Cover Story: Milpitas Restaurants:
Silicon Valley's best-kept secret.

News: Barreling Ahead:
Gun politics make for strange bedfellows in Silicon Valley, where one group is using San Francisco's ownership ban as a rallying cry for civil rights.

The Fly: Legal pot is in limbo.

Silicon Alleys: Overwhelming Art.

Techsploits: Like a Girl.

Rev: Grandma Speed.

Brave New World: Terrence Malick's sweeping yet sensitive epic finds new wonder in 'The New World.'

Rain Men: The Noir City Film Fest washes the scum off the street and onto the screen, where they belong.

Prince Violent: Kevin Reynolds obscures the brains and the brawn in adaptation of 'Tristan & Isolde.'

Nude Brood: Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins star in 'Mrs. Henderson Presents,' a story of how toplessness won the war.

No Mas: Strike up a bolero for Channel 104.9, but what's up with the racial overtones?

Dead Homiez: What is the hip-hop equivalent of 'Cats in the Cradle'?

Scoping Out Mencken: From Baltimore bars to the Scopes Monkey Trial, a new biography tracks the jabs and jests of journalist H.L. Mencken.

Book Box: 'The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East' and 'Desert Queen.'

Beef Beyond Belief: Bo bay mon is seven courses of meat lover paradise.

Live Feed: It's a Mall World After All.

5 Things: National Food Days.

Red Lantern Shines: A new company presents a quintet of one-acts on love.

Burning Down the House: Two literary pairs dance out their emotions in Margaret Wingrove's newest works.

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