Issue: December 08, 2011
Greetings SN&R readers,
Some weeks back, we asked readers to tell us the top 10 reasons why you should be on the cover of SN&R -- and you delivered! We herein present the results of our humor, chutzpah and shameless self-promotion contest. In addition to meeting the contest winner (who graces this week's cover), we offer lists from a few dozen of the runner-ups from amidst 150 entries.
In news, the winter cold has returnedand so has Sacramento's Tent City. This time, however, it's in a new location, and with new faces, more than 100 tents--and the same old threats by police. Nick Miller reports. Also this week: Bites looks at the police union head calling the local Occupy camp "total losers," and Greg Lucas does a round up of Gov. Jerry Brown's state budget "trigger cuts."
In Arts&Culture: For Sacramento's parkour enthusiasts, the city is their arena. Wait, what's parkour, you ask? Read Becca Costello's arts feature this week. Also: Jonathan Kiefer on Werner Herzog's latest, Nick Miller chats with
(arch rivals?) over at Submerge magazine, and Adam Corolla gets a big picture of his smug mug.
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Top 10 reasons why I should be on the cover of SN&R
Our readers compete, without mercy, in the category of shameless self-promotion.
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Watchdog unleashed?
Critics and colleagues of Gov. Jerry Brown’s FPPC regulator say she is weakening oversight of politicians and lobbyists.
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Capitol budget cuts: trigger, unhappy
Next week’s inevitable state budget cuts to hit schools, families, poor.
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Sacramento library’s I Street Press: Fit to print
Will the Sacramento Central Library’s expensive new self-publishing machine prove viable in today’s weak book-buying market?
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Tent City returns
Sacramento’s latest Tent City—SN&R counted 118 tents—is located west of Highway 160 along the levy and American River Bike Trail.
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Do you see what Ruth sees?
Auntie Ruth asks people to trinket less and reduce use this holiday season.
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Occupy U.N. climate summit
Protesters gather outside of the 17th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Climate Crisis.
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Letters for December 8, 2011
Love, hate, indifference—readers express their opinions, sometimes about each other.
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Who’s your mommy?
Advice to a reader to ditch the mama’s boys.
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Citizens beware!
Arena-parking-privatization deal may put public interest at risk.
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Take action for the climate
Sacramento’s new Climate Action Plan urges sustainability and conservation.
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Knockout comedy
Johnny Taylor transitions from boxing to stand-up comedy with his new show Comedy Kill.
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Is Mexico’s drug war actually a revolution?
The Mexican ponders Mexico’s 100-year revolution cycle and helps a gay Jewish man with his partner’s family.
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Total losers
Bites takes on SPOA, the mayor and—oh yeah—SCUSD.
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Watchful for WIC
Congress tried and failed at devastating a crucial social-services program for pregnant women.
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Occupy this
Students bear the brunt of the Wall Street-caused recession.
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Editorial Cartoon
This week’s cartoon from the mind of John Kloss.
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99 problems
The Occupy movement gets exploited by Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus and other 1 percenters.
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The philosophy of physicality
NorCal Parkour members are the ultimate body jammers, never at rest, always in freestyle motion.
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Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some)
SN&R reviews a new production at Capital Stage.
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The Snow Queen
SN&R reviews a new production at the B Street Theatre.
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Return of the designated shouter
This holiday season, Adam Carolla does the venting for you.
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Gettin’ Scroogey with it
The Sacramento Theatre Company sings and dances their way through Charles Dickens’ holiday classic.
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One year left on Earth?
Carlos Loarca’s paintings are inspired by his Guatemalan heritage and are bold sights to behold.
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Beautiful competition
Viewpoint Photographic Art Center’s December show is a juried exhibition.
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Dumber than you know
It’s true. Most of us have too many friends on Facebook, and we can’t remember jack.
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A ship through the Suez
Michael Ondaatje’s latest novel is set onboard a ship bound from Ceylon to England, and told through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy.
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How Fido got that way
Mark Derr covers the history of our best friends, from wolf to hound.
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Reindeer dish—for one-night only
I saw Donner kissing Santa Claus—and one of them didn’t like it!
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Screw You, Shel Silverstein
A poem by Samantha Mann of Sacramento.
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Crimes and so-called misdemeanors
On the California International Marathon and Oakland Raider Rolando McClain.
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As the cannabis burns …
Bizarre raids, sneaky pot-club bans, Amsterdam’s big crackdown, Occupy’s stony repute—just another week in the world of medical cannabis.
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Love, lust and lady-wrasslin’
It’s a warm and giggly welcome for Sacramento’s newest company, Theater Galatea.
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Promises unfulfilled
El Patron brings some heat, but not much originality, to its Mexican dishes.
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Holiday dining with colleagues
Some suggestions for holiday parties with co-workers that will keep good working relationships intact.
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Little ol’ beet winemaker
Beets aren’t just wonderful root vegetables—they make a fantastic red wine.
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Fortune ate cookies
Exchange cookies and learn about vegan beauty products at Never Felt Better Vegan Shop on December 10, and 17.
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A sound read
Jonathan Carabba and Melissa Welliver of Submerge magazine chat with SN&R.
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Hard Texas highway
Werner Herzog examines capital punishment through the lens of a Texas triple murder over, of all things, a stolen Chevy Camaro.
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