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What’s cool about buying a general admission ticket to a concert at an outdoor amphitheater is that if you get there early, you can sit anywhere you like on the lawn. Before that grassy expanse becomes overpopulated, you can find a nice cozy spot to plot your tush on with a clear view of the stage. Beer tent nearby. Easy walk to the bathroom. Great right? But then there was you, person in front of me. You got there a little earlier than I did and got a slightly better seat. But I assume you only bought ONE general admission ticket, which entitles you to ONE general admission seat. So why are laying your 6-footsomething carcass down to take up, like, three spaces? Is this the beach? Are you trying to catch a moon-tan? You sleepy, bro? Then go home and nap! Look around you and not just at the shiny stars above, my obliviously blissful stargazer. The lawn is crowded with people who paid the same amount as you to sit here. So do us a favor and sit up like the rest of us.
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Unwritten Un writtten Rule A special elect election ion took place in Santa Clar ast week and something Claraa County la last unusual happe ened—it went smoothly happened—it smoothly.. The Registr ar of o Voters Voters generally generally takes Registrar up rresidence esidence in n the woodshed during and after elect tions, but it appears no elections, complaints p hav ve been filed over the have handling of a ballots b for Berryessa’s Berryessa’s seat for on the San Jos se City Council. If anything, Jose it appears voters voteers may have made the mistakes. This isn’t isn’t a shot at TIM OR OZCO’s first-place finish, or OROZCO’s N’s 13-vote 13-vote edging of MANH NGUYEN NGUYEN’s secure second place and a LAN DIEP to secure spot in the Jun Junee 23 runoff runoff.. Fly has learned or a that 168 voters marked their ballots ffor write in candid date, but just 26 of those date, write-in candidate, wrote in a name. Diep says people actually wrote is supporters to mark the he instructed hhis last spot on thee ballot, which he thought ame—not the blank ffor or would be his na name—not s those people a write-in.. He suspects te ffor or him but didn ’t ffollow ollow intended to vot vote didn’t through. Ther e’ss no way to pr ove that, of through. There’s prove course,, so Diep is out. He has up until thee end of They call ffor or a this week to call Did recount,, but he tells Fly recount, What? he’s mor he’s moree likelyy to go on SEND TIP TIPSS TTO O oad tripp and clear a long rroad FLY@ FL LY Y@ Meanwhile, his head.. Meanwhile, METRONEWS. METRONEWS. waasted little Nguyen has wasted COM COM ecruit time trying to rrecruit suppported Diep, voters who supported opoonents of the other five as well as pr proponents ndidates in the primary y. It’s It’ss vanquished can candidates primary. ’lll be able to count on the not a given he he’ll o District 4’s Vietnamese support of all of ve a rreputation eputation ffor or voting voters, who hav have triballyy. But thiss week Nguyen rreceived eceived tribally. uring endorsements fr om a boost by secu securing from Jose’s cur rent e and fformer ormer mayors, San Jose’s current SAM LICCARDO LICCARDO O and CHUCK REED SAM REED,, and n Milpitas and CCampbell, ampbell, counterparts in STEVES and JEFFREY JEFFREY CRISTINA, CRISTINA, JOSE EESTEVES respectively ti l . Nguyen’s Nguyen’s Ng ’ camp says it plans l respectively. age outside o committees fr om to discour discourage from ey on the runoff spending mone money runoff,, but that mp rrequest equest unlikely to be seems like a lilimp victoory for for Orozco, Orozco, who has heeded. A victory labor, would potentially shift close ties to labor, the balance of power on the council.
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SHELL S HELL GAME GAME Joe Decker resp responded ponded to the disgusting ‘kill-t ‘kill-the-gays’ the-gays’ ballot initiative with his own biblically-inspired w d legislative proposal: a ban on n shellfish.
California’s broken California’s C brok ken initiative system s attracts lunatics, lunaticss, pranksters, pranksterss, reform reform BY B Y JENNIFER WADSWORTH WA ADSWOR RTH
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nder Joe Joe Decker’s Decker’s theocratic law, shrim theocr atic law w, shrimp, mp p, oysters,, scallops, oysters scallops, winkles and clams become a controlled w would substance. su ubstance. Eating or peddling peddliing shellfish sh hellfish of any kind would d render re ender the guilty felonious, felonious, fi fined—$666,000 exact— — to be exact— an nd sent to the slammer. slammer. and “Pretty “Pr ettty harsh,” he cconcedes oncedes with a sh hrugg, “but at least it t’s not the death shrug, it’s p e ty.” enalt penalty. In a hea avier v r-handed ttake ak ke on heavier-handed L evviticus, Mat tt McL aughlin, a rreclusive eclusiv ivve Leviticus, Matt McLaughlin, O Orange C ountty la awy wyeerr, submit ttted th he County lawyer, submitted the “S Sodomite Suppr ession A cct” ffor or o the “Sodomite Suppression Act” 20 016 st ate ballot. It in nvo ok kees unabashe ed 2016 state invokes unabashed fir re-and-brimstone Old T eestament fury, ury, fu fire-and-brimstone Testament ccalling a alling nyo one guilt ty of to legalize killing an anyone guilty ““the t ab the ominable crime against natur re abominable nature kn nown as bugger y, ccalled alled also so dom myy. y”” known buggery, sodomy. O Or onistic terms ay. eing ga Or,, in less anachr anachronistic terms,, b being gay. M McL aughlin suggests a $1 million fine e, a McLaughlin fine,
decade in jail or eexile decade xxile fr from o the st om state tate a ffor or o eeven veen a rremote emote inter est in n anal pleasur e. interest pleasure. dom my its selff, he deems The crime of so sodomy itself, deems,, should b bee punishable b byy “bullets to the head or an ny other cconvenient on nvenient e metho d.” any method. McL aughlin’s violent pr oscription McLaughlin’s proscription against homose exxualitty hasn h n’’t a chanc homosexuality hasn’t chancee in holy hell of landing on n the ballot. But it has spark keed a serious discussion d ab out sparked about rreforming effo orming C aliffo orniaa’s in nitiativve pr ocess, California’s initiative process, which hi h lets l an ny rregistered egister i ed d vvoter oter o with ih any $20 0 and the time of da ay to pr opose $200 day propose e. It has also a inspir ed a ballot measur measure. inspired satiric caal spinoffs, turning ng an esteemed turnin satirical spin-offs, eexpression xxprression e of dir ect dem mocracy into a direct democracy plat tfo orm ffor o or high-le eveel tr rollingg. platform high-level trolling. Deck keerr— —a full-time natur n Decker—a naturee photo grapher, par t--timee rabble -rouser photographer, part-time rabble-rouser and lif feelong San JJose ose rresident— esidentt— lifelong submit ttted his crust taacean n-criminalizing submitted crustacean-criminalizing “Shellfish Suppr reession A cct” a da ay after Suppression Act” day April F ool’s. Earlier that same week, Fool’s. activist t--author Charlot tttee L aw ws filed the activist-author Charlotte Laws “Intolerant JJackass ack a kaass A cct,” mandating Act, sensitivit ty training ffor or an o nyo one cconvicted o on nvvicted sensitivity anyone of ““the the ab ominable crim me known as abominable crime pr ejudice against se exxual orient taation, prejudice sexual orientation, ccalled alled a gaay--bashingg.” also gay-bashing. “I think it ttakes ak kes e the p o ower aaway way fr ro om power from
[McLaughliin], to subject him to ridicule [McLaughlin], ridicule,,” sa ays y L aw ws, a spirited pundit known ffor or o says Laws, her high-pr rofile ccampaign ampaign to outla aw high-profile outlaw rrevenge evenge e p orrn. “I w aanted to ccall all him out porn. wanted d this hi see emed d lik ke the h b est w ay to do d and seemed like best way that, to use sp eech against sp eech.” speech speech. Whetherr p enned as par ody or penned parody other wise, initiativ iinitiative ve pr oposals ar otherwise, proposals aree no jok ke. By la aw, the ey ha ave to b eated joke. law, they have bee tr treated seriously y, se etttting in motion the seriously, setting momentou us gears of go overnment. e momentous government. Citizendraafted bills go up ffor or a month o Citizen-drafted eview and then to st ev taate of public rreview state A tttorneey General G Kamala Harris — Attorney Harris,, who who— eeven veen agains st her will—must write an against unbiased tit tle and summar y. That clears title summary. the pr opon nents ffor or signatur o g. proponents signaturee gathering gathering. W iith enoug gh names—5 p ercent of the With enough percent most rrecent ecentt gub ernatorial electorate gubernatorial electorate,, or in this ccase ase 36 3366,000 6,000 valid auto graphs— autographs— an initiativ ve qualifies ffor o or the ballot. Thus initiative Thus,, he turnout, the easier it is to the lower th the bring to vvoters otters on Election Da o ay. Day. R evolted o db -gaayys bill, Revolted byy the kill-the kill-the-gays Harris tried d to blo ck it, asking a block Sacramento o Sup erior C ourt judge ffor o or Superior Court declarator elief so she do esn’t ha ave declaratoryy rrelief doesn’t have to dignif fy itt with a fformal ormal o rresponse, esponse, as dignify rrequired equired b ate cconstitution. onstitution. byy the st state “If the ccourt o t do our es not grant this does rrelief, elieff, m ffice will b o orced to issue a myy offi office bee fforced title and sum mmary ffor o or a pr oposal that summary proposal seeks to lega galize discrimination and legalize vigilantism g m,,” Harris wr ote in her p etition. vigilantism, wrote petition.
Low’s Low’s sug suggested ggested ffee ee e hik hike ke ccomes omes on the heels of unp unprecedented precedented rreforms effo orms to the initiative initiativve system, sys ystem, a century-old century-old hallmark of C California aliffo orniaa demo democracy. cracyy. L Last ast fall, Go Gov. ov. Jerry Jerry Br Brown ro own n signed a la law aw that allows sponsors withdraw initiative sponsors to withdra w aw their initiativ ve improved closer to thee election. It impr oveed transparency, Secretary transparency cyy, rrequiring equiring the Secr etary of State post State to p ostt online the top 10 ďŹ nancial donors ffor initiative. or and o a against each initiativ ve. It also ccalled 30-day alled d ffor o or a 30daay public rreview evie v ew at the st start process art of o the pr ocess and eextended xxtended the signatur signature-gathering period from re-gathering gathering p eriod fr ro om 150 to 18 180 days. timetable, 0 da ayys. By changing the timet able, lawmakers have greater chancee to laaw wmak keers ha h ave a gr eater chanc reach initiative reach a ccompromise om mpromise with initiativ ve sponsors. sponsors. “It’s bee rreally interesting “It’s goingg to b eally inter esting to see how this Baldassaree t works out,â€? Baldassar says. “Particularly saayys. “P articu ularly ffor or some of these o complicated high-proďŹ le initiatives, compliccaated d and high-pr oďŹ le initiativ vees, like marijuana we’ll lik ke marijua ana legalization, which we ’ll see mo moving ovving into i 2016.â€? But raisin raising opponents, ng ffees eees has its own opp onents, including th the jackass-suppression he jack kaass-suppression initiative author. initiativve au uthorr. While extreme, extr x eme, the killthe-gays inevitably the-gaayys bill will ine vittaably hit a dead end checks and balanc balances, thanks to existing existing x cees, Laws says. “This Law ws sa ayys. “T This is one submission that is full of hatr hatred intolerance, trueâ€?â€? red and intoleranc ce, true says Los author. saayys the L os Angeles-based author r. “But I think it’s important ordinary itt’s im mportaant to allow or dinary people submit people to su ubmit their ideas to rreform efform o the cconstitution laws. onstitu ution or to add la aw ws. “[McLaughlin] “[M Laugghlin] “[McL hli ] and d people people l like lik ke him hi are adds.. “History are on the fringe, frringe,â€? Laws Law ws adds “History is not on the their side.. F For us,, it it’s eir side or us t’s rreally eally important speak important to t sp eak out and ďŹ ght against intolerance and wher wheree we see it, intolerance when w people bee doing doing. which a lot of o p eople seem to b g.â€? Decker, Deck keer, off shellďŹ sh-suppression shellďŹ sh-suppression fame, fame, agrees initiatives have agrees that early-stage e y-sttaage initiativ early vees ha ave become powerful political become a p o ful fform ower orm of p o olitical speech. speech. “You marketing “Y You o ccan’t an’t ’ buy that kind of mark keeting for $200 anywhere, says Decker, fo or $20 0 an nywher y h re,â€? sa ayys Deck D keerr, who h still runs thee www www.GodHatesShrimp. w..GodHatesShrimp. com bought 2004 com domain n he b ought in 20 04 to make similar point about mak ke a simi ilar p oint ab out the rreligious eligious right’s selective biblical interpretations. right’s select tivve biblic al interpr ettaations. Still, he worries w that the intersection of cr crowdfunding, marketing owdfun ndingg, viral mark keeting and the ac accessibility California’s cessibilit e ty of C aliffo orniaa’s initiative process initiativve pr ocess ccould ould rresult esult in some questionable measures questionable measur es ending up on the ballot. When pizza n an Indiana piz za parlor raised i d nearly ly a million illi dollars d ll last l month h to def defend law emboldening feend a st sstate ate la aw emb oldening them to den deny service customers,, ny ser v e to LGBT customers vic Decker hard bee Deck keer thought, thou ught, how har d would it b for backers fo or a back keerss of a bigoted bill to raise money signature moneey ffor or si o ignature gathering? “There’s dangerous “There’s something s vvery eery danger ous in that ccombination, says. ombin nation,â€? he sa ayys.
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Assemblyman A sssemblyman Evan L Low o (D ow (D-San -San JJose) ose) sa says ayys the whole deba debacle acle of fak fake ke and far far-fetched r--ffeetched bills cheap cheapens apens the demo democratic cratic pr process. ocess. Onc Oncee he hear heard d ab about out McL McLaughlin’s aughlin n’s pr proposal op posal ffor or o slaughter,, L Low legalized slaughter ow intr iintroduced oduced a bill that would up the ďŹ ling ccost from $200 o ost fr om $20 0 $8,000. hasn’t been updated to $8,0 00. The ffee ee e hasn n’’tt b een up dated was egregious in 72 yyears. eears. “This w aas such h an egr egious problems eexample xxample of the pr oblemss with our initiative process, Low says. initiativ ve pr ocess e ,â€? L ow sa ayys. “When yyou o ou have entry, ha ave such a low barrier to o entr y, strange occur. the ‘kill-the-gays’ things do o ccurr. I think th he ‘kill kill-the the-ga gaayys ys’ initiative brought initiativ ve rreally eally br ro ought that t to light.â€? Low hopes 1100 L ow hop es AB 110 0 will w weed out people initiatives p eople ďŹ ling initiativ vees ffor o or their 15 fame,, or some something minutes of fame ething other than their intended purp purpose, pose, which is to create law, state cr reeate la aw, amend the st a cconstitution ate onstitution governor. or rrecall ec ecaall a go oveernorr. level, “On one le eveel, we just need to modernize times, Low says. mo dernize with the time es,â€? L ow sa ays y. “Not have develop “N ot to mention, we ha ave to de eveelop electorate.. If yyou trust with the electorate ou see an o initiative like Sodomite Suppression initiativ ve lik ke [the So dom mite Suppr ession Act], people process. A cct], p eople question thee pr ocess. Trust non-negotiable..â€? is a non-negotiable Processing Pr oceessing citizen-led initiativ iinitiatives vees ccosts osts over current ďŹ ling well o veer the curr ent ďŹ lin ng ffee, eee, eeven ven e wackadoodle legislative ffor or the most w o aack kaadoodlle legislativ ve proposals. Venture Tim pr ro oposals. V entur e e ccapitalist apitalist a T im Draper’s initiative slice Drap er’s initiativ ve last yyear eeaar to slic ce the state Californiasâ€? st ate up into “Six C aliffo orn niasâ€? busied a absurd, arduous host of analysts with the absur d, ar rd duous would ttask ask k off ďŹ guring ďŹ i outt it wo ould ld impact i t economy, base,, ed education, social the ec onom my, ttax ax base duccaation, so cial services, water factors.. ser vices, w aater supply and d other factors moree than the “The ccost ost is deďŹ nitely mor m $200 $20 0 submission ffee eee and d that includes from Legislative Analyst’s work fr om the L egislativve ve Analyst ’s Office, Attorney General’s office, O ffice, the A tttorney Gen neral’s offic e, the Department Finance numerous Depar tment of F inance and a numer ous state local that st ate and lo cal agencies th hat we quantify says ccontact ontact to quantif fy the ccosts, o ,â€? sa osts ays y Nick Schroeder, legislative Schr oederr, a senior legisla ativve analyst. off it difficult, “S “Some i gets vvery eery diffi ffi l in fficult, i some impossible, quantify. ccases aases imp ossible, to quan ntiffy. yâ€? yâ€? would Dialing up the ffee eee wou uld not only behind-the-scenes ccover over e some b ehind-the-sccenes costs, costs, but also might get p people eople to think t ttwice wic w e about submitting proposal ab out submit ttting a pr ro op posal with no chancee of advancing to th the chanc he ballot. amount “Raising the dollar am mount would hopefully encourage people hop efully enc ourage p eo ople to put moree thought thoughtful proposals, fforward orwar o a d mor tffu ul pr oposals,â€? agrees Baldassare, president agr reees Mark Baldassar e, pr p esident of the Policy Institute California. h Public bli P olicy li Institut te off C alif liffo ornia. Besides,, an anyone hopes Besides nyone o who hop pes to land an initiative has bee rready initiativ ve on the ballot ha as to b eady pricee of to ffoot oot the cconsiderably onsiderably higher h pric signatures, To ccollecting ollecting signatur es, he adds aadds.. T o drum names,, pr proponents up enough names oponents o often have $500,000 moree to ha ave to shell out $50 0,000 or mor professional signature-gathering ďŹ rms.. pr ro offeessional signatur e-gaathering ďŹ rms
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EAST-WEST E A ST-WEST BLISS BLISS The L Los os Angeles Child Children’s dren’s Chorus helps tell a littlelittle-known -known tale been audiences. that has bee en adapted for American audie ences.
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Spacetime-continuum-channeled Spac etime- continuum- channeled zerbaijaan, Iran,, San Francisc o, via A Azerbaijan, Francisco, L os Angeles alo Alto High and the Los Angeles,, P Palo b eige ccorridors orrido ors of SJSU’ ol of beige SJSU’ss Scho School Music entiful P each pr emieres Music,, The Pl Plentiful Peach premieres Sunda day at St a fo anf ord’s Bing C oncert Sunday Stanford’s Concert Hall thanks to t ttwo wo unique ttalents: alents: Niloufar T aaleebi on wor ds and Talebi words Mark Gr ey on n music ogether Grey music.. T Together the theyy fuse the eastern and western hemispher es— —a trans-hemispheric al hemispheres—a trans-hemispherical alchem y, I’ll ccall all it —with a chorus alchemy, it—with ttaking aking ccenter enterr st age, literally. literallyy. Also stage,
in included ncluded in the pr program ogram ar aree work works ks byy Henr Henryy Mollic Mollicone, George b one, Geor ge Gershwin others.. G Gersh hw win and others premiere A world pr emiere ccommissioned ommissioneed byy the L Los Children’s b o Angele os Angeles Childr en’s Chorus, Peach C horus, The Plentiful P eeach is a coming-of-age storyy ab about peach out a p each comingo off-age stor and brave children secretly an nd the bra ave childr en who secr etly grow her—against odds. Talebi grrow her —against the o dds. T aaleb bi is a libr librettist multiple-awardettist and multiple -aaward-winning Persian poetry w translator of P ersian p oetr e y who lives Francisco. w liv es in San Francisc o. She adapted Peach from ad dapted The Plentiful P eeach fr om an a original storyy b byy the gr great or riginal stor eat Iranian n Grey, w writer Samad Behrangi. Gr ey, an acclaimed ac cclaimed ccomposer omposer and sound engineer Palo en ngineer who went to P alo Alto SJSU,, wr wrote H High, as well as SJSU ote the choral score. (Emptyy disclosur disclosure: Grey e: Gr ch horal sc ore. (Empt G ey and aree ancient friends; we wer weree an nd I ar the fraternity th he equivalent of ccollege ollege fraternit ty bros, br ros, although we simply had thee frat parties stage.) fr rat par ties on st age.)
The original Samad d Behrangi stor y, One P eeach and 10 000 P eaches, story, Peach 1000 Peaches, satirizes diff ffeerences b e ween the et differences between rich and p oor, b etweeen privileged poor, between glut tton t ny and p overty, b etween gluttony poverty, between gratuitous w aste and sust ssustainability. ainability. waste The master ttakes akes the most m ffertile eertile and w atered land ffor o or hims self and lea aves watered himself leaves the p easants with the unusable land peasants while building a w all b etween the wall between ttwo wo worlds oup of o childr en worlds.. A gr group children emplo erration to sc ale employy a stealth op operation scale the w all and eat an nyyth hing the an wall anything theyy ccan find. The pon a p each, eat Theyy stumble up upon peach, it, and later rreturn eturn to a quiet ccorner orner of the master’ charrd ffor o or planting master’ss or orchard the seed. A side fr om the t theme of Aside from the oppr essor and thee oppr essed,, the oppressor oppressed, stor eeatures vie wpoiints fr om the storyy ffeatures viewpoints from p each seed and the ea arth. T alebi a w as peach earth. Talebi was clearly mo ved b o ttale ale moved byy the original and I w as mo ved just listening to her was moved eexplain xplain it o ver the pho one. over phone. “Ther e’s p oetic line after p oetic “There’s poetic poetic line ,” she said. “It ’s a rreally e eally b eautiful, line,” “It’s beautiful, lyric al stor ll rrelevant elevant lyrical storyy that is stil still to daay, in terms of sust tainability and today, sustainability en nvvironmentalism. An nd it ’s so rich environmentalism. And it’s
and so lyri ical and so simple and lyrical pr offo ound that it w as imp ossible not profound was impossible to do som ething with it.”” something A esu ult, T aalebi adapted Ass a rresult, Talebi the origina al stor y, which to her original story, knowledgee is not yyet et eeven ven translated into Englis sh,, and then pr oduced English, produced the libr ettto ffor o or The Plentiful P eeach. libretto Peach. G ey then discussed various She and Gr Grey narrative arcs, a cs, potential ar potential outlines narrative outlines,, dramatic structur sstructures, es, ccompositional ompositional o or so oloists and thematic ideas ffor soloists ttheyy w anted to get acr oss. messages the wanted across. mo oments of the piec e, Gr ey During moments piece, Grey even sets music m ffor o or childr en singing even children e ersian. lines in P Persian. Talebi a do d es not ccall all herself a p oet, Talebi does poet, bretto is pur oetry with but the lib libretto puree p poetry laayers of meaning and multiple layers symbolism m. It rreally eally is a ccombo ombo of symbolism. East and W est, e , an alchemical alchemical Sufi West, orchard off spiritual emotion. I’ db orchard I’d bee spoiling the th he p eaches if I disclosed spoiling peaches an ny more, more, but b t it made d me w antt to t any want dervish. Or at least eat a whirl lik likee a dervish. eaches. thousand p peaches. This Sun ndaay marks the world Sunday premiere, but this is not the first premiere, ollab boration b etween Gr ey such ccollaboration between Grey aalebii. In 2011, the ttwo wo joined and T Talebi. fo orces for for o A taash Sorushan (F ire Angels) forces Atash (Fire Angels),, which pr em miered at C arnegie Hall premiered Carnegie and later ccame ame to the Berk eley Berkeley ccampus. ampus. B Behrang h gii (1939-19 ((1939-1967), 6 ) the 67), h Behrangi original au uthor of the p each stor y, author peach story, w as an int teresting character who was interesting deser ves much m mor tention in deserves moree at attention the W eest. A nativ zerbaijan, West. nativee of A Azerbaijan, he w as a not n able Iranian writer was notable and so cial critic who wr ote, among social wrote, other thin ngs, childr en’s b ooks that things, children’s books illuminate ed the struggles of the p oor. illuminated poor. His works highlighted the diff ffeerence difference b etween the th he ha aves and ha ave-nots, between haves have-nots, and he w a a str as ong activist ffor o or was strong childr en’s educ ation, ar guing to children’s education, arguing rreform effo orm wh hat he sa aw as the failings of what saw a st ate-sponsor o ed education education ssystem. ystem. state-sponsored He m ysterriously dr owned in the mysteriously drowned Aras riv er at the age of 28 and it ’s river it’s widely sug ggested that his leftist, suggested antiState p olitics had something to anti-State politics do with it.. This week end,, his work weekend, sees a ne w light, thanks to Gr ey and new Grey T alebi. a I am m whirling alr eadyy. Talebi. already.
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SoFA 2.0 Can a club help a neighborhood recapture its glory days? BY NICK VERONIN
NIGHT N IGHT AND A ND DAY DAY F For or many years years, s, downto downtown own San Jose Jose’s ’s live music scene e was in tatters tatters.. But with the opening o of several new clubs in i the So SoFA FA district, including Ca Cafe afe Stritch, The Continental, Ba Back ack Bar So SoFA, FA, A and most recent recently, ly y, Corey O O’Brien’s ’Brien’s brand new venue, v The Ritz Ritz, z, So SoFA FA is beginn beginning ning to look like it did at its peak. peak But can it really everr be like it was?
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HRE HREE EE DANGLING DANGLING crimson crim mson bulbs trace trace a straight str a aight line through the hall, directing eyes to the stage stage at the far end of the room, and a the hanging orbs cast a glow on the bar. bar. There,, two men sit,, sipping pp g bottled water and surveying water a their brand brand d new venture.
C Corey orey O’Br O’Brien rien leans fforward o orwaard in his stool,, fforearms stool, orearm o ms on the bar bar,, fiddling with his phon phone. ne. His pale hands and facee float in th fac the he darkness darkness.. His black shoes, sho es, pants, pants, long-sleeved long-sleeved shirt shirt and
beanie beanie e mer merge ge with the surr surrounding oundin ng black bllack w walls, alls, floor floor and cceiling. eiling. The parts byy th the paarts of his neck not ccovered overed b he hat aree lar largely long, haat ar gely obscured obscured by by the lon ng, dark daark lo locks cks falling out fr from om beneath beneatth the th he knit ccap. ap. In ttwo wo da days’ ayys’’ time time,, The Rit Ritzz will open public,, and ther theree is st still op pen to the public till a lot l of work to b bee done done.. O’Brien O’Brien’s ’s business partner, Kyle Gilmore, bu usiness par tner, K yyle Gilmor e, pu ulls on his cigarette cigaretttte as the pair pulls discuss diiscuss the rrepairs epairs the they’ve y’ve made tto o the th he space, space, what the club means to o them th hem and what it ccould ould mean ffor o or San Saan Jose’s Jose’s nightlif nightlife fe sc scene, ene, which aafter fter a decade decade or mor moree of fits and failed d
starts bee making a st arts seems finally to b ccomeback. omeback. The suc success cess of that rrenaissance enaissance ccould ould well dep depend end on what happ happens ens here, her e, inside this dimlyy lit eexpanse xpanse at the ccorner orner of South F First i and East irst San Salvador str streets. eets. Onc O Oncee an adult mo vie theater as cconverted onverted into movie theater,, it w was 1989 byy a gr group a music vvenue enue in 19 89 b oup headed b il Mar esca, a, who also byy F Fil Maresca, spearheaded guerrilla ebranding sp earheaded a guerrill la rrebranding of the neglected thr ee-block str etch three-block stretch key cityy str street. of a k ey cit eet. Sure, Sur e, the Mark Market et at San P Pedro edro Squaree is a b booming nightlife, Squar ooming hub h of nightlif fe, and the 10 100 0 blo block ck of South S F First irst
Street has pick Street picked ed up steam in the ttwo wo yyears ears sinc sincee 55 South,, Original Gravity Gra avvity an and nd P Paper aper Plane op opened ened up up.. arts culturee n JJose’s ose’s ar ts and cultur And in San known sincee the 19 1990s district,, kn nown sinc 90s as the South of F First irst Ar Area, ea, or SoF SoFA—things A—things have ha ave b been een impr improving. oving. Singlebarr Singlebarrel, el, Back Bar SoF S SoFA, A, C Café affé Stritch and The C ontinental ha ave all br ought Continental have brought somethingg to the ttable. able. But ther theree is still a vvoid oid d to b bee filled: a theater theater-style -style vvenue enue ffor o or touring acts acts.. And ac according cording to Maxwell Borkenhagen, Bork enhaggen, impr impresario esario of the nearbyy liv nearb livee music vvenue enue C Café affé Stritch, The Rit Ritzz iss the ans answer. wer. “It rreally eally is
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this k keystone. eystone. It It’s ’s whatt we need,”” Borkenhagen Bork enhagen sa says. ays y . ““A A big b rrock ock club at the hear trict.” heartt of the dist district.” Borkenhagen’s Bork enhagen’s eeyes yes light l up when discussing the ne new w vvenue, en nue, which occupies o ccupies 40 400 0S S.. F First irst S Street—former treet—ffo ormer home to man manyy pr previous eviou us rrock ock and danc o him,, it pr omises dancee clubs clubs.. T To promises to legitimize the SoF A district and SoFA mid-sized indie,, bring the kind of mids sized indie punk and hip hip-hop -hop actss that one drivee to San would usually need to driv Francisco, Santa Francisc o, Oakland, Sa anta Cruz or Berkeley Berk eley to see see.. “Walking in ther there, e, itt w was as such a breath air,” says, br eath of fresh fresh air ,” he sa ayys, rreferring effeerring
to The Rit Ritz’s z s soft op z’ open en on April 8. “It’s “It ’s is just as ccool ool as an anyy plac placee in San Francisco Francisc o the East Ba Bay. ay. That plac placee o or has potential.” potentiial.” That pr promise o omise w was as on full displa display ay Reverend Horton April 12 at the t R everend Hor ton Heat show, show w, which h dr drew ew a lar large ge cr crowd— owd— despite it b being eing a Sunday Sundaay and eeven ven though Thee Rit Ritzz w wasn’t asn’t serving serving ing alcohol, securee its alc ohol,, as it i had yyet et to secur license. whooped liquor lic en nse. The audience audience who oped hollered Reverend and holler e as The R ed everend and tore through likee his band to ore thr ough hits lik “Psychobilly Freakout. “P sychobillly Fr eakout.” bee seen whether Still,, it remains rem mains to b new club draw the ne w clu ub will dra aw the kinds of
many locals hopee it wi will, big names man ny lo cals hop ill, SoFA and whether the SoF FA District will w rrecapture ecapture its fformer o ormer glor glory, y, when like Nirvana No bands lik ke Pearl Pearl JJam, am,, Nir vana and dN o performed block. Doubt p erfo ormed on the blo ck. The T Reverend Horton with R eveerend Hor ton Heat,, along wit th Agent Orange,, The Faction and Dick A gent Orange D Dale (all of whom ar aree slated to pl play laay Ritzz in ccoming aren’t The Rit oming months) ar en n’t risky bets O’Brien eexactly xactly x risk ky b ets in San JJose. ose. O’Br rien booked successful shows rregularly egularly b ooked suc cessful show ws with skate psychobilly sk ate punk and ps ycchobilly bandss at his Club—but fformer ormer o vvenue, eenue, The Blank Club — —but rarely, rar elyy, at least in rrecent ecent yyears, eears, took took k risks emerging new on emer ging acts and ne w musical musical a styles. st tyyles. The jury jury is out on whetherr
O’Brien and his team m will b book ook the yyounger ounger bands making o makiing headlines on websites lik like ke Pitchf Pitchfork fo orrk and Ster Stereogum. eogum. And eeven veen if The Rit Ritzz ccan an get those groups, gr oups, will San JJose ose show up? San JJose ose music ci circuit ircuit vveteran eteran JJonny onny Manak of JJonny on nny Manak and The Depr Depressives essives e brushes aside those worries worries,, ar arguing gguiingg that O’Brien will b bee able to b book ook k buz buzzed-about zed-about bands now that he has the spac spacee to guarantee enough mone m moneyy to b both oth pay pa ay the band and tu turn urn a pr profit. ofit. “If yyou ou build it,, th they hey will ccome,” ome,” Manak optimistic optimistically allly pr predicts. edicts.
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DANCING D A NCING DAYS DAYS ARE A R E HERE HER E AGAIN AGA IN Fil Maresca Maresca st stands, tandss, c. 1988, in front of murals un uncovered ncovered when converting the e adult Pussycat Pussycat Theater int into to F/X The Club Club.. “Corey just built it. An “Corey And nd we ha have ave the R ockBar theater to o. It IIt’s ’s going to RockBar too. show national b booking ookin ng agents that ther wo big-ass rrooms ooms wher theree ar aree ttwo wheree theyy ccan bands play.” the ands to p pla ay.” an send their ba
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UST a ffew UST ew yyears ears ago aago,, this debate w as mo ott. T he ar ea was moot. The area had a handful off theaters and galleries; destinations wher wheree visitors omptly promptly would ccome ome and then n pr lea ave. What eexisted xisted off a S oFA leave. SoFA nightlife nightlif fe sc scene ene w was as fra fragmented, agmented, best. at b est. apartt in the la late ‘90s, It ffell eell apar ate ‘9 0s, according Sam Ramirez, operator ac cording S am Ramir ez, z op erator of the rrecently ecently op opened ened dC Continental ontinental Bar,, L Bar Lounge ounge and P Patio atio o on S South outh F First irst Street. Ramirez witnessed both S treet. Ramir ez witne essed b oth the rise and the disintegration disintegraation of the SoFA hand. S oFA district first han nd. He cut his teeth in the bar and club c industr industryy on the str street—working eet—workin ng first as a bouncer b ouncer and then as a bar bartender tender at a series of lo local cal est establishments. a ablishments . The way thee sc scene was T he w ay he tells it,, th ene w as b il b built byy lo llocals cals l at a gra grassroots assroots le llevel vell and w was as undone b byy ba bad ad op operators erators and a change of S an JJose o P ose olice San Police Department Depar tment p policy. olicyy. Att its height,, the in A intersection ntersection of South First San Salvador S outh F irst and East S an S alvador str eets w as ccalled alled ““The Thee F our streets was Four Corners”—a C orners”—a rreference effeerence to ffour our o clubs:
F//X The F/X The C Club, lub, T The he C Cactus actus Club Club,, P Polly olly Esthers an and nd Marsugi’ Marsugi’s. s. Ajax L Lounge, ounge, which w was ass in the spac spacee ab above ove C Cafe affe Stritch, S tritch,, w was a another p as popular opular liv livee music and d DJJ vvenue. enue. T The he multi-le multi-level vel Dimensions occupied Dimension ns theme club o ccupied storee building a former fo ormer furnitur ffurnituree stor was razed makee w way that w as ra azed to mak ay ffor or o highrise.. After F/ F/X a residential residentiial highrise X closed,, it rreopened eopened as T The he U Usual, sual, livee music vvenue and ccontinued ontin nued as a liv enue dancee club club.. Ajax b became ecame the and danc B-Hive, B-Hiv e, a hip-hop h -hop est hip establishment, ablishment, and later S Sofa ofa L Lounge, ounge, b before effor o e fir firee ccode ode enforcement enf fo orcemeent ended its run. With W iith th the he eexception xception of P Polly olly Esthers,, a chain, all the vvenues Esthers enues had been b een started started t b byy lo local cal op operators erators with a passion for for o music and nightlife, nightliffe, and most ran on o a sho shoestring estring budget. says was never O’Brien n sa ayys he w as ne ver ffond o ond nickname “Four Corners.” of the nick kname “F our C orners.” Nonetheless, N onetheleess, he w was as a rregular egular on the S SoFA oFA sc sscene. ene. “It w was as happ happening,” ening,” he sa says ayys of his da days ays y hanging out at Marsugi’ /X X, and later working Marsugi’ss and F/ F/X, Usual. at The The U su ual. “It was was ffor or o rreal.” eal.” SoFA was because S oFA became bec e ame what it w as b ecause none of th he clean-nosed de velopers the developers and busine businesses esses would in invest vest in the neighb borhood. T he cit y’s neighborhood. The city’s rredevelopment edevelopm ment agency p oured public poured mone orth of S an C arlos S treet moneyy no north San Carlos Street and br ougght in ne w rrestaurants estaurants to brought new
‘If you bu build uild it, they will w orey come. Co Corey built it.’ just built —JONNY —JO N NNY MANAK MANAK
owners deeper A string of club owner rs with deep er pockets invested. After New p ock keets had in nvested. e Aft fter the N ew York-based Polly Cabana, Y o ork k--based P olly Esthers ccame ame C abana, Glo,, then W Wet. When Usual then Glo eet. Wh hen The U ssual became Spy, Pete Escovedo’s b ecame Sp py, P ete Esc oveed do o’s and then Angels.. The in investment Angels nveestment ccommunity ommunitty had little interest says. lit tttle inter est in rrock ock & rroll, o , O’Brien sa oll, ayys. The vvenues enues e hit on a fformula orm o mula rrevolving evolving o around Top-40 DJss and eexpensive ar ro ound T o op-40 DJ xxpensivve drinks.. Tr Trouble soon drinks ouble so on ffollowed. o olllowed. Police Department The San JJose ose P olice Depar D tment policy changed its p olicy of rrequiring e equiring off-duty officers bee emplo off ff-- duty offic ers to b eemployed yed directly dir ectly by by the clubs to o one in which parked patrol herded a park ed line of patr ol ccars ars her ded eexiting xiting masses to their ccars ars as quickly possible around. as p ossible when 2am rrolled olled ar ound. was people “The rresult esult w as thatt p eople who wanted police w anted to aavoid void p olice interactions stopped Ramirez stopp ed ccoming oming out,�� Ramir R ez says, didn’t sa ayys, “while those who didn ’t with, mind ccontending ontending with h, and eeven ven police, cconfronting, onfronting, the p olice, ccontinued ontinued up.� Ramirez to show up .� Ramir ez himself h left opened downtown and op ened d a club in Campbell. C ampbell.
Clashes b between etween the p police olice and club -goers rrose club-goers ose and b byy the late aughts, aughts, and b both oth W Wet eet and Angels closed after and police incidents an nd p olice enforcement enffo orcement actions.. Thee SoF SoFA nightlife scene actions FA nightlif fe sc ene was quietest been w as the qui ietest it had b een since since sexx industry music rreplaced eplaaced the se industry as the district’s entertainment district ’s dominant do ominant enter tainment in 1980s. the 19 80s. drew In rrecent ecentt years, years, Club Miami dr ew Latin dancee a lo lloyal yall but b t highly hi hl niche i h L atin ti danc d crowd Friday Saturday cr owd on Frida F ay and Satur daay nights.. And 300 block was nights d the 30 0 blo ck w as bracketed byy A Agenda brack eted b genda and Motif on one end d and Original JJoe’s oe’s on other—with nothing,, sa save the other — —with nothing ave the sleepyy Anno Domini eexcellent xcellent but bu ut sleep artt galler galleryy in b between. ar etween.
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or tho those ose old enough to rremember emem mber South F First irst Str Street’s eet’s glory glor l y da d days, ayys, it i w was as an esp especially ecially i ll hard har d blow to w watch atch the SoF SoFA A District det deteriorate. teriorate. Manak rrefers effers e to the SoF SoFA A District of the t early ’9 ’90s 0s as “the “the Mecca Mec ca of en entertainmentâ€? ntertainmentâ€? in San JJose. ose. He rremembers em members heading to the intersection n of South F First irst and East San F Fernando ernan ndo cconďŹ dent onďŹ dent that he he’d ’d ďŹ nd something fun going on. “You “Y Yo ou didn’t didn’t have ha ave to ma make ake plans ffor o or the night,â€? he says. sa ayys. “Y ““You Yo ou jju just ust went out,, and d if one band w was as sh shitty hittty (at one bar or club), yyou ou just we went ent acr across oss the str street. eet. It w was as fucking cra crazy. azzy. Ther Theree wer weree just p people eople on all ccorners. orneers. Ther Theree w was as music ccoming oming fr from om m eevery ver e y building building..â€? Eric V Victorino, ict i torino, lead singer of Strata, Strat a, Thee Limousines and Gest Gestalt, alt, similarly has similar ly ffond o ond memories of the SoFA scene. “It’s been over SoF A sc enee. “It ’s b een so sad o ver the yyears ears to o see that building just sitting says, sit ting there,â€? therre,â€? he sa ayys, rreferring effeerring to the F/X Usual fformer o ormer home hom me of F/ X and The U sual was “It w as devastating devast v ating to see it turn Angels.â€? into Angels s.â€? Strataa pla played, The ďŹ fth h show Strat ayed, when theyy were Downside,, w was the were still s ccalled alled Downside as Cactus Club.. A Att that show show, at the C acttus Club w, his band grabbed attention edgling ba and grabb ed the at tention Capitol Records scout—an of a C apito ol R eecords sc out—an encounter band’ss ďŹ rst enc ounter that led to the band’ kicked Victorino’s ccontract ontract and an nd kick ed off V iictorino’s professional pr offeessionaal music ccareer. areer. According Victorino, A ccordin ng to V ictorino i , the cluster of music m clubs functioned as a trainin training ng gr grounds ounds ffor o or lo local cal acts—helping acts—helpi ing them mo move ve fr from om their garages to st sstate ate and national tours tours..
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compete with SoF compete SoFA’s A’s cluster c of white ttablecloth ablecloth rrestaurants. estaurants. “This whole area ar ea was was worth worth nothin nothing ng to an anybody,â€? ybodyy,â€? says, O’Brien sa ays y , allowing the rrock ock clubs to ccome ome in and build businesses b without much ccapital. apital. often happens But then—as so oft en happ ens bohemian class when the b ohemian cl lass turns neighborhoods around rundown neighb orhoods ar ound music,, ar artt and nig nightlife— with music ghtliffe— establishment notice. th est the tablishment bli h t to ttook ok k notic ti e. Hopes new Hop es of selling ne w ccondos ondos to buyers unaccustomed buy ers unac customed to ďŹ ghts shootings sidewalk and sho otings and side ewalk vvomit omit padlocking meant padlo cking the clubs that had become increasingly b ecome incr easingly rrowdy o owdy as rrents ents SoFA became rrose ose and SoF Ab ecamee a rregional egional cityy ccame destination. “The cit ame in and theyy w wanted the anted to do eeverything,â€? verrything,â€? “Theyy w wanted anted to O’Brien rrecalls. ecalls. “The street.â€? clean up the str eet.â€?
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“It w was as fun, b because ecause th there here w was as a hierarchy up,” “You hierar chy set up ,” he ssays. ays y . “Y You o ccould ould get a show at the C Cactus acttus and pla play ay the tinyy rroom, had tin oom, and yyou ou ha ad something to aspir aspiree to to.. Ma Maybe ayb y e yyou o st ou started arted at Campbell, the Gaslighter in C am mpbell,, and yyou’d ou’d eeventually ventually work k yyour our w way ay up Cactus.” to headlining the C acttus.” Ass O’Brien sur surveys Ritzz just A veys The Rit days before club’s opening da ayys b effo ore the club ’s op ening night, partner hi business his b i par t tner rrecalls e alls ec ll touring t i before signing lease.. the vvenue enue b effo ore signi ing a lease here, [Corey] “When we first ccame ame in her e, [C orey] beat right here, eat up righ said, ‘I got b ght her e, and over here.’ did this o ver her e.’ ” fighter’ss spirit and sense of That fighter’ belonging O’Brien b elonging that O’Brie en brings to the spacee mak makes ideal spac es him an id deal ccandidate andidate to lead the rrevival evival of rrock ock & rroll oll in San JJose. ose.
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FTER F TER rock rock k & rroll olll l died di d in i SoFA—and So FA—and un unwilling w willing to ac accept cept that C California’s aliffo ornia’’s third third lar largest gest city cit ty should go withoutt at least some kind of alternativ alternativee music mu usic club club— — O’Brien and zine publ publisher lisher L Larry arry Trujillo seized the opp opportunity portunitty to buy what would b become ecome The T Blank Club Club.. O’Brien w was as at the C Cactus actus Club the night it op opened ened and hee lo looks oks back at the da day ay that The U Usual suaal closed with disappointment. di disapp ointment. i “The “ h cit city i y wip wiped i ed d out all the rreal eal cultur culture, e,” hee sa says ayys of the decline of the So SoFA FA dis district. strict. O’Brien fformed ormed his definition of o “real “r eal cultur culture” e” as a wile wiley ey yyouth—who, outh—who, tired tir ed of driving to San nF Francisco’s rancisco’s Mabuhay Mabuha ay Gar Gardens, dens, de decided ecided to giv givee promotion pr omotion a tr try. y. The first show O’Bri O’Brien ien or organized ganized was w as a big one: So Social cial Distor D Distortion tion at San JJose ose Cit ollege. “The ““Theyy wer Cityy C College. weree our fa avorite band at the time, tim me,” he says saayys of favorite So cial D o albums out Social D.. “The “Theyy had no yyet, et,, the les and wer theyy just had singl singles weree on some ccompilations. ompilations. We We asked asked them to pla ay San Jose, Jose, and the play theyy told us y’know w, ‘Rent ‘R Rent e a hall! halll! Set a date!’ us,, y’know, date!’”” he sa ayys, chortling chortling a bitt at his fformer o ormer says, naiv eté. “So we ffound o ound the student naiveté. union at San JJose ose City City College College and did the show ther e. We We actually there. made mone he show w. T ons o of moneyy doing th the show. Tons p eople showed up aas a big deal.” people up.. It w was In the early 20 00s, Trujillo w as 2000s, was managing Plant 51—aa rrestaurant estaurant that, while p opular, w as just bar ely popular, was barely hanging on b ehind th he sc enes. behind the scenes. “The g…and I told “Theyy wer weree struggling struggling…and L arry, ‘L et me know iff the anna Larry, ‘Let theyy w wanna sell that plac e, ccause ause I’ ’ll buy it. place, I’ll it.”” He
wners would ne ver sell, said the ow owners never but ttwo wo months m later later,, O’Brien got all. “W We all just scrap ed mone the ccall. “We scraped moneyy together.” together.” The T Blank op opened ened in February 20 2 03. February 2003. During its 12-year 12-year run, the club kept the lo ocal sc ene aliv e, while kept local scene alive, providing providing a vvenue enue ffor o or rising touring bands and oncee in a while d eevery very onc snagging a big fish—lik fish—likee Dw Dwarves, arves, The Damned, Ataris ISIS.. Th Damn D ned, d The Th A taris i or ISIS “It was phoenix from ose fr om was the t pho enix that rrose the C Cactus Usual actuss Club and The U sual going away,” Manak says away,” Man nak sa ayys of The Blank. “Without wouldn’t have “W Wiithout it we wouldn ’t ha ave had any all.”” any national nation nal bands in San JJose ose at all. Borkenhagen, Borkenh hagen,, put it another way. way. “If you’re you o ’re into punk rrock ock and alternative stuff ff,, it w alternative stuff, was as the closest thing to a CBGB’ CBGB’ss we had,”” he sa says. ays y. “It w was as a black b rroom oom that b booked ooked rock rock k band b bands.” ds.” The Blan Blank nk w was as not without its faults, faults, and d O’Brien is the first to acknowledge acknowled dge it. “We’ve “W We’ve done d a lot of big shows here, here, lik likee huge h pr production oduction shows shows,” ,” O’Brien sa says. ayys. Still, he ccontinues, ontinues, “bands wo would ould ccome ome her heree and just not b bee hap happy, ppy, and we ccould ould see it when they they w walked alked in. W Wee need a bigger plac place; ce; we need a rroom oom that has h eeverything veryth hi we need. hing need.” d” At At 8,000 8,000 squar squaree ffeet, eet, e The Rit Ritzz more more than n triples the size of The Blank. It has h a ccapacity apacity of 537— versus versus Thee Blank’ Blank’ss 18 188. 8. It It’s ’s ab about out the same size s as Slim Slim’s ’s or The Independent Independeent in San F Francisco. rancisco. And as such, O’ O’Brien ’Brien sa says ays y he will b bee gunning ffor o the level or level of bands that pla play ay those vvenues. enues. response o to critics who dismiss In response risk k--advverse b ooking histor y, his risk-adverse booking history, rst cconcedes, oncedes, then go es on O’Brien fir first goes off ffeensiive. the offensive. agree with them!”” he eexclaims, xclaims, “I agree saaying y he is i well aaware ware that The saying b rar ely b ooked a band Blank Club rarely booked d ha ave b een ccovered overed b that would have been byy the likes of Pit tchffo ork k—a — website he sa ays y likes Pitchfork—a says eads eevery very da ay. he rreads day. There are arre lots of rreasons easons wh hy There why didn’t b ook man ny of the bands he didn’t book many popular in n indie rrock ock circles, circles, he popular saayys—chieff among them b eing ccash. ash. says—chief being n bigger names ccosts osts money, money, Bringing in o 18 8 people people at a sold out and with only 188 show—even e when he raised tick et show—even ticket pric es ab ove the $5-$10 range—the range—the prices above d bar ely br eak eeven ven and club would barely break y. sometimess lost mone money.
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‘I hope p that th hat audiences audience es are ready y to step up, up p, just j like Core Corey ey is stepping g up.’ up.’ —MAXWELL —M AXWELL BO BORKENHAGEN R RKENH AGEN
“excuses says, But “e xcuses suck,” O O’Brien sa ayys, eexplaining xplaining his plan to bring b bigger better Ritz. and b etttter bands into The T Rit z. “We looked detail “W We lo oked at eevery very det ail when up,, b because we built this club up ecause it has bee p perfect, to b erfeect,, so when the bands leave, theyy sp speak Ritz,” lea ave, the eak well of o The Rit z,”” he says. sa ayys. “That’s “That’s the only way way we’re we’re going people here.” to get p eople her e.” Everything from Ev erything fr om thee custom-built subwoofer monitors subwo offeer to the mon nitors and on-stage onstage mixing board, board, d, to the ttwo wo green backstage—complete gr een rrooms ooms backst agee— complete bathroom, with a private bathr oom, o a shower washer dryer—is and a w asher and dr yer e —is aimed at wooing bands,, O’Brien says. wo oing bands n sa ayys. Gilmoree sa says Gilmor ayys that hee and O’Brien aree going to do their b best ar est to bring best music— “from jazz, hip-the b est music — “fr om m jaz z, to hip hop,, to rrock hop ock & rroll, oll,, to punk”—and that the only thing left ft is ffor o or “San up.” JJose ose to show up .”
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where he work w ed as a bar tender and where worked bartender p on,, O’Brien w as met drank as a patr patron, was by an olfactory olfactory assault. “It smelled,”” by ecalls. Ther T he rrecalls. Theree wer weree dead rat carcasses lying lyying ab out the plac e, holes carcasses about place, ooff had allowed w ater to leak in the rroof water all and ccollapse ollapse p ortions of into the ha hall portions op - do own cceiling, eiling, and par ts of the dr drop-down parts floor wer w otttted out. the floor weree rrotted way, the interior of what is In a way, Th Rit R ould ld b now The Ritzz ccould bee seen as a metaphor ffor or the entir o metaphor entiree downtown scene. In just ju ust a ffew ew months time scene. time,, onn nections he built o ver a using cconnections over liffeetime living, living, working and sk ating lifetime skating Jose, O’Brien w as able to in San Jose, was transffo orm the t building y, transform building.. Similarly Similarly, ew shor ears, the lo cal in just a ffew shortt yyears, local nightliffe sc ene has b een rrevitalized— evitalized— nightlife scene been propelled b cals op ening up ne w propelled byy lo locals opening new restaurantss, craft ccocktail ocktail bars and restaurants, tap rrooms ooms off their h i own. tap “I’ve been beeen one of those p eople “I’ve people e sup een er p essimistic who has b been super pessimistic about downtown dow wntown San JJose ose ffor o or a about ,” V iictorino sa ayys. “But then long time time,” Victorino says. kind da made me change m Stritch kinda myy t things ar ound, and mind and turn around, k The Rit now I think Ritzz is going to solidiffy tha at.” solidify that.” Manak iss decidedly mor moree enthusiastiic. “I’m so fucking eexcited,” xcited,”” enthusiastic. h says. saayys. “This “ his “Th h is hi i the h b est ne ws I’v ’ e he best news I’ve heard ffor or o th he sc ene in 10 yyears. ears. This heard the scene irst on fir e. is going to light South F First fire. There are are p eople who ar There people aree 20 and 30 years old in n San JJose ose who ha ave ne ver years have never experienced d this y’re going to experienced this.. The They’re fu minds .” lose their fucking minds.” Borkenh hagen,, himself in his midBorkenhagen, 20s, is hopeful hopeful e that Manak is right. 20s, “The Rit eautiful blank spac Ritzz iiss a b beautiful spacee fresh h st art,”” he sa ayys. ““People People and a fresh start,” says. haave their eexpectations, xpectations, but The Rit have Ritzz B is not The Blank. Blank.”” tisstic dir ector of C affe The ar artistic director Cafe Stritch—th he curr ent go-to go -to venue venue Stritch—the current fo or the freshest fresh hest sounds in lo cal indie for local rock k— —Bork kenhagen w as onc ery rock—Borkenhagen was oncee vvery skeptical off San JJose. ose. In fact,, he says, saayys, skeptical city for fo or turning its he “hated”” the city ved. back on thee kind of music he lo loved. But these da d days, ayys, he is far more more hopeful. hopeful. “My hop hope pe is that The Rit Ritzz embraces embraces th the he fact that ther theree is a lot of different diff ffeerrent pr programming ogramming that that’s ’s now p possible ossib ble that has a big audienc audiencee here,” here,” he says. saays y . ““And And I hop A hopee that audiences audiences ar aaree rready eady to step up up,, just like like Corey Corey is i stepping up up.” .” Jody J ody Amabl Amable le ccontributed ontributteed ttoo this st story. orry.
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“X sold the plac placee ou out,” t,”” O’Brien saayys, rreferring says, effeerring to the the th he time he booked b ooked the late late-’70s -’70s pu punk unk ic icons. ons. “It was ticket w as a $30-$40 dollar ti icket and we money.” lost mone y.” Theree wer weree other facto factors Ther ors that was held back The Blank,, too. too. “It w aas a says, destination,” Manak sa ays y , pointing pointing out many that ffor or o man ny yyears eears there there was waas nothing in vicinity Lounge its vicinit ty but The Caravan Caraavan v L ounge and Greyhound station. didn’t th Gr the G eyyhound h db bus st tatio tion. “You “Y You o did didn n’’t go to The Blank unless yyou o ou planned The ahead of time to go to Th he Blank.” All of this ccombined ombined d with the club’s poor layout—a stage, club ’s p oor la ayout—a small s st age, no backstage, backst age, no parking ffor o or bands—led to band ccomplaints. omplaints.
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ASTRO ASTR RO STREET STREET draws draws a younger you unger crowd to Mountain Mountain View— those those interested in having drinks drinks and food and observing the time-honored tradition tradition of o happy hour. hour. Shell Sho Shock ck k Oyster Bar and Grill iis a ne wer rrestaurant essttaurantt on C astr t o newer Castro wice a offers happy that off ffeers ha appy hour ttwice night, eevery ver y night, n at the fairly cconvenient onvenient hours h of 4:30-6:30pm and again fr o 9pm to close. om close. The from rrestaurant estaurant advertises ad dver tises fresh fresh oysters oysters in a ccombined age of ambianc ombineed pack package ambiancee and cuisine tthat hat seems fit ffor or o an
im important mpor tant business client or a fa fancy ancy dinner di inner ffor o or mom. On a week weekend end visit ffor or o lunch, Shock I decided d to see how Shell Sho ck handles ha andles its nonnon-oyster oyyster menu items items.. The Th he weather w was aas gr great eat and most lunch-goers lu unch-goers chose to sit outside on Castro Street's sidewalk C a o Str astr eet's ccomfortable omffor o table side waalk k dining di ining no nooks. oks. I chose to sit indo indoors ors and a enjoy en njo oy the high cceilings eilings and mo modern dern decor. de ecor. The rrestaurant estaurant is spacious and an nd minimalistic with most design elements el l lements ccoming oming i ffr from om a mixed i d wo wood od grain gr rain w wall aall and eexposed xposed bulb lightingg fixtures. fix xtures. This place place must be be booming boomin ng att night as a bar with a ccomprehensive omprehenssivve spirit sp pirit selection that ttakes akes up the w wall al all left le eft of the rrestaurant. estaurant. The hostess se seated eated uss pr promptly omptly and ser service vice remained remained cconsistent o onsistent thr oughout the meal. throughout
L unch ffor o or ttwo wo st arteed with the Lunch started Mini Crab T aacos ($14 ffor o or ffour), our), o Tacos which ccame ame with crab b meat, spicy scallions aioli, aavocado vocado and sc alllions in a thin wonton shell ser ved o n a met al ttaco aco served on metal holder ass ac curate to holder.. The menu w was accurate ha ave listed this under the Small Bites have section sinc wo bitess p er ttaco aco w as sincee ttwo per was all ther theree w was. as. The dish h ccould ould ha have ave b een enhanc ed with a mor y, been enhanced moree citrus citrusy, spicy punch. The Truffle L obster Mac and Lobster Cheese ($16) pr ovided d some provided rredemption edemption fr from om the ttacos. acos. F Four our piec es of lobster ttail ail la ay atop a ric pieces lay ricee b owl's wor th of elb ow w mac aroni in bowl's worth elbow macaroni a mostly cheddar sauc sauce. ce. While the mac aronii w as a lit tl al tle al dente d t and d macaroni was little the lobster ttail ail slightlyy o vercooked, overcooked, the fla flavors avors of this dish h wer weree satisf fyying. satisfying. W Wee split the C Cajun ajun pra p prawn awn w sandwich ($12.95)—th hree lar ge ($12.95)—three large pra aw wns with sauteed onions o prawns onions,, pickled onions onions,, arugula and a citrus citrusyy ma mayo ayo
sauc e. O t dishes ser ved so far sauce. Off the served far,, this sandw wich ttasted asted the b est. The sandwich best. pra aw wns we ere ccooked ooked just right and prawns were ttasted asted fr esh h. The sauc od fresh. saucee added go good fla avor and the side of garlic fries wer flavor weree a dec ent p ortion size decent portion size.. The sandwich itself ccould ould d ha ave b een a lit tle bigger have been little bigger.. Ha avving alr eady or dered thr ee Having already ordered three dishes ffor or lunch o l and not ffeeling eeeling full, der of the Soft Shell I added an n or order Crab Ric ame Ricee Bowl ($14),, which ccame with a frie ed soft shell crab oached fried crab,, p poached egg sprink kled with furik ake, ttwo wo sprinkled furikake, slic es of aavocado, vocado, a ccabbage abbage sla aw with slices slaw jalap eno sl lices and sesame seeds on jalapeno slices top of ric ricee with a wonton chip chip.. The ric as the sa aving v grac owl w ricee b bowl was saving gracee to this lunch ombining all the lunch.. After ccombining elements e bite held a satisf fying y elements,, each satisfying mix of fla avors. flavors.
A com combined mbined package pack kage of ambiance amb biance and cuisine cuis ine that seems seem ms fit for an important im mportant business busi iness client or a fancy dinner dinn ner for mom Shell Sh Shock hock ma may ay b bee a plac placee that's better ffor better o or the t tr trendy endy asp aspects, ects, lik likee drinks and d small bites ffor or o happ happyy hours esserve an official judgment hours.. I rreserve until I tr t o yysters and the happ tryy the oysters happyy hour w the rregular egular lunch hour,, but with p ortion sizes sizzes b eing what the e, portion being theyy wer were, I ccan an only imagine what the happ happyy hour p ortiions would b e. I also portions be. wonder ho ow much cr edit a chef gets how credit ffor or a rrestaurant o estau urant that prides itself on ser ving ra aw o ysters sour ced fr om serving raw oysters sourced from lo cal farms s. Shell Sho ck should work local farms. Shock on ele vatin ng the qualit ty and p ortion elevating quality portion size of its dishes d to earn the high pric pricee point. p oint The only sho oint. shock ck ffor o or now lies with the st sticker. ticker. SEAFOOD SE AFOOD BAR B AR
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‘TAIL TO TELL Cache Bouren says the South Bay’s original craft cocktail lounge, singlebarrel, will undergo a rebrand this summer.
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t’ll soon be time to pour one out for singlebarrel. The speakeasy-inspired bar, known for its quiet atmosphere and personalized drinks, plans to rebrand itself after operating for five years as a leader in San Jose’s craft cocktail movement. Cache Bouren, the bar’s owner, says that singlebarrel’s existing fans need not worry. “It’ll still feel like you’re stepping out of an episode of Mad Men, sipping on an old fashioned,” he says. “It’s not going to turn into a disco-tech, but we want it to be a little more effortless to come out to get quality service with quality cocktails.” The bar—the first of its kind in the South Bay when it debuted—currently maintains a subdued atmosphere with high attention to detail. Every customer has an opportunity to be interviewed by a bartender to find the perfect drink for their palette. But that devotion has had drawbacks at times. The bar caps out at 80 guests, groups are limited to just six people and bouncers have been known to remind rowdier patrons to keep their voices down. According to Bouren, maintaining the bar’s vibe has at times led to longer lines, which can conflict with providing an inviting space to have a couple cocktails. “In order to maintain that environment, we sometimes have to enforce those rules pretty strictly,” he says. “Sometimes that can be a little off-putting.” The plan is to shut the bar down at the end of May and reopen in June after an interior redesign. Carpets will be rolled in and acoustically engineered paneling will go on the walls to help keep down the noise without a friendly reminder. Bouren also wants to bring in new furniture and booths and switch to a preselected menu, in the hopes that this will reduce wait times and boost capacity. Table reservations will be another addition, allowing patrons to skip the line altogether, and the group cap will double to 12. Despite all these changes, Bouren says the bar’s staple—high-end cocktails and low-key feel—will remain intact. “We’re never going to have that nightclub, elbow-to-elbow feel that makes some people uncomfortable,” he says. “What we’ve done is something really special and really true, and that’s never going to change. We’re not going to start slinging out Jäger-bombs and vodka-Red Bulls. We’re always looking to have the best possible drinks and keep it classy. As long as that’s a priority, we’re not going to have to worry about being cool.” — Matt Rupel
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Double-necked Double e-necked guitars, ridiculously ridicul ously long drum solos and veryy tight tight jeans. Led Zeppelin were were pioneers—leaving p their mark on o just about every corner of the rock rocck & roll roll world and beyond. They reinterpreted reinterpreted blues and folk folk influences influences by running them through prog-rock filter througgh a pr og-rock fil ter and changed changed the fface ace of pop music ffor or decades decadees to follow. follow. Naturally, Naturally, most tributes tributees to Led Zeppelin aim to reproduce reprodduce the sheer virtuosity of Bonham, Bonhaam, Jones, Page Page and Plant. Dread different Dread Zeppelin have a diff erent approach. approaach. Fronted Fronted by a 300-pound Elvis impersonator, im mpersonator, Dread Dread Zep play hit supergroup hit songs by the super group in a reggae reggae style, and might just be thee wackiest band since Green Green Jello. (JE) (JE)
Orange County Or ange Co ounty punk legends Agent Orange have Or ange ha ave been tearing it up 1979. weree the first since 1979 9. They wer experiment band to ex xperiment with mixing punk and surf music, helping to Orange define thee Or ange County punk sound—a rrock ock soun d—a style that continues inspiree young musicians, such to inspir Cherry Glazerr.r. as King TTuff uuff and Cher ry Glazer Thrashy ashy drums Thr d and waves of distorted aree fused heavily dis storted guitars ar basslines with bass lines and solo-guitar which runs, whic ch deploy the andalusian cadence adopted a by early ’60s surf rrockers ockers like likke Dick Dale. The resulting resulting tubular.. sound is as a heavy as it is tubular (JE)
KRUSH K RUSH GR GROOVE OO OVE SAP SAP P Center Center,r, San Jose Fri,, 6:30pm, $45-$140 Thiss hip-hop walk down memory Thi lanee ffeatures lan eatures Ice CCube, ube, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Thu ugs-N-Harmony ugs N Harmonyy, Dipset, Dipset E-40, EE-40 40, Scarface TToo oooo Short, Scarf ace and LLuniz. uniz. While tenured Wh hile these tenur ed spitters might mig ght not be at the center of the conversation anymore, con nversation anymor e, the waves they created the ey cr eated back in the ’90s can stilll be obser observed today.. By way of stil ved today example, exa ample, Big Sean’s Sean’s smash hit, “I Don’t Don n’t Fuck With YYou,” ou,”” ffeatures eatures 40Water builtt upon the word W ater and is buil word TToo oooo Short made ffamous. amous. This rrapapa-palooza a-p palooza is a prime chance ffor or the old the ld hheads d to t rreminisce, eminisce, i i andd ffor or younger you unger ffans ans to better understand thee genre’s genre’s rroots. oots. (JF)
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BARRY B ARRY MANIL MANILOW OW April 18 at SSAP AP Center
NASA NA ASA SPACE SP PACE UNIVER UNIVERSE SE April 18 at San Jose Rock Shop
THE MOOD MOODY Y BLUES BLUES April 228 8 at City National Civic
NEW NE W KIDSS ON THE BL BLOCK, OCK, TL TLCC M 3-8 May 3-8 at SSAP AP Center
SELECTED SELE CTED SHOR SHORTS TS May 15 at Bingg Concert Hall, Stanford Stanford
LANA NA DEL REY REY & COURTNEY COURTNEY LLOVE OVE May 20 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre
ARMORED ARM MORED SSAINT, AINT, SSAXON AXON May 29 at RockBar Theater
VANS V ANS A W WARPED ARPED T TOUR OUR June ne 20 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre
NICKELBACK NICKELB ACK June une 2244 at Shoreline Shoreline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre
LADY LAD Y ANTEBELLUM ANTEBELLUM June une 26 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre
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Bowie almost got it right. righht. We We can can be heroes, heroes, all right—but not just for for Comicfest one day. dayy. The Big WOW! WOW! Co omicfest 2015 lasts a full 48 hours this coming McEnery cEnery weekend at San Jose’s Jose’s M Center.. That That’s Convention Center ’ss two days of geekery. glorious geekery y. Check oout ut ink and from industry's pencil classes fr om the in ndustry's contests, best artists, gaming conte ests, a Comic thrilling table rread ead by Com mic Book Masterpiece Theater and,, of course, cosplay.. Legendary co comic the cosplay omic book creators Theree will be cr eators will speak. Ther blood: a stage version of "Nightmar ""Nightmaree costume in Blood.”” And the costum me contest alone is worth a peek. Butt rremember: emember: projectiles (AB) no pr ojectiles allowed! (A AB)
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Playing a sinisterr blend of hardcore and har dcore punk an nd ’60s-style garage NASA gar age rock, rock, Santa Santta Ana’s Ana’s NA SA Space Universe ssounds ounds like the SStooges tooges fronted frontted by Henry careens Rollins. Fuzz-laden Fuzz-ladeen guitar car eens between riffs andd rroars, oars, while flurry the rrolling olling bass aand nd flur ry of angry guttural drums back an an ngry and guttur al It’s that can lead vocal. It ’s a sound s from Orange rreally eally only come fr om Or ange County.. The band has clearly been County proto-punk influenced by thee pr oto-punk oto punk Burger bands on the Bur rger Records Records brand rroster, oster, as well as the distinct br and hardcore of slimy har dcore that the OC was known ffor or in the ’80s. (JE)
MORRISSEY MORRIS SEY July 255 at SSJSU JSU Event Center
DARIUS D ARIUS RUCKER RUCKER July 31 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre
M MICHAEL MCDONALD August 3 aatt Montalvo Arts Center
SSAN AN JOSEE JJAZZ AZZ SUMMER FE FEST ST August 77-9 -9 at a Downtown San Jose
CHRIS HARD HARDWICK WICK August 15 1 at CCalifornia alifornia Theatr Theatree
SHANIA TW TWAIN WA AIN August A ugust 17 at SSAP AP Center
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THE T HE P POWER OW E R O OF FS SONG ONG There are elemen elements ts of ‘V ‘Violet’ Violet’ i that could easily slip s into cliché. The strong cast however, elevate the c and music, however r, eleva ate the show to the realm of th he sublime.
The T Tabard a abard Theatre Theatre’s ’s ‘‘Violet’ Violet i ’ is a rousing rousin ng spiritual journey jourrney in song BY B Y KARLA A KANE
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ROUSIN ROUSING U G SCO SCORE, RE, soaring soar ring harmonies and d an ugly-duckling l d kli story stor ry of sorts prove a successful combination in Violet, Tabard Violet i t,, the T abard Theatre Company'ss charming new prroduction. musical production. The name "T ""Tabard" Taabard" rrefers effeers Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, to Chauc er's C aantteerburry T aales, a collection byy collection of stories s narrated b a group group of men meen and women on a religious pilgrimage. Violet,, based on religious pilgr rimage. Violet the short Ugliest Pilgrim,, short story storry The U ggliest Pilgrim byy Doris Betts, b Bettttss, is thus a very very fitting fitttting choicee ffor choic o or thee ccompany. ompan ny. The "pilgrim" in this 1964-set 1964-seet piece piece is Violet Viiolet (Jocelyn ( Jocelyn Pickett, Pick ket ettt,, and in n yyounger ounger flashbacks Hurley). Disfigured Ginger Hurle ey). Disfigur ed by by the scar incurred facial sc ar shee incurr ed during a
ch childhood hildhood ac accident, cident,, she's had enou enough ugh off her lonely rural lif fe and has saved saaveed life u p her mone or o the Gr eyhound up moneyy ffor Greyhound us journe om N orth C arolina to B Bus journeyy fr from North Carolina T ulsa,, Okla. Ther w Tulsa, Theree she'll meet up with a tele vangelist g ((Sha aw wn Bender)) wh hom televangelist (Shawn whom sh he b elieves has the p ower to heal she believes power h er sc ar or p ossibly eeven ven grant herr an her scar possibly ntirely ne w fac e. Along the w ay sh he en entirely new face. way she en ncounters ttwo wo soldiers— dumb-b buttencounters soldiers—dumb-butcu ute Mont ty ((Adrien Adrien Gleason) and cute Monty th he mor ful Flick ((Anthone Anthon ne the moree thought thoughtful JJackson) a ackson) who an-Ameriican who,, as an Afric African-American m in the South,, is also used to man b e eing judged b ate of his ski in. being byy the st state skin. Though V iiolet sp ends much tim me Violet spends time b e emoaning i her h app earance, b oth th bemoaning appearance, both so oldiers find themselv es at tttracted to t soldiers themselves attracted th he sassy-but-naive sassy--but-naive yyoung oung o woman,, and the a night out on in the town in sultr ry sultry M Memphis sets the st age ffor o or a love love stage tr riangle. Ther e's something W iizard of triangle. There's Wizard O Oz-lik ke ab out V iiolet's rroad oad trip to find Oz-like about Violet's a magician of dubious p owers. W e, powers. We,
likee the soldiers, know start lik th soldiers ldi , k w fr ffrom om the th st tart Violet's physical V iolet's i quest ffor o or a ph hyysical miracle likely imagines,, will lik ely not end how w she imagines hopee that p perhaps but hop erhapss healing isn't each. out of rreach. storyy of Violett (ly (lyrics book The stor yrics and b ook byy Brian Cra Crawley) slim, theree b aw wley) is sli im,, and ther aree elements that ccould ar ould d easily slip into (early-’60s cliché (early y--’60s raciall tensions and Vietnam V ietnam i War fforeboding; o orebodiing; Southernaccents; hillbilly fried ac cents; the hillbi illy father with preacher). Wee hi hatchet; his h h the h slick li k pr reacher). h ) W beauty more all know b eauty is mor re than skin deep,, etc etc.. The str strong deep ong ccast a and JJeanine ast eanine Tesori's however, T eesori's music, music, howe ver e , with its diverse bluegrass, gospel div veerse blend of bluegr rass, gosp el and R&B,, ele elevates R&B vates the show w to the rrealm ealm sublime.. Song hi highlights of the sublime ighlights include Way" "On My Wa ayy" and thee eexhilarating xxhilarating Up," "Raise Me U p," duringg which the gospel stamps, claps, gosp el choir st amps, cla aps, and amens way the audience, its w ay in and out of th he audienc e, heavenly enough make with vvocals ocals hea aveenly en nough to mak ke believer anyone. ab elieveer out of an nyon ne. Reese In her title rrole, ole, Pickett Pick kettt has a R eeese Witherspoon-ish quality pure, W ithersp i oon-ish quali itty and a pur e, lovely lo veely singing voice—mercifully voice—m mercifully free over-the-top histrionics. fr ee of o ver-the-top his strionics. Her Violet V iolet i is wounded yyet et feisty, feist e ty, an interesting inter esting heroine heroine worth wo orth rooting rooting
powerhouse ffor. o or. And vvocal ocal p owerhouse JJackson ackson drew cheers dr ew cheer rs with each of his big numbers. numb ers. While W the script suggests character Monty bee the charac cter of Mont ty is meant to b hunky portrayal a hunk ky seducer, seeducer, Gleason's p ortraayal y moree b boyish Casanova. is mor oyish y yyokel okel than C asanova. I especially Hurley's esp ecially enjo eenjoyed oyed Hurle y's winsome performance Violet's self. p erfo orman nce as V iiolet's yyounger ounger self f. Hurleyy hass a wonder wonderful Hurle ful vvoice oice well the style suited to th he ccountry ountry st tyle y of her songs,, and a natural,, grac graceful stage songs eful st age presence. pr esence. Supporting aree a Supp orting t the principles ar fantastic batch fant astic b atch of actors who shine in variety a variet ty o of small rroles, oles, each ttaking aking on multipl multiple enjoying le characters and enjo oyying throughout, ffeatured eeatured moments m thr oughout, including Bender's B mesmerizing turn preacher, Harris,, as the pr eaacher, and JJuanita uanita Harris Ruth Anaseini Katoa, K , and R u uth E. Steins as too many name.. Y You'll to o man ny characters to name ou'll o noticee and notic d rremember emember all of them. technical Some te echnical difficulties with the sound d ssystem ysttem t lled d tto a ffew ew distracting di t ti static, moments of o ffeedback eeedback and st atic, but the on-stage on-stagge band,, consisting consisting of a guitarist, percussionist violinist, gu uitarist,, p ercussionist and keyboardists, (even ttwo wo k eyboar o dists, is great great (e ven if guitar was the lack off bass guit ar w as initially cconcerning). oncerningg). Part pleasuree in at attending P art of the t pleasur tttending a performance Tabard perfo ormaance of Violett is the T aabard itself. With walls eexperience xperience itself f. W iith brick w aalls and eexposed xposeed beams, beams, the second-story second-story performance spacee in p erfo orman nce spac i downtown d offers San JJose ose off ffeers ccomfortable ff omffor o table seats and plentyy of rroom, ttables ables with h plent oom,, and a well-stocked wellstocked e concessions concessions area, area, from from patrons aree fr free which patr rons ar ee to snack and throughout show. Theree ar aree sip thr ough ghout the show w. Ther special eeven ven sp eciaal ccookies ookies and drinks to fit current production's theme.. And the curr en nt pr oduction's theme portion proceeds goes ap ortion of o cconcession oncession pr oceeds go es support local to supp ort a lo cal nonprofit. nonprofit. Violet baree b bones—a The Viol lett set is bar ones—a bus-route map,, some basic furnitur furniture. bus-r oute map m e. Costumes props aree simple, too. C ostumes and pr ops ar simple, to o. This suits tthe vvenue, enue, allowing nothing the way to get in th he w ay of the ccompelling ompelling performances music.. Though p erfo orman nces and music was Broadway, it w as welll rreceived eceivved e on Br oadw way, choicee ffor Violett is a gr ggreat eat choic or a smaller o stage, directed byy local-theater st age, and,, as dir ected b local-theater Manley, perfect vveteran eteran JJay ay Manle y, a p erfeect one with Tabard's current which to end e T aabard's curr ent season. Hallelujah. Hallelujah h. APRIL
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Huey Lewis and the News August 6
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Big Head Todd & the Monsters/ G. Love & Special Sauce July 25
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
Juanes
Ziggy Marley/ Steel Pulse August 13
Loco De Amor U.S. Tour
August 8
35th Anniversary Tour
Boston July 30
Spandau Ballet July 31
Chris Isaak August 14
Orquestra Buena Vista Maze featuring Social Club® Frankie Beverly “Adios Tour” August 16
Sheryl Crow August 4/5
John Waite
July 29
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Michael Franti & Spearhead
Diana Krall
Ron White
Wallflower World Tour
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Once A Day Tour
August 19
August 21
Jill Scott August 23
Colbie Caillat/ Christina Perri
KC and The Sunshine Grammy Winner Peter Frampton/ Band Cheap Trick Jody Watley featuring June 9 Shalamar June 6
Gordon Lightfoot
Audra McDonald
50 Years on the Carefree Highway Tour
Andy Einhorn, music director and piano
June 11
Paul Rodgers June 14
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David Nail and Ashley Monroe
June 19
George Thorogood & The Destroyers/ Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot June 20
Brian Wilson
August 25
Rodriguez June 18
Mark Vanderpoel, bass Gene Lewin, drums
June 12
Brit Floyd - World Tour 2015 - Willie Nelson & Family/Alison Krauss The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas June 21 June 22
Bell Biv DeVoe Smash Mouth/ Toad The Wet Sprocket with Special Guest Tonic
June 24
Doug E. Fresh
The Gipsy Kings
Neko Case
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Reyes and Tonino Baliardo
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September 2
September 4
Lynyrd Skynyrd September 15
Rodrigo y Gabriela September 17
Robyn Hitchcock
Boz Scaggs with Very Special Guest
Aaron Neville
July 7
Ozomatli featuring Sheila E July 9
The Psychedelic Furs/ Yes/Toto The Church September 8 September 6
ABBA The Concert
Lost 80’s Live featuring
An Evening With
ABC Wang Chung A Flock Of Seagulls Naked Eyes Animotion The Flirts Gene Loves Jezebel Boy Don’t Cry September 25
The Beach Boys September 26
ZZ Top Blackberry Smoke
September 11
June 27 Eddie Izzard September 12
featuring Rob Thomas Blackstreet/Ginuwine/ Plain White T’s The Great Unknown 2015 Tank/SWV July 2 July 1
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons September 5
The Roots June 28
Force Majeure Tour (mature content)
New Jack
August 28
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Pink Martini September 1
Little Big Town
The Ultimate Tribute
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August 18 Erykah Badu May 22
The Fab Four
Heart August 26
A Tribute to ABBA
September 20
Kristin Chenoweth Coming Home Tour
September 27
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Amos Lee/David Gray David Gray/Amos Lee Jake Shimabukuro July 11 July 12 July 10
Cooder-White-Skaggs The Doobie Brothers Chicago Ry Cooder - Sharon White October 1 October 3
UB40 feat Ali Campbell, Galactic and Macy Gray
September 30
The English Beat
Ricky Skaggs
Astro and Mickey with Special Guest
Virtue Alone and Together Full sets from both artists
October 10
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*stage VIOLET Based on the Ugliest Pilgrim m by Doris Bettis, this journeyy self-reflection about self-r eflection is bolstered multibolster ed by a soulful mul tigenree scor score. genr e. $15-$38. April 3rd. 10th-May 3r d. Theatre Theatre on San Saan Pedro Square. P edro Squar e. San Jose.
M. BUTTERFL BUTTERFLY Y Inspired by Puccini’s ffamous Inspired amouss opera, parodies sexual oper a, this play par odies sex xual diplomat ffantasy antasy as a French French diploma at operaa star star,r, ffalls alls ffor or a Chinese oper ideal who turns out to be less idea al than he imagined. Mar 19- Apr A $17-$32. Theater 19. $17 -$32. City Lights Thea ater Company. Company y. San Jose.
THE ADD ADDAMS AMS FFAMILY AMILY In a new take on “Guess Who’s Whho’s Dinner,” Wednesday Coming to Dinner ,,” W ednesdday Addams brings home a boyfriend with unwelcome macabree ffamily. amily. charm to her macabr $17-$42. Palo Apr 25- May 10. $17 -$42. P a alo Alto Palo Alto Al to Players. P alo Al to
THE MY MYSTERY STERY OF ED EDWIN WIN N DROOD DR OOD A musical based on an unfinished Charles Dickens’ Dickens’ traces novel that tr aces the death of actor.. In an upstanding young actor gets a fun twist,, the audience gge ets murderer from to choose the mur derer fr om ma characters that cast of shady char acters tha at ulterior make their ul terior motives known. Apr 44-26. -26. $15-$35. Theatre. Sunnyvale Theatr e.
FIRE ON THE MOUNT MOUNTAIN AIN This gr grounded ounded musical pays a bluegrass humble bluegr ass tribute to the hum ble mining ffamilies amilies of Appalachia. Appalachiaa. It’s It ’s a “foot-stomping” “foot-stomping”” tributee to culture the cul ture hardship hardship and heroics heroics o of the Blue Ridge. g Thru Apr p 26. 26 6. $30.. Mountain View Center ffor or Performing P erforming Arts.
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beauty, beautyy, sights, and sounds of this country presented presented through through the lens of the Tet Tet e Festival. San Jose.
DE SSAISSET AISSET MUSEUM “Squaring the Circle” Circle” steel sculptures sculptur es by Brian Wall. Wall. “Keep “K eep Calm Calm and Collect On” On” ffeatures eatures the museum’s museum’s rrecent ecent acquisitions including prints Warhol Wayne by Andy W arhol and W ayne Mar.. Santa Clar Clara. Thiebaud. Thru Mar a.
HIGHER FIRE CLA CLAYSPACE AYSPACE First Fridays ffeature eature new demonstrations, artwork, demonstr ations, and conversations with artists. San Jose.
KALEID GALLER GALLERY Y
Various art and photogr Various photography aphy created cr eated by students at De Anza College. CCupertino. upertino.
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LLOS OS GATOS GA ATOS CCOMPANY OMPANY “Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery”,, “Zulugrass ffeaturing eaturing the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Great Maasai tribe of the Gr eat Rift Valley V alley of KKenya enya and TTanzania. aanzania. “Woodcarvings Val Gardena, dena, “W oodcarvings of V al Gar Italy,” handcrafted Italy y,,” ffeaturing eaturing handcr afted woodcarving figures. woodcar ving figur es.
“Latino Art Now Now”” rreflects eflects on the critical edge and interventions aesthetic inter ventions within contemporary contempor ary Chicano art. Thru May 16. San Jose.
MAIN GALLER GALLERY Y “Flora Fauna Fantasy”” a “Flora combination of 3 ffemale emale artists. Thru Mar 15. Redwood City. City.
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“Postdate Photogr “Postdate Photography aphy and Inherited History in India,” Thru August 2nd. “City Limits, City Life” Lif e” Thru Jun 14. “Maker Space” Space” 17. thru Jan 17 7. Tue-Sun, Tuue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
“Spring is in the Air”. Air ”. Thru Apr Palo Alto. 23. P alo Al to.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF SAN QUILTS TEXTILESS QUIL TS & TEXTILE “A Common Thread: “A Thread: SStitching titching ” guest curated curated by Susan O’Malley.. Thru July 5. O’Malley “Kawandi Quilts “K awandi Adventure” Adventure” Quil ts Margaret by Mar garet Fabrizio. Thru from July 5. “Bedouin TTextiles extiles e fr om the Collection of Robert and Joy TTotah ootah Hilden. Thru July 5. San Jose.
TRIT TRITON ON MUSEUM OF AR ART T 46 year retrospective retrospective Charles Between.” Eckhart “The The Space Between. Between ” Thru Apr 19. “Triton “TTriton r at 50 Exhibit”” Thru May Anniversary Exhibit 3. Santa Clara. Clara.
GALLERIES
CANTOR CANT OR AR ARTS TS CENTER
“TTaaco de Ojo” “Taco Ojo” Latino TToons ooons Collective. Thru Nov 15. San Jose.
““Voyage Voyage to Vietnam” Vietnam” The
“Reigning Art Art”” Kyoko Kyoko Fischer. Fischer. Thru Apr 25. “Silicon Valley Valley Open Studios” Studios” Thru May 30. Palo Alto. P alo Al to.
“Hark” work by over 60 artists. Thru Jan 16. San Jose.
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MUSEUMS “She Who Tells Teells a SStory” tory”” Fema Female ale photographers Arab photogr aphers in the Ar ab World. W orld. Thru May 4.. “Promised “Promisedd Works Lawrence. Land” W orks by Jacob Lawr ence. Augustt 3. Th A Thru 3 “Pop “Pop Art At from fr om the SFMOMA Anderson Collection”” ffeaturing workss by Collection eaturing work by Warhol, W arhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, and a others. Thru Oct 26. Stanford. Stanford..
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SAN JOSE INS SAN INSTITUTE TITUTE OF ART CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY AR T “Somebody Else’s Else’s Prints Prints”” Bruce Connors. Thru May 16. San Jose.
SEEING THING THINGSS GALLERY GALLERY “Blood Sweat Sweat Teal” Teeal” Shark Sharkss inspired inspir ed Art. San Jose
SOUTH FIR FIRST ST BILLIARDS "Art Lif "Art Lifer" er" byy Alfr Alfredo edo Reyes y and Debbie Doherty with from om DJ Mystik Mike. music fr ““Assemble!” Assemble!” a MESHcollective show.. Works show Works by various artists. San Jose.
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“Cross Polination,” “Cross Polination,” featuring featuringg Faculty the work of Facul ty from from Valley’s Silicon V alley’s 6 Community Colleges. Mar 6-April 4th. San Jose.
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Pieces fr from om Benefit Art Auction. San Jose. "Origins Of Lif Life" e" by Adam Br Brown own Berenstein and Robert Root Ber enstein combines art and science in an investigation of some influential U of Chicago experiments in the 1950s. Thru Mar 27. 277. San Jose.
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STRANGER S T R A NGER T THAN HAN F FICTION ICTION James Franco flirts an and nd Jonah Hill wonders: ‘Is Is he hitting h on me? me?’
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IMULTANEO IMULTANEOUSLY OUSL LY and promoting exculpatory e culpatory ex baloney, baloney y, True Tru rue Story contrasts two contr asts tw wo evildoers. Finkel, evildoers. One is Mike M a New New York Yo ork Times Tiimes Magazine Magazine writer, he writerr, disgraced disgraced after a used composite characters ch haracters in a cover story about abou ut modern day slavery on the e African cocoa plantations. plantations. The other is Christian Longo Longo o (played here by Palo Palo Alto’s Alto’s own James James Franco). Franco). Longo Longo was was a merely a multiple murderer. murdererr. Finkel F inkel ((Jonah Jonah Hill) iss barr barred ed
fforever or o eveer fr from om m the T Times—literally iimes—literally in the wildern wilderness, ness, hiding out in snowy Montana. It’s theree Finkel Montana. It t’s ther Fink keel learns that the suspect h susp ect in i a quadruple d l h homicide i id stole his ide identity entity while on the run in Mexico. Mexico. The T rreporter eporter heads to the coast coast of Oregon Oregon e to meet the jailed Longo, custody suspect Longo, in cu ustody as the prime susp ect for wife for o snuffingg his wif fe and three three kids. kids. What ffollows o olllows is a seduction as ardent ardent as any any in the cinematic history bromance: Franco flirts history of br b omance: Franc o flir ts outrageously, dancing.. outrageousslyy, crinkly eeyes yes dancing The soulfull br brown peepers aree o oddly own p eepers ar ddly complimented byy his jumpsuit. complimen nted b Truly, new Trulyy, orange oran nge is the ne w black. Hill, fattish, fattish,, owlish, owllish, asthmatic (the rreal eal Finkel looks moree lik likee Che Chevy Finkel lo ok ks mor vy Chase) is as eexpressionless xpressionless and huge in closeup as a Chuck Close painting painting.. Director Rupert Goold keeps Director R u upert Go old k eeps the two increasingly two in incr reasingly monotonous full-
face shots so tight that yyou ou ccan an study face where the ots sha avvin ng. where theyy missed sp spots shaving. As Finkel Longo As F inkel and L ongo ccollaborate ollaborrate on a b book, we’re wonder ook, we ’re meant to won nder whether this suave Franco suaave Hannibal Fr ranco is going to mak makee JJonah onah Hill his Clarisse. Franco things, Clarisse. Franc o is a lot of thing gs, but is he truly diab diabolical scary? olical or sc ary? Isn't I he to too self-charmed let o self f- charmed to rreally eally le et the evil evil in? The “beard”—the “beard”—the girl whose presence proves straight—is presence pr oves a man is straigh ht—is a rrole manyy actr actresses have allotted ole so man esses ha ave al llotted great to them in our gr eat cinematic age of the br bromance. (Felicity omance. JJill ill (F eliciity Jones) waits Jones) is the woman who w aitss at home ffor Finkel or o F inkel to rreturn, eturn, and she is so misc miscast hurts. Goold, best ast it hur ts. Go old,, b est known ffor arresting Shakespeare o or arr esting Shak espeare productions overseas productions d i o verseas (such ( h as a Stalin-era Macbeth) isn’t strong Stalin- era Macb eth) isn ’t str ong on the way Americans each ch elate to ea way Americ ans rrelate other. between ettween other. And the rrelationship elationship b Jill Mikee is par particularly hard Jill and Mik ticularly har rd to credit. supposed bee a ra rare credit. JJill ill is supp osed to b are books State books librarian at Bozeman St a ate University. There, University. Ther e, her work cconsists on nsists
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pensively picturee of of gazing p ensively at a a pictur devil illuminated medieval the de vil in an illum minated medie val manuscript. Beard enough Bear d is a bad eno ough rrole— ole— Cricket worse.. In JJill’s JJiminy iminy Crick et is eeven ven e worse ill’s Longo, scene cconfrontation onfrontation with L ongo, the sc ene salesmanship is cconceived onceived as salesm manship instead acting.. When selli selling of acting ing something educating pupils,, ther there’s or educ ating pupils e’s nothing wrong wr ong with the rule ““tell tell them what yyou’re ou’re going to tell tthem, tell them, them.”” then tell them what yyou ou told them. scene, this procedure I an acting In ti sc ene, th hi pr his ocedur d e looks delivers lo oks eexasperating. xasperating. JJill ill deliv ers her murderer from rrebuke ebuke to the ffoxy oxy mur o m derer fr om ground, with classical the high gr ound,, wit th classic al music accompaniment. delivers ac companiment. Shee deliv ers the telling-off rapidly, and looks tellingoff rapidly y, an nd she lo oks bitty cross. ttweaked, weaked, bit ty and cr ross. movie True Story The mo vie is titled dT rrue St orry so we’ll it’s been we ’ll know it ’s b een fictionalized. unbelievability That unb elievability is visible in Cancun settings look likee C ancun set ttings t thatt lo ok lik Barcelona. unlikeliness B Bar celona. l Th unlik The lik keliness li ccontinues ontinues i departure in the arrival and de eparture of a lone sense, lawman vvoice oice of ccommon ommon sen nse, a la aw wman played byy R Robert Burke; pla ayed b obert JJohn o oh hn Burk e; he Finkel first tries to ccoax oax F in nkel into helping prosecution the pr osecution and then slaps him unbelievability down. The unb elievaability is also in publishers don’t have the idea that publish hers don ’t ha ave anyy pr protocol dealing an otocol ffor o or dea aling with true accounts, other crime ac counts, othe er than first over advance handing o ver an adv vance and then telephoning in and scr sscreaming. eaming. doesn’t have moralize,, Cinema do esn’t ha ave to moralize pity. but it ought to teach h us some pit y. announcement Longo The announc ement that L ongo finally got published d is spun as a hustle—in Longo triumph of hustle — fact L —in ongo was trying some good, w as tr ying to do som me go od,, using his notorietyy ffor op-ed piecee ar arguing notoriet or o an op - ed e piec guing prisoners ffor o or the right of priso oners to donate organs. don’t way their or gans. I don ’t fancy the w ay True Story the viewers T rrue St toorry shackles th he vie wers in a want easyy ans answers chain of guilt: yyou ou w ant eas wers from newspaper, ergo fr om yyour our ne wspaper e , er go yyou’re ou’re You want understand ccomplicit. omplicit. Y ou o w ant to underst and the criminal mind,, er eergo, go, yyou’re ou’re an accessory fact. movie ac cessory after the fa act. The mo vie seems small-minded in a cinematic Hitchcock’s world that ccontains ontains Hitchc ock’s works—say, works— saay, Shadow of o a Doubt—films placee a dark mir mirror before us,, so that plac rror b effo ore us understand both we underst and b oth h the passions of a us.. killer and the killer inside i us
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Revivals Re vivals a ONE HOUR WIT WITH TH Y YOU OU (1932) Sor Soree tempta temptation ation ffor or Maurice wife's Chevalier when hiss wif e's best friend (Genevieve TTobin) oobin) ar aarrives rives ffor or a visit. Fortunately, wife Fortunately y, the wi ife in question MacDonald) (Jeanette MacDon nald) has a suitor of Director her own.. Dir ector Ernst E LLubistch ubistch (and fired director” George fir ed ““dialogue dialogue dir e ” Geor ector ge CCukor) ukor) from same work fr om the sam me play LLubitsch ubitsch had filmed as The Mar Marriage rriage r Cir Circle rcle c . (Playing 15-16 Palo Alto Apr 1516 in P aalo Al A to at the Stanford Sttanffor ord Theatre.) Theatr ree.) (RvB)
TOPPER/MADAME T OPPER/MADAME A BUTTERFLY BUTTERFLY (1937/1932) Mee Meek ek little banker (Roland Cosmo TTopper oopper (R Roland YYoung) ooung) is haunted by the spirits s of his dead (Cary ary playboy friends, the Kirbys (C Grant Constance Gr ant and Consta ance Bennett).
living aree always “That the livin ng dead ar ffacetious acetious mayy be shocking to sensibilities,” V Variety aarietyy warned at the time, but to no avail; the film was a hit, spa spawning awning two sequels, a pretty pretty good TV TV show, show w, and a spirited rip-off titled Beetlejuice. Madame Butterflyy is th the he non-singing version opera, that’s ’s not as bad of the oper a, and that as it sounds. The T Romanian/Jewish (literally) ally) SSylvia ylvia Sidney plays the (liter self-sacrificing heroine. self-sacrificin ng Japanese her oine. pale, SSydney’s ydney’s pale e, quiet intensity gets from some of the desir ddesired ed effect effect fr om this Grant old warhorse.. CCary ary Gr ant co-stars as the ffaithless aithless Lt. Lt. Pinkerton, and Pauline wrote Grant while P aulinee KKael ael wr ote that Gr ant wasn’t Grant eraa of wasn ’t rreally eally Gr ant until the er screwball comedy, the scr ewballl comedy y, you can see here. a star on the rise her e. (Playing Apr 17-19 Palo Alto 177-19 in P alo Al to at the Stanford Stanffoord Theatre.) Theatre.) (RvB (RvB) B)
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A TRUE CRIME THRILLER “FASCINATING AND UNSETTLING.” – Kate Erbland, FILMSCHOOLREJECTS.COM
ACT II ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ follows the struggles of an aging actress trying to reimagine the work that made her famous.
Creative Differences DOROTHY PARKER’S COMMENT that “the Alps are beautiful but they’re dumb” comes to mind during scenes featuring mountainscapes in Clouds of Sils Maria. Certainly, this import deserves some of the attention given to Birdman, particularly in its examination of actors unable to express their gifts in that plethora of superhero— or vampire—material of which we all presumably can’t get enough.
LANGUAGE AND SOME DISTURBING MATERIAL
“EQUAL PARTS CAPOTE’S IN COLD BLOOD AND KOENIG’S SERIAL.” – Nora Maloney, NYLON
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Director Oliver Assayas presents an interesting premise: in the remote Alps, a couple of hours from Zurich, a revered playwright dies, leaving behind a planned revival of his play “The Maloja Serpent.” It concerns Helen, a mature female executive ruined by Sigrid, the young, heartless girl she mentored and love. Once, the internationally famous actress Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) made her name playing Sigrid; now she is meant to play the other side of the stage, so to speak, as the elder woman. Having her own personal crisis—a sticky divorce—Maria isn’t ready to revisit the material. Her emotions muddy a onceharmonious relationship with her personal assistant, Valentine (Kristen Stewart). Apt name; this film is a valentine to the PA’s craft. At first, Maria is very much a heroine to Valentine, but her nerves and moods
widen the age gap between them, bringing out peevishness in Maria and impatience in Valentine. The title of the play comes from a cloud formation that slithers in through a mountain pass from the Italian lakes on the south side of the Alps. This kind of insidiousness Clouds of Sils Maria symbolizes the approach of age here. If that sounds R; 125 min. like a bald metaphor, you Camera 12 can see the problem. Most of what goes on here is in the lines, as in a play, rather than between them, as in cinema. Assayas honors Binoche’s own magic, her beauty and elegance. Stewart shows what a fine and subtle actress was squandered in those dumbass glittery vampire movies; but then, bad movies can polish a good actor. One line unveils the essential thinness here, even before Assayas tries to stir us with Pachbell’s bloody Canon. Researching the misdeeds of the notorious actress (Chloe Grace Moritz) who will play Sigrid this time around, Maria justifies her stalking: “This is not gossip, this is information.” No, it’s gossip, and this movie may not be much deeper than gossip—elegant gossip, but gossip. —Richard von Busack
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MAD HA HATTERS T TERS Dak DakhaBrakha khaBrakha crosses traditional Ukrainian music with pop sen sensibility nsibility for a far out sound.
Ukranian quartet Dakha DakhaBrakha aBrakha comin coming ng to Stanford BY B Y JOHN FL FLYNN LY YNN N
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N 2014, the Russian Russian Federation F ederation sentt troops into Ukraine Uk Ukr aine i and d annexed an nnexed d the th str ategically sig gnificant strategically significant peninsula Crimean peninsula. a. As was was the case with the RussoR Georgian crisis of 2008, 2 the fracas fracas temporarily temporarily a caught the attention attentio on of the American mainstream mainstre eam media, before fading from m view. view. DakhaBrakha, DakhaBrakha, an experimental experimental folk band from the e Ukraine Ukraine wants w ants to ensure that th hat the U.S. U.S. continues to pay attention atttention to the former Soviet republic. r ““A A lot of p people eople know w nothing ab about out Ukraine.” sa ayys Mark ko Ha alanevyycch, Ukraine. says Marko Halanevych, sp eaking thr ough a trans slatorr— speaking through translator—
DakhaBrakh DakhaBrakha’s haa’s manager manager, r, Gorban Ir Iryna. yna. “Maybe “Ma ayb y e justt b because ecause of geo geography graph hy class they the ey know the t name of our ccountry. ountry. But,, we w want aan nt to b bee the b beginning eginning of interest inter est in Ukraine U Ukraine..” Halanevych accomplish Halane vyycch aims to ac ccomplish this through through h music—specifically musicc—sp s ecificcaally the genre-defying genr e-deffyin y ng music he cr creates eates along with backin backing ng singers and multiinstrumentalists instrument taalists Nina Har Harenetska, enetsk kaa, Olena Ts Tsybulska, syybu ulsk kaa,, and Ir Iryna yna K Kovalenko. ovalenk v ko. “We “W We w want aan nt to mix Ukrainian music with eeverything. ver e yth hingg. W Wee giv give ve ne new w lif life fe to old ffolklore, o olklore,” Halane Halanevych vyycch sa says. ayys. “Ma “Maybe ayb y e its not pur purely elly authentic, authentic, but we tr tryy to mak ke it und derstandable ffor o or mo dern make understandable modern people, p eople, ffor or o yyoung o oung p people. eople.” DakhaBrakha DakhaBra akha has almost infinite range.. “Karp range “Karpatskly patskly Rap Rap”” op opens ens with the ttwangs waangs of a ya yyawning aw wning mouth harp harp.. N Next, ext, x a tinkly pian piano no tip tip-toes, -toes, and a muted drum plo plods. ds. Then,, Har Harenetska renetsk ka absolutely b bodies odies the track wit with th Ukrainian rap vverses, eerses, while la ayying down n a sswaying wayying ccello eello gr roove. laying groove.
“W We lik ke br eaking the rules aan “We like breaking rules.. W Wee ccan aan do hip -hop, we ccan aan do do blues blues,, we ccan hip-hop, p op” Halanevych Halaneevy vycch sa ayys. “W We just do o the pop” says. “We music we feel. feeel. We’re We’re just playing. plaayyingg. We We can caan do whate ver er.” whatever. Sometimes ey seek to cr reeate an n Sometimes,, the they create entir ew world. On “V Veesnaa” yips entiree ne new “Vesna” yips,, rustles and chirps transp ort the liste ener transport listener to a tranquil wetlands b effo orre pantin ng before panting ac cor ord dions and galloping drums ttake ak ake o veerr. accordions over. “( Ad dding these noises) is not “(Adding sp ecial ffor o or us ’s something natur ral”” ral. special us.. It It’s natural. Halane vyycch sa ayys. “W We w aant to cr eaate Halanevych says. “We want create something ffor o or p eople to ffeel, eel, e , not only o people music ally).” music,, but (atmospheric (atmospherically). O ther times, times, the finished product product is Other similar to a radio hit if you yo ou listen closely. clloselyy. On “Sp ecially F or Y o ou,” Halane vyycch h’s “Specially For You, Halanevych’s soulful falset ttto falls somewhere somewhere between bettw ween falsetto JJames ames Blunt and JJames aames Blake, Blak ke, then n drops drro ops into a punkish gr owl. The rresult esult so ounds growl. sounds lik ke T o om Waits crossed crossed with A Hawk Haawk w like Tom and a Hacksa aw. On “Baby” “Bab byy”” he w aarb bles Hacksaw. warbles thr ro ough soulful,, pleading chorus through chorus,, tthen blows a shimmering harmonica harmonicca solo. so olo. Each air er st arts humbl lyy. airyy numb number starts humbly. Chor ds ar r, and notess Chords aree left to linger linger, drift off ff. Melo ff dies and strange man ntras off. Melodies mantras intersect,, sniffing at each other before beffo ore uniting in sudden,, sswirling wirling harmo on ny. harmony.
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“Each song has its own o w ay of way cr reating e g itself,f” f,,” Halanevych Halaneevyycch says. saayys. creating “Sometimes we ccan an hear h one sound and it ccan an st art the wholee song g. Sometimes start song. we ha ave one melo dy or one instrument, have melody and tr deveelop it,, and bring some tryy to develop Ukrainian ffolk o olk to it. W aant to show Wee w want the Ukrainian ffeatures eeatures e to the world.” It is sp ectacular to hear r, but eeven veen spectacular hear, mor ovving to w aatcch. moree mo moving watch. “DakhaBrakha w aas sp ecially cr eated was specially created ffor or the theatr o erfo orrmance.” he sa ayys. theatree p performance. says. “F or us it’s hard hard to im magine music “For us,, it’s imagine without the theatr e. Theatre Theatre helps us theatre. cr eate and shar ommon reality realitty create sharee this ccommon with the audienc e. It t’s for for o us also. also. We We audience. It’s w aant to ffeel eeel somethi ing to gether.” want something together. Sinc ce their thespian n origins Since origins,, the band has tra aveeled ar ound the t world,, often traveled around pla aying y ffor o or audienc ess that ar en n’’t fluent playing audiences aren’t in Ukrainian,, such as the cr ro owd at crowd Bonnar oo in 2014. Bonnaroo “W We think music iss the univ veersal “We universal language Halaneevvyych c sa ayys. “P People language..” Halanevych says. “People ccan aan ffeel eeel our ener gy, our o emotions. emotions. The ey energy, They see we ar re ther or th o hem. The ey see we are theree ffor them. They rreally eally lik ke what we do o, and w aant to shar like do, want sharee it. That ’s wh hy its not rreally eally a big pr oblem That’s why problem that p eople ccan’t an n’’t understand und derstand the lyrics. lyrics.” people And,, Americ caans ar ren n’’t the only ones Americans aren’t ones.. “Sometimes ven e Ukranians ccan’t aan n’’t “Sometimes,, eeven underst and the mean ningg,” he says. saayys. “W We understand meaning, “We use some songs fr om pr e-Christian from pre-Christian times— songs that were weere rituals. rituals. And, times—songs p eople ffeel eeel it. it It is so old o and unfamiliar r, people unfamiliar, that it ’s almost ne ew.” it’s new. But,, DakhaBrakhaa w ants a to br eak wants break out of the old mold of o ffolk o olk music. music. They Theey seek to inno ovvate and bring or der to their innovate order wide -ranging influen nces. wide-ranging influences. “P op music ver e ywhere. “Pop music,, its thee same eeverywhere. Same in U ..S. Same in n Ukraine U.S. Ukraine,,” Halane evvyycch sa ayys. “But, “Bu ut,, folk fo olk music makes mak kees Halanevych says. yyou ou ffeel o eel e something sp pecific and unique specific to diff ffeerrent e trib es and d diff ffeerent p eople. different tribes different people. W ke to listen to th he b est eexamples xamples x Wee lik like the best of music fr om eeverywhere. ver e yw where. So ave from So,, we ha have all these st tyles y inside of o us when we styles pr roducce our own mu usic.” produce music. The rresulting esulting musi ic is inf feectious— music infectious— b oth welc oming and d ut ttterly fforeign. o oreign. both welcoming utterly “F or our ne exxt album, albu um,, we think it “For next would b great to do some ffolk olk o blues, blues,” bee great he sa ayys. “But,, if we get geet inspir red e to create create says. inspired something diff ffeerent fr ffrom om this, this, it’s it’s not different a pr oblem b eccause a it ’s all ar t,, it ’s all problem because it’s art, it’s cr reativ e ve. The main th hing ffor o or us is to creative. thing set tttle the Ukrainian vvoice o oice in all genr es.” settle genres.
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for for singer/songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. Free. San Jose.
BLUE BL UE R ROCK OCK SHOO SHOOT T Thu, 7pm: Musical open mic. San Jose.
CAFFE FRA FRASCATI SCA AT TI Every Mon, 8pm: CommediaOpen Mic ffor or Comedy. Comedy. Tue, Tue, u 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.
CAMERA 3 Fri, 9pm, Sat, 7pm and Sportz. 9:15pm: Comedy Sport z. San Jose.
CARAVAN CARA AVAN Wed, W ed, 9pm: Comedy Caravan. Caravan.
THE CA CATS ATS Every TTue: uue: Funny Farm hosted Escobar.. by Butch Escobar
CITY EESPRESSO SPRESSO Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.
CITY NA NATIONAL AT TIONAL CIVIC Sat, Apr 18, 7:30pm: Hil Hil Hilarious. San Jose
IMPROV IMPR OV Wed,, Apr 15, 8pm:: Rick Martinez. Wed, Thu-Sun, Apr 16-19, 16-19, various times:: Ian Bagg.. San Jose.
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MARMIST CCOCKTAIL MARMIST OCKTAIL LLOUNGE OUNGE Sun, 9:30pm: Comedy Comedy.. San Jose.
PHILZ CCOFFEE OFFEE Mon, 7pm: Open mic. Fr Free. ee. Downtown San Jose.
POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO TRO TTue, uue, 6pm: Open mic. San Jose.
SSAP AP CENTER Fri, Apr 17, 177, 6:30pm: Krush Gr oove ft. Ice CCube, ube, Bone Groove Thugs-N-Harmony y, E-40, Thugs-N-Harmony, Dipset, TToo ooo Short, Scarf ace, Scarface, LLuniz. uniz. Sat, Apr 18, 7:30: Bar r ry Barry Manilow w/ David KKoz. oz. San Jose
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Record Store Day ON APRIL 18, the music industry rises once again to show support for the greatest of all recording formats: vinyl. Small businesses throughout the South Bay—your local record stores—will be participating, including the following: · STREETLIGHT RECORD—San Jose, 980 S. Bascom Ave. · RASPUTIN MUSIC—Campbell, 1820 S. Bascom Ave.; Mountain View, 1939 W El Camino Real · NEEDLE TO THE GROOVE—San Jose, 410 E. Santa Clara St; Fremont, 131 I St
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· THE RECORD MAN—Redwood City, 1322 El Camino Real · THE ANALOG ROOM—San Jose, 1416 Fruitdale Ave. · ON THE CORNER MUSIC—Campbell, 530 E Campbell Ave. There’s too many special releases to list. Here are three of the most anticipated among the many reissues, picture discs and bootlegs hitting stores this Saturday. RUN THE JEWELS: S/T 12” The sleeper hit rap duo of 2014 are contributing a special, limited run 12” EP that comes out on Record Store Day. Atlanta’s Killer Mike and New York’s El-P have contributed some of the most critically acclaimed rap of the past two years, so this record is sure to be in high demand. METALLICA: NO LIFE ’TIL LEATHER CASSETTE The Bay Area heavy metal giants’ demo tape is shrouded in legend at this point, but Metallica are reissuing it as a limited edition cassette available only on Record Store Day. It features early versions of some of the best songs on the classic album Kill ‘Em All, as well as some songs that can’t be found anywhere else. FATHER JOHN MISTY: I LOVE YOU, HONEYBEAR 7” Father John Misty exploded this year, rocketing from well-kept secret to bona fide indie rock star. His album I Love You, Honeybear, is an early favorite for Album of the Year. The singer-songwriter is releasing an exclusive acoustic version of the album’s title track in a special heart-shaped 7” record. —Jay Edgar
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AJ’S B BAR AR DJs and dancing every night night.. 6pm-1am; 8pmMon-Sat, 6pm1am; Sun, 8pm m12:30am. San Jose
BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed: Almaden V Wed: Valley alley Beer Pong ONEmanARMY. P ong with DJ ONEmanARMY Y. Thu: Vintage (80s, 90s, Pop, Pop, Rock, Hip Hop) with DJ Davidd Q.. Fri: Quality Contr Control Q ol with DJJ DLuzion. Lifee with DL uzion. Sat: LLounge ounge Lif with NESSrock. DJ Krucial and DJ NESSr ock. San Jose.
BRIT ARMS DO DOWNTOWN WNTOWN Wed: DJ 512. Thu: DJ Nico & Wed: Neeber.. Fri: DJ Benofficial. Sa Sat: Neeber at: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.
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PURE LLOUNGE OUNGE 408 Fri, Apr 17 17, 7, 10pm: Bobby Puma. Sat, Apr 18, 10pm: DJ Sequence. Sunnyvale.
SSAN AN JOSE B BAR AR & GRILL Every W Wed: ed: Wingy Wednesdays. W ednesdays. Every Thu: w/VJ TTanked aanked Thursdays w/V VJ DVS VJJ One. 2nd Dave. Every Fri: V Saturdays, and 4th Satur days, 10pm: Dluzion. San Jose.
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DIVE B BAR AR Thu-Sat, 10:30pm: Rotating Guest DJs.
FFAHRENHEIT AHRENHEIT Wed, 9pm: Wine W Wed, Wednesdays. ednesdays. Thu: Liquid Thursdays, with guest DJs spinning hip-hop, TTop oop 40 andd R&B R&B. Fri, F i 9pm: 9 Flashback Fridays. $10. Mon:: Industry.. San Jose. Industry
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Father John Misty STRANGE VINE Sierra Nevada-raised duo’s earthy music fuses blues, psychedelic and traditional rock. Apr 16 at Great American Music Hall.
FATHER JOHN MISTY Folk songwriter gets back to the Bay Area with two nights performing with King Tuff. Apr 16-17 at the Fillmore.
SWANS Seminal NYC band musically moves from brutal industrial rock to atmospheric folk. Apr 17 at Regency Ballroom.
INTERPOL Post-punk pioneers are back with their signature dark suits and searing guitars. Apr 21 at the Warfield.
THE DEAD MILKMEN LLOFT OFT B BAR AR AND BIS BISTRO TRO Fri:: LLoft oft Fridays w/ DJ Exr Exrated, ated, Party J-Quest.. Sat: The Upstairs P artyy RQ,, DJ w/ DJ Howhigh,, DJ RQ Jose. Sequence,, DJ Christylz.. San Jos se.
Since reforming in 2008, the Philadelphia punk band has been busy tearing it up on record and on the road. Apr 22 at Slim’s.
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the legal system syysttem to the extent extent he ccan an (and the eextent xttent that seems p prudent). advice—to The ffollowing ollow o wing advic ce—to use gratitude as a buff buffer against ffeer ag gainst ugliness— might sound like it’s from Little lik ke it t’s fr ro om the Lit tttle Miss Sunshine Solutions De Department, there’s epartment, but ther e’s actually solid sciencee b behind Research d scienc ehind it. R eesearch by social psychologist Lyubomirsky by so cial ps sycchologist Sonja L yub y omirsk ky and her ccolleagues people aree o olleeagues finds that p eople ar meaningfullyy happier when the they ey ttake ak ake regular stock they have regular sto ck k of the things the ey ha ave to be be grateful ffor. or. ((A or A ccaveat: aveat: This happinessincreasing effect was people incrreasing e eff ffeect w ff as a ffound ound only ffor o or p o eople once maybe, who did this ccounting ounting onc ce a week, ma ayybe, the rresearchers surmise,, b because esearcheers surmise eccause a doing it more like chore.) more often ffelt elt e lik ke a chor re.) getting once So cconsider o onsideer get ttting gratitudinal onc ce a week, ma maybe Sunday You ayybe on Sunda ay night. Y o ou ccould o ould even five eveen write fiv ve things down on slips of paper put paper and pu ut them in a “Gratitude JJar” ar” so yyou have ou ha ave a visual rreminder eminder of how good actually have good yyou o ou act tually ha ave it when things go bad. This ma may getting ay also help yyou o ou aavoid void get ttting snippy irritatingly snipp py with the t irrit tatingly a well-meaning who chirp, “What goes around h chirp hi , “W Wh go What es ar ound d ccomes o omes around!” Right. theree is such a thing around!” Rig ght. If ther as k karma, arma, a it seems s to go after the truly heinous off offenders like people ffeenders first, lik ke all the p eople who eever dropped straw wrapper ver dr ropp o ed a stra aw wrapp er or let out a puff off ttail elevator. ail wind in the ele evvatorr.
I’m a butch lesbian with wiith a crush on a (supposedly) straight strraight married lady who’s who ’s very tomboyish. tomboyish h. She has a number of lesbian friends, frriendss, and I suspect her husband is in the closet. closet. I keep telling her she’s she’s “culturally “cultu c urally gay” (because she boots, dresses “soft butch” butch”—combat — bootss, cords, cordss, etc.—and because of some of her attitudes) but I actually attitudes), actually think there’s there’s more to it than n that. She insists she’s she’s straight but seems weirdly we eirdly upset by my comments.— comments.— — Be Who You You o Are Why say right “There’s Wh hy not just sa ay it righ ht out: “Ther re’s Could please theree ffor the closet. C ould yyou o ou plea ase sit in ther or o half-hour leave a half f-hour and ccome o ome outt rready eady e to lea ave yyour our husband?” personally tragic gay Ip ersonally find it tragi ic when ga ay people they have “ungay” themselves p eople ffeel eel e the ey ha ave to “u ungaayy” themselv es byy living straight, but rrespecting b esp e ecting another person’s accepting they p erson n’s privacy means ac cepting e that the ey get to cho choose parts life they’ll ose which par rts t of their lif fe the eyy’ll bee ttaking b aaking commentary co ommenttar ary on. on n In other words, n. worrd ds, byy pick picketing baker won’t make b keting e a bak ker e who won w n’’t mak ke a gay wedding, ccake aak ke ffor or o a ga ay wedding g, yyou’re o ’rre eexercising ou xxerrcising c free speech rights,, bu but it’s way yyour our fr reee sp eech rights ut it ’s w ay out of effectively picket somebody’s line ffor or o yyou ou to eff o ffeectivvely e pick p ket e someb ody’s “We’re here! We’re queer!! And rrelationship: elationship: “W We’rre her ree! W e’re queer
guess what: So aree the ttwo S ar w wo of yyou!” ou!” o And no, isn’t byy yyour creation no, this isn n’’t justified j b our o cr reation e of an updated Kinsey scale —one measures updated Kin nseey sc cale a — one that measur res e female homosexual desire female e homo oseexxual desir re based on a woman’s choice woman n’s cho oicce of ffootwear oottw wear and whether she accessorizes acccessoriz e zes with a welding mask. So,, instead So d of trying trying to drag this woman (by (by her h wallet waallet chain) out of her marriage, to a marriagee, turn your your attention atttention t woman who’s who o’s single and out. out Respect Reespect that for fo or your your o friend, frien nd, Prince Prince Charming may maay very very well be be that dude from from the Disney Disneey movies, mo ovies v , determined deteermined as you you are are to recast reccaast him as a sold soldier dier of fortune for o tune crossed crossed with a lady gym gym y teacher. teaacher.
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I've heard our current current U.S. U..S. national debt could easily y be paid off by converting oil-shale deposits in Utah U and Colorado into oil and selling it on the market. Is there any truth to this? thiis? —Ken —K Ken e Vaughan, Va aughan, Oregon It’s It ’s not an entirely entirely crazy craazzy thought, I guess vary, but b the U.S. U.S. guess.. Estimates vary, Geological Geolo giccaal Survey Survey believes believes e there's there's about about 3 trillion barrels barrels of oil sitting sittting t in what’s what’s known as the greater greater Green Grreen River Rivver e Basin, a sedimentary sedimentary rock rock formation form o mation lying beneath b eneath parts parrts t of Wyoming, Wyomiingg, Colorado Colorado and Utah. Utaah. More More than 70 0 percent percent e of that government. is owned by by the federal federal e g veernment. go Even Ev en if only a trillion barrels bar arrels of that is rrecoverable, ecoverable, that’s that’s still nearly neearly four fo our times Arabia. the total total oil reserves reserves of Saudi S barrels So how much does does a trillion t barrels of oil get you you o these days? daays? y Depends D ends on your Dep your timing.. Over timing Over the last five five years, years, the price price of oil has varied nearly as a much as your your post-divorce p ostt-divorce weight—from weightt— —from o less than $50 barrel a barr el to nearly $130. Average Aveerage that out sum of to $90, $90, and we get the whopping w $90 $9 0 trillion in revenue. revenue. OK O then, you you say: saay: time to make mak ke it rain. Before Bef fo orre you you o get too too excited, exxccited, consider consider o the expenses. exxpenses. Production Production n costs costs o vary vary moree than prices, mor prices, so much mu uch so that recent reeccent e estimates for for o the break-even break k-even price—the price—the per-barrel it’s p err--barrel price price above above which w it’s worth worth eextracting xtracting oil from from shale—range shalee—range from from $24 t $110. to $110 The Th crucial i l organic organ anic i compounds compounds d in oil shale are are in solid form, fo orm, so the stuff has to be be mined and retorted reto orted (heated to a the resulting high temperature), temperature), and then t resulting petroleum-like p etroleum-lik ke liquid gets geets separated out and collected. collected. The development deevelopment of other,, possibly other possibly cheaper cheaper methods m metho ds (like (lik ke in-situ insitu retorting—heating retorting—heatin ng the shale underground under grro ound and pumping pump ping the liquid out) has been been limited thus hus far by by the th lack of investment in nvestment in shale shaale production. production. So,, assuming that the break-even So brreeak k-even e price price ffor o or shale oil falls somewhere somewh herre between bettw ween $60 $6 0 to $85 per per barrel, barrel, the he overall oveerall profit profit th on a trillion barrels barrreels could could d be be anywhere an nywher y e between b ettw ween $5 trillion and $30 $ trillion. Given total national Giv ven e that the tot tal a na ational debt is approaching Green now appr oaching $18.2 trillion, t Gr een River money might Riv ver e shale oil mone ey mi ight or might not Ass I write this this,, oil about ccover over it. A out $52 oiil is at ab barrel, money a barr el, meaning yyou’d o ou u’d lik llikely keely lose mone ey mining—one big on shale mining— one bi ig rreason eason the government just go overnment ccouldn’t o ouldn n’’tt jus st sell off the rights today. there’s to daay. And then ther e’s en eenvironmental nvir v onmenttal a problems, impact: among other pr o oblems , eextracting xxtracting Green River would Gr reen e Riv ver e shale oil wou uld rrequire equir e re vast amounts of w water suffering from ater a in an ar aarea rea e suff ffeering fr om severe drought, would bee ccompeting se ever e e dr rought, o and it wo ould b o ompeting ffor or o rresources esour e rces with the ccountry’s ou untrryy’s most valuable agricultural land land—say d— —sa say goodbye goodb bye almonds.. Ev Even oil had the to almonds veen if that shale s
potential ffor potential or or $30 trillion in pr profits, rofits o , we'd $60 still need to raise $6 0 trillion in ccapital apit a tal a to pay pa ay ffor o or the in iinvestment. nvestment. The liquidation of Apple,, the most Apple m valuable ccompany ompan ny in the wouldn’t world, woul ldn n’t ’ raise $1 trillion. Valuewise, V alue a wisse, none of our other energy energy assets are are in n the same league. league. The U.S. U..S. Strategic Petroleum Petr e oleum Reserve, Reser e ve, currently currently the largest larrgest g emergency e emer gency supply in the world, now contains cont o ains 691 691 million barrels. barrels. Even Ev en at $90 $90 per per barrel barrel (again, well above above the current currreent price), pricce), e that’s that’s only $62.2 billion. The government go overnment also owns about about 88 88 billion billlion tons of coal coal reserves, reeserves e , and ccould ould possibly possib bly sell that off as well. But production pr oduction costs costs are are mighty mightty here here too, too, so those reserves reseerves probably probably aren’t aren n’t ’ worth worth more more than $176 $ billion. But America Ameericca is nothing if not enterprising, g, and if it came caame down to a enterprising national rummage rum mmage sale there’s there’s lots of things we could slap a price could o price tag tag on—the Smithsonian n Institution, for for o instance. insttaance. High-end don’t High-end museums m don n’t ’ tend to include the value off their collections collections on balance balancce sheets,, presumably sheets presu umably because beccaause this would be be both b oth speculative specullativve and gauche, gauche, but I think we can caan assume assu ume the th Hope H e Diamond Hop Di d has h some significant signifi ficant street street value. value. At At $1,200 $1,200 a troy tr oy ounce, ounce, the gold in Fort Fort Knox would bee nominally b nominallly worth worth around around $177 billion, if you you could could d dump that much gold on the market mark keet without with hout obliterating the price. price. What else? else? One idea floated by by a Washington Washing gton t n Post Post financial writer a ffew ew years years back: Alask ka. a Projected Prro ojected baack: sell Alaska. value: $2.5 trillion (minus reparations t reeparations to current current residents). residents). Then there’s there’s our nuclear arsenal, arseenal, enal which we sunk at least $5.5 trillion into between 1940 and 1996. bettween w 1996. Deterrence Deterr ence is one thing, thingg, but it may maay be be time to get a more more tangible tangible benefit. benefit. Off course, O coursee, the actual answer ansswer w to your your question is: why wh hy pay paay off the national debt at all? We We haven’t haven ha n’t ’ since since World Wo orld War II, and keep as long as we w make mak ke sure sure tax tax revenues revenues e keeep up with thee interest interrest e we don’t don n’t ’ really reeally need to.. Running to Ru unningg a country’s country’s economy ecconom o my isn’t isn n’t ’ like lik ke running a household, as many h man ny economists economists point p oint out. Anyway, Anyw An yway, we actually earn moree from mor from our assets abroad abroad than we pay pa ay to foreign fo oreiggn investors. in nvestors. At At the moment theree are ther are a couple couple things we could could stand stand to spend spend a few few extra exxtra trillion dollars on— infrastructure infrastructu urre and energy energy development deevelopment ccome ome to mind. min nd. Squaring the national the circumstances, debt may, maay, under u circumsttaances, be be an unaffordable unaff ffo ordablle priority. prioritty.
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FREE W WILL ILLL A ASTROLOGY STROLOGY ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21-April 19): Th Thee CCalifornia alifornia Gold Rush hit its peak between 1849 and 11855. 855. Thr Three ee hundr hundred ed thousand adventur ers flocked too America's W est Coast adventurers West search days, weree in sear ch of gold. In the early da ays, gold nuggets wer around ground lying ar ound on the gr ound in pplain lain sight, or rrelatively elatively gravel streams. easy to find in gr avel beds at thee bottom of str eams. prospectors work harder, But later pr ospectors had to wo rk har derr, developing extract from methods to extr act the gold fr om m rrocks ocks that contained presence precious it. One way to detect the pr esence of the pr ecious metal through acid, corroded was thr ough the use of nitric ac cid, which cor roded any substance that wasn't gold. The term "acid test" process. this rrefers efers to that pr ocess. I bring thi is to your attention, Aries, because it's a good time ffor or you to use the metaphorical version of an acid test as you ascertain discovered whether what you have discove red is truly golden. TAURUS T AURUS (April 20-May 20): The T time between
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emedy ffor or all wishy-washy wishes intensity is the rremedy onger your longing, and anesthetize anesthetizedd emotions. The str stronger eady 'll be. So if your libido is not alr the smarter you you'll already surging surging and thr throbbing o obbing under its own power power,r, I suggest you get it teasedd and tantalized until it does.
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language the TTulu uulu languag ge that's spoken in South India. It rrefers efers to the mark markss ma made ade on human skin by clothing that's Ass youu know know,, the eff effect temporary. too tight. A ect is tempor ary. Once the close-fitting garment is rremoved, emoved, the imprint will eventually disap disappear ppear as the skin rrestores estores its normal texture. shape and textu re. I see the coming days as being a time when youu will experience a metaphorical version of kar karelu, eluu, Scorpio. YYou oou will shed some fform orm of constriction, andd it may take a while ffor or you to rregain egain your full flexibili flexibility ty and smoothness.
SSAGITTARIUS AGITT TARIU A US (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): Geor Georgia gia is not just an American n state. It's also a country that's at the bor border der of Western Western e Asia Asia and Eastern Eur Europe. ope. Many theree speak the Georgian people who live ther Georgian language. They have a word, worrd, shemomedjamo, that rrefers efers to what you'ree happens when you y love the taste of the ffood ood you'r eating so much that you continue to pile it in your you'ree full. I'd like to mouth well past the time when you'r metaphor use it as a meta phor ffor or what I hope you won't do in days: the coming days s: get too much of a good thing. On the other hand, it's perfectly perfectly fine to get just the right, healthy thing. heal thyy amount of a good g g CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): When you'r you'ree a driver in a car rrace, ace, an essential rule in making a successful pit stop is to gett back on the tr ack as quickly as track possible. Once th he rrefueling efueling is finished and your new the tir es ar e, you don't want to be cleaning out tires aree in place place, your cup holder or checking the side-view mir ror to mirror see how you loo look. k. Do I rreally eally need to tell you this? Ar en't you usual lly the zodiac's smartest competitor? I Aren't usually understand thatt you'r you'ree trying to become mor moree skilled at the arts of rrelaxation, elaxation, but can't you postpone that until after this pparticular articular rrace ace is over? Remember that there's ther e's a diff difference erence between the bad kind of str stress ess and the good kin nd. I think you actually need some of kind. the latter latter..
AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. ((J 20-Feb. 20 F b 18): 18) Until U til the th early l ayonnaise was consider ed a luxury 20th century century,, ma mayonnaise considered food, a hand-made hand-maade delicacy reserved reserved ffor or the rich. food, entrepreneurr named Richard Richard Hellman changed An entrepreneur ed an efficient system to produce produce that. He develop developed he condiment at a lower cost. He and distribute th the put together eff effective e ective advertising campaigns. The increasing availa ability of rrefrigeration efrigeration helped, too, increasing availability aise a mor actical food. food. I foresee foresee making mayonn mayonnaise moree pr practical the possibility off a comparable comparable evolution in your own sphere, Aquarius: transformation specialty sphere, Aquarius s: the tr ansformation of a special ty item into a mainstay, rare mainnstayy, or the evolution of a rare pleasure pleasure into a regular regular occurrence. occurrence. PISCESS (Feb. 19-March PISCE 19-March 20): Piscean author Dr. Dr. wrote andd illustrated illustrated over 40 books books for for children. children. Seuss wrote throughh his car eerr, his publisher dar ed him to Midway through career, dared make a new book boook that used no more more than 50 different different words. Accepting Acceptingg the challenge, Seuss pr oduced words. produced Green Gr reen e Eggs and Ham, which went on to become the fourth fourth best-selli best-selling ng English-language childr children's en's book in history history.. I invitee you to learn from from Seuss's efforts, efforts, Pisces. How? TTake ak ake advantage of the limitations that lif lifee has given you. B Bee gr grateful ateful ffor or the way those limitations compel you to bbee efficient and pr precise. ecise. Use your constraints constraints as in inspiration nspiration to cr create eate a valuable addition to your life life story. storyy. Homework: When Homework: W was the last time you loved yourself with consummate artfulness and grace? gr ace? Testify Teestifyy at FreeWillAstrology.com. FreeWillAstrologyy.com. .
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