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November 9-15, 1995
The End of Knowledge: Will electronic information close the book on books?
Memories of Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize winning poet.
Book Reviews
A Civil Action: How one lawyer took on two waste-dumping conglomerates.
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
The F Word: A compact guide to our favorite four-letter word.
The Grand Ole Opry History of Country Music
Transformer: The Lou Reed Story
The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront
Addicted to Blood: A vampire film like no other, Abel Ferrara's "The Addiction" transcends the genre. Reviewed by Richard von Busack.
Also reviewed: "Kicking and Screaming"
Art
Beat Street
Comics
Music
Prince is dead, long live "npg" and its new album, The Gold Experience
Stage
Metro Staff Box
Literary Quarterly
News
By J. Douglas Allen Taylor
By Daniel J. Harper
Reviewed by Jennifer Davies
Reviewed by Tai Moses
Reviewed by Richard von Busack
Reviewed by Gordon Young
Reviewed by Nicky Baxter
Reviewed by Geoffrey Dunn
Bones of Contention: A San Jose developer wants to build a golf course atop a Native American sacred site in San Jose. Didn't he see Poltergeist? Laura Stuchinsky reports.
Arts & Entertainment
Movies
Superflys and Foxy Brown: Cheaply made and often crudely stereotypical, the blacksploitation film nonetheless shattered Hollywood stereotypes. Nicky Baxter screens the films, which play at the Towne Theater in San Jose through November 23.
"212 Degrees Fahrenheit" exhibit looks at gang violence from the inside out
Beat Street Todd Inoue on Pearl Jam's San Jose layover
Stupid is as stupid does in comics both big-time and local
Pizzicato Five Japan's neo-disco-lounge act are unreliable, capricious, willful, luxurious, affected, lying, dubious, random. . . and, well, cute
'Arcadia,' by Tom Stoppard, plays at the Stage Door Theater in San Francisco
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