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Metro Silicon Valley
January 18-24, 2006

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News

'Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World'
Actor/director Albert Brooks and Islamic comics in Santa Clara push the envelope.

News

Governor Who?
Democrats are hoping Phil Angelides can unseat Schwarzenegger. But will he be running against his own past?

Silicon Valley News Notes
Zyng ends SJ fling.

Columns

Silicon Alleys
Pages From History.

Technology News
Good Fakes.

Car Culture
Door, Meet Bicycle.

Movies

Kill All the Lawyers
Masterpiece Theatre negotiates the legal labyrinth of Dickens' 'Bleak House' in a magnificent miniseries.

MORE MOVIE REVIEWS    MOVIE TIMES

Music & Clubs

Celluloid Hero
Ex-Braid and Hey Mercedes singer Robert Nanna begins anew in The City on Film.

Tragic Legends
John Jacob Niles' songs of hill folk.

Club Life
Keeping track of nightclub changeovers and updates requires diligence of a supersleuth.

MORE NIGHTLIFE    NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR

Restaurants

Fast, Cheap And Full Of Soul
Amber Cafe is fast food for people who like good food.

Live Feed
I'd Like to Buy the World a Coca.

5 Things to Love
Foods for Inner Warmth.

BOOK A RESTAURANT RESERVATION    FIND A RESTAURANT REVIEW

The Arts

Sunny Side Up
Cirque du Soleil returns to San Jose with 'Corteo,' an acrobatic meditation on the meaning of clowning.

Fever Pitch
The Martha Graham Dance Company keeps the fierce spirit of its founder alive.

Book Box
Crap Jobs: 100 Tales Of Workplace Hell, edited by Dan Kieran; Come On In!: New Poems by Charles Bukowski.




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