Issue: May 28, 2009
SN&R readers,The winners of this year’s SN&R Flash Fiction contest are hereby announced!As usual, you’ll find locally-written cryptic mysteries and haunted romances, chiseled tales and twisted endings. There’s a faux epic, a commentary on the economic crash and a piece that’s, er, well — is it flash porn? Anyway, relax into an impending summer and start your reading with SN&R’s Flash Fiction 2009.Also this week: Bites answers the question “Who’s watching you?” Greg Lucas reports on the $100 million Crocker expansion, Becky Grunewald cooks with Sacramento’s “Hmong Martha Stewart,” and Josh Fernandez battles local emcee Chase Moore.Think Free and keep reading!
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Incredibly, defiantly, unbelievably short fiction
Results of SN&R’s short-fiction contest!
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Museum piece
The Crocker Art Museum’s $100 million makeover could boost the Sacramento region’s economy and improve its quality of life.
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Bloodsucking freaks
There are 12,000 storm drains in Sacramento. Each is a breeding ground for West Nile virus carrying mosquitoes.
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Split decision
The California Supreme Court has it both ways, validating both Proposition 8 and the gay and lesbian marriages before its passage.
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Dress trashy
In Grass Valley, they don’t throw their garbage away, they wear it.
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Delta showdown
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has limited pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect the threatened Delta smelt. The state of California wants them to reconsider.
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Letters for May 28, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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The book of job
This probably won’t be the last laid-off employee letter to Joey.
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Brain-dead zombies
Is it too late to cure America’s disease of political apathy?
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Back in business
SN&R’s publisher goes to Washington, meets Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and returns to Sacramento feeling more confident about America.
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For the skaters, by the skaters
Check out the new Nine16 skate shop in East Sac.
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Not rocket ciencia
The Mexican on white-collar jobs, higher education and carrying IDs.
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Surveillance city
The price of the Bee, the surveillance state and other stuff no one cares about.
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Laura and Euna
Join the campaign to free these two journalists who were seized and jailed in North Korea.
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Cut prison spending
Safe steps can immediately be taken to reduce prison population.
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Editorial cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Hell is an intersection
Welcome to Sacramento, the city of incredibly screwed-up traffic-calming projects.
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Why I don’t go to church
Sena Christian doesn’t find an equal place for women in church.
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Cooking from the heart
A Sacramento woman and her lifelong friend release the first ever Hmong cookbook.
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Children of Light
SN&R reviews a current production at California Stage.
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A Song for Coretta
SN&R reviews a current production at Celebration Arts.
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The Queen of Bingo
SN&R reviews a current production at Big Idea Theatre.
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You Can’t Take It With You
SN&R reviews a current production at Chautauqua Playhouse.
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Just puggin’ along
16th annual Doggy Dash and Bark at the Park.
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Mix master
Cocktail-making contest at Lounge on 20 on June 3.
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Let the discussion begin
My Name Is Rachel Corrie, at the Three Penny Playhouse.
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Silver (stage) lining
If the economy is killing the arts, why are some community theaters so full?
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Alternative is dead, long live alternative
KWOD says goodbye, radio broadcasts its own death rattle.
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Welcome to Crazytown
He who laughs last … laughs. It’s a good thing.
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Truth in advertising
It’s not a lie, Burgers and Brew has burgers and brew.
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I kid, I kid
All about goat cheese from Felicia Johnson, the cheesemonger at Taylor’s Market.
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Sacramento battle rapper Chase Moore tries to shed his warrior ways
A Sacramento emcee turns from battling to studio rapping.
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Fri, May 29, Ill Repute
Oxnard plus hardcore equals Nardcore. The Distillery, 10 p.m., $8.
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Order of the Golden Mirror comes down to glam
Order of the Golden Mirror this Friday at Luigi’s Fun Garden.
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Sat, May 30, Final Summation
C’mon, you need bad words sometimes. The Distillery, 10 p.m., $7.
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Mon, June 1, The Supervillains
Let out your inner bro. Fire Escape Bar and Grill, 7 p.m., $8.
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Devil music
Mike Farrell is back from the dead; dub party and a Two Sheds frat party.
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Wes Anderson school of cinema
Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo play brother grifters in Rian Johnson’s new film.
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Passengers
The big reveal is like a certain popular Bruce Willis movie? Awesome!
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Every Little Step
What’s the difference between documentary and idolatry?
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