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Metro Silicon Valley
04.02.08

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Bot in the Crossfire
Nanotechnology could one day clean your house and fix your brain. But paranoia about the new technology—a 'gray goo' apocalypse—is rampant. The truth about the pros and cons may be in-between, but it doesn't help when scientists bring David Hasselhoff into it.

News

Private Business, Public Interest
If there is such a thing as an enlightened business group, Silicon Valley Leadership Group could be the prototype

The Fly: 04.09.08
San Jose Medical Center, Nora Campos and the VTA train wreck

Columns

Silicon Alleys
Paging Silicon Valley

Technology News
Are we ready for transgendered pregnant dads?

Events
Shakespeare on the Square

Sporting Events
The New version of the San Jose Earthquakes

Kids Events
Children of the Dragon festivities at the Children's Discovery Museum

Movies

Movie Review: 'Street Kings'
Keanu Reeves tries to survive the mean streets of the LAPD

Movie Review: 'Smart People'
Dennis Quaid plays a professor with a dysfunctional family

Movie Review: 'Shine a Light'
Martin Scorsese's 'Shine a Light' captures the exuberance of a Stones show but doesn't reach greatness

Movie Review: 'The Duchess of Langeais'
Jacques Rivette's 'The Duchess of Langeais' ups the ante on an aristocratic flirtation

Movie Preview: 'No Borders, No Limits'
Sixties Japanese gangster cool at Yerba Buena Center

Music & Clubs

Irish Prog
Hayes and Cahill take a progressive approach to Irish music

This Week's Music Picks
The Huxtables, Rasal Flatts and Tech N9ne

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Restaurants

A Place To Ray
Lost Los Gatos mainstay reopens in Willow Glen

5 Things to Love
Edible Bugs

Live Feed
Chains that Rock

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The Arts

Stage Review: 'Hero'
Teatro Visión looks at home-front life in the Iraq era

Stage Review: 'Blade to the Heat'
San Jose Stage Company's boxing drama charges ahead

Stage Review: 'Caroline, or Change'
A black maid and a young boy sing about life lessons in TheatreWorks production

Books: 'Teach the Free Man'
Peter Nathaniel Malae of Santa Clara explores prison life in short-story collection

Classical Concerts
Weekend of April 11-13

Art Preview
Artists preserve lemons and memories this Saturday at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

DVD Review
The Mist

DVD Review
There Will Be Blood

DVD Review
Bonnie and Clyde

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
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