Issue: November 18, 2010
Hello SN&R readers!
Ok, we all know about the regular information superhighway. But now it’s time to consider the giant personal information superhighway we have built – where data we often consider private is easily and routinely transmitted to the government, corporations … even the kid next door. On our cover this week, writer Mike Miliard reports on why our lives are nowhere near as private as we think they are. Find this and all the rest inside this week’s issue.
SN&R staff
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You are being watched
Don’t want the government, big industry and some 15-year-old to know your secrets? Guess you’re out of luck.
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Last days of the Greyhound
For nearly three decades, the city’s tried to get rid of downtown Sacramento’s Greyhound terminal. This coming year, it will finally happen.
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K.J. gets artsy
Sacramento’s For Arts’ Sake will assist funding, outreach.
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Single payer, new player
Will Jerry Brown veto universal health care just like Arnold Schwarzenegger did?
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Walk this way
Sacramento gets Fresno’d by Walk Score, bugs turn poop into polyester and two major California unions have a shake-up.
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Bottoms up
Gold-mining technology used to keep toxins out of foothill fish.
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Spend energy wisely and don’t worry
Our guru’s advice: Worrying about something that might not happen takes energy you could be using for something better.
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Deep retrofit
Can SMUD make an old house spur 60 percent energy savings?
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The electric car stages a comeback
The electric car is dead—long live the electric car!
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Prêt-à-blogger
Sacramento style blogger Bella Q takes fashion to the streets.
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Todos jodidos
The Mexican on going “home” to Mexico and Argentinian snobbery.
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Courting trouble
Sad and strange tales from Sacramento’s busy Superior Court.
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Mr. Issa, please, please hold Climategate hearings
From the SN&R blogs.
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A humaneway to cut?
The budget is even worse than we thought. What’s the humane way to cut?
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Socks and toothpaste
Sacramento winter is coming—time to donate some warmth.
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All you can eat so you don’t have to
SN&R’s writer braves Sacramento buffets, heartburn be damned.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Sacramento’s Big Idea makes it much ado about something.
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Biz Markie and local fashion unite
Siblings will launch a fashion-consulting business in style.
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Danger: Deer crossing
This original holiday play at Sacramento’s B Street Theatre peppers a road trip with lots of weirdness.
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24 hours to showtime
Big Idea does plays in a daze—and a day.
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Aesop lite
David Sedaris turns his tragicomic storytelling loose on our furry friends.
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Bring back middle class
Robert Reich’s book suggests some ways to return the middle class to health.
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Prose choice
The Best American Short Stories lives up to its title.
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I never want to see you again
Our writer weighs the good and bad of Cold War Kids.
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Hoot, purr, repeat
Sacramento Theatre Company pulls a play from the attic—and it’s worth it.
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Dinner and a book
Farm Sanctuary co-founder and author Gene Baur speaks at the Sacramento Vegetarian Society’s monthly vegan potluck.
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Still strong
Sacramento resident and new wave artist Debora Iyall survives the record-company machine.
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Them Hills
A marriage of the gloomy sonic styles of early Cure and Joy Division with ’90s-era grunge and 2000s-era nerdy math rock—with pizza!
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Satan’s last stand
Sabado Satanico’s run ends at On the Y, “Hey Man, Nice Shot,” stops by Harlow’s.
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Hardy perennial
Stephen Frears’ new film is Thomas Hardy—with a nose job and e-mail.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
This Harry Potter installment is deathly stingy with the special effects.
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Inside Job
This in-depth examination of the 2008 financial meltdown needs a study guide.
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