Issue: July 15, 2010
Frontlines
This week in news, some public employees are working like dogs. Reporter Rachel Leibrock and photographer Lilly Fuentes-Joy tag along with Sacramento County’s animal control officers. Learn what budget cuts will mean for Sacramento’s neglected animals, and what simple thing you can do to help. Next, Bites wonders if hypocrisy is a requirement for getting ahead in
business. It seems to be working for PG&E and the Sacramento Metro Chamber. Also in news: Everybody into the pool! Because next year, the pools are going to be closed. In green news, Ted Cox visits the water-friendly farm of the future, and Auntie Ruth considers the fate of Tim DeChristopher, celebrated monkey wrencher of federal oil and gas leases.
Feature story
We are living in Screenworld. At work and at home, we’re constantly looking into screens. There are screens at checkout counters and laundromats, in restaurants and waiting rooms, and on the dashboards of cars and in their back seats. Millions of regular folks preen for screens on YouTube and Facebook, marketing their image like politicians or starlets. What with BlackBerrys and iPhones, few Americans go anywhere anymore without a screen that connects them to every other screen in some way or other. Longtime alternative weekly writer Michael Ventura asks the question: What happens when an image of reality takes the place of reality itself?
Arts & culture
Pavement is arguably the original indie band. Northern Californian Gary Young was the group’s original drummer. He left the band after its seminal debut, Slanted and Enchanted—but last week in Stockton, he got a chance for an encore. Jeff McCrory was there. This is how it went down. Also this week: Joey Garcia zips up the Sexy Hotness sleeping bag, Jim Lane reviews The Dark Knight director’s follow-up, Risqué business in Midtown finally is exposed, and Josh Fernandez explores the good and less-than-good of rapper A.R.A.B.’s latest.
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Screenworld
What happens when images of reality supersede reality itself?
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Dogged days
Ten hours, 200 miles and too many neglected animals; just a regular workday for Sacramento County animal control officers.
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Prescription: fail
New law would prohibit insurers from denying needed pain medication.
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Down the drain
This summer will be the last splash for half of Sacramento’s city-run pools.
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Free DeChristopher
Auntie Ruth talks rooftop gardens and fake auctions.
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Bee-friendly gardening
Avoid squashing bees and learn how to attract them to your garden.
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Letters for July 15, 2010
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Desperate wife seeks sexual intimacy
Joey offers advice to a woman facing a decade-and-a-half-long dry spell in her marriage. Was trading in passion for lifelong companionship the right choice?
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Van Jones comes to Sacramento
Picked by Obama as the green-jobs czar, he has a vision for America.
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Elderly animal farm
A Chance for Bliss is good end-of-life for four-legged friends.
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Dump the Pendejo Already
The Mexican on photos and prisoners.
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Lead us not
Let’s “look comprehensively” at any tweaks to the tax code, but any slapped-together ballot measure to completely overhaul our city’s charter will do.
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State workers’ ride
Why are state employees always made to pay for the budget impasse?
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Israel rethinks it?
Israel is easing its blockade on Gaza—it’s about time.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Topsy-turvy lifestyle
Nearly 20 years after Gary Young left Pavement, the famed wild drummer gets a second chance.
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Dancing at Lughnasa
SN&R reviews a new production at Big Idea Theatre.
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Entertaining indoctrination
Traditional Chinese performance or cult indoctrination? Decide for yourself about Shen Yun Performing Arts when they come to the Sacramento Community Center Theater.
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Iago’s at it again
The Sacramento Shakespeare Company’s production of Othello: set in New Orleans, still tragic.
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Close to the borderline
Merri Lisa Johnson’s new memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet, is an inside job.
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An unusual savior
A novel in which a teenage girl saves the world, along with help from a boy and an origami monkey.
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Nellie Oleson gets even
Alison Arngrim, once Nellie Oleson of Little House on the Prairie, is now a stand-up comedian.
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Burbs gettin’ edgy with it
A couple of great shows off the grid open this weekend.
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Sleeping bags, sexy time, singles soiree
Ask Joey’s Joey Garcia gives advice at a singles party.
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And now for something completely different
What do a fish-slapping dance, Not Dead Fred, a Trojan rabbit and a flying cow have in common? It’s Monty Python’s Spamalot!
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Èlan and energy
An homage to Brussels—but as of yet without mussels.
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The king of crops
Corn has a sweet side that transcends its dirty reputation.
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Risqué business
DJ Mike Diamond and DJ Sex & Weight chat 18-and-over dance night success.
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Love letters to California
Admiral Radley will perform Friday at Sacramento’s Blue Lamp.
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Thurs, July 15, Leon Russell
Leon Russell to perform at Sacramento’s Harlow’s.
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Sat, July 17, Ana Tijoux
Ana Tijoux raps the international language of awesome—in French and Spanish at Sol Collective.
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Time for real talk
Josh Fernandez, A.R.A.B., The Trojan Horse, DJ Rated R, Auto-Tune, T-Pain, Jess Gowrie, Zac Brown, I’m Dirty Too, Red Host, Dusty Brown.
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Sock it Tomei
Daniel Barnes confesses his Marisa Tomei jones.
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Prodigal Sons
Born Paul McKerrow, Kimberly Reed had gone from a straight male high-school quarterback to a lesbian filmmaker in the 20 years since she’d left her Montana hometown.
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Despicable Me
An aging evil genius (voiced by Steve Carell) battles his younger rival (voiced by Jason Segel), enlists the unwitting assistance of three little orphan girls and then finds himself grappling with the usual career-vs.-family conundrum.
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The Killer Inside Me
In director Michael Winterbottom’s film of Jim Thompson’s noir novel, Casey Affleck plays a mannerly mid-’50sTexas lawman with a troubled history and a tendency toward extreme sadism.
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
A physics nerd (Jay Baruchel, who else?) is taken in tow by a master sorcerer (Nicolas Cage) and trained to face a wicked adversary (Alfred Molina) in the ultimate battle of good and evil.
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