Issue: August 10, 2017
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.
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Panic Day: Annual UC Davis party descends into chaos, coverups and racial strife
Begun as an agricultural celebration, Picnic Day has become known for debauchery and violence over the past decade.
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Fountain of truth: Sacramento leaves drinking water scarce as homeless population grows larger and summer gets hotter
Nearly 40 percent of city drinking fountains languish in disrepair.
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Dank prophecy: Despite marijuana legalization, California’s black market could remain huge
11 million pounds of cannabis likely flows out of state illegally.
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Third-party obstruction: Reverse Public Records Act tactics at play in separate legal actions involving Kevin Johnson, Pasadena police
California government agencies avoid public records legal fees when allies sue.
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Claims buster
$11.8 million in claim payments represents 61 percent increase over previous year for county.
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Warehouse mysteries: Sacramento Utilities Department can’t account for $14,000 in city-owned equipment
Audit finds unsecured warehouses, stagnant inventories may have contributed to vanishing act.
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The most basic need
Water scarcity on Sacramento streets is unacceptable.
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Letters for August 10, 2017
Communism, Prop 13, incoming Sac PD Chief Daniel Hahn and more good advice from Joey.
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Feel your power
Confronting (or not) a much-younger supervisor, and feeling tired of getting cheated on.
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Who’s influencing your children this year?
Teachers have a huge impact on student’s lives; be grateful for their efforts.
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Michael Gutierrez, Sac City College’s new president
The new president just arrived in Sacramento from the Dallas area, and he likes the weather here.
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Screw the weeds
A young farmer overcomes abuse to launch a company selling locally grown products.
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Puns worth a groan
Comedian Robert Berry wants to make you laugh and boo with his new book of jokes.
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Review: The Robber Bridegroom
SN&R reviews a new production from Green Valley Theatre Company.
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Review: Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
SN&R reviews a new production from Errant Phoenix Productions.
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SHREW! A Jazz Age Musical Romp
The Bard’s Taming of the Shrew, set to jazz, and staged by virtually the entire Fair Oaks Theatre Festival family in tribute to longtime Festival director Bob Irvin.
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Have An Offal Day 4
Sacramento chefs will show off what they can do when culling their ingredients from every part of an animal, “nose to tail.”
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Sacramento Black Women’s Health & Wellness Conference
The Sacramento Black Women’s Health & Wellness Conference returns for a second year of community healing.
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Japanese Cultural & Food Bazaar
The annual Japanese Cultural & Food Bazaar is a decades-long Sacramento tradition.
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10th Annual Fire Spectacular
Local troupe Obsidian Butterfly celebrates the tenth anniversary of their fire dance extravaganza.
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Lady lessons
The Woodland Opera House stages a production of My Fair Lady.
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Kings work out the kinks
A shaky summer league allows fans to reset their expectations.
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Diner of the Dead
A polarizing eatery, Los Inmortales Taqueria serves hits and misses.
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Chill eats
OBA Japanese Kitchen adds a formerly missing cuisine to Oak Park; the annual Banana Festival serves edible lessons in William Land Regional Park.
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Rosy sunset
This rosé with a grapefruit zing needs no pairing.
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Jolt in the box
The noodle and rice boxes at Nubo & mOO mOo are quick pick-me-ups.
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Mindful feasting
Sample Japanese and American goodies with a side of spiritual detachment.
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Pickled greens
Popular in the South, okra grows well in Northern California.
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Food for thought on the big screen
Sol Collective hosts a screening of the documentary What the Health, which looks into how the food, pharmaceutical and health-care industries may not have people’s best interest in mind.
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Noisy therapy
Kismet Aura strives for success in Stockton’s fragmented alternative scene.
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Tower of confusion
The actors and the visual effects crew do what they can, but The Dark Tower is way too familiar and just plain dull.
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An Inconvenient Sequel
An Inconvenient Sequel amounts to a monotonous minister preaching to a bored choir.
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The Dark Tower
Maybe the story makes sense at 4,250 pages. At 95 minutes it’s just a messy sci-fi-horror-fantasy salad.
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Cannabis can help with aging
Many “mainstream” senior citizens are beginning to take advantage of the medical (and social) benefits of cannabis.
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FLOWER REVIEW: Greenleaf Delivery/Baller Billy Seeds Thin Mint
Baller Billy/Greenleaf Delivery’s Thin Mint strain is the pristine finish, with an utter lack of harshness in the throat.
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