Biology allows men to have kids much later in life than women, but is there a recommended cut-off age for fatherhood? Reporter Mark de la Vina spoke to numerous men in the South Bay about the ideal age to stop bringing children into the world.

Dean and Nooch go into hand-to-hand combat over the console wars. Nooch takes Dean to task for being dismissive of the Wii over the past year. But Dean says the Wii is so popular because of its price. Also Xbox failures; is there a problem?

Our music critics make their picks on what best to check out at Noise Pop, San Francisco’s indie music festival. Shay Quillen of the Mercury News picks Josh Ritter and Roky Erickson. Jim Harrington of the Oakland Tribune picks The Donnas, Honeycut and The Dandy Warhols. Marian Liu of the San Jose Mercury News picks Lyrics Born, The Coup and Macromantics. And, Mark de la Vina of the Mercury News picks The Clean, Clinic and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.

Rapper Jin Au-Yeung, known previously as “The Emcee” talks about going indie, his Cantonese album, working with Taiwanese pop idol Wang Lee Hom and why he rapped against Rosie O’Donnell.

American Idol contestant Paul Kim talks about being from the South Bay and being a pool boy. He also goes into why his lucky charms are a certain pair of underwear and going barefoot. And although he mentions William Hung as a motivation, he does not want to be seen as only THE Asian contestant, but rather be known for his talent.

Here’s Dean’s interview with Reggie Fils-Aime, the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America. We talked about the success of the Nintendo Wii and the DS at the Dice Summit in Las Vegas.

Matt Sanchez brings us up-to-date on what’s happening with the web video service Videoegg, and talks about the web video space in general, including where advertising is headed.

The director of such movies as “Blue Velvet,” “The Elephant Man” and “Mulholland Drive” talks about “Inland Empire,” his newest film.

Multimedia DJ Mike Relm mixes both music and video, creating a pop culture experience with clips from Fight Club and music as eclectic as Peanuts and Bjork.

Chris Wink, a Blue Man Group founder, talks about how the group got started and how they found their current tour opener, Mike Relm, through YouTube.