Issue: June 19, 2003
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The velvet gavel
As the chairman of a powerful appropriations committee, Sacramento politician Darrell Steinberg has found a way to kill bills with kindness.
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Freedom from assembly
The city closes public parks while police “posse up” for trouble.
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Class dismissed!
Legislators need to dig their heels in and reach a consensus.
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Letters for June 19, 2003
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Guard save the Kings
Trading Bibby or Bobby could be the key to the championship.
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The baby maker
Elk Grove singer and saxophonist Nat M. Brown plays it smooth, as in lights-down romantic.
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Can’t have too many recalls
Sac High recall and a Richie Ross rebuke.
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Weapons of mass distortion
It’s time for Bush to set the record straight about why we went to war.
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Have wall socket, will travel
Despite their lack of speed, Neighborhood Electric Vehicles are useful for short trips.
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The right to party
The forces of “No Fun Allowed” once again stalk the streets, making an old Beastie Boys hit suddenly relevant.
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What is life for?
The author of Rational Mysticism seeks nothing less than the meaning of life.
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Things Fall to Earth in Spring
A poem by Ann Privateer of Sacramento.
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Street-teamed again?
Someone got upset about this month’s show at the Excentrique Functional Art Gallery. Thin-skinned art fans or snarky pranksters? You make the call.
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T Bone N Weasel
Two small-time losers hot-wiring their way through the rural South make up this strange comedy, now at Celebration Arts.
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Magic happens
Alumni from the theater department at California State University, Sacramento, tackle a stodgy but mysterious 17th-century French play, nicely updated by Tony Kushner.
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Between the sheets
Lark Park returns to the dining pages of SN&R with her take on the upscale seafood chain Scott’s.
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Food Stuff
Jackson has more going for it than the Rancheria. At Vinciguerra’s Ravioli Co., you can pick up a pound of the frozen doughy pillows done right.
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Mayberry, 95816
One member of Bay Area bubblegum heroes the Rubinoos lives right here in River City.
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John Mellencamp
Johnny Cougar cuts a broad-spanning album of covers, touching more than a few American giants.
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Louisville Orchestra
On this 1950s-vintage disc can be found thrilling music from a great but unheralded American composer, Wallingford Riegger.
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Dr. Lonnie Smith
Dr. Lonnie Smith and David “Fathead” Newman cut some organ-based soul-jazz covers of Beck tunes? Hey, it works.
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Annie Lennox
The first Annie Lennox album of original songs in more than a decade expresses her response to the painful end of her marriage.
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Homecoming dance!!!
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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Sentimental journey
Director Chen Kaige’s Together is a personal return to his own fractured father-son relationship.
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