Issue: August 31, 2006
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Hollywood war machine
War movies: What are they good for? SN&R’s film critic turns to expert Carl Boggs in search of an answer.
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The end of time approaches
Some evangelical Christians believe the latest conflict in the Middle East suggests the Rapture may be near.
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The climate, it is a-changin’
2006 may have been the summer of global warming, but you’d never know it by watching local TV forecasts.
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Feminine perspectives
A stereotype-defying woman herself, this UC Davis law professor will study how other bold women are transforming Islam from the inside.
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What makes an American?
It’s doubtful most Americans know (and our government officials seem to have forgotten) these bits of knowledge required to become a naturalized citizen.
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Letters for August 31, 2006
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Reparations bandwagon
The movement to offer compensation to descendants of slavery is gaining momentum since Hurricane Katrina blew the cover off America’s race/class divisions.
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Insert foot here
Bites chomps on Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy and Representative John Doolittle and empties this week’s mailbag.
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New priorities
Proposition 87 will put California on the forefront of development of renewable technologies.
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SMUD short-circuits the river
SMUD’s plans for the American River don’t leave much for anyone else.
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Reading Lolita
Facilitating your 15-year-old son’s Banned Books Club is one thing. But what happens when he and his friends want to read Lolita?
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Call of the tiled
The works of Mary Gottlieb and Kanika at the Nineteen Ten Gallery.
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The government cheeseburger
If you successfully pass through the metal detector, the burger is yours.
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Rethinking 9/11
The essays in A Hidden History weaken the validity of the official 9/11 story.
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Chalk-dust scorcher
Paint the town, or at least the sidewalk.
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A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever
How Harvard was he?
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M isn’t for monkey
The entire presentation was comfortably nostalgic, up until the last song, when I was confronted with the shocking revelation that I have been dancing the Y.M.C.A. incorrectly my entire life.
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Parker moves on
African-American playwright William A. Parker says Sacramento doesn’t understand the importance of black theater.
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Smokey Joe’s Cafe
Close out the 2006 Music Circus season with a smokin’ blues revue.
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Spicing up downtown
Brave downtown at night for delicious dumplings at Kabul Kabob Cuisine.
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Brown-bag lunch
Pack your kids’ lunches like a professional chef.
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Not a sit-down occasion
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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Best left unspoken
Your hair smells like cucumbers. That gets me so hard. Wait. Where are you going?
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Same chair, same perfume, same anklet. New edition.
Murder is “ten times twice as dangerous” in a new DVD release of Double Indemnity.
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