Issue: November 02, 2017
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Underreported
The top 10 stories of the year that mainstream media ignored.
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Parental restraints: California’s domestic violence law can leave nonviolent parents facing protective orders
Some legal experts say law’s definition of domestic violence is necessarily vague to catch red flags like stalking and harassment.
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Separate and unequal: Jury hears of disparate enforcement in trial of Sacramento’s anti-camping law
Homeless people were cited while Boys Scouts, Black Friday shoppers and church groups were allowed to camp with impunity, witnesses testify.
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Paper watchdogs
Lawyers, lobbyists dominates applications for Sacramento’s new ethics commission.
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That sinking feeling: Sacramento lands $100,000 for abandoned boat clean-up
City officials say rotting boats are more than just ugly.
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Panting party crashers: CDCR expands drug-sniffing dogs in state prisons
Number of contraband-hunting K9s will nearly double this year.
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Read this carefully
Now more than ever we need media literacy.
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Letters for November 2, 2017
Homelessness, Sacto serial killers and driverless car hypotheticals make this week’s batch of letters.
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Exes and no’s
A long-distance ex desperately wants to be friends, and a God-preaching one wants to have sex again.
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Food stamp benefits will be slashed in 2018
Starting September 2018, many food stamp recipients will be limited to three months of benefits in a three-year period.
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Henry Giselle Roberson, drag racer
Roberson’s following in his father’s tire tracks, driving a street-legal “Pick-N-Pull” car.
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Trusting ‘The Process’
The 76ers invented the rebuilding strategy the Kings must now employ.
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Debunking the millennial cliches
Author Malcolm Harris examines one generation’s economic burdens.
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Review: Turning Corners
Eight dancers ages 9 to 87 present solo and ensemble dances that reveal something about their own experiences of a time when life made a shift for them.
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Preview: Kings of America
SN&R previews a new play from Sacramento Theatre Company.
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Kudiyattam
Experience the ancient form of Sanskrit theatre, Kudiyattan.
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Sacramento Arts Festival
Get a jump-start on your holiday shopping during the 20th Annual Sacramento Arts Festival.
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Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink Opening Day
Over the years, the Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink has become a city staple of the holiday season.
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Stage Pick: Marat-Sade
Falcon’s Eye Theatre presents an immersive walk-through staging of ‘The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade’
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Frankenstein
SN&R reviews a new play by Chautauqua Playhouse.
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Nice day for a red wedding
A local couple opened up their wedding reception to the public for a seven-hour-long music jam.
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Third-generation goodness
Behold Sacramento’s “first taqueria,” where even the burgers are excellent.
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Fish fusion on Fulton
Fujita Sushi spins Italian and Latin American influences into its sushi, and American River Provisions gears up for business with a pop-up dinner.
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Autumnal blender
Sip that pumpkin spice smoothie as you ignore all the haters.
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Bag o’ seafood
The Shrimp Lover peddles seafood without frills, but with flavor.
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Get brunched up
This Saturday, Brunch AF will give the morning (and afternoon) people what they want.
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Leafy wrapper
Savoy cabbage isn’t as smelly as its relatives.
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This is trash
When a recipe for vegan cashew-cream stuffed balsamic dates goes wrong at a party, admitting they are nasty brings everyone together.
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Bringing home the dark
Folk-doom musician Chelsea Wolfe comes back to Sacramento.
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Sight for Thor eyes
It may be damning with faint praise, but ‘Ragnarok’ is the best Thor movie yet.
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Goodbye Christopher Robin
The mini-genre of movies purporting to tell the back story of beloved childhood classics may have worn out its welcome with blatant inventions, but at last we get a film with the gentle ring of truth.
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Director Yorgos Lanthimos specializes in caustically, even sadistically absurd satires on human behavior, and while this film certainly fits that bill, it mostly feels vapid and mean.
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Thank You for Your Service
Writer-director Jason Hall seems to grasp the mindset of the modern warrior, sensitively showing the way steely exteriors can conceal deep rivers of pain and regret.
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Weed work wanted
Where to begin if you want to work in the industry; And should you be saving your stems?
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