Issue: July 24, 2003
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The daily bread of politics
If you want to know how policy is made in this town, you only have to visit the fund-raising parties where big-money interests give checks to lawmakers. If you’re a citizen, or journalist, good luck getting in.
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Riled about Harry
Some see an Elk Grove Methodist church’s Harry Potter celebration as the handiwork of the devil.
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The decline of the Sacramento empire
California’s looking a bit like the Roman Empire these days.
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Letters for July 24, 2003
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Battle of the accents
If Gray Davis is recalled, Arianna and Arnold could go head to head for the governorship this fall.
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Feral factor
Holly Kivlin talks about the joys of rehabilitating feral cats.
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A man named Jeb
Jeb Bush occupies Sacramento, and Issa’s campaign gets complicated.
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Dopey recallers vs. Demo sneaks
Let the histrionics begin! Both sides will grandstand and lie, revealing who they truly are.
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Free Billy
Join us in the campaign to free an American journalist now being held wrongfully in an Indonesian jail cell.
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Remember when?
Want to reminisce about Julie Newmar, candy cigarettes and Mr. Microphone commercials? Nostalgia junkies unite on retroCRUSH.com.
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Watch your fingers
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Party like it’s 1532
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Cost of the War in Iraq
How much money is the war in Iraq costing America? This Web site keeps a running count of the hard numbers.
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Give up the funk
Two local DJs mark the 38th anniversary of the beginning of funk this Sunday.
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Moonshine lullaby
Crabby kids zoning out to video games? Drag those brats out to an evening of theater, like this hokey musical about sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
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Lobster Alice
Salvador Dalí's 1946 sojourn at Disney should be fertile ground. Alas, B Street’s tame production of this flawed play is nowhere near surreal.
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Silver bullet
Go to Blue Cue if you want the cachet of paying $12 an hour to shoot pool. Don’t go for the food.
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Food Stuff
For Japanese meals that are tasty, filling and cheap, try June’s Café in the Southside neighborhood.
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Upward motion
Hip-hop collective Righteous Movement plots a trajectory toward bigger and better things.
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Iceland rocks
Save Iceland? No, not the ancestral home of Björk, but the Del Paso Boulevard ice-skating rink—and one local metal band is on the case.
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Various artists
An obscure ethiopian jazz and instrumental R&B compilation may contain the seeds of the next funk revolution.
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Witold Lutosławski
If you think “cool classical music” is an oxymoron, consider Polish composer Witold Lutosławski’s groovy oeuvre.
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Far from one
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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Three’s the charm
You need special glasses to watch the third installment in the Spy Kids franchise, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over. But, trust us—they won’t help.
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