Issue: February 03, 2011
Hello SN&R reader!
It's coming on Valentine's Day, with its candy hearts, over-priced roses and loves found and lost. This year, let SN&R writers (and readers) be your guide on the local dating front with its Game of Love Countdown.
Happy V-day!
SN&R staff
p.s. Send a valentine (under 30-words) to valentines@newsreview.com by noon on February 7th and it will be published in print or online in next week's issue.)
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Love chase!
Dating can be a hot mess. Let SN&R break down amorous options for this Valentine’s Day.
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Game of love breakdown
Whether you’re looking to hook up with a rebounding divorcée or a collegiate intellectual, our singles identification guide has you covered.
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Not a love connection
SN&R readers and staff reveal their worst first dates.
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Come here often?
We scoured Midtown bars for the best (and worst) pickup lines.
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We ask Joey
Joey Garcia dishes about Sacramento’s dating dilemmas—and her own.
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Geek to geek
Can’t find a mate? Try getting specific with niche dating.
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After John Doolittle, the Placer GOP can’t quite get it together
After John Doolittle, the Placer GOP can’t quite get it together.
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Breaking bread, building peace
Sacramento’s Sol Collective hosts forums on anti-Muslim bigotry.
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Drug money
Is your doc receiving payments from the pharmaceutical industry?
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Souper bowls
The future of sports writing at the Bee and a big bowl party for River City Food Bank.
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Money, honey
Auntie Ruth goes to the danger zone … with Kenny Loggins.
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Slow the flow
Make your landscape act like a sponge to reduce polluting and be more eco-friendly.
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Soy they say
Is that energy bar really organic? Or do many soy-based foods contain harmful toxins?
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Letters for February 3, 2011
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Be yourself and keep your mouth shut
Advice for readers on an alcoholic ex-fiancé and a ne’er-do-well stepbrother.
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Mayor Kevin Johnson wants to get our mojo back
His Sacramento regional action plan lays out economic, environmental and mindset goals.
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Flying the chief
Jackie Boor’s new book, Inside the President’s Helicopter, chronicles the military career of White House senior helicopter pilot Lt. Col. Gene Boyer.
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Melted Swiss
The Mexican on the details and origin of mariachi music, and European vs. American immigration laws.
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Jail justice?
Things get pretty foul at the Sacramento County Main Jail.
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R-e-s-p-e-c-t
Senate Bill 48 isn’t about sexual identity—it’s about morality.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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Two men and a baby
On Teen Mom, Tiger mothers, Kate Hudson’s bump and Elton John’s dang cute kid.
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Painting innocence
Gottfried Helnwein exhibits bloodied, bandaged, gun-wielding children, Donald Duck and Marilyn Manson at the Crocker Art Museum.
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Day at the museum(s)
Sacramento Museum Day features free admission at 25 area museums.
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Juggle fever
The Sacramento-area Damento juggling club will hold a juggling festival this weekend.
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Oh grand night
A little less surrey, a little more the fringe on top.
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Lady in my life
Northstar Holistic Collective’s Ingrid on the mind.
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Check out Three Stages at Folsom Lake College
Three Stages at Folsom Lake College has a “soft” opening this weekend with a showcase of community performing-arts groups.
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The balance of power is wack
Our writer wears a Power Balance bracelet for seven days—and has a pretty crummy week.
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Got munchies?
Self-proclaimed math nerd and former high-school teacher turned cannabis baker gives edibles some cred.
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Reasons to be real
Capital Stage produces Reasons to Be Pretty, and it’ll blow your mind.
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Simple, Spartan
At Hads Steak & Seafood, some things are great—and some things are merely OK.
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The office
Keep a small bowl of fruit by your desk, not candy.
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Yes, sirah
How petite sirah came to Sacramento. And why you shouldn’t spill it on the rug.
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Sweetmeat for vegans
Sweetbread is out of the question for vegans, but they can chow down Russian sweet bread or sweetmeat prianiks from Good Neighbor European Deli Market.
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Happier homicide
Whiskey, shaving accidents, snake eggs—a lot went into Murder by Death’s latest release.
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Fri, Feb 4, Joe Maz
Joe Maz spins house, mash-ups and Top 40 at the Park Ultra Lounge.
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Fri, Feb 4, The Aggrolites
The Aggrolites are a DIY success story coming to Harlow’s.
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Thurs, Feb 10, Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie’s touring cavalcade of horror, shock and awe will play Ace of Spades.
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Long lines, drug deals, loud garages, zesty meals
Bay Area garage rock reaches a zenith, new local hip-hop videos saturate and the Sacramento Electronic Music Festival draws in major crowds.
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Worst Best Pictures
The 10 worst Best Picture nominees over the past 10 years.
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Same time this year
Tom and Gerri—and friends—cook up a loser’s feast, complete with English ham.
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The Company Men
The Great Recession takes out the redundant industrialists.
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From Prada to Nada
Jane Austen hits the barrio—but the good stuff gets lost in translation.
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The Mechanic
This screenplay needs jumper cables. But there are explosions.
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