Issue: December 14, 2006
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Greedy vultures
Why corporate management of daily newspapers spells disaster for the news business, community debate and our way of government.
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We’ll work for food
Food activists push for more nourishing neighborhoods.
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Pick your poison
Protests over pike-killing plan are muted this time.
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Skyline envy
Citizens and City Council hash out ideas for Sacramento’s development.
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Goodbye, comrade
The last words of labor activist Ruth Holbrook.
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Sounds like an editor
Sounding much like an editor, SN&R’s owner laments the loss of public service resulting from the demise of daily newspapers.
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Letters for December 14, 2006
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Bitter bouquet
A poinsettia sparks resentment in the suburbs, and peace seems impossibly far.
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No popcorn, and bring a pillow
At Shiny Object, they’re fools for indie film.
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Free Josh Wolf
Josh Wolf sits in jail defending our right to a free press.
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Leaves are not the enemy
Repeat after me: Leaves are good. Leaves are good.
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Soldiers of misfortune
Danny Scheible’s toy soldiers, and other artifacts, at Fools Foundation.
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Criminally sexy
If the world really was inhabited by the people in best-selling novelist Allison Brennan’s imagination, there’d be a serial killer around every corner.
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Sentimental journey
Sac City writing professor Jan Haag offers a worthy book of poetry.
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Unsafe topics, drolly explained
Poet Luke Warm Water reads at La Raza Galeria Posada.
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
A terrible time that changed all our lives.
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Gotta dance
The Nutcracker: A longer, more elegant version of those “Let’s all go to the lobby!” movie-intermission cartoons where sodas conga with hot dogs.
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Presenting Christmas past
There’s only one Christmas Carol in town this year: Sacramento Theatre Company’s time-tested version.
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Pho sizzle
The pho is OK, but the rice plates are beyond belief.
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Holiday must-have food
What’s the one thing chef Rick Mahan can’t pass up for holidays?
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Cheat sheet
SN&R intercepted this e-mail on the teaches of Peaches.
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Foo Fighters
Is that a Foo Fighters concert where the band is actually sitting down?
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The Messiah cometh
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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A ride to deeper dimensions
Bad press releases and good jazz.
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See Spot’s karma
Watching The Cave of the Yellow Dog does sometimes feel like eating your vegetables.
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