Issue: October 30, 2003
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Adventures in Wi-Fi
Forget dial-up modems and service charges for Web access; the next revolution in the world of computers might just be wireless fidelity.
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Sniffing around
Wi-Fi makes searching other people’s data easy but not necessarily common.
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Zoning or prejudice?
Woodland planners unanimously approved Oak Leaf Respite, but then things went wrong.
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P.S. from Iraq
In an update to our recent cover story, Sgt. Garth Talbott tells us what the form letters left out.
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A tangled web
Wi-Fi technology is a little scary for those concerned with national security.
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Letters for October 30, 2003
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Family fortunes
Kenton Yee and his parents turn out hundreds of thousands of fortune cookies a day from their bakery on 10th Street.
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Arnold + cheerleaders = zany fun!
Arnold gets his cheerleading groove on.
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A strange buddy movie
Schwarzenegger and Lockyer hook up to catch a wave of voter resentment. Can this couple stay together?
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Arena doesn’t make cents
Sacramentans shouldn’t bear the cost of a new arena while the millionaire moguls who own the Kings hide behind the mayor.
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Give students a healthy choice
Meat-centered school lunches are both unhealthy and discriminatory.
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Comedy in color
Ceramicist Gary Dinnen and painter-printer Mick Sheldon exhibit their wackier sides in a new Solomon Dubnick show.
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This modern cartoonist
Behind the scenes of This Modern World with penguin-portrait artist Tom Tomorrow.
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Teen ghost tales
As Halloween approaches, spookster author Stewart O’Nan crosses over once again to the other side.
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Do the zombie
Two nights of zombie cinema and Halloween tomfoolery at the Crest, courtesy of Trash Film Orgy.
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Defying Hitler: A Memoir
A 1930s memoir by a private German citizen has surprising relevance today.
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Homage to Restless Acorns
A poem by Crawdad Nelson of Sacramento.
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Crossing the bar, or something like that
A local underground arts figure passes on.
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Feel the creep
The Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre joins the Halloween scene with Veronica’s Room, an eerie play by Ira “Rosemary’s Baby was my idea” Levin.
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When it rains, it pours
If you’re looking for highly salty food in a 1970s atmosphere, the Buggy Whip is your trip.
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Swell maps
The Zim-Zims are a fine new band in the Davis guitar tradition.
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Feeling for experience
The Feeling gets most of it right, except for Buddy Rich Jr. on the drumstool there.
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Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading, one of VH1’s “most influential women in rock,” unleashes a singer-songwriter album classic.
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limpbizkit
Limp Bizkit goes all e.e. cummings, changes its name to “limpbizkit” and writes sensitive pro-cunnilingus songs, but Fred Durst is still a jackass.
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Cal Tjader
A late-1970s recording captures vibraphone god Cal Tjader in a thumping live setting.
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Gandalf’s revenge
Hip-hop and technopop in an English pub? There are worse ways to celebrate Halloween than seeing the Cuf and Casualty Park at the Fox & Goose.
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Headless in Manhattan
Jane Campion’s erotically reckless new thriller In the Cut is, ahem, a mess.
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