Issue: March 04, 2004
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No one home
A number of business partners of Group One Properties thought they could get rich quickly from buying distressed properties, and find themselves a new home. Now some are without a new house and are losing hope.
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Drastic measure
A ballot initiative to stop frivolous lawsuits also could promote serious pollution.
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Dream home
Get-rich-quick schemes hardly ever work, but most people still like to dream about financial independence.
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Letters for March 4, 2004
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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I was a young Republican!
Confessions of an undercover spy at the state GOP convention.
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Just do it (yourself)
Recent college graduate Sakura Saunders is helping to bring noncommercial radio to Davis.
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Sacramento’s ‘bullet magnets’
The Bee finds the good points about being sent to Iraq.
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It’s gonna hit the fan
Despite recent successes, the honeymoon is about over for the governor, as the budget gap, workers’ comp and partisan politics surface
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A Bush wedgie
A new wedge issue has been born, and we’ll all be feeling the relentless pounding from the right through the November election.
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Send ’em fishing
Put the grand juries to work auditing for waste in the county budgets.
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Playing cowboy
Five area artists reinvent the West at a pair of new shows at Solomon Dubnick.
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The butterfly trick
Onetime local actor Greg Coffin morphed into a composer-librettist, and his new musical Convenience is a somewhat autobiographical tale of coming out.
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Meta-media mania
Ken Auletta, The New Yorker’s media critic, offers sound advice to members of the fourth estate.
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Claiming seniority
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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The Best American Poetry 2003
This anthology offers a well-rounded look at the best American poetry last year.
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Landover Baptist Church
Yeah, we’ve told you about Landover Baptist before, but now you need this “church” Web site more than ever.
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Kick out the Jammies
Last week’s Jammies: Better than American Idol? Way less cheese, at least.
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Theatrical hootenanny
Sing and clap along with Woody Guthrie’s American Song.
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Newest of the new
Hear the newest scripts by prominent writers at the Playwright’s Festival of New Works this weekend.
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Just another hotel restaurant?
Dawson’s wows the dinner crowd but falls short on bar snacks.
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Found his voice
Minneapolis folk-rock singer-songwriter Mason Jennings, worthy of your attention, pays a visit to Harlow’s on Tuesday.
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A Torch for the blues
A recent Gary Primich gig at the Torch Club demonstrated how the blues can be all right.
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Various artists
No Depression magazine finally commits its aesthetic vision to CD on this fine compilation.
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It’s definitely a hoot
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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Lords of the roust
Todd Phillips’ sendup of 1970s cop-buddy TV show Starsky & Hutch is a goofy homage to the era that works.
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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
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