Issue: September 25, 2003
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Letters for September 25, 2003
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Bible study in a sweet way
Calvin Little is trying to fulfill God’s plan for him in Fremont Park.
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The rights stuff
The Sacramento City Council should take the overly broad ordinances regarding protests off the books now.
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Workers’ comp blues
Business-friendly workers’ comp reforms will hurt injured workers.
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The color of Curtis Park
Local landscape painter Miles Hermann’s work is on display this month at Art Foundry Gallery on R Street.
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Sportswriter, arbiter of cool
Writer Donnell Alexander, whose career arc passed through Sacramento, has written a memoir titled Ghetto Celebrity.
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Dead men do tell tales
A local author’s latest book has aliens, demons, immortal souls and, oh yeah, a dead narrator.
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Not just for rappers anymore
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Let there be light rail!
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Elvis Presley: A Penguin Life
This short Elvis bio by Southern writer Bobbie Ann Mason isn’t essential, but it provides an interesting window into the King.
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Put some insurance on that funk
P-Funk is coming to town, and !Akimbo is coming to Winters.
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Got milk, eh?
B Street Theatre’s production of The Drawer Boy, in which an earnest actor hangs out with two Canadian farmers, is a meditation on what constitutes a story.
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It’s in the lighting
Busy local lighting designer Ron Dumonchelle is opening a comedy club on Del Paso Boulevard.
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Southern bliss
The Plantation, a new soul-food restaurant on Del Paso Boulevard, is open late, and the food is quite fine.
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Food Stuff
Paragary’s Executive Chef Kurt Spataro has concocted an exquisite premium ice cream, and it’s available at Café Bernardo.
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Fly me to the moon
Former local musician Dustin Reske, a.k.a. Rocketship, makes borderline-ambient indie pop with roots in altered consciousness.
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Rock, folk and craft
A recent Wednesday evening at the True Love turned up a pair of singer-songwriters from a louder rock tradition.
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Ron Carter
On his new album, jazz bassist extraordinaire Ron Carter’s buttery tone is so fat that it swallows everything else.
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The Durutti Column
Textural guitarist Vini Reilly brings back his one-man project the Durutti Column from 1980s “where are they now?” obscurity.
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Things to do Saturday night
Three different things to do on Saturday night. Don’t tell us there’s nothing going on in this town.
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Italian jobs
The film version of Under the Tuscan Sun is probably not what author Frances Mayes had in mind.
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