Issue: July 25, 2002
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Native American Gothic
Farmers in Capay Valley try to protect their quality of life by opposing the Wintun tribe’s Cache Creek casino expansion.
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Insane asylum
Refuge escapes violence in Guatemala, but can’t overcome U.S. bureaucracy.
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The battle of cash creek
There is a clash of cultures going on in the Capay Valley.
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Letters for July 25, 2002
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Cite precedent, not passion
To reverse the recent 9th Circuit Court ruling on the Pledge, a decision needs to be reached not based on current patriotic passions.
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A lodge gone black
Every July, the New World Order’s real power brokers let their hair, and some would say their “human” skin, down before a giant statue of an owl god in the woods. Paging David Lynch!
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Food is life
Let Us Eat Cake: a worthy book about the intersection of food and family.
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Jump the Shark
Wanna have fun reading about TV on the Web? Check out Jump the Shark.
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Jolly cheerful
Garbeau’s takes a shopworn Victorian bedroom farce, Charley’s Aunt, and makes it swing—somewhat.
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Two-world order
Smack dab in the middle of Fulton Avenue’s auto row is an unassuming eatery called Dos Mundos Café, where the food is good—and inexpensive.
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Food Stuff
Want a surprise? For the money, the South Area’s Huong Lan serves the best sandwich in town.
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Daughter of the Old West
Folksinger Mary McCaslin not only evokes the old west, but she covers the Who’s “Pinball Wizard"—on banjo, clawhammer style.
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Gladiators of patience
For intrepid listeners, open-mike night is a place to catch the local scene’s up-and-coming—and downwardly mobile—performers.
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Left Behind® Worship
Former Sacramentan Charlie Peacock wrote and produced two cuts on this CCM collection, “inspired by the #1 best selling Left Behind® book series.”
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Laura Minor
Laura Minor’s HighTone debut, Salesman’s Girl, is promising but far from perfect.
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Death by Chocolate
Death by Chocolate? Hey, there are a lot worse ways to go.
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23 globe thistle kazoo!
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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Junk o’Lantern
Pumpkin is not a Japanese movie about angry, irradiated squash stomping on a plastic Tokyo, with mangled English voiceovers. This is most unfortunate.
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Man versus plant
Biologist uses weevils to attack stream-choking hyacinth.
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