Issue: May 20, 2004
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The other Mr. McNamara
Raised during his father’s war, a Winters organic farmer cultivates fields and minds.
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Dirty gritty city
Our Summer Guide provides many perspectives on surviving the season—including that of Dawg Doggy Dogg.
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Letters for May 20, 2004
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Boxer must go!
Move over, MoveOn.org. This lifelong Republican has something to say.
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Thriving artist
David Garibaldi proves you can be a full-time artist and still pay your rent.
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There’s no end run in b-ball
The public has been left out of discussions about a new sports arena, though it’s been asked to foot the bill.
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Follow the sheriff’s lead
Let’s cut crime and create public funds at the same time.
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Plain and fancy
Local abstract-realist painter Melissa Chandon-Snow reappears on the scene, with a show at the Phoenix Gallery after a few years’ absence.
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The coolest seat in town
Too hot for you? Go see an (air-conditioned) movie.
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Gimme some sugar
Familiarity makes Candyfreak an engaging book.
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Glorious Appearing: The End of Days
If you’ve read the Bible, you already know how this best seller ends.
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The Intersection by the House After a Fight
A poem by Sarah Descallar of Rio Linda.
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Love and (pop) rockets
True Love is still the best place to spot the Dark Lord.
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Romance in seven acts
The seven romantic one-acts in 7xLove add up to one cozy date night.
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Hail satin panties
Heavy-metal grindcore striptease act KnifeThruHead wants you to take its mayhem seriously.
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C is for cookie
Cookie Monster metal night at the Roadhouse, Low Flying Owls’ long farewell, and Stairway to Stardom.
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The Hangmen
Veteran Los Angeles band the Hangmen, who play two shows in Sactown this week, here sound closer to Poison than to punk.
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The Ligeti Project II
The second volume of an exploration of Hungarian composer György Ligeti is the best thing to happen to modern music in years.
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Kenny Brown
Slide guitarist Kenny Brown, who hits town Wednesday as part of the Fat Possum Juke Joint Caravan, plays like one mean Delta throwback.
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Dig me out and start me up
The great Sleater-Kinney plays the Empire on Friday, May 21.
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Gift-horse puckey
For those of you who skipped out on those ancient-history classes, the early-summer blockbuster Troy rocks. For the rest of you, it’s a bit more problematic.
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Bitchin’ escapes
From Cache Creek’s mother of all rapids to California Cavern’s “Womb room,” refuges from Sacramento’s swelter are all around.
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On the Zen of barbecue
Inner peace to world peace, one charcoal at a time.
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Now that’s what I call summer reading!
From Lord of the Flies to The Unabomber Manifesto, Sacramentans tell us how they plan to get lit this summer.
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Sleepless in Sacramento
A somnambulist’s view of summer in Sacramento.
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Star-crossed summer
Or how I learned to love the Southern Caleeforneeization of Sacramento.
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Seventh grade going on eighth grade
Travel back to those summer days in junior high when you were too young to drive and too old to be amused by your parents.
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Queer eye for the Summer Guide
Sacramento’s hottest season is a great excuse for anyone to have a gay old time.
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Get on up!
Let these summer activities lure you out of your air-conditioned living room.
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