Metro Issue: Jan 4–Jan 10, 2021

Cover Story
2012 Predictions
This could be the last year ever—that doesn't mean it won't be interesting
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back to topEmpty Nest

Due to budget woes, San Jose has spent more than $137 million on four public facilities that closed the day they were finished—including a new police substation.
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back to topNiner Anthem

For a group of talented 49ers fans, fanaticism for the team has beenturned into a rally song now on YouTube.
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back to topLanguage Arts Crew

The crew's kicks off its new album this Saturday at the Blank Club in San Jose.
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back to topTricky Nick

Xavier Durringer’s The Conquest reiterates de Gaulle’s idea that France is ungovernable—much like our own state of California. Snobbery may be the reason why this mordant film has it in for its protagonist. President Nicolas Sarkozy (Denis Podalydès) is known, as if he were a lost Marx brother, as “Sarko.”
read moreSpy vs. Spy

Gary Oldman’s George Smiley hunts for moles in a chilly adaptation of 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'
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back to topIt Takes a Village

Village Falafel in Cupertino brings Armenian culinary tradition to the South Bay
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