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Metro Silicon Valley
11.21.07

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News

Sweatshop Silicon Valley
A hit video game with an ugly secret raises the question: Can the high-tech creative class become the new underclass?

News

Running Wild
Do critical omissions in Coyote Valley's environmental impact report represent oversight—or fraud?

The Fly: 11.21.07
Subplot of The Week, Win Like Nguyen & Need For Speed

Columns

Silicon Alleys:
This Must Be The Place

Technology News:
Tech: The Access Denied map tells us what we're missing on the web

Sporting Events:
Turkey Trot

Events:
Downtown Trifecta

Kids Events:
The Elves and the Shoemaker

Movies

Review: 'I'm Not There.'
Bob Dylan shows up six times in Todd Haynes' new movie

Review: 'The Bitter Tea of General Yen'
A Frank Capra/Barbara Stanwyck sizzler is revived at the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto.

Cult Leader
Lee Marvin's still the man

Review:
This week's movie revivals

MORE MOVIE REVIEWS    MOVIE TIMES

Music & Clubs

Expanding Horizons
Youssou N'Dour heads to Santa Cruz with a bag of musical surprises from the northern reaches of his native Senegal

This Week's Music Picks
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, The Phenomenauts & Vicente Fernández

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

Restaurants

Point Spread
Overly ambitious Castro Point needs to tighten its focus, play to its strengths

Live Feed
Bean Gone Too Long

5 Things to Love
Fast-Food Chains That Don't Suck

BOOK A RESTAURANT RESERVATION    FIND A RESTAURANT REVIEW

The Arts

Poetry: W.S. Merwin at 80
Gretchen Giles interviews the poet and translator

Stage Review: 'Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol'
City Lights upends Dickens in new show

Ballet Review: 'Carmina Burana'
Ballet San Jose pulls out all the stops

Opera Review: 'Werther'
Young love at Opera San José

Books: 'Citrus: A History' by Pierre Laszlo
Reviewed by Michael S. Gant

Books: 'Historical Atlas of California' by Derek Hayes
Reviewed by Michael S. Gant

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
November 21-27, 2007.




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