Issue: October 01, 2009
Dear Readers,
Would you let a business construct a natural-gas pool underneath your neighborhood? Well, this is the dilemma one south Sacramento community now faces. Cosmo Garvin reports on this week’s cover story, "Deep Impact."
Also this week: an Elvis and bin Laden sighting, Angela Lansbury taking a bubble bath, and a look at who should be Sacramento’s next sheriff (not one of the three aforementioned).
Think Free!
SN&R
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Deep impact
Geology, energy and underground property rights in Avondale and Glen Elder.
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I’m not the sheriff
Jim Cooper brings both experience and controversy in his quest to become Sacramento County’s next sheriff.
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Faith in objects
Crushed by borderline personality disorder, a local man finds salvation in art.
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Crossing the line
When it comes to saving the planet, six out of nine ain’t bad—or is it?
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Junk in the trunk
One man’s trash is another child’s magnum opus.
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Locomotive breath
The California Air Resources Board considers measures to reduce emissions caused by diesel locomotives.
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Letters for October 1, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Living the parents’ dream
Being an inspiration for the family may lead to an unhappy personal life.
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Get a clue, Michael
Moore burnished his crank credentials in saying “good riddance” to newspapers.
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Come together
A meeting between Catholics and Muslims in Midtown Sacramento demonstrates that anyone can drop their differences.
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Animal instinct
Midtown artist Raul Mejia likes to paint Chihuahuas and Mother Earth and do feng shui.
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Keeping up with the Lopezes
The Mexican on Canadians, surnames and winning over abuelas.
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Net-neutrality gain
Huzzahs to FCC’s chairman for promoting Internet freedom.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Dead man talking
Osama bin Laden is pretty chatty for a dead guy.
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Losing his religion
What happens when the “Christian comedian” isn’t a Christian any more? Hint: He’s still funny.
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Found Footage Festival: finders, keepers, laughers, weepers
Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett will have you in stitches—unless you’re the type who passes out at the sight of a penile-implant demonstration.
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For the sake of For Art’s Sake
Kevin Johnson should listen to his friend Wynton Marsalis.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
SN&R reviews a new production at City Theatre at Sacramento City College.
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Late Nite Catechism: ’Til Death Do Us Part
SN&R reviews the show currently playing at the Cosmopolitan Cabaret.
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Best. Show. Ever!
Chamber Music Alive! offers more seductive power than Britney Spears and an albino Burmese python.
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Field of dead ends
Creepy occurrences in cornfields don’t stop people from paying to get lost.
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Bob the builder
Bob the builder wrecks his relationships in a play at the B Street Theatre.
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Don’t lose heart
Lorrie Moore’s new novel highlights the resilience that growing up requires.
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And the wall came down
The Academy at All Hallows Orchestra performs at the cathedral to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Raider Stag-Nation
There’s no hope for Al Davis and his Raider Nation.
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American brutality
She’s vulnerable. He’s brutal. Welcome to America, via A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Curse be damned
Pearl on the River does it right—even Chioggia beets.
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Pizza! Pizza!
This new pizza spot utilizes global flavors at affordable prices.
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Advice for beans
Remember: Always shake down Becky Grunewald for recipes at the farmers’ market.
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It’s a hoedown
Grind your wild grains at the Hoes Down Harvest Festival.
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Talkin’ ’bout freedom
As in Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom VIII, this weekend in Woodland.
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Sack o’ felines
Bag of Kittens will have you wishing you were drinking tea and wearing an oversized sweater.
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Fri, Oct 2, J.R. Richards
Former Dishwalla frontman dishes out an acoustic show at Marilyn’s.
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Wed, Oct 7, Lightning Dust
Lightning Dust offers seductive vocals with a side of ferocity.
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Wed, Oct 7, Dane Drewis
Born with the extra M.I. chromosome: musically inclined.
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Your diss is on my playlist?
Readers’ lists, Chk Chk Chk, Mayyors, Nic Offer, godliness, The Hub, Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum, powered mixers.
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So much Moore
The most successful documentary filmmaker ever, Michael Moore, takes capitalism by the horns.
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The Girlfriend Experience
Another fractured but intimate character study from Steven Soderbergh.
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Trouble the Water
Kim Roberts had the camera running just as Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
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Zombieland
Nothing more than a popcorn-chomping spectacle of subgenre nonsense. Fun!
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Bright Star
The passionate, unconsummated love affair between the doomed young poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and the flirtatious teenage girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish).
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My One and Only
Renée Zellweger shines in the center of it all.
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Surrogates
Bruce Willis wears his latest hairpiece with aplomb.
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Toy Story 2 3-D
The other, better half of the original Toy Story.
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