Issue: September 16, 2004
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Obstruction of justice
Our legal system is bogged down with a tremendous number of lawsuits. Some Sacramento judges are now fining the attorneys and defendants responsible for bringing the frivolous ones.
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The war over Prop 67
Emergency-care initiative or diabolical phone tax? Political consultants battle over the branding of a state proposition.
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After the raid
Medical-marijuana activists try to figure out what’s next.
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First, fine all the lawyers
One person’s idea of a frivolous lawsuit may be another person’s idea of seeking justice.
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Letters for September 16, 2004
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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The long road to forgiveness
Tony Montoya survived two years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and eventually learned to love those who mistreated him.
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Mad-cow blackout
Something is terribly wrong, so go about your business but stay paranoid.
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The silly season
The harebrained content of bad bills proposed by legislators is progressing from dumb to dumber.
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Countdown to November
More reasons not to re-elect George W. Bush.
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Making marriage civil
Don’t just ban same-sex marriages; ban ’em all.
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Outsider, shmoutsider
This weekend, the Toyroom Gallery features art by developmentally disabled students from the Short Center North and their teachers, who happen to be some of the local art scene’s brightest lights.
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Requiem for the Wiezel
Pauly Shore chose Sacramento as the place to premiere his self-deprecating new comedy Pauly Shore is Dead.
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All the rage
Baker’s Checkpoint asks what would happen if the political outrage turned to anger and then violence.
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Shopping before sunup
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Doggie days of summer
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Strategic Ignorance:
A litany of “healthy forests” and other Orwellian crimes against nature by the Bush regime, compiled by Sierra Club President Carl Pope and writer Paul Rauber.
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If Just One More Person Recites How Smoking Kills …
A poem by Ariono-jovan Labu of Sacramento.
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You want funny?
Raigambre plays the last of its Chicano Groove series this Saturday at Harlow’s.
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Desktop cop
Join a security guard on his nightly beat, in the B Street Theatre’s Lobby Hero.
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Suit your fancy
If you’re craving the crepes of a Parisian street vendor, Crepeville offers local satisfaction.
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On the road again
Frank Jordan hits a nasty speed bump on the highway to world domination.
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School for stage presence
Americana singer-songwriter Richard March may be the most polished, professional performer in town.
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The Dead Texan
The Dead Texan makes subtle ambient music that is rewarding upon repeated listens.
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The Ulster Orchestra, Thierry Fischer
Francophile alert: 20th-century composer Jean Françaix, whose artful, polished music hearkens back to an earlier, more classical time.
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Percy Howard’s Meridiem
The second album by local singer-composer Percy Howard’s Meridiem, A Pleasant Fiction, sounds closer to 1980s downtown Manhattan than present-day Sacramento. And that’s a good thing.
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Sidemousing the bongo
Bass-playing punk-rock icon Mike Watt brings his current band, the Secondmen, to the Blue Lamp this Saturday.
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Chump on the stump
Richard “Dickie” Pilager, the candidate for Colorado’s governor (played by Chris Cooper) in John Sayles’ new film Silver City, bears a striking resemblance to a certain former Texas governor.
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