Issue: May 19, 2011
Hello SN&R reader!
On this week's cover, you'll find how surprisingly powerful the wine lobby is in the halls of the state Capital. Elsewhere, don't miss a Frontlines report on the boycott melee at the Sacramento Natural Foods Coop, a Bites rumination on the city of Sacramento's refusal to turn over data on local water hogs, and a photographers look at May's Second Saturday. Plus find all the regular news, opinion, arts, music and food coverage you know will be inside every paper.
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SN&R staff
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Wine & power
Just how influential is the wine-industry lobby in Sacramento?
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Boycotts, bath salts and brawling
Israeli boycott campaign makes for toxic politics at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op.
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This is the end
Northern California-based Family Radio says May 21 will be the last Saturday night alive.
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Coroner’s budget coronary
Budget cuts threaten criminal cases, quality of autopsies in Sacramento.
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School wars
School protests overtake Capitol in advance of Gov. Jerry Brown’s May revise to the budget; farmers market comes to West Sacramento.
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Choose to reduce
West Sacramento Farmers Market goes “zero waste.”
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Low-Car Diet
Our writer parks the car and Zipcars for two weeks.But, during the low-car diet, I was able to eliminate about 20 miles of driving, which adds up to about 1,000 pounds of CO2. And that wasn’t too hard.
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Letters for May 19, 2011
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Public intervention
If you witness verbal child abuse, do you have a responsibility to speak up?
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Gary Webb’s legacy
New anthology collects the reporter’s lesser-known work.
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View from Jakarta
In Muslim capital, Osama bin Laden’s death was no big deal.
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Cap-to-cap trip yields dysfunction, not dollars
The Sacramento Metro Chamber’s trip to Washington, D.C., gave locals a firsthand view of gridlock.
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Behind the greasepaint
Get the scoop on professional clowning with Sacramento’s Dolly Dimples.
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Brown is the new white?
The Mexican on “Brown Pride” and Jews in Mexico.
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Water torture
Why is the city hiding meter records for Sacramento’s commercial water hogs?
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The People’s Budget
An alternative budget would reduce the deficit and create jobs.
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Bro beater
Bridesmaids succeeds despites lowbrow marketing campaign.
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Second sight
SN&R’s photographer spent the night at this May’s Second Saturday in Sacramento. Here’s what he snapped.
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An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein
SN&R reviews a new production by Resurrection Theatre.
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Chicks are so funny
Girls! Girls! Girls! Oh, wait. It’s Lady Business. And it’s funny.
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Tools of the terror trade
Sometimes it takes a comic book to show us how terrorists are made.
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Cairo’s gifts
The fascinating story of how the largest group of ancient Jewish and Christian texts were found in Cairo, Egypt.
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Wait, wait … please tell me!
Roy Blount Jr. will be at the Sacramento Library on Tuesday, May 24.
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Disturbing questions
Our writer spends time on Florin Road and south Stockton Boulevard.
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Pot of war
Food and Drug Administration approves study to give medical cannabis to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Riding the rails to purgatory
Capital Stage’s production of Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train is another top-notch—if disturbing—show.
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Be like Mike
Don’t go for ambience but instead Ethiopian eats prepared by Mike.
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Hibernation ends
Count on it: The weather gets warmer, and Sacramentans hit the farmers markets.
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Cherries: the first, and the best
Cherry season is short, which makes it precious.
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Go for broke
Sacramento’s S.S. Records, run by Scott Soriano, celebrates 10 years this weekend with three gigs—featuring A Frames, Nar, Feedtime and more—in San Francisco.
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Fri, May 20, The Dreaded Diamond
The Dreaded Diamond plays Friday Night Concerts in the Park with Agent Ribbons and Roman Funerals.
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Fri, May 20, Get Shot
Slut punk, n. a blend of punk and rock and sexually suggestive lyrics that remind of ’80s hair metal, heard at The Distillery this Friday.
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Sat, May 21, Creedence Clearwater Revisited
Creedence Clearwater Revisited opens Thunder Valley Casino’s Outdoor Summer Concert series.
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Sun, May 22, Bomba Estéreo
This Colombian duo hits Sacramento’s Sol Collective, polyglot style.
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Mon, May 23, Glee
The cast of Glee will perform a song-and-dance routine at Sacramento’s Power Balance Pavilion.
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Mon, May 23, White Lung
Canadian punk band White Lung comes in peace and brings tidings of mosh pits to Sacramento’s Sol Collective.
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Wed, May 25, Ximena Sariñana
Ximena Sariñana debuts her English-language pop album.
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Thurs, May 26, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience
Jason Bonham brings the music of Led Zeppelin back to life at Sacramento’s Crest Theatre.
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Making it rain
Ke$ha makes it rain glitter at 107.9 FM’s Endfest.
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Critic-speak deciphered
Finally, understanding Richard Roeper.
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The Beaver
Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson’s new movie could have been a train wreck. Instead, it’s mediocre.
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The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
He’s gleefully self-corrupt; it’s proof that Morgan Spurlock knows how to sell out.
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Nora’s Will
Mariana Chenillo makes a promising beginning: a family-drama-after-the-funeral film.
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