Issue: July 30, 2009
Dear Readers,I’ve been getting a lot of phone calls lately with people asking, “Hey, why don’t you just shoot straight and tell me the five best things to read each week in that e-mail newsletter instead of trying to crack jokes?”So here you go:Five Best Things To Read In This Week’s SN&R:5. Rachel Leibrock’s feature on Sac’s most popular band, MC Rut.4. A look at the state Legislature’s crack down on the 49ers--and it’s not what you think.3. Actually, you can’t do this in the issue, only online: VOTE in this year’s Best of Sacramento 2009 and automatically be entered to win a free 50cc urban scooter from The Scoot Shop, among other cool prizes!2. A history of Sac’s most famous performance art and design troupe--and how the city of West Sacramento shut them down for good.1. Bites taking a nibble at Nestle, who’ll open a new bottling plant in south Sacramento.Think Free,SN&R
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How now, Horse Cow?
For decades, the Sacramento artists behind the Gallery Horse Cow collective have challenged our aesthetic sensibilities. Now all of that may be going away.
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Fishy business
A former UC Davis biologist, Dr. David Ostrach, has filed a suit claiming the university discriminated against him because he’s disabled.
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Putting the Capitol on the honor system
California ballot measure would force lawmakers to read bills before voting for them.
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The lubricators
Gov. Schwarzenegger and the Legislature open the door to offshore oil drilling for the first time in 40 years—almost.
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Grow your own
Harvest Day will help gardeners build sustainable food expertise.
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Panned out
The California Legislature has banned suction dredge gold mining, and the New 49’ers are none to happy about it.
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Letters for July 30, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Bipolar defines a condition, not a person
A person’s reaction to your revealed mental illness says more about them than it does about you.
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Math and marriage
Some things just don’t make sense. Opposition to marriage equality is one of them.
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Wal-Mart’s white hat
The world’s largest retailer launches its sustainability index, and business may never be the same.
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When a man loves a trumpet
Sang, who plays jazz in a downtown Sacramento parking garage, can’t keep his mind off nothing else.
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Houston, we have a pregunta
The Mexican messes with Texas on bathroom graffiti, speaking Spanish in America, Latino filmmakers (or lack thereof), butter pecan ice cream and quinceañeras.
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Something in the water
Nestlé opens a new bottled-water plant in Sacramento.
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End the budget madness
If California is to survive, the supermajority voting requirement must go—now.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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New nude order
A state appellate court upholds a ban on nude sunbathing in state parks, and California will never be the same.
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Sunday at the range with pigeons
The religiously unaffiliated is the fastest-growing group in the United States. Will young adults maintain their “none of the above” attitude toward religion as they age?
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Funny how hard it is to be nice
Filmmaker Judd Apatow talks about his new film, Funny People, and … um, Adam Sandler as the next Jack Nicholson.
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AshleyMadison.com: Till Web do us part
Engaging online-cheating sites is a sick matrimony.
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Erratica, An Academic Farce
SN&R reviews a production at Capital Stage.
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See Rock City
SN&R reviews a production at the B Street Theatre.
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Keeping it poppin’
Side Show Studios’ group art show on pop culture.
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Paddle toward the light
Sunset kayak classes at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center offer peaceful escape and a full moon.
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A Midsummer (youth) Night’s Dream
Third time around, Nibroc is top-notch.
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Orientalism unleashed
There might be more to the East than sexual pleasures, but you’d never know it from the way Asia is objectified in the West.
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In the flesh
Del Shores, the Southern Baptist sissy, in person.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James M. Crowley: playing jazz while black.
From Rickey Henderson to Ron Sang, privilege and perspective, hypervigilance and suffering.
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Tales from the underground
Celebration Arts’ new production of Dutchman is more like “ripped from the headlines” than a trip down memory lane.
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Secret lives of Carmichael diners
Lido Bar & Grill, on Fair Oaks Boulevard, might possibly be Carmichael’s best kept secret.
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Pass the wine
Ed Roehr at Magpie Caterers and Market Café does a bangin’ cheese plate. His tips? Temperature, air, flavor-profile balance, dates, figs and pears.
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Raw year abroad
At Akebono, you can go beyond the usual salmon and tuna sashimi and try something bold, like ocean trout.
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Popsicle mystery
Nosy diners at Los Jarritos will discover that the taqueria makes its own paletas—at a bargain for only $1 a pop.
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Ten years gone
The local duo makes middle-of-the-road rock that’s tops in the United Kingdom.
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Izabella: reppin’ Sac on the road
How’d the band get so popular? Gigging shows, duh—because no amount of Facebooking and Twittering can replace a killer jam-band live set.
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Thurs, July 30, Blue Skies for Black Hearts
Blue Skies for Black Hearts perform at Blue Lamp. Sounds like a good night of indie pop.
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Fri, July 31, Stacie Eakes
Stacie Eakes is leaving town. Don’t freake out, though: She’s got one last show at Torch Club this week.
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Sat, Aug 01, Say Bok Gwai
It means “I hate myself” in Cantonese. Don’t worry, it’ll rock hard in English, too.
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Sun, Aug 2, Nico Vega
Los Angeles band Nico Vega is very mom-friendly.
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Invoking the gay-burrito excuse.
Launch, fashion show time trials, Vhcle magazine, the Donnas, Jimboy’s tacos, get-it-up lyrics, Wanderlust Festival, douche-bag-free zones, downward-facing dog, East Portal Express, balmy summer nights, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, gridlock, Dengue Fever.
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Order in the courtship
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber wrote The Pink Panther 2 earlier this year; this time, with Marc Webb at the helm, they do better. They do Woody Allen.
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Dreams With Sharp Teeth
A fascinating look at Harlan Ellison, known for his Star Trek work but admired for his contribution to the world of anthologies, public writing and science fiction.
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Eastbound & Down
This HBO comedy series on baseball’s steroid era has John Rocker’s wit and Rock Beck’s mullet.
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Grey Gardens
Go for the Emmy nominations, stay for Drew Barrymore’s best work in a decade, by default of being watchable, even though she’s just playing the same old dreamer, only with a clam-chowder accent.
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Mad Men: Season 2
The show still relies too heavily on nostalgia, but thank God redhead secretary Joan Holloway smoothes out the flaws.
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Lookin’ to Get Out
Actor Jon Voight is looking to resurrect this Hal Ashby bomb’s reputation, but good luck: Is it just an extended commercial for the MGM Grand Hotel?
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The Hurt Locker
Kathryn “Point Break” Bigelow makes a movie about men at work that feels like a definitive war movie.
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Paper Heart
Charlyne Yi wanders around the country asking and looking for romantic love. Enter Michael Cera …
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Unmistaken Child
The film, as Martin Scorsese’s Kundun reminds, is a portrait of faith as a mode of grief and loving gratitude.
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