Cover Story: All Your Base Are Belong To Us
What is the CIA really doing at its startup on Sand Hill Road? Conspiracy theorist Jonathan Vankin goes snooping to find out.

News: Circle Dance
What do you do when you walk out the door of your official job at San Jose City Hall? You figure out how to make a lot of money holding it open for others.

Metropolis News Extras

• Campbell: Westmont and Prospect both report threats of violence.
  
• Willow Glen: City begins plan to buy parcels for extension of creek trail.
  
• Saratoga: Physician accused of sexual assault involving female patient in prison.

Dynamo Hummers: Latest incarnation of Persian Gulf military vehicle is a disco on wheels.

Public Eye: Columbus-smasher blames God. Merc names Miami bean counter to replace Harris.Cunneen alights on Chamber throne.

Notes From the Underbelly: Golfland, My Xanadu.

Work: The Other Valley.

Cuban Jam: Adalberto Alvarez blends traditional and modern sounds at the Usual.

All Shook Down: Being Chris Isaak on TV is a lot like being Chris Isaak in real life.

Aural Fixation: Santa Cruz band Sin in Space whirls with possibility.

Sex on the Beach: Pleasing Spanish import 'Nico and Dani' follows a sexually confused summer on the Costa Brava.

All Uphill: The ponderous 'Himalaya' offers a slow ride on yak back.

Jail Bonding: Two inmates form an unlikely friendship in 'The Kiss of the Spider Woman.'

This Is a Show: 'This Is Not a Book' exhibition at ICA in San Jose deconstructs our ideas about the readable object.

The Great Basin: Saratoga favorite keeps it coming with a menu of comforting and inventive delights.