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Columnist Gary Singh delves into the far reaches of the art, music and counterculture scenes from Los Gatos and Saratoga to San Jose, Santa Clara and beyond. Each week, Gary delives a healthy dose of opinion, controversy and insight on the real and surreal.
Silicon Alleys
Missed It by That Much
Silicon Alleys
Paging Silicon Valley
Silicon Alleys
End Scenic Route
Silicon Alleys
Backwater Renaissance
Surly media nerd Annalee Newitz gives a personal take on current high-tech events, games, software, gizmos and people. Her beat includes cutting-edge science, online snooping by governments and corporations, and Internet freedom issues.
Technology news
Microsoft or Google-does it really matter who absorbs Yahoo! after all?
Technology news
Are we ready for transgendered pregnant dads?
Technology news
What happens when standard English becomes Internet English?
Technology news
How Twitter's color wars wasted everybody's time
Steve Palopoli's weekly column focuses on the state of cult movies and offbeat corners of pop culture.
Cult Leader
The De-Imagining Of Jamie Lee Curtis
Cult Leader
What the '80s did to vampire movies
Cult Leader
'Diary of the Dead' is a zombie film for the YouTube generation.
Cult Leader
Asian horror remakes like 'The Eye' are never as scary as the original versions.
A weekly column about all things food. The column offers hot leads on new restaurants in San Jose, Los Gatos, Palo Alto and other South Bay cities, plus up-to-the-second news about chefs, farmers' markets and organic foods.
Live Feed
Pinot Envy
Live Feed
Chains that Rock
Live Feed
My Own Poor House Bistro
Live Feed
Facing Up
A weekly top-five list for restaurants and food in San Jose, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Cupertino, Campbell, Mountain View, Palo Alto and area cities. The choices are hand selected by Metro's dining editor, Stett Holbrook.
5 Things to Love
Top Sushi Bars
5 Things to Love
Edible Bugs
5 Things to Love
Great Restaurant Restrooms
5 Things to Love
Restaurants in Mountain View
Elisa Camahort's monthly column covers vegetarian restaurants in the San Jose area. Camahort also explores the ethical, political and dietary advantages of the vegan and vegetarian lifestyle.
Silicon Valley Veggie
Good Question
Silicon Valley Veggie
Are You Being Served?
Silicon Valley Veggie
Going mainstream.
Silicon Valley Veggie
Merit badge.
News and inside dirt about politics, politicians, protests and local government from a fly-on-the-wall perspective. The Fly knows all the scandal in San Jose and the cities of Santa Clara Valley: Los Gatos, Saratoga, Campbell, Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto and more.
The Fly: 04.16.08
Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, Chuck Reed's blacklist and Cyclist safety
The Fly: 04.09.08
San Jose Medical Center, Nora Campos and the VTA train wreck
The Fly: 04.02.08
One Hand Slapping, Right to Lie and Tiny Town
The Fly: 03.26.08
Who You Calling A Promoter?
Santa Cruz City and County, UC Santa Cruz, Soquel, Capitola, Scotts Valley, Watsonville and Aptos news and politics in morsel-sized bites.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Dogfight.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
General Pain.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Paranoid times.
This column, renamed Mūz, explores the music, clubs and bands of Santa Cruz.
Mūz: Santa Cruz Media, Music and Arts
Soto Zen teacher Cheri Huber comes to Inner Light Ministries Thursday.
Mūz: Santa Cruz Media, Music and Arts
Guns and guerillas.
Mūz: Santa Cruz Media, Music and Arts
Weed City USA.
Columnist Peter Byrne's weekly investigation into the people, politics and pulse of the North Bay.
The Byrne Report
10.10.07.
The Byrne Report
09.19.07.
The Byrne Report
09.05.07.
Our wine expert tastes and rates Northern California wines and wineries.
Winery review: Imagery Estates Winery
Is it the commissioned label art collection or the stellar library of reds? Um: yes
Wine review: Eric Ross Winery and Heart of the Sonoma Valley
Wine tasting throughout Sonoma Valley is enlivened by a stop at Eric Ross.
Wine: P. S. I Love You
Drowning in Petite Sirah at the recent Dark & Delicious tasting.
Food-related comings and goings, openings and closings, and other essays for those who love the kitchen and what it produces.
In Praise of Verjus
When a deep winter freeze gives you a ruined lemon crop, make something else.
News of the Food: the Western Regional Barista Competition
Baristas vie to brew the perfect cup.
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Pastafarianism is here to stay.
First-impression reviews of Sonoma County, Marin County and Napa County restaurants.
Review: Gohan in Petaluma
New sushi restaurant where even the cheesecake, the cheesecake!, is sublime.
Review: Cook in St. Helena
Verily, a fine meal. Extracting a pound of flesh in St. Helena.
Restaurant Review: Simply Vietnam
Winter weather calls for hot broth.
Recipes for food that you can actually make.
Recipe: Chef Matt Talavera's Heirloom Tomato Prawn Salad
Whole Foods jumps into the antics of the strangely crazed Heirloom Tomato Festival.
Recipe: Blackberry summer
Pie, trifle, lore and rambles on the brambles.
Recipe: Making the Ultimate Potato Salad
Pssst: The key is not to boil the potatoes.
Novella Carpenter's column balances her car obsession with a strong environmentalist message. A steady road warrior, Carpenter travels California in search of bio-fuels, auto food and traffic, handy tips and car-related news items.
Car News: Swan Song
Rev retires after four good years.
Car News: The ride-along
Novella goes along with the cops and they don't catch any bad guys at all.
Car News: Skoda
Czechoslovakian car manufacturer merges with Volkswagon and gets some major cred.
