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Metro Silicon Valley
04.23.08

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News

Sustain in the Brain
Can the music of our brains make us sleep better? A South Bay psychologist says yes and is using mysterious Russian technology to treat patients with Brain Music Therapy. Our reporter gets strapped in to ride the waves.

News

All You Can't Eat
In the 'food desert' of East Palo Alto, a local farmers market wages a battle against obesity and near-starvation

The Fly: 04.23.08
San Jose needs a theme song, Nora Campos and the BAREC property

Columns

Silicon Alleys
Cycling Mecca

Technology News
Writing for the Internet is a new way of publishing

Events
The Stanford Ballroom Dance Team hosts the ninth annual DanceSport competition

Sporting Events
Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park Grand Opening

Kids Events
California Theatre Center presents 'The Emperor and the Nightingale'

Movies

Movie Review: 'Jellyfish'
Looking at life in the goldfish bowl of a Tel Aviv apartment building

Movie Review: 'Life Before Her Eyes'
Uma Thurman revisits a traumatic high school shooting

Movie Preview: Lois Jenson
Reel Work Film Festival hosts a screening of 'North Country' and a personal appearance by labor activist Lois Jenson

DVD Review
Silent Comedies by Ozu

DVD Review
Daisy Kenyon

DVD Review
George Melies: First Wizard of Cinema

Cult Leader
The De-Imagining Of Jamie Lee Curtis part two

Music & Clubs

Bring That Beat Back
The California Music Project fights the decline of music in California schools

This Week's Music Picks
The Swell Season, Nekromantix, Evelyn Glennie and Fred Frith

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Restaurants

Fry Around The World
Forget Kentucky—in Silicon Valley, fried chicken is international

5 Things to Love
Food-Loving TV Personalities

Live Feed
Travese First in Green Dining

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The Arts

Art Preview: Intervention Policy
A cutting-edge arts conference at UC-Santa Cruz brings art to the people

Opera Review
'The Magic Flute' at Opera San Jose

Stage Review
'Ragtime' at Children's Musical Theater San Jose

Stage Review
'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at Northside

Book Review
J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography by Rick Geary

Book Review
Gabriele Basilico, Silicon Valley, 07

Performing Arts
Stanford Lively Arts announces 2008-09 season

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
April 23-29, 2008




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