Issue: March 17, 2011
Hello SN&R reader!
Is it safe? The neighborhoods of Sacramento County are struggling with the impacts of a smaller, less proactive sheriff's department. And Scott Jones, the county's new sheriff, is the first one to admit it. In this week's SN&R, we explore the future of local law enforcement in this era of striking budget deficits. Elsewhere in this week's paper, find SN&R's classic mix of local news, opinion, music, film, fun and food coverage.
Happy reading,
SN&R
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Sacramento crime report
What’s the future for law enforcement in Sacramento County?
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Sacramento County’s toothache
Children getting drilled by county program to assist with dental care.
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‘Jerry Brown don’t let us down’
Thousands of students from across California brave the elements to protest education cuts.
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Driving climate change
Sacramento sprawl and the connection to global warming.
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The future of parks?
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors considers partnering with Doug Ose.
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Cruel, inhuman, degrading
The United Nations chimes in on Safe Ground, homelessness and safe access to water and sanitation.
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Rotting goodness
Ruth ponders city of Sacramento mandatory composting.
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Green machine
Drive more efficiently and save gas with the EconoDriver.
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Spring for a day
Our writer takes a road trip to Bitney Springs, the region’s only natural, public, free water source.
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Letters for March 17, 2011
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Accept (quietly) or exit (quietly)
Advice to a woman to either accept the situation as it is or get out of it.
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Teaching moment
Sacramentans visit Egypt, return just before protests.
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Plastic pollution could last forever if we don’t change our habits
Jackson Browne encourages us to stop using plastics in his new song “If I Could Be Anywhere.”
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Soundtrack to the Civil War
Fife and drum field music is not over!
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Nobody shops in Juárez
The Mexican on chupacabras and crazy day-trippers.
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Sacramento’s $40 million question
Sacramento’s budget hole could swallow everything beside public safety.
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Gas, gas, gas
Sacramento gas prices at $4 a gallon is just the beginning.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Big tragedy, little screens
Thinking about Japan while living it on phones, tablets and TVs.
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A life in showbiz
California Musical Theatre executive producer Richard Lewis started early.
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
SN&R reviews a new production at the Sacramento Theatre Company.
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Mystery Spot
SN&R reviews a new production at the California Stage.
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Come, watch and conquest
ConQuest Sac will hold its fifth annual conquest game tournament in Sacramento.
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Pour a cup of ambition
Broadway Sacramento brings 9 to 5 to town for some after-work fun.
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Soft hands roll sleek joints
Mo’ Batti Imports makes some nice shea butter lotion.
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Gods of reality
God is behind the camera—literally “in the machine”—in Andrew Foster Altschul’s latest novel.
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Brit gets America right
British historian Dominic Sandbrook nails the American ’70s—and he wasn’t even born then!
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Hell on Earth
Karen Russell, author of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, releases her first novel, Swamplandia!
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Spend some time with a classic
Tennessee Williams would be 100 years old this month. Fortunately, we still have his plays.
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Gazing at the Ivory Sea
A poem by Crawdad Nelson of Sacramento.
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Secret of the pig
Vegans be damned at Mulvaney’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Pig Roast.
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‘She’s a fighter’
Local medical patient Neoma Denny still inhales at 78.
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A very old song
Great production, great cast, great singing … but oh, that play is retro-ugly.
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Himalayan remodel
Even the buffet is good, different at Kathmandu.
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Chickens have faces!
To the Best of Our Knowledge’s episode “Animals and Us,” about man’s complicated and morally inconsistent relationship with animals, is definitely worth a listen.
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Siblings, no rivalry
Local teenage indie duo the Dreaded Diamond finish up their first album.
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Friday, March 18, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks
A smorgasbord of American music at The Palms Playhouse in Winters.
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Saturday, March 19, Simpl3Jack
CD-release show for one of Sacto’s youngest indie-rock troupes.
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Sat, March 19, Tera Melos
Tera Melos returns to Sacramento to perform at the TownHouse Lounge with Marnie Stern.
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Sun, March 20, Sister Spit
Sister Spit will perform spoken word at the Sacramento Poetry Center.
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Mon, March 21, Duck. Little Brother, Duck!
Rock band Duck. Little Brother, Duck! returns to Luigi’s for some more fun.
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Mon, March 21, Zion I & the Grouch
Zion I & the Grouch try to heal the nation with a new tour, which stops in Sacramento.
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Wed, March 23, Marsha Ambrosius
Former Floetry singer Marsha Ambrosius returns to Harlow’s as a solo artist.
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Second Saturday’s last rites
The Crocker Art Museum does all-ages music on Thursdays, Rough House says goodbye, South by Southwest gets a heavy dose of Sacramento.
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Once upon a pitch
If you’re a legendary director, don’t hold out hope for an Oscar.
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Undocumented aliens
Heretofore humdrum director Jonathan Liebesman delivers the goods at last.
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Mesrine Part 1: Killer Instinct
Titular star Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and director Jean-François Richet (Assault on Precinct 13) won the French equivalent of Oscars for their smoldering efforts.
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The Adjustment Bureau
Here come the men in black to rearrange your life.
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Red Riding Hood
This movie’s hilarious—but they probably weren’t aiming at funny.
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