Issue: April 29, 2010
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I am marching
Union members and others walk 365 miles up the state to urge new thinking on California’s budget mess.
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Open and shut
Stark differences exist between sheriff’s candidates when it comes to transparency and public scrutiny.
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Drastic measure
Skepticism greets county’s plan to redesign mental-health services.
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How does your garden blow?
A local biology professor points out the plants The Home Depot shouldn’t be selling.
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Letters for April 29, 2010
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Faith of an atheist
A salute to folks who march to a different nondrummer.
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Daily disaster
Some people need a disaster plan, some people just need breakfast.
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Barista bike
Well, actually, he’s a roaster—but barista bike just sounds good.
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Don’t need no stinkin’ abrigos!
The Mexican on heavy coats and height.
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Hometown atrocities
Bloody diamonds, bigger zoos, stronger mayors.
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Professors and prisons
About a well-timed report on state government.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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The name game
Call Rachel what you want, because she knows exactly who she is.
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Terrorizing TV
Video artists Sean Stout does TerrorEyes.tv and IntheCutts.com.
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A Few Good Men
SN&R reviews a new production at the Nevada Theatre in Nevada City.
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Becky Shaw
SN&R reviews a new production at the B Street Theatre.
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Americanized fiesta
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo the American way.
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Real 3-D wonderland
Sacramento papier-mâché sculptor Gabriel Paolieri brings Alice’s wonderland into the 3-D world.
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What Matthew meant
The Laramie Project: One young man died, two young men were convicted, an entire town agonized.
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Seduced by war
Phantom Noise, Brian Turner’s second collection of poems, looks at the aftermath of the Iraq war.
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Remember this
The story of the man who made neuroscience research out of nothing at all.
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Let it fly in the breeze
At UC Davis, a student production of Hair takes it all off—outside!
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Keith ‘Guru’ Elam (July 17, 1961–April 19, 2010)
Josh Fernandez remembers Gang Starr.
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Lost in the stars
Sac City brings Kurt Weill’s musical numbers to life in Berlin to Broadway.
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What the house does best
Filter eats through the barbecue prism.
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Mac ’n’ vino
How to get your drink on, look smart and pair it with any meal.
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Local eats, low incomes
Josh Cadji and the Sacramento League of Urban Gardeners are extraordinary gardeners bringing fruits and veggies to Oak Park.
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Unorthodox diss
Matisyahu plays at Sacramento’s state Capitol.
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What’s going on upstairs, buddy?
Roky Erickson rides the wave of cerebral mystique.
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Thurs, April 29, Zion Roots
Eek! A great reggae show, but questionable party buddy.
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Sat, May 1, Geographer
Overly chill in real life, just the right kind of chill in song.
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Sat, May 1, Tyler Hilton
The kind of tunes you could pop into the Suburban’s CD player on a long trip with ’rents.
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Thurs, May 6, Flobots
Don’t let the overplayed single “Handlebars” be your only contact with Flobots.
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One rap with many faces?
Sacramento city manager, Washington Neighborhood Center, “Urban Artist Showcase,” Sandra Dee’s Barbeque & Seafood, Shemzilla, First Dirt Records, Mahtie Bush, A.R.A.B., the Realists, Task1, the Desperados, Mentes Diferentes, Reckless Reaction, Vicious V, Kid Frost, DJ Muggs, Z-Man, One Block Radius, Quality, Blue Lamp, Gurp City, Carlo Rossi, www.machetevox.com, hipsters.
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Projectile: Greenlight
Daniel Barnes explores the barf-auteur theory.
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The whole fam damily
The movie has a good heart, and that’s what we respond to.
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Talhotblond
Barbara Schroeder’s documentary is a sleazy take on a sleazy true story.
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Le Couperet
Don’t miss out on the Sacramento Film Festival’s special presentation of this still-timely 2005 satirical thriller, adapted from the Donald E. Westlake novel by writer-director-provocateur Costa-Gavras.
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Furry Vengeance
Michael Carnes and Josh Gilbert’s script may have its heart in the right place, but its brain is AWOL.
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IMAX Hubble 3D
The IMAX 3D cameras blast into orbit with the space shuttle Atlantis to tune up and refurbish the Hubble space telescope.
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The Losers
Adapted by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt from the Andy Diggle/Jock comic book, the movie globe-trots with blithe disregard for time, distance or jet lag, under the breakneck direction of Sylvain White.
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