Metro Issue: May 16–May 22, 2021

Cover Story
New Age Nuts
How the cult film 'Thrive' recycles some of the worst conservative canards.
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back to topCounting to Zero

The muse meets the business plan as the ZERO1 Biennial goes looking for Silicon Valley.
read moreDude, Where’s My Car?

The District Attorney's Office says blood tests launched last year can determine if a driver is stoned.
read moreMusic & Nightlife
back to topSurreal McKenzies

Canadian Scottish hardcore? On one of the most popular punk labels of all time? That’s the Real McKenzies.
read moreFilm
back to topFear the Beard

In The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen plays a bombastic monarch unmoored in New York.
read moreDirectionally Challenged

The gulf between two cultures is mediated and mended in 'Where Do We Go Now'
read moreSV Dining
back to topKraftbeer 3.0

Featuring some 60 domestic and imported beers, many of them obscure and hard to find.
read moreShawarma Swarm

Shawarma is a method of preparing meat on a spit, similar to the way the more familiar Greek gyro is made.
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