Issue: December 17, 2009
Dear Readers,
Another week, another five good reasons to pick up SN&R, on newsstands now!
5. Rules for the road and holiday-travel tips from Ganglians, the most popular Sacramento band that you’ve likely never heard of.
4. The daily paper is gonna get smaller again, and soon. Find out why.
3. Birthday Sex: overrated? Hmm ...
2. Turning 40 was never “so ho-hum, so over it.̶ Read Rachel Leibrock’s new(ish) column, Popsmart, on going over the hill.
1. Hey stoner, er, medical patient: Here are some tips on how to NOT grow pot.
Think Free!
SN&R
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Trippin’ with Ganglians
Our writer goes on tour with the most popular Sacramento band you’ve never heard of.
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Bee cheaper
The Sacramento Bee staff prepare for more cost cutting.
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How not to grow marijuana
The top 10 ways to keep your medical-marijuana garden safe.
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Trailing off
Dig in and help preserve the American River Trail.
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Stamp of disapproval
The California Department of Fish and Game is misusing fishing fees, sportsmen claim.
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Letters for December 17, 2009
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Ex in shining armor
Some guys are addicted to rescuing damsels in distress, even when it’s ex-lovers.
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My cancer story
A local patient spreads the gospel of naturopathic healing methods.
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Shaping behavior
Don’t ask what you can do for your building, ask what your building can do for you.
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Room for Cream
Miss Velvet Cream will reconstruct your jeans and have you looking like an urban nomad. Watch out.
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The meat of the matter
Green-building guru forced out at county; taking a bite out of Meatless Monday.
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Gathered from the SN&R blogs
Space beam aimed at Fresno; ClimateGate! ClimateGate!
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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I want to believe
Can Jesse Ventura save the world from conspiracy theories?
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Cruisin for urban legends
Rumors of a little-person prostitute sends this writer on a Watt-Auburn corridor adventure.
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No presents
Trickle-down bah-humbug is this holiday season’s policy.
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December Songs
SN&R reviews a new production at the California Stage.
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The 1940’s Radio Hour
SN&R reviews a new production at Artistic Differences.
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Land of sweet ballet
Sacramento Ballet presents holiday classic The Nutcracker.
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She’s always a princess to us
Sacramento Theatre Company’s Cinderella keeps up with the times.
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Sleepwalking
M.K. Perker’s graphic novel is literate, suspenseful and a bibliophile’s dreamscape turned nightmare.
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Better with bitterness
Donald Revell moves from strange lyricism to full-blown ecstatic prophecy in The Bitter Withy.
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It’s a wonderful tradition
Onstage, on-screen, any way you want it: It’s a Wonderful Life.
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Tonya Harding vs. Nancy Kerrigan redux
If all else fails, ice skate with a belly full of IPA.
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Elf, humbug!
And now for something totally different in the Christmas show category: one bad elf.
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This is the future
Greg Lucas reviews New Canton’s megalithic new dim sum and Cantonese food house with nary a mention of is dim-sum slut past.
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Champagne Magnum, FYI
Champagne tasting eerily resembles a celebrity sighting of Tom Selleck.
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The handmade’s tale
Central Valley cheese makers do it with cows.
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Drinking and writing
This is not your crazy Aunt Edna’s eggnog.
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Kittens released
Anton Barbeau steps in to help produce, and write, a bit of Allyson Second’s debut album, Bag of Kittens.
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Make you pop and jerk
Wiz Khalifa is for the young folks, not you.
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Fri, Dec 18, Lonely Kings
Be a hater or buy a freaking toy and rock your ass off. The choice is yours.
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Fri, Dec 18, Prophetz of Time and Space
It ain’t smooth jazz and it’s gonna be stupid—in a good way.
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Do snowmen get Christmas sex?
“Birthday Sex,” Jeremih, Azukar Lounge, Shady Lady Saloon, Shaun Slaughter, holiday cocktails, ass shakers, gangster snowmen, Kepi Ghoulie, Kevin Seconds, Allyson Seconds, Anton Barbeau, Greg Attonito, Shanti Wintergate, T-Rex, Brian Hanover, Ellie Fortune, Jesse Phillips, Luigi’s Fun Garden, Teddy Briggs, Appetite, Cozy Cullers, Sea of Bees, Thommy Minnick.
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Virgins on film
Daniel Barnes looks at his favorite first-time directors during the past 10 years.
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Pink slip’s silver lining
He puts you out of a job, then finds his soul.
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Lost: Season 5
Letting down the leftover fans from season four.
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La Danse: Le Ballet de l’Opera de Paris
This film is not for every attention span, but for balletomanes, Francophiles and documentary purists, it’s a must.
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Me and Orson Welles
The de facto slacker spokesperson Richard Linklater has educed a universally compelling psychology of megalomania.
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