California built its state fair a permanent Disney-inflected campus on the American River. Cal Expo - formally the California Exposition and State Fair - opened in July 1968 at 1600 Exposition Boulevard in Sacramento, when Governor Ronald Reagan cut the ribbon on the 350-acre grounds he had dedicated the year before. The move ended six decades at the old Stockton Boulevard fairgrounds, which had hosted the fair since 1909; the state had bought the riverside land as far back as 1948 and chartered.....

The stadium that proved Sacramento was a soccer city went up in a matter of months on the state fairgrounds. Heart Health Park at 1600 Exposition Boulevard, on the Cal Expo grounds, opened on 20 June 2014 as Bonney Field, a roughly 3-million-dollar, 8,000-seat pop-up built at speed for Sacramento Republic FC's debut USL season - and the club promptly sold out every remaining home date on its way to winning the 2014 USL championship in the stadium's first year. The formula was deliberately simple.....

Phil Collins packed 20,000 people into this college stadium in 1992, the same summer a World League football team pushed its crowds past 26,000 - not bad for a ground that opened with 6,000 temporary seats. Hornet Stadium, at 6000 J Street on the California State University, Sacramento campus, has been the city's big outdoor stage since 20 September 1969. The stadium replaced old Campus Stadium and stayed modest until professional football forced its growth: the Sacramento Surge of the World Le.....

Chelsea Handler, DL Hughley, Bill Bellamy and Shawn Wayans all worked out early material under this low ceiling. Punch Line Sacramento at 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225, has been the city's flagship comedy room since 30 December 1991, opened by Bill Graham Presents as the first expansion of the San Francisco Punch Line founded in 1978. The room seats about 240 cabaret-style facing the red stage curtains, with a wall of grinning comics' photographs at the entrance and a full kitchen and bar - craft d.....

The Rink Studios is an event and performance space at 1031 Del Paso Boulevard in Sacramento's Uptown Arts corridor. The venue occupies a converted 1950s roller-skating rink whose original hardwood floors have been preserved, giving the 5,000-square-foot main room a distinctive character. The open floor plan is fully customisable: it holds approximately 500 guests concert-style, 300 for cocktail gatherings, or 200 for formal seated events. White-washed brick interior walls and an open wood-beamed.....