Issue: September 28, 2017
Thanks for reading this week’s SN&R. Feel free to click the links below, but don’t forget to pick up a newsprint version of the newspaper for exclusive event picks, columns and cartoons.
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Rock & Roll: West Sacramento Cyclocross Grand Prix
The party’s on at the West Sacramento Cyclocross Grand Prix.
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Women who win
Founding members of Sacramento’s only all-female cyclocross recall what got them into the sport.
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Field of dreams: Allen Warren’s tent city plan is dead. Long live tent city.
Sacramento council member won’t give up on safe ground as colleagues consider emergency shelter and stricter homeless laws.
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Debt race: Sacramento police get pay raises as state’s retirement fund is projected to reach an unprecedented deficit
Experts warn California's unfunded pension liabilities are higher than CalPERS is admitting.
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Fish fry: Endangered salmon pay for feds’ errors at Shasta Dam
Chinook return falls to second lowest in 20 years.
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Clogged tunnels?
North Delta towns stay guarded after financial setback for twin tunnels.
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A premiere they remember: Vietnam war vets reflect on new Ken Burns documentary
Local screening raises questions about refugee treatment, PTSD and Trump’s rhetoric on North Korea.
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No girl left indoors
Title IX helped pave the way for next week’s woman-powered West Sacramento Cyclocross Grand Prix at River Walk Park.
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Letters for September 28, 2017
Readers chime in about rappers in trouble, homeless-by-choice, and musical music—plus a couple clarifications.
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And then they came for us
Documentary about Japanese internment during World War II shows audience how to stop it from happening again.
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Evan Huffman, bike warrior
Huffman of Elk Grove recently completed the best of his seven seasons as a professional bike racer.
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Punk venue hit with hard times
Neighboring music spaces Cafe Colonial and The Colony fight to stay afloat.
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Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
SN&R reviews a new production from B Street Theatre.
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Review: The Servant of Two Masters
SN&R reviews a new production from City Theatre.
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Sacramento Horror Film Festival
Experience all the terror you can take in two days.
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20th Annual Sacramento Reptile Show
Kids and adults will love meeting the thousands of reptiles on display this weekend.
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International Festival Davis
Enjoy this celebration of all that our world’s cultures have to offer.
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The White Album “In Its Entirety”
Listen to The White Album as you’ve never heard it before at the Crest.
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Sacramento Speakers Series
Actor and activist George Takei kicks off the 2017-2018 Speakers Series this weekend.
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Midsummer in autumn
The Davis Shakespeare Festival stages A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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The Tempest
SN&R reviews a productiom for the Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento.
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Iconic noodles
Co Do Deli has a noodle dish worth traveling for.
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Bike Dog comes to Land Bark—er, Park
Bike Dog Brewing Co. expands to its second location in Land Park.
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FOMO no more
Empress Tavern’s chickpea fritters should fill that emotionally hungry void.
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Grilling and chilling
Burly Beverages is hosting a free neighborhood barbecue with live music and art.
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Wear pajamas around llamas
Blackberry Creek Farm animal sanctuary is hosting an event with llamas, pajamas, Conscious Creamery and Charlotte’s Web on October 7.
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Shock rock lives up to its name
Self-proclaimed “rape rock” band sparks a protest.
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Driving Miss Dench
In Stephen Frears’ mealy, creaky, cranky biopic, Judi Dench is as relentless as the clown from ‘It.’
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The LEGO Ninjago Movie
The LEGO movie franchise may be reaching a point of diminishing returns.
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American Assassin
An efficient intro to a new franchise, this movie can’t avoid a sense that no matter how well it’s all done this time, right up to the apocalyptic climax, we’ve seen it all before.
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Battle of the Sexes
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine; Ruby Sparks) direct this cardboard biopic about the nationally televised tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
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Friend Request
As usual with this kind of garbage, the only suspense comes from wondering who’ll get it next, and how.
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Home Again
The story moves with the predictable monotony of a Swiss clock that cuckoos every five minutes, and cheap jokes and wasted actors abound.
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Director Matthew Vaughn and his co-writer Jane Goldman expand on the Mark Miller/Dave Gibbons comic books in high style—this sequel to 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service is even more enjoyable than the original.
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The changing scene
Municipalities prepare for green wave; and how to behave at the beach.
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FLOWER REVIEW: Killer Queen
Four County Farms' Dream Queen is a solid daytime strain.
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