Issue: September 03, 2009
If you’re reading this, then you’re likely already one step closer to the future of journalism.
Still, exactly what this future will look like remains uncertain. Will daily newspapers disappear—and along with them reporting and news coverage as we know it?
News & Review CEO Jeff vonKaenel looks back at 30 years in the newspaper-publishing biz for clues on what’s in store in the post-daily world.
Also this week:
-An etymology and personal history of the term “douche”
-Will digital billboards take over Sacramento?
-SN&R’s annual guide to the Rainbow Festival
Think Free,
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The post-daily world
To understand what’s next for journalism, it helps to put the decline of daily newspapers in context.
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Street prediction
When it comes to the fate of dailies, the new optimism is a false optimism.
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Bad mood Reisig
Yolo district attorney under fire for retaliating against whistleblowers.
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Playing with fire
Chemical industry extinguishes effort to curb toxic fire retardants.
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AUGUST 2009: Iraq War timeline
Look for SN&R’s updated timeline at the beginning of each month.
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Don’t be koi
Visit the 10th annual Combined Koi Show at Placer County Fairgrounds in Roseville.
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MapGuide wants you!
The National Geographic Society hopes to put sustainable destinations in the Sierras on the map.
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Letters for September 3, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Intellectual prey
The Discovery Channel comes to life in the dating scene where intellectual women prey on insecure men.
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Class is full!
Why are community-college students paying the price for the state’s budget woes?
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Mission: Vancouver
The Sacramento Metro Chamber visits Vancouver, Canada, on a sustainability fact-finding mission.
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Rebel in the record biz
Ken Fury is bringing down the yuppies, unleashing punk music to the masses through his new label FYBS Records.
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Uncool at any speed
Digital billboards may be in Sacramento’s future.
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Balancing act
On health-care reform, keep the big picture in mind.
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Spying on ourselves
Does Sactown really need a public-surveillance program?
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Patriots and scoundrels
Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams supports auditing the Federal Reserve, laments radio-station consolidation.
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A local Coachella of Christian music
Praise in the Mountains, a gospel music festival in Penn Valley, celebrates its 18th year.
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Any way you want it, that’s the way they print it
Local writers who can’t get a foot in the door with traditional publishers turn to the on-demand model.
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Don’t sweat the Labor Day blues
Three events for your oxymoronic Labor Day weekend.
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Hike a trail less traveled
New trail along the American River opens for small groups of hikers.
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Celebrity overload, feminine mystique
Do expiring minds really want to know? Tabloid fodder and guffaws with Six Women with Brain Death.
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Twice the apocalypse
Two kinds of literary apocalypse: Sometimes, the world is ending. Sometimes, it just feels like it.
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Fall literary lights
California Lectures starts its next season with a pair of outstanding novelists—one Brit and one Yank.
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Can I get an encore?
Go to Murphys for the music, stay for the vino.
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Love grows up
Can a young couple in love become a happily married middle-aged couple? Of course they can.
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Spice or sacrilege?
Greg digs the authentic eats—but spices up the leftovers at home.
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Doing it old school
Blogger Ken Albala dishes dirt on making bread, curing meat and cheese making.
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Sac’s top chef, twice removed
Kevin Gillespie on Top Chef used to work for Grange restaurant’s Michael Tuohy.
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Tomato party
Learn about heirlooms at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.
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At home on the road
Pete Bernhard of the Devil Makes Three makes the rounds.
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Pocket for Corduroy reunites
After seven years, Nevada City’s Pocket for Corduroy will play a reunion show at Harlow’s.
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Thurs, Sept 3, The Thermals
Ben Gibbard hooked these fools up!
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Thurs, Sept 3, James Pants
He sounds like the dude in junior high who tried to dry-hump you.
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Sat, Sept 5, Drew Grow
It’s like Radiohead in a confusing sonic labyrinth.
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Save us from grunge blowback
Q-Tip, Nigerian independence, Stuff White People Like, recreational softball, James Brown, Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, A Tribe Called Quest, DJ AM, sneaking in to festivals, gentlemanly dudes, Golden Gate Park, Steven Soderbergh, E.T., Thievery Corporation, Eddie Vedder’s apology, Tomales Bay oysters, Mayyors, Hemlock Tavern, Def Leppard, Rick Allen, Cheap Trick, Poison, Tim McGraw, Raven Drum Foundation, Ross Hammond, Beatnik Studios.
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Ring around the blue collar
Mike Judge’s film puts in an honest day’s work in spite of being just average.
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The Garden
A look at the legal and political process of defending the largest community garden in the United States.
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The Tiger’s Tail
John Boorman hasn’t been relative for at least a decade, but you can’t forget that this is the man who made Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur and Hope and Glory.
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Lorna’s Silence
An immigrant gets embroiled with low-level mobsters to acquire citizenship; this is straight-up survival-mode melodrama.
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The Final Destination
Aren’t scenes in movies where people die in movie theaters cruel jokes on the moviegoers?
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Welcome to the Rainbow Festival!
Midtown Sacramento’s annual Labor Day GLBT street fair.
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Find your power
After a defeat for marriage equality, GLBT groups are ready to take the fight to the roots—the grassroots, that is.
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Sacramento’s best dressed gay men
Fashion advice from the region’s coolest style gurus.
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