Issue: August 03, 2017
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The good cop: Sacramento’s next police chief faces the fight of his life
Daniel Hahn’s hard road from Sacramento to Roseville and back home again.
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Guerrilla hacktics: As abortion rights weaken nationally, local pro-choice activists switch to a grassroots offensive in Sacramento
Teen abortions and births rose in Texas after state defunded Planned Parenthood.
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Die of omission: California lawsuit accuses physicians of misleading terminal woman who sought aid-in-dying medication
Bay Area grandmother supported passage of law she was unable to access.
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Hunt for hantavirus: Citrus Heights man recovering from rare disease as family, employer dispute cause
Bodie State Historic Park denies its living quarters exposed employees to infected mice droppings.
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Shocked, awed: Pregnant Sacramento woman describes police raid of wrong home
Internal investigation launched into another controversial incident involving unarmed African American residents.
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Davis detour: University’s pivot toward international students chills community college hopefuls
Some Los Rios Community College District students wonder about their odds of getting into UC Davis.
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A chief’s challenge
SN&R’s editor hopes—and believes—Sacramento’s new police chief will succeed in his job.
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Letters for August 3, 2017
Our readers want to fix Prop.13, help local artists, geek out on Star Wars and mourn the presidency of Donald Trump.
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Misplaced virtue
A neighborhood wants to send a boy to Christian school because they don’t think his mother is raising him right.
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Alt weekly publishers wonder what’s next
Discussions and deja vu in Washington, D.C., at the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s annual convention.
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The flying bartender
After Bobby Griffith completes a shift at his pub, Clubhouse 56, he heads to the airport and gets in a cockpit.
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Rumbles from the underground
A musician promotes local hip-hop through his new radio show, Top $helf Radio.
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Off the hook and the cuff
A young Sacramentan starts an impromptu music fest.
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Review: Bloomsday
SN&R reviews a new play from B Street Theatre.
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Summer’s last gasp
Fall’s almost here but there are still plenty of summer theater productions to catch.
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Lucent Dossier Experience
The popular Los Angeles traveling troupe mixes aerial acrobatics, fire dancing and neotribal performances with costumes that would win Best of Show at a steam punk convention, or maybe Burning Man (you know, I’m not really sure), and it’s all to a live soundtrack of bass-heavy rock and EDM.
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Girls Rock Sacramento Showcase
Local music org Girls Rock Sacramento set up this lovely event to show off their hard work. Support them.
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Kombucha Quest
Come taste a wide variety of fermented tea concoctions by Zeal Kombucha, Wild Tonic and more.
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Twin stories
The Winters Community Theatre stages Twelfth Night.
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
SN&R reviews a production from the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
SN&R reviews a production from the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.
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Purple hues
A Puff, Pass & Paint class gives Sacramento a skunky new way to kick back and get creative.
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One cafe fits most
The new Selland’s Market-Cafe in Land Park brings its tried-and-true deli dishes and some new options to a much larger location.
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Simulacra and stimulation
Here’s that taste of the San Francisco you always wanted Sacramento to be.
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Good pie, bad pie
A treatise on the difference between good pizza and bad pizza.
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Feast at the Festa
The Festa Italiana returns for its 32nd year of affordable eats honoring Italian culture.
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Backyard blossoms
They grow like weeds and taste like sweet-and-tart gems.
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I’m too sexy for this portobello
Malabar American Cooking in Natomas has a secret vegan menu, spelling errors and Right Said Fred.
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Keep it honest
Alex Salveson turns bad experiences into good vibes.
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Motor City on fire
Detroit offers the sort of invigorating, disturbing, explosive, socially relevant large-scale cinema that many assumed extinct.
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The Emoji Movie
There are worse ways to waste 86 minutes—but waste them you will.
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13 Minutes
Another entry in the growing catalog of biopics about would-be Hitler assassins.
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Atomic Blonde
An exercise in vapid style nearly redeemed by Charlize Theron's kung fu skills and one compelling scene.
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A Ghost Story
The movie is an utterly unique masterpiece, freighted with inchoate meaning and glimpses of eternity.
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Lady Macbeth
Cold and unconvincing, by turns dull and repellent.
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Sun-grown cannabis is back, and it’s good
Thoughts about outdoor-grown weed, and why the feds will likely leave us alone—for now.
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Room to Grow
Our indoor cannabis setup was simple, inexpensive and 100% legal.
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