Issue: June 03, 2010
Frontlines
Will science discover someday that even the low dose of radiation given off by your cell phone is actually enough to scramble your brain? Nancy Brands Ward seeks an answer. Next in Frontlines, Kel Munger reveals how the Effie Yeaw Nature Center looks to be saved, at least for now. In Green Days, Sena Christian introduces us to some Good Humus, Auntie Ruth picks a peeve with Michael Pollan and Jeff vonKaenel praises a local campaign that just brought it home for the homeless.
Feature story
Would it surprise you to learn that the Sacramento region has an invisible economy? Spurred on by the economic downturn, more and more people are bartering their goods, services and time through barter clubs, trading sites and exchanges. It no longer seems to be symbol of anything countercultural-barter has become part of the regular business landscape. SN&R regular contributor Sasha Abramsky reports in from Barter Town.
Arts & Culture
Sure, you’d tell that annoying anonymous commenter to go stick it where the moon doesn’t shine. But then who exactly is this unidentified unknown, and where is he/she they lurking online? So it goes with Internet trolls and jerk commenters. Brianna Synder looks at the online commenting’s Lord of the Flies-ness. Also this week: Greg Lucas eats sushi and Tater Tots, Jonathan Kiefer makes the Splice, Mosi Reeves thinks about Themselves and Nick Miller chills at a dubstep party.
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Barter Town
Bartering for goods and services has taken off in the Sacramento region.
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Are cell phones killing us?
Concern about effects of cell-phone radiation inspire fear—and legislation.
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Saving nature
Sacramento’s Effie Yeaw Nature Center will be saved … for now.
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Get cooked
Sacramento’s Solar Cookers International will host a solar-cooking workshop at Soil Born Farms.
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Letters for June 3, 2010
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Neverland state of mind
This woman is like Michael Jackson—she never wants to grow up.
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We made it
Why Sacramento’s campaign to raise big money for the homeless worked.
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How he rides
This guy did 1,200 miles up and down the state of California on his bike.
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Executive privilege
The election will be over, but the power struggle has just begun.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Unidentified folk’s outrage
Why do websites let angry, distruptive, anonymous commenters just say whatever the hell they want, anyway?
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Hunter Gatherers
SN&R reviews a new production at Capital Stage.
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Dancing with Kerouac
Davis-based modern-dance company will present a piece about Jack Kerouac.
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Get your laughter immortalized!
Keith Lowell Jensen records his second comedy CD at the Sacramento Comedy Spot.
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Dying for strangers
In Robert Vivian’s novel Lamb Bright Saviors, one man’s death scene is someone else’s epiphany.
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Don’t say ‘moo cow’
Sean Kenniff’s first novella, Être the Cow.
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Smoke and surf
Katie Arnoldi’s novel, Point Dume, takes on California surf and pot economies.
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Revolutionary new work
Playwrights’ Revolution at Capital Stage offers staged readings of edgy new work every Monday evening in June.
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Do it right
The Sacramento Community Center Theater desperately needs a makeover, but it needs to be done well. Don’t neglect the acoustics!
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Break away
People are always asking me where to start the day.
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Go for the tongue
Whether it’s at Red Lotus Kitchen and Bar or the local taqueria, go for it.
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Hey, sugar
Cherries have many faces—growers simply want them to pop.
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Molotov, hold the cocktail
An energy drink that makes you pee funny?
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Know your dose
Oakland duo Themselves prescribes simple beats and rhymes.
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Wed, June 2, Bird Peterson
Mixing up old soul and hip-hop to original beats.
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Thurs, June 3, Young Dubliners
The Young Dubliners rock out the Irish at Harlow’s in Sacramento.
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Thurs, June 3, Missouri Mule
The Davis-based Missouri Mule is calling it quits, so don’t miss their last gig of country-and-punk fusion at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen.
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Sat, June 5, Lite Brite
Lite Bright plays hard indie rock at Capitol Garage.
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Touch me with your deep bass
The Big Lebowski, security check, Blush Ultra Lounge, Men’s Wearhouse, data mining, Avalon Nightclub, dubstep, DJ Whores, Jae Synth, Skurge, Esquire IMAX, Concrete Jungle, Band of Horses, Infinite Arms, UC Davis, Freeborn Hall, Benjamin Bridwell.
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Pay more for motion sickness
The D-Box Technologies chairs at Folsom’s Cinema West Palladio 16 is more immersive and less distracting than 3-D.
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Mad science, bad parents
Two fetching geneticists create a monster.
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Afghan Star
In Havana Marking’s documentary Afghan Star, young people who have lived most of their lives under the repressive rule of the Taliban regime sing culturally appropriate pop songs to a television audience starving for escape.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 7
This seventh season of his brilliant HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm was one too many.
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The Messenger
An emotionally scarred Iraq War veteran in Oren Moverman’s The Messenger could be considered the “ultimate Ben Foster role.”
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Shutter Island
Leonardo DiCaprio does good work as Teddy Daniels, a paranoid U.S. Marshall.
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Get Him to the Greek
A music company executive (Jonah Hill) has to fly to London to escort a notoriously unreliable rock star (Russell Brand) to a concert.
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Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
When the king of ancient Persia is assassinated, his adopted son (Jake Gyllenhaal) is accused of the crime and goes on the run with a princess/priestess (Gemma Arterton).
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Sex and the City 2
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her pals (Kim Cattrall, Kristen Davis, Cynthia Nixon) take an all-expenses-paid holiday to a luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi.
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