Issue: August 18, 2011
Dear SN&R reader!
This week in the Sacramento News & Review:
The city of Sacramento brims with established creative types, but it's the people bubbling just beneath the mainstream surface that excite us most right now. Visual artists and designers. Chefs and crafters. Musicians and documentary filmmakers. Directors and writers. We tried to figure out what makes Sacramento's newest creative types tick from inspiration and process
to dreaming about the future. We bring you SN&R's list of 25 of the region' most notable creative up-and-comers in this week's feature by Rachel Leibrock.
In news, Bites says that we should spend the $80-or-so billion on high-speed railbecause we're gonna have to spend it anyway, Cosmo Garvin looks at project-labor-agreement feuds, Nick Miller zeroes in on the city's new plan for
zero-emissions, Hugh Biggar asks why so many Los Rios kids aren't going to Sac State or UC Davis, and Kat Kerlin chats with one of the region's pre-eminent climateologists.
The arts scene is on film festival overload: Kel Munger previews the Sacramento Film and Music Festival and Jonathan Kiefer talks Nevada City
Film Fest. In music, Nick Miller chats up emcee Random Abiladeze, while food critic Greg Lucas praises Adam Pechal's Thir13en.
SN&R Staff
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The New Creatives
Sacramento’s top 25 up-and-coming creatives.
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Pay to PLA?
Sacramento ballot measures aim to curb union power.
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Draining brains
More students are choosing colleges away from Sacramento.
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Help regrow RT
After avoiding cuts and saving bucks this year, Sacramento Regional Transit asks riders for help.
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‘A free-floating chemical weapon’
A first-person account of what happened when the chlorine malfunctioned at Raging Waters at Cal Expo.
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Weed problem
Visit Auntie Ruth on Facebook and help her garden.
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Step by step
Henry Sanchez channels Forrest Gump on his run for the environment.
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‘Will we get it fast enough?’
One of the nation’s pre-eminent climatologists talks about the weather.
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Letters for August 18, 2011
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Truth—and dare
Advice for a reader to stop confusing attachments for love.
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Farewell, ‘Doc’
Fond remembrances of Sacramento City College journalism professor Jean Stephens.
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A waste of millions
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors made cuts across the board, but somehow finds a million dollars to close down medical-marijuana dispensaries.
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Former drama teacher gets a second act at Natomas High School
Natomas High School principal John Eick stages creative curriculum.
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Mexi mixes
The Mexican takes a break from questions with a list of readers’ greatest puns and portmanteaus on their ethnicity.
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Rail debate’s on wrong track
It will probably cost more to abandon high-speed rail.
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Shenanigans abound
The redistricting turf war zeroes in on Oak Park.
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One rail thing
Everybody’s suddenly down on high-speed rail. But not SN&R.
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No ‘pay to play’
Too bad Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed Senate Bill 168.
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‘There’s too much crap!’
Popsmart throws a garage sale and escapes the “cult of stuff.”
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Monsters, hookers and hair—oh my!
This year’s Sacramento Film and Music Festival explores beasts, bad boys and big hair.
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Leaving Iowa
SN&R reviews a new production by Main Street Theatre Works.
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The short—and long of it
The Sacramento International Film and Music Festival features some of the country’s—and Sacramento’s—prime independent films.
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Friendly fighters
Battle of the Badges pits law enforcement professionals, fire fighters and military against each other in friendly battles for charity.
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Guilty pleasure—or maybe just guilty
Fair Oaks Theatre Festival goes PG-13 with a trailer-park musical.
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Heat beater
Flak’s Epic Ice at Choice Health Mutual helps beat the heat.
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The fall of the great papers
Veteran newsman James O’Shea explains how the blood of the great newspapers is on Wall Street’s hands.
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Bros before prose
Brian McGackin’s Broetry speaks to frat bros with English majors.
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Historical memory
Short story author Bobbie Ann Mason focuses on WWII Europe in her new novel.
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A little neo-futurism for you
Thirty plays, 60 minutes, you decide what’s next: Green Valley Theatre Company goes neo-futurist.
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Hike, heal, recharge
Yosemite National Park gives our out-of-shape writer a personal recharge and renewal.
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Million-dollar maybe
Sacramento County rolls the dice on a ramped-up, seven-figure enforcement strategy to put dozens of medical-cannabis dispensaries out of business.
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The heat is on
Our writer samples the latest popular vaporizers.
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The road to WTF
Big Idea Theatre’s Wonder of the World brings Niagara Falls to Sacramento. Sort of.
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Metamorphosis
At Thir13en, Adam Pechal knows what he’s doing.
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Sandía surprise
Watermelon doesn’t have to be plain—although that’s fine, too.
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Send in the booze
Catch a night of top-notch cocktails and a circus party at The Citizen Hotel.
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Proof of summer: Calimyrna figs
The arrival of fresh Calimyrna figs in Sacramento proves it’s finally warm enough to be summer.
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PETA approves ’wiches
Sugar Plum Vegan makes PETA’s list of best vegan sandwiches.
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That’s so Random
SN&R chats with the one rapper who brings the Sacramento scene together on the eve of his record release.
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Fri, Aug 19, Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann combines soothing vocals with exemplary songwriting.
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Fri, Aug 19, Conducting From the Grave
Conducting From the Grave and seven other bands give you some bang for your buck.
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Fri, Aug 19, Appetite
Appetite closes out Friday night at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen.
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Sat, Aug 20, DAC Summer Attack
Sacramento-area teen musicians are highlighted at the Davis Art Center’s annual Summer Attack.
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Sat, Aug 20, Prieta
Prieta will bring its classic-rock sound to Luigi’s Fun Garden.
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Sun, Aug 21, Dave Alvin
Dave Alvin will bring blues and folk traditionals, as well as other musical styles, to The Palms Playhouse in Winters.
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Wed, Aug 24, Josh Groban
Josh Groban—hate the game, not the player.
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Thurs, Aug 25, Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles brings stomping piano rock to Raley Field.
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Recycle, abuse, seduce, retard
A roundup of Outside Lands happenings and a goodbye to Sister Crayon for 2011.
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The Sundance of the Sierras
It’s a film lover’s dream weekend, with some great movies at the Nevada City Film Festival.
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The Devil’s Double
What’s it like to stand-in for a homicidal maniac? Latif Yahia knows.
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Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
Fodder for the freaks and gleeks, with real singing instead of lip-synching.
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Old school
Four tough-love tips from one more mature matriculant to another.
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Living local
Twenty-five shops, restaurants and entertainment options that should be on your Sacramento radar.
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Membership has its privileges
How to score cheap movies, discount airfare and a free Xbox 360 with your student ID.
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