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Metro Silicon Valley
10.14.09

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News

Eat this Week
How Channel The first-ever Silicon Valley Restaurant Week runs Oct. 14-21 with prix fixe three-course dinner menus for only $35.

Five Chefs That Matter

News

Remembering Loma Prieta
Twenty years later, the devastating earthquake is recalled fondly in a town that got hit hard

The Fly Reports on Silicon Valley News

Columns

San Jose News: Dining in Alviso
Silicon Alleys talks to Tony Santos about his new diner, Lunch With Tony

Fashion News: Braving the Braid
Some how-to tip on the new "undo" of the fall

I Saw You: Rant of the Week
A rental-truck employee gets payback after taking a phone

Movies


Film News: UNAFF Comes to Palo Alto
Richard von Busack recommends the best features and documentaries at the film festival

Film Review: 'A Serious Man'
The Coen brothers visit some Biblical trials on a suburban dad

Film Review: 'New York, I Love You'
Too many directors spoil the anthology

MORE MOVIE REVIEWS    MOVIE TIMES

Music & Clubs

Music News: Play It Again
Steely Dan performs 'Aja' live at SJ Civic; and bands like Devo and the Pixies join the album-on-stage trend

Music News: Classical Moves
The week's best classical concerts in the valley

Club Scene: This Sporting Life
Our correspondent roots for some bars die-hard fans will love during the playoffs

MORE MUSIC AND NIGHTLIFE    MUSIC AND CLUBS LISTINGS    MUSIC AND NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR PICKS

Restaurants

Five Chefs That Matter

BOOK A RESTAURANT RESERVATION    FIND A RESTAURANT REVIEW

The Arts

Stage Review: 'The Chosen'
TheatreWorks takes a look at Jewish life in New York in the 1940s in new drama

Books: Nothing Was the Same
Richard von Busack reviews Kay Jamison's memoir

Books: Drunks
A border Richard von Busack reviews a new collection of bibulous comics

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
October 14 - 20, 2009