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Metro Silicon Valley
05.21.08

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News

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

News

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

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

Events
Boulder Creek Art, Wine and Music Festival

Sporting Events
San Jose Earthquakes

Kids Events
Ballet San Jose School offers a world premiere this weekend of Lise la Cour's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' with music by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre.

Movies

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

Music & Clubs

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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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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The Arts

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

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
May 21 - 27, 2008




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