Issue: January 06, 2011
Hello SN&R reader!
In Sacramento, where about 12 percent of people are out of work, hunger has become an increasingly ordinary fact of everyday life. It turns out, once you start looking for hunger, you find it everywhere. Don't miss our report along with this week's SN&R's offerings in news, music, film and food.
Happy January!
SN&R staff
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What’s for dinner?
Once you start looking around Sacramento, hunger is everywhere.
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Out of the khaki closet
North Highlands soldier reflects on repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
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Sacramento needs more sex ed
Sacramento teens having fewer pregnancies, but STDs still high.
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The house that Greg built
Greg Bunker brought hope to the poor for more than 20 years as director of Sacramento’s Francis House.
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MTV, STDs and Sacramento teens
SN&R talks more with Raquel Simental about Sacramento teens pregnancy and STD rates.
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Mustang Airport: cranes vs. planes
Sacramento County’s Mustang Airport expansion threatens crane habitat, and Ted Cox earns plaudits for his undercover straight-camp account.
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Vision of an Emerald Valley
Mayor Kevin Johnson imagines a greener Sacramento, now we need to create the plan to get there.
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Letters for January 6, 2011
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Standing up for unconditional love
Advice on the importance of unconditional love and the practice of patience.
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Pizza without compromise
Fabrizio Cercatore reveals the ins and outs of the wood-fired pizza oven at Hot Italian.
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Desert droppings
The Mexican on litterbugs, loncheras and white pride.
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Beale goes to Code Pink
Activists at Beale Air Force Base show support Bradley Manning and condemned the U.S. military’s unmanned drone program.
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Yes, the Earth is still warming
Winter cold and rain is no excuse to deny global warming. It’s weather, not climate.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Monking around
Tibetan Buddhist monks plan to visit the Sacramento area to raise funds and promote peace.
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Anime-niacs
Sacramento-area anime fans will gather at SacAnime.
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The social (hilarity) network
If you think Facebook is full of giggles, wait ’til you see what these Sacramento improv comedians do with it.
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Unnatural man
Artists Christina Seely and Gretchen Skogerson explore the relationship between man and nature at the Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento.
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The power of horses
Gallery 2110’s January group art show runs on Horse Power.
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Brain bender
Delta Health and Wellness’ Green Crack is a top-shelf sativa that gets your head a bit spacey.
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Marx and Fever at Cal Stage
Politics and humor collide in two shows at California Stage.
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Photographic memory
Louise Schiele reinvents her family history with her fiber art, inspired by old photographs.
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The greenest greens
El Camino Wellness Center is Sacramento’s only green-certified medical-cannabis dispensary.
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Gods and monsters
Roseville’s Alternative Arts Collective takes on Equus.
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Wildly inventive artistry
Frozen treats in foodie flavors and sammiches aplenty, just over the causeway at Fatface in Davis.
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Orange you glad?
It’s the right time to take advantage of all the ubiquitous citrus.
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Food resolutions
Here are three “food resolutions” that can make a big difference.
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A tale of two endives
Two endives, different taste: It’s all in how you pronounce it.
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Another one bites the dosa
Udupi Café is under new ownership with plans to become a nonexclusively vegetarian mainstream chain.
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Assumption of rock
Cake’s John McCrea says bigness isn’t subversive and dinky is no joke.
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Tues, Jan 11, ’80s Night
DJ Billy Lane takes over Press Club on Tuesdays.
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On your own terms
Saying goodbye to the Chemo Kid, saying hello to Japan’s DJ Wanted.
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Revenge of the Plinkett
Red Letter Media’s highly anticipated Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith review is up and ready to watch.
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Lightweights for labor
William Ivory and Nigel Cole make this organized labor and feminism movie uplifting—like a corset.
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Knight and Day
A predictable but dizzily entertaining romantic adventure.
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Gulliver’s Travels
It’s hard to rise above this awful script when you’re only 6inches tall.
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