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Review: 'Anonymous'Back in 1976, when "Saturday Night Live" was still irreverent, Garrett Morris would do a bit called "News for the Hard of...
Original post made on Oct. 29, 2011Last comment by jen, on Oct 29, 2011 at 10:03 am | 1 comment | 7264 Views
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Peninsula to elect new state senatorTo the average Peninsula voter, Brisbane and Sunnyvale have little in common. The former is a small, industrial suburb on...
Original post made on May. 10, 2012Last comment by , on May 10, 2012 at 11:22 pm | 3 comments | 7227 Views
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Review: 'Knight and Day'Tom Cruise returns to form in this entertaining action-comedy from director James Mangold ("3:10 to Yuma"). Cruise and co-star...
Original post made on Jun. 25, 2010Last comment by Margaret, on Jun 25, 2010 at 1:07 pm | 1 comment | 7226 Views
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Review: 'The Debt'The common moviegoing assumption that "art films" are medicinal and mainstream genre films are candy doesn't always hold...
Original post made on Sep. 5, 2011Last comment by Curious Observer, on Sep 5, 2011 at 3:34 pm | 1 comment | 6910 Views
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Review: 'Jobs'This biopic about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs gets the look right in design and casting. But even Jobs, a dedicated aesthete,...
Original post made on Aug. 22, 2013There are no comments yet. 6776 Views
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Standing up in the face of cancerStand-up comedian and cancer patient Steve Mazan will be making an appearance at El Camino Hospital on Tuesday, Oct. 4, to...
Original post made on Sep. 30, 2011Last comment by Jason, on Sep 30, 2011 at 2:47 pm | 1 comment | 6718 Views
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Review: 'Hunger Games'"The Hunger Games" is a little bit "The Most Dangerous Game," a little bit "Lord of the Flies," a little bit "The Truman...
Original post made on Mar. 25, 2012Last comment by Christopher Parkinson, on Mar 25, 2012 at 2:22 pm | 1 comment | 6599 Views
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Review: 'The Spectacular Now'A mature film tenderly performed by its young leads and skillfully adapted from Tim Tharp's YA novel. -P.C. Read the full...
Original post made on Aug. 22, 2013There are no comments yet. 6458 Views
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Figuring out how to feed kids when they're not in schoolThe pandemic forced most school districts to rethink how they feed children and what role schools should play in combating...
Original post made on Jun. 2, 2021There are no comments yet. 6427 Views
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MVHS grad's movie in African film festA documentary by a filmmaker with local ties will be among the nearly three dozen films featured in this year's Silicon Valley...
Original post made on Sep. 30, 2011Last comment by Deffria Bass, on Sep 30, 2011 at 3:12 pm | 2 comments | 6138 Views
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Living Classroom's 'hands-on' program growingThough some have trouble pronouncing the word, the students in Evelyn Wester's third-grade class at Landels Elementary School...
Original post made on Jan. 8, 2014Last comment by lucy, on Jan 8, 2014 at 5:05 pm | 1 comment | 6137 Views
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Google makes its silver screen debutVince Vaughn and Owen Wilson star in "The Internship" -- which finds the two actors playing out-of-work, 40-something salesmen...
Original post made on Jun. 7, 2013Last comment by Str8 2 Video, on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:19 am | 9 comments | 5917 Views
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The Pear Avenue Theatre celebrates 10th seasonThe saying may be well worn, but Diane Tasca insists there is no better way for her to express what she loves about the stage:...
Original post made on Sep. 25, 2011Last comment by DL, on Sep 25, 2011 at 10:54 pm | 2 comments | 5892 Views
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Review: 'What's Your Number?'Based on Karen Bosnak's novel "20 Times a Lady," "What's Your Number?" is frothy and predictable, occasionally annoying (the...
Original post made on Sep. 30, 2011Last comment by NeHi, on Sep 30, 2011 at 8:30 pm | 2 comments | 5864 Views
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New Batkid film has local origin storyOn Nov. 15, 2013, 5-year-old cancer survivor Miles Scott had his wish come true for one day, he got to don a costume and...
Original post made on Jul. 17, 2015Last comment by Lydia Sherrill, on Jul 17, 2015 at 5:20 pm | 1 comment | 5820 Views
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Man indicted for cyberattack on Voice website appears in courtA San Francisco man accused of a cyberattack on MV-Voice.com and other websites owned by Embarcadero Media appeared in federal...
Original post made on May. 25, 2017Last comment by Sue Dremann, on May 25, 2017 at 4:13 pm | 3 comments | 5783 Views
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MV man injured in Highway 85 crashA 27-year-old Mountain View man suffered major injuries in a solo-car accident on Highway 85 on Tuesday, according to CHP...
Original post made on Jan. 21, 2016Last comment by Royce_W, on Jan 25, 2016 at 6:27 am | 2 comments | 5757 Views
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Ice cream 101Five local ice cream shop owners and chefs shared their wisdom about how to achieve that perfectly creamy, mouthwatering...
Original post made on Sep. 23, 2017Last comment by Darin, on Sep 27, 2017 at 2:34 pm | 2 comments | 5533 Views
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Bay Area on heightened alert after bombings in BrusselsBay Area law enforcement agencies are stepping up their presence this morning at airports and transit centers after deadly...
Original post made on Mar. 22, 2016Last comment by Overtime?, on Mar 22, 2016 at 10:21 pm | 2 comments | 5517 Views
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'Lost interview' with Jobs to screen in Palo AltoA "lost interview" with the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will be screened in Palo Alto Nov. 16 through Nov. 22. Parts...
Original post made on Nov. 7, 2011Last comment by Al, on Nov 7, 2011 at 2:28 pm | 1 comment | 5435 Views
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