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this week's event picks

Rocktober

Live Music in the South Bay


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Get information on the hottest bars and nightclubs in the Bay Area, find the latest concerts and music events, check out this week's featured clubs, sign up for the free newsletter and more.


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Nightlife scenes from bars and clubs in downtown San Jose and the surrounding area. Plus, sign up for Metroactive's Club Newsletter for the latest San Jose club events, hot dance club parties and more.


Hat Trick
Weezer understands the importance of appropriate head gear.

Music Picks
Gypsy Soul, Rock Band Live and Santana

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For new releases, reviews, pop-culture musings and rants
from our crack team of film and television critics,
read our Ghost of the Son of the House
of the Revenge of Blog.


Movie Review: 'Rachel Getting Married'
Jonathan Demme throws a wedding and Anne Hathaway steals the show

Movie Review: 'The Duchess'
Ralph Fiennes, Keira Knightley and the costumes outshine the script in 18th-century memoldrama

Movie Review: 'The Brothers'
The Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto revives a lush Scottish drama set on the Isle of Skye

Movie Review: 'Body of Lies'
Is there a screen big enough for Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in one shot?

DVD Review
'How the West Was Won'

DVD Review
'Jellyfish'

DVD Review
'Love and a .45'

DVD Review
'Artifacts'

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Arts

Stage Preview: 'Cabaret Unkempt'
Body-image issues highlight MACLA show

Stage Review; 'The Rose of Persia'
Lyric Theatre of San Jose has fun with Sullivan operetta

Classical Preview
New Music Works of Santa Cruz steps out on its 30th anniversary

Book Review
'Glazed America,' by Paul R. Mullins, reviewed by Matthew Craggs

Book Review
'Acedia & Me,' by Kathleen Norris , reviewed by Richard von Busack

Classical Preview
Mission Chamber Orchestra goes to Spain for Iberia! concert

Classical Preview
The Steinbeck Society hosts a concert by Garrick Ohlsson

Restaurants

The Other Japantown
Exploring a lesser-known spot for Japanese culture in the South Bay

Live Feed
Fall Openings

5 Things to Love
Food Bargains

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Tourist Trap
Homeland Security sets up a new San Jose office to apprehend immigrant fugitives

The Fly
Silicon Valley News Notes

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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Columns

Silicon Alleys
Captured by Robots!

Style
Recession Proof

Sporting Events
The Silicon Valley Roller Girls are headed your way this Halloween.

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
October 8 - 14, 2008