Issue: December 12, 2013
Thanks for reading this week's SN&R. Feel free to click the links below,
but don't forget to pick up a newsprint version of the newspaper for
exclusive event picks, columns and cartoons.
The feature story this week: Law & /Re/order: Sacramento is poised to
elect its first new district attorney in two decades. Maggy Krell
promises a new approach--not just throwing everyone in jail. Nick Miller
reports on Sacramento's district attorney race.
Elsewhere in the issue: Debunking CPS, Raheem F. Hosseni rides along
with Child Protective Services. Also, Dave Webb recalls the City of
Davis' connection to Nelson Mandela, Kel Munger collects book
recommendations from local authors, Jim Carnes gives our highest rating
to Capital Stage's /The Santaland Diaries/, Shoka finds the best Second
Saturday exhibits, and more.
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Law and reorder: Why next June’s Sacramento district attorney race is crucial
Voters will elect the first new DA in two decades.
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Debunking CPS: A ride along with Sacramento’s Child Protective Services
Our writer pulls the curtain back on the agency with a scary reputation.
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Sacramentans fired by Wal-Mart hope to regain jobs
Former employees terminated for protesting labor practices.
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On Nelson Mandela and the city of Davis' Measure A anti-apartheid vote
In Davis in 1978, Measure A was a gesture, a comment. That's all. But it mattered.
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On Nelson Mandela, Davis’ anti-apartheid vote, and Sacramento’s district attorney race
Mandela for DA!
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Letters for December 12, 2013
SN&R's readers chime in on sex workers and justice, McKinley Village, Daniel Barnes' film criticism, and Blue Diamond Almonds.
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Hide the car keys
Joey advises a reader to soak her brain in truth serum.
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You be the judge
There are some tough choices to be made in the Sacramento's district attorney race.
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The social networker
Social-media producer Thomas Dodson talks strategy, Snapchat and keeping teens safe online.
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You can’t handle the question
The Mexican explains that Latinos’ problems in America are economic issues, not cultural ones.
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Candidate Ali Cooper could make Jay Schenirer's re-election a real contest
It is refreshing to hear a candidate for city council talk clearly about progressive values and about citizens taking more power in City Hall.
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The $5 billion-plus California shopping list
With California poised to rack up an estimated $5 billion budget surplus, here are some suggestions on what to get the Golden State this holiday season.
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Back on track
It makes everything easier—not to mention cleaner, healthier and less congested—for all Californians if we continue building our state's passenger rail system.
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Sacramento authors on the gift of (written) gab
Local authors share the books they'll give this holiday season.
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Crumpet and tee-hee-hee
Capital Stage produces a play based on a David Sedaris essay.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Production by the Sacramento Theatre Company puts a new spin on old holiday film.
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After Hours
SN&R reviews an original play by EMH Productions.
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Not in the Stars
SN&R reviews Buck Busfield's holiday production at B Street Theatre.
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Dancing debut
A new dance group makes its debut on Saturday at Bows & Arrows.
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Messy perfection
Blue Moon Gallery presents a solo show by David Lobenberg.
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Music as muse
Sacramento Temporary Contemporary presents a group show for the month of December.
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Buy. Eat. Drink.
This Second Saturday, check out goods from the WAE Limited & Co. design collective.
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Hipster holiday haven
Shop this Portland, Oregon-based site for unique and affordable items from indie merchants.
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Radio sweethearts
Miss Marnie Hot Pants returns to Davis radio.
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From pagan to saint
Nicola Griffith's new novel imagines the early life of St. Hilda of Whitby.
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Reunited and it feels so old
Our writer visits an old-folks home for partiers.
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The Thai standard
Thai Basil still deserves its reputation as one of the area's best Thai restaurants.
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Back pho more
Pho Saigon Bay is now open, a little less than a year after Saigon Bay Restaurant closed just a few blocks away.
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Generous animals
Support animal-advocacy groups by buying holiday gifts from the nonprofits' online stores this season.
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Gut instincts
Gabe Nelson follows his passion to (temporarily) trade in his Cake bass lines for a singer-songwriter gig fronting Bellygunner.
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From Boys to beleaguered has-beens
The Backstreet Boys mine your adolescent hormones for cold, hard cash, and Masta Ace knows better than to replace hard-workin' energy with nostalgia.
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Harlem nocturne
Kasi Lemmons directs this holiday-themed family drama.
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Out of the Furnace
Woody Harrelson and Christian Bale star in this darkly violent story about lowlifes in a Pennsylvania mining town.
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Peter Jackson pads out the latest installment in the J.R.R. Tolkien series.
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Narco Cultura
The link between Mexican drug cartels and the musicians who lionize them is explored brilliantly in this Shaul Schwarz film.
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This is your brain on cannabis
Ngaio on the connection between marijuana and strokes.
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