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| July 11-17, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Pekar Chronicles: Can an honest comic-book creator find fame and fortune in Tinseltown? American Splendor's Harvey Pekar gives it a try in his latest illustrated slice of life: "An Almost All-Expense-Paid Vacation." Also, Richard von Busack on Pekar's art and life. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| News | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HUDsucker Proxy: What do you get when you legislate an escape clause for owners of HUD-subsidized low-income housing? Less low-income housing. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Public Eye: The Municipal Court is slow to collect on unpaid traffic tickets. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Polis Report: Marilyn vos Satan haters unite in cyberspace. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Arts & Entertainment |
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| Movies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Friendly Fire: With Courage Under Fire, Edward Zwick ponders if a liberal can make an antiwar film. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Purple Noon Chills: Rene Clement's 1960 thriller is a fetchingly amoral, urbanely malevolent film. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight a Minute: Heavy is no ordinary movie about ordinary people. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Horning In: San Jose Mariachi Festival players Miguel Martínez and Junko Seki talk about their music. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Far and Away: Up-and-coming, hard-and-rocking, Far comes to the Edge. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Valentine's Day: Cal Valentine has paid his dues living and playing the blues. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mo' Motown: The Temptations soldier on. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Turban-ator: Sonny Rhodes dresses up the blues. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Drums of Passion: Babatunde Olatunji leads a drum and dance workshop this weekend in Palo Alto. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Beat Street: From junk to junket--a local music roundup. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Audiofile: The latest CDs by Mystik Journeymen, Eivets Rednow, Magnapop and Tha M.O.B.B. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Art | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Don't Fence Me In: Casa de la Cultura Mexica makes art visible from all sides in Art Without Boundaries. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Menu | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Taiwan Treat: From Willow Glen's busy Taiwan Restaurant comes a nonstop stream of satisfying Szechuan, Cantonese and Taiwanese specialties, served in two bustling dining rooms. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bargain Bites: Unexpected delights inside the Taco Bravo aura. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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