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Overcrowded Classrooms; Reed vs. Washington, DC; San Jose's Pricey Trees
Leggo San Jose’s Eggo
The national waffle shortage is hitting crisis levels. No less a media personality than Stephen Colbert has declared the country to be on Waff-Con Four. He has even called on President Obama to open the nation's strategic waffle reserves. While the problem began in Atlanta, the solution to the crisis, deemed a national emergency by CNN, could come from right here on Eggo Way in San Jose. More
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Movies
Woody Harrelson delivers bad news in new drama about the impact of Iraq on the homefront
WOODY HARRELSON may be the John Wayne our war in Iraq deserves. If Harrelson’s newest, The Messenger, seems to run off the rails, it may have been intended to be the kind of movie that wasn’t supposed to be on the rails in the first place. Here is an effort to make a small-camera movie about the Iraq war veterans trying to cope with the sorrow and wrath More
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Movies
A tale of abuse and redemption features fine acting and simplistic judgments
SHAKESPEARE may have been wrong when he wrote that the world is a tragedy to those who think and a comedy to those who feel. Peruse the public reaction to the much-laureated Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, and it appears to be the other way around. Lee Daniels’ tragedy, which won double awards at Sundance, seems to be elevated to the status of something special by its noteworthy acting. More
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News
New Police Tape Released; Horizon Arrives at Mineta; Proposed Yahoo Campus in Trouble; Custodian/Photographer Reassigned
Supreme Court Decision to Have Impact on County
In 2005, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote: "It would be misguided to equate the failings of a minor with those of an adult, for a greater possibility exists that a minor's character deficiencies will be reformed." It was the majority view in Roper v. Simmons, a ruling that raised the age of eligibility for the death penalty across the United States from 16 to 18. Admittedly, it was no easy decision, and the court was almost evenly split with a 5-4 vote. Justices Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, and Thomas opposed. More
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City Events
A Nov. 21 fundraiser draws attention to a campaign to designate a Little Italy neighborhood in San Jose
THIS WEEKEND, the campaign to designate a Little Italy neighborhood in San Jose will blossom even more when a gala fundraising dinner erupts on Saturday (Nov. 21) at 100 N. Almaden Ave. The Little Italy San Jose committee will host a grand-scale evening of authentic Italian cuisine and entertainment—a multipronged effort to raise $200,000 for an official Italian business and cultural district. The funds will go toward three new gateway arches to the old River Street neighborhood, plus murals depicting Italian-American history in Santa Clara County to be installed underneath the Guadalupe Freeway underpass. More
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Theater
Playwright Philip Grecian talks about adapting 'A Christmas Story' for San Jose Repertory Theatre
BING CROSBY could have put it all in a Christmas song: the rifle that’ll shoot your eye out, the Nehi lamp and the clinker-filled coalscuttle. Bob Clark’s 1983 film of A Christmas Story, through 24-hour screenings on cable, has become essential to the holiday. The stage adaptation at San Jose Repertory Theatre, which starts previews this week, takes different angles on Jean Shepherd’s comedic memoir, with Rep stalwart Dan Hiatt as the adult Ralphie. More
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Real Estate
Steinberg’s bill would provide funding for affordable housing, but critics ask: Where’s the money?
There are rumblings that the economy is improving, but that's hardly felt these days in the Santa Clara real estate market. The number of homes in the process of foreclosure rose dramatically this year, from a low of 1,661 in February to a high of 4,661 in October, an increase of almost two hundred percent. While the number of foreclosure sales has more or less flat-lined in that time, they still stand at 479, almost double the March low of 247. More
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News
City Cuts 100 Jobs; Teen Murder Suspects Identified; Yamaguchi in Parade
Taiwan Recruiting in Silicon Valley
Are you one of the thousands of people recently laid off in Silicon Valley? There may be a job waiting for you—in Taiwan—and you don't even have to speak Chinese to apply. Just a few years ago, people from overseas poured into the U.S., looking for good high tech jobs with benefits. But the tide has turned, and now 31 recruiters from Taiwan are in Silicon Valley offering laid off employees tax breaks, bonuses, and the assurance of a lifelong career. More
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Music
Dethklok mastermind Brendon Small loves metal, hates comedy; he appears Nov. 21 at SJSU Event Center
LED Zeppelin’s shark sex legend. Axl’s riot in St. Louis. Burzum’s church burnings. Ozzy biting the heads off bats and doves. More
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Music
From the San Jose Chamber Music Society to South Bay Guitar Society, the best classical concerts for the weekend
FOR its November presentation, the San Jose Chamber Music Society welcomes the Amernet String Quartet all the way from Florida International University to town. Violinists Misha Vitenson and Marcia Littley de Arias, violist Michael Klotz and cellist Javiet Arias will perform Haydn’s Sunrise Quartet, Mendelssohn’s Quartet in E Minor and Tchaikovsky’s Quartet no. 1 (Accordion). Sunday (Nov. 22) at 7pm; Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. Fifth St., San Jose; $25–$40; 408.286.5111. More
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