE office in the HUB ignited controversy among both staff and students, and prompted a formal apology from American River College President Thomas Greene. The flyer which read, “Masculine black men; check your male privilege before entering,” was posted without explanation by paid UNITE interns…