Issue: September 06, 2012
And then we came to the end … of Sacramento. In this week's feature, SN&R's resident Armageddon-obsessive, Kel Munger, talks with a number of experts to find out how the city will go up in smoke or down in flames. Zombies? Aliens? Robot apocalypse? Super fire? She's got 'em all and then some.
In Frontlines: Bites is back! That's right, Cosmo Garvin returns with a newer, better, snarlier Bites column. This week, he takes on K.J. and money. He's joined in the column slot by Greg Lucas, who kicks off our new Capitol Lowdown column on state politics. Also, something about trains …
In Arts&Culture, if Sacramento survives, it's sure to be funny. Stephanie Rodriguez interviews local comedian Brian Crall about the upcoming Sacramento Comedy Festival. Also, d'ART previews this Second Saturday; Jeff Hudson raves about Antony and Cleopatra in Nevada City; and Nick Miller talks to G. Green.
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13 ways Sacramento bites it
Fire! Zombies! Alien invasion! Don't laugh—experts explain how it could happen to us.
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The right track
New UC Berkeley study reaffirms high-speed rail as major engine in battling climate change.
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Summer’s a bear
Auntie Ruth looks back at her encounter with Sunny the black bear in Lake Tahoe.
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Green-up duty
Sacramento participates in National Public Lands Day.
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Which ‘organic’ companies want to keep GMO labeling in the dark?
Our writer breaks down a who’s who of Proposition 37.
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There is a difference between Obama and Romney. Taste it.
Being numb to the political process is dumb.
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Shake off the lies
Joey advises a reader to strip away the fear.
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Send in the elephants
Andy Swan isn’t clowning around when it comes to elephants.
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It’s only Tabasco for the taco
The Mexican notes that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is at least a start, and points out jealousy in one familia.
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K.J.’s dark money machine
Turns out there’s even more going on at K.J. Inc.
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Democracy belabored
SN&R’s new California’s Capitol columnist longs for odd-numbered years.
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Romney-Ryan plan is Robin Hood in reverse
GOP can't sell its budget plan—so it just spreads falsehoods.
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Which way forward for the republic?
It's time for a bipartisan approach to overturning Citizens United.
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A comic walks into a festival …
Local comedians share laughs, opportunities—and maybe the occassional fight—at this week’s Sacramento Comedy Festival.
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Nearly nekkid on the Nile
Synthetic Unlimited has a great thing going with Antony and Cleopatra in Nevada City.
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Dances with jaguars
Last week for Severed Roots from Teatro Espejo. Conquistadors, Mayan warriors, swords and spears, and a pyramid!
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Golazos galore!
Raley Field hosts its first professional-association-football match in more than two years.
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Jolt of emotion
Gale Hart addresses apathy and animal cruelty in her art show, Show Some Emotion.
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Head obsessed
Capital ArtWorksCapital ArtWorks presents the paintings of K Chesebro.
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Sneak into a studio
It’s time for the yearly invasion into the studios of local art makers: the Capital Artists’ Studios Tour.
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No-pantomime zone
The San Francisco Mime Troupe spares no comedy targets with its political satire.
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The science of sleep
A new book explores the link between sleep and just about everything else we do.
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Secrets and grown-up lies
Susan Vaught’s new novel explores the mysteries of adolescence.
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Weird Al of hip-hop?
Turquoise Jeep’s Ace of Spades show proves the hip-hop group doesn’t just satirize the genre, it does it one better.
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A Bakery & Thai Food: Half-baked
This Tahoe Park cafe isn’t quite a bakery—nor a Thai-food restaurant.
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The other sour
Sudwerk’s Berliner Weisse gets its tart sourness from lactobacillus, not Brettanomyces.
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Crawfish, catfish and Coors
Sacramento celebrates Cajun food and music this weekend at the Coor Light Crawfish & Catfish Festival.
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What will it take?
Here’s one simple question—and responses—to offer people to curb animal cruelty.
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Punk in the DNA?
Sacramento foursome G. Green ripens, fills promises, gives a lil’ attitude.
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The Possession
Kyra Sedgwick must need money. How else to explain her presence in this stinker?
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