Issue: October 08, 2009
What makes Sacramento’s most-famous bounty hunter tick?
Rachel Leibrock profiles the city’s top bail bondsman and perennial mayoral candidate Leonard Padilla in this week’s cover story.
Also this week: SN&R’s fall movie preview; Dart, a guide to Second Saturday; and Popsmart, a new column, also by Rachel Leibrock.
Think Free,
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The Leonard show
Sacramento’s infamous bounty hunter stars in a reality TV show of his own making.
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Rancho Cordova revolution
If you want to reinvent city government, hire Ted Gaebler, the guy who wrote the book on it.
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Klamath controversy continues
An agreement to remove four dams has been reached, but barriers remain.
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Tube boobs
Californians for Smart Energy against the California Energy Commission: Say what?
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She’s got smarts
Middle-school girls will prove fun science experiments aren’t just for the boys.
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Ecodogical
At Sacramento’s Grateful Dog, pooches are pampered in a cage-free, sustainable setting.
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Letters for October 8, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Rebel music gets bad rap
The devil’s not in the music, homie.
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Wiki constitution
Davis group plans to write a new state framework from the grassroots.
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Thinking fresh
A Sacramento rabbi teaches high-school kids to eat healthier by selling locally grown produce.
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Subversive words, material world
Going deep into the language of poetry.
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Pride is a shiny Silverado
The Mexican on brown pride and bottled water.
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City of snoops
Sacramento dismisses privacy fears, pushes ahead with surveillance system.
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You should be getting it every day
Check out SN&R’s new blogs!
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Nestlé slowdown
The south Sacramento water plant plan isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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Furlough Friday photo contest!
What are you doing and seeing on Furlough Fridays?
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Tangled up in pink
Be mindful of where those Breast Cancer Awareness Month donations are going (but still buy that tool kit with the pink hammer).
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The question concerning textology
Meet Bottom Feeder, the new blog for Race to the Bottom.
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Flicking around
SN&R’s film critics preview this holiday season’s fare.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
SN&R reviews a production at Big Idea Theatre.
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Legally Blonde
SN&R reviews a production at Broadway Sacramento.
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The Maintenance Man
SN&R reviews a production at B Street Theatre.
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Dust off your lightsaber
Star Wars junkies descend upon Sacramento for a high-definition, full-concert experience of that galaxy far, far away.
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A plump, fresh Raisin
What happens to a dream deferred? It breaks hearts and backs.
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Innocence and creepiness
Notable art to see for the month of October.
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Spiritual sights
Richard Murai’s spiritual photographs from Bhutan and Laos in Nevada City.
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Going pink(o)
He’s a pinko, she’s a pinko. Wouldn’t you like to be a pinko, too? Try socialism.
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Far from Kansas
He never got to see the wizard, but he gave us Oz.
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Still soaked
A remarkable accomplishment as documentary and as art.
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Last dance for Bloom
Sacramento Ballet kicks off the season with the Capital Choreography Competition—and Kirsten Bloom, prima ballerina, takes maternity leave.
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A shot in the dark
Andri Tambunan gave up the American Dream to document epidemics and terrorist attacks in distant lands.
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Got the world on a screen
Who knew Harold and Kumar and Jean Baudrillard would make it into the same column?
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Family fight night
This family doesn’t exactly put any “fun” in “dysfunction.”
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Hungry like an animal
Leslie Field of the Sacramento Zoo shares what animals nosh on.
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Drink wise, Elder
Vinnie Curlizo explains the hops in Pliny the Elder.
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Delectable capsaicin
Hatch green chilies can keep people warm this fall.
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Almost doomed
Kris Anaya and Joe Davancens stick together, escape the “clutch of the hook” and make a great album.
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Thurs, Oct 8, MuteMath
Mutemath’s from New Orleans, but they’re probably post-terrestrial.
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Fri, Oct 9, Leopold and His Fiction
Leopold and His Fiction perform at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen.
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Tues, Oct 13, The Intelligence
They like Sac bands. You should like them.
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Wed, Oct 14, CrookOne
CrookOne curates a great jazz, fusion and afrobeat deejay night at the Shady Lady Saloon.
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Fists, rim shots and soul pipes
Joanna Newsom, Neal Morgan, Björk, Hella, Nevada City, Church, Alak, Luigi’s Fun Garden, KDVS, Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom, G.Green, the Four Eyes, the Mantles, Mom, Neil Young, Cool as Folk, Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, Dreamdate, Knock Knock, Ledisi, the Roots, Martin Luther, Geapele, the Berkeley soul scene, Avalon Nightclub.
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The Anna Nicole Smith Story
Like the Bob Fosse bummer Star 80, only more disturbing for its utter banality.
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Capitalism: A Love Story
Standard-issue throwaway jokes, stock-footage gimmicks, suggestive cuts—ouch!
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The Invention of Lying
Another failed Ricky Gervais movie vehicle.
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