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| September 5-11, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Murder Win: Cindy Kang admits she stabbed a local businessman to death in a Sunnyvale hotel room, stole his credit cards and went on a cross-country shopping spree. She has less to say about the deal she cut with the DA. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| News | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Family Function!: What do you get when you put a few thousand Democrats in one place? As Harold Meyerson writes, one, big, less-than-happy family. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Public Eye: PacBell's new ISDN service suffers growing pains. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Polis Report: Shave and a haircut, two bits. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DeCinzo Cartoon: Wacky Iraqi fun. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Arts & Entertainment |
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| Movies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| In a Crowded Place: The Big Squeeze can't decide if it's a black parody or a noir homage. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A Roll in the Hay: A troubled teacher-farmer gets Carried Away by a young woman's desire in his own barn. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A View to a Grill: It takes a village to keep a Spitfire Grill running. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lights Out for Society: Class conflict in the dark fuels The Trigger Effect. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Looking Backward: Tonic takes some, but not all, of its cues from Led Zeppelin. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Under the Big Bop: Saxophonist Greg Abate talks about keeping bop alive. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Billy's Blakean Bragging Rights: Firebrand Billy Bragg mellows with age on poetic William Bloke album. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Forging Ahead: Ignoring head-bouncing microphones, Alejandro Escovedo always comes back for an encore. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Audiofile: The latest CDs by Wesley Willis Fiasco, Paul Westerberg, Ovarian Trolley and Amy X Neuburg & Men. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Books | ||||||||||||||||||||
| In the Tangled Web Of Digital History: Where Wizards Stay Up Late traces the birth of the Internet. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Art | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Moving Stills: Sci-fi epic or animated flop, the work of movie-poster artist John Alvin never disappoints. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| New Cyber Sights: The future of electronic imagery dazzles the eye and piques the mind at the San Jose Museum of Art. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Growth Industry: Biodiversity is not just a catchphrase to discuss rain-forest ecology. Just as important is preserving history's many varieties of common garden edibles. Christina Waters explores how Seeds of Change and other heirloom-plant businesses are cultivating the past to ensure a tasty future. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Roman à Chef: From the shores of southern France to the streets of south San Jose, Alain Guichard's career reveals the making of a culinary maestro. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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