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Soul Man

British crooner James Hunter performs at this year's San Jose Jazz Festival

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Soul Man
British crooner James Hunter performs at this year's San Jose Jazz Festival

Music Picks
106 KMEL Block Party, The Phenomenauts and Wayne 'The Train' Hancock

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Movie Review: 'American Teen'
It's not easy surviving to graduation in new documentary

Movie Review: 'Pineapple Express'
Stoner humor keeps Apatow-Rogen fans high

Movie Review: 'Man on Wire'
The true story behind the greatest real-life stunt of them all

Movie Review: 'The Naked Spur'
The Stanford Theatre revives one of Jimmy Stewart's most troubling Westerns

DVD Review
Catherine Deneuve: 5-Film Collection

DVD Review
Barrio

DVD Review
Spaced: The Complete Series

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Arts

Opera Preview: 'Divide Light'
Montalvo Arts Center commissions a new musical drama about Emily Dickinson

Stage Review: 'Altar Boyz'
A hip-hop posses goes Christian at San Jose Stage

Classical Review
John Corigliano dominates the first weekend of Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

Book Review
'My Name Is Will,' by Jess Winfield, reviewed by Karen Laws

Book Review
'The Ridiculous Race,' by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran, reviewed by Richard von Busack

Restaurants

Everybody Yum Cha
Silicon Valley boasts one of the best dim sum scenes this side of Beijing

Silicon Veggie
The Lazy Vegan

5 Things to Love
Reasons to Eat Meat

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History Lesson
Grand jury schools the city on its mishandling of money for History San Jose, but that may not be its only nonprofit problem

The Fly
Cortese vs. VTA | Not Not Over | The Latest Dirt

Feinstein's fury
Up against the big media spin machine.

Dianne Feinstein: A Question of Ethics
Senator Feinstein influenced defense projects worth billions to her husband's firms.

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