Issue: December 24, 2009
Dear Readers,
In this holiday season, with its deeper lessons all but lost beneath artificial illumination, SN&R decided to cast a light on the genuine rather than the synthetic. Photographer Noel Neuburger and writer Jeffrey Ewing sought out 10 local individuals who have been working over the long (long!) years to make our community a better place to live. Their motto: The secret to keeping going is not stopping.
Happy Holidays!
SN&R
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Staying power
For these locals, the secret to keep going is not stopping.
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A man for all seasons
An interview with California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary A.G. Kawamura.
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Dubious distinction
The economy is down, but toxic pollution in Sacramento is up.
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Star power
Learn how to harness the power of the sun to make those homemade oatmeal cookies.
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Gone bananas
Grafting master Joe Real is growing some pretty strange fruit in Yolo County.
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Letters for December 24, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Slave for hire
If there are two paths in the post-college world, accept a job that offers more personal growth—not elflike slavery.
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Optimism lesson
It’s almost 2010 and people are still killing each other.
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Wow … who knew?
Lessons learned on day one in SN&R’s new green building.
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Will the real Sactown Santa please stand up?
This guy is the original: Give him cookies on the big night.
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Mexican intellectuals do exist
The Mexican on poetry and prose.
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Second guessing
Local guns laws on trial in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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From the SN&R blogs.
What Ted learned at straight camp; Newspapers pass the hat.
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Christmas kerfuffle
Jesus might suggest we feed the hungry instead of worrying about the way his birth is celebrated.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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You hate it, they live it
The recent announcement of Sacramento’s new poetry czar inspires a waxing of the city’s poetic innards and impulse.
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Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery
SN&R reviews a new production at Celebration Arts.
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No balls in 2010
Who cares about a ball drop when there are fireworks, fire dancers and punk rockers?
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Life is just peachy
Eyes will be fooled at the John Natsoulas Gallery’s Trompe L’oeil exhibition.
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It’s never safe to go back to school
Get your Catholic Christmas on.
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Another plague
In The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood finishes what she started with Oryx and Crake.
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Underwater psychotics
For scientist Peter Watts, the future is looking grim, so that’s how he writes it.
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Ultimate outsider
The Others is an insider’s view of an outsider: a young, bisexual Shi’a woman in Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia.
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The scoop on the American stage
A last-minute gift suggestion for theater people.
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Impromptu Prophet
A poem by Jennifer O’Neill Pickering of Sacramento.
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Holiday creepfest
Zoltar, a lip-syncing Mark Twain and other holiday fun.
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The year that was
SN&R’s theater critics have made their list and checked it twice.
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Neighborhood divine
Greg worships at the fennel, beets and figs altar while his friend visits heaven in form of beat salad. Skip the antipasto.
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Against the grain
Why area farmers grow heirloom varieties of wheat; Julie Cross reveals famous cranberry bread recipe.
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Smack that orange
It’s chocolate, orange-flavored and delicious.
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Check the label
Local boy brings Lefse Records smack-dab to the heart of Midtown.
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Thank you, Skank
Finding out about X at age 16 is oh-so-sentimental sweet.
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Thurs, Dec 24, David Houston
Get a sufficient hit of Luna’s music before they close for the holidays, or risk hard-core withdrawals.
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Sat, Dec 26, Lee Diamond
Lee Diamond is so smooth he could be a mob boss.
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Sun, Dec 27, The Vespertines
Dub/jazz group the Vespertines is raw, yet refined and the vocalist is kind of like Gwen Stefani, but not really.
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Unicorns, Xmas and fire, oh my
Midtown musicians are spotted in a foothills film festival while Baby Grand cut a Christmas-music rug and Two Sheds serenades a crackling fire.
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Millennium debuts, part 2
The countdown continues with the five best new directors of the decade.
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Public Enemies
How is it possible to be more futile than Gong Li in Miami Vice?
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Will the Chipmunks’ voices change during adolescence?
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Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Standard-issue country mouse/city mouse crap.
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Up in the Air
Only George Clooney can make aloofness stylish.
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The Young Victoria
A palace may be a prison, but at least there are elaborate costumes.
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