Issue: April 28, 2011
Hello SN&R reader!
The idea of a Sacramento street-food scene--carts offering warm samosas as the bars let out, Korean taco trucks dotting Fulton Avenue--smells awfully good. So why, in 2008, did the city revise its regulations and basically shackle a burgeoning local mobile-food truck movement? You'll learn why in this week's SN&R. Elsewhere, find the news, arts, music, food and etc. you've come to love in the SN&R.
Happy Thursday,
SN&R staff
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What the truck?!!
Sacramento City Council’s recent ordinance forces its gourmet food trucks to move every half-hour. But local food bloggers and chefs want to change the rules—and are taking this food fight to the streets.
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Are phone books obsolete?
Phone books pile up, whether you want them or not.
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Pat-down showdown
Will a TSA union make flying better or worse?
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Full of hot air
Old Sacramento aims to ban its street performers, and President Barack Obama fails his medical-marijuana exam.
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A+ in aquatic eats
Sacramento scores high on Greenpeace’s sustainable-seafood list.
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Bike you may
Taking a look at Sacramento’s May Is Bike Month.
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Letters for April 28, 2011
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Time to leave the nest
Saying goodbye to a mentor is never easy. This is Joey’s advice.
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Sacramento’s coldest season
A homeless man describes a recent night in a Sacramento winter refuge.
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Catch basins become havens for mosquitoes
Sacramento yard waste is swept into sewer drains, creating mosquito breeding grounds.
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Gracias, Guatemalan
The Mexican talks rap-lyric motifs and marriage traditions, then extends the olive branch to Guatemalans!
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Counterintuitive, or just dumb?
More politicians! Fewer teachers! And other backward approaches to our problems.
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Sacramento underground on the small screen
From the SN&R blogs.
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Lots to protest
CSU administrators bungled it by using scare tactics on peaceable student protesters.
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Dam? No way.
Taxpayers are in no mood to pay for the Auburn Dam.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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A royal pain
Royal wedding is fairy-tale display of grotesque excess.
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Coming out of the basement
UC Davis Nelson Gallery curator Renny Pritikin transforms the museum into an experience.
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Charley’s Aunt
SN&R reviews a new production by City Theatre.
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Searching for Eden
SN&R reviews a new production by the B Street Theatre.
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Sacto de Mayo
Check out some of Sacramento’s Cinco de Mayo happenings.
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Fair out, man
The Dixon May Fair features agriculture, a carnival, big names in music and a demolition derby.
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The Dane’s a dame
The Alternative Arts Collective unleashes Hamlet’s inner Road Warrior.
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Beam me up
One Love Wellness’ Romulan is good for anxiety sufferers.
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Super high—with a soft spot
Doug Benson records his annual 4/20 album in Sacramento.
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On the side of the gods
SN&R’s theater editor spends six weeks with KOLT Run Creations’ Antigone.
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Fijian eye-opener
This south Sacramento joint aims to be the King of local Fijian eats.
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Berry fantastico
It’s time to check out locally grown strawberries on pastries at Sugar and Spice Specialty Desserts.
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Strangers at the bar
It’s surprising what can happen in a restaurant, if you only take a chance.
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‘It’s alive!’
California is one of only seven states where it’s legal to sell raw milk.
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’Tis lifeblood
Roasted Red Pepper Hot Chutney Spread is not just a condiment, it’s lifeblood.
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Corps of exquisite surprises
Chamber-rock sextet Exquisite Corps wows Nevada City before a big local show at Beatnik Studios.
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Fri, April 29, Miss Lonely Hearts
Davis band Miss Lonely Hearts will play a hometown gig at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen.
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Sat, April 30, Destruction
German thrash-metal band Destruction aims its sights on The Boardwalk in Orangevale.
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Sat, April 30, Mike Watt
Legendary punk bassist Mike Watt will bring punk rock opera and Minutemen classics to Sacramento’s Blue Lamp.
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Sun, May 1, Nelly
Nelly headlines this year’s KSFM’s 102.5 Live concert.
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Sun, May 1, Raekwon
Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon to play Sacramento’s Ace of Spades.
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Tues May 3, Dessa
Doomtree hip-hop collective poet Dessa will perform at Sacramento’s Blue Lamp.
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Tues, May 3, Job for a Cowboy
Job for a Cowboy brings death metal (yes, death metal) to Sac’s Ace of Spades.
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Thurs, May 5, Portugal the Man
Portugal the Man will bring experimental pop to Sacramento’s Harlow’s.
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Redevelopment dollars fund local beats
Dibiase drops it all on The Press Club, DownLow’D drops at District 30, Blue Lamp shakes for Japan, and C Plus’ new album gets better-than-average marks.
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A Film Unfinished
Silence sometimes speaks louder than words in this graphic peer inside the Warsaw Ghetto of May 1942.
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Four Lions
Director-writer Christopher Morris turns the plotting and execution of jihadist terrorism by a group of British Muslim extremists into a slapstick mash-up.
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African Cats
The nature photography is great; the anthropomorphizing, not so much.
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Atlas Shrugged Part 1
Love her or hate her, she’s still Ayn Rand.
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil
Red Riding Hood is back on the case, but the 3-D may give you headaches.
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Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family
Will someone please tell Madea to shut up?
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