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| This Week |
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| May 2-8, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Literary Quarterly | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mirror Images: J. Douglas Allen Taylor writes that the upswing in black-on-black violence is an ingrown abscess of self-hate, a product not only of the white-on-white mayhem which came before it. |
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| Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home: By Thomas A. Bass. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| All Rivers Run to the Sea: By Elie Weisel. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| All The Time in the World: By Robert Peterson. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Drive By: By Gary Rivlin . | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Change the Game: By Grant Hill. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| News | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Copping to Pressure: San Jose's police auditor blows the whistle on off-duty cops making extra cash by renting themselves out to nightclubs. Also in Metro, a witness to the Oasis brawl that left a 21-year-old man dead says off-duty cops fell down on the job. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Could We Borrow Your Bank Account, Please?: Nigerian scamsters fax get-rich-quick proposals to Silicon Valley businesses. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Public Eye: San Jose Councilmember Pat Dando's office is spinning damage control this week. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Polis Report: Highlights is still there for children. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DeCinzo: Gas crunch blues. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Arts & Entertainment |
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| Movies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A Comic 'Monster': A masterful, risky comedy, The Monster should at last make Italian actor-director Roberto Benigni famous in America. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Budget Low, Cel High: A new edition of Spike & Mike shows off the best of recent independent animated shorts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Funky Metal Thunder: The sonic frontiers of D'Armous Boone. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| What's All the Hoot?: Why the critics are lying in wait for Hootie & the Blowfish. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lone Star Blues: On his new album, Texas Soul, W.C. Clark proves his mastery of a time-honored genre. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rim Shots: UC-Santa Cruz's Pacific Rim Festival brought Asian and Western musical styles together. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Beat Street: The good, the bad and the way too out-of-date of local bands' web pages. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Audiofile: The latest CD by Napalm Death. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Art | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Color Scales: Robert Ortbal's coolly detached eco-art assigns equal weight to all materials. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stage | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Twelve For Ten: The San Jose Cleveland Ballet shows off a decade's worth of dances. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Menu | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Little Star: Los Altos' Estrellita takes the tamale and other authentic favorites to new heights. | ||||||||||||||||||||