Issue: July 15, 2004
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Extreme makeover
The power brokers want a mega-project like the Kings’ arena. But some architects and builders see more housing in our future and a city with character.
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Birth of the bioCool
A spacesuit inventor and a serial entrepreneur team up to develop high-tech industry in Sacramento.
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No use for indifference
A local musician helps get the word out, one punk at a time.
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The Hersh bomb
Pulitzer-winning reporter Seymour Hersh plans to make public some details of prison torture the Defense Department wants kept secret.
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Letters for July 15, 2004
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Stoops to conquer
How front-porch sitting can save us from ourselves.
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Realm of the senses
Hairdresser Elly Kubota is doing her part to improve Sacramento’s arts scene.
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Mr. Freeze
Frozen-food magnates, frosty state workers and four Scotland-bound tribes.
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Partisans over liberties
A bipartisan effort to amend the Patriot Act lost out to party loyalty and the so-called war on terror.
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Responsible action
State employees are acting responsibly during this budget crisis.
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Don’t call it luck
Here you go: the recipients of the 2004 Sacramento Area Music Awards, or Sammies.
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The Bushiad
A modern-day Homer puts pen to the legend of a contemporary warrior-king.
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Theocracy Watch
A good Web site containing much source material for anyone who’s alarmed by the religious right.
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Let’s roll
Learn how to pick up chicks when you’re a quadriplegic who lives with your parents, in Disability: A Comedy.
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In through the out door
Oleander may, or may not, be playing its final gig at Empire on Thursday.
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Jennifer Marks
A near-perfect pop record from a young New York singer-songwriter.
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Larisa Bryski
Big-voiced local singer Larisa Bryski’s new album has a distinctly classic-rock sound.
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You want the bomb
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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Good’s bad today
You most likely will not get a kick out of this ham-handed biopic about Cole Porter.
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