Issue: February 19, 2004
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High-stakes standoff
To casino-owning American Indians like the Sacramento Valley’s Maidu, the new effort to force them to pay taxes is just another blow in a long history of abuse.
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Darkness on the edge of campus
A Sacramento university’s philanthropic “godfather” was mad about eugenics.
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Food fight
Sacramento Food Bank Services accuses Sacramento County of waffling over past agreements.
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The latest gold rush
The tables have turned for American Indians and white men.
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Letters for February 19, 2004
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Railroad life
Frank Hickox’s contributions to California State Railroad Museum exhibits seem to live and breathe.
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The fury and the furry
Second-class citizens and fund-raising furries.
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Multiplication fables
Many California students heading to state-run universities can’t read or do math, and we’re paying the remedial bills. It just doesn’t add up.
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Stop the gridlock
We urge a yes vote on Proposition 56, and we reluctantly urge the same for Propositions 57 and 58.
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Keep the candidates’ faiths personal
Professing religious faith isn’t always an indicator of competence.
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The fear of God
This month’s third-Saturday show at the Toyroom features eight artists answering the call of Religion vs. Allegory.
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My big, mysterious fiancé
Three women team up to bring a play about India’s tradition of arranged marriages to the American stage.
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Magical memory tour
The first installment of Gabriel García Márquez’s autobiography reads like one of his novels.
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Under the influence
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Youth remembers beauty
The first installment of this year’s Jammies concerts, concentrating on classical repertoire, offered a fine array of talented young performers.
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Strength of conviction
Jeanette Rankin, elected to the House of Representatives before women could legally vote, is the subject of California Stage’s A Single Woman.
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Still Life with Iris
The Children’s Theatre of California debuts Still Life with Iris, another intelligent production for kids.
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A new plantain
Adventurous diners can add a Nicaraguan stamp to their culinary passport at Silvia’s Restaurant.
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Do the loosen-up
Excellent hippie-era band the Sons of Champlin hits Newcastle club Constable Jack’s as part of a rare California reunion tour.
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Moods goes to 11
Metal night at a former Old Sacramento club, Scratch8, which recently re-emerged as Moods.
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Courtney Love
Courtney Love’s America’s Sweetheart is almost as good as eating at Jimboy’s.
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Natalie Merchant
Onetime 10,000 Maniacs singer Natalie Merchant’s new solo disc is 100 percent folk Americana.
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Mutual reception
Chin scratchers’ delight this weekend: A two-night Bob Marley tribute at the Radisson, and the Broun Fellinis at Old Ironsides.
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Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West
Cinema selection of the week.
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Punchless in Cleveland
You like horribly miscast Meg Ryan movies? In Against the Ropes, she plays a manager of boxers.
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Chump Change
Wisconsin kitsch and show-business dementia make hysterical bedfellows in writer-director Stephen Burrows’ laugh-out-loud, ultra-low-budget comedy Chump Change.
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