Issue: June 05, 2003
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The paper chase
County leaders postpone a bid for digital democracy amid fears of vote tampering.
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Sun’s comin’ up
A Stage 1 power alert announces the start of summer.
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Letters for June 5, 2003
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Kucinich reloaded
Why the former boy mayor of Cleveland wants America’s top job.
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‘Left-handed Somalians’
Shawn Steele, Roseville shreddings and moral gambling.
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SCA 1: One for the people
It’s time to strengthen the public’s access to government records with SCA 1.
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Financial weapon of mass destruction
This bankruptcy bill will be devastating to vulnerable consumers.
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The new Dylans
Record companies are still trying to find a new Dylan. One of them lives right here in town.
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About a girl
Celebrated essayist Meghan Daum offers a worthy first novel.
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Jesus of the Week
Sacrilegious? Even sacred messiahs get profaned by pop-culture interpretations, as chronicled on this site.
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Get yo’ Jammies on
Night one of the Jammies, spotlighting a traditional repertoire, came off without a hitch last Saturday. The second installment, basically a battle of the bands, happens this Friday.
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Shall we dance?
What else can you say about The King and I, except that Garbeau’s is doing it and that it’s pretty good?
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The Lone Star Love Potion
If you aren’t looking for highbrow entertainment, Michael Parker’s bedroom farce at the Woodland Opera House, The Lone Star Love Potion, is an option.
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Serious red meat
Chops takes its aged beef seriously and is a great place to roll on someone else’s expense account.
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Food Stuff
Pick up some masa at La Esperanza Mexican Food Products, heat up your griddle and make some homemade tortillas.
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Comedy rocks
Local new-wave throwback duo Life Is Bonkers moves up to headliner this weekend.
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Model A freaks out in the mud
Cloud Forest Freak Out was an interesting if flawed attempt at a retrospective on 1960s psychedelia.
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All Girl Summer Fun Band
The second album from Seattle’s All Girl Summer Fun Band comes close to full-throttle pop perfection.
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Legendary Grape
Local label reissues an obscure 1989 reunion album from one of 1960s San Francisco’s greatest bands, Moby Grape.
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The magic of waffles
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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Beating the summertime blues
Our experts—a cop, a professor, an activist and, of course, Herky the Hornet—reveal survival secrets of the season.
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Revenge of the summer film guide
Looking for sanctuary in air-conditioned, soda-fountain-fed oases filled with 100-percent recycled screen fodder? It’s your lucky summer.
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Gimme swelter
Scientists discover which circle of hell you’re living in.
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A legislator’s guide to summer in Sacramento
Our Capitol correspondent asks lawmakers how they beat the heat.
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Summer mating rituals
How do Sacramento singles really behave? The folks who get paid to observe tell all.
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Escaping Sacramento
Just how far can you get on public transit and a thrift-store bike? One obsessed writer tests the limits.
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Let’s roll!
Zen and the art of bocce ball, one of summer’s least extreme sports.
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Hot cuisine
Copia, the American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts, is the perfect summer day trip.
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What I did on my summer vacation
Summer memories for the making.
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