Issue: June 01, 2006
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Al Gore’s inconvenient truth
The former vice president talks to SN&R about his new documentary and the threat posed by global warming. ‘We didn’t ask for it,’ he says, ‘but here it is.’
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Divine explosion
Is the planned Divine Strake explosion a precursor to more nuclear-weapons testing?
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To Darfur, with love
Davis and Woodland join the fight against genocide in Sudan.
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Letters for June 1, 2006
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Purple haze
A mom worries when her kid falls in with the “right” crowd.
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Ready! OK!
Meri Thresher couldn’t leave cheerleading behind after college, so she found a way to bring it into her adult life.
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Sin and juice
Bites journeys to the City of Brotherly Love and then can’t stop thinking about Ken Lay.
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Whose life is it anyway?
Improv comedian Ryan Stiles works best without a plan.
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Advice from an über-ethicist
In his new book, Peter Singer takes a look at what we eat and doesn’t like what he sees.
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‘No war, only fish’
Have your consciousness raised. Then do something with it.
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Duck, duck, race
A flock of rubber ducks takes to the Sacramento River for a good cause.
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Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball
Ladies’ hoop dreams.
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Golden shoulders, orange thumbs
A bit harder to master than lying in the sun.
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The Bard, by the book
It’s a radical move, setting Shakespeare in, um, Elizabethan times.
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Dreams and Diatribes Redux
Dance, Jungian psychology and vegetables meet in Beyond the Proscenium Productions’ latest effort.
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French disconnection
Balcony Bistro isn’t as fun if you can’t sit on the balcony.
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Peel me a bean
Fava beans are laborious to prepare but worth the effort.
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The cure for Cowell
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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The real Jack
Sacramento’s micropowered station for independent hip-hop, KNOZ 96.5 FM, will broadcast rock, gospel, reggae and experimental music starting June 5.
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Gore-y details
Can big Al’s eco-anxious PowerPoint make for a rocking concert film?
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