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Your Call is Important to Us

Jail call monitoring can be a valuable crime fighting tool. The county’s quiet push to give prosecutors expanded access to recorded inmate conversations has ignited a controversy over checks and balances in exploiting technology’s reach.

By Jennifer Wadsworth

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Features
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Tea and Trucks

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Iconic downtown San Jose skate shop now serves coffee and tea.

By Gary Singh

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Arts & Entertainment
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Creative Visions

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Bruce Tomb, the creator of ‘Maria Del Camino,’ says his art car is as close as he’ll ever get to a flying car.

By Erika Rasmussen

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In Season

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Travel writer Pico Iyer ruminates on aging, death and dying in ‘Autumn Light.’

By Gary Singh

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Film
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Tinker, Tailor, Geezer

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Judi Dench is Red Joan in the fictionalized version of the Melita Norwood case.

By Richard von Busack

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Savage Messiah

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Mary Harrison takes intriguing, feminist slant on the Manson Family saga.

By Richard von Busack

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SV Dining
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Slapdash

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Don’t believe the hype—Slapfish can’t hold a candle to your favorite fish taco truck.

By Jeffrey Edalatpour

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