AltWeeklies Wire
Exercising Powernew
Take a five-part approach to redefining your body. Combine smart nutrition with resistance training, flexibility development, cardio and recovery.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Joseph Rosenfeld |
01-31-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
A Polite Message From the Surveillance Statenew
Say what you want about Google being an evil corporate overlord that steals all your private data, turns it into info-mulch and then injects it into the technoslaves to keep them drugged up and helpless. There are still some good things about the company despite all that.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Annalee Newitz |
01-31-2008 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Uncommon Groundnew
Centered up in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Silicon Valley's wine country is anything but typical. Which is why it's no surprise that it has become well known for its distinctive pinot noir, winemaking's best-known maverick grape.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Stett Holbrook |
01-31-2008 |
Food+Drink
Propositionednew
Once considered the shining hope for grassroots politics in this country, California's initiative process is in serious trouble. It's gotten so that many voters can't even decipher the state propositions they're supposed to be voting on.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Staff |
01-31-2008 |
Commentary
The 2008 Oscar Racenew
Handicapping this year's nominations, all the way from Best Picture (anybody can do that) to Best Editing (where else can you get odds on that?).
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-24-2008 |
Movies
'Cassandra's Dream': Guilt Tripnew
Good and bad talk it out in new Woody Allen film.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Cassandra's Dream
Fred's Headnew
Roots rock hero Fred Eaglesmith on change, confidence and gospel without Jesus.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Traci Hukill |
01-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fred Eaglesmith
5 Things to Love: Trader Joe's Foods I Always Buynew
I'm always amazed how far my money goes at Trader Joe's. Here are five of my favorite T.J. buys.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Stett Holbrook |
01-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
'Food' Tackles a Big Historynew
Ten historians survey the course of cuisine, starting with our hunter-gatherer ancestors, sojourning through various regional palates and ending with thoughts on the combination of "Novelty and Tradition" that tugs at diners today.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Michael S. Gant |
01-17-2008 |
Nonfiction
Think Secret Signs Offnew
As Macworld Expo hits, there's something missing this year: the uberfan whose inside information drove Steve Jobs nuts.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Colleen Watson |
01-17-2008 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Tales From A Trialnew
Karim Noble's journey through the Santa Clara County courts has shown all the signs of a juvenile justice system in crisis. And with resources stretched to the limit, that crisis is likely to get a lot worse.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Raj Jayadev |
01-17-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
I Sing of Ron Paulnew
Musician Steve Dore has taken up the outsider candidate's cause -- and become a one-man YouTube revolution in the process.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Gary Singh |
01-10-2008 |
Politics
5 Things to Lovenew
Food products you should make at home.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Cheryl Sternman Rule |
01-10-2008 |
Food+Drink
'Persepolis' Turns a Graphic Novel into Animation Classicnew
The film does a first-rate job of outlining what it is like to be a teenager in a religious dictatorship, and it addresses this slow suffocation in a way any self-obsessed American teen could understand.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Panic Shroomnew
Are mushrooms and human hair the organic, 21st-century answer to toxic disasters like the spill in San Francisco Bay?
Metro Silicon Valley |
Alastair Bland |
01-10-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
