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The city wants to restore the Civic to all its former glory as a South Bay venue on a par with the Warfield and the Fillmore. If they fix it up, can embattled Team San Jose fill it up? | Opinion: Civic Needs New Management
Swallowed Up
The Northern California Megaregion can eat Silicon Valley for breakfast
The Fly: 03.12.08
Cold Calling, Daylight Savings, Saigon Split and Tiny Details
Silicon Alleys
Shamrock Arena
Technology News
The Users Are Revolting
Events
Morton Marcus unveils his latest book
Sporting Events
First Annual Spartan Swim Run
Kids Events
San Jose Youth Symphony
Film Review: 'Funny Games'
Naomi Watts and Tim Roth must endure the world's worst uninvited house guests
Film Review: 'Flash Point'
The fists and feet fly in a new Hong Kong action film
Film Review: 'Paranoid Park'
A skateboard rolls into trouble in Gus Van Sant's latest
Film Review: '10,000 B.C.'
Ancient history gets rewritten
This Week\'s Movie Revival
Vertigo/The Wrong Man(1958/ 1957) Alfred Hitchcock\'s emotionally powerful story of a man\'s last love affair before the grave. Jimmy Stewart plays a retired San Francisco police detective hooked by a married woman who is apparently haunted by a dead ancestor. As the deadly imago, Kim Novak leads a vertigo-struck Stewart to more and more dizzying heights. It was a misunderstood film in its time, because the implications were a little too unpleasant for a 1950s audience to face, and the ending is probably the most bleak in all of Code-era American cinema. Stewart, most certainly not a nice guy here, is demanding and duplicitous. And he was never better, never so much at cross purposes with that sometimes tiresomely folksy exterior. Bernard Herrmann\'s symphonic soundtrack stays with you for life. BILLED WITH The Wrong Man. Hitchcock\'s snatched-off-the-pavements true-life story of a jazz musician (Henry Fonda) mistaken for a murderer. Vera Miles co-stars. (Plays Mar 14-17 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
There But For the Grace Of God
The Blind Boys of Alabama wouldn't sell out their music—and success found them anyway
This Week's Music Picks
The Boredoms and Guns Don't Argue
St. Patrick's Day
It's that time again to hunt down an article of green clothing and show some Irish pride
MORE MUSIC AND NIGHTLIFE
MUSIC AND CLUBS LISTINGS
MUSIC AND NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR PICKS
Cetrella Reset
Hits and misses in Half Moon Bay destination restaurant's redux
5 Things to Love
Italian Restaurants Worth Seeking Out
Live Feed
Facing Up
BOOK A RESTAURANT RESERVATION
FIND A RESTAURANT REVIEW
Museum Review: 'Pollinators'
Our flying friends are saluted at Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose
Classical Preview:
The weekend's classical concerts in the valley, March 14-16
Stage Review: 'Cabaret'
Sally bowls 'em over in American Musical Theatre of San Jose production
Stage Review: 'Southern Comforts'
A late-life romance blooms in TheatreWorks' new show
Stage Preview: 'The History and Mystery of Life'
Joe Spano channels Buckminster Fuller at UC-Santa Cruz on March 14
Book Review:
Incognegro by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleese
Book Review:
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
DVD Review:
A Zed & Two Noughts and The Draughtsman's Contract
DVD Review:
The Kill Point
DVD Review:
Black Widow

Letters to the Editor
February March 12-18, 2008