Issue: November 25, 2004
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Red light, green cash
If you think the idea of a $351 ticket is harsh, try fighting one. Even when the law’s on your side, you’re bound to lose.
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Taguba’s revenge?
Sacramento Sgt. Marc Guzman accuses the Iraq-prison-scandal hero of threatening soldiers.
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Seeing red
The traffic court SN&R’s editor witnessed hardly seemed to belong in a “justice” center.
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Letters for November 25, 2004
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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iPod people
The road to apathy is paved with good intentions.
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No longer a number
Sacramento author Dennis Henning no longer turns to food for solace.
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Stern warning
When it comes to a new arena for the Kings, let’s slow down and ensure the plans will benefit the community.
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Driving to distraction
Considering the number of bad drivers on the road, could it be worse to license undocumented immigrants?
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The shape of jazz to come
Mike Henderson’s oversized, quilt-like paintings, at B. Sakata Garo this month, evoke jazz album covers from the late 1950s.
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This is where I belonged
Or how to say goodbye, along with a few ruminations on a terrific local music scene.
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Fake show, real book
The fake textbook by the writers of The Daily Show is so often on the mark that teachers might end up finding a use for it.
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Low(ell) and behold
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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American Smooth: Poems
American Smooth, Rita Dove’s eighth book, contains poems that reflect the rhythm of American dance music.
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Beam me up, Prospero
Science fiction collides with William Shakespeare and 1960s rock ‘n’ roll in Return to the Forbidden Planet.
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Backwater Park
Sacramento’s suburban development spills onto local stages with Backwater Park, an original drama about sprawl.
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Uncharted territory
Southeast Asian BBQ’s $1.25 grilled chicken wings may be the best lunch deal in town.
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Revenge of the nerds
Didley Squat is four young lads just out of high school who know how to Odelay.
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Trailer-park opera
For our Clubber, folk-music combo Prairie Dog is a local “supergroup.”
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Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Nagano
If you want to grasp the music of German composer Anton Bruckner, this excellent Symphony No. 3 is a place to start.
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Tom Rigney
Fiddler Tom Rigney reanimates a mess of traditional blues.
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Snoop Dogg
Rhythm & Gangsta, Snoop Dogg’s new CD, contains some fine lightweight P-funk, but with guest stars like the Bee Gees and Justin Timberlake, who’s gonna notice?
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In the bottomless pit, an angel
Pensively sunny band Pinback brings its San Diego angst to Harlow’s on Sunday.
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Scandalous humbuggery
Seasonal exploitation movie Christmas with the Kranks is no Miracle on 34th Street.
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