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A King Without a Kingdom

In Bonny Doon's 25th year, trickster Randall Grahm gives up puns for the biodynamic revolution and makes a serious bid for his legacy


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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.


Alchemical Romance
My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden achieves the acoustically impossible

Old and New
Santa Cruz Blues Festival features biggest names in old-school and contemporary blues

This Week's Music Picks
Dead Meadow, Ladytron and Thrice

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For new releases, reviews, pop-culture musings and rants
from our crack team of film and television critics,
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Movie Review: 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
Can an adventure sequel survive a 19-year hiatus?

Movie Review: 'Mister Lonely'
It's not easy being a celebrity impersonator in Harmony Korine's latest

Movie Review: 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian'
A thousand years have passed, but has anything really changed in Narnia?

DVD Review
Rambo

DVD Review
The Fox Westerns: The Garden of Evil, The Gunfighter, Rawhide

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Arts

movies01SJ
Metro's guide to the global festival
of art on the edge in San Jose, June 4-8, 2008


Arts Preview
DJ Spooky brings the sounds of climate change to 01SJ Festival

Stage Review
'A Few Good Men' snap to attention at City Lights

Stage Review
Pear Avenue revisits Jane Austen in 'Northanger Abbey'

Stage Review
'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' wrestle for psychic control at San Jose Rep

Book Review
'The Story of a Marriage,' by Adam Sean Greer

Book Review
'The Reavers' by George MacDonald Fraser

Classical Moves
This weekend's best classical-music options

Restaurants

Fire Escape
The complex flavors of Chili Garden prove there's more to Szechuan cuisine than just spiciness

5 Things to Love
Hidden Restaurants

Live Feed
Flesh-Free Fast Food

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Town and Country
Angry residents in San Martin want to build a city to protect their farmlands from the county

The Fly: 05.21.08
Los Gatos skate park, District 2 County Supervisor and Bike to Work Day

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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Columns

Silicon Alleys
Wayback in Alviso

Tech: Why Wikipedia Can't Save Us
Even the wisdom of crowds doesn't stand a chance again tethered technology

The Arts

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May 21 - 27, 2008