Issue: July 19, 2018
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Hidden money, weaponized disinformation and a dark development
A sprawling mystery in Folsom has regional implications.
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Leveraging history
The Marshall School, one of Sacramento’s last abandoned masterpieces, could get a makeover.
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Mitigating disaster
Inside the local Citrus Heights nonprofit that’s been drafted into Trump’s war on immigrant families.
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Putting the ‘dick’ in Dixon
City’s vice mayor faces heat after homophobic op-ed.
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The online tax jungle
Sacramento region won’t see an Amazon windfall following Supreme Court decision.
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Lynching is still legal?!
California senator leads effort to finally make lynching a federal crime.
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Defeat Trump’s local ally
Jessica Morse has a chance against Tom McClintock, and she deserves your help.
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Letters for July 19, 2018
A post-Marxist critique of the liberal defense of embattled immigrants; a plea for vegetarian deliciousness; an attack on abortion rights; and some summer silliness.
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Her cherry chapstick
Open your heart to a woman who knows who she is and who she wants.
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Prescription for a broken health-care system
Health care is not like every other business.
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Matthew Trammel, reality TV muralist
From Laguna Creek High to Gordon Ramsey’s 24 Hours To Hell & Back.
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War, family and sisterhood
Now in its fourteenth year, the Sacramento Japanese Film Festival remains only one of four film festivals in the continental United States that is exclusively dedicated to Japanese movies.
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If you can’t beat ’em
Laker-fan-turned-Kings-fan rekindles her hometown love.
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Marry Poppins at Fair Oaks Theatre Festival
Fair Oaks Theatre Festival’s late guiding light Bob Irvin’s sly humor and wicked wit are missing in this very straight approach to the musical comedy.
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Preview: Playwrights’ Revolution at Capital Stage
The annual revolution features staged readings of four new, never-produced scripts, recently written by rising young plawrights.
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Big Sing California
Singers across California are coming together to vocalize together in Big Sing California.
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Eppie’s Great Race
Come watch the final year of Sacramento’s oldest triathlon.
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Benefit Show for California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
The Sacramento Comedy Foundation is throwing a benefit show for the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence.
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Jim Gaffigan
Jim Gaffigan will be standing up on a stage to tell jokes and things based on his experiences in life.
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Preview: Beehive—The 60’s Musical at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival
The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival pairs a Shakespeare classic (this year ‘Macbeth’) with a nostalgic pop music revue.
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On the 20th Century
SN&R reviews a new play from the Davis Shakespeare Festival.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
SN&R reviews a new play from the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival.
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Rah-rah Sacramento
A Midtown bluesman scores an opening slot with two rock legends; a local rapper and soul-singer relay hard truths from Broadway; and The Rise of Hobo Johnson has yet to peak.
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The taste of summertime
Sacratomato Week spotlights the vegetable that helped put this city on the food map with food-and-drink specials and events.
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Arnold’s caffeinated cousin
The Laura Palmer at Auburn Coffee Company a shockingly good blend of cold brew, lemon and lavendar.
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Cheese on cheese
The queso fundito at Rocklin’s Mezcalito Oaxacan isn’t shy about tasty fat or calories.
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Tacos from a truck, uncompromised
Bambi Vegan Tacos is a new food truck in town with creative and flavorful tacos.
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Loud and Clear is clear and loud
That Kid Raja’s new album is a introspective look into a creative Sacramento artists with a wealth of influences.
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McCall it a day, already
What started out in the TV series—and to a lesser degree in the first movie—as a sort of modern-day “Have Gun, Will Travel” is reduced this time to a simple revenge fantasy.
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Three Identical Strangers
If their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain’t heard nothing yet.
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Party on, my son
In the middle of the Bible Belt, how much time do you need to pass a hair follicle test?
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State cripples legal dispensaries
Are regulations driving pot-smokers to the black market?
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