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City Events
Celebrating 50 years of advocacy with a gala on Saturday, Nov. 7
THE AMERICAN GI FORUM ANNIVERSARY GALA takes place Saturday, Nov. 7, at 5:30pm at Unify Hall, 765 Story Road, San Jose. Tickets are $50. (408.499.8369, 408.829.0329 or 408.775.3251). More
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Clubs
Our club correspondent is pleasantly surprised at San Jose's Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge
I MUST ADMIT, I’m not the biggest fan of ultralounges. But I was recently at Fahrenheit in San Jose, and I have to say I had a really good time. More
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News
Carr v. Rosen; SJ City Budget Woes; Vault's Permit Pulled; Teen Suspects Arraigned
The Race for the DA's Office
Dolores Carr is facing a stiff challenge to her bid to stay on as Santa Clara County's DA, but she's fighting back. Even before challenger Jeff Rosen officially entered the race on Wednesday, Carr sent out an email citing a 2006 Mercury News report in its "Tainted Trials, Stolen Justice" series, which reported that an appeals court found that Rosen made a trial error several years earlier by ignoring a judge's ruling to obtain a conviction More
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Movies
Is there anything Lars von Tried won't put on screen?
THE MOST prestigious gross-out since Irreversible, Lars von Trier's Antichrist is billed as a director's return to instinctive filmmaking. Von Trier's "Your guess is as good as mine" approach includes comments such as "I let this film flow to me instead of thinking it up." More
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Clothing & Accessories
Local designer Charlotte Kruk makes haute couture out of cast-offs
USED TOOTHPASTE TUBES and real human wisdom teeth might not be most people’s definition of creativity, but Charlotte Kruk finds them positively inspiring. Kruk has been designing wearable sculpture made from candy wrappers and recycled product packaging under the label Kruktart for more than 15 years. More
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Music
Johnny Cash lives again in tribute band playing Friday, Nov. 6, at the Blank Club in San Jose
CASH’D OUT plays Friday, Nov. 6, at 9pm at the Blank Club, 44 S. Almaden Ave., San Jose; cover is $12. (408.29BLANK) More
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Movies
A local documentary about wrongfully convicted East Palo Alto man airs on KTEH Nov. 5.
TALK ABOUT double jeopardy. In 1991, Rick Walker, an independent auto mechanic living in East Palo Alto, was wrongfully convicted of murder, mostly on the basis of questionable testimony. Years later, the witness confessed, and Walker was exonerated. Having spent 12 years in San Quentin, Pelican Bay and other hard-core prisons, Walker was punished again by a quirk in the law. While the average prisoner is given some money and assistance upon release, an exonerated prisoner must wait for special legislative appropriation bills to receive the paltry $100 a day for each day of wrongful imprisonment mandated by California statute. More
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News
Housing Costs Out of Balance; Vaccine on its Way; PA Election Results
Where Does All the Money Go?
It used to be conventional wisdom that no one should spend more than 25 percent of their income on rent or get a mortgage worth more than two years gross salary. A new study by the Urban Land Institute shows that Bay Area residents are thinking outside the box—or throwing conventional wisdom out the window. More
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News
Oliverio’s plan would zone and tax medical marijuana clinics, and use the money for cops and roads
IN San Jose, people who rely on a doctor-prescribed puff of pot to relieve pain must hit the highway, and drive to a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco or Santa Cruz, or else hit the street, and buy a bag from a dealer. City Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio has a plan designed to help relieve cancer patients’ pain, and also make the city a mint in sales taxes. More
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News
Internet and computing pioneers honored at Computer Museum
A FREE-FLOATING columnist can find the muse in any crowd, whether it’s billionaire pioneers of the computer industry or Finnish astrologer/filmmakers who write books expanding on Timothy Leary’s eight-circuit brain model for intelligence increase. And in the last few weeks, that’s exactly what I did. More
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