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Metro Silicon Valley
06.04.08

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News

This MUST Be the Place
01SJ Global Festival of Art of the Edge takes place June 4–8 in downtown San Jose. The 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge is a convergence of vision, technology and creativity that could really only come from Silicon Valley

News

Drowning in Neglect
Olympic glory fades as Santa Clara, once the national capital of competitive swimming, ignores its once great pools

The Fly: 06.04.08
Bradley Video closes and credit, but no credits

Columns

Silicon Alleys
The Tao of Tech

Technology News
The feminist frontiers of science fiction are explored at Wiscon

Events
The annual Story Road Tamale Festival

Sporting Events
Two triathlons in San Jose this week

Kids Events
Disney's High School Musical

Movies

Movie Review: 'Stuck'
Stuart Gordon finds the the laughs in an infamous auto accident

Movie Preview: Future Films
01SJ screens digital experiments and interactive features

Cult Leader
'The Strangers' is the latest in a long line of true-crime fakers

DVD Review
Hamburger Hill reviewed by Richard von Busack

DVD Review
Alain Delon: 5-Film Collection review by Michael S. Gant

Music & Clubs

Roots Beats
Famed Roots drummer talks career, long days and his love for the bay

Big Fish
Kanye West is huge—so why does he seem so small?

This Week's Music Picks
New Music Works, Big Bang Beat and La Parranda

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Restaurants

Rock the Casbah
Essadki brothers recapture the hospitality of their native country at Morocco's

5 Things to Love
Great Foods For a Picnic

Silicon Veggie
Dim Sum of All Fears

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The Arts

Stage Preview
California Theatre Center picks up the pace for four plays in rep this summer

Stage Review: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
Bus Barn revives Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedy

Stage Review: 'Gross Indecency'
Theatre Q recalls the trials that sent Oscar Wilde to Reading Goal

Book Review
'The Hakawati' by Rabih Alameddine, reviewed by Traci Hukill

Book Review
'The Taste of Place,' by Amy B. Trubek, reviewed by Michael S. Gant

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
June 4 - 10, 2008




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