Metro Silicon Valley
November 9-15, 2005

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News

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.

Silicon Valley News Notes
Fly has been getting some disturbing calls from locals who've run into trouble with Child Protective Services.

Columns

Silicon Alleys
Bring Back the Prosciutto.

Technology News
Hacking the Subway.

Car Culture
It takes three prisoners to make one license plate—one to unfurl the aluminum spool, another to place the film on the plate and a third to do the stamping.

Movies

No Buzz
Gere smells, Binoche has spells; 'Bee Season' is spacey, but the East Bay has never looked better.

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.'

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Music & Clubs

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.

Club Life
Patxi's in San Jose.

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Restaurants

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
Golf Course Grills.

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The Arts

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.'

Book Box
The Oxford Guide to Library Research and The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright.