Issue: November 05, 2009
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I [heart] comics
Comic books are no longer just for geeks, but this hasn’t made it easier for Sacramento’s artists to break through.
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Thompson don’t preach
Why did Westminster Presbyterian Church’s popular reverend step down, then sever ties with his church?
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No-grow Nevada
California’s neighboring state may simply not be growing anymore.
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Something about Mary
Local activist and environmentalist Mary Brill dedicated to getting citizens involved.
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Letters for November 5, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Lean on someone else
Overprotective mothers don’t necessarily ruin their children’s lives, but sometimes they just need to let go.
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Army of scabs
Part-time teachers subsidize community-college system.
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Field trip
SACOG’s agricultural tour reveals the undiscovered country.
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Grisly man
Local writer David Kulczyk is hard to deal with, but a goddamn gentleman.
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A little Dobbs’ll do ya
The Mexican on laughing gabachas, Lou Dobbs, intimidation and Montezuma.
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Business as usual
One of the mayor’s advisers going to work for Nestlé? No problem!
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Tool O’ the Day: Ares rocket
This week’s offerings, culled from the best of SN&R’s blogs.
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Support Harvey Milk Day
This week’s offerings, culled from the best of SN&R’s blogs.
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Chief Braziel: ‘legalize them’
This week’s offerings, culled from the best of SN&R’s blogs.
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Act against hate
As Sacramento knows firsthand, the hate crimes act has been a long timecoming.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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A nasty flu
Rachel lashes back at those who get hysterical about H1N1.
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The un-office
The Urban Hive provides Sacramento freelancers the opportunity to share a workplace.
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Tick, Tick … Boom!
SN&R reviews a new production by the New Helvetia Theatre Company.
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Make ’em laugh
The Sacramento Comedy Spot has its grand opening at its new MARRS building location in the heart of Midtown.
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A young, old heart
A famous American lawyer tells all, and it’s not pretty.
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Monkey-wrenching memoir
He’s not afraid to walk the line or chain himself to a tree.
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Stoner crime spree
Hey, even Bonnie and Clyde couldn’t make a living stealing. And they weren’t stoned.
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Religion with wings
Ever want to fly away from your life? Try falconry—but it’s hard, and it’s not for everyone.
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Sing for your supper—all five courses
Sacramento composer Gregg Coffin’s Five Course Love gets a lot of productions—and a cast album.
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Michael Jackson on unemployment
M.J., Catholic radio, YouTube vids, This Is It, pedophile jokes, Natomas, Christmas-themed sweaters, Hooters, Buffalo wings and Josh Fernandez.
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Six guys, one night
A new one-man show by award-winning actor/writer Daniel Beaty comes to the Guild Theater in Oak Park.
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Study break
Good value for students, not a lot of ambience, hit-and-miss eats.
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Enter the Donny
Dad’s Kitchen reopens a week later with a new proprietor, and not much has changed—the chili and the mac and cheese will never go anywhere.
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What would Amelia Earhart drink?
The Aviation cocktail may look dainty, but it packs quite a gintastic punch.
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Produce in the park
Picnics may be over, but fresh produce lives on at the Davis Farmers’ Market.
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Stark, raving, mad
Candy kids teach this writer about the new rave scene.
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All-ages, so not over
Naked Lounge Live proves that Nick Miller is a dumbass.
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Fri, Nov 6, Chuck Prophet
Chuck Prophet performs at the Palms Playhouse.
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Sun, Nov 8, The Finches
Be courteous while getting hammered at the Finches on Sunday lateafternoon, brah.
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Eating up jam like soup
Nebraska Mondays, Ross Hammond, Byron Blackburn, Tony Passarell, Scott Anderson, Joe Berry, Shawn Hale, Tom Monson, Luna’s Café& Juice Bar, Thin Air Quartet, Dirty Projectors, Dave Longstreth, Don Henley, Black Flag, Angel Deradoorian, Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle, Little Wings, Chase Moore, Cawzlos, LMNH Records, TheMashUp.net.
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Critic’s cameo
Critics are never onscreen—except when they’re parasites, drunks or getting killed.
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Fa la la la la
Robert Zemeckis gives us Jim Carrey as Scrooge in yet another Christmas Carol. Sigh.
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Fa la la la la
Robert Zemeckis gives us Jim Carrey as Scrooge in yet anotherChristmas Carol. Sigh.
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Stephen Sommers attempts to stretch a 21-minutes-plus-commercials concept into a two-hour film.
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I Am Because We Are
The film shines a light on the impoverished African country of Malawi, where the AIDS epidemic and decades of dictatorial rule have created a culture of slum-bound orphans.
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The Burning Plain
Guillermo Arriaga is so concerned with picking at the scab of humandespair he forgets to make his characters remotely human.
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An Education
Save for some haste in the last act, director Lone Scherfig andscreenwriter Nick Hornby handle this lightly fictionalized adaptationof journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir with economy and respect.
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The Fourth Kind
Looks more like a sophisticated hoax than any kind of real-eventsdramatization.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
Ewan McGregor plays a timid Midwestern reporter investigating a covertU.S. military unit of psychically trained “warrior monks.”
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This Is It
It looks like this was going to be one bodacious concert, but the morbid finality of the title tells us to be grateful for what we’ve got.
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