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Flood Control Benefit Assessment Rates for FY 2011-12

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Flood Control Benefit Assessment Rates for Fiscal Year 2011-12

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Santa Clara Valley Water District

When:

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 9:00 a.m.

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Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Room 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118

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EDITORIAL EDIT ORIAL This public hearing will cover the “Flood Control Benefit Assessments Report, 2011-2012 through 2029-2030, dated “April 2011.� The written report incorporates by reference a description of each parcel and the expected amount of assessment under the approved formula for each parcel within the flood control zones of the District. At the hearing, the Board of Directors will hear any and all protests. At the conclusion of the hearing, the Board may adopt or revise any assessment and will make its determination upon each assessment referred to in the report. A copy of the report may be inspected at the Office of the Clerk of the Board at the above address at any time during business hours. Copies of the report have also been placed and may be inspected at the following locations:

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Before word leaked out through the usual channels that councilman ASH KALRA had been arrested and charged with a DUI early Saturday morning, Kalra and his chief of staff, JOSEPH OKPAKU, were already in damage-control mode. They beat the CHiPs to the punch by holding a casual press conference at Kalra’s home. There in his comfy living room, Kalra told the gathered reporters, some of whom may very well have been nursing hangovers themselves, that he had already apologized to Mayor CHUCK REED and his fellow city councilmembers. Kalra owned up to his “error in judgment,” which likely portends a “no contest” plea. Surely motivated by expediency as much as by humility, Kalra then

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Kalra obviously realized it was best to face the music rather than let the story linger. And sure enough, just two days after the arrest, a Merc editorial praised Kalra for setting “an example for public officials caught in less-than-exemplary behavior.” The editorial went on to make a less-than-exemplary comparison to former presidential candidate JOHN EDWARDS, who in 2008 repeatedly denied that he had an estranged love child. Unmentioned was this piece of irony: Just three days before he was pulled over early Saturday morning for having a brake light out, Kalra had hosted a “Safe Teen Driver” event at Oak Grove High School. Hopefully Kalra warned the kids to check their tail lights before hopping behind the wheel when leaving a party.

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We are in Milpitas at a symposium called “Inventing the Future of Games,” and Wright is delivering a dizzying stream of ideas. There’s a lengthy and completely off-topic diversion into the story of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun somewhere in the middle of it. It’s hard to precisely locate Wright’s topic, let alone his point, but nobody here seems bothered by that. To illustrate the direction in which games are headed, he offers a surprisingly mundane image: an enormous magazine rack. Just as there are periodicals devoted to every arcane niche interest of every community and demographic, there will, Wright says, be games for everything and everybody. And everybody will play them. The symposium was organized by UC–Santa Cruz’s Center for Games and Playable Media, one of the few university programs where students

engage in PhD-level research into gaming. Among the video game designers and theorists here are some of the biggest thinkers in the virtual world. Now is a good time to be thinking about the future of games. Despite critical resistance, games are now regarded as an art form—game designers are now officially eligible for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. The $15 billion industry now reaches 65 percent of American homes, and those numbers continue to grow. Frankly, that fact makes the hardcore distinctly uncomfortable. During a panel on “Games and the Future of Culture,” Ian Bogost, a noted critic and designer, addresses the broadening of the games landscape referred to by Wright. Bogost describes a world in which the medium has become as ubiquitous and mundane as photography, and is being used for as many purposes. “Like it or not, what we really do when we work to advance video games is to make them more ordinary and more familiar.”

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Revenge of the Nerds At the Milpitas symposium, many of the speakers seem to take for granted that the growth of the medium will be mean outgrowing the community that traditionally supports it. But the audience here seems to be uncomfortable with that idea. This is a crowd of gamers. At the end of the culture panel, during the Q&A, an audience member brings up the notion that in the future everyone will be a gamer. Bogost responds that, on the contrary, the total victory of games would mean that in future there are no “gamers.” It will make no sense to

talk as if a tendency to play games is noteworthy. But here in the present, the barriers that limit and protect the community are still in place, and they still matter. As a member of the press, I am looked at with slight suspicion. When I tell one young aspiring game designer that I am here representing Metro, she asks me, skeptically, if I am a gamer. The implied other half of this question is “or are you a phony?” The truth is that I am a gamer. But I am most definitely a part of the broadening that will make that word almost meaningless. Noah Waldrip-Fruin, and codirector of the school’s Expressive Intelligence Studio, defines “culture” as “what we can say to each other, and who can say it.” His studio is currently working on tools to enable that, and he demonstrated the Kudo AI Lab, a highly accessible program designed to help children create games based around relationships, social dynamics and stories. Now that games are a major cultural product, Waldrip-Fruin says he sees something like a moral imperative to make the tools of game design more accessible, to expand the range of not just who plays games but also who can say things with games, and what they can say with games. This would be a broadening more radical than any other imagined or proposed today. If Waldrip-Fruin has his way games will not just be for everyone, but by everyone as well. The games of the future will not be made by gamers.

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Earthquakes Starting To Rumble? Results for the San Jose Earthquakes to start the season have been disappointing—OK, they’ve been dreadful—but that might be changing with the return of defender Ike Opara, who headed home an overtime goal last week to give the club a 1-0 win over the Portland Timbers. After losing three straight, it seems the Earthquakes finally said “enough is enough,” and let out some pent-up aggression against the Timbers. The game was chippy at best—the ref

handed out eight yellow cards. While San Jose now has only two victories on the season, a healthy Opara will be crucial in stabilizing the Earthquakes back line. Numerous foot and leg injuries have slowed the No. 3 pick of the 2010 draft, but Opara says he’s finally close to 100 percent. An away game Wednesday in Vancouver could give the boys a chance to put together their first winning streak of the season, before coming back home to host the Columbus Crew at 7:30pm Saturday at Buck Shaw Stadium.

Giants Gaining Strength It’s good to be a Giant these days. Both San Francisco and San Jose’s baseball behemoths currently sit in second place, and the local team is just a game out of first place in the CAL North standings. A four-game series with the Lancaster Jethawks continues Wednesday through Friday, with a 7pm first pitch out at Muni for each night. A head-to-head matchup with the first-place Stockton Ports (which has to be one of the blandest team names in sports) will start Saturday with a threegame series that closes out Monday. Along with the cheap prices for grub and beer, minor-league ball prides itself on promotions, and Friday’s night game will have several. The first 1,000 fans will receive thunder sticks, which in our mind has always made crowds resemble an angry swarm of insects. The raucous evening will culminate in a postgame fireworks show. If those don’t float your barco, on Sunday the Gigantes will offer a free baseball clinic a few hours before the game, and on Monday fans can wear their favorite jersey to score two free tickets for the future.—Josh Koehn

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sccheme, an “interim incubatorscheme, incubatoro perator” p osition, sseveral everal ffundraising undraising operator” position, st trategies, implementations implementations for for o strategies, m management, , facilities, facilities, technology, technology, ccapital a al replacement apit replacement and even even an exit exit st trategy ffor o or the seed donors onc strategy oncee th heir supp ort is no longer needed. needed. their support T plan also outlines how to reduce The red duce d dep endency gradually on the city city for fo or dependency fi nancial assistance. assistance. Pending Pending the the city’s city’s financial ap pproval, a pilot pilot program program will will soon soon approval, la aunch to test all these ideas launch ideas.. taking over over op erations off After taking operations th he plaza fr om Me xican Herit agee the from Mexican Heritage C orporation in 20 08,, the San JJose osse Corporation 2008, C Cit ouncil dir ected its st aff to Cityy C Council directed staff as ssemble a ccommunity ommunitty steering assemble ccommittee o ommit tee to study and reinvent rein nventt the lo ong-term, pr ogrammatic mission n long-term, programmatic o ble ainab off the plaza, including a sust sustainable fu unding and go vernance mo del. funding governance model. F ollowing se veral meetings Following several b etween JJuly uly 20 09 and April 201 10, between 2009 2010, th he 13-member 13-member ccommittee ommittee appr oved the approved a new new vision ffor o or the pr operty as property

community school school of o arts arts and a community culture. After the city’s city’s unanimous culture. vote one month later, later, the committee committee vote began “Phase Phase II,” II, II ” that is, is, writing the began th he community community business plan, doing the outreach, marketing marketing research research and outreach, institutions. visiting sites of similarr institutions. Connie Martinez Martinez and an nd Tamara Taamara Connie 1stACT Silicon Siilicon Alvarado of 1stACT Vaalley— —two of the pla an’s primar Valley—two plan’s primaryy authors—spoke authors—spoke to thee City City Council’s Council’s Community Community and Economic Econ nomic Development Development Committee Commiittee a few few weeks ago, ago, emphasizing emphasizin ng that the business plan b i l includes i l d s “eventually “ ventually “e t ll developing developing a Latino Latino leadership leeadership program program of local local folks, fo olkss, not some high-floating people people from from out of town.”” But they they added d that the cultural offerings off ffeerings of the th he MHP will not be be limited to just the MexicanMexicanAmerican American community. community. Alvarado told me that th hat potential potential funders from from the private private sector, sector, including Adobe Adobe and the Shortino Shortino Family Foundation, Foundation, are arre gung-ho on the idea of supporting youth supporting t youth programs. programs. The youth youth component component is what brought brought them m on board board as potential potential donors. donors. “We, “W We, as an arts arts community, com mmunity, need to show that we valuee kids,” kids,” she said. “Establishing “Establishing a school schooll of arts arts and

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culture culture at the plaza is the best best and highest use use of the facility.” facility.” The business busiiness plan says, saays y , “One thing that everyone eveeryo one in Silicon Silicon Valley Valle a y cares cares about about regardless regaardless of sector, sector, ethnicity, ethnicity, geography, geography, gender gender or or age age is is our our children. children.” The T plan’s plan n’s authors believe believe this this idea idea “has “hass the the right right mix mix of of relevant relevant arts arts and cultural cu ultural offerings, off ffeerings, community communitty support, support,, entrepreneurial en ntrepreneurial spirit and a mortgage-free mortgage-ffree facility facilitty serving serving lowincome income children chiildren and families to attract atttract t philanthropic philan nthropic support. support.” Amen. Amen. I hope hope they they offer off ffeer creative-writing creative-writing classes classses for for the kids as well. I remember remem mber when the plaza first opened, opened,, in n 1999. 1999. The theater was was the most high-tech venue h venue of its kind in thee South Bay. Baay. The soundreinforcement reinffo orcem ment system system alone must have haave cost cost a few few million. The MHP looked looked gorgeous gorrgeous on the inside, inside, but from outsiide it appeared from outside appeared fortresslike for o tresslike and cut off ff from from the neighborhood. neighborhood. d It didn’t didn’t look lo ook welcoming. welcoming. Many Many observers ob bservers questioned its vision, direction and target direction e target audience. audience. Was it a place place for for o the community community to take take part parrt in affordable aff ffo ordable activities or was was it a venue venue for fo or high rollers rollers to drop drop $150 $150 for for o a concert? concert? The powers-that-be powers-that-be didn’t didn’t seem to have haave any an ny answers. answeers. It appeared appeared that no one was in charge, was really really e charge, giving the impression impression n that the project project was was yet yet another anotheer failed Redevelopment Rede e velopment Agency to build something Agency attempt attempt t that resembled resem mbled Disneyland, Disneyland, in order order to do do something to make make San Jose Jose look look like l e a big city lik city as soon soon as possible, possible, but b without any any realistic realistic plan of who wh ho or what was was going to run the place. place. (If you’re you’re new new in town, this is how w everything everything in San Jose Jose was was done in i those days.) daays y .) In In any any event, event, the the authors authors of of the the new new business business plan plan seem seem to to have havve learned from from o all of these mistakes. mistakes. Alvarado says s ys part say par t of the overall overall plan plan is is to to reconnect reconnect the the facility facility with with the the community. community. “We “W We need to figure figure out how we w can can radiate outwards,” outwards,” she said. “That “T That neighborhood neighborhood is entrepreneurial. entrepreneeurial. There There are are close to 500 500 small businesses in that area. area. There’s There’s a lot lo ot of strength strength and hustle. hustle. We We want wantt to t build b ild that th t up.” up.”

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Xenith rresembles essembles a spac spaceship eship liable to la launch aunch into orbit without warning. w arning. It I will be be on display displaay at the Maker Mak er Fai Faire, ire, no doubt surr surrounded ounded byy general b general-interest l-interest ga gawkers aw wkers and solar nerds ner ds alik alike. e. The 20-person 20-person Solar Car Car Pr Project oject team has b been een designing the Xenith model mo del sinc since ce last yyear, ear, and the members’ memb ers’’ enthusiasm stems fr from om their cconďŹ dence onďŹ ďŹ dence that this one is bee the best going to b best one yet. yet. goal isn’t race. “Our go oal isn ’t to ďŹ nish the rac e. Our goal is i to win,â€?â€? asserts asserts Sam D’Amico. racee he sp speaks D’ ’A Amico. The T rac eaks of is the World Solar Challenge—a W orld Sol o lar Challenge —a biennial 2,000-mile-trek 2,0 00-mille-trek across across the continent continent Australia of A ustralia from from the northern northern city city Darwin Adelaide of Dar win n to A delaide in the south. race, October, The rac e, scheduled ffor o or Octob er, isn’t much isn ’t so mu uch about about speed, speed,, since since participants obey speed par ticipan nts must ob ey sp eed limits; it’s moree ab it ’s mor aabout out efficiency and each holding Off all vvehicle ehicle ho olding its own. O world’s of the wor rld’s ccontests ontests involving involving solar-powered solar -poweered cars, cars, the World Wo orld Solar Challenge is considered considered the most prestigious, attracting pr estigiou us, at tracting the most innovative inno vative solar cars cars on the planet. The T he tthree-wheeled hree-wheeled car car (two (two in in the the

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MAKER FFAIRE AIRE 20 “I think there there is a futur futuree ffor or solar o p ower, and d ther o or power, theree is a futur futuree ffor electric cars, carss, but not so much for for o solar ccars. ars. This T is a one -person ccar; ar; one-person ther cargo capacity,” capacity,” D’Amico D’’A Amico theree is no cargo admits nd even even if ther ay admits.. An And theree wer weree a w way to craft a mor m al”” solar moree “practic “practical” solar-p owered vvehicle, e ehicle , that ’s not rreally eally the powered that’s p oint of alll of their research. research. point “It ’s not that this is the future future of “It’s ccars. ars. It ’s that thatt there tha ther th e are are a lot l t off teams t It’s ccompetitively ompetitivvely working on solar ener gy, acti ively rresearching esearching and energy, actively testing it, and a we ’re making a lot of we’re pr ogress on n it,”” says saayys Fenichel. Fenichel. progress

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the Metro photo exhibit featuring local photographers

Illustration by Chris Hack

South First Fridays @ 550 S First

with various ar artt pr projects—horses, ojeects—horses, UFOs and d “alien “ li b bug things tthings,” hi ,” all ll strapped strapp ed to rremote-controlled emote- contr o olled monster trucks trucks,, and all a rreceived eceived with great gr eat enthusiasm by by his h p peers. eers. It w wasn’t asn’t until the under u underwaterwaterthemed yyear ear of Burnin Burning ng Man, though, that a sswimming wimm ming shark began b egan to ttake ake fform orm o in n the shadows of W Williams’s illiams’ i s mind, an and nd six yyears ears after he began began working workin ng with el wire, wire, he crafted his most popular popular o and piecee of wo work intriguing piec ork to date: a 4ffoot-long oot-long neon shark named n Sparky. Sparky. “There’s moree than “Ther e’s ju-ju ju--jju to it. It IIt’s ’s mor jjust ust a fish. fish. There’s There’s the the danger dan nger side side tto o iit, t,” says says Williams. Williams. “It’s “It’s one one of of the the more more powerful p owerful animals on the t planet.” weeks,, W Williams, Sparky In ttwo wo weeks illia i ams, Spark ky three sharks, and thr ks, ccomplete omplete ee other shark

with glowi glowing ing eyes eyes and neon flashing jaws, ja aw ws, will ill p ply l the h cr crowds owds d at the h Maker Mak er Faire. Faire. Williams W iilliam ms crafted Sparky Sparky working overtime—over o vertime— over 2 250 50 hours to b bee eexact—in xact—in a sculpting class. class. “The firs first st time I dr drove ove it w was as better b etter than n I had dr dreamed,” eamed,”” says saayys Williams, W iilliams, his h eyes eyes aglow with the memory. memor y. Sparky’s S kyy’s skeleton Spark skeleton was was fashioned with wire, wire, welded into a shark shark-shaped -shaaped basket, basket,, and then with scaly ccovered overed wi ith a sc aly aluminum screen, scr een, papier-mâché pap pier-mâché and paint. The rresult, esu ult, should one catch catch i da daylight, aylight, y is a realisticrealisticsight of it in looking lo oking sharkskin. sh harkskin. The final touch outlining is outlinin ng the whole shape shape with wire, with jaws, el wir e, wi ith segmented ja aw ws, gills and tails tails a lit in succession succession to

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Landsharks are Landsharks are EExhibit xhibit 4415 115 in the Room Dark R oom m of the Fiesta Building. Williams will w be running the Sharks Sharks ffor or 20 minutess on the hour every hour excep except pt noon.

create the illusion of breathing create b eathing br and d biting. biting bi i . P Perched erched h d on n long l met metal all rrods ods above above her remote-controlled remotee- controlled vvehicle, ehicle, Sparky Sparky swims swims a couple couple ffeet eeet off the gr ground—the ound—th he perfect perfeect height for for o nibbling at the t calves calves of unsuspecting unsusp ecting festivalgoers. festivalgo e oers. started “What st arted as a ttoy oy to play plaay desertt ffor with in the deser or o a week favorite,” turned into a cult fa avorite o ,” says saayys Williams, W iilliams, who is coming comin ng to be be known as “the “the shark guy” gu uy” and now has ffour our o “f “festival-durable” festivale durab ble” sharks, sharks, ttwo wo modeled modeled after thee average average great gr eat white-type white-type shark k (Spark (Sparkyy and Bet Betty) tty) and two two hammerheads haammerheads (a.k.a. “glamorheads”),, Hammie and Stella. Williams Wiilliams had ju just ust returned returned from fr om Coachella, Coachella,, where where he had been been ccommissioned ommissioned to troll troll the fields with

Aquabot A quabbot Adventurerr Eric Stackpole Adventurer Stackpole has b been een burning th the he candle candle at b both oth ends ends.. Designing his h second second R Remotely eemotely Operated Op erated Vehicle Veehicle ffor or under o underwater water eexploration xploration n is “just a work of passion,”” hee tells me—a me—a passion he somehow finds fi time for for o while in the middle of writing w his senior thesis at the University Univversity of Sant Santaa Clara’ Clara’s ’s School Scho ol of Mechanical M Mechanic al Engineering Engineering.. But dividing divid dingg his time between between school school and building robots robots is only one of St Stackpole’s acckpole’s ttalents. alents. He onc oncee built a robot robot o named ESTR ESTR and ccontrolled ontrolled her from from his dorm room, room, attending at tending lectures l lectur es rremotely emotely with the webcam-toting webcam m-toting rrobot obot while an

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the neon creatures crreatures each night of the three-day thr ee- daay festival. fe festival. “You never “Y Yo ou ne ver know what people people will do.. I’ve do I’ve had d people people run up and tackle tackle “Every them,”” says saays y Williams. Wiilliams. “Ev ery night there’s usually ther e’s usua ally one incident.” incident.” And sincee most people never sinc people have haave ne ver seen a toward neon shark k swimming swimming tow ard them dark, in the dark k, there there are are thousands of different to be diff ffeerent reactions reactions e be had. brings kids,, “It b bring i gs so much h joy j y to jo t kids kid adults,, teen teens. people adults ns. A ffew ew p eople are are byy iit, don’t sscared cared b t, tthough. hough. I d on’t know know it’s if it ’s ancient ancien nt wiring or spiders and ssnakes, nak kes,” he he ssays. ays. Williams Williams tells tells anyone an nyone intimidated d by by the shark that it’s it’s a kids,, vvegetarian. egetarian. “It works ffor or most kids o there’s but still, the ere’s an element to it that percent off tthe people tterrifies errifies aabout bout 5 p ercent o he p eople who Williams w ho ssee ee iit. t.” W illiams has hass also allso noticed noticed tthe he p sychology o ow p eople b ehave psychology off h how people behave d depending epending o on n tthe he ssharks’ harrks’ genders. genders. “If “If Ib ring ttwo wo m ales, p eople ssay, ay, ‘Fight! ‘Fight! bring males, people F Fight!’ ight!’ aand nd w when hen I b bring ring Hammie Ham mmie an and nd Bet ty, the ay ‘Kiss!’ Betty, theyy sa say ‘Kiss!’”” W Williams iilliamss will be be bringing all ffour our o ks to the Mak er Fair of his shark sharks Maker Fairee this yyear, ear, while w a lif life-size fe-size 12-f 12-footfootshark pr ow wls the far rreaches prowls eaches of his imaginatio imagination—one on— one lar large ge enough to ride says sa y . “It would rrequire equire ride,, he says. financ finances es an and nd a truck with a trailer. trailer. I’m ’ just j w ai i ffor aiting or o eeverything verything hi to waiting line up up,” ,” hee says. saays y.

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I N T E R N AT I O N A L

RUSSIAN MUSIC PIANO

COMPETITION

The International Russian Music Piano Competition is a 501C-3 non-profit organization with a mission of providing excellence and education through competition and performance with emphasis on Russian Music

BENEFIT CONCERT for

The Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami Victims Performances by Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Top prize Van Cliburn Winner William Wellborn, Professor San Francisco Conservatory Matti Raekallio, Professor Juilliard School of Music Namik Sultanov, Professor at San Jose State University

Friday June 3, 2011 7:30 p.m. Le Petit Trianon Theatre 72 North 5th Street downtown San Jose

Piano Recital All proceeds benefit The Japanese Relief Effort

The International Russian Music Piano Competition is supported in part by a grant from the City of San Jose, and is funded in part by a grant from Arts Council Silicon Valley.

Admission: $25 General $20 Students and Seniors $50 VIP includes priority seating and wine tasting sponsored by Joseph George Fine Wines Tickets: 866 468-3399 408 927-7686 www.ticketweb.com www.artsoplis.com www.eventbrite.com

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How does spirituality enhance mental health?

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of Ear Earth’s th’s o oceans ceans and the highest llatitudes atitudes o off M Mars’ arrs’ poles poles . . . and and many many p places laces iin nb between—has etween—hass b been een with with telerobots, teler obots,� Stackpole Stackpole explains. explains. His H is llatest atest Remotely Remotely Operated Operated Vehicle—we’ll V ehicle—we’ll ccall alll iitt tthe he ssecond econd OpenROV now—was inspired byy Op enR ROV ffor or now—w o as inspir ed b desiree to delvee into the m mysterious his desir o delv yysterious City Cave. depths of Hall H Cit ty C ave. Cityy is a ccave Hall Cit ave in the mountains Northern California mount ainss of N orthern C aliffo ornia seemingly waterwith a seem mingly bottomless bottomless w ater-

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MAKER FFAIRE AIRE 27 filled shaft rumor rumored ed to o ccontain ontain a stash st ash of stolen gold hidden hiidden there there b byy Nativee Americ Nativ Americans ans dur during ring the Gold Rush. many people have R ush. u Although man ny p eople ha ave attempted at tempted to explore explore the shaft, no one has eever ver rreached eached its i end. ““Using Using a home-built home-built Open-ROV Open-ROV ssubmarine, ubmarine, I intend intend to to telerobotically telerobotically parts off tthis eexplore xplore tthe he p arrts o his ssubmerged ubmerged byy llabyrinth ab byrinth that that have have neve neve been been sseen een b before, Stackpole says, human eyes eyees b effo ore,” St tackpole sa ayys, with w ith a vverve erve tthat hat Jules Jules Verne Verne would would have admired. ha ave admir ed.

;\j`^e ^ nfib `j b` kiXej]\iXYc\# kiXej]\i ] iXYc\# Xe[ k_\ Xe[ k_\ [ k_ ] Zfjk f] [ c gd\ek [\m\cfgd\ek [\m\cfgd `j jgi\X[ ``j jgi\X[ [ [ Xdfe^ lj\ij Xdfe^ l ^ lj\ij Xe[ j_Xi\[ Xe[ j_Xi [ _ i\[ [ n`k_`e X n`k_`e n`k_`e X X Zfddle`kp Zfddle e`kp f] g\fgc\ ] c\ notable aspect But the most not ab ble asp ect of Stackpole’s new telerobot St ackpole’s ne w teler o ot is that it is ob “open-hardware project,” an “op en-hardware pr roject,”” meaning bee built fr from “everyday that it will b o “e om verydaay parts,” that bee easily par ts,” or materials tha at can can b obtained obt ained at tech and hardware h dware har stores (Stackpole stor es (St ackpole often n works at the TechShop Park, was T echShop e in Menlo P a which w ark, as started byy JJim Newton, Maker st arted b im N ewton n,, a Mak er Fairee par participant operates Fair ticipant and op erates likee a ggym techies.) entiree lik ym ffor o or techies .) The entir open free blueprint will be be op en n and fr ee to public.. the public The open-hardware movement T he o pen-harrdwarre m ovement ((an an offshoot o ffsshoot of ff of the the open-source open-source software software potential. ethos) has huge p oten ntial Design ntial. work w ork iiss ttransferable, ransferab ble, and and the the cost cost off d development o evelopment iiss spread spread among among users u sers and an nd shared shared within within a community community people. of p eople. off ttimes, most brilliant ““A A llot ot o imes, tthe he m ost b rillian nt happen aand nd ccapable apab ble eengineers ngineers h ap ppen tto o

like open-hardware like open-h hardw waare stuff too, too,” says saayys Stackpole. S tacckpole. The The one one sstipulation tipulation for for the the open-hardware op en-hardw waare pr project oject is that it always alwayys public rremain emain iin n tthe he p ublic domain—all domain—alll modifications and ssubsequent ubsequent m odifications an nd iimprovements mprovements in in design design are are to to be shared shar ed with h the community communitty just as the was. first design nw as a. So,, a pr project motivated by So o oject by an desiree to share altruistic desir d share the ability ability world’ss mysterious to eexplore xplore the world’ mysterious parts, par ts, and not by by patents, patents, copyrights copyrights profits? or pr ofits? It’s It’s almost too too altruistic to believe. But Stackpole’s b elieve. Bu ut listening to St ackpole’s animated breakdown b eakdown of his work, it br becomes b ecomes apparent a appar ent that this is exactly exactly OpenROV project about. what the Op O enR ROV pr oject is ab out. “Imagine “Imagin ne what we could could do if the person access aaverage verage p e erson had ac cess to serious telerobotic teler oboticc eexploration xploration equipment and ccould ould conduct conduct expeditions expeditions to unknown places places on his or her own same a video with the sa ame ease as playing plaaying y game.. That’s game Thaat’s what I envision envision for for o OpenROV,” Stackpole Op enR ROV,” St ackpole says. saayys. addition In addit tion to the sense of adventure, potential otential adv enture, the OpenROV’s OpenR ROV’s p sciencee is impact on n environmental environmental scienc hard byy har d to ignore. ign nore. ““Most Most people people llive ive b bodies off w water, and most people don’t b odies o ater, an nd m ost p eople d on’t have ability what’s ha ave the ab bilitty to see what ’s inside way people them. This is a w ay to let p eople see what’s under water and w hat’s u nder tthe he w ater an nd ggive ive tthat hat access Stackpole. ac cess to eeverybody, ver e ybodyy,” says saayys St ackpole. Hee eexplains when people hear orr H xplains tthat hat w hen p eople h earr o off o our rread ead d aabout bout tthe he eendangered ndangered sstate tate o ur oceans, it’s easyy to rremain unaffected— o ceans, it ’s eas emain unaff ffeected— when eespecially specially if if yyou ou llive ive iinland—but nland—but w hen people actually underwater p eople can can n ac ctually ssee ee tthe he u nderwater world being w orld aand nd tthe he ccreatures reatures tthat hat aare re b eing endangered, becomes moree than just endanger ed d,, it b ecomes mor distant idea—it a dist ant id dea—it confirms confirms a rreality. ealitty. When ask aasked ed about about his source source motivation, of motivat tion,, he rrecalls ecalls meeting American aerospace the Ameri ican aer ospace engineer, engineer, Burtt R Rutan—designer Bur u utan n— designer of the first spacecraft—who privately funded f spacecraft—who told him: “T ““Take Taake yyour our cconcepts oncepts and them.”” build them m and fly them. “I think what he meant is, is, don’t don’t just about think ab ou ut it and talk talk about about it. Try Try it?? I to took it out. Why Wh hy not just do it ok that heart. to hear t. I’ve I’vve tried to make mak ke it so that anytime something,, an nyytime II’m m interested interested in something You do more tto o jjust ust ttry ry to to build build it. it. Y ou ccan an nd om ore think, Stackpole. than yyou o ou th hink,” says saays y St ackpole. OpenROV debuts at EExhibit OpenROV xhibit 38 in the EExpo xpo Build Building, ding, and is aiming to impr impress. ess. updates openROV.com. Get updat es at open ROV.com.

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CAPERS Well-heeled sports bar and restaurant. $$$. Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Well-devised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious finger foods. 11am-10:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-midnight FriSat, 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777. LA PIZZERIA Italian. $$. La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand on the strength of a few high-quality ingredients, expertly prepared. Open for lunch and dinner daily. 11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am11pm Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Ave. 408.370.0826.

MICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi standards are transformed into palate-awakening presentations; culinary boundaries are stretched. 11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.378.8000 or 378.0838. NEGEEN Persian. $$. Mira ghasemi, grilled and puréed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, puréed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs. Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice cream. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-midnight Fri-Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400. PSYCHO DONUTS Donuts. $. Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory with flavors like apricot, the Cookie Monster (topped with Oreos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits of vanilla wafers) and the intimidating Psycho Donut, a

maelstrom of marshmallow, pretzel and chile powder. 6am5pm Mon-Thu, 6am-11pm Fri, 7am-11pm Sat, 7am-5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester Blvd #C. 408.378.4540.

RUSSIAN CAFÉ AND DELI Russian. $$. This is a small Russian grocery store with a good little restaurant tucked in the corner. Borscht soup, pelmeni and solyankya sbornaya, a thick soup studded with chunks of mild pork sausage, black olives, pickles and barley all satisfy. 11am8pm daily. 1712 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.379.6680.

SUSHI ZONE Japanese. $$. Fun sushi meets fun surroundings in this zone. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd #1. 408.866.1323. TIGELLERIA Italian. $$. Tigelleria’s menu centers on fine cheeses and Italian salumi paired with tigelle, freeflowing, piping-hot flat-breads the size of mini pitas. The bread forms the addictive heart of the meal. 11:30am-2pm, 510pm daily. 76 E. Campbell Ave. 408.884.3808.

TWIST CAFE AND BISTRO French and American. $$$. Twist describes itself as “American food with a French twist,” but the menu includes Middle Eastern, Asian and Italian influences, too. Cafe 9am-3pm Tue-Sat, 9am2:30pm Sun; Bistro 5-9pm Wed-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 247 E. Campbell Ave. 408.374.8982.

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ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE American-Asian steakhouse. $$$$. Alexander’s is much

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more than a steakhouse. steakhouse Add a 500-bottle wine list, multiple dining rooms and Asianaccented ambience and you’ve got a standout South Bay restaurant. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 10330 N. Wolfe Rd. 408.446.2222.

CAFE TORRE New Italian. $$$. A gem tucked away in an unassuming little mall, with a sophisticated interior and congenial hosts. Even better is the great pasta and seafood. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat. Closed Sun. 20343 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.257.2383.

CUPERTINO BAKERY Indian and bakery. $. Don’t be fooled by the name. Cupertino Bakery is a really great South Indian restaurant. Unlike many South Indian restaurants, Cupertino Bakery isn’t vegetarian. Good lunch buffet for $7.99. Don’t miss the dosa and utthappam. 11:30am-9:30pm daily, but weekdays kitchen closes 2:305:30pm. 102521 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.517.9000.

DYNASTY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Hong Kongstyle Chinese. $$$. Dynasty specializes in Hong Kong-style seafood. The seafood is very fresh, especially the creatures swimming minutes before they arrive on your plate. Good dim sum, too. Full bar. 11am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 10123 N. Wolfe Rd (in Cupertino Square). 408.996.1680.

FLORENTINE RESTAURANT Italian. $. Bold flavors, fresh ingredients and lavish portions.

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ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$.

FONTANA’S California/Italian. $$$. A steady performer, Fontana’s rarely disappoints pasta lovers. Beer, wine. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 5-10pm Sat, 4:30-9pm Sun. 20840 Steven Creek Blvd. 408.725.0188.

Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555.

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$$$. One of downtown San Jose’s most attractive eateries, Bella Mia serves regional dishes with flair. Full bar. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 4:30-10pm Sat, 4:30-8pm Sun. 58 S. First St. 408.280.1993.

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BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$. Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and taste likes the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American, Mexican and Asian food. Most dishes are designed for sharing— appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am-10pm Thu, 11:30am11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat. Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St. 408.292.4300.

kitchen produces good wokcentric dishes, but its main draw is fresh, hand-pulled noodles. Casual. Beer, wine. 11am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri-Sun. 1146 De Anza Blvd. 408.257.8877.

TODAI Japanese. $$. Billed as a Japanese seafood buffet, Todai doesn’t limit itself to Japanese dishes. Pan-Asian and just plain odd specialties rotate. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am-3pm, 5:309:30pm Sat-Sun. Cupertino Square mall (near Sears), 10123 N. Wolfe Rd #2001. 408.996.3444.

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AFFINITY Classic American. $$$. Big-shouldered food in handsome surroundings is the rule. The steaks are big and juicy, the pot pies better than Grandma used to make. Full bar. 300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444.

AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza. $. Amici’s specializes in thin-crust, New York-style pizza. With its upscale atmosphere and friendly service you’ve got one of downtown San Jose’s best pizza shops. 11am-10pm

DALAT Vietnamese. $$. San Jose’s second-oldest Vietnamese restaurant continues to draw those in search of delicious traditional fare. Surroundings are clean and friendly. Lunch and dinner daily. 408 E. William St. 408.294.6989. EULIPIA New American. $$$. The revamped menu emphasizes robust flavors and beautiful presentations. Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:30-9:30pm Sun. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161. FLAMES EATERY AND BAR American. $$. In Silicon Valley, the home-grown Flames restaurant chain is the area’s definitive coffee shop. And now they’ve opened in downtown

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San Jose to great acclaim. 7am-midnight daily. 88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

4TH STREET PIZZA CO. Pizza. $. 4th Street Pizza Co. occupies a prime corner spot on East Santa Clara and Fourth with big windows to watch the comings and goings at City Hall across the street. The thin-crust margherita fell short but the thicker-crust pies are better. 11am-9pm Sun-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat. 150 E. Santa Clara St. 408.286.7500. HOUSE OF SIAM Thai. $. This popular establishment runs the gamut of Thai treasures. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm daily. 151 S. Second St. 408.295.3397.

IL FORNAIO Regional Italian. $$. Embraced by the graceful Sainte Claire Hotel, this location (there are several up and down the coast) transports the diner. The menu showcases a different region of Italy monthly. 7am-10pm Mon-Thu, 7am-11pm Fri, 8am-11pm Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. Full bar. 302 S. Market St. 408.271.3366. KOJI SAKE LOUNGE $$. Japanese. In spite of Koji’s well-tuned atmosphere, it’s the sakes that really set the tone. Koji’s sake list includes tasting notes that help you find one that suits you. Happy hour 6-9pm Wed-Fri with $3 beers and $5 small plates. 6pm-close Wed-Fri, 8pm-close Sat. 48 S. First St. 408.287.7199. LA PASTAIA Italian. $$. La Pastaia remains a stalwart of downtown San Jose’s dining scene. Set inside the Hotel De Anza, the rustic Italian restaurant has big-city style to spare. Lunch 11am-3pm MonFri, noon-2pm Sat-Sun; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm FriSat, 5-9pm Sun. 233 W. Santa Clara St. 408.286.8686. LA VICTORIA TAQUERIA Mexican. $. La Vic’s famously addictive orange hot sauce merely tops off its tasty taqueria fare: big burritos of the breakfast and lunchtime varieties, overflowing nachos, delectable chile rellenos. 7am3am daily. 140 E. San Carlos St. 408.298.5335.

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SVDINING 32 LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$. Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades. Lunch 11am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 110pm Sat and 4-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.

MCCORMICK AND SCHMICK’S Seafood. $$$. Harks back to big-city fish houses with stately, masculine interiors. Menu follows the freshest fruits of the sea, grilled, panseared, steamed. Desserts will hook you. 11:30am-10pm daily; 11pm happy hour Fri-Sat. 170 S. Market St. 408.283.7200. MEZCAL Regional Mexican. $$. Mezcal specializes in delicious regional cuisine from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. People who need nachos and sour-creamtopped burritos on the menu will probably be miffed, but for those willing to venture beyond the same old MexicanAmerican standards, Mezcal offers an excellent point of departure. 11:30am-11pm SunFri and 5-11pm Sat. 25 W. San Fernando St. 408.283.9595.

MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food cooked and served by people with a personal investment in customer happiness. Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-11pm MonSat, Sun 5-9pm. 86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.

MORTON’S STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, a Chicago-based chain of restaurants with more than 80 locations across the U.S. and abroad, offers delicious, premium-priced steaks. The rest of the menu is a mixed bag. 5:30-11pm Mon-Sat, 5-10pm Sun. 177 Park Ave. 408.947.7000.

MUCHOS Mexican. $. A small player with a big rotisserie, this taqueria cultivates a devout lunch following. All standards get billing, but the mesquiteroasted chicken is the star. Beer. 11am-10pm daily. 72 E. Santa Clara St. 408.277.0333.

NAGLEE PARK GARAGE New American. $$. Lots of

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NHA TOI Vietnamese. $$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern-style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am-10pm daily. 460 E. William St. 408.294.2733. ORIGINAL JOE’S ItalianAmerican. $$. For five decades OJ’s has been serving classics of American and ItalianAmerican food with heaping portions of big-city attitude and glamour. The restaurant underwent an extensive remodel, but the menu is the same as it ever was. 11am-1am daily. 301 S. First St. 408.292.7030. PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor. Pagoda offers the gamut of regional all-stars. Full bar. 6-10pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St. 408.998.3937.

PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$. Filled with artistic spins on California-meets-Italy, the kitchen turns out elegant entrees spearheaded by seasonal vegetables. The impeccable service compensates for the modest portions. Full bar. 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat. 323 W. San Carlos St. 408.294.2558. P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO Chinese. $$. With atmosphere to spare, Chang’s doesn’t neglect taste. Vibrant Szechuan flavors mix surprisingly well with rich Western-style desserts. Take-out. Full bar. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11am11pm Fri-Sat. 98 S. Second St. 408.961.5250.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO New Orleans. $$. Poor House Bistro offers a low-priced menu of Crescent City classics like po’ boys, barbecued shrimp,

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SCOTT’S SEAFOOD Seafood. $$$. Culture lovers and power brokers alike find impeccable sourdough, a sea of marine treats and other entrees and a panoramic view (there’s a sister eatery in Palo Alto). For maximum pleasure, get there at sunset. Full bar. 11:30am5pm Mon-Fri, 5pm-close Sat, 4:30pm-close Sun. 185 Park Ave. 408.971.1700. 71 SAINT PETER New American. $$$. This romantic eatery offers upscale Mediterranean food in an intimate setting. Beer, wine. Closed Sun. 11:30am-1pm, 59pm Mon-Sat. 71 N. San Pedro St. 408.971.8523. SONOMA CHICKEN Mixed. $. If you don’t mind carrying your own tray and fighting for a table you’ll be rewarded with hearty spit-roasted chicken that requires at least six napkins. 11am-9pm SunThu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat. 31 N. Market St. at San Pedro Square. 408.287.4098.

VEGETARIAN HOUSE Vegetarian. $. This meat-free stalwart offers vegetarian dishes from around the world with a side serving of religious reading material from spiritual leader Ching Hai. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 520 E. Santa Clara St. 408.292.3798.

VUNG TAU Vietnamese. $$. Traditionalists might gripe that they can get authentic Vietnamese food for less elsewhere, but it’s hard to top Vung Tau for its fresh, quality ingredients and sleek yet comfortable décor. Encyclopedic menu. 10am3pm, 5-9pm daily. 535 E. Santa Clara St. 408.288.9055.

WING’S Chinese. $. The food is complemented by an exotic dining room with sequestered seating equipped with hanging beads and doorbells, and other miscellaneous peculiarities of a bygone era. Always a fun place to visit. 11:30am-9:30pm daily. 131 E. Jackson St. 408.294.3303 or 998.9427.

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Caravan Lounge, San Jose Thu – 10pm; free Watsonville’s Asyst love heavy grooves and hard rock, but they just can’t decide on which subgenres of metal they want to incorporate. So they choose as many as possible. “We have so many ideas and we aren’t afraid to stray in different musical directions,” says their drummer, Mike Silva, “and we’ve actually been criticized for that, but we think that is actually what helps us stand out. Through all of it we still sound like ourselves.” One constant is the fluid, rich lead vocalist, who adds an element of pop to the otherwise heavy, headbanging music. (AC)

SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY California Theatre, San Jose Thu – 7:30pm, Sat – 8pm, Sun – 2:30pm; $49-$75 If there is a superstar pianist in Silicon Valley, it’s the immensely popular Jon Nakamatsu, who seems to show up throughout the Bay Area, adding luster to orchestra and festivals. For Symphony Silicon Valley, Nakamatsu will perform Tchaikovsky’s Concerto no. 1 and the premiere of Cape Cod Concerto, a work designed especially for him and clarinetist Jon Manasse by Paquito D’Rivera. The program is rounded out with Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite. (MSG)

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Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $10 In a little over a year, Kung Fu Vampire’s story has taken the kind of twists that gives you actual, undeniable, against-allodds hope for the music industry. Here’s a guy who’s been in the game for nearly 20 years, and absolutely refused to compromise his style—a horror-edged hybrid of goth and live hip-hop—even though his big break seemed elusive. (He used to have to rent out the Cactus Club himself just to put on a show there.) Suddenly last year, he does his first video

ever (for “icount”), with Japanese director John Kim. A fan posts the video on a juggalo-related site (juggalos, for those who don’t know, are the insane clown posse of Insane Clown Posse) and all of a sudden KFV is basically adopted by the entire horrorcore faithful. He’s been on three major tours in the last 11 months, two of them with the Psychopathic Records supergroup Twiztid, and has songs on two upcoming horror movies. Whatever you might think of ICP, here’s to juggalos everywhere for finally getting one of the South Bay’s most die-hard iconoclasts (whose new album, Love Bites, drops in September) his due. He’ll return this week for his seventh annual masquerade party. (SP)

FRAGILE STAGE Britannia Arms Cupertino Fri – 9pm, $5 Fragile Stage got their start in high school, worshipping at the altar of Blink 182. Six years later, via blood, sweat and tears, they’ve tightened up and polished their sound, going past the copycat riffs and creating power-pop-punk songs with ultra-catchy melodies, crisp harmonies and driving guitar work. For an independent band, they’ve managed to make quite a professional-sounding EP. Divine Artistry, the Famous and the Devil’s Sunday Best open. (AC)

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May 14 at 8pm, Flint Center, Cupertino

QUADRE May 12 at 7:30pm, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

DIVISA ENSEMBLE With El Camino Youth Symphony. May 13 at 8pm, 8 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

JAZZ/ROCK COMBOS May 113 at 7pm, Smith center, Ohlone College, Fremont

SOUTH BAY PHILHARMONIC May 13 at a 7:30pm, Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

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Trying to explain Trimpin’s art isn’t easy. He’s often described as a “sound sculptor” or “composer and sculptor,” since his work often combines music and sculpture. But an easier way to explain it is that Trimpin (who gave up all but his surname long ago) invents new ways for people to hear. Some of these artistic inventions hinge on physicality of form, like the sixstory xylophone he once created. But others surprise not because of the form, but the content, and that’s the case with The Gurs Zyklus (“Gurs Cycle”), a multimedia show in which the sounds that Trimpin brings to the audience

Let’s hope none of the band members of Dirty Odd Seven decide to leave. They’d have to change their name. With seven members from various local groups—including Horchata, INQ, the Flames and Shovelhead—DOS enthrall with an amalgamation of soul, funk, R&B and jazz that’s got just enough edge. Their goal is to turn even the most jaded of music snobs into fans. Given the chance, DOS has a song for everybody. Rivals, Powder Train and the Blank Manuscript open. (BD)

are memories. Gurs was a Nazi internment camp, and the texts spoken and sung from within the show are letters from one Jewish family imprisoned there. This being Trimpin, however, the array of stories and sounds, and the way in which they’re delivered, promises narrative at a transcendent level. (SP)

BLACKWOOD ROYALTY Streetlight Records, San Jose Sat – 4pm; free What the Stooges did to the Stones, the Streewalkin’ Cheetahs did to the Stooges. It’s a seminatural history that perhaps proves Devo’s theories of reverse evolution—each band strips the sound of its predecessor down

to its most iconic parts, and then blows those up into mythic, amprupturing decibels. Blackwood Royalty takes its place somewhere near the end of the line—giant, swinging riffs uncluttered by the psychedelic fuzz of the early ’70s or the faux-punk amateurism of the ’90s. Like the Black Keys, they’re at their best stomping through a remarkably pure and heavy revisionist history of blues-rock. Vocalist SteveO (formerly of the Fourfits) can yell through the noise or sound remarkably like Bowie on a ballad. (SP)

CALIFORNIA YOUTH SYMPHONY CALI May 15 at 2:30pm, Flint Center, Cupertino

PALO ALTO PHILHARMONIC Featuring winners of Concerto Movement Competition. May 15 at 3pm, Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto

CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA Music for “Metropolis,” May 20 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

ARTURO SANDOVAL May 20 at 8pm, Campbell Heritage Theater

JASON BONHAM May 24 at Saddle Rack in Fremont

GLEE May 24–25 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

USHER May 29 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

BRIAN MCKNIGHT Jun 9 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

BRITNEY SPEARS W/ Nicki Minaj. Jun 18 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

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Latino Art Now Exhibit runs through Friday, with auction Saturday, 7pm; MACLA, San Jose; $30/$40 for auction MACLA annual Latino Art Auction and Exhibition comes to a head with Saturday with a soiree and sale of works on display in the gallery—the evening also includes music by Kat Parra. The show features pieces in a variety of styles and mediums by more than 60 area Chicano and Latino artists. The proceeds help MACLA’s visual, performing and literary arts programs. (Pictured is Favianna Rodriguez’s linoleum block print Reeds.)

Summer Fashion Show Santana Row; Sat, noon and 3pm; $45 This year’s preview glimpse at the styles of summer from Santana Row retailers (Cole Haan, Ted Baker and more) will receive a dose of glamour from guest attraction Taylor Armstrong of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills fame. The runway show takes place poolside and comes with hors d’oeuvres, champagne and a post-show party.

The Clever Mistress Saturday, 7:30pm, Sunday, 2pm; Concert Hall, SJSU Music Building; $5/$10 For its weekend concerts, the SJSU Opera Theater Ensemble presents two works lightly based on Boccaccio’s The Decameron. First up is The Clever Mistress by Robert Sirota (pictured). First performed in 1988, The Clever Mistress relates the humorous tale of a young woman who conspires to cuckold her much older husband. Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s Suor Isabella focuses on a gleefully misbehaving nun. Barbara Day Turner of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra conducts.

Mack and Mabel May 14–June 4, Thursday–Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 2:30pm, opens Saturday, May 14; Saratoga Civic Theater; $20–$33 South Bay Musical Theatre brings to the local stage the story of two of the silent-film era’s greatest names: comedy entrepreneur Mack Sennett (of Keystone Kops fame) and the original bathing beauty star Mabel Normand. With songs by Jerry Herman, Mack and Mabel affectionately re-creates a bygone era.

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PENINSULA YOUTH BALLET A showcase for the dancers under the tutelage of director Ayako Takahashi. Sat, 2pm. $20/$30. San Mateo Performing Arts Center.

TAMBURITZANS The troupe from Duquesne University performs dance and music of Eastern Europe. Sun, 3pm. $17/$24. Heritage Theater, Campbell.

Opera THE CLEVER MISTRESS A chamber opera by Robert Sirota about a young noblewoman who finds a way around her old husband into the arms of her handsome lover. Sat, 7:30pm, Sun, 2pm. $5/$10. Concert Hall, SJSU Music Building.

Theater A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT Pear Avenue Theatre presents a brand-new stage version of Twain’s famous story. Runs May 13-May 29. Preview Thu, 8pm. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows: Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$30. Pear Avenue, Mountain View.

THE GURS ZYKLUS Rinde Eckert directs a multimedia performance by sound sculptor and composer Trimpin as part of Stanford Lively Arts. Sat, 8pm. $38-$68. Memorial Auditorium, Stanford.

LOVE IN AMERICAN TIMES Rick Lombardo directs Philip Kan Gotanda’s romantic comedy for San Jose Rep. Runs May 12-Jun 5. Previews Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2 and 7pm, Tue, 7:30pm. Opens May 18, 8pm. $25-$69 (May 12 is Pay What You Will, $10 suggested. Proceeds go to Northern Japan Earthquake Relief.) The Rep, San Jose.

MACK AND MABEL A musical comedy based on the lives of silent-movie greats Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand; presented by South Bay Musical Theatre. Runs May 14-Jun 4. This week: Sat, 8pm,

Sun, 2:30pm. Regular shows are Thu (Jun 2), 8pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $15-$23 ($33 for champagne opening). Saratoga Civic Theater.

Mirang Woone.” May 14-Jul 10. Reception May 20, 7-9pm. TueWed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

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SQUABBLES A comedy about generational conflict in a family by Marshall Karp; a Santa Clara Players show. This week: Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru May 21. $16/$18. Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara University.

Comedy CLUB FOX Mon, 8pm: Comedy Monday hosted by Dan St. Paul, with Dave Burleigh, Larry Brown and more. $10. Redwood City.

COMEDYSPORTZ Fri, 9pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm: Live improv comedy. Fri, 11pm: The Midnight Show. Inside the Camera 3 building, San Jose.

QUEER ON THEIR FEET An evening of barrier-breaking comedy with Jennie McNulty and Diana Yanez. Sat, 8pm. $15. Unitarian Universalist Church, Palo Alto.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: An evening of science humor with Brian Malow. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10:30pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Chad Daniels. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Big Al’s Big Ass Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm: Leaving Milpitas with Sandy Sec. $12. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Felipe Esparza. $20. Mon, 9pm: Comedy Addiction Tour. $19. San Jose.

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Museums OPENING SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES “Primary Structures.” A look at sculptural art knitting. “Southwestern Banded Blankets: Three Cultures, One Horizon.” Shows run May 17Aug 7. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Fire Strokes, in Memory of Won Choe.” Paintings by

ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS High School Art Show. Thru May 19. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Illustrated Title Pages: 15001900.” A show of 80 illustrated book pages from the museum’s collection. Thru Oct 16. “True Colors: Rediscovering Pigments of Greco-Roman Marble Sculpture.”Thru Aug 7. “Twelve Drawings From Domenico Tiepolo’s New Testament.”Thru May 29. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM “The Theater of Insects.” Photographs by Jo Whaley. “Life Cycle.” Photos of rare and endangered species by Susan Middleton. “Selections From the Smith Andersen Editions Archive.” Sample of works by the fine-art press in Palo Alto. “Father Hubbard: Trekking Through Alaska.” A historical exhibit about a Jesuit priest from SCU who explored Alaska in the early 20th century. “Paul Locatelli, S.J.: Photographs.” All run thru Jun 12. Santa Clara University.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Nature’s Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir’s Botanical Legacy.” A show dedicated to the many biological specimens collected by the naturalist. Runs thru Sep 11. “Pacific Hotel. Celebrating Local Artists.” Thru Sep 18. Pasetta House, History Park, San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Laboratory.” The museum’s new Beta Space hosts experimental shows. First exhibit features installations by Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa. Runs thru Aug. 14. “Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art From India.” Thru Sep 4. “Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits.” Thru Jun 5. “The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention.” Thru Jul 3. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION Exhibits about science, technology and the world. Ongoing. Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.

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TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “The Everyday.” Works by Stanley Goldstein. Thru May 15. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries OPENING AVENUE 25 GALLERY “Visions of Childhood.” A show of works by California women artists presented by Peninsula Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art. May 14-Jul 9. Reception Sat, 2-4pm. Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. San Mateo.

Luciano Scherer and Collin van der Sluijs. Thru May 21. San Jose.

ART ARK “Next Question.” SJSU BFA Graphic Design Exhibition with works by 25 students. Thru May 21. San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY Jazz portraits by Bruni, plus sports art by Mark Gray . Thru Aug 31. Daily, 1-6pm. San Jose.

CAFFE TRIESTE “Barbarians and Beauties.” New works about the life conflicts of women by Sandi Billingsley. Runs thru Jun 24. San Jose.

Josh Marcotte of the forgotten slice of Silicon Valley. Thru Jun 24. San Jose.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE “Tantalizing Tableware.” Works in porcelain by Scott Jennings plus a group show of local potters. Thru Jun 2. San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY “Renasci.” Works on human energy and rebirth by Emonic. Thru May 27. San Jose.

LOS GATOS COMPANY “Variations, Different Faces of the Same Place.” Oil paintings of Los Gatos by Riki R. Nelson. Los Gatos.

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“Latino Art Now.” An exhibit featuring Latino artists from the Bay Area is on display now and culminates May 14 in the annual art auction. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

“Sedimentals.” A show of 14 sculptural installations by Jody Alexander. Runs thru May 31. Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, Sat, 9am3pm. Mohr Gallery, Finn Center, Mountain View.

“Offerings.” Irene Carvajal and David Scouffas explore the influence of Asian culture. Thru May 29. Wed-Sun, 10am-3pm. Redwood City.

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“Contours de Flesh.” Photos by Aimee BuPane. Thru May. San Jose.

SILICON VALLEY OPEN STUDIOS This weekend, studios in Palo Alto, Mountain View and Sunnyvale will be open. See www.svos.org for details.

CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI “What He Meant by the Self Was Simply Our Truest Nature, Our Natural State.” New works by self-taught New York Artist Jeremiah Maddock. Thru Jun 18. “Glimmer.” Works by Christian Breitkreutz, Megan Diddle,

“The Spirit of Northern Italy.” Photographs by Marco Zecchin. Thru May. San Jose.

FILOLI “Expressions in Watercolors.” Thru Jun 5. Tue-Sun, 10am-3pm, Sun, 11am-3pm. Woodside.

GALLERY SARATOGA Impressionist plein air paintings by Murray Wagnon. Thru May. Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm. Saratoga.

GOOD KARMA VEGAN CAFE “Alviso Slough.” Photographs by

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MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “A Common Balance: Impossible Dream’n.” A sculptural installation in the Project Space Gallery in the form of a “grow lab” investigating biodiversity. Thru Jul 17. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.

PHANTOM GALLERIES Works in store windows by Lacey Bryant and Ruthy Gold.

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PHO69 “Visionary Reflections.” Paintings by Janice Kirkpatrick. Thru May 27. San Jose.

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June 9, 7:30pm Multi-platinum Grammynominated McKnight takes the stage in support of his hot new CD “Just Me!” Claude McKnight of Take 6 fame joins him for an unbelievable performance of vocal mastery. Starting at $54

An Evening with The Tubes

Soul Asylum with dada

June 11, 8pm

June 17, 7:30pm

The Tubes, featuring Fee Waybill, bring back their Underground Rock Show the way you remember them! Though their roots are steeped in the classic rock they’ve created, they continue to innovate, evolve and ignite, no matter where they go.

Multi-platinum Soul Asylum is best known for its Grammy Award winning single “Runaway Train,” but 20 years and nine CDs later, the band looks and sounds better than ever!

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Alt/rock dada exploded on the scene with their acclaimed debut release, Puzzle, and its hit single “Dizz Knee Land.”

Join us in the outdoor Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre!

PSYCHO DONUTS A rotating group show with works by John Renzel, Lacey Bryant and more. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Size Matters.” A group show about concepts of scale. Thru Jun 18. “Powers of Ten.” A 1968 documentary short by Ray and Charles Ames. Thru Jun 11. “Urgency.” Large wooden installation by Mike Rathbun. Thru Jun 4. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

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Biennial “Indoor Sculpture Exhibition.” Thru Sep. Santa Clara.

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Classic silent film “Metropolis” with live music!

Works by comic artists, including Jon Hastings, Crab Scrambly and others. Thru May. San Jose.

STANFORD ART SPACES Paintings by Rajiv Khilnani, quilts by Yvonne Porcella, mixed media by Stella Zhang. Thru May 19. Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5pm. Paul G. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford campus.

SUNNYVALE LIBRARY Works by typographer and graphics designer Ralph E. Munoz. Thru May 31. Sunnyvale.

VIEWPOINTS GALLERY.

THE CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA PRESENTS “METROPOLIS” May 20, 8pm, Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre Don’t miss this opportunity to see Fritz Lang’s classic silent film, “Metropolis,” screened outdoors in Montalvo’s Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre — with live accompaniment by The Club Foot Orchestra! The 1926 film takes place in a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners. The son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. The Club Foot Orchestra, founded in 1983 by Richard Marriot, has a forged a reputation in the Bay Area for performing their original complex and dramatic film scores to classic silent films. The classic cartoon, “Felix the Cat Woos Whoopee,” opens the show!

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Pastel paintings of the sea by Terri Ford. Thru May 27. MonSat, 11am-5pm, Sun, 11am3pm. Los Altos.

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The author of “Ragtime” and “The March” will appear in a conversation with Andrew Altschul, director of the Center for Literary Arts. Wed, 1pm. Free. University Theatre, SJSU.

EDWARD HUMES The author of a new book about Wal-Mart speaks. Thu, 7pm, Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

STEVEN JONES The author of a new book about Burning Man explains the cultural significance of the annual festival in the desert. Wed, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.

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The annual bike race runs May 15-22. Stage 4, on May 18, starts in Livermore and ends in San Jose.

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The inner workings of Google are explored in Levy’s new book, “The Plex.” Wed, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Palo Alto.

A community day with cultural events and workshops focused on the show of Indian art at the museum. Sat, 11am-5pm. Free. San Jose Museum of Art.

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The author of “Miss New India” signs copies of her book. Thu, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.

A wine fundraiser to help the Santa Clara Firefighters Foundation send three local firefighters on a bicycle journey across the country to honor victims of 9/11 in New York. Thu, $25. Lexus of Stevens Creek, San Jose. (See http://bay2brooklyn2011. org for more events around the ride.)

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DAVID K. SHIPLER A chance to meet the author of “The Rights of the People.” Fri, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

JAY WARDLAW A signing even for author of “Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku.” Wed, 3pm. Free. Hicklebee’s, San Jose

*kids DISNEY’S MY SON PINOCCHIO

A retelling of the classic from Gepetto’s point of view. Presented by Peninsula Youth Theatre. Sat, 2 and 7:30pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm. Also May 19, 9:30am, May 20, 9:30am and 7:30pm, May 21, 2 and 7:30pm, May 22, 1pm. $10-$20. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

THE SECRET GARDEN A Children’s Musical Theater Mainstage presentation of the popular kids’ tale. Thu-Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2 and 7pm, Sun, 1pm. $16/$23. Montgomery Theater, San Jose.

A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD Best friends hop through live in a show by Bay Area Children’s Theatre. Sun, 1 and 3pm. $10-$20. Carriage House, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.

JEWS IN BASEBALL A screening of a documentary about Jewish history and the American pastime. Sat, 7pm. $15. Camera 3, San Jose.

MAKER FAIRE PREVIEW An advance look at some of the DIY entries coming to the big event. Sat, noon-3pm. Free. Hillsdale Shopping Center, San Mateo.

NATIONAL DOODLE DAY The store invites people to sketch away on a giant poster—plus free ice cream cones. Thu, 10am-8pm. Free. BookSmart, Morgan Hill.

PTA PALOOZA BLUEGRASS BENEFIT A concert with Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, the Tuttle and Snap Jackson to raise money for Juana Briones Elementary School PTA. Fri, 7pm. $10-$65. Spangenberg Theatre, Gunn High School, Palo Alto.

POOLSIDE SOIREE FASHION SHOW An annual display of the latest trends, featuring Taylor Armstrong of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” Sat, noon. $45. Santana Row, San Jose.

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off the Oregon Trail, through terrain too far away from the Columbia River. With their oxen, the small group trudges through the sagebrush. The water is alkaline, and the chance of Piute attack increases. “Even Indians despise these Indians,” Meek says—not that his opinion means anything. Befitting Reichardt’s smaller scale, there is just one Indian (Ron Rondeaux), an injured brave taken as a hostage by the whites. He’s as foreign as he can be: either unable or unwilling to communicate. Is he just one of a war party? No one can tell. And Meek, a foaming racist, knows no sign language. The real-life Meek lost two dozen

pioneers during a larger trek. For reasons of budget or focus, the group in the film consists of just three wagons. On them are three women, posed together like the Three Fates. Wide sunbonnets mask their faces and, symbolically, their emotions— and everything else women of the time weren’t permitted to express. The milestones along the way are the losses of prized possessions. Millie (Zoe Kazan), the softest and most childlike of the three women, brought a caged canary with her. Just as in Francis Parkman’s account of the Oregon Trail, furniture is left behind to lighten the load. Shirley Henderson plays a pregnant traveler with a long-suffering look. Reichardt gives another major part to Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy) as Emily, perhaps the canniest of the ladies. She volunteers to mend the Indian’s torn moccasin, and not out of Christian kindness. Stabbing it with a needle and thread, she mutters, “I want him to owe me something.” It’s a hell trip, a pioneer Wages of Fear, and one’s blood runs cold

Meek’s Cutoff PG; 104 min. Opens Friday

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watching it. The husbands (Paul Dano, Will Patton and Neal Huff ) stay the course, dividing up the water and ignoring the endless “screek” sound the axles make. Meek’s Cutoff has something of the sun-struck trances of Nicolas Roeg’s 1971 Australian outback trek film Walkabout, as well as some touches of the avant-garde film’s man of the hour, Terrence Malick. Like Malick, Reichardt is a director who lets the wind speak for itself. An anti-Western, like a Western, has room to play with history. The real Meek, who ran a butcher shop in Santa Cruz for a while, wouldn’t have survived a week if he were this fiercely incompetent. Yet the film’s focus on the pioneer women is more than overdue. At Sundance, Reichardt said she wanted to make a Western seen through the eyes of the person who made soup for John Wayne (wasn’t that Walter Bre Brennan?). Raoul Walsh’s The Big Tra (1930) created the Hollywood Trail con convention of a stalwart Wayne b in beautifully tailored buckskins. Tha film about the Oregon Trail, That wit its use of vast spectacle, is the with per perfect opposite to Meek’s Cutoff. The Big Trail’s winching up of a halfdozen huge Conestoga wagons over steep stone cliffs compares to the destruction of just one of the wagons in Meek’s Cutoff—a lesser crash, but it serves the purpose effectively. I wonder if the end of Meek’s Cutoff isn’t a similar crash. Having made a movie full of excitement and integrity, Reichardt decided to leave the ending open. It’s similar to the limbo John Sayles left us with in his film of that name. (It’s the kind of gesture that can keep a director on the film-festival circuit for good.) Questioned about the ending at Sundance, Reichardt justified her own cutoff. She said, “We all know how it ends.” Namely, the West gets settled eventually. That kind of logic could be a game for Twitter. I’ll start: Why watch the last reel of Casablanca if you know the Germans eventually lose the war?

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New THE BEAVER (PG-13, 91 min.) Mel Gibson plays an alienated, suicidal middle-aged man who learns to communicate with others with the help of a beaver hand-puppet. Jodie Foster directs. (Opens Fri at CinĂŠArts Palo Alto.) (RvB)

BRIDESMAIDS (R) See review on page 44.

EVERYTHING MUST GO (Unrated; 100 min.) A loose version of Raymond Carver’s short story “Why Don’t You Dance?� Will Ferrell plays an alcoholic who decides to clean house by having the garage sale to end all garage sales. (Opens Fri.) (RvB)

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War Detectives CELEBRATED as it is, Incendies, Canada’s Oscar bid, is truly dire. The ďŹ lm’s fans celebrate how it mixes a plot of Sophoclean inevitability with the history of how Lebanon tore itself apart in the 1980s. Incendies is, in fact, a melodrama of abbergasting coincidence, resembling one of the many versions of Madame X, in which a mother is defended against a murder charge by the son she had to leave behind in his youth. A morose, scarred woman goes cataleptic one day by the pool at her gloomy Montreal condo. She, Nawal Marwan (Lubna Azabal), dies, leaving behind a last testament in which she asks her alienated twin children, Jeanne and Simon (MĂŠlissa DĂŠsormeaux-Poulin and Maxim Gaudette), to go to Lebanon and deliver a pair of letters. One is meant for their father, whom they never knew; the other is for the brother they never knew they had. RĂŠmy Girard, doing the Dickensian type of physically bumbling yet shrewd notary, holds the key to the mystery. It takes some dialogue about the sanctity of a notary’s duty to explain why the notary puts Jeanne and Simon in unjustiďŹ able danger. The two Canadians play history detectives.

GO FOR IT! (PG-13) The story of a girl who rises to the top of the underground dance scene in Chicago. (Opens Fri.)

INCENDIES Jeanne visits the mountain village where Nawal was thrown out in disgrace. The mother went to a college city where she becomes a rebel; ultimately, she had a further revolutionary career for a faction that doesn’t do very much for its recruits. (The assassination mission we see isn’t @eZ\e[`\j an example of how to protect your soldiers, R; 130 min. either on the job or Opens Friday after they’re captured.) Camera 3, San Jose; Aquarius, Palo Alto

Incendies’ doleful mood is heightened by the use and reuse of a Radiohead tune. The plague falls on all houses. Christian and Muslims alike are caught in the atrocities, up to the juicy horror of the ďŹ nal revelation. This horror is probably artistically justiďŹ able as a symbol of the tangled roots of the civil war. Still, I ďŹ nd the drama inhumanly precise, blurry and unbelievable outside the strong lines of its equations. Nawal is meant to be redeemed by her children. Her unspeakable tale explains her coldness; she is a heroine after all. But her other last request—her request for no epitaph—reveals the kind of character she actually is. She’s a mother giving o one last burst of passive-aggressiveness from beyond the grave.—Richard von Busack

(R; 130 min.) See review at left.

MEEK’S CUTOFF (PG; 104 min.) See review on page 41. (Opens Fri at CinÊArts Santana Row, the Palo Alto Square and Century Cinema Mountain View 16.)

PRIEST (PG-13; 87 min.) An adaptation of a graphic novel series. In a futuristic world, a priest ďŹ ghts vampires. Stars Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Brad Dourif, Christopher Plummer (!?) and Mädchen Amick (forever beloved as Shelly Johnson on Twin Peaks). Showing in 3-D in some theaters. (Opens Fri.)

Revivals THE BAND WAGON/MONTE CARLO

Fred Astaire, pretty much) prepares to be put out to pasture. He leaves Hollywood and returns to his native 42nd Street, ďŹ nding what once was a sea of black coats and white ties is now a riot of color—with pinball parlors and Hawaiian shirts, Times Square is becoming what it was going to be when Travis Bickle found it. Thanks to the help of a young actress (Nanette Fabray), our tuxedoed, genteel hero ekes out harmony with the widescreen brassiness of the 1950s. The highlight is the show-stopping Mike Hammer–themed “Girl Huntâ€? number, in which Astaire has his a great duet with long-legged Cyd Charisse. It’s a late-period performance in which a little of the weariness shows—as it does in contemporary work by James Stewart and Humphrey Bogart. Despite the signs of age, Astaire demonstrates a timeless grace that deďŹ es the haste of life. BILLED WITH Monte Carlo. “A silly story only possible with music.â€? Ernst Lubitsch’s musical is remembered for its pioneering innuendo. Jack Buchanan plays a larking count who poses as a hairdresser in order to court a runaway blueblood (Jeanette MacDonald). The opening sequence, a famous montage of the tune “Beyond the Blue Horizonâ€? and a racing locomotive isn’t to be missed; the sequence is more ethereal than the stale pastry of the plot and the peals of tortured stage laughter in the middle. (Plays May 14-16 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

BATTLE ROYALE (2000) Kinji Fukusaku’s sci-ďŹ thriller stars Beat Takeshi as the teacher who oversees a novel game: an armed and dangerous game of last man standing for a group of Japanese teens. (Plays May 12 at 9pm and May 14 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

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(1999) Computers go nutzoid and cannibalize the world; the result is a franchise that cannibalized the world of action movies. (Plays May 13-15 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent ďŹ lms. May 14: The Nut (1921) with Douglas Fairbanks as an inventor who gets tangled up with a do-gooder society dame. Also showing are the shorts “Mabel’s New Heroâ€? (1913) and “Be Your Ageâ€? (1926) with Charlie Chase. Frederick Hodges at the piano. (Plays May 14 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) The Bawdy Cast performs. (Plays May 14 at 10pm in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

AFRICAN CATS (G; 89 min.) A Disney nature ďŹ lm about the lives of big felines on the savannah in Africa.

BATTLE OF THE BRIDES (100 min.) A Vietnamese movie about a man juggling too many women. Directed by Victor Vu.

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (Unrated; 90 min.) The material here probably never should have been stretched to feature length, but it is memorable. Werner Herzog

(possessed of the satisfyingly angst-ridden “I only am escaped alone to tell theeâ€? tones) narrates as he goes underground to the caves of Chauvet-Pont D’Arc in the Ardeche region of France. This trove of 30,000-year-old cave art has been sealed from the world for most of that time. OfďŹ cials limited his access in hopes of protecting these cave paintings from the kind of degradation that’s occurred at Altamira. Herzog wasn’t allowed to use anything but cold electronic lights and small cameras. He ďŹ lmed in 3-D to get the contours of the surfaces where the drawings are sealed under millennia of crystal deposits. They are perplexingly beautiful. The overlapping proďŹ les of a quartet of horses seem like the birth of perspective in art, though Herzog himself forecasts cinema in the blur of their legs. Herzog’s enthusiasm and discursiveness will be too much for some, but the visit is one of a kind. (RvB)

THE CONSPIRATOR (121 min; PG-13) Robert Redford’s

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THE SMILING LIEUTENANT/ APPLAUSE (1931/1929) Maurice Chevalier plays a lieutenant pressed into marriage with a princess (Miriam Hopkins); she fails to please her new husband, but his mistress (Claudette Colbert) is kind enough to give her pointers. Ernst Lubitsch directs. BILLED WITH Applause. Ill-fated jazz singer Helen Morgan as Kitty Darling, a oncecelebrated stripper at the end of the line. She is confronted by her convent-raised daughter, April (Joan Peers)—the girl’s freshness attracts the attention of the worthless fancy-man Kitty loves. In this downbeat, sometimes Expressionist musical by Rouben Mamoulian, we see nothing less than the birth of sound editing: the director was “a master of stating the unstatable through understatement,� said historian Tom Milne. One of the many showstoppers is the sequence following April’s departure from the convent (tuned to “Ave Maria,� a dream of Catholic peace that makes The Sound of Music look Protestant) to arrive in a New York of deafening

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Judd Apatow was the executive producer for Bridesmaids, and it’s shaped like an Apatow ďŹ lm: a half-hour too long, with eccentric morsels that don’t advance the story. Released as a chick-ick alternative, the script requires the traditional pointless ďŹ ght between Annie and her new man (Chris O’Dowd). This tactic sends the ďŹ lm into 9i`[\jdX`[j overtime—and there are frequent reboots of R the story through sheer Opens Friday ďŹ ller: helicopter shots of the town, accompanied by covers of ’80s tunes. Milwaukee, a city pregnant with comedy, isn’t seriously used for comic eect. A lot of the action seems to take place on the edge of town in the spinach ďŹ elds. Still, there is ďŹ ne support work by Matt Lucas and Rebel Wilson as Annie’s sluglike housemates. Melissa McCarthy is excellent as a hulking yet sawed-o friend, whose theme idea for a bridal shower is Fight Club: “She shows up, and we beat the shit out of her.â€? Wiig, who co-wrote, is better than anything in the movie. In her capacity to register degrees of comedic suering, she suggests what happens when like when a movie is really loose down deep in its soul, and not just wobbly and formulaic. —Richard von Busack

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about the ambient fear and rage in America 1865, but the visuals don’t give the sense of state of emergency or of postwar shock. The obvious historical parallels between the War on Terror and the Civil War aren’t strong enough to make this verbose ďŹ lm breathe. (RvB)

FAST FIVE (130 min.; PG-13) Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, unable to ďŹ nd other avenues for their abundant acting talents, return for yet another sequel to Fast and Furious. Also stars Jordana Brewster, Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson.

HANNA (PG-13, 105 min.) Dressed in a fur wardrobe and living in the permafrost, Hanna (the icy Saoirse Ronan) was raised to kill; her ex-assassin father (Eric Bana) raises her with the motto “adapt or die.� She turns 16, and Dad’s idea of a debutante party is to contact the CIA, which has been seeking Hanna since birth with the intent of rubbing her out. Evil intelligence agent Marissa (Cate Blanchett), as motivelessly evil as a wicked stepmother, chases the girl across Europe; so does a trio of theatrical German goons, with their own evil music-box tune by the Chemical Brothers. Director Joe Wright (Atonement) sensibly adds some art-house cachet to the butt-kicking action. Considering the Girl Who Brought People Back to the Art Houses trilogy, it’s a smart commercial tactic. This weirdly artsy mash of Jack London and Alias is meant as a pleasure machine, but it’s an oddly dour thrill ride that insists on repetitive training over the free-style adaptation it claims is the only key to survival. (RvB)

HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL (PG; 85 min.) An animated kid comedy about a teenage Red Riding Hood trying to ďŹ gure out

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JANE EYRE (PG-13; 121 min.) Atmospheric yet unself-conscious version by Cary Fukunaga, perhaps the best film of the novel ever. Moira Buffini’s script makes the smart choice of circumventing Jane’s horrifying school years and starting the story after Jane leaves Thornfield. Mia Wasikowska, pale, hair tightly braided and dyed a dull brick-red, embodies the fine bones and honesty of the bravest of Gothic heroines. While no one beats Orson Welles, Michael Fassbender’s study of the proud yet internally crumbling Rochester takes this character out of the realm of the theatrical and into realism. A combination of popularity and rare talent is what you hope for in a film. And a young audience that associates Gothic lit with the mass-market paperback will be exposed to a story rich with depths and cross currents: it’s dreamy, tragic, completely fulfilling. (RvB)

JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) A comedy about two marriage ceremonies overlapping. Stars Angela Bassett and Paula Patton.

MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG-13; 106 min.) Another installment in Tyler Perry’s popular series of comedies about family life.

THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER (Unrated; 139 min.) In 1562, a gorgeous princess named Marie (Melanie Thierry) is desired by a quartet of men. First is her cold, correct husband, a prince. Second is her seemingly stoic tutor. Third is a dallying heir-apparent. Last is a sardonic, scar-faced duelist: the bloodthirsty Duc de Guise, he is the man Marie has always loved. The film re-creates a visually grander era of moviemaking, but it’s fluid and not overstuffed. Director Betrand Tavernier takes the theatricality out of a costume drama. Gloriously built but not a commanding presence, Thierry doesn’t try to break our hearts. Rather she impresses on us the intellectual sorrows of a young woman trapped: she embodies the sadness of an era when a wellborn woman was the guardian of a husband’s honor, without having any of her own. (RvB)

PROM (PG; 103 min.) All the fun and laughs of that high school rite of

passage, starring Aimee Teegarden, Danielle Campbell and Nicholas Braun.

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QUEEN TO PLAY (Unrated; 97 min.) Sandrine Bonnaire stars as a French wife whose world opens up when she learns to play chess. Kevin Kline co-stars.

RIO 3-D (PG; 96 min.) An animated family comedy about a footloose macaw.

SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) A single woman falls for her best friend’s fiancé, with comic results. With Kate Hudson, Ginnifer Goodwin, Colin Egglesfield and John Krasinki.

SOURCE CODE (PG-13; 93 min.) A train bound for Chicago has a bomb on it. Because of one of those new time/spacewarping devices the U.S. military keeps around, they can beam an officer named Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) back to try to find the bomber. Stevens’ control is Coleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga). The timetraveling officer takes his orders from her, bunkered in a remote undisclosed location, wired up like a test monkey. The stage is set handsomely, then, and the twisting begins. During his cycles into the past, Colter becomes fixated on a girl on the train (Michelle Monaghan). She becomes a human stake in what will happen if the train evaporates into a fireball—as it does more than once. When finding an escape route out of a seemingly inescapable situation, the movie doesn’t cheat. (RvB)

SUCKER PUNCH (PG-13, 120 min.) In the dreams of one pitiful, soon-to-belobotomized orphan, she and four other girls at her Eastern European-style loony bin are a Fox Force Five of unstoppable warriors. In fantasy, Babydoll (popeyed, poofy-mouthed Aus import Emily Browning) wears the pervo Japanese sailor girl outfit and wields a samurai sword. She and Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Abbie Cornish and Jena Malone retrieve dinguses from different levels of fantasy: each one so awesomely realized, you’d need a 1000 ’70s party-vans lined up side by side to get the muralicious action in one place. Orcs besiege a dragon’s castle; steam-powered zombies in picklehauben die for their Kaiser on the Western Front, and big iron demon warriors stomp some kind of Japanese temple.

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THERE BE DRAGONS (PG-13; 120 min.) Opus Dei founder St. Josemarie Escriva (Charlie Cox) is the subject of Roland Joffe’s historical film, as a journalist (Dougray Scott) tries to interview his father (Wes Bentley) about the controversial cleric’s years during the Spanish Civil War.

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movie heroism. Director Kenneth Branagh finds the perfect tone of nobility without too much loft. The movie has its Shakespearean side; it’s as full of grand, ringing voices as it is of fight scenes and fireworks. Natalie Portman is endearing as the scientist befuddled by the arrival of a god. She looks pleasingly discomfited to be close to someone who is betterlooking than she is. The witty script (co-written by former Metro staffer Zack Stentz) reflects 1950s films about the perplexity of scientists in the bomb-haunted New Mexican desert meeting a creature from another world. (RvB)

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13; 120 min.) Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz star in the screen adaptation of Sara Bruen’s novel about circus life in the 1930s.

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unexciting. Thomas McCarthy ( The Station Agent ) seems heading down the trail to regional filmmaker status. There are worse fates: he has his end of Jersey nicely sewn up. Paul Giamatti plays Mike, an ethically compromised lawyer and high school wrestling coach in a small New Jersey town. The arrival of a troubled young man (Alex Shaffer in a solid debut) seems a godsend, but he also accidentally forces Mike to confront his own shady dealings. Giamatti gives the film some palpable desperation, but it’s hard to feel that there’s any true downfall at stake, particularly when we see the upbeat ending. Decent work from Melanie Lynskey and Amy Ryan as the bad and good women, respectively. Bobby Cannavale is a relief as Mike’s profane pal. (Plays at the Guild in Menlo Park and CinéArts Santana Row and opens Fri at Camera & in Campbell.) (RvB)

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Johnny Ace & Cathy Lemons Wednesday at Club Fox in Redwood City, 7pm; $5 The Club Fox Blues Jams welcomes two vets—Cathy Lemons came up singing with Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Lee Hooker, and Johnny Ace has played bass with pretty much all the blues greats—who may have done the best work of their lives on last year’s collaboration, Lemonace. It’s gritty, haunting blues rock that throws mud in the face of the modern-blues obsession with clean party riffs and injects the genre with muchneeded soul. These two are the real thing. (SP)

Bell Thieves Friday at Saratoga Rec, 6pm; $10 Save Alternative presents San Jose indie-rockers Bell Thieves as they release their debut EP, Real Fun. From the driving drone of “Rhinoceros” through the moody pulse of “Track and Field Girls,” and the rest of these tightly constructed little gems, their opening salvo is convincing, catchy stuff that suggests they should be closely monitored (especially around bells). (SP)

SBGS Showcase Concert Saturday at Theatre on San Pedro Square in San Jose, 8pm; $25 The South Bay Guitar Society wraps up its 20102011 concert series with a cultural guitar summit that includes Russian-Israeli Yuri Liberzon (an understudy of renowned, Prince-covering classicist Benjamin Verdery), SJSU’s internationally influenced Steve Lin, and world-music fingerpicker Az Samad. (SP)

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Fri, 10pm: Stung, a tribute to the Police. San Jose.

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BOSWELL’S Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy

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JOHNNY V’S Thu: Rap battle. Sat: Punk night with Joe Q. Citizen, Jonny Manak and the Depressives, Riot Radio, High and Tight. Sun: Metal night. San Jose.

MURPHY’S LAW Fri: Mr. Meanor. Sat: Isis and the Cold Truth. Sunnyvale.

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Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

SENZALA Fri: Live music at noon, and Capoeira show at 7:30pm. Sat, 9:30pm: Sambosseros. $10. Sunnyvale.

APERFECTFINISH Fri, 9pm: Quasimodal. Sat: Blue House. San Jose.

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WILLOW DEN Fri, 8pm: The Dan Gough’s. Willow Glen.

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Santa Clara.

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CLUB FOX Wed, 7-11pm: Blues jam with Johnny Ace and Cathy Lemons. $5. Redwood City.

FAIRMONT HOTEL Thu, 8:30pm: Contemporary jazz. Fri-Sat, 9pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON ALBERTO’S Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night. Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.

AZÚCAR Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.

DANA STREET ROASTING CO. Every second Mon, 7pm: Ukulele jam. Mountain View.

LILLY MAC’S Sun, 6pm: Traditional Irish music. Tue, 7:30pm: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Sat: Mark Hummel and Sid Morris. Campbell.

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THEGRAPEVINE Thu, 7pm: Mike Murdock and Sean McGuire. Sat, 7pm: Matt Zeitzer. Willow Glen.

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MISSIONCOFFEEROASTING Sat: Dayan Kai and Keith Greeninger. $15. Fremont.

HEDLEY CLUB Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Kaye Bohler Trio. Sat, 8:30pm: Tiger Club. Hotel de Anza, San Jose.

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Wed: Gomer Hendrix. Thu: Dan Gough’s. Fri: Blues Hammer, $10. Sat: The City. Sun: The Prowlers early, then Gene Washington and the Special Purpose Band. Mon: Dennis Dove. Tue: Early jam with Blue J, then Liar’s Club. San Jose.

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Thu, 7pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

Thu: Sam Re. Fri: Harmonic Machination. Sat: Victor and Margaret’s Bluegrass Duet. Campbell.

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Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.

Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.

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KATIE BLOOM’S

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.

Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather. Santa Clara.

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

KHARTOUM

Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

DAN BROWN’S Thu and Tue, 9pm-1am: Brian James. Palo Alto.

Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. Mountain View.

Nightly, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

AZÚCAR

Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Wed, 9pm: English and Spanish karaoke. San Jose.

DIVE BAR

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

THE BEARS

Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Doug Rose and the Bit and Spur Band. San Jose.

Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

ALEX’S 49ER INN

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

BENNIGAN’S GRILL Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 27pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Santa Clara.

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

BLUE BONNET BAR

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.

Tue, 9pm: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

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Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.

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MARIANI’S

Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.

OFFICE BAR Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

PEACOCK LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: Brian. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Ryan. Sunnyvale.

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Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall. Woodside.

Wed-Sat, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.

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GILROY BOWL Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.

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BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

HOMESTEAD LANES Fri, 9:30pm: Vinnie. Mon, 9pm: Vinnie. Tue, 9pm: August. Cupertino.

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Sun, 59pm: Family karaoke. Gilroy.

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR Wed, 9pm: Joe. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

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TOUCHDOWN TOMMY’S Sat, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

WILLOW DEN Wed, 9:30pm: DJ Jr. Thu, 9:30pm: DJ Uncle Hank. San Jose

CLUB ILLUSIONS

MOTIF

Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJs. Palo Alto.

Thu-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ or live band. No cover. Santa Clara.

Wed, 7pm: House Party. Thu, 7pm: Throwback Thursdays. Los Gatos.

DIVE BAR Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs. San Jose.

SABOR TAPAS BAR

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing. Sun: Reggae. San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dance Party. San Jose.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

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Wed, 9pm: Wheels of Steel DJ battle. Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Elite. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

Thu: Thursday Night Live. Fri: Video Killed the DJ with VJ Vinyl. Sat: Sultry Saturdays. Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. San Jose.

STUDIO8 Sat: Spryte. San Jose.

Wed-Fri, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.

GOOSE LOONEY’S

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

Thu: Ladies’ Night. Fri-Sat: Old School. Milpitas.

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AGENDA

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Wed: RedRun Wednesday. DJs D. Luzion and Illtraxx. Thu: Dig. Hip-hop and R&B. Fri, 8pm-close: Video mixing with DJ Ready Rock. Sat: Temple AllStar DJs. San Jose.

Tue, 9pm: Live DJ. Campbell Fri: Dance night with GenioDe Amor and DJs Cutso and Smoovegrooves. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES

Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.

KATIE BLOOM’S

WINE AFFAIRS

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: DJs and dancing. Campbell.

Sat, 9pm: DJ Abraham. San Jose.

KHARTOUM

ZEN LOUNGE

THE BLANK CLUB

Wed: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Thu: Atomic with DJ Basura. $5. Sat: Dead Beat, DJ Gabriel77 and Julian Destruckt. San Jose.

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

Thu: 2 4 Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ D-Roc. Mountain View.

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu-Fri: DJs. San Jose.

AZÚCAR

Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live DJ. San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Sir Dancealot. Willow Glen.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Thu: College night. Santa Clara.

San Francisco’s City Guide

JOAN OF ARC Chicago’s Tim Kinsella keeps the ashes of Cap’n Jazz afloat and in the studio. May 12 at Cafe du Nord.

OF MONTREAL BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun: DJ Hank. Thu: VJ DRoc. Mon: Beer Pong. San Jose.

Quite possibly the most theatrical, costume-changing band on tour today. May 13 at the Fillmore.

THE CARS

Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.

Yes, Ric Ocasek is back in the band, but no, that hasn’t meant their new album is a masterpiece. May 13 at the Fox Theater.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

A-TRAK

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO

Thu: DJ David Q. Sat, 10pm: DJ Aspect. San Jose.

ITF champ and Kanye’s DJ heats it up with Kid Sister and the Gaslamp Killer. May 16 at Mezzanine.

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

BILL CHARLAP TRIO

Wed-Sat: DJs. Menlo Park.

Versatile Blue Note recording jazz pianist with Peter and Kenny Washington. May 17 at Yoshi’s SF.

BRIX Thu: Therapy. Fri: Breathless. Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #551096 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hotel Elan, 1215 South First Street, San Jose, CA, 95110, BKD Investments LLC. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The state of Corporation: Californina. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on May 1, 2011. /s/Pankj K. Patel Member #200200210056 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/2/2011. (pub Metro 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 6/2/2011)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #550698 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lock & Security Systems, 302 F Toyon Ave., #185, San Jose, CA, 95127, Daniel Frias, 939 W. San Carlos St., San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on. /s/Daniel Frias This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/21/2011. (pub Metro 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25/2011)

Northern CA, 1704 Four Oaks Rd., San Jose, CA, 95132. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The state of Corporation: California. The following person(s) is Registrant has not yet begun (are) doing business as: Gurdwara Sudhar Committee, transacting business under the fictitious business name or 3870 Quimby Rd., San Jose, CA, 95148, Gurmail S. Khalsa. names listed herein on. This business is conducted by /s/John Ngo President #3108136 a individual. This statement was filed with Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/8/2011. fictitious business name or (pub Metro 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, names listed herein on. 5/18/2011) /s/Gurmail S. Khalsa This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Clara County on 4/28/2011. NAME STATEMENT (pub Metro 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, #549775 5/25/2011) The following person(s) is FICTITIOUS BUSINESS (are) doing business as: Torres Lighting Main. NAME STATEMENT This business is conducted #550508 by a individual. The following person(s) is Registrant began transacting (are) doing business as: business under the fictitious Mejia Arts, 323 North 3rd St., business name or names listSan Jose, CA, 95112, David V. ed herein on 12/19/2002. Mejia, Lisa A. Mejia. Refile of previous file This business is conducted #300296 after 40 days of by a Husband and Wife. expiration date. Registrant has not yet begun /s/Robert Torres transacting business under This statement was filed with the fictitious business name the County Clerk of Santa or names listed herein on. Clara County on 3/30/2011. Refile of previous file (pub Metro 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, #436615 with changes 5/18/2011) /s/Lisa A. Mejia This statement was filed with FICTITIOUS BUSINESS the County Clerk of Santa NAME STATEMENT Clara County on 4/18/2011. #550519 (pub Metro 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, The following person(s) is 5/25/2011) (are) doing business as: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Shop-N-Save, 799 E. Evelyn Ave., Mountain View, CA, NAME STATEMENT 94041, M.J Food & Liquor. #550174 This business is conducted by a Corporation. The state The following person(s) is of Corporation: California. (are) doing business as: Uy Registrant began transacting Ban Toung Niem 30-4, 2290 business under the fictitious Tully Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122, Viet-American Voters of business name or names list-

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left the South in ruins and something like 620,000 soldiers dead. So let’s concede maybe we should have given a buyout some thought. The idea of compensating slave owners for their wickedness will offend some, but it was a common approach in other slaveholding societies. Even Lincoln and the Republicans assumed they’d have to come up with cash to reimburse slave owners who remained loyal to the union when their property was freed. The federal government in fact paid close to $1 million in reimbursements when slaves in the District of Columbia were emancipated. Goldin betrays a touch of exasperation that the two sides didn’t settle their disagreements with a civilized business arrangement rather than subjecting the country to the brutalities of war. She cites an 1862 letter in which Lincoln argued: “Less than one half-day’s cost of this war would pay for all the slaves in Delaware at $400 per head … [and] less than 87 days’ cost of the war would, at the same price, pay for all in Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Kentucky and Missouri.” Others consider the notion preposterous. However much sense it may make on paper, a slave buyout would have been tantamount to saying: Look, we’re going to give you fair value to dismantle your entire society. Sure, other onetime slave states made the transition without going to war, but only because the decision to emancipate had come from the top. Southern leaders had spent four score and four years skillfully heading off any such decision, and it was only with the election of Lincoln that they realized the jig was up. Perhaps had they foreseen that their society was about to be dismantled with cannonballs they’d have taken the money, said ta-ta to their former chattels and split for Nicaragua without further fuss. But my guess is they’d have walked out of that first presentation on the Human Asset Reclamation Program (HARP) saying what defenders of the ancient values say now when negotiations take an unpromising turn: We’d better lock and load.

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