Issue: July 27, 2017
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Wide Open Walls: Art in the street
Muralists from the world over join local artists for 10 days, Aug. 10-20, for the West Coast’s biggest-ever wall-art fest.
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Smog and mirrors: On world’s climate stage, Sacramento chases electric vehicle market and a new economic identity
City leaders want to leverage historic Volkswagen fine into a new automotive industry.
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Panama finale: Dozens of Sacramento artists scrambling in wake of code enforcement studio closure
Owner of a 103-year-old Panama Pottery building says occupants weren’t in danger of a Ghost Ship-style tragedy.
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Women and children last: Sacramento’s biennial homeless census overlooked families this year
Family-oriented service providers didn’t conduct morning-after audit as in previous count.
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Uneven prosecution: Three leftists, one white nationalist charged in last summer’s Capitol clash
Activists’ attorneys say 13-month wait to bring charges puts clients at a disadvantage.
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Dress-up mess-up: Leaked images show Judicial Council employees in offensive inmate costumes
NAACP, National Lawyers Guild object to ‘blackface’ from Sacramento judicial office.
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Support Sacto’s artists
Let’s commit to some serious efforts to really make Sacramento artist-friendly.
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Letters for July 27, 2017
The genius of Star Wars; Rocklin slacktavist’s lame defense; Rocklin slacktavist called out as charlatan; plus: slumlords, rent control and barbarism.
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Three’s a crowd
After a three-way gone tame, a wife discovers that her husband has been going solo with the third wheel.
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California’s housing crisis needs a political solution
Proposition 13 has created an unfair property tax system.
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Dawn Cornsilk, costume designer
Dawn Cornsilk makes period-specific costumes and rents them out through Costume Junction.
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What does it take to be seen?
Burlesque performer Mone’t Ha-Sidi tries to get traction for black arts in Sacramento.
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Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost
SN&R reviews a new production from the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
SN&R reviews a new production at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.
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Dog is love
Dogs compete for airtime during the annual Splash Dogs competition at the California State Fair, and the Truitt Bark Park opens to the public this Saturday with an art unveiling, pooch portraits and contests.
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Neil Diamond
The Solitary Man stops at Golden 1 Center for his 50 year anniversary global tour.
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Pallbearer
There’s your favorite band, and then there’s Pallbearer. Pallbearer is better.
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The Latest Show: One Night Gender Bender
Think The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, except local. This month, hosts Shahera Hyatt and Michael Cella tackle gender in the third episode of this variety show experiment meant to highlight Sacramento’s trending issues and rising artists.
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What a way to make a livin’
Pour yourself a cup of ambition with the Music Circus’s rendition of 9 to 5.
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Wonderful Town
SN&R reviews a production from the Davis Shakespeare Festival.
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Street corner prophets
The city’s hip-hop and spoken-word talent put on free sidewalk entertainment every Monday in Oak Park.
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Affordable oasis
This downtown cafeteria serves diner food with a Mexican twist—at prices that are hard to beat.
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Dark and friendly
Don’t let the name scare you off: Serpentine Fox Prohibition Grille puts a local stamp on a classic drink.
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Fake spring
Fake spring at Magpie with its Spring Vegetable and Chickpea Hummus Bowl.
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Slinging wings
This fest at Southside Park celebrates chicken wings and cold beer.
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Forage for weeds
Purslane is all around but often overlooked.
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Nixtaco Tuesdays and beyond
Nixtaco in Roseville has a vegan menu and puts genuine effort into its vegan tacos.
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Valley of the sober slutz
Queer punk duo Slutzville makes feminist anger fun again.
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Writer-director Luc Besson goes crazy with an intoxicating array of creatures and wondrous effects. (Think The Fifth Element cubed.)
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