Issue: April 24, 2003
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When the bombs hit home
Imagine if your hometown was being bombed, and all you could do was watch. That’s what the last month has been like for one family of Iraqi-Americans who left their closest relatives in Baghdad.
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Sacramento Sirens über alles
Stronger than hype or bobbleheads, Sacramento’s reigning championship franchise proves the power of Title IX.
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Critical morass
Critical Mass—a monthly ritual involving bicycles, ticketing and arrests—celebrates its two-year anniversary.
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Follow the flag
The cast of strangers in the wartime drama many of us watch on TV includes our own neighbors.
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Letters for April 24, 2003
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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The pour side of sculpture
For Andy Graham, a community-college project turned into a creative job at Sacramento’s Art Foundry Gallery.
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Citizen enforcement
In some cases, the foxes are still guarding the henhouse.
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Lawsuits of mass destruction
Unscrupulous lawyers bully small businesses out of money.
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The fine art of scribbling
A quick look at notable exhibitions.
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Classic rock parking lot
Yes, Virginia, you can still “rock” in America.
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Back to the present
Pattern Recognition turns out to be one of William Gibson’s best.
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Snoop all you want
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Neoconservatism Online
Neoconservatives must be more aesthetically sophicticated than this cruddy looking Web site would attest.
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Honor your inner hesher
A couple of destinations for non-folkies.
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It’s rerun time
Déjà vu, as a bunch of time-tested favorites make return engagements.
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Tales of nails
Jack Gallagher returns to B Street with his one-man play Just the Guy. Hey, it’s a living.
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Quiet village
Indonesian food may be unfamiliar, even to adventurous Western palates. This Freeport Boulevard eatery offers an education of sorts.
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Food Stuff
The young urban professional’s healthy update on an old favorite, garlic bread.
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A luminous soundscape
Australian atmospheric trio the Dirty Three make a rare local stop on Tuesday.
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Amber Padgett’s brilliant debut
OK, so the guitar playing’s shaky, but singer-songwriter Amber Padgett wowed a crowd at the Capitol Garage nonetheless.
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Original soundtrack
For some of us, A Mighty Wind, a Chris Guest sendup of folk music, will be the film event of the year. Its soundtrack is quite swell.
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Al Stewart
Al “Year of the Cat” Stewart, who plays the Crest this Saturday, made a concept album for oenophiles in 2000.
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Great Girls Blouse
A trio whose sonic attack combines the Slits with Rush? Yeah, baby.
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Twinkle twinkle
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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Money for nothing
Confidence is a grifter movie conceived in a world where David Mamet and Quentin Tarantino were never born.
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