Issue: November 13, 2003
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In one era and out the other
The Governator is in. The Gray man is out. The Capitol’s populace is in a state of nervous anticipation. Scenes from the transition.
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Last days of Gail Lang
A local icon brings the gay and lesbian community together.
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Can’t stop The Rock
A scripture-reading congregant gets carried away. Literally.
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Letters for November 13, 2003
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Friends and neighbors
Kimberly Jones is a good neighbor—the kind who will help you clean out your rain gutters if you ask her to.
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Hey Dick, welcome to Sacramento
Riordan may want to rethink taking the education job once he’s faced the anti-reformers.
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President is AWOL
President Bush needs to set a plan to end the occupation of Iraq. Anything less is a betrayal of the American men and women serving there.
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Call it “corporateering”
We can’t afford to lose more personal freedom to corporate greed.
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Best viewed with a rake
The Toyroom hosts collaborating artists John Stuart Berger and Pete Bettencourt, mixing it up on the canvas.
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Beth Lisick does it all
San Francisco writer Beth Lisick has more extracurricular activities than a high-school junior applying for Harvard.
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Nick at night
Hornby’s reissued Songbook comes complete with five new essays and more wonderful intellectual insecurity than ever.
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An Execution in the Family
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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We’re not losing anymore
A Wall Street Journal column on how conservatives are making serious inroads into the liberal media, which killed Kenny.
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storm over the sierra
A poem by Christine I. Niezabitowska of Sacramento.
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Full moons over the Horsemen’s Club
A full moon in the sky and plenty of lunar action onstage at the Horsemen’s Club with Bobby Rush and his fine dancers.
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That other musical
If you’ve only seen the movie version of Flower Drum Song, you’ll be amazed by The Broadway Series’ modernized production.
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Ithaka Calling
Ithaka Calling is a charming first attempt by 23-year-old playwright and director P. Joshua Laskey.
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High-end burgers
Bring a few extra dollars for the pricey but delicious sandwiches at Jump Start Café.
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Mercy Me! motivates grown-ups to dance
Local R&B cover band Mercy Me! provides a solid live-music experience for those who don’t demand original material.
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June Carter Cash
Americana icon June Carter Cash’s last album is a worthy finale to a great career.
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Chachi Jones
Local electronic composer Chachi Jones expresses his love for closed-in places on Claustrophilia.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand’s The Movie Album shows her doing what she does best.
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Flames, wreckage and more
Two shows: A major-label alt-rock group from out of town road-tests new songs at The Boardwalk, and some real alternative-rock vets crawl into Old Ironsides.
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Crowe’s nest
Peter Weir and Russell Crowe team up in this worthy high-seas adventure.
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