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Metro Silicon Valley
April 18-24, 2007

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News

ViSalus
What is it, and should you be wary?

News

California Senate Bill 840
Controversial single-payer bill could make state the center of the health-care debate in 2008.

The Fly: 04.18.07
Get on the train.

Columns

Silicon Alleys
Another Chuck on fire.

Technology news
All A-Twitter: Is the new online tool for staying in touch increasing the pace of life to the breaking point?

Sports news
'Judgment Day' at the HP Pavilion.

Style
Spring things: Forwarding a dress.

Movies

Movie review: 'Hot Fuzz'
The 'Shaun of the Dead' team takes aim at cop films.

Interview: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright of 'Hot Fuzz'
These are the guys who watched every single action movie ever made.

Movie review: 'Offside'
Jafar Panahi's film keeps viewers, like its Iranian women fans, just outside the game.

Movie review: 'Vacancy'
The guests check in but they don't check out.

Film festival preview: Santa Cruz Film Festival
This week's festival explores film and music's ability to transcend barriers.

This week's revivals
Poison, deadly, movin' it slow: 'D.O.A.' at the Stanford.

MORE MOVIE REVIEWS    MOVIE TIMES

Music & Clubs

Death Angel
Rob Cavestany relives the birth of thrash metal.

Editors' Picks
Classical-music highlights, the Huxtables, Audrye Sessions and Jade of Days.

Quick Picks
Digital Underground, Jet, Tall Paul, Iggy Pop & The Hedgehog.

MORE MUSIC AND NIGHTLIFE    MUSIC AND CLUBS LISTINGS    MUSIC AND NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR PICKS

Restaurants

Restaurant review: Sugar Butter Flour
Silicon Valley's top new place for treats.

Live Feed
The Silicon Valley Restaurant Explosion of '07.

5 Things to Love
Great Italian restaurants.

BOOK A RESTAURANT RESERVATION    FIND A RESTAURANT REVIEW

The Arts

Visual arts: 'Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks'
Parks' pioneering photos are on display at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center.

Stage: 'Pear Slices'
Pear Avenue's annual night of miniplays leans to the comic.

Stage: 'Smokey Joe's Cafe'
AMTSJ takes maximum advantage of Leiber and Stoller songbook.

Book review: 'Gangster Film Reader'
Book edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.

Book review: 'The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times'
Book authored by Tristram Stuart.

Kids events
The real 'Cats.'

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
April 18-24, 2007.




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