Issue: July 14, 2005
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Outside noise
Your personal voyage through Sacramento’s avant-garde music scene in six chapters.
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Suspicious behavior
The beating of two brothers puts West Sacramento police actions in the spotlight.
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Room and board, blood and glass
Unlicensed care facilities for the developmentally disabled are a mixed blessing.
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Son of Sammie
This year, the Sammies show focuses on the music, not the awards.
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Letters for July 14, 2005
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Torture fatigue
Media catharses may keep us comfortably numb to brutal realities—but for how long?
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A man and his pigeon
Eighty-one-year-old Lawrence Wolff has a pet pigeon he takes on daily walks.
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Watch out for the birds
Want another thing to add to your list of worries? Try the bird flu.
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Don’t trust your head to the meds
Don’t be in such a hurry to reach for those psych meds.
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Cops et robbers
The Sacramento French Film Festival gets criminally successful with two weekends of César-winning features, a quartet of crime-story classics, and a visit from filmmaker and former police officer Michel Alexandre.
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More? Mais oui!
Find César winners and free breakfasts with this quick guide to the new, improved Sacramento French Film Festival.
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About The Nation
Victor Navasky’s A Matter of Opinion offers both defense and gossip about The Nation and its publisher.
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The King: a medical tribute
What the death of Elvis means to us—medically.
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Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs
A collection of identity quests.
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The Sodden Bear
Proles, drunken boys and a DJ’s birthday bash.
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What visions have I seen!
This Shakespeare play is happening on more than one midsummer night.
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Behind the box
Thai Smile is a warm dining experience hidden behind the cool exterior of a suburban strip mall.
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Canonization
For street-punk purists, what’s more appropriate than a band of saints?
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On the microphone
Clubber visits the Old Ironsides open-mic to find the newest musical trends.
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Alanis Morissette
Though decidedly less jagged, Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill Acoustic is much harder to swallow.
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Kees Bakels, Malaysian Philharmonic
A conductor who lets Rimsky-Korsakov rock.
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Don’t drink the Kool-Aid
A weekly selection from the ever-expanding music scene.
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Men of dishonor
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson go crazy—and then go soft.
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