Issue: May 07, 2009
SN&R readers,This weekend is Second Saturday, and we’ve already made your plans. Don’t miss: songwriter Daniel Johnston at Verge Gallery, local Gale Hart at Solomon Dubnick, Northern Californian Chester Arnold at CCAS, and Jacquelyn Bond, this week’s d’ART cover artist. And check out www.newsreview.com or this week’s paper for Second Saturday art-walk maps.Also this week: Aliens tell us earthlings how it really is in this week’s cover story, dead rocker Kurt Cobain finally gets a (mock) trial at McGeorge School of Law, Cosmo Garvin interviews Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, Josh Fernandez tells the city’s poets how to get published (but not paid), and Nick Miller looks at the Sac’s very own Record Club.
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An outsider’s view of Earth
Our writer briefs a visitor sent to save humanity at the crossroads.
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The Briefer recommends …
Humanity-at-the-crossroads reading list.
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Man in the middle
Darrell Steinberg makes his pitch to Sacramento’s progressive Democrats.
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Moot court Nirvana
Twenty years after grunge, students at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento ponder a rock star’s messy death.
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April 2009: Iraq War timeline
Look for SN&R’s updated timeline each month.
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Paper or plastic?
A Sacramento area supermarket bag boy pesters Auntie Ruth with the question that will not die.
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Cuckoo birding
As great flocks of migratory birds head north, the locals gather for the annual Walk on the Wildside event near Freeport.
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Vegetable matter
The local-food movement picks up steam in Sacramento as more people grow gardens at home.
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Letters for May 7, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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CSI: Marriage murder
Abandoned by her mother and contemplating adultery.
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Exact equality
Mark Twain, women and the work no publisher would touch.
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Bike smack
May Is Bike Month, and SN&R president and CEO Jeff vonKaenel has challenged The Sacramento Bee to a bicycle-riding grudge match.
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Art for the cure
A photographic documention of a woman’s struggle with cystic fibrosis on exhibit.
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How now brown sow?
The Mexican on swine flu and the varying shades of Mexican skin.
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Rattling some cages
Is the Sacramento Zoo a wildlife conservation organization, or just monkey business?
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Paycheck to paycheck
This Sacramento area journalist makes bank, but what happens when the bank goes bust?
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Growing up J.W.
When it comes to Jehovah’s Witnesses, keep the Smurfs away.
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A not-so-dumb guide to publishers’ secrets
A few Sacramento poetry publishers talk about what they’re looking for.
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Interview with filmmaker Paul Haggis
Two out of three Best Picture statues ain’t bad.
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It’s a trip
You’re not on LSD—you’re at the Whole Earth Festival.
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Don’t cry for me, Sacramento
Evita from Runaway Stage Productions.
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Too much (good) stuff
Chester Arnold at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento.
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I, consciousness
Family, identity, consciousness: the stuff of fantasy and science fiction.
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The devil made her do it
Jacquelyn Bond paintings at Side Show Studios.
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Tassina of Le Petit Paris
A writer’s rendezvous with Sacramentans in Paris.
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Opportunity knocks
It’s the “Seven Ages of Man,” but he’s only lived through four of them.
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Finally, a great slice
The quest for a great nearby slice is over.
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DJ Roger’s Record Club is back
No dues, passwords or secret handshakes. Are you going?
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08 Fri, The Derek Trucks Band
Crest Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $27.50-$40.
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09 Sat, Beats & Bikes
Barbecue, bikes and beats. My BBQ Spot, 6 p.m., free.
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Boldly, again
Somebody give J.J. Abrams another $150 million.
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A Jihad for Love
If you think there are no GLBTQ Muslims, think again.
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Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed in the Mountains
Great story, so-so storytelling.
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Next Day Air
Kinda sounds like the plot to Three Men and a Baby.
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil
A rock-of-ages but contrived ode to innocent ambition.
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