Issue: November 26, 2009
Go! Give! Think! Do!
That’s right: It’s that time of year to be mindful while shopping, which means buying holiday gifts at locally owned stores and enjoying all the regional events that make Sacto’s holiday season memorable.
Here’s a few tips: Check out SN&R’s annual holiday guide.
Think Free!
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Go. Give. Think. Do.
Twenty-six inspired, nonconformist, most-excellent ways to celebrate this holiday season Sacramento style.
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In from the cold
Winter is coming, and there aren’t enough beds for the homeless.
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Do the math
A new charter school pushes “hard sciences” thanks to its uncommon principal.
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Climate solutions for the rest of us
If you can’t make it to Copenhagen for a discussion on climate change, how about McKinley Park?
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Green from green
Cleantech offers investment opportunity for savvy entrepreneurs.
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Letters for November 26, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Adverse reaction to commitment
Warning: Potential mate may experience insecure feelings, problems making decisions and difficulty sustaining intimacy.
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Go to Wal-Mart? Nevermore.
A holiday retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic poem.
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No conflict
The city lends SN&R a financial hand, but that won’t change the way we cover the city.
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Magna cartes
The Mexican takes it easy this week with some long letters.
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Developers: Take back City Hall!
Sacramento businessmen contemplate a coup at City Hall.
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Gathered from the SN&R blogs
Evangelicals can’t take a joke; state Dems tell Obama to end Afghan war.
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Give. Thanks.
Time to get your karma in check for the holidays.
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Editorial cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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No, thank you!
The writer scratches his head, cracks his knuckles and gives credit where credit is due.
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A second shot at fame
Darondo went from ’70s R&B phenom to recluse to globetrekker to pimp to janitor to physical therapist to being Elk Grove’s very own Godfather of Soul.
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Entertaining Mr. Sloane
SN&R reviews a new production at the B Street Theatre.
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Fully Committed
SN&R reviews a new production at the Sacramento Theatre Company.
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The Spoon River Anthology
SN&R reviews a new production at the Actor’s Theatre.
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Kill ’em already, no?
Please send my Black Album cassette to SN&R HQ, thanks.
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Go climb a mountain
Work off that Thanksgiving gravy with a hike in the Sutter Buttes.
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Holiday demolition derby
Mixing slamming doors and Santa: It’s a holiday farce.
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Not-so-lean cuisine
The New Yorker: great food writing, but not what you’d call “low fat.”
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Sex by the shore
Erotic City looks at the history of sexual freedom and liberation in our neighbor to the west.
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Gorging, stuffing and choking all the way to Turkey Day
Documenting Thanksgiving Frontload 2009.
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All kinds of holiday fun
Have we got holiday shows for you! No, seriously, here’s a list.
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What a concept
The only thing similar to Morton’s is the pommes frites. And maybe that they both serve steak.
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Feast not famine
Local farmers feed the homeless, and Julie Cross gives up her sweet-potato puff recipe.
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Straight from the barrel
Drink wine from the barrel and bottle your own creative blend.
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Know Bueno
The local emcee raps a dream and lives a rap vision.
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Take a bow, Pow!
Ira Skinner’s Monday nights at The Press Club end.
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Fri, Nov 27, Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
Put on your haunted heels and make out in a parked car?
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Sat, Nov 28, Death Valley High
New album. New band. Similar sound.
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Sat, Nov 28, Be Brave Bold Robot
Get some Depends and check out this show.
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Sat, Nov 28, Poisin’d
Every rose has its thorn, every band has its cover.
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Sexy can I pour some sugar on my love for Ray J?
Azukar Lounge, Jae Synth, Ray J, Kim Kardashian, Cocktail, Tila Tequila, Zokku, Al, “Sexy Can I,” Ron Artest, Ray Liotta, Goodfellas, women who tear clothes off of pop stars.
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Shopping for cinéastes
Daniel Barnes recommends what to buy the film geek in your life.
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Less traveled
Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer-winning novel comes to the big screen.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson goes from making cartoonish films to cartoon stop-motion films.
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The Messenger
From the “Guys Whose Job You Wouldn’t Want” files.
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