Issue: October 06, 2016
The cover story this week: Sasha Abramsky highlights local activist and organizer efforts galvanize to push key social issuesâ€"and to beat Donald Trump in November.
Elsewhere in the issue: Take cover! Prop 60 is coming to make independent and popular adult filmmakers use condoms, but not everyone is happy about that, John Flynn has the story; Green makes green and the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation would like to know more, but what's there to know? Matt Kramer reports; Elsewhere, Kel Munger spotlights Alice Anderson, poet and survivor, and her new collection, The Watermark . Also in the book: looking for things to do on Second Saturday ? Look no further, Shoka has you covered.
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‘When we fight, we win’
Sacramento activists galvanize to push key issues and beat Donald Trump.
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Outsourcing porn
Sacramento-area porn couple could be among those targeted by deputized condom cops.
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Pot regulators mount up in Citrus Heights
California seeks advice in getting into the medical marijuana business.
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Pop-up restaurant crackdown: Dining innovators have run afoul of Sacramento County health regulators
Local officials cite food safety concerns, even as pop-ups thrive elsewhere.
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California big money dreamin’ and the 2016 election
Three multimillionaires are staking a claim on this year’s ballot.
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Unlikely intervention: Pleas for criminal charges in Joseph Mann police death face history
Sacramento County DA prosecuted only two use of force incidents in past 35 years.
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Selling Sol: Sacramento arts collective raising funds to keep its home
Building that houses Freedom Bound Center being sold by owners.
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Death, answers and videotape
It took dashcam videos and dogged journalism to bring Joseph Mann’s story to the rest of the world.
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Letters for October 6, 2016
Readers reflect on Donald Trump and piegate.
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DUI breakdown
After blaming her boyfriend for her own DUI, this reader wants to know how to win him back.
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Kelly Sullivan, the verdict reader
The Sacramento Superior Court clerk utters the most important words a defendant will ever hear.
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Alice Anderson’s survival mode
The Sacramento writer’s new poetry collection chronicles traumatic injury, Hurricane Katrina and self-preservation.
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
SN&R reviews a new production from City Theatre.
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Girls just wanna have fun(damental rights)
Celebrate the progress women have made and get inspired for the battles still ahead with a number of women-centric arts events this week.
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Religion of war
Tom Burmester’s play examines the stories of soldiers in Afghanistan.
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Death of a Salesman
SN&R reviews a new production from The Actor’s Workshop.
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Romeo and Juliet
SN&R reviews a new production from the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble.
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Speed-the-Plow
SN&R reviews a new production from B Street Theatre.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
SN&R reviews a new production from the Sacramento Theatre Company.
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Sweet baby Jesus Cabbage Patch and other legendary videos
Fe Gallery’s group show has more than 50 interpretations of myths, folktales, fairy tales and legends.
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15-year revamp
JayJay celebrates its 15-year anniversary with remodeling its space for bigger and better shows.
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Welcome to the family
Triad at Axis Gallery shows three members of the Amrhein family and three different visions.
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Buy in to art
Help build Sacramento’s artistic future by donating to Sol Collective’s fundraiser.
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Dark matters
Akashic Books’ latest noir anthology is not for the timid.
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Because, nudity
Sacramento filmmaker Jason Rudy’s latest film is for Russ Meyer fans—or fans of naked ladies.
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Dr. West, Dr. Chekhov and us
One of America’s most brilliant intellectuals on democracy, despair, racism and one Russian realist.
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Tortilla magic
NixTaco serves a fresh take on taqueria staples along with unusually fresh tortillas.
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Cure for the mehs
Booze-forward, tart and light, Hock Farm’s Paper Plane makes for a great mood lifter.
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Curry for days
Bangkok @ 12 Thai Restaurant proves that pumpkins are powerful outside of pies.
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Hey, ladies
Bottle & Barlow’s Girls Up Front will celebrate female bartenders and benefit Women’s Empowerment.
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On faux-milk taxes
Peet’s Coffee & Tea now has vegan coconut whipped cream, pastries and alternative milks, but charges more for the nondairy beverages.
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Hobo Johnson’s new kind of swagger
How Frank Lopes went from a kid living in his car to one of Sacramento’s most promising young rappers.
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Eight Gigs: Ludovico Einaudi
Got musical breadth? Ludovico Einaudi will be the judge of that.
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Eight Gigs: Penny Pacheco y Los Cora
Catch the best kooky and rambunctious alt-rock from south of the border.
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Eight Gigs: Davis Jazz & Beat Festival
Remember San Francisco’s days of counterculture and nonconformity?
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Eight Gigs: The Mr. T Experience
Catch the best band you never knew about that came out of the famed Berkeley pop-punk scene.
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Eight Gigs: Survive
It’s Halloween come early at Harlow’s with a night of horror synth.
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Eight Gigs: Blue Oaks
Sacramento blues-rock duo Blue Oaks adds two new members to its lineup in the wake of tracking their debut full-length album.
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Eight Gigs: Garrett Klahn
Garrett Klahn returns with a low-key indie record that is some of his best material to date.
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Eight Gigs: Odonis Odonis
Odonis Odonis uses industrial music to predict the end of the world as we know it.
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Homegirl shout-out
Rituals of Mine celebrated its major label debut release, which gets more oomph and gravitas from remastering.
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Time loopy
For Tim Burton’s latest confusing nightmare, blatant imitation of Harry Potter is a feature, not a bug.
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Masterminds
There’s only so much fun to be had watching a movie about dimwits made by dimwits.
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Deepwater Horizon
Forget the environmental impact; this movie goes straight for the action of the Deepwater Horizon incident.
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Queen of Katwe
This overly moist and noble film makes you feel like a monster for hating it.
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Green thumb
Is it too late to start planting your medical cannabis seeds?
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Etiquette for patients
Patients and budtenders share their true stories from dispensaries – and how NOT to behave.
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Cannabis Mini-Glossary
Cannabis terms you’re likely to hear inside a dispensary.
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Dispensary Guide
SN&R's guide to Sacramento-area medical marijuana dispensaries.
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