Metro Silicon Valley

Save a Carrot ... Eat a Steaknew

It isn't yet politically correct to eat meat, but it is a lot less politically incorrect. The back-to-the-pasture movement is letting carnivores feel good about themselves again.

Metro Silicon Valley | Christina Waters | 03-20-2008 | Food+Drink

'The Band's Visit': Perfect V-Day Weekend Movienew

This Israeli comedy of estrangement and loneliness isn't a bit depressing.

Metro Silicon Valley | Richard von Busack | 02-14-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Eran Kolirin, The Band's Visit

'In Bruges': Canal Zonenew

Tough guys play at being tourists while waiting for their next job.

Metro Silicon Valley | Richard von Busack | 02-14-2008 | Reviews

Tags: In Bruges, Martin McDonagh

Thesis of 'Against the Machine' Ultimately Runs Off the Railsnew

In this a compact rant, cultural critic Lee Siegel nails some of the shibboleths of a Web 2.0 world in which too much connectivity results in social atomization.

Metro Silicon Valley | Michael S. Gant | 02-14-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, Lee Siegel, Nonfiction Reviews

Will Powernew

Bay Area guitarist Will Bernard gets props from high places.

Metro Silicon Valley | Andrew Gilbert | 02-07-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Will Bernard

'Eye' vs. 'Eye'new

The weird rules of the Asian-horror-remake craze.

Metro Silicon Valley | Steve Palopoli | 02-07-2008 | Reviews

Tags: David Moreau, and Xavier Palud, The Eye

On the Busnew

Vince Vaughn takes his friends on a Wild West Comedy Show with neo–Rat Pack results.

Metro Silicon Valley | Richard von Busack | 02-07-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Ari Sandel, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show

Nakednew

Alex Gibney's documentary Taxi to the Dark Side shows us the road to Abu Ghraib.

Metro Silicon Valley | Richard von Busack | 02-07-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side

Close Encountersnew

Cinequest documentary Sputnik Mania recalls how the world almost scared itself to death on the way to the Space Age.

Metro Silicon Valley | Richard von Busack | 02-07-2008 | Reviews

Tags: David Hoffman, Sputnik Mania

Information Dystopianew

I was raised on the idea that the information age would usher in a democratic, communication-based utopia, but last week offered at least two object lessons in why that particular dream was a lie.

Metro Silicon Valley | Annalee Newitz | 02-07-2008 | Tech

Tags: computers & technology

From December 2001 to February 2007, Jeffrey Rodriguez was locked up in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He's also submitted a compensation claim for $5 million with the Santa Clara County, which could become a full-blown trial if not settled beforehand.

Metro Silicon Valley | Vrinda Normand | 02-07-2008 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

Inherit the Windnew

Silicon Valley is scrambling to lead the alternative energy industry, but a little-known hang-up in the federal energy bill is sabotaging our chances.

Metro Silicon Valley | Erin Sherbert | 02-07-2008 | Environment

Tags: environment