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Summer Guide

Summer dreams are the biggest dreams of all. That's why it brings the most epic entertainment, from movies to concerts to festivals. These days audiences can go to screen and stage to see dreams of any variety writ large.


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Evil Reign
Finnish death metalheads Children of Bodom join Megadeth's Gigantour

This Week's Music Picks
Smash Mouth, The Waybacks and Rene Solis with Lucky 13

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Movie Review: 'Flight of the Red Balloon'
A children's classic soars again in a reimagining by Hou Hsiao Hsien

Movie Review: 'Speed Racer'
A summer blockbuster crashes and burns

Movie Review: 'Before the Rains'
Lust overcomes a sahib in 1937 England

DVD Review
John Wayne: The Fox Westerns and The Big Trail

DVD Review
Abel Gance's La Roue

DVD Review
Noriko's Dinner Table

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Arts

Comics Preview: 'Super-Con'
Joel Hodgson of MST3K fame comes to San Jose convention

Stage Preview: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'
San Jose Rep delves into the multiple sides of good and evil

Stage Review: Butchlalis de Panochtitlan
The gender-bending troupe shreds stereotypes in 'The Barber of East L.A.' at MACLA

Symphony Review
Gershwin took centerstage at Symphony Silicon Valley concert

Restaurants

Little Saigon Meets the Big Easy
'Nhau' cuisine fuses Cajunand Vietnamese cuisine

5 Things to Love
Great Cheese Shops

Live Feed
Sake Hop

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Clocked Out
One man's quest to restore San Jose's forgotten clock tower

The Fly: 05.14.08
I Don't Hear the Train A-Comin', Almost Never Forget and Old Country For No Men

Feinstein's fury
Up against the big media spin machine.

Dianne Feinstein: A Question of Ethics
Senator Feinstein influenced defense projects worth billions to her husband's firms.

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How the Internet dream is turning into a tethered nightmare

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May 14 - 20, 2008