Issue: April 29, 2004
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End of an error?
Don Heller, the architect of California’s death penalty, says the law should be scrapped.
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Closing credits, part deux
City fast-tracks corporate-theater subsidy as activists organize to “Save the Tower.”
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Come for the food, stay for the National Alliance
Scenes from the troubled 2004 International Revisionist Conference.
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The levee busts
Uneven enforcement of lewdness laws makes for discriminatory police work.
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Letters for April 29, 2004
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Kaiser collector
Bruce Kiser’s ‘53 Kaiser two-door is on display at the Oakland Museum of California.
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A Diebold CEO and a King get sidelined
Bites shares sob stories with an electronic-voting magnate and an off-the-roster King.
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Cage the monster
Be careful what you ask for. The reforms promised in the new workers'-comp package could spawn scary loopholes and costly lawsuits.
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A legal cure
The state of California needs to stay out of decisions about treatment following a cancer diagnosis.
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Working together
Solving the workers'-comp problem required a bipartisan effort.
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Vincent Black Shadow Van-Go
A quick look at notable exhibitions.
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Life on the wicked stage
The Delta King Theatre, five years into its history, has become a major force on area stages—and now it braces for change.
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Haiti calling
The Dew Breaker is another reminder that Edwidge Danticat is an author with her feet in two cultures.
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What’s all the commode-tion?
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Of Thee I Sing
If John Milton and Walt Whitman got together and picked up rednecks for sex in truck-stop restrooms, they might produce these poems.
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Come Monday: Air America?
Update: Barring any more weirdness, liberal radio network Air America should be up and running locally this coming Monday.
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True crime
River Stage focuses on the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard with a compelling production of The Laramie Project.
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Sugar and spice
Thai Basil Café proves that Thai can, indeed, be sugar and spice and everything nice.
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Digging your scene
Dig Music, with a new DVD and a forthcoming CD by rising star Jackie Greene, continues to blossom as an area musical force.
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Morbid curiosity at Fiasco Sideshow
One-man circus act Fiasco Sideshow turns up the freak factor at a Roseville metal show.
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Loretta Lynn
Country music icon Loretta Lynn plus White Stripes singer-guitarist Jack White equals fireworks on this new CD.
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Where to go tonight
Some fine Chicago blues at the Blue Lamp; some snarky buttrock at Old I.
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East meets Down Under
When a scrappy Aussie woman and a reserved Japanese man get stranded in the outback together, sparks fly.
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Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon
Africa’s Soul Brother Number One in visual form.
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