How to make complex taxonomy searches How do I make complex taxonomy searches? Simplifying my drupal database to the following example (number in quotes are the taxonomy numbers assigned by drupal):

Nodes = Blogs, Stories, Questions, Forums

The following are taxonomy dropboxes

Author = A.Tan(1), B.Chua(2), C.Smith(3), D.Perez(4)
Category = Gadgets(5), Food(6), Movies(7), Entertainment(8)

I want to make a complex search for example all Blogs by B.Chua pertaining only to Movies category? I could almost do this with the advance search since it allows checkboxes to search particular nodes and taxonomy however would not accept a blank or asterix as a search word.
You can do that with Views. Create view for nodes, add a filter for these two vocabularies and expose them, so that they can be selected by the user.