AltWeeklies Wire
Don't Always Believe The Food Hypenew
I buy into food trends, tossing aside items no longer in vogue and stocking up on new finds, assuming they must somehow be healthier, or taste better, than what came before. I don't do this consciously, but I do it nonetheless.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Cheryl Sternman Rule |
10-11-2007 |
Food+Drink
Don't Shoot Jesse James, Shoot the Narratornew
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford unfolds: impossibly wordy, each spavined sentence intoned by a narrator. It's a Western epic for our times, a depressing Jesse James opera for the end of his career. Even the horses need Prozac.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
10-11-2007 |
Reviews
Ang Lee Rethinks Hitchcock's 'Notorious'new
Lust, Caution is a great romantic movie, with a full Kowloon moon, a cruel antihero and silks, lipstick and knives. At the end, though, it is maddening.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
10-11-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Lust, Caution
Nothing's As Important as American Angst in 'The Darjeeling Limited'new
The film is a Three Stooges story without humor.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
10-11-2007 |
Reviews
Kicks Off San Jose Jewish Film Festivalnew
Todd S. Yellin's Brother's Son, a prodigal-son story, opens the 16th annual festival. Other films include Sweet Mud, Sentenced to Marriage, Be Fruitful and Multiply, and more.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
10-11-2007 |
Movies
Tags: Brother's Shadow, Todd S. Yellin
California Inventor Introduces Organic Plant Controlnew
Getting pesticides out of the plant-control arsenal can be a thorny business, but Cameron Colson thinks his "Hydro Mechanical Obliteration" (HMO) machine is the answer.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Vrinda Normand |
10-11-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
'Valley of the Heart's Delight' Breaks Noosenew
Director Tim Boxell and writer-producer John D. Murphy ask new questions about San Jose's crime of the century -- and whether a lynch mob murdered two innocent men in St. James Park.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
10-04-2007 |
Movies
San Jose Weighs a Ban on Smoking in Public Parksnew
Is it an issue of civil liberty or public health?
Metro Silicon Valley |
Erin Sherbert |
10-04-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
How Can Musicians Go Solo When Bandmates Won't Go Away?new
It's almost impossible to imagine rock 'n' roll as music that isn't created collectively.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Karl Byrn |
09-27-2007 |
Music
'Feast of Love' Swaps Partners Like it's Going Out of Stylenew
Director Robert Benton emphasizes the physical side of love to pose a question: Is love just the disguise that biology wears?
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Feast of Love, Robert Benton
'Into the Wid,' Out with the Feelingnew
Sean Penn's overwrought direction elbows the feeling right out of adventure story Into the Wild.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
'Trade' Has Vague Basis at Bestnew
There are more than 300 million sex slaves in the United States, and this number is all the more alarming because I just made it up. Kinda like the "1,000,000" being trafficked across borders (ours? all international borders?) cited at the end of the film Trade.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: trade, Marco Kreuzpaintner
Silicon Valley's Tales of Immigrant Successnew
For residents of the valley, the culinary diversity of the area is part of the appeal of living here. But for refugees, restaurants represent a lifeline, a toehold in their adopted countries and often a connection to the cultures they leave behind.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Stett Holbrook |
09-21-2007 |
Food+Drink
Los Lobos, Linda Rondstadt to play San Jose International Mariachi Festivalnew
Adding a lineup of Latin Alternative rock acts this year could leave some purists shaking their heads, but it may also leave the Mexican Heritage Corporation -- the parent company of the festival -- deep in the black.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jesse 'Chuy' Varela |
09-20-2007 |
Concerts
Director Julie Taymor's Beatles Musical is a Huge Letdownnew
Across the Universe is rock-solid kitsch, compete with giant puppets, hidebound lyricism and chiffon-wrapped floating nudes, much like the levitating Greek oracle in 300.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Across the Universe, Julie Taymor
