Metro Silicon Valley
11.26.08

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News

The Poet of Play
Silicon Valley's first celebrity entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell is once again at the intersection of technology and pop culture, trying to bounce back like a pixel cluster off a pong paddle.

News

Morning in Obamaland
Silicon Valley Obama 'movement' takes a new direction—local races and issues

The Fly
Silicon Valley News Notes

Columns

Silicon Alleys
The Poet Game

Sports
Punch Drunk

Kids
The giant inflatable Batman is just one of the many fanciful bounce houses now open for kids to jump themselves silly at the brand-new Bounce A Rama location at the Great Mall in Milpitas. The fun extends to a games zone and a pizza menu. The store opened Nov. 22 and is celebrating that fact all month long.

Movies


Movie Review: 'Australia'
Hugh and Nicole travel the outback in Baz Luhrmann's epic

Movie Review: 'Slumdog Millionaire'
A Mumbai street kid knows all the answers in Danny Boyle's new feature

Movie Review: 'Beauty in Trouble'
A woman tries to move home in Czech drama

DVD Review: 'Bill Douglas Trilogy'
A new collection highlights Scottish director's short, honest films about growing up hard

DVD Review: 'Chaplin'
An anniversary edition of Robert Downey, Jr.'s biopic includes making-of extras and Chaplin home movies

DVD Review: 'Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage'
So heart-warming your aortas will boil over

MORE MOVIE REVIEWS    MOVIE TIMES

Music & Clubs

Special F/X
Former F/X owner Fil Maresca reconvenes the counterculture

Music Picks
Andre Nickatina, Hot for Teacher and Vicente Fernandez

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

Restaurants

Talking Turkey
Bodrum Cafe blends East and West

Live Feed
E Pluribus Yum

The Wine Column
Gold on Summit Road

BOOK A RESTAURANT RESERVATION    FIND A RESTAURANT REVIEW

The Arts

Art Review: 'Durer to Picasso' at Stanford
Stanford shows off its best new art finds

Stage Review: 'Every Christmas Story Ever Told'
San Jose Stage Company puts the hilarity back in the holidays

Stage Review: 'Rapunzel'
City Lights plays fast and funny with familiar fairy tale

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
November 26 - December 2, 2008