Bygone barbershop banter
Getting your hair trimmed has changed since the 1960s in Ohio.
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Heard it in the newsroom: The worst state
SN&R’s Streetalk question this week is: What is the worst state? The six responses were varied, but come on, only one of them was right:…
Scorekeeper III: The week's winners and losers
Dog-day afternoon The time-honored tradition of a boy playing with his dog took an unexpectedly dark turn in the north Sacramento neighborhood of Westlake on…
Take this job and love it
Joey advises a reader to surrender to her vocation.
Ballet rehearsals on Second Saturdays
The Sacramento Ballet shows the magic behind the scenes.
Scorekeeper II: The week's winners and losers
This week’s winners and losers—with arbitrary points. Odor eaters The brown marmorated stink bug, a “super pest” species native to southeast Asia, has found a…
In Sacramento, October is Artober
Enjoy local art, music, theater and festivals all month long.
State of denial
Joey advises a reader to grieve her mother's inability to parent.
Scorekeeper I
Seattle sigs Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork announced on Tuesday that the 18,000 or so signatures collected in June and July—with funds provided…
Bad sexy sex stuff
Joey advises a reader to face the reality of her affair—and her marriage.
Community Action Partnerships recognized for fighting the war on poverty
They've been fighting this war for almost 50 years, and the end is not yet in sight.
Jerry Brown's privatization push makes us all slaves to the system
As American as apple pie and mass incarceration. The Who must have had Gov. Jerry Brown in mind when they sang, “Meet the new boss, same…
Journalists vs. the NSA
Comfort Eagle My mantra as a journalist has long been Finley Peter Dunne’s “Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable,” a fairly straight-forward guideline for…
Our bizarre voicemail saga never ends
Calling SN&R is all the rage Last month, my colleague Raheem Hosseini received quite a bit of bizarre feedback on the cover story he’d written…
Get a life
Joey advises a reader to stand her marital ground.
SN&R among the city's coolest workspaces
Not sure if you caught Melody Stone’s Sac Press article on the coolest workspaces in town, but SN&R is happy to announce that we made…
Union Gospel Mission: Opposing viewpoints, follow-up and photos
The cover story this week, in which I spent four days living on the streets in Sacramento, has garnered a bit of attention since publishing…