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03.12.08

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Rebuild This Civic On Rock & Roll
The city wants to restore the Civic to all its former glory as a South Bay venue on a par with the Warfield and the Fillmore. If they fix it up, can embattled Team San Jose fill it up? | Opinion: Civic Needs New Management

News

Swallowed Up
The Northern California Megaregion can eat Silicon Valley for breakfast

The Fly: 03.12.08
Cold Calling, Daylight Savings, Saigon Split and Tiny Details

Columns

Silicon Alleys
Shamrock Arena

Technology News
The Users Are Revolting

Events
Morton Marcus unveils his latest book

Sporting Events
First Annual Spartan Swim Run

Kids Events
San Jose Youth Symphony

Movies

Film Review: 'Funny Games'
Naomi Watts and Tim Roth must endure the world's worst uninvited house guests

Film Review: 'Flash Point'
The fists and feet fly in a new Hong Kong action film

Film Review: 'Paranoid Park'
A skateboard rolls into trouble in Gus Van Sant's latest

Film Review: '10,000 B.C.'
Ancient history gets rewritten

This Week\'s Movie Revival
Vertigo/The Wrong Man(1958/ 1957) Alfred Hitchcock\'s emotionally powerful story of a man\'s last love affair before the grave. Jimmy Stewart plays a retired San Francisco police detective hooked by a married woman who is apparently haunted by a dead ancestor. As the deadly imago, Kim Novak leads a vertigo-struck Stewart to more and more dizzying heights. It was a misunderstood film in its time, because the implications were a little too unpleasant for a 1950s audience to face, and the ending is probably the most bleak in all of Code-era American cinema. Stewart, most certainly not a nice guy here, is demanding and duplicitous. And he was never better, never so much at cross purposes with that sometimes tiresomely folksy exterior. Bernard Herrmann\'s symphonic soundtrack stays with you for life. BILLED WITH The Wrong Man. Hitchcock\'s snatched-off-the-pavements true-life story of a jazz musician (Henry Fonda) mistaken for a murderer. Vera Miles co-stars. (Plays Mar 14-17 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

Music & Clubs

There But For the Grace Of God
The Blind Boys of Alabama wouldn't sell out their music—and success found them anyway

This Week's Music Picks
The Boredoms and Guns Don't Argue

St. Patrick's Day
It's that time again to hunt down an article of green clothing and show some Irish pride

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Restaurants

Cetrella Reset
Hits and misses in Half Moon Bay destination restaurant's redux

5 Things to Love
Italian Restaurants Worth Seeking Out

Live Feed
Facing Up

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The Arts

Museum Review: 'Pollinators'
Our flying friends are saluted at Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose

Classical Preview:
The weekend's classical concerts in the valley, March 14-16

Stage Review: 'Cabaret'
Sally bowls 'em over in American Musical Theatre of San Jose production

Stage Review: 'Southern Comforts'
A late-life romance blooms in TheatreWorks' new show

Stage Preview: 'The History and Mystery of Life'
Joe Spano channels Buckminster Fuller at UC-Santa Cruz on March 14

Book Review:
Incognegro by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleese

Book Review:
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

DVD Review:
A Zed & Two Noughts and The Draughtsman's Contract

DVD Review:
The Kill Point

DVD Review:
Black Widow

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
February March 12-18, 2008




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