Issue: June 15, 2017
This week's cover story: For 22 years Raheem Hosseini's mother, Elisabeth, battled multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. When death finally neared, she and her family sought to use California's aid-in-dying law so she could choose the moment of her passing. A series of bureaucratic bunglings and legal obstacles crushed that hope. This beautifully written story by SN&R's associate editor is about what happens when a family confronts the death of a loved one made unnecessarily painful by circumstances.
Also in this issue: In "Houses of Ill Repair," Scott Thomas Anderson offers a definitive take on the controversy surrounding the embattled Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency. Then, in our Arts & Culture feature, "The not-for-TV talk show," Aaron Carnes offers a backstage look at The Latest Show, a DIY project described as a punk rock version of a late-night talk show. A little farther on, in our Dish section, Ann Martin Rolke visits Cantina Alley, "a place full of charm and people and a million things to look at." Keep going and you'll come to Patti Roberts' Stage review of the dark comedy Hand to Go, Jim Lane's take on the movie Cars 3, and Rachel Leibrock's profile of rapper Kennedy Wrose, who says God made him a truth-teller. All that and more in this week's SN&R. Enjoy!
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Killing Mom
A year after its implementation, California End of Life Option Act provides patchwork relief to state’s most desperate patients.
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Houses of ill repair: Witnesses say Sacramento public housing agency has been retaliating against whistle blowers
Former employees, current tenants say embattled Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency is failing its mission.
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Regional Transit security makeover focuses on in-house guards with authority to write tickets
G4S Security Solutions is out after long campaign by Sacramento union, human rights interests.RT security makeover.
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Dying before the heat
10 people, including multiple teenagers, killed over six-week span.
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Dying with dignity?
California’s aid-in-dying law is meant to help the terminally ill die with dignity, but in this case it hurt more than it helped.
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Letters for June 15, 2017
Readers share their thoughts on the city of Vermilion and on keeping kids out of debt.
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Bundle of lies
He thinks they’re trying for a baby. She’s not telling him that she’s using birth control.
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SN&R puts a spotlight on local music and art
Sacramento Area Music Awards, Summer SAMMIES in the Park, Second Saturday—what next?
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Lou Ferrigno, the apologetic Hulk
Pop culture icon and Wizard World guest makes amends to interviewer he tormented as a child.
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The not-for-TV talk show
The Latest Show props up local musicians, comedians and activists to look at serious issues through a lighthearted lens.
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Review: Hand to God
SN&R reviews a new production from B Street Theatre.
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Mastery, on point
The Sacramento Ballet stages its last production of the 2016-2017 season.
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Wizard World Sacramento Comic Con
Wizard World’s touring comic convention hits Sacramento Friday through Sunday, giving locals the chance to ask Kevin Sorbo what exactly made him think God’s Not Dead was the ticket back to an almost respectable career.
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Beauty and the Beast
Hot off the heels of the Emma Watson-starring feature film released earlier this year, Music Circus is premiering their take on the stage adaptation of the Disney classic next week.
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Project1VOICE
The Crocker teams up with the Brickhouse Art Gallery and Celebration Arts for a staging of Yellowman by Dael Olandersmith.
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UnderRage Music Fest No. 2
This daylong festival sounds like a good chance to see what the city’s young music-makers are up to.
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The Open House
SN&R reviews a new production at Big Idea Theatre.
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French resistance
If you’re looking to get more cultured in Trump’s America, what’s more open-minded than seeing a French film that not-so-subtly bashes Marin Le Pen and the Front National?
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Bonita cantina
Midtown’s Cantina Alley brightens up a humble side street with above-average bar food.
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Kin of kraut
The owners of La Venadita (and brothers) open up a new German restaurant.
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Pineapple punk
The Bitter Pineapple shows off bartender Chad Brown’s award-winning skills at mixing bitter drinks.
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Maximum banana
Vic’s Ice Cream offers a special flavor for the summer months: overripe, extra sweet banana.
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Who’s your crawdaddy?
Learn how to boil a pot of crawfish from a well-regarded New Orleans chef.
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Plant-based meat market speed dates
Veg Speed Date will try to match up vegans and vegetarians at a San Francisco speed-dating event on June 17, or singles can try to mingle at the next Burger Patch pop-up on June 22.
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Wholesome beats
Rapper Kennedy Wrose gives up his vices for rhymes.
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One more lap
It’s not the original, but at least it’s not Cars 2.
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Beatriz at Dinner
Smart, observant, well-acted and lacking any great ambition.
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The Book of Henry
The film has an ugly core utterly at odds with the gauzy, apple-cheeked exterior.
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Megan Leavey
The movie is pretty good, but it’s hard to escape the feeling that there’s a much better movie in Megan Leavey’s true story.
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My Cousin Rachel
A low-camp hash made from what could have been respectable Gothic mystery.
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