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12.12.07

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News

Fueling the Fire
Hybrids and diamond lanes may be soothing our conscience, but they're not easing the transportation crisis. Will long-term solutions like mass transit ever get a real chance in our car-addicted culture?

News

Don't Call Me Criminal
Is the immigration debate ready for 'coming out of the undocumented closet'?

The Fly: 12.12.07
To Cross or Not to Cross, In the Dark & Tuesday Is Fight Night

Columns

Silicon Alleys:
Meet Me at Count Five Place

Technology News:
Why the Wii is the future of technology

Sporting Events:
Uvas South Bay Triathlon

Events:
Toy Trains

Kids Events:
The Sippy Cups 'Fall From Space'

Movies

Review: 'Atonement'
One slip-up plagues lower-class boy and upper-class girl for years

Review: 'The Kite Runner'
Afghan boys try to survive wartime in adaptation of Khaled Hosseini novel

Review: 'Starting Out in the Evening'
Frank Langella's older writer gets an ego boost from a young admirer

Review: 'The Walker'
Woody Harrelson plays a gossip hound caught in a Washington, D.C., murder mystery

Review: 'War Dance'
Uganda's National Music Competition is attended by some special children

Review:
This week's movie revivals

MORE MOVIE REVIEWS    MOVIE TIMES

Music & Clubs

Last Freak Standing
Early-'80s Joan Jett vs. 21st-century Joan Jett: Still strange

This Week's Music Picks
Gypsy Soul, Dave Koz & Chanticleer

MORE MUSIC AND NIGHTLIFE    MUSIC AND CLUBS LISTINGS    MUSIC AND NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR PICKS

Restaurants

Against Mall Odds
Find your foodie gifts at local boutiques

Live Feed
Eat These Books

5 Things to Love
Good Ramen Restaurants

BOOK A RESTAURANT RESERVATION    FIND A RESTAURANT REVIEW

The Arts

Art Review:
'Iraq Open Shutters' and 'The Landscape of War' at the San Jose Institute of Art

Classical Music Review:
'Symphony Silicon Valley' does 'Pictures at an Exhibition'

Classical Concerts:
This weeks picks

Books: 'Shooting War' by Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman
Reviewed by Richard von Busack

Books: 'The Magnificent Flora Graeca' by Stephen Harris
Reviewed by Michael S. Gant

DVD Review:
'Futurama: Bender's Big Score'

DVD Review:
'The Two Jakes/Chinatown'

DVD Review:
'Drunken Angel'

The Arts

Letters to the Editor
December 12-18, 2007.