Issue: May 27, 2010
Frontlines
Want to save the Sacramento County Animal Shelter from closing to the public? All you have to do is register your dog. You know, like you’re supposed to do anyway, by law. Read more in this week’s news section. And Bites finds out Angelique Ashby is perfectly cool with dirty campaign tricks—when they’re on the other candidate. Also in news: Not sure how to vote on Proposition 15? Here’s a hint: The lobbyists hate it. Need a bigger hint? Vote“yes”! But first, check out all of the election endorsements on our editorial pages. In Green Days, Sacramento leads the state in green-job growth, and Auntie Ruth considers BP’s Corexit strategy and develops a bad case of eco-depression.
Feature story
The term“child labor”conjures up images of kids slaving away in the sweatshops of New Delhi or the mines of Sierra Leone. But look a little closer, and you’ll find the problem exists much closer to home, too, right here on the outskirts of Sacramento. Reporter Sena Christian reveals the truth about the children of migrant farmworkers and considers what is being done to give these youth protection from unsafe labor and a chance at an education.
Arts&Culture
There are the people who prepare your morning coffee-pushing buttons, steaming milk and adding all sorts of vanilla syrup or soy-based whatever-and there are true baristas. How can you tell the difference? It’s in the cup. Nick Miller reveals Sacramento’s best baristas. Also this week: Kel Munger beams herself up, Greg Lucas accepts a dim-sum duel, Jim Lane takes in Sex and the City 2 and Josh Fernandez looks at Random Abiladeze’s alter ego.
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Field of dreams
Can Sacramento area migrant farmworker youth escape the cycle of poverty and practice of child labor—and maybe even go to college?
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Save our shelter
Sacramento County hopes residents will register their pets, spare animal services.
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Prop. 15, the experiment
California’s June ballot Proposition 15 would experiment with public financing of elections.
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Getting worse
Nothing is sunny in Louisiana. News about the devastation of the BP/Halliburton oil spill is here for the long haul. And Corexit, the toxic dispersant we’re using being used to clean it up, is only making it worse.
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Recycled Shakespeare
A performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It in Davis will feature recycled props.
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The ‘eco’ economy
A new study helps California better understand green jobs.
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Letters for May 27, 2010
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Not my mama
A 22-year-old protests Mother’s Day and her mama begs for forgiveness from past bad-mama tendencies.
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Habitat for Humanity
The Sacramento Habitat for Humanity chapter makes a big impact, goes green.
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Warrior of peace
Yoga at Deep and eats at Dad’s Kitchen in Sacramento.
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States of hate
The Mexican on the American Southwest and the Know Nothing historical hatred for Mexicans.
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Name recognition
The Ashby and Tretheway camps get down and dirty in the campaign for Sacramento City Council’s 1st District.
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Vote with us!
SN&R’s endorsements for the June 8 primary ballot.
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Sacramento City Council
Here are the full candidate responses to SN&R’s endorsement questionnaires for the Sacramento City Council.
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Sacramento County Board of Supervisors
Here are the full BOS candidate responses to SN&R’s endorsement questionnaire.
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Assembly District 9
Here are the full candidate responses to SN&R’s endorsement questionnaires for Assembly District 9.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Sacramento’s Best Baristas
For Sacramento’s best coffee connoisseurs, the morning’s pick-me-up is truly God in a cup.
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Beam me up, Scotty!
Star Trek exhibit comes to Sacramento’s Aerospace Museum of California.
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Old-school triple feature
Watch Arsenic and Old Lace, The Iron Giant and King Kong on the big screen at Roseville’s Tower Theatre.
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Youthful dancers, aging show
A Chorus Line kicks up its middle-aged heels at the Community Center Theater.
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Legacy Youth Project
The young people take the stage at Images’ Legacy Youth Project.
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Time to go vegan
Capital Stage premieres Hunter Gatherers, and civilization devolves one laugh at a time.
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It’s the drizzle
Dan Flynn of UC Davis Olive Center on how to use California’s best oil.
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Cocktail conundrum
Garrett McCord ponders classic or modern cocktails and where to drink in Sacramento.
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Fishy drip
Downtown Sacramento’s Chocolate Fish Coffee’s weekend drip brews.
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Pearls before swine
Random Abiladeze duels with Mayne E. Savage.
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Hey, 19, er, Eightfourseven
The band sings about a guy bleeding from every orifice. Yikes!
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Thurs, May 27, Poirier
Poirier to perform a mix of Caribbean raga, U.K. grime and hip-hop beats at Sacramento’s Momo Lounge.
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Thurs, May 27, Band of Horses
Band of Horses perform at Freeborn Hall at UC Davis.
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Fri, May 28, DJ Shaun Slaughter
CrookOne, DJ Shaun Slaughter, Jon Droll, Roger Carpio at Sacramento’s TownHouse Lounge.
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Sat, May 29, iPhone/noise battle
Fidgety phone fun at Sol Collective.
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Drunk at the ballet
Sacramento Ballet Company, Beer and Ballet, Sarah Palin, codpieces, ballerinas, polka troupe, Elk Grove’s Strauss Festival, Brew It Up, lederhosen, Elvis Presley, Richard Smith, Nikki Trerise White and Ethan White, Cirque du Soleil, overdue library books, Death Ledger, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Harley White Jr., TownHouse Lounge, Exquisite Corps, David Houston, Mike Farrell, Andrew Bird, Call Me Ishmael, Brian Valenzuela, Krystyna Ogela, Patrick Boylan, Holly Harrison, the Howling, the Babs Johnson Gang, Sasha and the Shamrocks, Sean Martin, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Cheryl Martin, Mike Diaz, the Red Tyger Church, the Troublemakers, Dungeons & Drag Queens, Blue Diamonds, Blue Lamp.
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Waiting for Armageddon
Filmmakers Kate Davis, Franco Sacchi and David Heilbroner let the faithful speak for themselves.
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Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Are rhetorical questions and tritely ironic old-movie riffs, used to bracket talking-head torrents of rehashed old news, at all viable anymore in the making of effective political documentaries? Filmmaker Alex Gibney clearly thinks so.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
That it’s called “a Banksy film” could mean a directing credit for the adored, elusive British street artist.
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Shrek Forever After
The Final Chapter for the lovable green ogre (voice by Mike Myers) ends on a high note, thanks to a script by Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke.
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Rethink, reach out
The Sacramento Jazz Festival & Jubilee is moving in new directions.
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