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Fueling the Fire
Hybrids and diamond lanes may be soothing our conscience, but they're not easing the transportation crisis. Will long-term solutions like mass transit ever get a real chance in our car-addicted culture?
Don't Call Me Criminal
Is the immigration debate ready for 'coming out of the undocumented closet'?
The Fly: 12.12.07
To Cross or Not to Cross, In the Dark & Tuesday Is Fight Night
Silicon Alleys:
Meet Me at Count Five Place
Technology News:
Why the Wii is the future of technology
Sporting Events:
Uvas South Bay Triathlon
Events:
Toy Trains
Kids Events:
The Sippy Cups 'Fall From Space'
Review: 'Atonement'
One slip-up plagues lower-class boy and upper-class girl for years
Review: 'The Kite Runner'
Afghan boys try to survive wartime in adaptation of Khaled Hosseini novel
Review: 'Starting Out in the Evening'
Frank Langella's older writer gets an ego boost from a young admirer
Review: 'The Walker'
Woody Harrelson plays a gossip hound caught in a Washington, D.C., murder mystery
Review: 'War Dance'
Uganda's National Music Competition is attended by some special children
Review:
This week's movie revivals
MORE MOVIE REVIEWS
MOVIE TIMES
Last Freak Standing
Early-'80s Joan Jett vs. 21st-century Joan Jett: Still strange
This Week's Music Picks
Gypsy Soul, Dave Koz & Chanticleer
MORE MUSIC AND NIGHTLIFE
MUSIC AND CLUBS LISTINGS
MUSIC AND NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR PICKS
Against Mall Odds
Find your foodie gifts at local boutiques
Live Feed
Eat These Books
5 Things to Love
Good Ramen Restaurants
BOOK A RESTAURANT RESERVATION
FIND A RESTAURANT REVIEW
Art Review:
'Iraq Open Shutters' and 'The Landscape of War' at the San Jose Institute of Art
Classical Music Review:
'Symphony Silicon Valley' does 'Pictures at an Exhibition'
Classical Concerts:
This weeks picks
Books: 'Shooting War' by Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman
Reviewed by Richard von Busack
Books: 'The Magnificent Flora Graeca' by Stephen Harris
Reviewed by Michael S. Gant
DVD Review:
'Futurama: Bender's Big Score'
DVD Review:
'The Two Jakes/Chinatown'
DVD Review:
'Drunken Angel'

Letters to the Editor
December 12-18, 2007.