Issue: December 05, 2002
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A down market
The island around the Washington Market is filled with crime, crack and prostitution, yet the market survives.
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Oil barons of Sacramento
Sacramento olive-oil makers have become successful by using traditional production methods.
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A tale of two mansions
West Sacramento and Carmichael compete to house the governor’s mansion.
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Letters for December 5, 2002
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Looking at the overlooked
Sacramento artist M. Parfitt won first prize in the 73rd Crocker-Kingsley exhibition and makes quilts out of pictures of dog poop.
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Fast start
Hunger strike ends as the legislative session begins.
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Jesus—a driving force?
Christian campaign could turn the tide against SUVs.
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Group home is not alone
Communities should have a say in the location of group homes for sex offenders.
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“I f#@%ing hate you!”
Davy Rothbart, who appears at the True Love Coffeehouse this Tuesday.
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Secret agent woman
Did Elizabeth Bentley inspire Senator Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist campaign?
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Tales of Tinseltown
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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DARPA Grand Challenge
Like to build robot cars? The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is staging a gumball rally just for you.
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Bugly and two Johnsons
Not Comedy’s Not Christmas, and confusion over some Johnsons.
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Hasty pudding
A funny thing happened on the way to the opening of B Street Theatre’s holiday show, Baby, It’s Cold Outside.
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Sustaining the shopper
For the harried shopper, food is a must. Here’s what one area mall has to offer in the comestibles department.
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Food Stuff
A nifty new noshery across the street from the Capitol by the name of Jump Street Café offers a tasty breakfast and lunch.
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Call me Ishmael
Big-voiced Rinde Eckert brings his musical take on Herman Melville’s Ahab to the Mondavi Center’s Studio Theater.
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Dave SinClaiR Matthews
Local jam band SinClaiR has some of the same strengths the Dave Matthews Band has—along with a few of the same problems.
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The Reindeer Section
A new one from indie-rock collective the Reindeer Section works.
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Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon
Guitarist Leo Kottke and Phish bassist Mike Gordon team up for a really nifty hothouse flower of a record, Clone.
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The duke of do it yourself
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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This and that
The writers of Analyze That should get themselves into analysis.
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