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| March 28-April 3, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Looking to the Eats: Look, up in the sky, it's a fashion designer, it's a San Jose vegetarian- restaurant owner, it's a jet-setting messiah! No, it's Supreme Master Ching Hai, whose cult of borrowed religious doctrines, instant gratification and materialism have struck a chord among thousands of Asian immigrants. On a rare visit to the area last weekend, she talked with Metro reporter Rafer Guzman, and told him the money comes from God. |
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| Rough Riders: What do you get when you put 1,770,000 pounds of dirt, a couple of trailers worth of bucking broncos and a bunch of diehard cowboys in the San Jose Arena? A rodeo, complete with animal-rights protesters out front and a bunch of injured people inside. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Public Eye: Partying on with the haves and have-nots after the Santa Clara County races. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Polis Report: This just out--cellular phones cause accidents. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DeCinzo Cartoon: Party animals celebrate election results. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Arts & Entertainment |
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| Movies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Phone Sex Sucks: Spike Lee's attempt at sassy sex comedy falls short. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| All Aboard: Chungking Express eschews violence in order to bring Hong Kong movies to a new audience. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Not Just Another Pretty Face: A quarter century after he anticipated punk, Iggy Pop stays on top. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sun Drumming: San Jose Taiko's annual spring concerts signal the end of winter's long hibernation. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Conduction Junction: A contemporary jazz master shares his personal vision of "conduction," or conducted improvisation. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Audiofile: The latest CDs by Under Da Influence, Penelope Houston, Face Plant and Madface. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Beat Street: The Mystik Journeymen step up to another level; Radio Free San Jose turns on without permission. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| unCertain hiStories: Consuelo Underwood weaves her way across metaphorical borders at the San Jose Center for Latino Arts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Multimedia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| CD-ROMS With a View: From the stars of the silver screen to the fight for basic human rights, these new CD-ROMs may be worth buying. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Television | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Eyes of a Ranger: In Walker, Texas Ranger, conservative action hero and real-life Republican Chuck Norris turns into an icon of liberalism before our very eyes. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Inca Inclinations: Christina Waters excavates Inca Gardens, a new eatery offering popular dishes from Peru and South America. | ||||||||||||||||||||