Metro Issue: Dec 7–Dec 13, 2021
Cover Story
Thrashed
Two Silicon Valley authors relive the heyday of thrash metal in a new book
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back to topWine or Whine?
Oenophiles who consume $230 magnums at Silicon Valley’s top restaurants may be unaware that one “rock star” winemaker currently finds himself in hot water.
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back to top420: Here’s Your Stuff Back
While some San Jose cannabis providers experience a not-so-merry holiday season, Christmas has come early for others. About two weeks ago, employees at San Jose Patients Group and Angel’s Care Collective got word that criminal charges stemming from a Santa Clara County raid in November 2010 were being dropped.
read moreRacers’ Edge
The recent opening of K1 Speed in Santa Clara, at 295 Mead Ave., can provide one’s inner Michael Schumacher a chance to let loose around a winding track.
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back to topKottonmouth Kings
Stoner-rap-rockers Kottonmouth Kings have switched gears completely, putting out all their music on their own label
read moreHop and Roll
Please Do Not Fight positions their holiday Rock Hop as the local alternative to Not So Silent Night
read moreGift Therapy
Ah, Nevermind. Although the Pixies’ Trompe le Monde, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ BloodSugarSexMagik and A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory were all released on the same day in 1991 as Nirvana’s breakthrough album, only Nevermind received the 20th-anniversary box-set treatment this year.
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back to topRadio Life
The Tabard Theatre Company is ringing in the holiday season with its rendition of It’s a Wonderful Life, a stage version of the Frank Capra film familiar to generations of fans.
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back to topScandal Man
Director Ken Russell was part of a Fellini-goes-to-Soho movement of brash English directors in the 1960s and ’70s
read moreThe Bet Goes On
It’s almost plot-free but rich with incident, visual skill, and loads of violence. Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage shows the Japanese filmmaker at the top of his craft.
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back to topThe Secret Life of Hummus
Oren’s Hummus Shop in Palo Alto stakes its rep on its chickpea specialty
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