Issue: January 18, 2018
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Water sourcerers
In an age when freshwater supplies are shrinking, the alchemic act of making seawater drinkable is enormously appealing.
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The monster in uniform
They bonded over being witches in the Air Force. Then the abuse started.
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Towering doubts: New card room threatened by city’s fraud admission, businessman’s arrests
Odds of revitalizing the historic Elks Tower may be on full tilt.
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The tent collectors: Despite assurances, doubt rages over whether cops are still taking homeless people’s stuff
Sacramento police say they’re sticking to their promise to not confiscate survival gear.
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Crisis close and wide: Costa-Hawkins repeal fails, Sac’s disabled renters under more threat
Hail Mary attempt to bring housing relief to Californians failed just days after Sacramento leaders were told the same crisis is getting worse for locals with severe disabilities.
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Defined shelter: Sacramento County’s new mobile medical shelter is for shock and awe disasters only
Sacramento County was one of six jurisdictions to receive a state-of-the-art mobile medical shelter.
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Help us diversify
We are reaching out to individuals and organizations to get some perspective on a controversial article, “Confessions of a killer cop,” which appeared in these pages in December.
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Letters for January 18, 2018
In this week’s letters: more ways to solve Sac’s housing shortage, District 7 candidate Tristan Brown needs more experience and why Ngaio Bealum’s weekly pot column is the Gospel.
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Drop the old script
A reader loves her relationship, but she’s afraid to open up to her boyfriend. What’s really going on?
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After the march, what next?
Social media can generate large protest movements, but can this lead to social change?
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Coon the Poet and warrior
After surviving an attempted murder, this man felt inspiration, and he delivers that to audiences, schools and youth groups.
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Four pairs of eyes, one vision
Oakland’s Black Salt Collective brings its freewheeling creative energy to Verge Center for the Arts.
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Review: The White Rose by Acme Theater Company
This play, which tackles tackling the subject of Nazism and the consequence of protest, is more timely now than when it was written.
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Theatre news
As B Street leaves B Street for its magnificent new home, several other local companies are pulling up the stakes.
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Join the march
Help make this year’s Women’s March even larger than 2017.
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Monster Jam
Check out Monster Jam with your kid (or your inner-kid).
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Be Gay for a Day
Audition to sing with the Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus.
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Wayne Thiebaud | 1958–1968
You can look at the cake, but you can’t eat it.
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Preview: ‘Winters Waltz’ at California Stage
Two strangers—one black, one white, from different generations—meet in New York City in the 1970s.
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Short Review: Spamalot
SN&R reviews a new production from Davis Musical Theater Company.
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Short Review: The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!
SN&R reviews a new production from Sacramento Theatre Company.
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Doughy nuggets of garlicky goodness
The new Dumpling & Tea House brings Taiwanese dumplings to Sacramento.
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Soupy surprise
Now, Sacramento has more choices for Shanghai-style soup dumplings.
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Rosé that won’t make you blush
This is wine you could be caught dead with.
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Pho the first time
The new Pho Hoan Kiem rewards the brave with bloody good pho.
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Beer for my… doughnuts?
Get a sneak peek of the new Milk Money.
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SacTown VegFest’s optional dress code
The third annual SacTown VegFest celebrating and educating veganism is on January 27—wear your best vegetable outfit.
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Bittersweet ride
Surfer Blood frontman reflects on band’s ups and downs.
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Thread of the class
Daniel Day-Lewis may get top billing, but the film belongs to Vicky Krieps as Alma, a beach town waitress who enters [his] orbit.
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Call Me by Your Name
The film’s combination of chilly repression and warming desire make it feel like an heir to director James Ivory’s “A Room with a View.”
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Paddington 2
The kind of irresistible family-friendly fantasy that could wind up giving “sweetness and light” a good name.
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The Commuter
The script is preposterous, far-fetched and insanely complicated—but what the hell, it’s just suspenseful enough to keep us wondering how it’ll all turn out.
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Proud Mary
What keeps the movie afloat is Taraji P. Henson’s remarkable star power.
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Weed stays winning
Jeff Sessions’ plan to drive us back into the days of reefer madness is doomed to fail.
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Big investors find ways to engage the cannabis industry
Wall Street has a growing interest in investing in federally compliant cannabis companies.
This article was published on 01.18.18