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| This Week |
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| May 30-June 5, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| White Lies: What happens when an African American woman finds out she isn't who she thought she was? |
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| News | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nobody's Homeless: How the politically unconnected and non-yuppified neighborhoods are fast becoming a dumping ground for the homeless shelters no one else wants. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Shame game: The popular Highway 17 Page of Shame Web site careens out of sight. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Public Eye: Zoe goes low-tech, the Mc Movie of Braveheart's dreams and yet another hetereo hullabaloo in Gilroy. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Polis Report: Shortening the American workweek. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Arts & Entertainment |
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| Movies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dollhouse of Horrors: Director Todd Solondz know that the weak will always be prey for the strong in Welcome to the Dollhouse. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stark Raving Adders: 'Cold Comfort Farm' takes aim at ripe literary pretensions past -and all too present. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Immigrants' Rites 'Someone Else's America' takes a comic look at the serious subject of cultural assimilation. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Somber Sounds: Replacement Paul Westerberg resurfaces. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nun But a Rocker: Alejandro Escovedo's family affair. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Beat Street: Cibo Matto and Cornershop work magic. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Audiofile: The latest CDs by The 6ths, Crysis, and Paper or Plastic? Plus the Sunset Park Soundtrack. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Books | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown and Green: Ruth Brown takes on the music industry. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stage | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pain of Love: SJ Rep reworks Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| West Bay Wanderer: Bernstein's 'Candide' tracks man's mistakes in tuneful satire. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Menu | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sailing the Elbe: Christina Waters explores the many Bavarian classics--Jägerschnitzel, sauerbraten, goulash and bratwurst. | ||||||||||||||||||||