Issue: December 26, 2002
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When women attack
From media portrayals of women slapping up men as comedy to cops who don’t arrest the chicks, some men’s-rights groups have had it with a biased view of domestic violence.
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It’s a fecal matter
People use Jenkinson Lake as a toilet, so why is that where El Dorado Irrigation District customers get their drinking water?
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Challenging home work
So far, Building Unity has commitments enough to build about a dozen homes.
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Letters for December 26, 2002
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Fine art, from a can
Spray-painter Anthony Padilla is next in line to paint a Midtown mural.
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Bye, bye Brian
Kettenring’s movin’ on, Senator Barbara Boxer stumps for stem cells, and why the New York Times loves Sacto.
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Grinch steals 2003
Things are going to get ugly for California’s capital city in 2003.
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Don’t sing the holiday blues
Several local agencies offer low-cost mental-health care.
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Art and absinthe
Our author would like to buy Jim Dodge a beer. No, make that an absinthe.
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Two thousand three?
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Shakespearean Insulter
Tired of the same old insults? Try the Shakespearean Insulter.
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Fred Willard is God
The Nobody Show at the True Love, along with some other stuff.
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Boogie woogie bugle boys
The touring show Blast—at Sacramento Community Center Theatre this coming week—celebrates a rah-rah, drum-and-bugle-corps aesthetic.
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Eurasian fusion
A delightfully adventurous restaurant that mixes European and Asian cuisines has moved into the J Street location formerly occupied by Celestin’s.
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Food Stuff
Land Park creamery Vic’s Ice Cream sells seasonal ice cream, as well as an extremely tasty, albeit pricey, eggnog.
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The red-headed stranger
Gravel-voiced singer-songwriter James Finch Jr. is one more reason Sacramento is a hotbed of Americana music.
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The ballad of Ben, Frank and Dana
Deimos mastermind Ben Steinert’s side project, supposedly a one-off, might have a promising future.
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Ramsay Midwood
Who is Ramsay Midwood? Dunno, but his Shoot Out at the OK Chinese Restaurant is a fine slice of Americana.
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Marykate O’Neil
Marykate O’Neil gets an A-list of pop-music players to back her hyper-smart debut CD.
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This is not an obit
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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All that Fosse
In Chicago, the film version, Bob Fosse is still the phantom at the feast.
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