Issue: December 27, 2012
Work. It seems to be killing us with stress-related diseases and injuries, while advancing technology is making it easier for us to work longer while being paid less for it. And that's just for the people who have jobs. There's an entirely different set of problems for those who don't. In this week's feature, Bill Ivey, author of Handmaking America: A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy, offers some insights on the nature of our relationship to work—and what it will take to turn our work into a meaningful and sustainable economy.
In Frontlines, Dave Kempa writes about the TRUST Act, sponsored by state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. The point is simple: Immigration policy is not working, and California will not take part in a broken system. Also in Frontlines, Kempa takes a look at how assault weapons are registered in Sacramento County, while Greg Lucas suggests that lawmakers ought not think they're all that smart, and Cosmo Garvin takes a few more Bites at City Councilmember Allen Warren and the mayor's idea of transparency.
It's a great time to be a boozehound in Sacramento, thanks to the annual cocktail week in August and an increasingly interconnected network of artisan bartenders. In this week's Arts&Culture feature, SN&R's resident drink expert, Becky Grunewald, dares local bartenders to mix up a glass of boozy excitement—just in time for ringing in the New Year. In Music, Rachel Leibrock interviews John Lee Hooker Jr., and we've got 8Gigs ready to go for you.
You don't need to break your nest egg—or the bank—to ring in the New Year in style. Try SN&R's Sweetdeals: https://snrsweetdeals.newsreview.com/.
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California leads nation in immigration reform
Immigration policy poised to change at statehouse and Congress as Dems, GOP reach across aisle.
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Loaded with guns
As a nation grieves and talks of aggressive gun control, firearms own the streets.
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New Farm Bill, please
Auntie Ruth wants the 2012 Farm Bill to go a little bit differently.
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Tree-cycling
If you live in the city of Sacramento, recycling your tree is probably easier than you think.
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Good digestions
Sacramento company converts leftover food into natural gas; could power hundreds of homes and cars.
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Letters for December 27, 2012
Readers suggest that Sacramento will face an inevitable devastating flood and advise to heed the words of Charlton Heston.
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The story of the universe
Joey advises a reader to recreate the future.
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TV hates Sacramento
Why do TV networks consider Sacramento shorthand for lameness?
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Sheila Bair's whodunit
The story of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s battle to “save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from itself.”
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In the company of sharks
Scuba diver Larisa Steele dives the depths of the ocean to meet her celebrity shark crushes.
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Bad neighbor
How to get a Mexican neighbor to turn down the volume of his earsplitting music.
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No hard feelings
Allen Warren's wayward emails, Mayor Kevin Johnson's accountability manifestos and the best studies on suburban sprawl that money can buy.
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Make ’em, don’t break ’em
Capitol Lowdown's New Year's resolutions for 2013 lawmakers.
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Sprawl delay
Phil Serna delays urban-sprawl development of Cordova Hills.
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Regeneration
California's stem cell agency is rife with conflicts of interest.
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Revenge of the cocktail challenge
SN&R's resident drink expert dares local bartenders to mix up a glass of boozy excitement.
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In between times
Broadway Sacramento fills the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day with some pirates and a boy who won’t grow up in Peter Pan.
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A cupful of swagger
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’’s Cathy Rigby as Peter Pan, flying into Sacramento for a post-holiday fun fest!
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Holidays en pointe
The Moscow Classical Ballet brings The Nutcracker to Three Stages at Folsom Lake College.
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A really fly pie
Blackbird Kitchen & Bar's banana cream pie is piehole perfect.
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Cup of darkness
The Star Wars Death Star tea infuser is cool enough to charm even Darth Vader.
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Nasty, brutal and timeless
Philip Pullman takes on the Brothers Grimm with reinterpretations of the 19th-century authors' classic fairy tales.
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Hangover heaven
SN&R asks for advice from Sacramento bar staff and chefs on how to prevent and cure hangovers.
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What a pair
Community Tap and Table offers beer-and-food-pairing dinners.
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Marathon mealtime
Enotria Restaurant Wine Bar chef Pajo Bruich will be creating a 12-course meal for New Year's Eve.
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He’s going to kill me
Watching just the trailer to Earthlings may be enough to change one’s mind about animals and vegetarianism..
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Son of the blues
John Lee Hooker Jr. on his famous father, living in Roseville and the art of telling whoppers for a living.
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Fri., Dec. 28, Mount Whateverest
Mount Whateverest plays a CD-release show at the Haven Underground, showcasing tracks that are retro fresh, not musty.
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Fri., Dec. 28, Frank Jordan
Sacramento rock-fusion group reunites after six years for a show at the Blue Lamp on Friday, December 28.
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Sat., Dec. 29, The Brodys
Longtime Sacramento rock fixture reconvenes to perform a loud rock show at Old Ironsides on Saturday, December 29.
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Sat., Dec. 29, The LURK
One-man band the LURK blends minimalism and garage rock at G Street Wunderbar on Saturday, December 29.
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Sat., Dec. 29, Turquoise Jeep
Comedic hip-hop group brings bad ’90s dance moves and fake facial hair to Ace of Spades on Saturday, December 29.
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Fri., Dec 31, New Jack Fling
An old-school hip-hop and R&B dance night comes to Midtown BarFly on New Year’s Eve.
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Mon., Dec. 31, The Alkali Flats
Ring in the new year with some twangy country music at The Hideaway Bar & Grill.
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Mon., Dec. 31, Tower of Power
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with a classic funk and soul band from the Bay Area.
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Wherever Hugo
It's no turkey, but director Tom Hooper makes an occasional hash of Les Misérables.
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Django Unchained
Quentin Tarintino gives the pre-Civil War South an audacious, badass revisionist history lesson.
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The Guilt Trip
Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand take filmgoers on an uneventful but enjoyable cross-country adventure.
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Hyde Park on Hudson
Bill Murray's Franklin D. Roosevelt is a philandering president who helps the British royals master war and wiener etiquette.
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It’s list time
Ngaio on the good, bad and fugly ugly of the 2012 marijuana world.
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