Issue: May 14, 2009
SN&R readers,Sacramento’s a great music city.It’s fitting, then, that this week’s cover story explores a local scientist’s efforts to uncover a secret connection between music and our emotions and memories.And speaking of which, this year’s Sacramento Area Music Award nominees are likely the very musicians responsible for all those great sonic memories. Read about them in this week’s Sammies guide, check out the most outstanding albums/releases of the year in this week’s Music feature, or vote for your favorite local artists here.Lastly, if you’re itching to check out a live show this week, take a peek at SN&R’s new music calendar, the Stash.Think Free and keep reading!
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Your brain on music
UC Davis’ Dr. Petr Janata seeks the mystery connection between music and memory.
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I, test-subject
A reporter participates in Dr. Petr Janata’s music/memory experiment.
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Frog eat frog
In Calaveras County, residents defend the non-native American bullfrog, even though it eats the native red-legged frog for lunch. The dark side of the Jumping Frog Jubilee.
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Harry and Louise, part II
New TV ads attack Obama health-care reforms.
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Pocketful of pikas
Auntie Ruth pontificates on the fate of the American pika in the Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Superfund sites and dirty water.
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Plugging the jug
Every time you open a screw-top bottle of wine in Sacramento, a cork-oak tree dies in Portugal.
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Letters for May 14, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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No-brainer solutions
The state’s fiscal process is broken—here are fixes.
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Waste not, want not
The Sacramento region is developing a plan to recycle more construction and demolition debris, and send less to local landfills.
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Precedents of UnitedState
A hip-hop clothing boutique to serve all your deejay and fashion needs.
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Go back to Mexico?
The Mexican on the motherland, manhood and how to proposition a woman en español.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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‘The intellectual love of God’
A deist keeps it simple but intellectual.
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Row, row, row on a golden lake
Athletes from all over love Lake Natoma—which might be why some of the world’s best rowers grow up here in Sacramento.
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Frida Kahlo
SN&R reviews a current production at the Wilkerson Theatre.
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Still ripping off Japanese cinema
Japanese film fest at the Crest Theatre.
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West Coast Brew Fest
It’s in Miller Park … which is appropriate, no?
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Children of Light at California Stage
Rick Foster and Janis Stevens team up again—expect a theatrical classic.
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American songbird
Thoroughly American, Pete Seeger has outlasted the right. SN&R reviews Alec Wilkinson’s Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger.
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Thanks, Facebook
Social-networking platform is a stage for mundane people.
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All in the family
Lambda Players revives Sordid Lives and premieres Dear Harvey.
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Spontaneous sushi
Remember Zen Sushi? It’s like that, but in Davis.
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Cheese O.D.
Vanilla Garlic blogger Garrett McCord has a cheese problem.
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What a release
The 11 Sammies nominees for Outstanding Sacramento Release/Album.
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No, seriously, this is one killer festival lineup!
The best O:RMF lineup yet.
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Not an Airplane, Thurs, May 14th
That’s Not an Airplane in Sophia’s Thai Kitchen.
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14 THURS, Gilberto Rodriguez
Poems, songs, madness. Luna’s Café & Juice Bar, 8 p.m.,no cover (two-drink minimum)
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14 TUES, Sandpeople and Cap City Rap Battle
Portland’s Sandpeople and a rap battle. Blue Lamp, 9 p.m., $7.
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Welcome to the lost highway of black acid Taco Bell tricks.
Frank Black, 1989, poseur publicists, Taco Bell, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, hella acid, David Lynch, Fancie, Cheap Trick, Dixon, Jessica Simpson.
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Making connections
Let’s start by acknowledging that this has nothing to do with the Millennium Falcon.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The 85-year-old baby you meet in Heaven.
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Sammies 2009
The 18th annual Sacramento Area Music Awards celebrate over 100 local musicians.
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