Issue: March 21, 2013
Thanks for reading this week's SN&R.
The feature this week: Bill Bradley lays out five ways California
Democrats can screw up the supermajority.
Elsewhere in the issue: Nick Miller looks at public-commenter time
limits at city council meetings; Dave Kempa examines what a new
generation of downtown residents and business owners envision for the
area; Jim Cameron profiles master landscape painter Gregory Kondos;
Becky Grunewald reviews Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co.; Deena Drewis
recounts a whirlwind four days at the South by Southwest Music
Festival; and more.
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Pin the fail on the donkey
Here are five ways California Democrats could screw up their supermajority.
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Tuesday night live!
Does Sacramento's passionate, if motley, cabal of public commenters need more time at city council?
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In search of a nation
Man who avenged his father's murder deported to Yemen, reawakened by family feud.
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Downtown up
New generation of downtown business owners, residents aim to take grid's future into their own hands.
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Holiday crime
Are the recent assaults in Midtown connected to alcohol and partying?
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Letters for March 21, 2013
Readers weigh in on the danger of smart meters, the battle between BarWest and the neighborhood, charter schools vs. public schools, and the bad rap feminists get.
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Epic fantasy fail
Joey advises a reader to stop clinging to crumbs.
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Major-league monopoly
NBA anti-trust exemptions pit city against city.
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Beware the asteroid?
UC Davis professor Thomas A. Cahill studies real-life particles and writes science fiction about what could happen if an asteroid crash-lands on Earth.
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Violated-madre slang
The Mexican explains Spanish slang terminology.
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Not by the numbers
Former Sacramento city teacher falls out of good graces with district over school-closure disagreement.
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Quality verse
Annual brouhaha over CEQA makes mad flow for this writer.
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Hope for the pope?
We hope Pope Francis can rise to the occasion and lead the way to much-needed reforms.
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Paint it blue
On the eve of his 90th birthday, Gregory Kondos discusses a lifetime of landscapes, his love for Sacramento and why he's big in China.
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Quintessential snapshots
The magic of Gregory Kondos' landscapes exists in how they capture moments that no longer exist.
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Puppetry of the politically incorrect
Runaway Stage Production’s take on Avenue Q is frisky, yet occasionally troublesome.
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Lifeless letters
The Geery Theater’s staging of Echoes in the Heart contains powerful content—boringly rendered.
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Of Sac and Steinbeck
Matt Costa, who spent two years in Sacramento writing songs for his sophomore album Unfamiliar Faces, returns to the capital perform at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub this Sunday.
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SN&R’s full interview with Matt Costa
Orange County singer-songwriter Matt Costa talks about living in Sacramento and reading Steinbeck.
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Join the circus
The Montreal-based 7 Fingers troupe brings its acclaimed acrobatic show Traces to Three Stages at Folsom Lake College.
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Fit for a tiny king
Sit your butt in this miniature version of the Game of Thrones medieval throne.
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Bliss by the bowl
Megami Bento-Ya Restaurant's udon soup is tasty and fresh.
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Crash-landing in crime
This alien is more human than human killer.
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Just say no, bro
An SN&R writer hits downtown Sacramento for an afternoon of St. Patrick's Day pub crawls.
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A rung above
Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. serves up great cocktails, but its food options are still in need of a few tweaks and improvements.
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Sacramento Beer Week leftovers, cont.
There's still more post-Sacramento Beer Week goodness out there.
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Have a seat, take a stand
A new documentary, A Place at the Table, highlights the approximately 50 million Americans who go hungry every day.
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Historyville
Author Louisa May Alcott's father was a vegan—in the 19th century!
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Breakups and new beginnings
The Joy Formidable breaks out the roaring guitars and razor-sharp lyrics to confront its internal struggles head-on.
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Fri., March 22, Destructikonz
Sacramento-based alternative hip-hop group will perform at Harlow's with a sense of humor and funky rawness.
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Sat., March 23, Fort Lean
Brooklyn rockers come to Sacramento to play some rock music and hipster out.
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Sat., March 23, Folsom Symphony
The orchestra will perform works by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Sat., March 23, Tao Jiriki
This instrumental duo will dabble in free-form jazz, funk, blues and hip-hop at Shine.
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Sat., March 23, Tel Cairo
Sacramento hip-hop duo collaborates with other Sacramento artists on a new album due in April, but first, it plays at the Blue Lamp with some rock bands.
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Sun., March 24, Caveman
Five-piece indie-pop band from New York brings its experimental sound to Blue Lamp.
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Mon., March 25, the Pimps of Joytime
This funk band will bring musically diverse and danceable tunes to Harlow's Restaurant & Nightclub.
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Thurs., March 28, Ab-Soul
Underground rapper from Los Angeles hip-hop collective Black Hippy to perform at Ace of Spades.
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Namaste, y’all
SN&R heads deep into the heart of Texas to hit up South by Southwest Music Festival for a hip check, courtesy of vegan queso, vomiting Longhorns and, oh yeah, the music.
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Hitchcock and bull
Director Chan-wook Park's homage to Alfred Hitchcock is a ridiculous crock of hopeless hooey.
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Oz the Great and Powerful
Tim Burton's return to Oz is good, theoretically, but falls short in its Disneyfied execution.
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The Croods
This prehistoric animated family comedy rips off some of the worst animated features of all time.
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How’s it goin’?
Ngaio gives an update on the legalization game in Colorado and Washington.
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SN&R Best of the Burbs
Congrats to the best of Sacramento’s suburban areas: You’re nominated!
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