Issue: August 08, 2002
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No parole for you!
He’s done his time, and then some. For inmates like Fred Nesbit, indeterminate sentencing in California means forever.
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Lights, camera, action!
Sacramento’s first film school graduates its inaugural class.
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Restoring democracy
Could Instant Runoff Voting save our democracy?
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Against the element
County sued for approving project with expired housing element.
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Letters for August 8, 2002
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Out of one, many
Valentin Kozhevnikov, a Russian art-dealer who sells beautiful hand-made nesting dolls and icons from his hometown.
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If it’s not spayed, fix it
It’s important to alter your pets so they don’t produce offspring that become homeless and end up euthanized in animal shelters.
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Not counting crows
MatrixArts shows some never-seen works by Darrell Forney this month.
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Attention all burners
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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The Bush Dyslexicon
NYU media professor Mark Crispin Miller’s The Bush Dyslexicon may be the best book yet about America’s first unelected president.
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Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo
Blues lyrics contain a treasure trove of information on the practice of hoodoo, or folk magic.
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Mapfumo fires the bop gun
Thomas Mapfumo gets ’em dancing in Grass Valley.
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Philly-O’s
California Stage’s production of Orphans, an intense play, contains some stellar performances.
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Take me out to Marty’s
Joe Marty’s is a place for basic food and baseball memories.
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Food Stuff
Eat ocean vegetables (seaweed) for their health qualities and great taste at Nishiki Sushi restaurant.
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Creative and commercial
Those Flaming Lips put out some strange stuff, but is it catching fire?
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Soggy songs and barbershop mayhem
Smells like teen angst, plus barbershop quartet action.
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Papa Roach
Papa Roach, Vacaville’s finist, follows up the multiplatinum Infest with an album of cathartic nu-metal.
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Designer music
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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