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'Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick'new
Thomas Bewick, a wood engraver in England helped nurture the public's interest in nature.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Michael S. Gant |
08-01-2007 |
Nonfiction
Ethiopian Poetry Selam in San Josenew
In the locus of Silicon Valley's Ethiopian food scene, tiny Selam is a standout.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Stett Holbrook |
08-01-2007 |
Food+Drink
Pascale Ferran's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'new
Nothing could be less like our popular idea of Lady Chatterley's Lover, of the unstoppable force of the working class meeting the immovable object of the ruling class.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Solar Perplexus: 'Sunshine'new
Sunshine fails to illuminate Danny Boyle's murky ideas about the future of humanity.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine
Big Girl Now: 'HairSpray'new
The kind of exuberant, fast and funny musical that has seemed extinct since the 1950s.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Shankman, Hairspray
Green Hell: 'Rescue Dawn'new
Christian Bale insists that heroism is a function of a bottomless simplicity; it's not a larger-than-life attitude one carries around everywhere.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
'The Simpsons Movie': Peasants under glassnew
Transforming the densest, most daring TV show ever made was even more of a risk. Happily, The Simpsons Movie is everything that was advertised.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
San Jose Roller Girls: Rink of Destructionnew
The retro chic cherry bomb has been Roller Derby, and now the South Bay's devastating ladies are making a league of their own right here in San Jose.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Felipe Buitrago |
08-01-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
The San Jose Streets Where I'm Fromnew
Beyond the flash of the Grand Prix with a Silicon Alleys walking tour of one man's alternative guide to San Jose.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Gary Singh |
08-01-2007 |
Culture
Media Madnessnew
Are Republicans afraid of YouTube? Also: Wasting time online; magazine publishers look to Internet for new readers.
Columbia Free Times |
Dan Cook |
08-01-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
New Haven ID Cards for Immigrantsnew
It's supposed to help you get a bank account - but some Connecticut banks say the cards won't suffice.
New Haven Advocate |
Betsy Yagla |
07-31-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
New Haven Register Editors Working Weekendsnew
Daily staffers are being forced to work weekends to cover for fired staffers.
New Haven Advocate |
Evan Brown |
07-31-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Al Gore: 21st Century Founding Fathernew
Americans are no longer used to frank, substantive political discourse - the thesis of Gore's Assault on Reason.
New Haven Advocate |
Evan Brown |
07-31-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tasers Shock and Flaw in Connecticutnew
Did New Haven police rush Tasers onto the streets before the kinks were ironed out? The answer might stun you.
New Haven Advocate |
Betsy Yagla |
07-31-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
You Call That a Democratic Convention?new
The biannual New Haven Democratic Party meet-up is a real lovefest.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
07-31-2007 |
Politics
