Issue: March 18, 2004
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Riding a new rail
Regional Transit’s new South Line was supposed to help make Sacramento a more transit-friendly city, like Portland. Instead, because of a lack of planning, it’s just another part of the sprawl problem.
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Unionizing the union
Unhappy current and former staffers say the California Union of Safety Employees is facing a federal investigation.
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Defending God
Pledge of Allegiance critic Michael Newdow isn’t the only Sacramentan facing the Supreme Court next week.
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Create-a-city
In our series on the future of Sacramento, we’ll be focusing on leadership and vision.
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Letters for March 18, 2004
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Stars in the house
A newcomer bookseller takes over a Fair Oaks esoteric institution.
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Wildlife preventionists
Wildlife-loving conservatives and monkey-loving lab mice.
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Insurance flawed
As one politician moves to regulate companies offering worker’s-comp coverage, the systemic problems—along with disability claims—linger.
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Rethink the strikes
It’s time to limit California’s three-strikes penalties to violent crimes.
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Disrespecting tragedy
President Bush breaks a promise with shameful campaign ads.
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The real world
Midtown’s 20th Street Gallery hangs a show of contemoprary realists.
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San Joaquin creeper
Grant-Lee Phillips, from the farmlands east of Stockton, is slowly developing into one of pop music’s distinctive voices.
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Games people play
The new Bobby Fischer v. Boris Spassky book looks at two global superpowers during the Cold War.
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You know you have to
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Come aboard—they’re expecting you
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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The Commercial Closet
Like its name suggests, the Commercial Closet is a Web site that tracks gay content in advertisements.
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Night Fright Cool
A poem by Patricia D’Alessandro of Sacramento.
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Real life, in song
Convenience is a compelling mother-son drama with a catchy backbeat.
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Beyond the business lunch
Il Fornaio, palace of the business lunch, surprises our reviewer with regional specials.
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Our colorful feathered friend
Charlie Peacock, the onetime great hope of Sacramento’s music scene, returns to town to play Sunday at Warehouse Christian Ministries.
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Free jazz and no Ross
The Ross Hammond Trio’s namesake guitarist was out of town, but that didn’t stop it from some fine cooking at Luna’s.
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Lalo: Namouna
Edouard Lalo’s ballet suite Namouna is rhythmic, exciting, imaginative music.
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Odin must be pleased
Swedish speed metalist Yngwie Malmsteen unleashes the f*#@ing fury at the Roadhouse on Saturday.
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Georgia unplugged
An enterprising American power company takes over the electrical provider in the post-Soviet republic of Georgia, and a documentarian captures the ensuing mayhem in Power Trip.
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