Issue: July 29, 2004
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Our 10 worst summer jobs
You think your job sucks? Come join SN&R’s staff and contributors as we revisit those wistfully hellish stints in the porn arcades, munitions factories, funeral parlors and motel rooms of which summer memories are made.
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Local jackasses
Leatherface and the Executioner talk about the joys of full-contact celebrity.
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Anarchists get fed up
Food Not Bombs puts its ideals where your mouth is.
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Letters for July 29, 2004
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Virtual childhood
Information-age kids tend to get less fresh air but more social awareness.
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Everybody hurts
Mark Collen hopes the art in his exhibit will help doctors understand chronic pain.
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Rico shoots, Richie scores
Republicans picnic while arena stalls.
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Leadership, of course
Our elected officials need to slow down and think before any more arena proposals.
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From Bushmiller to hubcaps
JayJay’s quite fun show Cut-Ups, Readymades and Color Fact is up for another week. Enjoy it.
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The siren call of safe sax
The siren, soprano-sax call of smooth jazz finally got this pop-culture observer to go see what the hubbub was about.
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Keepin’ it real
Welcome to another chapter in Walter Mosley’s ultrafluid mystery series.
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Comic con(solation)
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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The Disaster Accomplished Bush Squeeze Voodoo Doll
Hincty juju: Don’t be puttin’ a whammy on that guy in the White House with a Bush voodoo doll.
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Adtunes.com
Can’t figure out the name of that swell electronica tune you heard in a car commercial? Look here.
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It’s like judo
Jackie Greene masters the metaphysical side of playing blues; Mike Farrell masters the astral side of bossa nova.
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Where’s the fire?
Garbeau’s Dinner Theatre offers faith-based theater with the gospel tribute Smoke on the Mountain.
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The Sacramento 2Page Play Festival
See 24 plays for $9.50 at the Sacramento 2Page Play Festival.
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Frenchin’ your fries
Sacramento wide-load rock band Dungeons and Drag Queens aspire to be this town’s answer to the Faces.
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Drowning with the insane Clamper posse
A memorial fund-raiser at The Distillery turns into a bit of a Clamper-style hoedown.
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Ashlee Simpson
Just when you thought the foistmasters couldn’t get any more cynical, heeere’s Ashlee Simpson!
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Lookin’ for a kiss
Supermodel Suicide, Sacto’s answer to the Dolls, plays the Capitol Garage on Friday.
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Dude, where’s my slider?
Even without herbal funny-bone stimulation, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is this year’s funniest comedy.
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Travel the World with Putumayo
The Putumayo label’s Travel the World DVD takes a National Geographic TV approach to presenting world music.
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