Speed Racer The Wachowski brothers try to rev up anime nostalgia

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San Jose Club Portal
Get information on the hottest bars and nightclubs in the Bay Area, find the latest concerts and music events, check out this week's featured clubs, sign up for the free newsletter and more.

San Jose Club Gallery
Nightlife scenes from bars and clubs in downtown San Jose and the surrounding area. Plus, sign up for Metroactive's Club Newsletter for the latest San Jose club events, hot dance club parties and more.

Smooth Blues
The Robert Cray Band headlines this year's Metro Fountain Blues Festival

This Week's Music Picks
Erin McKeown, B-Side Players and Makana

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Metro's Movie and TV Blog
For new releases, reviews, pop-culture musings and rants
from our crack team of film and television critics,
read our Ghost of the Son of the House
of the Revenge of Blog.

Movie Review: 'Son of Rambow'
Sylvester Stallone's angry vet is funnier when remade by two British kids

Movie Review: 'Standard Operating Procedure'
Errol Morris' documentary tries to understand the outrages at Abu Ghraib

Movie Review: 'Redbelt'
David Mamet unleashes his inner Chuck Norris in a talky jujitsu tale

Movie Review: 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'
The French super spy is licensed to make audiences laugh

Movie Review: 'Iron Man'
Robert Downey Jr. takes off

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Stage Preview: Thinking Big
The valley's small theater companies don't let their budgets limit their creativity

Dance Review
'The Firebird' soars again at Ballet San Jose

Museum News
The Computer History Museum of Mountain View unveils Ca working model of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2

Books: 'The Man Who Loved China'
Simon Winchester uncovers the secret life of China expert Joseph Needham

Book Review
'The End of the Jews' by Adam Mansbach, reviewed by Richard von Busack

Book Review
'China's Great Train,' by Abrahm Lustgarten, reviewed by Michael S. Gant

Seeing Stars
New Chez T.J. chef Bruno Chemel has high ambitions, exciting menu

5 Things to Love
Great Kebab Restaurants

Silicon Veggie
Vegan Survival Tactics

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Teflon Mann
Scandals build name recognition. And that's Craig Mann's ace-in-the-hole in his run for San Jose City Council.

The Fly: 05.07.08
Positive campaigning, Google Eyed and March Madness

Feinstein's fury
Up against the big media spin machine.

Dianne Feinstein: A Question of Ethics
Senator Feinstein influenced defense projects worth billions to her husband's firms.

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Silicon Alleys
Woolworth It

Technology News
Grand Theft Auto just gets better and better

Letters to the Editor
May 7 - 13, 2008