Issue: December 19, 2002
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Inside the pyramid
Prosecutors call Women Helping Women a criminal enterprise. Members of the gifting club say it’s all about giving and empowerment.
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Newdow redux
Sacramento’s best-known atheist takes on a new constitutional challenge, and this time he’s after the Family Court law that determines custody cases.
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Assembly for newbies
The Hertzberg Institute turns civilians into legislators.
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Pro or con?
Pyramid schemes are illegal and destined to fail, but Sacramentans participating in Women Helping Women didn’t see a connection to their club.
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Letters for December 19, 2002
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Lucky life
Designer Tina Reynolds takes satisfaction in helping people create a better world.
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Bioterror Inc.
UC Davis is planning a biocontainment laboratory, a reporter surprised legislators at a conference in Maui, and state Republicans are censuring their party chairman.
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George W., let them work
Dear Mr. President … let the inspections work.
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Long live the garden!
Green space is too precious for us to give up on the Ron Mandella Community Garden.
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Staying within the lines
A quick look at notable exhibitions.
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The charmed life
Those boilerplate celebrity-measuring tools won’t work when evaluating Sacramento native Lisa Ling, the television reporter, actress and would-be media mogul.
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Give me stuff!
Read I Want That! and you’ll experience what it’s like to be stalked by a retail ethnographer.
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Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing
You like big laugh? Check out Web site “Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing.”
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When voices carry
Rick Best, head of the board of directors for the nonprofit Chalk It Up festival, is dead at 32.
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Win a yardbird
Celebration Arts delivers its version of the comedy The Queen of Bingo, recently staged by Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre.
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Gawky adolescence
It’s been 12 years since Andiamo took over the space once occupied by the Rosemont Grill, and the restaurant has slipped a notch in recent years.
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Food Stuff
State workers around 4th and P streets might want to keep Café Plaza, with its reasonably priced and tasty menu items, a secret. Now you know.
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Ooh la la!
The Pretty Girls may be the finest local exponent of glamorous noise as practiced by the Stones, the Faces and the New York Dolls.
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Gordon’s rainy artifacts
Gordon Hanley moves to the front of the pack of local singer-songwriters most likely to appeal to still-mourning Jeff Buckley fans.
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Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash’s newest CD firms up his position as contemporary music’s reigning Old Testament prophet.
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Anton = Santa
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones: The IMAX Experience
Cinema selection of the week.
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A towering work
The Two Towers is filmmaking at its finest, and the best seems yet to come.
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