Issue: March 22, 2012
Born of injustice, inspired by comic book culture and enabled by social media, hundreds of men and women around the world are performing good deeds in self-styled superhero outfits. And now the superhero phenom has come to Sactown. Yes, Bay Area superheroes have extended what they call the “NorCal Protectorate” to include patrols in our region, especially in downtown and Midtown Sacramento. Raheem F. Hosseini fills us in on the costumed crime fighters in this week’s feature.
In Frontlines: So, you walk into an Internet café—but everyone is playing digital gambling games and winning money?! It could happen. Sweepstakes gambling businesses are popping up in under-served neighborhoods throughout Sacramento, as Nick Miller and Ngaio Bealum report. Also this week in news: Cosmo Garvin looks at Mayor Kevin Johnson’s election adversaries in Bites, and Miller reports on Occupy UC Davis’ big win versus Wall Street.
This week’s arts feature sells itself: contributor Josh Fernandez writes a letter to God. Also this week: southern eats at The Porch, SN&R went to SXSW and came back with a top 10 list. Plus: beanies for your beards!
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Superheroes spreading to Sacramento from Bay Area
Bay Area superheroes have expanded what they call a “NorCal Protectorate” and are now patrolling the mean streets of Sactown.
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The new casino?
Sacramento internet café owners say customers love their new sweepstakes games. Law enforcement, though, argue its just illegal gambling in a digital world.
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30,000 trees
Can Sacramento plant all these new trees by April 8?
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Electromagnetic bike lights
Magnetic bike lights don’t require batteries.
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Sustainable sushi
How to know if you’re eating sustainable sushi.
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SN&R Letters 2012-03-22
Readers chime in on the contraception debate, the ongoing Sacramento Kings arena plans and how to test a bartender without alcohol.
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Ask Joey: Fess up, grow up
Joey advises a reader to be brave and let the truth come out.
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Ordinary people
The former Weathermen have something to teach about protest—and doubt.
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Serna wants to save our kids
Phil Serna has put together a commission to study and recommend ways to reduce deaths among children, particularly African-American children.
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Cultivate healthy habits
Physician’s assistant Kirk Hamilton gave his patients the same advice for 28 years. Then he wrote it in a book for the rest of us.
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Meet your anybody-but-K.J. candidates for Sacramento mayor.
Meet your anybody-but-K.J. candidates for Sacramento mayor.
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Protesters welcome
Students are standing up for higher education, but where’s the business community?
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College Essay Contest 2014
There’s money for Sacramento college-bound students in SN&R’s 2014 College Essay Contest.
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Common-sense pain treatment
Assembly Bill 369 will make it easy for those on workers’ comp to get necessary treatment for pain.
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Are you there God? It’s me, Josh.
Josh Fernandez goes on a religious quest through Sacramento.
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Stage movement at Mira Loma
These Mira Loma High School students are pushing the boundaries with their production.
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The Best Man
Theater One, a new community theater based at the Unitarian Univeralist Society of Sacramento, goes for the political with The Best Man.
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Million-laugh March
There are a lot of laughs to be had at the end of March.
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Put a beard on it
Faux facial-hair knitwear is like a ski mask, but kitschier.
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DisColouring Book
Artists collaborate online, color outside the lines.
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How to do just about anything
We’re not suggesting you actually murder someone, just that you read this book.
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The Porch: Cheesy grits, y’all
Midtown Sacramento’s new Southern-styled eatery mines low-country cuisine for an authentic Southern taste.
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A mixed bag of groceries
Koreana Plaza, one of the oldest Korean grocery stores in California, also caters to Mexican and Russian shoppers with ethnic groceries.
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The price of eggs
Some of the 50,000 chickens left to die at an egg factory farm get a second chance.
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Sisters, international
Deer Park Avenue powers through pop that makes you wanna dance.
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What’s your sign?
A lovable lunk of a stoner—and a family that’s just as odd—try to make sense of their lives.
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Film Clip: Casa de Mi Padre
Will Ferrell and his SNL buddies take on the telenovela genre for a few chuckles.
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Film Clip: The Hunger Games
A best-selling sci-fi trilogy comes to film. Fortunately, it’s got Jennifer Lawrence.
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Film Clip: We Need to Talk About Kevin
A regression to indie rubbish, even Tilda Swinton can’t take this above hyper-pretentious horror.
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Hotboxing the Capitol
This year, the California Legislature packed a full bowl of marijuana bills.
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