Issue: January 12, 2012
Greetings SN&R readers,
There's a play in the works by Mayor Kevin
Johnson and Think Big Sacramento to finally get a
new Kings arena built. The plan is to privatize
the city's parking services and the revenue it
would generate for the next 50 years. Note: That
may mean giving up as much as $2 billion in
future city revenue. This week's feature is an
in-depth look, by SN&R's Cosmo Garvin, at what
the plan might mean for the city.
In news, well, it's not easy to read Governor
Jerry Brown. Sadly, figuring out where Brown is
going-or at least what constitutes his primary
goal for the second year of his third four-year
turn in the Capitol wheelhouse-is far more
prosaic reading. Just try the budget; Greg Lucas
reports. Also this week: Cosmo Garvin crashes a
Saturday morning "Strong Mayor 3" meeting with
Kevin Johnson's chief of staff, and Bites looks
the death of redevelopment and crying mermaids.
This week's arts and culture section runs the
gamut: cosplay, Laotian pumpkins, one-star
reviews, cool watering holes for polar bear
season, Second Saturday, the state of the local
music sceneand a sit down with the state librarian. Shhhit's reading time.
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Park and play
Will Sacramento really put $2 billion on the line to build a new Kings arena?
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Jerry Brown’s ransom note
Is Gov. Brown’s 2012 agenda as simple as a ransom note: pass his ballot initiative, raise taxes on the rich—or else?
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Coming strong
Another year, another strong-mayor blitz by Kevin Johnson.
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For Arts’ shakeup
Mayor Kevin Johnson’s For Arts Sake initiative undergoes some changes.
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State of downtown
The State of Downtown Sacramento gets together for breakfast.
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Format buster
Switcheroo moves jazz programming down the radio dial.
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Frackquake
Auntie Ruth looks at fracking in the Sacramento Basin.
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Wild and scenic cinema
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival features films that inspire environmental activism.
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Throw it in the blue bin
New law gives renters the right to recycle. Sort of.Will a new law make it easier for Sacramento-area apartment dwellers to recycle? Or will exceptions and loopholes allow property owners to kick the recycled soda can down the road?
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Fear and loathing in splitsville
Joey advises a reader to stop hating who he’s become.
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When is it done?
The single most annoying question an artist can be asked.
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Health-care concerns unite vonKaenel family at the holidays
The 5-year-old twins are beautiful, energetic, smart, rambunctious and … profoundly deaf. My 84-year-old mother is, well, she’s 84 years old.
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To preserve and protect
California State Librarian Stacey Aldrich archives the past with an eye on the future.
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Where is Mexico in the Winter Olympics?
The Mexican talks Winter Olympics and heritage loathing.
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Oddfellows unite
Bites parties with the redevelopment resistance.
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Contradiction alert
National Defense Authorization Act of 2012: much more than just another piece of legislation.
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Just trying to get away with it?
The difference between Occupy protesters and 1 percenters is the difference between crime victim and felon.
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Back to the future
Rachel will vote for Barack Obama in November.
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Sacramento turning Japanese
SacAnime’s got all the Ninjas, sexy maids and soul reapers you can gawk at.
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Fighting cancer, stage right
A one-night staged reading of August: Osage County will raise funds for the American Cancer Society.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Sacramento celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Nude possibility
Milk Gallery presents nudes in a group show.
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On skin or canvas
Favorite Sacramento tattoo artist Char Hall exhibits non-skin artwork at University Art.
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Family business
Jeff Myers shows his paintings at the new Alex Bult Gallery in Midtown.
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Fertile ground
Writer Michelle Tea documents her attempts to get knocked up.
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The Clay Banks
This leisurely swim is just a hop, skip and a lap away.
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420 Characters
Lou Beach turns Facebook status updates into meaningful prose.
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Beyond the basics
Kick-start those 2012 resolutions with yoga that’s for people, not profit.
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The great pumpkin
Sabaidee Thai Grille keeps squash in season year-round.
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Berry fuzzy
Most of the kiwis in the United States come from California, and it’s kiwi season in Sacramento.
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Dine Downtown, right now
Downtown Sacramento is where the (food) action is this week.
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Late tastes
The holiday season is over, but there’s still a chance to nab candy-cane spiked cookies.
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State of the union
Four veteran promoters sit down in a bookstore for a forum on Sacramento’s live-music scene.
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Dismal din
Todd Graff’s great achievement: He manages to make both Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah boring.
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Beauty and the Beast 3D
It’s still a great animated feature and a great movie musical, but it really didn’t need 3D.
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The Darkest Hour
Attack the Block speaks Russian and grooves to Europop.
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The Devil Inside
Welcome to The Blair Exorcist Project, which is precisely as bad as it sounds.
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The Iron Lady
Margaret Thatcher, embodied by Meryl Streep, in a film that never explains why Elvis Costello once sang about dancing on her grave.
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Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol
Tom Cruise gets his burn notice and the franchise gets even better. A spy comes out of retirement to find espionage has become just another bureaucracy.
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