Cover Story: 'Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World':
Actor/director Albert Brooks and Islamic comics in Santa Clara push the envelope.

News: Governor Who?:
Democrats are hoping Phil Angelides can unseat Schwarzenegger. But will he be running against his own past?

The Fly: Zyng ends SJ fling.

Silicon Alleys: Pages From History.

Techsploits: Good Fakes.

Rev: Door, Meet Bicycle.

Sunny Side Up: Cirque du Soleil returns to San Jose with 'Corteo,' an acrobatic meditation on the meaning of clowning.

Kill All the Lawyers: Masterpiece Theatre negotiates the legal labyrinth of Dickens' 'Bleak House' in a magnificent miniseries.

Celluloid Hero: Ex-Braid and Hey Mercedes singer Robert Nanna begins anew in The City on Film.

Tragic Legends: John Jacob Niles' songs of hill folk.

Club Life: Keeping track of nightclub changeovers and updates requires diligence of a supersleuth.

Book Box: 'Crap Jobs: 100 Tales Of Workplace Hell' and 'Come On In!: New Poems.'

Fast, Cheap And Full Of Soul: Amber Cafe is fast food for people who like good food.

Live Feed: I'd Like to Buy the World a Coca.

5 Things: Foods for Inner Warmth.

Fever Pitch: The Martha Graham Dance Company keeps the fierce spirit of its founder alive.

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