Issue: September 18, 2003
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Bringing down the WTO barricades
Thousands of activists, including a number from Sacramento, stormed the barricades at the World Trade Organization meetings in Cancún. And one local activist was hoping to capture the moment on videotape.
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Look who’s packing
Sacramento spawns its own chapter of the
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United we stand
From Oak Park housing to Egyptian television, SN&R’s A Call for Unity shows it’s a small world after all.
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Reaping the truth
Demonstrators against the World Trade Organization are finally gaining some traction.
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Letters for September 18, 2003
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Feast of fools
Never mind the circus, California’s recall is more evocative of a medieval Carnival.
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Nonsense and media
Last week was pell-mell nonsense by legislators, egged on by the increasingly panicky Gray Davis. But don’t expect the media to pay attention to any of it.
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End game in Iraq
It’s time for Congress to ask serious questions about our nation’s future in Iraq.
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A tricky proposition
Proposition 54 would cause problems for Californians.
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Out of their element
At b. sakata garo this month, a number of local artists create works foreign to their preferred mode of expression.
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The fronds must be pleased
A year after a forced move to Winters, the much-beloved Palms Playhouse is adapting to its new chapter quite nicely.
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Schoolyard bullies
Joe Conason’s Big Lies entreats liberals to respond to the schoolyard bully with equal force.
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The song of the male
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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One root, many branches
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Baghdad Burning
Liberation isn’t all it was cracked up to be, an anonymous young woman posts in her weblog from post-Saddam Iraq.
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A Moment of Farcical Timing
A poem by Elizabeth Hanelt of Carmichael.
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A Call for Unity
This year’s 9/11 rememberance A Call for Unity at the Mondavi Center ran a bit long, but it was quite poignant.
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Intriguing stalemate
Samuel Beckett is better known for Waiting for Godot, but his infrequently staged play Endgame, now at Actor’s Theatre, is well worth seeing.
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La Cage aux Folles
Runaway Stage’s latest production is the family-values musical La Cage aux Folles, and it’s a winner.
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Casual sophistication
Fair Oaks Boulevard’s Zinfandel Grille, formerly known as Paragary’s Bar and Oven, strikes a nice balance between casual and sophisticated approaches to California-style Italian cuisine.
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Food Stuff
There’s only one place to go for food in Clarksburg. Fortunately, the Dinky Diner serves some good chow.
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Proof through the night
Cellist and composer Matt Haimovitz brings his iconoclastic approach to a modern classical repertoire to the Palms in Winters on Saturday, September 20.
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The city of G’s
Local hip-hop voice P Chill insists he’s a “real MC,” not like that other P.
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Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
In Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5, paired here with No. 4, the orchestra rebels against a dictatorial drummer.
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Shelby Lynne
Southern country soul singer Shelby Lynne has a new record out, which means you should grab some change and head for the record store.
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The Long Winters
Seattle pop songwriting vehicle the Long Winters evokes that magic moment when the British Invasion morphed into prog rock.
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The blues is life
On Sunday, September 21, there will be a benefit for the family of local blues singer Yvonne Rose-Norman, who passed away last week.
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Strangers in a strange land
With Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola explores the minefield between friendship and romance.
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