Issue: August 16, 2007
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Riding off into the sunset
The Real McCoy ferry will soon be retired, but a replacement is coming.
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Watcha gonna do?
One visit from fire prevention and the Golden Bear loses a third of its business.
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Nailed it!
After cornering the local nail-salon market, Vietnamese Americans won’t let go.
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The Bomb hates hip-hop?
Did SN&R help cost DJ Supe his gig at the Bomb?
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Secret Asian man
FBI has sordid ties to probe of Sheriff Blanas’ concealed weapon permits.
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Don’t pimp your ride
Law aimed at keeping drug and ho buyers in their own neighborhoods.
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Heard it through the grapevine
Will global warming harm Napa Valley wineries?
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Green-collar jobs
House passes Green Collar Jobs Act of 2007.
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Born in Sacramento
Going “green” makes money sense, says California’s former state treasurer.
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Letters for August 16, 2007
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Don’t just study hard, study smart
Just don’t let your alienated, inferior-feeling kid read The Secret.
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It’s what’s for dinner
It takes muscle—including the kind in meat—to build a civilization.
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‘Wee for a Wii’ 3 returns
“Hold Your Wee for a Wii” radio hosts are back—and they want blood!
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A vote for Bowen
Secretary of state was correct to decertify electronic voting machines.
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Failed experiments over Sac
Aerial pesticide spraying puts citizens in the middle of a bad science experiment.
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Endgame/The Playboy of the Western World
Short Review of a current play.
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Defcon 15: Hacked in Las Vegas
Soon, we’re all gonna get pwned.
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Children of hope
Sugarcane Academy documents the building of a remarkable school for children displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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Booze and betrayal
A Christian and a Scientologist discuss love on the rocks.
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The Archivist’s Story: A Novel
Shall we save ourselves or save the world?
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A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity
Sometimes nothing can beat the feel of a book in your hand. Read our mini reviews of books to enjoy or avoid.
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Willing and a bull
And in a corner, under a tree, the mechanical bull beckoned.
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Other things you can do against the machine
Richard Cheese gives us an idea.
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Ten for 10
STC announces a decade-long commitment to August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle.
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Catch of the week
An old-school fish joint, but Fins Market & Grill still has a bit of work to do.
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The regular crowd
Do Midtown’s bands—and its streets—look increasingly similar?
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The Last Little Life EP
Matt Sharp returns with another chance to prove that quitting Weezer was a good idea.
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But I don’t need no friends
What do Elliott Smith and the Kinks have in common? Jackson Griffith.
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Exodus of good taste
Too bad it feels morally criminal to find it sometimes hilarious.
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Small World
Ethnic weddings bring some Americans closer to their roots.
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Welcome to the brotherhood of patient waiters
It’s advice to a groom. Ladies, please don’t read. Well, not closely.
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Multicultural Matrimony
Tales from a Chinese-American wedding.
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Wedding Un-crashers
Wedding star power comes from those behind the scenes.
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