Issue: November 19, 2009
Dear Readers,
Every year, SN&R spends hundreds of dollars on junk like Five-Dollar Footlongs and California Lottery Scratchers and no one even blinks.
But when City Hall’s public officials spend seven tax dollars at Panda Express, well… THEY SPENT OUR MONEY ON WHAT?
OK, so there’s other stuff, too: golf green fees, tech addictions, TV stands, gay hotels. The list goes on…
This week, SN&R’s Cosmo Garvin looks at the mayor and city council’s expense reports. It isn’t pretty.
Think Free,
SN&R
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They spent our money on what?
Here’s how local politicians spend their discretionary funds.
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Towers of spending power
Which council members get what from cell phone wireless funds.
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Fast, cheap and on the payroll
Taxpayers treat city interns to a chunk of change.
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Theater of pain
UC Davis scholar leads effort to catalog civil-rights abuses at Guantánamo Bay.
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Talking torture
UC Davis professor presents the lowdown on the Guantánamo Testimonials Project.
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Saving south Sac
South Sacramento gets a shot in the arm from California Endowment.
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Blown away
Auntie Ruth wants to ban leaf blowers—and possibly really loud vacuum cleaners.
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Sarah Palin isn’t coming
An exhibition documents the cause to conserve the wildness of Alaska at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center.
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Family farmers fear feds
Small farmers cry foul over new federal food-safety regulations.
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Letters for November 19, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Party poopers
Joey won’t let the holidays go to the dogs and offers advice on how parents should handle young heartbreak.
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Growing lessons
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan wants you to know your farmer.
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Coiffure chemistry
Deeda Salon is all about good vibes—and stylish cuts.
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Hair today, Goya tomorrow
The Mexican on hair habits and lard.
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2010: A democracyodyssey
The 2010 elections are all about big changes in government.
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Gathered from the SN&R blogs
Uranus by any other name; who would Jesus extort?
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Water poisoning
The water plan may be doomed by pork projects it funds.
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Transformation
Making the impossible possible at Sacramento’s downtown rail yard.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Once bitten, Twilight shy
Is Twilight anti-feminist? Should you even care?
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Even bookworms hibernate
SN&R’s resident wordsmith settles in with a guide to winter reading.
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An Almost Perfect Party
SN&R reviews a new production at the B Street Theatre.
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Love potion off the vine
Sacramento Opera performs The Elixir of Love.
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Unsweetened news
Democracy Now! executive producer Amy Goodman speaks in Davis and Sacramento.
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Without reservations
Matt K. Miller is so hot in this one-man show that you could cook with him.
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Thinking spiritually
Don’t believe, but interested in those who do? “Sort of” a skeptic? Check out Killing the Buddha. And if you meet him on the road, well, you know what to do.
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Literary politics
A reissued classic still nails the British literary canon with a post-colonial critique.
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Traveling lyricism
New poems from Cecilia Woloch turn cross plenty of borders, including the one for the undiscovered country.
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An artistically different holiday
They’re artistic. They’re different. Ready to rock up your Christmas party.
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Attention, K-Mart shoppers
Bump Tyreke Evans. Dump Kevin Martin. Save the buffet for when the Clippers come to town.
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Seducing Mr. Sloane
He’s sexy. He’s available. He’s Mr. Sloane, and he’s going to get his.
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Lunch, restored
Now, let’s kick that sun-dried tomatoes habit.
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WTF! I have to bring a dish for Thanksgiving?
Usually, I just drink zin, fork bird and pass out. Now I have to cook?
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Mystery fruit
There’s way more than two kinds of persimmons grown locally in Sacramento, and all of them are good.
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Autumn Sky, Katie Jane and Ricky Berger take over the mall!
And everyone will gladly let them.
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Fri, Nov 20, Andrew Heringer Band
Go for the folk jam, stay for Sonic.
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Fri, Nov 20, Life in 24 Frames
Almost Explosions in the Sky … then the lyrics kick in.
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Fri, Nov 27, Bueno
Sometimes nothing has to happen in a music video to be cool.
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The shape of jazz to come
JB’s Lounge, Open World Jazz Quartet, Brubeck Institute of Jazz, DownBeat magazine, University of the Pacific, Joe Gilman, Red Lion Hotel, Luigi’s Fun Garden, Weinland, Loch Lomond, accessory beards, Fire Escape Bar and Grill, Behind the Satellites.
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Apocalypse midnight
2012 after dark will have you laughing at nothing.
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Angels & Demons
I hear the symbology program at Harvard University is pretty awesome.
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The Marc Pease Experience
Barely released last summer, the movie, like its sad-sack hero, is not really bad; it’s rather sweet, even.
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K-20: Legend of the Mask
Two hours to set up other movies you’ll never want to see.
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Pirate Radio
Radio on the seas in ’60s is just like deejays in Sac today?
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