Issue: June 25, 2009
Hold on!Before you pencil in this Saturday to clean the garage, be sure to free up your 3pm-6pm hours and attend the inaugural SN&R Music Fest, a free festival at downtown’s Cesar Chavez Park. Find out more here.They’ll be food and drink, of course, but if you’re really hungry, give SN&R’s annual food guide, Chow, a taste, too. Mmm, crunchy and spicy.But whatever you do, don’t let any nosy writers into your home. Seven local musicians did for this week’s cover story, and oh man ... things turned out kinda OK, actually.Think Free,SN&R
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House music
Seven Sacramento musicians invite one nosy writer into their homes. Big mistake?
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Family-law makeover
Frustrated by California’s family-law system, its critics, including noted atheist Michael Newdow, are taking their fight to the Legislature.
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Better safe than sorry
Sacramento HIV/AIDS organizations promote National HIV Testing Day, offering free HIV tests to anyone who wants one.
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Those damn dams
Proponents of sustainable hydropower gather in Reykjavik, Iceland, this week.
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Juicy fruit
Sink your teeth into summer at Sacramento area farmers markets.
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One can or two?
In Placer County, some residents dump all their trash and recycling into one bin. Is that what we all should do?
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Letters for June 25, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Where our money goes
The prisons we build, the schools we abandon.
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Ships ahoy!
The Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel is about to get deeper.
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Tastes like dog food
Sacramento area chefs serve up daiquiris and tamales for dog parties.
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Delusions of grandeur … and Giraoland?
Did Walt Disney have a leaf blower?
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Mixed signals
Bee tries to excite subscribers. And, the destruction of free TV.
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Finally, a climate bill
The Waxman-Markey bill is flawed—pass it anyway!
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Arrrrgghh!
Race to the Bottom reviews Gideon Defoe’s pirate adventure series.
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Why I go to church
After a bad childhood experience in church, Marie Wilson sought a place to heal.
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If it’s not jazz, then what?
A three-day, multilocation festival seeks to at least provide a reasonable explanation to this musical riddle.
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The Three Musketeers
SN&R reviews a current production at Main Street Theatre Works.
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The Foursome
SN&R reviews a current production at the B Street Theatre.
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Want to ride my bicycle
Touring Sacramento and Critically Massing … all on bikes.
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Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg
A reading of works by Allen Ginsberg at the Sacramento Poetry Center.
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Marriage of classics
This new Mozart musical is no easy feat.
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Shoot ’em up
Don’t expect any Maltese falcons. These guys make noir really nasty.
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A tale of two cabarets
One local cabaret sells out. The other doesn’t.
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French ruckus
The clicking of a pen leads to a weekend of good Froggie cinema.
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A company man
He battered, he’s bullied, he’s blown up—he’s Benedict Arnold!
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Tokyo overload
Greg Lucas’ Japanese vacation turns foodie marathon.
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Dine and design
Graphic designer Bob Dahlquist on the food scene.
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Another Temple!
The perennial SN&R “Best Coffeehouse” winner opens a new location in Midtown.
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Bacon fantasy
Get your flapjacks at the Original Pancake House.
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WTF is Music Fest?
Warning: shameless self-promotion of SN&R’s free outdoor festival this Saturday.
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The Crow Quill Night Owls, Gallus Brothers and Below the Salt in Davis
Jug bands: They’re super resourceful, they play American roots music and they’re just plain fun.
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Sunday, June 28, Del the Funky Homosapien
Avalon Nightclub, 9 p.m., $15.
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Puberty-stricken non-believing boredom.
Middle Class Rut, Perry Farrell, Luigi’s Fun Garden, Port O’Brien, Love Is Life Foundation, Rancid, Stilldream, Kevin Costner.
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Machinelike but human
Atom Egoyan could lose an Oscar to James Cameron again this year, too.
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Revolutionary Road
Suburban angst, 1950s style, à la American Beauty.
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Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion
Anti-abortion activists explain why they do it—and Sacramento’s “Crazy Truck Man” gets around.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Still using Earth as their battlefield. Nice one.
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Lebanese delights
Abdul Maalouf of Maalouf’s Taste of Lebanon brings flavorful dishes from the Bekaa Valley to the Sacramento Valley.
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Home is where the Greek food is
Mary Masouris of Folsom’s Mary’s Gold Miner Cafe creates a unique family by serving up biscuits, gravy … and baklava.
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Tamale party
Local cook Barbara Ramirez makes them the traditional way.
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