Located in what used to be a Gelato Classico, the new Snake & Butterfly cafe—or, to be precise, Factory & Lounge—in downtown Campbell links three hard-to-resist treats: artisanal chocolates, gelato and espresso.

My cubicle—if one partition wall maketh a true cubicle—can be found in close proximity to a copier that daily exacts terrible tributes from all who dare use it. Curses, deprecations and pleas can be heard as the machine steadfastly refuses to accept its assigned chores, protesting instead that it is missing some vital piece of properly sized paper or needs its fusing oil unit replaced.

A look at the best parties, concerts and events for Cinco de Mayo fun in Silicon Valley.

A guide to the best parties, concerts and events for Cinco de Mayo in Silicon Valley.

(Canada; 80 min.) Michael McNamara’s globe-trotting documentary hop-scotches about visiting various locales to see how people react to the mysteries of darkness.

(Canada; 75 min.) A woman is murdered in a Mennonite community.

The new eight-disc MLB Productions and A&E Home Entertainment World Series DVD package collects every game of the SF Giants series against the Texas Rangers plus two games of the NLCS and highlights of the season.

The holidays are still the time when only an old-fashioned solid chunk of the bookmaker’s art will suffice. Now is the season to seek out beautiful coffee-table extravagances and weighty tomes worth both displaying and reading.

Renegade Theatre Experiment’s production of “All This Intimacy” by Rajiv Joseph emerges as an enjoyable tragicomedy as well as a necessary story, reminding us that we all have the capacity to commit very big, life-altering blunders.