Issue: September 04, 2003
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Arnold, uncut
He’s done drugs, he participated in orgies, and he doesn’t hold a grudge against a Nazi war criminal. No wonder he’s doing well in the polls.
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Sexual healing
A Sacramento surrogate talks about one of the world’s more interesting, if not oldest, professions.
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Candidate of the week
Sacramento’s Leonard Padilla sees taxing marijuana as a solution for the state’s budget dilemma.
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Letters for September 4, 2003
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Sentimental journey
Ole Kehlet’s typewriter-repair shop has survived the digital age—so far.
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Good jobs, bad air
Lessons for the unemployed. Plus, munchkins invade the Capitol.
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Of special interest to Arnold
A personal note, warning that the path to Sacramento is fraught with danger. Don’t bring any baggage.
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Privacy matters
With its new financial-privacy bill, California is settng a good example for the rest of the nation.
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Seeking: hairy backside
Where are the strip clubs for straight women?
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Keeping up with the Jones
Local artist S.R. Jones incorporates Moorish and Byzantine impressions into his mixed-media pieces, at Jayjay this month.
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Lost in the ozoner
Filmmaker Melinda Stone is bringing a traveling festival of celluloid oddities to a dilapidated, almost-forgotten drive-in theater in Fair Oaks.
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Back to the future
Heidi Julavits’ new novel, The Effect of Living Backwards, has an inescapable feeling of giddiness.
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At the Cambodian Video Store on Stockton
A poem by Lee Engdahl of Sacramento.
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Free jazz and the return of Davis rock
Post-Sardonics guitar jazz, plus a fine new Davis band.
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Sitcom noir
Chautauqua Playhouse’s production of Wrong Turn at Lungfish starts off like a sitcom before turning darker—with mixed results.
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Up periscope!
Sub Shack, one of the last old-school holdouts on a revitalized stretch of Folsom Boulevard in East Sacramento, is a good sandwich destination for lunch.
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Food Stuff
Local grocery chain Raley’s gets national respect.
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Friends of the family
Colfax harpist Christine Bonner, who plays the Crest next week, explores her Berryessa-family roots on her newest CD, Compañeros.
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Hürd at Ugly’s: life in the ‘burbs
Three good but lesser-known local bands showed their stuff at Ugly’s Tequila Bar, an unlikely music venue deep in old Citrus Heights.
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Russell Gunn
Trumpeter Russell Gunn combines hip-hop with elements of Cuban, Brazilian and African music on Ethnomusicology, Volume 3.
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Steve Turner
Former Green River and Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner makes a mighty fine solo debut.
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Aaron Neville
Aaron Neville’s Nature Boy: The Standards Album contains make-out music for adults.
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Sunday is your Lucky day
This Sunday, Lucky Peterson tops a three-act bill at one of Mike Balma’s blues party-barbecues at the Sacramento Horsemen’s Club.
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