Issue: August 19, 2010
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Meg Whitman, Jerry Brown
California’s next governor may be Meg Whitman or Jerry Brown. Here’s a roundtable involving a journalist and two empty chairs.
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Coffee and cigarettes
Starbucks’ outdoor-smoking ban could lead to more smoke-free public places.
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Make the grade?
NCAA graduation rates, Second Saturday mobs and Sac Bee iPhone apps.
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Fresh-food nation
Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op will show a screening of the movie Fresh and make organic popcorn.
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Drug the river
Sacramento doesn’t test its H2O for pharmaceutical waste.
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Letters for August 19, 2010
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Frenemies forever
A woman’s co-worker is a friend at after-work parties, but a snarky enemy on Facebook.
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Water grab
Proposition 18’s off the ballot, but the Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s stealth water plan moves forward.
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Don’t extend the tax cut for the wealthy
Those who have so much should do more to help the less fortunate.
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A soldier apart
Out of the many soldiers taken down in The Wounded Platoon, Jeremy Rhodes has managed to stay afloat.
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Something increíble for Mormons
The Mexican’s understanding of Mormons and Lamanites.
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A scanner, snarkily
At 24 Hour Fitness in Sacramento, gym members can now get fingerprinted and scanned in like meat. Yay!
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Say what, Roseville?
Westfield Galleria at Roseville gets a lesson in free speech. SN&R’s website gets two new bloggers.
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Vulnerable resource
Nobody thinks about water conservation until there isn’t any.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Resident evil
A Google-Verizon business deal may end net neutrality as we know it.
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Grill daddy
Chef and Weber grill cookbook author Jamie Purviance changed how Americans barbecue.
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The Servant of Two Masters
SN&R reviews a new production of Main Street Theatre Works.
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A film festival with balls
The Nevada City Film Festival will screen Jonathan Katz’ short film Death Row Diet and more.
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Sip some suds
Davis Food Co-op will host a tasting of beers from The Lost Abbey.
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Drop-your-drawers funny
Big Idea Theatre’s The Underpants: funny, funny, funny. With underwear.
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Follow the yellow brick road
Sing along with Judy at Outword’s Second Annual Sing Along with The Wizard of Oz at the Crest.
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Art of a warrior
Second Saturday goes to San Francisco with Skinner.
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The end of racism in 60 minutes
The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour comes to the Sacramento Comedy Spot this Friday.
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Tikka’d off
A bad meal leads to rethinking Sacramento Indian food.
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Never room for J-E-L-L-O
Gelatin is made from animal bones and tissues: definitely not vegetarian.
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Indie extravagance
Midtown dance rockers This Luxury crush guitars and synths for a self-described sexy Hollywood sound.
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Never grow up
Boston-based group the Grownup Noise will perform in Sacramento’s Naked Lounge Downtown.
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Thurs, Aug 19, Dame Darcy
Dame Darcy takes her Death by Doll music act to Sacramento’s Old Ironsides.
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Fri, Aug 20, Emily Wells
Check out Emily Wells’ cover of the Notorious B.I.G.’s song “Juicy.”
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Sat, Aug 21, The New Humans
Sacramento’s New Humans will release their latest EP, Avalanche, at TownHouse Lounge.
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Going mainstream
Golden Gate Park, Outside Lands Music & Art Festival, Devil Makes Three, Nas, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Empire of the Sun, Bassnectar, the Strokes, Julian Casablancas, Kate Gaffney, Concerts in the Park, Amy Scott, Obi-wan Kenobi, Steve Aoki, Social Nightclub, DJ Sex & Weight, My Cousin Vinny, Mike Diamond, B.B. King.
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Cranky old man
Sentimental Southern Gothic schlock—but it’s got Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek.
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The Art of the Steal
Don Argott’s searing art-world polemic The Art of the Steal was the most underrated documentary of 2009.
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Clash of the Titans (2010)
It’s the movie The Golden Compass should have been.
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Date Night
Steve Carell and Tina Fey, the anchors of the Thursday NBC lineup that is the bedrock of many a solid relationship, play a married couple mistaken for thieves wanted by the mob.
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Wholphin No. 11
So it goes in the current quarterly installment of Wholphin (No. 11), the San Francisco-based “DVD magazine of rare and unseen short films.”
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The Expendables
More Sylvester Stallone, more explosions, still expendable.
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Eat Pray Love
She eats, she prays, she loves, she’s shallow and immature: She’s Julia Roberts.
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Lottery Ticket
Even hitting the jackpot and meeting Ice Cube can’t save Bow Wow from a clunker.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Michael Cera takes on the whole world. At least, it seems like it.
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