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For the Week of
March 22-28, 2006

Cover Story: Music for the Masses:
San Jose pays tribute to Henry Mollicone, the man who is putting the city on the musical map.

News: The Blog of War:
SJSU becomes the first university to embrace blogging in a literary series when Salam Pax arrives March 23. Meet the Baghdad Blogger.

The Fly: Did frontrunner DA candidate Karyn Sinunu flip-flop during last week's district attorney debate at City Hall?

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Silicon Alleys: Someone needs to do for San Jose what Naguib Mahfouz did for Cairo, what Kafka did for Prague or what James Joyce did for Dublin.

Techsploits: If you sign up and download a plug-in for Firefox, Root Vaults will record your entire clickstream, including Google searches and things you've bought online.

Rev: Hydrogen can be made by electrolysis: splitting water. And the energy for this process could come from wind or solar power.

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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: Aaron Eckhart shills for big tobacco in the sharp satire 'Thank You for Smoking.'

Mining for Oars: 'Summer Storm' offers conclusive proof that teens have an easier time in Germany.

Baby on Board: The city of the future is a nightmare in South African Oscar winner 'Tsotsi.'

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No Sleep Till Austin: At SXSW conference, the key to longevity in the music business is to do what you love and love what you do.

Alone Together: Rock reflects the singular in the collective.

Mining Mozart: Symphony Silicon Valley and conductor George Cleve gave Opera San José's best voices a workout in Mozart program.

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'Election' Author Wins Readers: Novelist Tom Perrotta comes to Montalvo literary series bearing his 'Little Children' and other bestsellers.

Book Box: 'The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella O. Parsons' and 'Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America.'

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House Rules: Santa Clara's House of Soul Food is the South Bay's best Southern cooking.

5 Things: Wine-loving Restaurants.

Live Feed: It's Raining Menus.

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High-Voltage: Teatro Visión presents a bit of classic Greece in San Jose with 'Electricidad.'


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