Issue: October 15, 2009
Got Superflu?
Headaches, sore throats, can’t get out of bed even for a bowl of ice cream—let’s hope you said no to all these symptoms. Kel Munger reports on this season’s bug—and looks at flus now and then.
Think Free,
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Go ahead, vaccinate
A local expert says avoid irrational panic and be prepared.
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Keep breathing
A reporter’s bad lungs provides new perspective on the flu season.
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Forsakes a village
Curtis Park rail-yards project abandons smart-growth ideas for suburban formula.
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Goodbye, Tammy Wynette
The 2010 California Protection of Marriage Act seeks to ban divorce in California.
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Measuring medical marijuana
Steep Hill Medical Collective travels around the state, testing for THC.
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Some like it hot
Saturday, October 24, is Climate Action Day in the Sacramento area and around the world.
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Do the hydroelectric slide
The Last Decent shows during the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival tour stop in Davis.
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Eat your vegetables
The Sacramento Area Council of Governments teams up with local organizations to promote locally grown produce.
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Letters for October 15, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Grumpier Miss Manners
Emily Post wannabe is not happy with Sacramento’s state of manners.
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Stupid wars
Why are we involved in another expensive and pointless war?
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Mission: possible
SN&R publisher Jeff vonKaenel clicks his ruby shoes together and discovers there no place like … a study mission.
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Clean-up act
Taking the time to clean up the community, one lawn at a time.
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Cry me a pinche río
The Mexican on the uninsured and pronunciation.
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The ground game
Phil Giarrizzo will mount the campaign to stop the strong-mayor initiative.
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City Hall gives no thought to freethought
Kevin Johnson gives the Freethought Day proclamation a no-go.
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‘No’ to tax plan
The state Commission on the 21st Century Economy botched the job.
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Death row costs
Getting rid of the death penalty would save tons of money.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Pantsless provocateur or poseur?
Lady Gaga is big time. But is she big-time phony?
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Bottoms up!
The so-called economic recovery is just another sham.
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Atwater: Fixin’ to Die
SN&R reviews a new production at California Stage.
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A Raisin in the Sun
SN&R reviews a production at Celebration Arts.
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Noises Off
SN&R reviews a production at the Sacramento Theatre Company.
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This festival cleans house
The Soaring Voices Film Festival will have you recording Hoarders and hitting up the Guild Theater.
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Blogger’s paradise
I’ve never been to a blog launch party. Hmm.
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GR82BU. No, rly.
It’s a tough life for teens, especially when they have to text it.
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Small change
What changes when gay people get married? Uh, they get married.
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Drunken Buddha
A new collection from local poet Crawdad Nelson takes a Zen-like approach to everything—even drunkenness.
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Sex Talks and actors schmooze
Sex Talks, not moans, in a fundraiser for ovarian cancer. Plus, a fundraiser for Actor’s Theatre of Sacramento.
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Five or six things I hate about the Sactosphere
A local blogger goes after his own.
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Self-sufficiency in extremis
B Street Theatre’s production of Pulitzer- and Tony-winning I Am My Own Wife pulls out the stops.
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Lunch on fire
Greg spares SN&R’s accounting department and lunches at The Firehouse.
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Girls with guns
Holly Heyser of NorCal Cazadora shoots stuff.
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Yogurt mistress
Things are simply much tastier if you make them yourself.
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Dan Deacon: bargain-bin beats
The electronica artists comes big with texture and arrangement, bringing more bang for your beat buck.
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First ever fluid-joke free Secretions preview
Nick goes 165 words on the Secretions almost playing a former strip club and saves the jizz jokes for afterward. Nice.
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Thurs, Oct 15, Mucky the Ducky
It’s like kids playing with toys, but on a stage.
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Sat, Oct 17, Brian McKenna’s 20 x 40
Brian McKenna celebrates turning 40.
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Mon, Oct 19, Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco makes pleather badass.
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Wed, Oct 21, Nathan James Trio
Lots of up-close-and-personal dancing and hip swinging equals hot!
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You will find underground audio delight (in bed)
spaghetti Westerns, Diminished Men, Art Lessing and the Flower Vato, Volume 4, Mucky the Ducky, Hogan’s Heroes, Colonel Klink, Undietacos, Larry Rodriguez, San Jose, Cool as Folk, Michael Leahy, Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, the Mumlers, Ambien, Tylenol, pharmacopeias, Silver Darling, Jesse Phillips, Ellie Fortune.
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The decade’s overlooked
Thinking about the films forgotten during the 21st century’s first 10 years.
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Every Little Step
We keep hearing “I Hope I Get It” in our heads. Damn!
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The last hour of this flick is some of the dumbest, saddest, most racist, most depressing shit Daniel Barnes has ever seen.
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The Boys Are Back
There’s a Lifetime-channel slickness to the story, with an unseemly dependence on Greig Fraser’s postcard-lovely cinematography.
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Couples Retreat
Imagine a half-assed update of Fantasy Island, somehow at once shriveled to short-sitcom proportions and bloated to feature-film length.
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Law Abiding Citizen
Writer Kurt Wimmer and director F. Gary Gray go for the grisly right off.
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Paranormal Activity
It’s a Blair Witch-style stunt, shot on a high-def shoestring, and director Oren Peli maintains the hoax to the end.
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