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December 5-11

Cover: True Blues
Are the Blues a dying art form--abandoned by blacks and borrowed by whites--or just an ever-changing beat?


News: Material Girls
In "hostess bars" throughout the South Bay, Asian businessmen indulge in a cultural tradition of paying young women to fawn over them. But is something getting lost in the translation?

Root Cause: In which an Amerasian cruising the South Bay's multi-cultural strips can't decide on the color of her roots.

Public Eye: Political snub-fest.

Polis Report: Operator, please?

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No Limits: Fremont's favorite house-party noise-makers, Forbidden, return to headline the town's newest rock house, Club Kaos.

Cold Comfort: Ice-T counts the bodies with heavy-metal band.

Twinned Vision: A new boxed set showcases the Miles Davis and Gil Evans collaboration.

Beat Street: Spearhead's Michael Franti has his doubts about the technological future.

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Chinese Classic: Master Chef Renyi Liu presents Chinese culinary traditions in a Western style at Mountain View's sophisticated new Mei Long Restaurant.

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Clipped Joints: How and why some of your favorite movies got trimmed.

Justice Murdered: Prejudices swamp a southern town in true-crime documentary 'Paradise Lost.'

Angels and Insects: It's a small world in the documentary 'Microcosmos.'

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Heaven's Convicts: Tricksters saves Christmas in 'Three Angels.'

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Ansa Fans in Ghostly 'Hand': A new novel about a perfect woman and her otherworldly lover strikes out on three very different levels.

Wonder Wedding: The de-energized Man of Steel finally ties the knot with Lois.

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