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Summer Music Guide 2004

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InterPersonals: Silicon Valley's matchmaker

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For the Week of
April 6-12, 2005

Cover Story: The Eight Million Dollar Man:
Can eBay founder Pierre Omidyar save the world—or at least start a second online revolution—with his new Web site?

News: Varsity Blues:
San Jose's one-man filmmaking machine tackles the troubled Spartan football program in new documentary.

The Fly: This week's political bites.

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Biter: The Last Bite.

Techsploits: Court Camp.

Rev: Animal Highway: Bugs meeting cars isn't a new thing. I have heard of drivers meeting up with mass migrations of tarantulas and grasshoppers, too.

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Rifling The Past: Sarah Winchester's compulsion to sprawl lives on in Jeremy Blake's motion-picture paintings.

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Grape Nuts: The new wine-sipping documentary 'Mondovino' traces the end of the French Reign of Terroir.

Lo and Behold: It's not easy being named Lolita, even if your father is a famous French writer.

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Rising Force: Jake Shimabukuro proves that ukulele players can rock, too.

Sonic Ecstasy: Swervedriver get a scrap of their due.

Club Life: Mountain Winery.

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Yea, America!: Los Altos Grill serves a heaping slice of American fare.

Silicon Veggie: SF's Veggie Surprise.

5 Reasons Not to Buy Farmed Salmon: Stick with the wild fish.

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Zen Bowing: Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley probed the precision of balance in Smuin's 'Shinju.'

Slice and Dice: Pear Avenue cuts off eight 'Slices' of illusion and reality.


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