For the Week of
November 9-15, 2005
Cover Story: Rage Slaves:
What's really behind America's supposedly 'random' workplace killings and school bomb plots? Mark Ames' 'Going Postal' has an unsettling answer.
News: Welfare for Wal-Mart:
Local screening of controversial new documentary brings big-box subsidy debate to San Jose.
The Fly: Fly has been getting some disturbing calls from locals who've run into trouble with Child Protective Services.
Silicon Alleys: Bring Back the Prosciutto.
Techsploits: Hacking the Subway.
Rev: Nice Plates: It takes three prisoners to make one plateone to unfurl the aluminum spool, another to place the film on the plate and a third to do the stamping.
To Kerr Is Human: Henry James' screw turns tightly in 1961 ghost story 'The Innocents.'
The Vanishing: 'The Passenger,' Antonioni's 1975 riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in Jack Nicholson, returns.
Memory Lane: Ballets Russes' charts dance history; Swanson and Valentino flirt in silent film 'Beyond the Rocks.'
Brief Encounters: The Poppy Jasper Film Festival presents shorts and film experts from near and far.
Defective Story: Shane Black pays ingratiating homage to Raymond Chandler in 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.'
No Buzz: Gere smells, Binoche has spells; 'Bee Season' is spacey, but the East Bay has never looked better.
Cab Fare For Cutie: DCFC's Christopher Walla dishes about touring, arranging and life before Fox teen dramas.
Lime Time: How does one write about Limewire without attracting the feds? Very carefully.
Book Box: 'The Oxford Guide to Library Research' and 'The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright.'
Just Is For All: 'Laziz' is Lebanese for 'delicious,' and for San Jose's Just Laziz, it's truth in advertising.
Live Feed: Pod Tasting.
5 Things to Love: Indian Restaurants.
Club Life: Patxi's in Palo Alto.
Stepping To the Screen: Daryl Gray turns soundtracks into dances for Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley.
West Side On the Far Side: AMTSJ's production of Bernstein/Sondheim classic takes time to bloom.
Pairing: Renegade does Dahl's 'The BFG,' while the Pear remembers Maria Callas in 'Master Class.'
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