Issue: September 17, 2009
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Gutting mental health
Drastic cuts in Sacramento County mental-health services will endanger public safety, officials say.
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Safe, not sorry
WEAVE’s safe house offers sanctuary for local victims of spousal abuse.
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Letters for September 17, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Greeting-card logic
Greeting-card advice may make it easier to trade in one wife for the next, but it doesn’t help an emotionally needy husband face his own issues.
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¿Dónde are you going, dónde have you been?
The Mexican on where Mexicans are headed—and from where they came.
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On the racks
Bites reviews recent political theater at City Hall.
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Taste-bud-friendly brewfest
Drink local at the California Brewers Festival.
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Books and vibrato
Sacramento Opera will present excerpts from The Elixir of Love and La Traviata.
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Ed does Dad
Three one-acts, one dad: Ed Claudio struts his stuff at the Actor’s Theatre.
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MARRS gets something to laugh about
The Sacramento Comedy Spot brings some chuckles to a new venue in Midtown’s MARRS complex.
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Kick off your Sunday shoes
Jack, get back, and get ready for some serious dancing in Runaway Stage’s production of Footloose.
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Sushi-only philosophy
Drawn to the sushi/sports bar pairing, Greg settles in for a date with chef Ernie Rodriguez.
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Sayanora, Krispy Kreme
Mahoroba Japanese Bakery has Ann Martin Rolke addicted.
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Neighbor-food watch
Eat with strangers at Luigi’s, Mulvaney’s Building and Loan and Masullo.
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Coffers and consumption
Check out Soil Born Farms annual Autumn Equinox fundraiser.
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Thurs, Sept 17, Alaric
We feel bad that AFI are a bunch of wussies.
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Thurs, Sept 17, Henry Rollins
Don’t be a sissy or lose Julie’s respect. Be there.
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Fri, Sept 18, Brooke White
Brooke White performs at The Boardwalk. She finished fifth on American Idol, so the Boardwalk is what you get.
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Wed, Sept 23, No Kids
This is a private club, so you’ll have to pay to see.
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Second Saturday hates hip-hop?
Shortkut, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Beat Junkies, Triple Threat DJs, sausagefests, Addict Merchants, Retarded Muppit Farm, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Task1ne, Another Rap Group, United State Midtown clothing, Second Saturday permits, Citystate, Cuffs Urban Apparel, Omina Laboratories, Chase Moore, Mahtie Bush, My BBQ Spot, Pocket for Corduroy.
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Circumlocutory and vague
Aren’t we long overdue for a great black comedy about white-collar crime?
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Observe and Report
Give 32-year-old director Jody Hill credit for creating three ballsy portraits of modern masculinity run amok.
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Surveillance
You’ll see the twist coming, but it’s still a good feature.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
It isn’t the first film about members of the post-Nazi generation who were radicalized into West Germany’s lethal leftist Red Army Faction in the 1970s.
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Best way to eat the heat
SN&R’s food critic samples Sacramento’s spiciest cuisine.
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Best wearable pop art
Sacramento’s boldest hairstyles reveal influences from punk to Peter Pan.
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Best eye-popping people watching
All that glitters is in Sacramento’s Glitter Gulch.
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Best audio goose bumps
Our picks for Sacramento’s catchiest pop songs.
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Best way to get popped upside the head
Sacramento loves dodgeball forever.
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Best attempts to save the world
There are spaceships in your backyard!
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Best way to make yourself—or someone else—pop
Be a voyeur at Sacramento’s adult retail outlets.
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