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Use of 'Asian American' wanes

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Brianna Haas, 6, prepares to go onstage with the Halau O Keikiali'i hula dance group from Elk Grove at Sunday's Pacific Rim Street Fest at Downtown Plaza and Old Sacramento. More than 15 Asian cultures were represented at the event ... Is the term "Asian American" fading into history, like "Oriental" before it? ... As Sacramento's growing Asian immigrant communities celebrated Sunday's Pacific Rim Street Fest, a growing number note that Asian American isn't a race and said they choose to

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Mormon volunteers will perform variety of services in area parks

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

A small army of Mormon volunteers Saturday will be refurbishing parks hit hard by cutbacks ... Volunteers will remove invasive and very tall-growing non-native weeds at the Effie Yeaw Nature Center in Carmichael's Ancil Hoffman Park. They will also restore a pond, build a natural playground out of fallen trees and do other work at Effie Yeaw ... More than 10,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will pull weeds, clean up, paint, plant trees and build Saturday in state,

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Missouri rapist once a suspect in Sacramento's Oak Park assaults

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Bernard Jackson had been charged with five felonies in an Oak Park sex assault ... For 22 years, five felony counts in a sex assault case against Bernard Jackson sat pending in Sacramento Superior Court ... No action was taken on the matter after it was filed in 1984 as part of the investigation into the Oak Park rapist case, which consisted of as many as 17 assaults that began in 1983 ... Then, on Nov. 13, 2006, the charges were dismissed and the case file was either carted away to archives or

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Raiders cutting Russell is another encouraging sign

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Published May 7, 2010 at 8:45 a.m.
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Raiders owner Al Davis finally threw up his hands and released former No. 1 pick JaMarcus Russell, another good move this offseason ... For about 45 minutes of Saturday afternoon's minicamp practice in Alameda, Al Davis observed from the comfort of his golf cart ... He was briefly parked on the west sideline, then on the east. Well before the scrimmage ended, the Raiders owner had his driver take him back to the main building. He stood there for what seemed an eternity, gazing longingly at his

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Event: Willie Barcena, from "Deal With It!" at Punchline Comedy Club, Thu, May 13 8:00p

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Published March 11, 2010 at 1:41 p.m.

Comedian Willie Barcena recently shot his first one hour special, Deal With It, at the El Portal Theatre which will air May 2009 on Comedy Central. Barcena grew up in East L.A. and it is his people skills, his street-smart wit, along with his mother's "just use common sense, Dummy!" which enable Barcena to connect with a wide array of cultures, yet his performances are able to maintain pride and cultural awareness without perpetuating any Latino stereotypes. He has also appeared eleven times on

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Church will host exhibit with pieces of Dead Sea Scrolls

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Published March 27, 2010 at 11:42 a.m.
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Starting April 8, Bayside Church will show pieces of the ancient Hebrew Bible, found in the 1940s and 1950s ... Next month, thousands of visitors are expected to walk into a darkened room at Bayside Church in Granite Bay for a glimpse of five pieces of ancient text, each part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the most significant archaeological finds in the past century ... At worship services this weekend, church officials will announce that they will host a unique five-week exhibit featuring the

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Art review: Ceramics of pals Natsoulas, Kavaljian at Solomon Dubnick

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Published April 11, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Tony Natsoulas' "Hephaestus Sculpts Pandora" ... Lee Kavaljian, 84, and Tony Natsoulas, 51, are the odd couple of art ... Natsoulas, despite his small stature, seems larger than life. Outgoing, boisterous, full of energy, he's a force of nature. Kavaljian, also diminutive, is quiet, shy, diffident and self-effacing. Yet they are the best of friends, and both are strong ceramic artists who are sharing a show at Solomon Dubnick Gallery ... Their works are as different as their personas. Natsoulas,

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UC Center Sacramento will reopen

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Published April 30, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

The University of California's center in downtown Sacramento is reopening to students this summer after budget cuts prompted the university to suspend the program last fall ... Since 2003, UC students from around the state have been going to the UC Center Sacramento on K Street to study public policy and journalism, and to participate in government internships. The program ended in December because UC officials felt they couldn't afford to continue operating it in the face of massive budget cuts

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Natsoulas, Fouts shows feature the human figure

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Published March 19, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

"The Art of Painting in the 21st Century" at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis and "Go Figure!" at the Elliot Fouts Gallery in east Sacramento demonstrate the continuing primacy of the human figure as a subject for artists in Northern California ... The figure is very much in the ascendance in the Davis show, which was mounted in conjunction with the Natsoulas Gallery's recent conference on the state of painting today. Determining the art of painting in the 21st century is a big order, but

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Obituary: Kathleen Inzerillo helped Sacramento libraries grow

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Published April 30, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Kathleen Inzerillo ... Kathleen Inzerillo, a book lover who shared her literary enthusiasm during a long career at the Sacramento Public Library, died April 22 of ocular melanoma. She was 65 ... Mrs. Inzerillo retired in 1999 as an administrator after 33 years with the city-county library system. She started as a clerk shelving books and climbed the ranks while working at the downtown, McClatchy, Natomas, Arden-Dimick, Colonial Heights and Belle Cooledge branches. She went on to supervise staff

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