Issue: April 15, 2010
This week, Cosmo Garvin flips the light on Proposition 16, making your way to an election ballot this June, where he reveals what some call business as usual and other cite as out-of-bounds ballot-box politics.
And for Earth Day this month, our feature by Fred Branfman tells the tale of how he and his friend, former SMUD visionary Ed Smeloff worked on parallel tracks, and sometimes together, to help bring about a renewable energy future for Sacramento, California and the rest of the country.
All that, plus Elvis was sighted in Davis. Read about it in Sound Advice.
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Clean Energy Dreams
A tale of two friends who set out, long before Obama, to transform society with green energy and jobs.
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Power outrage
PG&E-backed Proposition 16 would make it harder for public-power rivals to expand or come into existence. The measure’s opponents say PG&E’s ad campaign is deceptive and bad for green-energy innovation.
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The invisibles
Documentary filmmaker Costa Mantis sheds new light on Sacramento’s homeless.
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Junk terminators
Recycle random junk and e-waste at the California Green Fair.
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Green-collar debate
Politicians dispute the immediate economic impact of Assembly Bill 323 as climate-change efforts continue.
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Letters for April 15, 2010
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Snip snipping the boys and the marriage
A surprise vasectomy causes quite a power struggle.
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The eye that blinks
A writer reflects on entering the last year of her 50s.
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Renter beware
Utility companies should provide landlords with energy-usage information on their properties.
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Pulse of poetry
Catch this poet at B.L. Kennedy’s last Luna’s gig.
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Mutual responsabilidad
The Mexican on housework and Spanish rule in Mexico.
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Don’t mess with California
Carbon dioxide is no longer pollution. The CEO of Valero says so.
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Will the real Michael Pollan please speak up?Steve Cohn: Darrell made me do it
From the SN&R blogs.
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Rethink mental-health cuts
Would you take away an asthmatic’s inhaler or a diabetic’s insulin?
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Little boxes
Rachel denies a puppy’s friend request. For good reason …
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Walking tall
Two West Coast hikers set the record for the fastest trip on the 2,665 mile Pacific Crest Trail.
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My First Time
SN&R reviews a new production at the California Stage.
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Reefer Madness: The Musical
SN&R reviews a new production at Artistic Differences.
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Movin’ on up
Verge Gallery moves across the grid, but needs some patrons of the arts—hint, hint.
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Give him a horse, dang it!
Get a horse, get a kingdom. Oops! Richard III loses again.
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Singularity now
Computer peeps have been predicting it for years, but in Robert J. Sawyer’s new novel, the singularity is here.
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Someone made money
Wanna know how not to run Wall Street? Michael Lewis can tell you.
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Nothing lost here
One of the premier translators of Spanish literature, Edith Grossman, explains why we need translation.
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jIH Sov ghaH, Horatio!
Brush up your Klingonese; the Klingon Hamlet is coming.
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Smooth seconds
What was that jerk trumpeter playing? It wasn’t Wham! …
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Classical mushroom cloud
The Doctor Atomic Symphony, performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra at the Mondavi Center this Friday.
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Eye on the sharp knife
Stick with the sushi chef and you’ll be OK.
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Manners matters
Gilbert Lagunas of First Class Waiter blogs food-service etiquette.
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Little, blue, different
Americans hardly eat blueberries, compared to other fruits, yet the little blue balls persevere.
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Freak-folk bailout
Dead Western needs your help to make his June 17 gig in Berlin.
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Beats on a boat?
The new Daedelus album is pretty trippy—in an old-fashioned, Golden Age, seaworthy way.
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Thurs, April 15, Baaba Maal
Mondavi Center, 8 p.m., $12.50-$45.
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Fri, April 16, Debora Iyall
Former Romeo Void songstress will perform at Old Ironsides.
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Elvis and the devil in Davis
UC Davis, ophthalmologists, Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, Nick Jaina, The Hotdogger, Cool As Folk, KDVS, Michael Leahy, Sondre Lerche, Mason Jennings, Sufjan Stevens, The Harrow Way, Satan, Elvis Costello, Mondavi Center, Declan MacManus, Elvis Presley.
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Big ups for Bigelow
A look at the first woman to win an Oscar’s successes.
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The Art of the Steal
Don Argott’s film is is vain, unbalanced, illogical, overstated and damn compelling.
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The Eclipse
In this elegantly moody and character-driven love ballad, adapted by director Conor McPherson from Billy Roche’s story, Ciarán Hinds plays a widower and single father in a seaside Irish town.
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Letters To God
The movie’s worthy intentions are far outstripped by its fumbling amateurishness.
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The Joneses
Writer-director Derrick Borte’s self-delighted quasi-satire of stealth marketing in McMansionland.
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The Runaways
Writer-director Floria Sigismondi tells the story of the Runaways, the pioneering all-girl rock group of the 1970s.
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Happy 420!
SN&R’s resource for Sacramento-area medical-marijuana patients.
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The 411 on Sacramento 420
A comprehensive rundown of Sacramento-area marijuana dispensaries—and more.
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