Issue: March 29, 2012
Fracking-the process of pumping a mixture of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure into oil or gas wells-has come under intense scrutiny across the country this past year. But in California, it’s tough for local communities to get information about the process and where it’s happening since the state doesn’t keep track. For this week’s feature, SN&R sent Cosmo Garvin to find out if fracking is going on in our region and why environmental groups say the state has largely turned a blind eye to the controversial process.
In Frontlines, there’s yet another arena story: Cosmo Garvin looks at STOP, or the Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork initiative and whether it would spell the end for the proposed Sacramento Kings new home. Also this week: Nick Miller chats with Assemblyman Richard Pan on the Affordable Care Act and what a health-care exchange might look like in California, and Amy Wong chats with author Scott Thomas Anderson on meth in the greater region.
Got fuzz keeping your upper lip warm? Then let’s see if you can cut it with some of the hottest mustachio’d men and women in Sacramento. Steph Rodriguez unveils the ’stache in our Arts&Culture feature. Also: The River Cats take on the Oakland Athletics, Explosions in the Sky (nearly) sell out the Mondavi, Serge Gainsbourg gets a party in Midtown, and True West has brothers and brawling for five-star ravin’ Willie fun at the Capital Stage.
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Oh, frack!
Do you know know where gas is being extracted? Neither does the state.
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Industry leaders, Sacramento legislators vigorously embrace Affordable Care Act
Most of America awaits this summer’s Supreme Court health-reform ruling.
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Focus on outcomes
Assemblyman Richard Pan says he’s ready for the health industry to evolve.
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Meth addiction eats at Sacramento foothills
Local author lifts veil on connection between crime, drug abuse and the demise of rural communities.
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For the dogs
City of Sacramento animal-shelter head insists fate of Hayden Bill won’t lead to more dead pets.
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Good riddance Gary Pruitt?
So long McClatchy Co. CEO Gary Pruitt. And thanks?
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The greener, the wiser
SN&R chats with Julia Burrows, new head of the mayor’s Greenwise Joint Venture environmental nonprofit.
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SN&R Letters 2012-03-29
Sacramento News & Review readers chime in on California’s mental-health services, Rush Limbaugh and Josh Fernandez’s search for religions.
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Ask Joey: Ditch the script
Joey advises a reader to skip the storybook endings.
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Burning the letters
What compelled a writer to burn letters from his past?
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The changing Grange
Newly elected California Grange president Robert McFarland focuses on sustainable agriculture.
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Party en francais
DJ Christophé explains why you need more 1960s French pop in your life and which track he’d spin for French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Ask a Mexican: Can you knock off all the Spanish?
The Mexican defends his use of Spanish and reflects on the evolution of the language.
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Student loan debt forgiveness critical to economy
Don’t think of student loan debt forgiveness as a handout. It’s not.
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Shaming wands? Enough already with war on women
The latest move to take away women’s dignity—compulsory transvaginal ultrasounds—is nothing short of outrageous.
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Madonna and the middle-aged body
Her new album is MDNA, but everyone’s buzzing about what she’s wearing.
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O, brother, where’s the beer?
These brothers know how to brawl: Capital Stage does True West.
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Easy, breezy and very new
Sacramento Ballet takes contemporary dances to Three Stages at Folsom Lake College.
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(No) moneyball
The Sacramento River Cats take on the Oakland Athletics this Saturday, March 31.
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Jeepers, peepers
No fooling, these retro-cool cases will do your eyes right.
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Pretty cool
Priti NYC nail polish looks good and makes the wearer feel good, since it’s nontoxic.
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Aural roadmaps
NPR’s Song of the Day features gives you the world through music.
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Waiting here Sunday, lost
A poem by Cynthia Linville of Sacramento.
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NCAA March rat-ness
How the NCAA tournament made me a better rat owner.
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Ichi Maki: Become one with the bento
Rancho Cordova sushi restaurant makes for a suburban oasis.
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Kickin’ spices
Look for this Indian grocery store on Fulton Avenue.
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Festivals of food
Festa di Vino helps ring in the food-festival season.
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Smells like candy
Priti NYC makes a biodegradable, nontoxic nail-polish remover that smells like candy. Hell yeah.
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Explosions (in the Sky) at Mondavi
The Austin, Texas, foursome come back to the Sacramento area after a nine-year hiatus.
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New Cake video serves up a tasty tribute
Cake invited fans to participate in the video for a new song, and the result is a sweet success.
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A writer and his dad, the writer
Nick Flynn’s haunting memoir about finding his father in a homeless shelter doesn’t translate to the screen quite as well as it might.
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Film Clip: The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Marie Losier has created an oddly sincere and unaffected documentary about love among artists.
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Film Clip: Jeff, Who Lives at Home
It’s best to be completely not stoned when trying to interpret signs from the universe.
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Film Clip: Thin Ice
Greg Kinnear finds out the consequences of being too sleazy.
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