Issue: October 28, 2010
Proposition 19, which would decriminalize possession of up to an ounce of recreational marijuana for Californians over age 21, has torn apart the Sacramento cannabis community. Proponents argue that the initiative is a once-in-a-lifetime shot at legalization in California. Patients-rights activist Ryan Landers wants to see marijuana legal, too, but says Prop. 19 will ostracize the sickest and poorest patients. A medical-marijuana founding father who’s lived with HIV for more than 15 years, Landers says he has no choice: “I’d love to stop and enjoy what time I’ve got left,” he confesses, “but as long as patients’ lives are in jeopardy, I have to fight to change that.” Nick Miller reports.
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Sacramento medical-cannabis activist Ryan Landers is Mr. Compassion
Landers helped approve medical pot in 1996 by working to pass Proposition 215. So why is he against Proposition 19’s effort to legalize recreational use?
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Gridlocked and loaded
Proposition 25 would transform California, one way or the other.
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Ted spreads the love
GOP Assembly candidate Ted Gaines is really bad at endorsements.
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Hunger pains
New census data shows more Sacramento County households using food stamps.
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All charged up
Electric-vehicle stations come to Sacramento, the Bible gets its shot on the ballot in 2011 (maybe), polls show the way and the Kings new ticket package shoots to make sales more competitive.
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Four years. Go.
Wherein Auntie Ruth challenges you to four years of activism for the planet.
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The staff of life isn’t for everyone
Not everyone with a gluten allergy has celiac disease, but the numbers are increasing.
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Letters for October 28, 2010
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Know when to walk away
Joey’s advice: Some marriages really can’t be saved.
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Dirt blasters!
It’s fall, so the leaf blowers are terrorizing Sacramentans again.
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Confusing logic
Should a “family newspaper” accept medical-marijuana ads?
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Sweet memories
Sacramento area artist Rob-O creates elaborate sugar skulls to honor his late mother and his Hispanic heritage.
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Showing papers y bling
The Mexican offers a history lesson and a lesson on conspicuous consumption.
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Citizens misdirected
The Republican revolution comes with corporate sponsors.
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Rx for schools
SN&R endorses in Sacramento City Unified School District board race.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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The other wine country
El Dorado County vineyards pair well this season with Apple Hill, other Sideways adventures.
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Parallel Lives
SN&R reviews a new production by the Actor’s Theatre of Sacramento.
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Sty of the Blind Pig
SN&R reviews a new production at Celebration Arts.
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Sacramento’s most haunted
Sacramento’s 10 most haunted places.
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Beats, rhymes and lumpia
Celebrating Filipino-Americans in hip-hop.
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Atención! Something new and different
In the Heights lands on the grid, and opens at Broadway Sacramento on November 3.
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No sex and the city
Elna Baker’s memoir details the struggles of a 26-year-old Mormon virgin looking for love in Manhattan.
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Zombies, behind the scenes
Joe Kane goes fanboy on George Romero and the zombie genre.
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Who ya gonna call?
Red Light Properties is an online comic with a ghost-busting theme.
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Gone gore-fest
Bloody comedy, parody and dance. It’s Halloween in Roseville.
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Dave Eggers Awareness Month
Author Dave Eggers seemed to be everywhere this month, including the Crest Theatre to speak about his book Zeitoun.
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Spooky shows
There’s plenty of theatrical Halloween fun in Sacramento this weekend.
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Ride the pho train
Lots of menu items, aromatic pho and a matriarch behind the register with a great memory at Pho Xe Lua.
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Yay, meat!
Don’t discount some of the more unusual meats available in local spots.
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California kiwis
Kiwi will be ready at Auburn’s Amber Oaks Raspberries farm in November.
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World Vegan Day
A few ways to commemorate this crazy thing called veganism on November 1.
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Task1ne on one
He’ll outrap you—then watch Ninja Turtles or rock Alice in Chains.
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Sat, Oct 30, Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg puts the action in activism.
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Sun, Oct 31, Fishbone
Fishbone has been making noise in one configuration or another for over thirty years.
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Sun, Oct 31, Dead Rock Stars
Night of the rockin’ dead with Sacramento-area musicians at Old Ironsides.
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Goin’ hungry
Teddy Briggs of Appetite talks backup singers, Peter Frampton and Sacramento music venues.
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Flowers in compost
Even the biggest stars occasionally find themselves bound up in an irredeemable piece of cinematic shit.
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Pride and persistence
Got an innocent relative in prison? Here’s a DIY guide to exoneration.
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The Essential Collection: Humphrey Bogart
Viewers in the first three rows will get wet.
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Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Great story, clichés hoary.
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Freakonomics
It’s correlation versus causation, with too many cooks in the kitchen.
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Paranormal Activity 2
Slicker, scarier, more suspenseful—but still very paranormal.
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