Movies
Elmore's Revenge: Get Shorty is Elmore Leonard's payback for all the bad versions of his novels.

Serving-class Saints: Sister, My Sister adapts The Maids for the screen.

Dodger Blues: Blue in the Face eulogizes Brooklyn.

Music
Zappa Zappa Doings: Sampling Rykodisc's ambitious Frank Zappa re-release project.

Planet Ahead: San Jose's Jupiter Sun glimmers in the pop sky.

Batting One for Three: SJ Symphony scores with Panufnik, strikes out with Beethoven and Shostakovich.

AudioFile: Reviews of the latest CDs by Gren, Deftones, Stevan Pasero and Christopher Bock and various artists.

Beat Street: San Jose's Red Light sees bright future.

Books
Trap-doors and Tunnels: In the novels of Tim O'Brien, all roads lead back to the Vietnam War.

Art
Ferocious Ghosts: For Marguerite Saegesser, abstraction is a form of memory.

Stage
Two Sides of Puccini: West Bay's Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica.

Count on Dracula: Stage Company show mixes melodrama and mayhem.

Lithe Blithe Spirit: San José Repertory Theatre has no fear of Coward.

Metro Staff Box