Issue: June 29, 2017
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When the cops don’t kill you
A Sacramento man survived a questionable police shooting. Now he’s the one on trial.
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Honorably deported: Why California may cover veterans’ legal bid to return to America
The ACLU estimates some 3,000 veterans have been deported—many of them leaving behind children and partners.
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Pay to stay: Tenants of south Sacramento apartment complex face rising rents, complain of roach and mold issues
Cedar Ridge Apartments fell through the cracks of city’s inspection program.
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Hate on the wall: Vandalism of Sacramento-area houses of worship coincides with emboldened nativist fringe
Two mosques and one church struck by vandals leaving bigoted messages.
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CPS is hiring: High-stress agency’s vacancy rate is twice as big as Sacramento County’s unemployment rate
Oversight committee’s report finds slow but steady progress.
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Solar fair: SMUD program offers energy upgrades to low-income households
Partnership with GRID Alternatives intended to offset upcoming rate increases.
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Farewell thoughts
As our interim editor prepares to leave he has some words for readers.
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Letters for June 29, 2017
Readers share their thoughts on sandwiches and housing.
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Learning to leave
A sensitive reader wants help overcoming a fear of leaving an ineffective partner.
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Hold off on single-payer
While it’s a good idea, California Senate Bill 562 needs a lot more work.
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Wilson Lew, owner of Broadway Comics & Cards
Lew may have a reputation as a grump, but it’s just a matter of getting to know this owner of a store that’s survived on Broadway for decades.
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Reading the resistance
10 books to educate and inspire you to action.
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Booty worship turns to mourning
Sacramento’s most audacious burlesque troupe gives an impromptu sendoff to the Starlite Lounge.
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Review: Bad Jews
SN&R reviews a new production from Capital Stage.
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Review: The Amen Corner
SN&R reviews a new production from Celebration Arts.
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Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers
The Sac rapper will spit his spoken-word nursery rhymes alongside a bill of local pop-rockers at Concerts in the Park Friday.
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A Secret History of American River People
A homemade shanty boat down the Sacramento River will take a month’s journey from Red Bluff to the San Francisco Bay.
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Does It Matter Where Hops Are Grown?
Ruhstaller Beer is hosting a release party and taste test showcasing four new beers brewed at the same time, using the same single-hop recipe, but grown in different areas.
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Jaimal Yogis, All Our Waves Are Water
Outdoorsman Jaimal Yogis continues a lifelong spiritual along the shore in his second memoir, All Our Waves Are Water.
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Adventures and ambition
The Davis Shakespeare Festival kicks off with two shows in repertory.
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Beauty and the Beast
SN&R reviews a production from the Music Circus.
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Brilliant Traces
SN&R reviews a production from Ovation Stage.
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Reefer Madness
SN&R reviews a production from the Fair Oaks Theatre Festival.
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A dirge for the Starlite
After the Starlite Lounge closed on Sunday, there’s one fewer place for “weird shit” in Sacramento.
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Sporty Italian
Restaurateur Michael Sampino takes over Joe Marty’s and gives Sacramento a reason to cheer on the Kings while scarfing up Bolognese ravioli.
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Yams and jams
The newly opened Ecowas International Restaurant becomes Sacramento’s only all-West African restaurant; the Sacramento Public Latte Art Tournament begins again; and leading up to the new Spider-Man movie, you can get a spider-decorated latte at Oblivion Comics & Coffee.
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Tacos, every day
Stock up on Naturals Mi Abuelita Bonita tortillas to make every day a taco Tuesday.
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Healthy Mexican food demo
Chef Leoncio Heredia shows attendees at the Oak Park Farmers Market how to prepare Mexican food without excessive fat or salt.
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Scrumptious spacecraft
A new hybrid squash makes it fun to eat your vegetables.
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Organic produce, delivered
If you can’t make one of the many regional farmers markets for summer produce, Farm Fresh To You brings the market to your home or office.
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One last hurrah
Beloved garage band FM Knives reemerge from hiding for a day.
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The Beguiled
Sofia Coppola writes and directs this lovingly mounted yet strangely feeble adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel.
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Letters from Baghdad
ut this film drowns any interest in stock footage and reenacted talking head interverviews.
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The Women’s Balcony
A tightly wound film that maybe could have worked better as a TV miniseries.
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Vehicular ballet
In Willard Motley’s novel Knock on Any Door and the movie made from it, the motto was “Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.” In Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, it’s “Live young, drive fast and have a great-sounding playlist.”
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Higher art
Is there truly a link between cannabis and creativity?
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REVIEW: Revive Organics Harlequin Barbera Wine
Pair a marijuana-infused red wine with marijuana-infused appetizers, entrees and desserts.
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