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San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed Chuck Reed kept his promise to run an honest and fiscally responsible administration. He kept his cards on the table and didn’t play the kind of backroom games rampant previously. Though not everyone agrees with all of his positions, he’s consistent, and everyone knows where he stands.

Reed was an early voice of reason and speechified about the growing disconnect between San Jose’s revenues and its spending at

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a time when others considered that subject too boring or inconvenient to discuss publicly. The city is lucky to have a mayor this focused on numbers at a time like now—and one who’s willing to take on powerful interests to keep the city from going broke.

Other councilmembers will hopefully show similar courage and stop performing violin sonatas while San Jose’s economic future smolders.

Reed has continued to make progress on bringing major league sports and regional transportation systems to San Jose. He has elevated environmental issues as priorities and held the line on sprawl.

He championed a Sunshine Ordinance that unfortunately was compromised through staff and special interest resistance. Some progress is better than none, though Reed should re-engage with open government advocates to complete a legacy of transparency that can extend beyond his term of office. We do not regard the job as done.

Reed was slow to address the impact of clumsy law enforcement

strategies on downtown’s economic health and community relations.

Police leadership accountability and auditor independence have been issues in the current administration, though some progress has been made toward creating a downtown that’s both safe and welcoming, and toward restoring confidence in the complaint process with the recent appointment of a new auditor.

Reed nonetheless remains popular and determined to move the city forward. If voters give Reed a mandate in June, it will make it easier to achieve the kind of budget breakthroughs that San Jose needs to maintain services—and which only a strong mayor can deliver.

Metro’s endorsement of Donald Rocha for San Jose City Council referenced the wrong district. Rocha is running in District 9.

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If we remain chained to the current structure, we can’t avoid ongoing layoffs and service cuts.” C’mon Sam, tell us what you really think.

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“I clearly remember the day,” Constant says. “I remember getting on that scale, looking down and not being able to see the scale, and then leaning over to see the numbers.”

At 5 feet 9 inches and 46 years old,

Constant weighed 286 pounds.

“It just kind of flipped a switch, and I got irritated,” he says. “So, I got off the scale and I told my wife, ‘Make me an appointment with my doctor. I’m going to get a physical and I’m going to find out if I’m killing myself.’”

Fourteen weeks ago, Constant embarked on a hard-core, medically supervised metabolic nutrition program. The difference in his physical appearance is stunning. The councilmember now weighs in at around 220. His goal is to lose 40 pounds more, which would bring his dropped poundage to 100 even.

“I’ve never been a skinny person, but I was never really a fat person either,” Constant says. “I was just a stocky guy. I liked to call myself well-built.”

After a spinal injury in 1997 that put him on permanent disability, Constant says, he really started packing on the pounds. He says he tried several diets since being elected to City Hall in 2006, including an all-juice regimen in his first term.

None of the diets ever seemed to stick. He says finding the time to eat healthy was, ahem, a “huge” challenge.

“I would often hit whatever drivethrough I happened to be driving by,” Constant says.

“When I went to McDonald’s, I knew that getting a Big Mac wasn’t the best thing for me. But, it was an informed decision. I did what I wanted to do.

I mean, when you go to a rib joint, you know that getting the chicken is probably better than getting the pork.

But you still get the pork.”

After seeing the “286” staring back at him from the scale, Constant decided something had to change or he was going to have a heart attack.

“I was almost hoping that there would be some dire warning from my doctor, that ‘you’re going to die

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One of the first things Constant did after deciding to lose weight was apprise Mayor Chuck Reed of the situation.

Since starting his diet, Constant says, he’s had to significantly change his City Hall schedule. He now has to slot time for the program’s mandatory weekly electrocardiogram and blood tests, as well as his new exercise regime.

The program also requires weekly group psychotherapy sessions. Those are only held on Tuesday nights, which means they often conflict with the evening sessions of the Council’s weekly meetings.

“I sat down with the mayor and I said, ‘Look, I gotta make this a priority,” Constant says. “I just explained myself, and Chuck has been very supportive.”

Constant says that in order to make his doctor appointments, he got the OK from Reed to pick and choose which City Council agenda items he wants to vote on.

“That’s the real reason I haven’t been around,” he says of his frequent City Hall absences, something that Metro’s Fly has given him a hard time about in the past.

From the way Constant makes it sound, however, he’d much rather be sitting in his cozy Council seat than attending the sessions with the shrink.

“I just have to go and sit with a bunch of fat people and listen to them talk about how much they cheat on their diet and how much they don’t do their exercise,” he says. “I mean, I cheated once. It was like the third day, and I walked by a bowl of cashews and grabbed a handful and put them my mouth. It was just like total reflex.

Other than that, when I set my mind to something, I don’t cheat. And I always get my exercise in. So, I’m not a big fan of the psychotherapy portion of it.”

Constant says that also gone are the days of hitting up the Cheesesteak Shop or 4th Street Pizza Co. near City Hall for working lunches with his chief of staff, current Distinct 9 City

Council candidate Jim Cogan.

Constant says he no longer eats, but he “consumes” five diet shakes or premade soups a day. Instead of fast-food runs, he now keeps a virtual bar of lowcalorie, sugar-free syrups on hand at his City Hall office to add to his diet shakes.

“Fortunately, my staff is very good at keeping me exactly on time,” Constant says. “I think they know that I get cranky if I don’t have it, so it’s kind of self-preservation on their part.”

Cogan says that before he went on leave to run his campaign, he stopped having lunch at his desk on the 18th Floor in order to help Constant stay on track.

“Pete liked to joke about his weight,” Cogan says, “but he has an almost iron willpower when he wants to.

It’s not easy to lose weight when you are completely healthy, and it’s even tougher when you have the kind of physical limitation that Pete does because of his injury from the police department. I just think it’s impressive.”

Reed has said he also takes care not to eat around Constant. He’s even quipped at council meetings that “Pete’s half the man he used to be.”

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Though he’s not quite slim (yet) the blue “Team Constant” polo shirt that he and his aides wear at City Hall is down from a size XXL to a XL. He’s also down from size 44 to size 36 jeans. He says people he hasn’t seen in months are shocked when they meet him now, and that his wife, Julie, has even joked about turning his old XXL blazers into double breasted jackets because he practically swims in them now.

She also told him that when they hook up, “she feels like she’s having an affair,” because he’s like a different man.

Though he has participated in city fitness walks in the past, he says he’s not sure yet if he’s going to bring his new health-centric personal agenda to the City Council.

Now that he’s back to a fighting weight, Constant hints that his two District 1 election opponents, business owner David Clancy and redevelopment liaison Tom Johnston, should watch out.

“I know people think I’m energetic and opinionated. Wait till you see me now,” he says.

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if you continue doing this,’” he says.

“Unfortunately, they used words to the effect that I was the healthiest fat guy they’d ever seen.” But his Body Mass Index was off the charts, so his doctor ordered him on a rigorous all-liquid program.

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Blackhawks, a basket of the finest San Jose–made foods and beverages will arrive on Daley’s desk; if the Sharks win, Reed will be elbow deep in Eli’s Cheesecake and Vienna Beef. And whether or not this currency is anywhere near as interesting as the classics—first-born sons or freshly shaved heads—the list Reed came up with was weak sauce. If San Jose can’t win the series, we should at least be able to prove that we know how to pack a proper pick-anick basket. With that in mind, Fly came up with its own list, beginning with some of our locally grown and readily available medical marijuana. There is even a hybrid called GREAT WHITE SHARK, for crying out loud.

A few mayoral tokes of that should make it no trouble to polish off a bag of locally produced R.W. GARCIA CO. flaxseed tortilla chips, a box of PSYCHO DONUTS, a helping of EL AZTECA chicken-and-cheese tamales and a firm block of tofu from SAN JOSE TOFU CO. To wash it all down, Fly suggests a cup of BAREFOOT COFFEE (roasted off the Alameda), backed by a healthy shot of San Jose-bottled SKYY VODKA. And why stop at food and beverage? Mayor Daley might also appreciate some locally-sewn down booties from WESTERN MOUNTAINEERING for those Illinois winters. Perhaps he might like a PAYPAL account, or a vial of biodiesel fuel from SAN JOSE TALLOW CO. Assorted earrings from EBAY? A Linksys Valet router from CISCO, perhaps? There’s a lot riding on that little gift basket’s shoulders after all. If the Sharks win, the city will toast with Windy City Soda and dance on Harry Caray’s grave. If they lose, we go back to the Doobie Brothers being the most important cultural export in our civic history.

Ja Rule: a Bum Rap? Last Thursday, Fly was intrigued by the “No Parking” signs up and down a three-block stretch of South First Street—right in front of Metro’s office—as they purported to be clearing the area for a movie called Church Girl. That vaguely pornographic contraction turns out to be short for I’m in Love With a Church Girl, a Christian film starring JEFFREY ATKINS, better known as JA RULE. Fly immediately buzzed off hoping to “holla, holla,” (as Ja Rule implored us to do in his

big hit). Ja did make a brief appearance after a small group of screaming high school kids persuaded his bodyguards to get him out of his trailer in the parking lot behind Wet. One seemed to be pumping him particularly hard for career advice, asking him how he made it big. “Luck,” he said. Rule seems an odd choice for a religious film (supposedly “God” will be listed in the credits as the executive producer). Since declaring a hiatus from rap he’s traded platinum records for a criminal record, making headlines for drug and weapons possession charges. But GALLEY MOLINA, the East San Jose native who wrote the script based on his own life and time in the clink on drug trafficking charges, says otherwise. “Not anybody can do this lead.

It’s not for some Shakespearean, Juilliardtrained actor. This is like real talk,” he says.

Molina also had high praise for both Mayor CHUCK REED and SJPD Chief ROB DAVIS. “Chief Davis said whatever he can do for us, he’ll do it,” says Molina. “The city has just opened its arms to us.” Production continues until the end of June, so any stalkers who want to follow Ja may be able to spot him around the Fairmont, Motif, San Jose Country Club and Church on the Hill.

Downtown Shuffle Vault Ultra Lounge, the beleaguered Santa Clara Street club, may soon be hydrated by Wet owner MIKE HAMOD. Neither Hamod nor Vault managing partner MAURICIO MEJIA would confirm or deny that there’s a deal in the works, but they did insinuate that news is in the offing. Vault opened in 2004 and enjoyed a hot-spot reputation for several years, but is now in bankruptcy and looking for new owners. The lounge was supposedly closed last June, yet mysteriously kept its name and its doors open. Meanwhile, Wet has had its own trouble with those irritating law enforcement and regulatory agencies, and had its license pulled for two months, but the liquor will flow again in about two weeks. Mejia says there are three buyers currently looking at Vault, and that all will be revealed in two weeks, when the management group returns to bankruptcy court and the purchase offer officially comes in. But as for Wet: “No,” he says. “They haven’t bought anything yet.”

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The eye-catching ads in question display the message “We [heart] Apple” and the Adobe logo, then change to the following message: What we don’t love is anybody taking away your freedom to choose what you create, how you create it, and what you experience on the web.

The second half of the one-two punch is an open letter published on Adobe’s website, titled “Our thoughts on open markets”—a clear jab at Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Flash” essay from last month—and written by Adobe co-founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke.

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But does it blend? Adobe touting its openness is a little bit of an eyebrow-raiser— sure, the company publishes specifications for many of its technologies, but it’s not as if Flash is governed by anybody other than Adobe. At least Jobs had the forthrightness to admit that Apple itself uses proprietary technologies for many things. —DAN MOREN, MACWORLD.COM Buffyzdead It might be a viable position if there was a flash version out for mobile platform. But as of today, there isn’t any. So by Adobe’s arguments, they alone are keeping the world at large (on mobile platforms) from “freely” accessing their vision of the internet—or something.

Stewsburntmonkey Adobe’s arguments only really matter to its direct clients, a subset of developers and designers who use Flash. Most users don’t know and don’t care about what technology is used to deliver their content. Adobe is preaching to the wrong crowd here.

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The Guy Who Lost The New iPhone Apologizes to His Team Shit, guys. I don’t even know what to say. I just want to apologize again.

I am so sorry.If I could give back those last five beers, I would do it in a heartbeat. I don’t know why I let that girl look at it. Worst mistake of my life. I should have never taken the prototype out of its case, or taken the case from the protective cover, or taken the protective cover out of the lockbox. And I definitely should never have signed the contract that requires your right testicle if you lose the phone. It was a pretty painful morning, and I’m not referring to a hangover, though that didn’t help.

I’m not blaming anyone but myself.

But I’d like to point out that Kevin used the camera to get photos of us doing shots with those PR girls.

Rod, you were the one that wanted to use the Shazam when the Justin Bieber song came on. But still, I should have known better.

Guys, I feel sick to my stomach that this happened. Mr. Jobs told me that I’m not welcome at the staff karaoke night and they won’t accept any of my expense receipts. There’s $400 alone from our brainstorm lunch at Olive Garden, so if you guys wouldn’t mind pitching in—um, OK, forget it.

Rajesh, I know I have the files for the prototype somewhere on my iPad. It’s on my desk. Maybe look under “Top Secret Apple Files.” I printed that whole folder out but lost it in the parking lot of the tech conference last week. I’m sure it’ll turn up. The lawyers advised me to take a few months off so I’ll see you in 2011 for the 6G production.

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In a recent edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, sports columnist Bruce Jenkins wrote the following: “More than a year has passed since Selig appointed a task force to recommend a stadium solution in the Bay Area, prompting speculation that he would happily wait until sometime next year, when negotiations begin on a collective bargaining agreement. That way, the thinking goes, Selig could use the threat of eliminating two

franchises—Oakland and Tampa Bay—as leverage in talks with the players’ union. The Los Angeles Times went as far as to ask, in a recent column, ‘Is Bud Selig trying to kill the Oakland Athletics?’”

Commissioner Selig made his fortune through car dealerships.

Car dealers are usually pretty good negotiators. That shinny new green and yellow sports car that we all have our eyes on right now, just might not be up for sale after all.

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HERE COMES THE SUN Each year, Metro’s Summer Guide seems to get a little bigger.

Even in hard times, people want to find reasons to celebrate— everywhere from the many community concert series to the megatours at Shoreline and Mountain Winery.

For our annual Summer Guide, we have assembled a deep and wide variety of possibilities ranging from art shows to Hollywood blockbusters to food and wine festivals to sporting events, all handy for ready reference. Even more details about summer happenings can be found online at SanJose.com.

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Look online for Stett Holbrook’s guide to the best food and wine affairs for the summer and a complete list of classical festivals and concerts at SanJose.com

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JAZZ ON MAIN Mondays, 6pm. Free.

Main Street, Redwood City.

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REDWOOD CITY MUSIC IN THE PARK Wednesday, 6pm. Free.

Wednesdays, 5:30pm. Sunnyvale Farmers Market.

Murphy Park

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Busta Groove 8/11 Native Elements 8/18 Pacific Standard Time 8/25 The Hitman 9/1

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Hit Waves! 7/27 at Pinewood Park Jessica Johnson 8/10 at City Hall

FLAVORS OF JAZZ Tuesdays, 6:30pm. Free. At various Santana Row restaurants. 408.551.4611.

Jack Conway, Nancy Gilliland 7/6 Rick Vandivier, Lee Pardini 7/13 Round Midnight, Mark Russo 7/20 Jessica Johnson, Wally Schnalle 7/27 Fil Lorenz, Susan Rancourt 8/3 Kristen Strom, Jazz MEchanics 8/10 Kat Parra, Gus Kambeitz 8/24 Brian Ho, John Worley 8/31

WEDNESDAYS JAZZ ON THE PLAZZ Wednesdays, 6:30pm. Free. Los Gatos Town Plaza.

Kathleen Grace 6/23 Blue Wednesday with Chris Cain 6/30

No more congenial way to enjoy music on a summer evening exists than Los Gatos’ venerable Jazz on the Plazz. The setting retains a small-town Americana feel, and the town’s many coffee shops and restaurants are easily at hand for pre-show snacking or an after-concert meal. This year’s lineup gets under way with jazz vocalist Kathleen Grace and her band (June 23). Local blues hero Chris Cain performs with Blue Wednesday (June 30). A taste of the big Monterey Jazz Festival in mid-September can be had on Aug. 18 when the Monterey Jazz Festival County High School All Stars play. Other performers are John Proulx (July 7), Judy Wexler (July 14), Spencer Day (July 21), the Terrence Wednesdays, Brewer Trio (July 28), Janis Mann (Aug. 4), 6:30pm.

Robin McKelle (Aug. 11) and Barbara Morrison with Free. Los Gatos Full Spectrum Jazz (Aug. 25). (MSG) Town Plaza.

SUNNYVALE SUMMER SERIES The Groove Kings 6/16 Silicon Valley Houserockers 6/23 Entourage 6/30 Too Smooth 7/7 Night Fever 7/14 Touch of Class 7/21 Sage 7/28 Julio Bravo y Su Orquesta Salsabor

MILPITAS BACKYARD BOOGIE CONCERT SERIES Tuesdays, 6:15pm.

JAZZ ON THE PLAZZ

June 23–Aug 11. Stafford Park. See www.redwoodcity.org for schedule.

THURSDAYS CUPERTINO SUMMER CONCERT SERIES Thursdays, 6:30pm. Free.

Memorial Park Amphitheater, Stevens Creek Boulevard and Anton Way, Cupertino.

Cupertino Symphonic Band 6/3 Kapalakiko 6/10 Tempest 6/17 The Retro Rockets 6/24 Aja Vu 7/1 David Correa and Cascada 7/8

MUSIC IN THE PARK Thursdays, 5:30pm. Free. Sponsored by Dos Equis and Metro. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, Market

and San Carlos streets, downtown San Jose. www.sjdowntown.com.

MOUNTAIN VIEW SUMMER SOUNDS Thursdays, 6:30pm. Free.

Cold War Kids & Jesse Malin and St. Marks Social 6/3 Lenny Williams & Prince BlkMagic Damons 6/10 Skatalites & Sarazino 6/17 BoDeans, Dusty Rhodes & the River Band & Careless Hearts 6/24 English Beat & Odd Numbers 7/1 Tonic & Green River Ordinance 7/8 Don Carlos 7/15 The Gaslight Anthem 7/22 Pete Escovedo Orchestra and Tortilla Soup 7/29 Foreverland & Love Stoned 8/5 Eek-A-Mouse & the Hold Up 8/12 Y&T and OTR Band 8/19 Pato Banton & Whiskey Avengers

Castro Street, Mountain View.

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The Sun Kings 7/8 Pop Fiction 7/15 at Cuesta Park Finding Stella 7/22 The Shanks 8/5 Mazacote with Louis Romero 8/12 at Rengstorff Park

The Spazmatics 8/19

SONGWRITERS UNDER THE STARS Thursdays, 7pm. Free. Park Valencia, Santana Row, San Jose.

Robert Berry 5/27 Mike Simpson 6/10 Steve Krause 6/17 Kristina Sablan 6/24 Aprylle Gilbert 7/1

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R&B, Lenny Williams. And for pure, unadulterated Music Plaza de in the Parkness, Pete Escovedo (July 29). (SP) Cesar Chavez, San Jose.

TBone Ted Kastelic 7/8 Steve Kritzer 7/15

Severe Pleasure 8/13 The Dadz 8/20 TBA 8/27

FRIDAYS

REDWOOD CITY MUSIC ON THE SQUARE Fridays, 6pm. Courthouse

MORGAN HILL FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC SERIES Fridays, 7pm. Free.

Square, downtown Redwood City.

Downtown Morgan Hill. 408.779.9444.

Steve Czarnecki Soul Jazz 6/4 The Dan Gogh’s 6/11 Kelly McDonald Band 6/18 Fred McCarty and Co. 6/25 Shane Dwight Band 7/2 JJ Hawg 7/9 The Hot Rods 7/16 The Shanks 7/23 Cubby’s All Stars 7/30 Usual Suspects 8/6

Bell Brothers 5/21 Mestizo 5/28 The Refugees tribute to Tom Petty 6/4

White Album Ensemble 6/11 Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic 6/18 Notorious 6/25 Cash Tribute 7/2 Caravanserai tribute to Santana 7/9 Luce 7/16 Café R&B 7/23 Hot for Teacher, tribute to Van Halen 7/30 25

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The San Jose Jazz Festival seems pretty funky this year, what with Parliament/Funkadelic mastermind George Clinton headlining on Friday, Aug. 13, and his longtime collaborator Maceo Parker on Saturday. Why organizers didn’t go for the hat trick with Bootsy Collins on Sunday we’ll never know, but with more than a dozen acts on that day alone—including a tribute to Grover Washington and headliners the Ford Brothers Blues Band—there’s plenty more to see. Saturday’s headliner is Texan, and sort of Ella 2.0, Ruthie Foster. Other performers on the weekend’s bill include Irma Thomas, Bobby Matos, Aug. 13-15 Jeff Hamilton Trio, Sylvia Cuenca, Carolyn Wonderland, Plaza de Cesar Lucy Woodward, Grupo Falso Bayano and more. (SP) Chavez, San Jose

Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums 8/6

Rumours, tribute to Fleetwood Mac 8/13

Courtney Lynn and Big Trouble 8/20 Native Elements 8/27 Aja Vu 9/3

and Elton John 6/20 Nuthn’ Fancy, tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd 6/27 Livin’ in the USA 7/4 Dirty White Boys 7/11 James Garner’s Cash Tribute 7/18 Opera San José 7/25 The Rising, tribute to Springsteen

SATURDAYS

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CULTURAL PERFORMANCE SERIES Saturdays, 6pm. Free.

Sage 8/22 The Sun Kings 8/29

Rumours, tribute to Fleetwood Mac 8/15

Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

Raul Midón Latin guitar 7/17 Jayme Stone Banjo & Beyond 8/22

SOUNDS OF THE ROW Saturdays, 1pm. Free. Park Valencia, Santana Row.

Ho ’Omana Hawaiian Band 6/26 Tim Volpicella Quartet 7/3 Stu Hamm 7/10

VASONA VIBRATIONS Saturdays, 5pm.

Free. Vasona Lake County Park, Los Gatos.

The Sherry Austin Band 6/5 Flatpick Sidekicks 6/12 David Correa and Cascada 6/19 Purple Hat and Sad but True 6/26 The Avalanche Choir 7/3 10th Avenue Band 7/10 Jessica Johnson 7/17 Women With String Attached 7/24 The Klezmakers 7/31

SUNDAYS MUSIC IN THE PARK, LOS GATOS Sundays, 5pm. Free. Civic Center lawn.

Lee Alverson’s Tribute to Billy Joel

HP PAVILION San Jose.

Roberto Carlos 5/28 Alejandro Sanz 7/10 The Wiggles 7/31 Lady Gaga 8/16–17

HERITAGE THEATRE Campbell.

Straight no Chaser 5/22 Three of a Kind Comedy Tour with Kellen Erskine, Andrew Norelli and Dave Burleigh 5/26 Riders in the Sky 6/19

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Saratoga.

Boz Scaggs 6/9–10 Jonny Lang 6/18 Lily Tomlin 7/17 Dave Koz and Jonathan Butler 8/6 Joan Baez 8/121 Bill Maher 8/19 Al Jarreau, George Duke Trio 8/20

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MOUNTAIN WINERY Saratoga.

Shows at 7:30pm.

Goo Goo Dolls with Vedera 6/1 Crosby, Still & Nash 6/7 Diana Ross 6/12 Chick Corea Freedom Band 6/13 Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson 6/16 Imogen Heap 6/18 Erykah Badu 6/19 Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers 6/22–23 Brandi Carlile, Dave Barnes 6/26 The Black Crowes with Truth and Salvage Company 6/30

The Avett Brothers 7/1 Court Yard Hounds 7/9 Gipsy Kings 7/10 Yes/Peter Frampton 7/11 (6:30pm) Ziggy Marley 7/15 Smokey Robinson 7/16 The Beach Boys 7/18 Barenaked Ladies 7/19 Jamie Cullum 7/20 Lyle Lovett and His Large Band 7/22 Aziz Ansari Mature Content 7/23 (8pm)

Martina McBride 7/26

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John Legend 8/1 Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band 8/3 (8pm)

Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin 8/5 Los Lonely Boys and Fabulous Thunderbirds 8/6 (7pm) Chelsea Handler 8/7 (8pm) Styx 8/8 Natalie Merchant 8/9 Blondie and B52s 8/10 Huey Lewis and the News 8/11 Ron White 8/14 (8pm) Rob Thomas 8/15 Billy Idol 8/16 Cyndi Lauper and David Rhodes 8/17

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Montgomery Gentry 6/20 Vans Warped Tour 6/26 San Francisco Symphony 7/4 Lilith Fair 7/5 Rihanna with Ke$ha and Nicki Minag 7/10 at 7:30pm Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival 7/11 at 2:15pm Toby Keith 8/6 Rush 8/9

American Idols Live 8/24 at 7:30pm Christina Aguilera 8/18 John Mayer 8/20 at 7pm Dave Matthews 8/28 at 7pm

LEFT COAST LIVE $15 and up.

San Jose; www.leftcoastlive.com 6/25–27 A week of music-related events culminating in performances on 6/25. Headliners include OK Go and Neon Trees.

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LEFT COAST LIVE Just when we thought ridiculously ambitious art (always the best kind) was dead in the South Bay, along came Left Coast Live. It’s not so much a question of “What is the mission of this festival?” as “What isn’t the mission of this festival?” It’s back with six days, 35 stages and 100 bands. Built on a solid foundation of top local groups, but with the added hook of headliners OK Go and Neon Trees, the festival is a way to see practically every dimension of the music scene in the South Bay. OK Go, of course, is based several hundred miles south of here, but with the now-widespread appeal of its music (its video for “Here It Goes Again” is the most favorite music video in the history of YouTube), they offer a nice hook for the LCL uninitiated.

OK Go’s nearly perfect blend of indie-rock earnestness and pop hooks was clear from the moment it covered “This Will Be Our Year” for the Future Soundtrack of America compilation in 2004. The buzz built from there, and if the band can help June 21–26. this fledging festival build that same kind of buzz, their Downtown mission at Left Coast Live will be complete. (SP) San Jose.

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BEST SUMMER MOVIE DEAL Anything that’s free—as in the free outdoor film series scheduled in various San Jose downtown locations and in Redwood City’s Old Courthouse Square. Favorites include: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK ( June 9, Starlight Cinemas, San Jose; July 1 Redwood City); AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (July 21 San Jose; July 22, Redwood City). (See page 33 for full schedules.)

BEST COMMANDO TEAM MOVIE This is the summer’s most crowded field, with MACGRUBER (May 21) beating out May 27’s SEX AND THE CITY 2 (A-Team of patriotic cougars heads to Dubai to swive the Arabs into docility). Or July 9’s PREDATORS (ATeam of killers vs. crab-faced aliens).

Or July 16’s INCEPTION (more Dream Team than A-Team). Or June 11’s THE A-TEAM (June 11) (an A-Team movie about the actual A Team). Or Aug 13’s THE EXPENDABLES (Sylvester Stallone directing Schwarzenegger, Lundgren and Rourke in what could, will and shall be called The AARP Team).

I predict that MacGruber vanquishes the field: Will Forte stars as the world’s toughest action man

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BEST MOVIE ABOUT ADULTERY THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT ( July 16) In return for being faithful husbands and wives, our cinema really should reward us with movies about what might happen if we ever yield to temptation. Hence Lisa Chodolenko’s mean and funny story of an L.A. lesbian couple (Julianne Moore and Annette Bening) with a grown daughter (Mia Wasikowska), an adolescent son and a very dead bed. The arrival of the anonymous sperm donor who helped create the household (the affable Mark Ruffalo) kicks off turmoil all around.

Cholodenko (High Art and much HBO work) brings what you might call the HBO spirit—the view of marriage as something that survives infidelities instead of succumbing to them. Moore (wonderfully earthy and sneaky) has a speech about what it takes to keep a marriage that’s as

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MOST BACKLASH-PRONE MOVIE THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (June 30). Bella Swan (Kristin Stewart) prevaricates over her supernatural fanged beau. This one takes no exception to the rule that the funniest line will always be in the trailer: “I’m going to fight for you—until your heart stops beating” is to be quoted and giggled over until Labor Day.

BEST CHANCE AT ROMANCE

KNIGHT AND DAY (June 25) Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz attempt to retrieve the zen of the actionadventure spy movie of the 1960s.

MOST WORTHWHILE REMAKE

June 25’s THE KILLER INSIDE ME. Another crowded field, but Michael Winterbottom’s new take on Jim Thompson looks much better than THE KARATE KID with Jackie Chan (June 11) and certainly THE LAST AIRBENDER (July 2), written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

The Killer Inside Me is a seriously faithful set-in-the-1950s version of the Thompson pulp classic; Casey Affleck stars as the soft-spoken Texas deputy whom everyone takes for a fool, until he learns them better. Strange feeling, to actually be looking forward to a Winterbottom movie for once.

BEST ALTERNATIVE TO SUMMER MOVIE BURNOUT

WINTER’S BONE (June 18) is a tough, frosty Little Red Riding Hood story in which there’s nothing but wolves.

Jennifer Lawrence stars as an Ozark girl in search of her no-good, meth-cooking father, who pawned the family spread in exchange for bail. It’s going to be this summer’s best escape from escapism.

BEST WAY TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘EAT PRAY LOVE’ (AUG 13) AND ‘PREDATORS’ (JULY 9) Julia Roberts eats, prays and loves; Predators love to eat their prey.

The former stars Roberts in the film version of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir of traveling from Italy to India to Indonesia (yes, the key letter is “I”). In Predators, a group of savage alien sportsman hunt the beast called man on a hell planet even worse than earth. We’re counting on our readers to make the mature choice. See you at the alien movie.

BEST BAFFLER

INCEPTION (July 16). Viewing the Escher-like cities and floating humans, audiences gape wonderingly at the preview of the new Christopher Nolan.

We have it on the authority of Nolan (per his appearance at Wonder Con) that this is merely a heist movie with a bit of futuristic technology included. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the head of a team of thieves who crack exceptionally well-guarded vaults: the vaults in question being the subconsciouses of their sleeping victims. Nolan made a minor movie about a caped vigilante chasing a scar-faced horror

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SAN JOSE: THE GREAT OUTDOORS Starlight Cinemas, Wednesdays at sundown, June 9–Aug. 25, free; various San Jose locations.

JUNE 9 San Pedro Square: Raiders of the Lost Ark plus live improv by ComedySportz.

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BEST MONSTER MOVIE

Vincenzo Natali’s SPLICE ( June 4) mixes the DNA of Cronenberg’s pervy yet icy Canadian dismay with Guillermo del Toro’s rich paganism.

It’s the story of a gene-splicing experiment gone wrong . Much deadpan fun as the bald creature develops—she’s so advanced for her age, a monster of Aubrey Beardsley– worthy insinuation. Trying to outwit it, Sarah Polley is the most winning embodiment of redheaded geek chick you’ll see this summer.

BEST CORPORATE FAT CAT

The now obese Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) from SHREK FOREVER AFTER (May 21) gets the nod over the title feline in July 30’s CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE. Should animals star in Bond parodies? Isn’t that what PETA was formed to stop?

BEST ART-HOUSE OPTIONS

Tie: COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY (June 18) and I AM LOVE ( June 25); the former being the true story of the liaison between the smell-maker and the noise-maker, with Anna Mouglalis and Mads Mikkelsen flaring their nostrils in each other’s general direction; the latter, a glamorous Milan drama with Tilda Swinton involved in the ruin of a well-off family. ÆI`Z_Xi[ mfe 9ljXZb

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JUNE 23 SoFA District: This Is Spinal Tap plus live music.

JULY 14 San Pedro Square: Batman plus a comic-book swap and costume contest.

JULY 21 Post Street: An American in Paris plus dance lessons from Burn the Street.

JULY 28 SoFA District: Rocky Horror Picture Show plus Bawdy Caste and audience participation.

AUG. 11 San Pedro Square: The Goonies plus short film from Cinequest Adobe Youth Voices.

AUG. 18 Post Street: Creature From the Black Lagoon in 3-D plus mass musical chairs.

AUG. 25 SoFA District: Zombieland plus ZombieO-Rama parade and zombie crawl.

REDWOOD CITY MOVIES ON THE SQUARE Thursdays at sundown, June 24 –Sept. 9, free; Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

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ARCLIGHT REPERTORY THEATER Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose; $15/$25. The Taming of the Shrew As part of Shakespeare on the Square Festival, the company updates the famous battle of the sexes comedy to the land of 1950s sitcoms.

May 20–June 6.

BROADWAY BY THE BAY San Mateo Performing Arts Center; $15–$48. Annie The popular musical raises the question, What will people think of Daddy Warbucks after the Wall Street debacle? July 15–Aug 1.

BROADWAY WEST THEATRE COMPANY Fremont; $15–$22.

The Crucible Arthur Miller’s drama about the Salem witch trials. Runs through June 12.

BUS BARN STAGE COMPANY Bus Barn Theatre, Los Altos; $24–$32.

Little Shop of Horrors Runs through June 19.

CALIFORNIA THEATRE CENTER Three productions in repertory. Sunnyvale Community Center, Sunnyvale; $12–$20.

The Mousetrap Agatha Christie’s famed, long-running stage mystery. June 3–July 24. Black Comedy/The White Liars A one-act farce about a light-fingered man and his antique-collector neighbor,

by Peter Shaffer. It is double-billed with Shaffer’s comedy about eccentrics at the seaside. June 10–July 23. A Midsummer Night’s Dream June 24–July 25.

CHILDREN’S MUSICAL THEATER OF SAN JOSE Montgomery Theater, San Jose; $16–$23.

Miss Saigon A Mainstage production.

July 23–Aug 1. High School Musical 2 A Rising Stars production. July 9–18.

Rugrats: A Live Adventure! Aug 5–8.

CITY LIGHTS THEATER COMPANY San Jose; $15–$40.

Second Weekend in September A world premiere of Andrew Black’s play about a businessman and his affair with a male college student; presented in connection with San Jose Pride. May 20–June 20.

Rent The rock-musical version of La Bohème. July 22–Aug 29.

DRAGON THEATRE Palo Alto;

$16–$20. Anton in Show Business Runs through May 23. Seascape An Edward Albee play about the need to go on living. July 16–Aug 8.

FOOTHILL MUSIC THEATER Smithwick Theater, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills; $10–$26. Anything Goes A Cole Porter musical. July 23–Aug 15.

LOS GATOS AND MIDPENINSULA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Oak Meadow Park, Los Gatos; $15–$20. The Taming of the Shrew June 5–Aug 7. Treasure Island June 11–Aug 6. The Importance of Being Earnest June 18–Aug 5.

LYRIC THEATRE OF SAN JOSE Montgomery Theatre, San Jose; $10–$35.

The Mikado Gilbert and Sullivan classic.

June 19–27. The Dollar Princess Semistaged performances of a Viennese operetta. Part of the Discovery Series.

July 24–25 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St, Mountain View.

NORTHSIDE THEATRE COMPANY Olinder Theatre, San Jose;

A drama about family ties and patriotic duties. Runs through June 6.

The Marvelous Wonderettes A musical comedy about four girl singers seeking fame in the ’50s and ’60s.

June 15–27. FDR Ed Asner in a one-man show. July 14–18. Black Pearl Sings A white woman studying African American music meets a Texas prisoner with a killer voice. Sept 2–26.

SAN JOSE STAGE COMPANY The Stage, San Jose; $20–$45. Red, White and Tuna The third installment of

Mountain View; $15–$30. The Glass Menagerie. Runs through May 30.

The Shaker Chair A lonely woman finds meaning in animal-rights issues;

by Adam Bock. June 25–July 11.

RETRO DOME San Jose. Barbra, Bette and Carol Burnett A benefit night with Bay Area vocalists belting out favorite songs by big-time divas.

May 27. Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters A regional premiere about the swinging singing sisters. June 11–July 25.

SAN JOSE REPERTORY THEATRE The Rep, San Jose; $35–$74. Sonia Flew

UC–Santa Cruz campus; three plays in repertory, July 20–Aug 29. The Lion in

Winter; Love’s Labor’s Lost; Othello.

SOUTH BAY MUSICAL THEATRE Saratoga Civic Theater; $13.50–$30. Hello, Dolly! Runs through June 5.

Millie May 28–June 5 at Louis B. Mayer Theatre. New Playwrights’ Festival May 31–June 1 at Fess Parker Studio Theatre.

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Bard in the great outdoors; dress appropriately. Sanborn Park, Saratoga; free, parking $6. The Merchant of Venice July 30–Sept 3. Much Ado About Nothing Aug 6–Sept 5.

Saratoga Civic Theater; $18–$30.

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do A musical with the songs of Neil Sedaka. June 26–July 24.

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Opus A tale about a string quartet that can’t get along. June 2–27 in Mountain View. Auctioning the Ainsleys World premiere of a comic drama about a family of auctioneers selling it all.

July 14–Aug 8 in Palo Alto. New Works Festival Aug 7–22 in Palo Alto.

The Light in the Piazza A Broadway musical about love in Florence. Aug 25– Sept 19 in Mountain View.

the popular comedy series June 2–July 4. Monday Night Live Annual fundraiser that skewers local politicians. June 21.

Top Honor Awards Presentations honor high school musical productions in the area.

June 7 at 7pm at the California Theatre.

$15/$20. Vanities A comedy about three Texas friends across the course of a decade. June 17–July 11.

Theater, Palo Alto; $20–$31. Jewtopia A comedy about stereotypes and romance. June 11–27.

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by Michael Lucero, Beverly Mayeri, Sergei Isupov, Lydia Buzio and Jason Walker. June 19–Sept 4. Surreal Reinventions —Composite imagery and collage by Ruth Marten and John Hundt.

June 19–Sept 4.

MUSEUMS CANTOR ARTS CENTER Stanford University; Wed–Sun 11am–5pm, till 8pm Thu; free. Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China—Runs through July 4. Odile and Odette —A video by Yinka Shonibare that uses a closeup of two ballerinas to take a new look at Swan Lake. June 16–Jan 9, 2011. William Trost Richards: True t o Nature—A retrospective of pen and pencil works, watercolors and small oils by an American 19th-century marine painter.

June 23–Sept 26. Buildings on Paper: Architectural Drawings —Renderings

by Frank Lloyd Wright and others. June 30–Oct 17. Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas — Traditional and modern representations of water spirits in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. Aug 4–Jan 2.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM Santa Clara University; Tue–Sun, 11am–4pm; free.

Susan Felter: Working With Dreams — A retrospective in honor of retiring associate professor Susan Felter and her work as a photographer. Runs through June 4. ArtsConnect: Unlock the Promise—A show in conjunction with the arts-education classes of Arts Council Silicon Valley. Runs through June 4. What Makes a Picture a Portrait?—With examples from the museum’s collection, the show examines the ways in which art goes beyond figure study to true portraiture. Runs through June 4.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM OF ART De Anza College, Cupertino; Mon–Thu, 10am–4pm; free. Student Art Show .

Runs through June 15.

HISTORY SAN JOSÉ Kelley Park, San Jose; Tue–Sun, noon–5pm. Explore

San Jose Parks: Open to the Public Since 1850 —Runs through Jan. 23.

Everyday San Jose: Paintings by Wayne Jiang —Moody nightscapes of the San Jose area. Runs through May 30.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART Downtown San Jose; Tue–Sun, 11am– 5pm; $5/$8. Real and HyperReal —A

new look at what realism means in the modern area. Runs through Aug 1.

Wayne Thiebaud—A deep selection of Thiebaud’s paintings over many decades. Runs through July 4. New

Stories From the Edge of Asia: Plastic Life —New works by young Asian and Pacific Rim artists. Runs through Sept 19.

Vital Signs—A selection of new-media artists who connect natural and human rhythms and responses. June 12–Feb 6.

Retro-Tech—A group show about artists who rummage through technological materials to create new worlds from recycled parts. This show is designed to go with 01SJ Biennial (mid-September). July 22–Feb 6.

Leo Villareal—The artist uses computer techniques to create lighted sculptures and installations with LEDs. His work with strobe lights was seen at Burning Man. Aug 21–Jan 9.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES San Jose; Tue–Sun, 10am–5pm; $6.50/$8. Hawaii’s Alfred Shaheen: Fabric to Fashion —A look at the island textiles and aloha clothing made by Shaheen, a longtime manufacturer on Oahu. Runs through Aug 8; reception May 23, 2-4pm.

Grand Appliquè: Hawaiian Quilts— Contemporary quilts by Carol Kamaile of Honolulu. Runs through Aug 8.

Wendeanne Ke’aka Stitt: Contemporary Kapa —Modern fiber works by Santa Cruz artists. Runs through Aug 8.

THE TECH MUSEUM San Jose; $15/$25. Genghis Khan —An exhibit about the technical, social, martial and cultural contributions of the Mongolian conqueror. Opens May 22.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART Santa Clara; Tue–Sun, 11am–5pm, till 9pm Thu. Xicana: Spiritual Reflections/ Reflexíones Espiritúales —A halfdozen local Chicana artists use their own experiences to think about personal identity. Runs through June 13. In the Raw —Current work by Robert Chiarito in an Expressionist vein. Runs through June 6. A Child’s World —Artists provide visions, some disturbing, of what childhood is really life. Runs June 19Sept 26. Livia Stein —Brightly colored

paintings with touches of surrealism.

June 17–Sept 19; reception June 18, 7–9pm.

GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI San Jose; Tue–Fri, noon–7pm, Sat, noon–5pm.

REBeBOB—Paintings by graphic novelist Barron Storey. Through June 19.

South First Fridays—The gallery is a good starting point for the monthly art walks on the first Friday of each month along South First Street. Of special note is the subZERO festival on June 4.

MACLA San Jose; Wed–Thu, noon–7pm, Fri–Sat, noon– 5pm. Three

Generations of Political Printmaking the Bay Area —June 2– Aug 7. Lineas: New Modes of Contemporary Urbanism—Works by

MOHR GALLERY Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View; Mon–Fri, 9am–7pm, Sat, 9am–3pm.

Urban Animals—Oils and mixed media by SJSU MFA Elizabeth Gomez, who paints species that manage to survive in suburbia. Runs through May 30. Andy Muonio —Paintings and prints.

June 28–Aug 2. Reception and talk June 25, 6–8pm.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Saratoga; Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm.

Seeing Light—Pieces by Nicole Schmoelzer based on ideas about brightness and light. Runs through June 6.

Alto; Tue–Sat, 10am–5pm,

Tue–Fri, 10am–5pm, Thu till 8pm, Sat, noon–5pm; free. Liminal —An installation made of draped paper about memories and shelter by Modesto Covarrubias. Runs through July 3.

Work Out—An installation by Libby Black. Runs through July 3. Lift Off: SJSU MFA Graduate Exhibition— May 29-June 19. Bernie Lubell: Interactive Wood Machines—Lowtech Rube Goldberg–type machines made from wood and powered by human muscle. In connection with 01SJ Biennial. July 3–Sept 19. Exposed:

Today’s Photography/Yesterday’s Technology—A survey of artists

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Fabricio Wercum—Mixed Martial Arts showdown. June 26.

WHARF-TO-WHARF RACE Starts at

COMPETITION PRO-AM BEACH SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz. The annual tournament is played on the main beach below the Boardwalk. June 5–6.

MAZDA RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA Monterey. www.masdaraceway.com.

American Le Mans Series Monterey.

May 21–23. Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix for motorcycles—July 23–25.

SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES Buck Shaw Stadium, Santa Clara.

Vs. Toronto FC. May 29, 7pm.

Vs. Columbus. June 2, 7pm.

Vs. D.C. United. July 3, 7pm.

Vs. Seattle. July 31, 7pm.

Vs. Kansas City. Aug 14, 7pm.

Vs. L.A. Aug. 21, 1pm.

SAN JOSE GIANTS San Jose Municipal Stadium.

Vs. Visalia May 19–20 Vs. Rancho Cucamonga. May 30–31 and June 1.

Vs. Modesto. June 7–10.

Vs. Bakersfield. June 11–13.

Vs. Modesto. June 24–27.

Vs. Lancaster. July 1–3.

Vs. Lake Elsinore. July 10–12.

Vs. Stockton. July 20–22.

Vs. High Desert. July 23–25.

Vs. Stockton. Aug 3–5.

Vs. Modesto. Aug 13–15.

Vs. Stockton. Aug 21–23.

Vs. Visalia. Aug 24–26.

Vs. Inland Empire. Sept 1–2.

Vs. Visalia. Sept 3–6.

SANTA CLARA INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONAL Haines Swim Center, Santa Clara; $8. An annual major pool event, with top swimmers. June 17–20.

SILICON VALLEY ROLLER GIRLS San Jose Skate. Dot.Kamikazes vs. Treasure Valley Rollergirls. July 10.

SMUCKER’S STARS ON ICE HP Pavilion, San Jose; $26.50 and up. With Sasha Cohen, Shen and more. May 23 at 4pm.

Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz. First run the scenic six miles, then listen to live bands. July 25 at 8:30am.

CYCLING & RUNNING CATFISH CRAWL SOUTH BAY OPEN WATER SWIM UVAS Reservoir, Morgan Hill. Menlo Masters hosts a 2mile swim. July 25 at 8am.

THE DREAM MILE Shoreline at Mountain View, Mountain View; $15–$20, free 12 and under. Vibha holds its annual 5K and 10K run and walk fundraiser and carnival, with proceeds benefiting services for underprivileged children. June 27 at 8am.

LOS GATOS JUNGLE RUN Los Gatos High School. A half-marathon along the Los Gatos Creek Trail. July 11.

MEMORIAL DAY CRITERIUM Business Park, Jarvis and Serene, Morgan Hill. A 1-mile course. May 31 at 3:50pm for women and 4:50pm for men.

MT. HAMILTON CLASSIC Joseph George Intermediate School, San Jose. A steep climb to the top of Mt. Hamilton then on to Livermore, hosted by the San Jose Bicycle Club. May 30 at 8am for men and 8:50am for women.

MUSHROOM MARDI GRAS RUN Coyote Creek Bike Path, Morgan Hill; $20–$25.

Mushroom Mardi Gras weekend celebration begins with a 10K run and 5K run and walk. May 29 at 8am.

MUDDY BUDDY SAN JOSE Joseph D. Grant Regional Park, San Jose. Annual competition with obstacles. June 6 at 7:30am.

SILICON VALLEY SPRINT TRIATHLON Almaden Lake Park, San Jose. Swimmers take to Lake Almaden for the first leg of this triathlon, followed by a 10-mile mountain-bike ride and a 3.1-mile run.

June 12 at 8am.

SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL TRIATHLON Almaden Lake Park, San Jose. With a 1,500-meter swim, 24.9-mile bike ride and 6.2-mile run. June 13 at 7am.

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SUNSET CELEBRATION WEEKEND Annual open house for the magazine, with demonstrations, food and entertainment.

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WINGS OF FREEDOM TOUR Vintage

SAKE SAN JOSE A sake tasting and

combat planes from World War II will be on display for a week. Flights available.

May 21–29; tours $6/$12. Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain view.

BOOGIE ON THE BAYOU With arts and crafts booths, live music (Sauce Piquante, Blind to Reason, Fred McCarty on Saturday; Motordude Zydeco, Growiser Band and Lemo on Sunday), New Orleans cuisine and kids’ activities. May 22, 10am–6pm, May 23, 10am–5pm; free.

Downtown Campbell.

walk through Japantown sponsored by Yu-Ai Kai Senior Community. May 27, 5– 8:30pm. $40/$50. Japantown San Jose.

JUNE DINE DOWNTOWN Many of San Jose’s

SANTA CRUZ BLUES FESTIVAL

A fundraiser with barbecue lunch and kids’ entertainment. June 6, 11am–4pm. $5/$15. Across from CT English Middle School, Summit Road, Loma Prieta.

Ben Harper and Relentless7 and Taj Mahal (Saturday) and Buddy Guy and Derek Trucks plus Eric Burdon and the Animals (Sunday). May 29–30. Aptos Village Park.

NATIVITY CARNIVAL Music, food, silent auction and rides. June 11, 5–11pm; June 12, noon–11pm; June 13, noon–6pm; free.

Nativity School, Oak Grove Avenue and Laurel Street, Menlo Park.

DIA DE PORTUGAL FESTIVAL The Portuguese Heritage Society of California (PHSC) hosts the annual event with food, music and dance. June 12, 10am– 6:30pm; free. Kelley Park, San Jose.

SAN MATEO COUNTY FAIR AND PENINSULA FESTIVAL Exhibits, rides and entertainment. June 12–20. San Mateo County Expo Center, San Mateo.

AFTERNOON TEA AND VINTAGE FASHION SHOW Tea, fruit and pastries

best downtown restaurants will present $20, $30 and $40 prix fixe three-course menus. June 2–12.

and a vintage fashion show. June 13, 1–4pm; $25 adv. Harris-Lass Historic Museum, Santa Clara.

GREEK FESTIVAL Greek food, arts and

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SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS WINE EXPRESS A chance to taste a variety Santa Cruz Mountain wines in one location. Plus food, music, auction and

MUSHROOM MARDI GRAS Food, wine and beer, live performers and parade. May 29-30; free.

Community Center, Morgan Hill.

SANTA CLARA MEMORIAL DAY FIREWORKS A holiday fireworks display. May 30, 9:45pm.

Paramount’s Great America, Santa Clara.

GILROY PARADE AND MEMORIAL DAY BBQ All allyou-can-eat-meal family events.

May 31, 10am–6pm. Parade stars 11am on 10th Street. BBQ at Gilroy Gardens, Hecker Pass Hwy, Gilroy.

LOS GATOS MEMORIAL DAY

up animals. May 22, 11am–3pm; free.

Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

handmade goods by area artisans, and entertainment. June 5–6, 9am–6pm.

Casa de Fruta, Hollister.

duckies are set loose to raise money for Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley.

June 13, Vasona Lake Park, Los Gatos.

ST. CLARE COMMUNITY FESTIVAL The

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school hosts its annual three-day festival of family fun, including music, a rummage sale, arts and crafts and a barbecue. June 5, 4–10pm, June 6, noon–8pm. Free. St. Clare School, Santa Clara.

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bicentennial celebration with parade (11am–2pm) and festival (noon–6pm).

June 13. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk celebrates opening weekend on Saturday with Circo Brazil (1pm; also Sunday at 1 and 2pm), Skydivers (5pm) and A Flock of Seagulls performance (5:30pm). May 22–23. Main Beach, Santa Cruz.

A look at what the War Between the States was like. May 29–31. $5/$8. Roaring Camp, Felton.

top chefs and vintners while tasting foods and savoring fine wines. June 6, 5:30pm; $150–$175. Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.

crafts, cooking demonstrations and live music. June 4–6. $3/$5. St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, San Jose.

PET PARADE Food, music and dressed-

CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTMENT

Annual festival and parade.

Parade starts on Highway 9 between Henry Cowell and Graham Hill Road at 10am.

May 29, 10am–4pm; free. Felton Commons Park, Felton.

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Fanimecon also hosts a music festival. May 28–31. San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose.

series of juried art shows to go along with Music on the Square. June 18, 5–8:30pm; free. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

With a performance by the San Jose Metropolitan Band. May 31, 10am. Los Gatos Memorial Park.

MILPITAS CEREMONY Presentation of colors, a 21-gun salute and light refreshments.

May 31; free. Civic Center Plaza, Milpitas.

SUNNYVALE CHERRY FESTIVAL Featuring food, games and contests, tours, cherry tasting and music.

May 29–30, all day. C.J. Olson Cherries, Sunnyvale.

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JEWELRY ON THE SQUARE A juried art shows to go along with Music on the Square. July 9, 5-8:30pm; free.

Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

DIA DE SAN JUAN FESTIVAL Presented by the Western Regional Puerto Rican Council, with cultural events and food.

June 19, 11am–7pm. $20/$25. History Park, San Jose.

LOS ALTOS ART AND WINE FESTIVAL

JUNETEENTH IN THE PARK Cultural

OBON FESTIVAL A Japantown cultural celebration featuring games, food and performances. July 10–11; free. Buddhist Church Betsuin, San Jose.

celebration around emancipation of the slaves, with food, performances and children’s expo. June 19–20; free. Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park, Market Street and Park Avenue, downtown San Jose.

SCOTTISH RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL The festival expands to two days with a variety of Celtic music and dance. June 19–20, 10am–6pm; $10/$12. Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Watsonville.

HATS OFF TO DAD A Father’s Day event with steam engine rides, model railroad exhibits and a chuck wagon barbecue.

June 20. Roaring Camp Railroads, Felton.

DANCING ON THE SQUARE Free dance series begins with swing lessons. June 22, 6pm. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

FESTIVAL IN THE PARK A health, safety and wellness fair with exhibitors, a climbing wall, petting zoo and fitness demos. June 26, 11am–4pm. Free. Hellyer County Park, San Jose.

SURF CITY CLASSIC WOODIES Restored Woodies in all their glory. Plus live music and prize drawings. June 26, 10am–4pm; free. Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf.

WILLOW GLEN’S DANCIN’ ON THE AVENUE Dance the evening away at this annual community event with local bands. June 26, 4–9pm; free. Lincoln Avenue and Willow Street, Willow Glen.

DANCING ON THE SQUARE Weekly dance series features samba lessons.

June 29, 6–8pm. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

JULY GREAT TRAIN ROBBERIES Shootouts, duels and other blazing re-enactments will demonstrate why the West was wild.

July 3–4. Roaring Camp Railroad, Felton.

DANCING ON THE SQUARE This week’s free dance lessons are in Country and Western. July 6, 6–8pm. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

Arts and crafts booths, works from local artists, food and wine and music. July 10–11, 10am–6pm; free. Main and State streets, Los Altos.

PALO ALTO CLAY AND GLASS FESTIVAL Local artisans show their wares, plus demonstrations. July 10–11, 10am–5pm; free. Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto.

TARGET FAMILY DAY An ongoing series of family events. July 11, 11am–3pm; free.

Downtown Redwood City.

DANCING ON THE SQUARE The Tuesday free lessons focus on waltzes. July 13, 6– 8pm. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

CALIFORNIA RODEO SALINAS An annual event with music, a daily horse parade, games and food, a “Miss California Rodeo” pageant and more. July 15–18, times vary; $13–$20. Salinas Sports Complex, Salinas.

BIG BANDS AND BARBECUE The Downtown Campbell Business Association presents a day of live music, dancing, top barbecuers and artisan booths. July 17, 11am–8pm; free.

Downtown Campbell.

CONNOISSEUR’S MARKETPLACE A fine-crafts festival, plus live music (including Livewire and the Cool Jerks), food, cooking demos and kids’ activities.

July 17–18, 10am–6pm; free. Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park.

FOUNDER’S DAY FANDANGO A celebration of local history. July 18, noon–5pm; free. Peralta Adobe, Fallon House Historic Site, San Jose.

DANCING ON THE SQUARE Free salsa dance lessons. July 20, 6–8pm.

Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

PAL BLUES FESTIVAL A summer salute to the blues. See www.palbluesfestival .com for announcements of acts. July 23– 24; free. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

GILROY GARLIC FESTIVAL With food, music, cook-offs and more. July 23–25, 10am–7pm; $8–$17; children under 6 free. Christmas Hill Park, Gilroy.

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FOURTH OF JULY CUPERTINO FOURTH A pancake breakfast, children’s parade at Memorial Park at 10am and fireworks at 9:30pm. July 4, all day. Cupertino.

FELTON FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION With a sock hop and other ’50s-themed fun. July 3–4.

Roaring Camp, Felton.

FREMONT FOURTH OF JULY PARADE Patriotic parade with floats and bands. July 4, 10am. Warm Springs Boulevard, South Fremont.

GILROY FIREWORKS Annual salute.

July 4; 9:15pm. Gilroy High School.

GILROY INDEPENDENCE DAY BBQ With all the trimmings. July 2, 11am–5pm, July 3–4, 10am–6pm.

Gilroy Gardens, Gilroy.

INDEPENDENCE DAY AT ARDENWOOD A look back at how people used to celebrate the holiday.

July 4. Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont.

LOS GATOS FOURTH An oldfashioned celebration with redwhite-and-blue trimming and a traditional band concert featuring the San Jose Wind Symphony. July 4, all day; free. Downtown Los Gatos.

MILPITAS JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION With fireworks display and concert with JamFunkShus. Pool party and barbecue, 1–5pm; concert, 8–10pm, fireworks, 9:30pm; free. Sports Center, Milpitas.

MORGAN HILL FOURTH With a parade at 10am and all the traditional trappings. Event includes a 5k and 1-mile run/walk and family festival, plus fireworks. July 4; free. Fourth and Monterey streets, Morgan Hill.

SARATOGA CLASSIC CAR SHOW A new event featuring rolling marvels. July 24, 10am–5pm. Downtown Saratoga.

WILLOW GLEN SIDEWALK SALE Great deals all along Lincoln Avenue. July 24, 10am–6pm. Downtown Willow Glen.

TARGET SUMMER POPS SJSU Mall. Free.

PALO ALTO CHILI COOK-OFF AND SUMMER FESTIVAL Music, dancing, food vendors, kids’ activities and lots of chili vying for top prizes. July 4, noon–5pm; free. Mitchell Park, Palo Alto.

REDWOOD CITY FAMILY 4TH Presented by Peninsula Celebration Association, with a parade, festival and fireworks. July 4, 9am–5pm, parade starts at 10am; free.

Downtown Redwood City.

ROSE, WHITE & BLUE PARADE A traditional patriotic event presented by the Alameda Business Assoc., the Shasta/Hanchett Park Neighborhood and the Rose Garden Neighborhood.

July 4. Parade at 10am, festival at 11am. Hanchett Avenue and The Alameda, San Jose.

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND FIREWORKS A concert and sky show. July 4, 8pm. Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View.

SANTA CLARA ALL-CITY PICNIC Family-friendly Fourth with entertainment and fireworks.

July 4; 8am–10pm; Central Park, Santa Clara.

SARATOGA INDEPENDENCE DAY A day of patriotic music and children’s fun presented by Saratoga Historical Foundation. July 4, 1:30-3pm. Kevin Moran City Park, Saratoga.

TAHITI FETE OF SAN JOSE Featuring a Tahitian dance competition, plus food and crafts.

July 3–5. $20 per day. SJSU Event Center.

WORLD’S SHORTEST PARADE Preceded by a pancake breakfast and followed by a party in the park.

July 4, 10am; free. Soquel and State Park drives, Aptos.

Produced by Symphony Silicon Valley.

American All Stars, conducted by Peter Jaffe with pianist Jon Nakamatsu. July 24 at 7pm. “To the Rescue,” a family concert with ice cream social. July 25 at 5:30pm.

MOSS LANDING ANTIQUE STREET FAIR A large street-side show of antiques and

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VINTAGE VEHICLES AND FAMILY FESTIVAL One-of-a-kind vehicles,

MUSICAL SAW FESTIVAL Featuring

including hot rods and motorcycles, plus family activities. July 25, 10am–4pm; free. Palo Alto High School.

DANCING ON THE SQUARE This week’s dance lessons are in cha cha. July 27, 6– 8pm. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

TARGET SUMMER POPS SJSU Mall. Free.

Produced by Symphony Silicon Valley.

Spanish Harlem Orchestra, NYC salsa— July 30 at 7pm. “Here’s to the Ladies,” with pianist Jon Weber performing hits from American songbook. July 31 at 7pm.

DAY OUT WITH THOMAS A chance for youngsters to ride a full-size Thomas engine. July 30–31, Aug. 1 and 6–8.

Roaring Camp, Felton.

FREMONT FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS With food and wine and live music. July 31–Aug 1. 10am–6pm; free. Downtown, Fremont.

AUGUST DANCING ON THE SQUARE Lessons in line dancing for free. Aug 3, 6–8pm.

Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

ART ON THE SQUARE A new juried art show combined with Music on the Square performance. Aug 6, 5–8:30pm; free. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

FIESTA DE ARTES Art and wine festival with bands. Aug 7–8, 10am–6pm; free.

Los Gatos Civic Center Grounds,

SAN JUAN ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES FLEA MARKET A large

concerts and workshops. Aug 15. Roaring Camp Railroad, Graham Hill Road, Felton.

DANCING ON THE SQUARE The free dance series continues with lessons in tango. Aug 17, 6–8pm. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS Dazzling feats and daring spectacles. Aug 18–22. HP Pavilion, San Jose.

GUGLIELMO HARVEST FESTIVAL With food, games and fine wines. 21+. Aug 21.

Guglielmo Winery, Morgan Hill.

SAN JOSE GAY PRIDE FESTIVAL AND PARADE Aug 21–22. See www.sanjose pride.com for details. Downtown San Jose.

NORTH FAIR OAKS FESTIVAL A morning parade is followed by performing arts and food. Aug 22, 11am–6pm; free.

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SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY On the lawn at Montalvo Arts Center. A program called “From Strauss to Sondheim,” conducted by George Cleve. Aug 22 at 4pm.

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Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of dead restaurants, but Alexander’s has defied gravity and managed not only to survive the

recession but also to thrive. The restaurant seems to have discovered the fact that, even in down times, people are still making money in Silicon Valley, and they need a place to celebrate business deals and anniversaries or just burn off extra cash.

Big spenders are people, too, and they deserve a place to call their own, don’t they? Things are going so well for Alexander’s that owner James “J.C.” Chen is about to export his brand of luxurious, East-meets-West steakhouse with a new restaurant in San Francisco.

Alexander’s is much more than a steakhouse. It has become Silicon Valley’s premier destination restaurant for over-the-top sybaritic indulgence.

There’s simply nothing like it. I reviewed Alexander’s five years ago, shortly after it opened, and executive chef Jeffrey Stout still cooks with the same youthful

exuberance and reckless hedonism. He has hit on a “bigger and bolder is better formula,” and he’s sticking to it. Subtlety and understatement are foreign words here. Since I last visited, Stout has added some techniques from the molecular gastronomy toolbox with his use of sous vide cooking (slow cooking meat and vegetables in vacuum-sealed bags), foamy sauces and other chemistry tricks, but grilled steaks remain the main attraction.

Alexander’s offers not one but four kinds of steak: Angus, Australian half-wagyu/half-Holstein beef, Niman Ranch beef and money-is-no-object imported Japanese wagyu beef. (Some day, I hope to see grass-fed beef, too, a premium product that avoids the ecological destruction and antibiotic use of grain-fed beef and actually improves the environment.)

The filet mignon (available in 6-ounce or 10-ounce sizes for $38 and $45, respectively) is an entry-level cut of steak, but it’s all you could ask for in a premium cut of meat. It’s well crusted outside, juicy inside and so tender that you almost don’t need a knife.

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beurre blanc and demi-glace sauces get lost in a messy swirl, but for pure beefy perfection, the filet mignon delivers.

The kitchen applies the sous vide technique to great effect with the rack of lamb ($42). The bagged meat is cooked for 45 minutes in a water bath and then briefly grilled to give it some char. The result is fantastically tender and perhaps the least lamby lamb I’ve ever had.

What makes Alexander’s a different kind of steakhouse is the Japanese undercurrent that runs throughout the menu and the strong seafood offerings and list of small plates. The pan-roasted hamachi ($42) displays an uncharacteristic light touch—a simple piece of fish framed by a large white plate dotted with crispy little rice nuggets topped with seaweed and a dab of mayo. Instead of the heavy application of squiggly sauces that accompany so many dishes, the fish is accented with a light dashi sauce. It’s simple, delicate and delicious.

I think the appetizers are where Stout’s skills and attention to detail really shine. Head straight for the hamachi shots ($24 for six): hamachi sashimi in a tall, thin shot glass layered with a truffled ponzu sauce, avocado, chilies, fried ginger and tiny cilantro greens. It’s an appetizer in the literal sense of the word—it primes your mouth for the meal to come.

Sampling the Japanese beef is probably not in everyone’s budget.

That’s OK—you can get a taste of the silken meat in the excellent wagyu tartare appetizer ($26). The seasoned raw meat is pressed into a loglike shape, dusted with truffle powder and topped with a raw quail egg and lively bits of caper berries, black garlic and various greens. Beef tartare is seldom seen these days, and Alexander’s version is a great reinterpretation of the classic.

Excellent, too, is the prosciutto appetizer ($15). Made with La Quercia prosciutto, America’s only prosciutto producer of note, it’s paired with wonderful sweet and fresh burrata (cream-filled mozzarella), excellent onion jam and a sheaf of mâche. The interplay of the salty cured meat and sweet spring cheese is superb. Other standouts are the ohitashi spinach salad ($12) and classic iceberg lettuce salad sprinkled with bacon, sugar-sweet cherry tomatoes and Point Reyes blue cheese ($9).

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FFONTANA’S ONTANA’S California/Italian.

California/Italian. $$$. $ $$. A ssteady teady pperformer, erformer, FFontana’s ontana’s rrarely arely ddisappoints isappoints Beer, wine. ppasta asta llovers. overs. B eer, w ine.

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GGOCHI OCHI JJapanese. apanese. $ $$$. $$. Gochi Gochi iiss a gglobally lobally iinspired nspired iizakaya zakaya ((small small pplates) lates) rrestaurant. estaurant.

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LLOON OON W WAH AH Chinese.

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TODAI T ODAI JJapanese. apanese. $ $$. $. B Billed illed as as a Japanese Japanese seafood seafood buffet, buffet, Todai Todai doesn’t doesn’t llimit imit iitself tself ttoo JJapanese apanese dishes. dishes. Pan-Asian Pan-Asian aand nd jjust ust pplain lain odd odd sspecialties pecialties rotate. rotate. 11:30am11:30am2:30pm 2:30pm and and 5:30-9pm 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri Mon-Fri and and 11:30am-3pm 11:30am-3pm and and 5:305:309:30pm 9:30pm Sat-Sun. Sat-Sun. Cupertino Cupertino Square Square mall mall (near (near Sears), Sears), 10123 10123 N. N. Wolfe Wolfe Rd Rd #2001. #2001.

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DIO D IO DEKA DEKA Greek.

Greek. $$$. $$$. D Dio io Deka Deka is is doing doing its its part part to to elevate elevate Greek Greek food food in in Silicon Silicon Valley. much Valley. There’s There’s m uch to to recommend recommend at at this this handsome handsome restaurant. restaurant. Most Most starters starters are are large large so so they’re they’re best best shared. shared.

5:30-10pm 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, Mon-Thu, 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri-Sat, Fri-Sat, 5-9pm 5-9pm Sun. Sun. 210 210 E. E. Main Main St. St. 408.354.7700.

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FFLEUR LEUR D DEE CCOCOA OCOA FFrench rench bakery. bakery. $$. $$. Almond Almond croissant. croissant.

Almond Almond croissant. croissant. Almond Almond croissant. croissant. Los Los Gatos’ Gatos’ Fleur Fleur de de Cocoa Cocoa is is rightly rightly known known for for its its chocolate chocolate confections confections and and pastries, pastries, but but I can’t can’t sstop top thinking thinking about about the the little little pastry pastry shop’s shop’s sspectacular pectacular aalmond lmond croissants. croissants. There’s There’s pplenty lenty of of other other good good stuff stuff and and not not all all of of it it sweet, sweet, like like the the croque croque monsieur monsieur and and the the quiche. quiche.

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FFORBES ORBES M MILL ILL SSTEAKHOUSE TEAKHOUSE $$$$.

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408.395.6650.

LOS GATOS LOS GATOS BREWING BREWING CCO. O. Brewpub.

Brewpub. $$$. $$$. Most Most bbrewpubs rewpubs seem seem to to be be ccooking ooking from from the the same same menu, m enu, but but executive executive chef chef JJim im Stump Stump has has created created a ddiverse iverse menu menu of of upscale upscale ccomfort omfort food food that that goes goes well well bbeyond eyond burgers burgers and and ggrilledrilledcchicken hicken sandwiches. sandwiches. The The hhandsome andsome wood-accented wood-accented iinterior nterior and and open open kitchen kitchen with w ith its its wood-fired wood-fired pizza pizza ooven ven and and rotisserie rotisserie grill grill add add ttoo tthe he rrestaurant’s estaurant’s appeal. appeal.

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MANRESA M ANRESA H High igh cconcept. oncept. $$$$. $ $$$. Drawing Drawing from from produce produce ggrown rown aatt hhis is oown wn ffarm, arm, ssuperstar uperstar chef chef David David Kinch Kinch is is bblazing lazing a trail trail of of high high caliber caliber ccuisine uisine tthat’s hat’s as as daring daring as as iitt is is delicious. delicious. Expensive Expensive but but worth Village w orth iit. t. 3320 20 V illage LLane. ane.

4408.354.4330.

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NICK’S N ICK’S O ON N MAIN MAIN AAmerican. merican. $$$. $ $$. Nick’s Nick’s on on Main Main is is a rrelaxed elaxed but but elegant elegant bistro bistro ffull ull of of neighborly neighborly charm charm and and iiss a showcase showcase for for owner owner Nick Nick Difu’s D ifu’s decadent decadent and and deeply deeply ssatisfying atisfying sstyle tyle ooff ccooking. ooking.

111:30am-3pm 1:30am-3pm and and 5-9:30pm 5-9:30pm Main TTue-Sat. ue-Sat. 3355 EE.. M ain SSt. t.

4408.399.6457.

08.399.6457.

TAPESTRY T APESTRY Contemporary Contemporary haute. haute. $$$. $$$. Right Right on on the the main main street, street, this this cottagelike cottagelike spot spot blends blends traditional traditional French French cooking cooking with with contemporary contemporary fusion: fusion: filet filet mignon mignon with with Mongolian-style Mongolian-style brown brown sauce; sauce; crayfish crayfish chow chow mein. mein. Elegant Elegant and and friendly. friendly.

11:30am-2pm, 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-9pm 5:30-9pm Sun-Thu, Sun-Thu, 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri-Sat. Fri-Sat. 11 11 College College Ave. Ave. 408.395.2808.

408.395.2808.

THREE T HREE D DEGREES EGREES EEclectic, clectic, California.

California. $$$. $$$. Set Set inside inside the the beautifully beautifully remodeled remodeled Toll Toll House House hotel, hotel, Three Three Degrees Degrees delivers delivers a mixed mixed bag bag of of big big and and small small plates plates from from an an eclectic eclectic menu. menu.

Some Some dishes, dishes, like like the the New New York York steak, steak, are are great, great, but but others others fall fall flat. flat. Service Service is is friendly friendly but but still still a little little green. green. Full Full bar. bar. Breakfast Breakfast 6:30-11am 6:30-11am Mon-Fri, Mon-Fri, 3-10pm 3-10pm daily. daily. 140 140 S. S. Santa Santa Cruz Cruz Blvd.

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408.884.1054.

408.884.1054.

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This new report adds to my misgivings, because it is far too deferential to the food industry, and Congress’ failure to allocate more funding for school lunches means Tater Tots and chicken nuggets will still dominate school lunch menus. To the credit of the task force, the group has identified the food industry and advertising as part of the problem.

“For many years, public health experts and others have argued that the marketing of energy-dense, low-nutrient food products to children and adolescents is one of many factors contributing to the obesity epidemic,” the report says. “While a causal link between marketing and increasing childhood obesity rates has yet to be firmly established, research indicates that advertising can have a strong influence on children. Young children in particular have difficulty distinguishing between television programming content and advertising, or comprehending the purpose of advertising.

Older children, and even adults, are influenced by advertising, too.”

To curb the influence of Coke and Cheetos commercials, the report offers a number of recommendations to reform the food and beverage industry. One representative suggestion states, “The food and beverage industry and the media and entertainment industry should jointly adopt meaningful, uniform nutrition standards for marketing food and beverages to children, as well as a uniform standard for what constitutes marketing to children.”

Sounds good to me, but I don’t think asking nicely will produce much change. The Federal Trade Commission reports that television advertising makes up 46 percent of total expenses for marketing to children, and those ads aren’t for apples and quinoa. They’re for processed foods loaded with salt, fat and calories. Perhaps the industry will see the writing on the wall, but I doubt they will reform until forced to do so.

That may be coming. If voluntary efforts to limit the marketing of crap food to kids fail, the report suggests the Federal Communications Commission “could consider revisiting and modernizing rules on commercial time during children’s programming.” That sounds a little more like it. Of course, in the meantime, parents could stop buying bad food for their kids and turn off the TV. Meanwhile, school-lunch reformers hoped that the first lady’s White House garden and support for more nutritious food would mean the president would offer more funding to improve the low-grade slop served in public schools—and he did. The president’s budget proposed an additional $1 billion a year for 10 years to be divided between school food programs and the WIC (Women, Infants and Children program).

Although $10 billion sounds like a lot, it pencils out to less than 20 cents more per student. Many school-lunch reformers are calling for a $1-per-student increase, five times what the president has proposed.

But even that inadequate figure got cut in half by Senate Agriculture Committee chairwoman Blanche Lincoln, so until money becomes available, school lunch reform appears to be dead. Without more public spending on school lunches and an effort to put some teeth behind efforts to force the food industry to stop marketing junk food to kids, I fear Let’s Move won’t be going very far.ÆJk\kk ?fcYiffb

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IRENE D IRENE DALIS ALIS VOCAL V OCAL CCOMPETITION OMPETITION California Theatre, California Theatre, San S Jose Sat – 7pm; $50/$100 $50/$10 00 Following a rigorous rigorouss audition process, pr ocess, 10 competitors competittors will unleash their lung power power at the ffourth-annual ourth-annual ourth annual vocal competition sponsored sponsor ed by Opera Opera San José. The prize pool adds up too $50,000 awarded and will be awar ded by a judging panel that includes LLotfi otfi Mansouri, director fformer ormer dir ector of the thhe San Francisco (MSG) Fr ancisco Opera.

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For a San Jose Jazz Jazz concert, Brian Ho and his group group pay tribute to the king of thee Hammond organ: or gan: Jimmy Smith.

Smith. Two Two of Ho’s Ho’s accompanists have havve rrésumés ésumés that stretch way str etch all the wa ay back to Smith himself: guitarist Calvin Calvin KKeys eys Lorca andd drummer d Lorrca Hart, H t whose h ffather, ather, Billy, Billy, oftenn rrecorded ecorded with saxophonist Smith. YYoung oung saxo ophonist Oscar Pangilinan P angilinan also sits sits in on the session. (MSG)

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May 20–June 20, City Lights Theatre Co., San Jose; $15–$28 In conjunction with San Jose Pride, City Lights opens Second Weekend in September, a premiere of Andrew Black’s drama about Michael, an older businessman, and his affair with David, a college student, as they meet for one weekend a year over the course of a decade.

Stars Bradly Mena (left) and Christopher P. Kelly.

Little Shop of Horrors May 20–June 19, Bus Barn Stage Co., Los Altos; $24–$30

The insatiable Audrey II, recently seen devouring the stage at Children’s Musical Theatre San Jose, decamps for Los Altos as Bus Barn presents its take on the botanical—and tuneful—carnage at Mushnik’s Skid Row Florist. Previews Thursday, and opens Friday.

The Laurel Ensemble Friday, 8pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Los Gatos; $10–$25

The Bay Area female classical sextet appears for the last Sunset Concerts performance of the season. The program features Fauré’s Piano Quartet no. 1, some Beethoven variations on themes from Don Giovanni, Libby Larsen’s Barn Dances and Bernstein’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano.

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Libby Black: Work Out Shows from July 3, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

Artist Libby Black gives the idea of the Hermès bag a whole new spin in her installation Work Out, a meticulous simulacrum of a real gym, made from paper and featuring body-building equipment emblazoned with high-fashion brands—including an Hermès punching bag. Sweat meets swank in this intriguing statement about body image and body adornment.

Shakespeare on The Square Theatre on San Pedro Square, May 20–June 6

Putting its own spin on Shakespeare’s famed battle of the sexes, Arclight Repertory Theatre transplants The Taming of the Shrew all the way forward in time to the land of 1950s TV sitcoms. Think of it as Bard Knows Best.

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23. $16-$25.

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5. $13-50$ 1 3- 5 0 $ 27. SSaratoga aratoga CCivic ivic TTheatre. heatre. $27.

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8pm, $ 24-$32. Bus Bus Barn Barn Theatre, Theatre, $24-$32.

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SSat, at, 8 pm. $ 16. TThru hru May May 22.

22.

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THE T HE GGLASS LASS M MENAGERIE ENAGERIE TTennessee ennessee W Williams’ illiams ’ drama drama reclusive aabout bout a re clusive ggirl, irl, her her ooverbearing verbearing mother mother and and her her ““gentleman gentleman caller.” caller.” A Pear Pear Avenue A venue Theatre Theatre sshow. how. ThuThu8pm, SSat, at, 8 pm, SSun, un, 22pm. pm. Thru Thru May $15-$30.

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CComedy omedy CCOMEDYSPORTZ OMEDYSPORTZ An inter An interactive active impr improvised ovised show.. All comedy show All ages welcome to early Friday show and both SSaturday aturday shows.

18+ ““Midnight Midnight SShow” how ” 11pm show Friday.

Friday. Fri, 9 and 11pm $12-$15. and SSat, at,, 7 and 9pm. p $ $12 -$15. $ CComedySportz, omedySportz, San San Jose.

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IIMPROV MPROV Wed, 8pm: Wed, 8pm: SSlantED lantED Comedy Comedy with w ith KKTT TTatara. atara. $12. $12. Thu, Thu, 8pm, 8 pm, FFri, ri, 7 aand nd 10pm, 10pm, Sat, Sat, 7 aand nd 9pm.

9pm. Ralphie Ralphie May. May. $22. $22.

8pm: SSun, un, 8 pm: Mark Mark CChristopher hristopher $16.

LLawrence awrence ffrom rom ““Chuck.”

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SSan an JJose. ose.

ROOSTER RO OSTER T. T. FEATHERS FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: Wed, 8pm: N New ew TTalent alent $10.

SShowcase. howcase. $ 10. Thu, Thu, 8pm, 8pm, 9pm, FFri, ri, 9 pm, SSat, at, 8 aand nd 110:30pm, 0:30pm, 8pm: SSun, un, 8 pm: Doug Doug Benson Benson $12. ffrom rom ““Best Best Week Week EEver.” ver.” $ 12.

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EEye ye ooff tthe he B eholder.” Works Works ggathered athered ffrom rom ggifts ifts to to the the museum m useum ffrom rom Ruth Ruth aand nd Robert May R obert Halperin.

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1am-8pm. Stanford.

Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM M USEUM Hands-on fun Hands-on fun for for kids. kids. MonMonSSat, at, 10am-5pm 10am-5pm and and Sun, Sun, nnoon-5pm. oon-5pm. San San Jose.

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DEE SSAISSET D AISSET M MUSEUM USEUM “What Makes “What Makes a Picture Picture a Portrait?”

P ortrait?” A sshow how aabout bout where w here ““figure figure sstudy tudy eends nds aand nd representation representation bbegins.” egins.” ““Susan Susan FFelter: elter: Working Working With With Dreams.”

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Allll tthru hru JJun un 44.. Tue-Sun, Tue-Sun, 111am-4pm.

1am-4pm. SSanta anta Clara.

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EEUPHRAT UPHRAT M MUSEUM USEUM O OFF A ART RT De A De Anza nza CCollege ollege SStudent tudent A Art rt SShow. how. Thru Thru Jun Jun 15.

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5:30-7:30pm. MonMonTThu, hu, 110am-4pm.

0am-4pm. De De Anza Anza CCollege ollege CCupertino. upertino.

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Thru M ay. TTue-Sun, uue-Sun, un noon-5pm. SSan an JJose. ose.

ROSICRUCIAN RO S I C RU C I A N M MUSEUM USEUM Egyptian historical Egyptian historical artifacts artifacts aand nd ddisplays. isplays. Ongoing.

Ongoing. MonMonFFri, ri, 110am-5pm 0am-5pm aand nd Sat-Sun, Sat-Sun, 111am-6pm.

1am-6pm. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE M MUSEUM USEUM O OFF A ART RT “New SStories “New tories FFrom rom tthe he EEdge dge Plastic ooff Asia: As i a : P lastic LLife.” ife.” TThru hru SSep ep 119.

9. ““Wayne Wayne Thiebaud: Thiebaud: SSeventy eventy YYears ears ooff Paint.”

Paint.” Thru Thru JJul ul 44.. “Real “Real & Hyperreal.”

Hyperreal.”

Aug TThru hru A ug 1.

1. “Juicy “Juicy Paint.”

Paint.” The The ssensuous ensuous side side of of pigments. pigments.

Bischoff FFeatures eatures ppieces ieces bbyy B ischoff Brown. aand nd B rown. Thru Thru Jun Jun 6.

6. TueTueSSun, un, 111am-5pm, 1am-5pm, closed closed Mon. Mon. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

SAN JJOSE SAN OSE M MUSEUM USEUM O OFF QUILTS Q UILTS AND AND TEXTILES TEXTILES “Hawaii’s Alfred “Hawaii’s Alfred SShaheen: haheen: FFabric abric ttoo FFashion.” ashion.” TTextiles extiles aand nd aaloha loha wear wear from from an an Oahu O ahu manufacturer. manufacturer. “Grand “Grand Appliqué: Hawaiian Quilts.”

A ppliqué: H awaiian Q uil ts.”

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Kamaile. ““Wendeanne Wendeanne Ke’aka Ke’aka Stitt: Stitt: CContemporary ontemporary Kapa.”

Kapa.” Fiber Fiber aart rt by

by SSanta anta Cruz Cruz artist. artist. All All Aug 8.. Tue-Sun, eend nd A ug 8 Tue-Sun, 10am10am55pm. pm. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

TECH T ECH M MUSEUM USEUM ”Technology Benefiting ”Technology Benefiting Humanity.”

H umanity.” Ongoing.

Ongoing. MonMonWed, W ed, 9am-5pm, 9am-5pm, and and ThuThu9am-8pm.

SSun, un, 9 am-8pm. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

TRITON T RITON M MUSEUM USEUM O OFF A ART RT “In the “In the Raw: Raw: New New W Work ork Robert bbyy R obert Chiarito.”

Chiarito.” Thru Thru JJun un 6.

6. “Xicana: “Xicana: Spiritual Spiritual Reflections.”

R eflections.” A ggroup roup sshow how bbyy llocal ocal CChicana hicana artists. artists. Thru Thru JJun un 13.

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CClosed losed Mon. Mon. Santa Santa Clara.

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“imPRESSions,” monotypes “imPRESSions,” monotypes Valerie bbyy V alerie Magee, Magee, Maryln Maryln Mori Mercy M ori aand nd M ercy SSmuell. muell. Thru Thru 8.. R Reception May JJul ul 8 eception M ay 113, 3, 6-8pm.

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OPENING O PENING ART A RT A ARK RK GGALLERY ALLERY “un-titled.” An “un-titled.”

An exhibit by SSJSU JSU BFA BFA graphic graphic design students. t d t May May 21-27.

21 277.

21Reception Fri-Sat, R eception FriSat, 6-9pm.

6-9pm.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

CCONTINUING ONTINUING ANNO A NNO DOMINI DOMINI “Re: Bob,” “Re: Bob,” new new paintings paintings bbyy Barron B arron SStorey. torey. Thru Thru Jun Jun 119.

9. ““Cloud Cloud EEmpire,” mpire,” ssolo olo show show by by Dimitri D imitri Drjuchin.

Drjuchin. Thru Thru May May 222.

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ART A RT A AND ND WELLNESS WELLNESS SSTUDIO TUDIO “Floating TThresholds.”

“Floating hresholds.” N New ew work w ork bbyy KKristine ristine Idarius.

Idarius.

6-8pm, TThru hru JJun un 225.

5. FFri, ri, 6 -8pm, oorr bbyy apointment. apointment. Grace Grace CCommunity ommunity CCenter, enter, SSan an Jose.

Jose.

AXIS A XIS ART ART GGALLERY ALLERY “On the Edge,” “On Edge,” new pieces by Richard R ichard Gullion, Chris Chris EElliman lliman Nozero. and TTony oony N ozero. Wed-Sat, Wed-Sat, noon-6pm. San San Jose.

Jose.

CCAFFÉ AFFÉ T TRIESTE RIESTE “What IIss H “What Happening?” appening?” SScroll croll ppaintings aintings by

by Matthew Matthew SSeigel. eigel.

May TThru hru M ay 228.

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CCREMA REMA CCOFFEE OFFEE “Singular.” A sshow “Singular.” how ooff ttravel ravel Robertino R.. pphotos hotos bbyy R obertino R Ragazza.

R agazza. Thru Thru Jun Jun 6.

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DOWNTOWN D OWNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SSHALA HALA “Re-Arrangements,” jjoint “Re-Arrangements,” oint sshow how fo fforr JJonathan onathan aand nd JJoella oella Kermit.

Kermit. Thru Thru May May 28.

28.

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TThru hru May May 28. San San Jose.

Jose.

KALEID K ALEID GGALLERY ALLERY “Efflorescence,” llumen “Efflorescence,” umen Amidon. pprints rints bbyy SShannon hannon A midon. ““Preconscious,” Preconscious,” pphotographs hotographs bbyy CCenta enta SSchumacher. chumacher. TThru hru May M ay 228.

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0.

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MARTIN LU MARTIN LUTHER THER K KING ING JJR. R. LLIBRARY IBRARY “The A “The Art rt ooff P Protest.” rotest.” The The features sshow how fe atures ooriginal riginal silksilksscreen creen pposters osters about about social social pprotest rotest movements movements of of the the Aug ’’60s 60s aand nd ’’70s.

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SSpecial pecial Collections, Collections, Fifth Fifth FFloor, loor, SSan an Jose.

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M ay 330.

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TThu, hu, 77-10pm.

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by Libby Libby Black.

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TThru hru JJun un 19.

19. “Modesto “Modesto CCovarrubias: ovarrubias: Liminal,” Liminal,” iinstallation nstallation piece piece by

by San San JJose ose native. native. Thru Thru Jul Jul 3.

3. “Cat “ Ca t Mazza: M azza: The The Mill Mill Series.”

Series.” A Night N ight Moves Moves installation installation with w ith video video ppixels ixels turned turned into into sstitchery. titchery. Tue-Fri, Tue-Fri, 110am-5pm, 0am-5pm, SSat, at, noon-5pm. noon-5pm. San San Jose.

Jose.

Junger, tthe Junger, he aauthor uthor ooff ““The The Perfect P erfect Storm,” Storm,” hhas as written written a nnew ew bbook ook aabout bout ccombat, ombat, ““War.” War.” SSun, un, 11pm. pm. FFree. ree.

Kepler’s, Ke pler ’s, Menlo Menlo Park.

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May TThru hru M ay 28.

28. San San Jose.

Jose.

VIEWPOINTS V IEWPOINTS GGALLERY ALLERY ““Urban Urban Landscapes.”

Landscapes.” Acrylic Ac r y l i c ccityscapes ityscapes by

by Cheryl Cheryl Kampe.

Kampe.

TThru hru JJun un 5.

5. Mon-Sat, Mon-Sat, 11am11am55pm, pm, SSun, un, 11am-3pm.

11am-3pm. Los Los Altos.

A l tos.

Yoga Classes!

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Free. Books Books Inc., Inc., Palo Alto.

P alo A l to.

CCHRISTY HRISTY R RAEDEKE AEDEKE TTeen-book een-book w writer riter talks talks aabout bout Days: ““Prophecy Prophecy of of D ays: The The Daykeeper’s D aykeeper ’s Grimoire, Grimoire, Book Book One.” O ne.” Fri, Fri, 7pm.

7pm. Free.

Free. Kepler’s Kepler ’s Menlo Park.

M enlo P ark.

The historian The historian ddiscusses iscusses ““Revolutionaries: Revolutionaries: A New New History H istory of of tthe he Invention Invention of of America.”

Mon, A merica.” M on, 77:30pm, :30pm, free. free.

Kepler’s, Ke pler ’s, Menlo Menlo Park.

Park.

RUTHANN R UTHANN R RICHTER ICHTER

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A frica.” SSat, at, 33pm. pm. Free.

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22. San San Jose.

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JJENNIE ENNIE SHORTRIDGE SHORTRIDGE

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On behalf On behalf ooff hher er nnew ew nnovel ovel ““When When SShe he FFlew.” lew.” Thu, Thu, 77:30pm. :30pm. Free.

Free. Kepler’s, Kepler ’s, Menlo Park.

M enlo P ark.

ARTS A RTS OF OF AFRICA, AFRICA, OCEANIA OCEANIA AND THE AMERICAS A ND T HE A MERICAS

PHYLLIS P HYLLIS T THEROUX HEROUX

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5:30pm.

Arts FFree. ree. CCantor antor A rts CCenter enter aauditorium, uditorium, Stanford.

Stanford.

PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP W ORKSHOP CChris hris Willis Willis pprovides rovides iinstruction nstruction iinn use use ooff Picasa Picasa Google.

Mon, ttool ool ffrom rom G oogle. M on, Public 77pm. pm. FFree. ree. SSunnyvale unnyvale P ublic LLibrary. ibrary. Barnes Barnes and and Noble Noble SStevens tevens CCreek, reek, SSan an JJose. ose.

HIRSI H IRSI ALI ALI A CCommonwealth ommonwealth Club Club sspeaker’s peaker ’s event event with with tthe he aauthor uthor ooff ““Nomad: Nomad: From From Personal IIslam slam to to America: America: A P ersonal JJourney ourney Through Through the the Clash Clash ooff CCivilizations.” ivilizations.” Tue, Tue, 7pm.

7pm.

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P alo A l to.

A bbooksigning ooksigning fo forr TTheroux heroux memoir, aand nd hher er nnew ew m emoir, “The “The Keeper.”

JJournal ournal Ke eper.” TTue, ue, 77:30pm. :30pm.

Kepler’s, Ke pler ’s, Menlo Menlo Park.

Park.

TIPHANIE YANIQUE TIPHANIE YANIQUE AND AND MAILE M AILE CCHAPMAN HAPMAN Joint appears Joint appears bbyy Yanique, Yanique, aauthor uthor ooff ““How How ttoo EEscape scape FFrom rom a LLeper eper CColony” olony” and and CChapman, hapman, aauthor uthor ooff ““Your Your Presence P resence Is Is Requested Requested at at SSuvanto.” uvanto.” Wed, Wed, 77:30pm. :30pm. FFree. ree.

Kepler’s, Ke pler ’s, Menlo Menlo Park.

Park.

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Prospect 6 am-2pm. P rospect High High SSchool, chool, Saratoga.

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-5pm. KKing ing Main M ain LLibrary, ibrary, SSan an JJose. ose.

THE T HE MATSON MATSON WHITE WHITE SHIPS S H I PS A ppresentation resentation aabout bout tthe he ffamed amed lluxury uxury lliners iners bbyy Duncan O’Brien.

D uncan O ’Brien. Fri, Fri, 2-3pm.

2-3pm. $25/$30. $ 25/$30. FFiloli iloli Gardens, Gardens, Woodside.

W oodside.

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SSETI ETI IINSTITUTE NSTITUTE A cchance hance ttoo m meet eet the the sscientists cientists who who look look for for life life iinn tthe he university. university. Sat, Sat, 2-4pm.

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-9pm. $10. $10. Faz Faz Restaurant, R estaurant, Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale.

WINGS W INGS O OFF FFREEDOM REEDOM T TOUR OUR World W World War ar III–vintage I–vintage fighting fi ghting pplans lans aare re oon n ddisplay. isplay.

May M ay 221-29.

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New THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (Unrated; 90 min.) If I could have come up with this premise in the schoolyard at Eagle Rock Elementary, I could have had everyone’s Hostess Cupcakes for a week in tribute. A loquacious mad doctor (the beautifully named Dieter Laser, who is not a German porn star despite the handle) kidnaps three jerks and stitches them together butt to mouth, creating an elongated monster with one long gross digestive track. With a premise like this, who needs a twist?

The director Tom Six apparently didn’t think he did. Unseen by our reviewers. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.) (RvB)

KITES (Unrated; 130 min.) Anurag Basu’s drama of a stranded man in the desert, and the dance student he left behind. Review at Movietimes. com. (Opens May 21.) (RvB)

MACGRUBER (R; 99 min.) An SNL spinoff comedy with Will Forte as a special op.

Also stars Kristen Wiig and the irrespressible Val Kilmer. (Opens 21.)

PRINCESS KAIULANI (PG; 130 min.) Drama about the Hawaiian monarch (Q’orianka Kilcher) and her attempt to stave

off the annexation of the islands by the United States. (Opens May 21 at Camera 3 in San Jose and continues at the Aquarius in Palo Alto.) (RvB)

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG; 93 min.) The animated saga returns in 3-D. (Opens May 21.)

Revivals CABIN IN THE SKY/THE CLOCK (1943/1945) The late and much lamented Lena Horne—glamorous vocalist and African American movie star during Hollywood’s most racestrictured era—stars as Marguerite in Vincente Minnelli’s musical Faust tale. Petunia the good (Ethel Waters) opposes the devil’s main gal Georgia Brown (the satiny Horne): the object is the soul of Little Joe (Eddie “Rochester” Anderson).

In delirium, Joe veers between a segregated Heaven and Hell. As always, Hell is more interesting, populated with Louis Armstrong and rumbling baritone Rex Ingram.

Also starring the incandescent dancer John W. Sublette, known as “Bubbles,” and Duke Ellington and the Orchestra. BILLED WITH The Clock: a powerful wartime romance about a pair (Robert Walker, Judy Garland) trying to remeet in a crowded New York. (Plays May 19-21 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. May 22: Toll of the Sea (1922). Anna May Wong in a kind of Madame Butterfly story as a an Asian fisherwoman who saves a white man’s life. The earliest surviving two-strip Technicolor film.

Also: Spring Fever (1919) in which Harold Lloyd is a bookkeeper who slips the leash, and Shoot Straight (1923) with James Parrot. Frederick Hodges at the piano. (Plays May 22 at 7:30 in Fremont at the Edison Theatre, 37417 Niles Blvd.) (RvB)

A TALE OF TWO CITIES/ IF I WERE KING (1935/1939) Ronald Colman stars as Sydney Carton, the dissolute lawyer’s assistant redeemed by love. David O. Selznick’s version of the Dickens classic co-stars Edna May Oliver and Basil Rathbone; the second-unit work (the scenes of the Parisian mob on the warpath) was directed by Val Lewton, and looks it. BILLED WITH If I Were King. A little-known swashbuckler comedy, fine counterprogramming to the bad current Robin Hood. Tricked into a wager by the spider-king

Louis XI (Basil Rathbone with a codger’s accent), the king of Paris thieves, Francois Villon (Colman), is allowed to be royal chancellor for a week—but there’s a catch. As dark, rich and delicately bittersweet as a $4 truffle. Preston Sturges’ script shows that he’d read Villon and understood the threat of the noose underneath the surface gaiety. Colman’s gentleness also makes Villon seem mortal as well as immortal. (Plays May 22-25 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

WAKE UP AND LIVE/ FOLLOW THRU (1937/1930) Alice Faye is the “Wake Up and Live” girl on a popular radio show. She intercedes in the then well-known feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and fearsome gossip columnist Walter Winchell. BILLED WITH Follow Thru.

A hit golfing musical from the early days of sound. It brought future Tin Man Jack Haley from Broadway to Hollywood. The movie, in Technicolor, debuted the songs “Button Up Your Overcoat” and the unmissable “I Want to Be Bad.” Nancy Carroll stars as a golf pro’s daughter in love with an instructor on the links.

(Plays May 26-28 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

WEST SIDE STORY (1961) Compelling, despite its age: the bad neighborhoods in it give it weight that the very young cast doesn’t have. It’s Romeo and Juliet done as racial war in the sincebulldozed West Side slums of NYC; Richard Beymer and the beautiful but static Natalie Wood are the star-crossed lovers surrounded by the piquant Bernstein score.

Surfaces here seem to reflect the modern art of the time: from walls scribbled over like Rauschenberg constructions to interiors that look like Kienholz tableaus. Rita Moreno steals the show as the raging Anita.

(Plays May 21-22 at 7pm and May 23 at 1pm in San Jose at the Retro Dome.)

Reviews BABIES (PG) A documentary about one year in the life of four babies in different countries.

THE BACK-UP PLAN (PG-13; 104 min.) A new kind of dreadful. Jennifer Lopez plays Zoe, a Manhattan boutique pet-store owner who has decided to have a turkey-baster babe. Shortly after insemination, she meets Stan (Alex O’Loughlin, combining

the least interesting elements of Dermot Mulroney and Keanu Reeves). The typical romcom hunk has been greenwashed here; Stan runs a gourmet cheese stall and has a herd of goats upstate. He apparently milks them through osmosis, because the farm goes on the backburner. The movie is a bizarre mix of the bland, expensive and clinical, yet Zoe goes into labor with perfect makeup on. No relief

by Michaela Watkins as Zoe’s best pal, a bitter housewife; her four kids seem to be raising themselves, like Zoe’s pets and Stan’s goats. (RvB)

DEATH AT A FUNERAL (R; 90 min.) Danny Glover, Martin Lawrence and Keith David star in Neil LaBute’s remake of the British comedy about mishaps bedeviling a funeral. Peter Dinklage reprises his coffin-stuffing role from the original.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (PG; 120 min.) A live-action adaptation of the graphic novel

by Jeff Kinney about life in middle school. Stars Zachary Gordon.

FURRY VENGEANCE (Pg; 92 min.) The animals fight back when a developer starts to build in the forest. At last, a movie in which the raccoon (the smartest and most engaging of creatures) is the hero. Also stars Brendan Fraser and Brooke Shields.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD (Unrated; 130 min.) A Sergio Leone pastiche with Max Max overtones.

It’s set in the days before World War II, in the Japanese-governed puppet state of Manchuria; everyone is contending for a treasure map located somewhere deep in the desert. A straight-shooting, courtly bounty hunter in a cowboy hat is on the lookout for a savage psycho helpfully named The Bad, played

by Lee Byung-hun. Between this obvious hero and more obvious villain is mortal flesh: The Weird, a sloppy good-for-nothing of a bandit. He’s played by one of the most recognizable and likable Korean movie stars: Song Kang-ho, who was the tormented priest in Thirst, and the oddball, narcoleptic son in the monster movie The Host.

Parody or pastiche that it is, the film gets into slapstick—The Weird uses the two-fingered Moe Howard defense to escape captors, as well as an a ultra-low-comedy knife attack on a villain’s butt. Impressive stunts, but the lack of any serious female action, the overlong running time and the annoying prettiness

of the flying camera make one miss the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, when efficiency matched the exuberant violence. (RvB)

IRON MAN 2 (PG-13; 165 min.) Struck by heavymetal poisoning from his atomic pacemaker, Tony Stark (a roguish Robert Downey Jr.) is besieged by enemies: a Russian ex-con with access to his technology (Mickey Rourke being the Bear That Walks Like a Man), a glad-handing competitor (Sam “I’m Always Best in Small Doses” Rockwell) and last but not least the U.S. government.

Politically muddled is the worst you can say about it; a power fantasy ought not to lose the idea of which way the power is flowing. Despite a middle section that vamps for time, Jon Favreau is successful in making this an invigorating meld of screwball comedy and robotfighting action; Scarlett Johansson is most decorative as the agent known elsewhere as Black Widow, and Gwyneth Paltrow shows a nimbleness previously unseen (she has to act fast to get up to Downey’s speed). Broad, playful, well-cut and economically done, this movie isn’t just the first of the summer blockbusters—it’s the model for how they all should work.

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JUST WRIGHT (PG) A romantic comedy about a physical therapist (Queen Latifah) and a handsome basketball player (Common).

KICK-ASS (R; 113 min.) Dave, a home-brewed costumed vigilante (Aaron Johnson), meets up with real professionals in the field: a Batman and Robin– esque father-and-daughter team (Nicolas Cage and the excellent Chloe Moretz). Entertaining in parts, but director Matthew Vaughn has no feeling for the romance and mystery and vigilante lore: the movie has a nasty fanboy quality, a hermetic focus that doesn’t see anything beyond the purpose of beating bad guys bloody. Cage carries the movie’s ambiguity deftly—he’s enough of a serious comic book reader that he knows it’s a dreadful thing when a father bends his child to revenge. Bloodyminded little girls (thank heaven for them) may like Moritz. It’s nuts to call Kick-Ass the next Watchmen.

The slamming violence and the dullard noms de guerre these superheroes pick for themselves show a comic-book tradition at the end of a line. (RvB)

71 (R; 1 hr., 53 min.) Che (Benjamin Bratt) is an SF Muni conductor, a hobby mechanic and an ex-con, single-parenting his son, Jesse (Jeremy Ray Valdez). What he doesn’t know is that Jesse has a secret life—and a boyfriend who lives in St. Francis Wood. Che’s outright rage at his son’s sexuality is tempered by the attentions of his lovely new neighbor Lena (Erika Alexander). Any positive representation of Aztlan has to be applauded; the scenes of highly polished lowriders gliding through the Mission make their own statement of beauty and pride.

Bratt is the definition of movie-star gravity: a man doing nothing but thinking about stuff and making it look interesting. The film, then, is a celebration of San Francisco.

Problem is, San Francisco may be San Francisco, but it is still a city.

So some hard-to-credit idealization mixes uneasily with real, streetlevel violence. La Mission is a kind of overexemplified view of San Francisco as a city of healing and refuge: a vision of a place where everyone is wounded, and almost everyone heals each other. (RvB)

LETTERS TO JULIET (PG-13; 105 min.) As Sideshow Bob might have predicted: The chick flick’s bottomless chum-bucket has claimed Vanessa Redgrave.

In Verona, an aspiring New Yorker writer Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) tours the Casa di Giullieta, which the Veronese assert is the actual home of Juliet Capulet. The lovelorn have been leaving letters to the not only dead but imaginary girl for years. Sophie finds a 50-yearold communiqué from an English woman (Redgrave) who had to leave an Italian lover behind. Sophie answers the letter; the lady arrives with her diffident yet cute British grandson (Christopher Egan), his insults hiding a tender bruised heart. Loads of locations, but director Gary Winick doesn’t frame them well. Seyfried, despite divine shape and alertness, can’t make this work. You know the saying “The lights are on, but nobody’s home?

In Seyfried’s case, there’s someone clearly at home, it’s just that the lights aren’t on. (RvB)

MOTHER AND CHILD (R; 125 min.) Over-determined transgenerational melodrama.

Actresses will work for half-salary if they get to play someone really angry, and both Naomi Watts and Annette Bening (photographed to look like an irritated tortoise) wrath

it up as a daughter and mother split apart by adoption. Elizabeth (Watts) is an L.A. lawyer who identifies with the male privileges of sportfucking and walking out on lives; she homes in on her fatherly boss (Samuel L. Jackson). Meanwhile, the former teen mom Karen (Bening) who gave Elizabeth up is courted by a strangely patient fellow physical therapist (Jimmy Smits), whom she uses as a strop for her razorlike tongue. There are other meanwhiles: an angry single girl trying to decide if a couple is good enough for her fatherless baby; an African American couple trying to adopt the same, etc. The visuals are less Douglas Sirk than a kind of eerie sequence of blue-beige-gray mirages (thanks to digital Genesis system on 35 mm). There’s also a saintly little blind girl, but she’s just lettuce in the sandwich. The film might look feminist at some angles, but the narrow focus of this annoying effort is on sex and procreation; it makes the cast less ballsy and more like distempered walking wombs, unhappy unless they’re filled. (RvB)

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (R) Samuel Bayer revisits the Freddy Krueger franchise with Jackie Earle Haley.

THE PERFECT GAME (PG; 118 min.) The story of the Monterrey (Mexico) Industrial Little League team who made it to the world series in Williamsport in 1957. The reason to watch a movie about Little League is the same reason the league exists in the first place: talent spotting. None of the kids here are huge standouts, but director William Dear has a fine adult cast: the very interesting Clifton Collins Jr. as the reluctant adult who turns the kids into a team; Cheech Marin, serious and warm, as the local priest; Bruce McGill as a well-fed rep of the major leagues; and Louis Gossett Jr. as a janitor with a remarkable past.

Emilie de Raven (the murdered girl in Brick) is a standout as a salty reporter. (RvB)

PLEASE GIVE (R; 90 min.) Minor NYC comedy about Kate (Catherine Keener), the propertied owner of a boutique making scads of money reselling furniture she got cheap. She also has a tenant, Andra (Anne Guilbert), an exasperating old lady whose apartment Kate is planning to annex as soon as the crone dies. Director Nicole Holofcener hasn’t developed much as a visual filmmaker in the past 15 years—she still favors the

walking-and-talking shot. The story spirals to include Andra’s toxically grandparented offspring: Rebecca (Rebecca Hall, constrained by the part) and Mary (Amanda Peet) as a romantic interest to Kate’s distracted husband. The doughy husband (Oliver Platt) is drawn

by Mary’s refreshing curtness.

So are we. Since there isn’t a traditional Keener character in this comedy, we’re more taken with her surrogate, in the form of Peet and her ruthless energy. (RvB)

ROBIN HOOD (PG-13; 144 min.) Overlong and graceless to the extreme, Robin Hood looks like three extended movies spliced into one unwieldy feature. This prequel concerns Robin’s involvement in the end of the Crusades, the civil war and the little-known French invasion of England in the early 1200s. The tale is interspersed with more political palaver than The Phantom Menace. “Robin Longstride” (Russell Crowe) decamps from Richard the Lionheart’s army and goes into the countryside to pose as a dead knight; the father-in-law of the deceased (Max von Sydow) decides to do a Martin Guerre on this imposter, as does the widow Marian (Cate Blanchett in a wig nearly as tall as she is). This has to be the least-sylvan Robin Hood ever made. Crowe looks less like a fox and more like a logy, depressed pit bull as the film tries to chug around him with more montages of burning villages and more meetings of angry Plantagenets; the only reason we know the film is coming to some conclusion is by seeing a CGI armada of medieval D-Day landing craft for the big finale. (RvB)

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (R; 127 min.) Elegant but staid murder mystery nibbles around the edges of the Dirty War. It’s the “Forget it, Jacobo, it’s Argentinatown” view: the search for justice evaporating in 1974 Buenos Aires, with present-day sequences to frame a reopened investigation.

It’s leavened by a fine Mulder and Scully anti-romance between an attractive female criminal investigator, Irene (Soledad Villamil), and her attractively crumbling, Mastroiannish male assistant, Benjamin (Ricardo Darín). The film is as restless and jokey as a cop procedural show; every scene is on the mark, but there aren’t enough counterpoints to the assured flow of the story. The slick, vengeanceis-mine punch line isn’t very impressive either. (RvB)

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John Vanderslice “ THERE’S something about charging for digital that is so fucking hokey to me. I can’t get into it,” says John Vanderslice. “I tried.” The former leader of the San Francisco cult band MK Ultra has found success with the vivid lyrics and brilliantly constructed rock of his solo work, and with Tiny Telephone, his SF studio where he’s gained fame for recording Death Cab for Cutie, Spoon, the Mountain Goats and others. Vanderslice, who performs at Homestead Lanes on Saturday, says he plans to put his new music up on the web for free, beginning with his upcoming EP. “I’m totally into playing a show on a $15 ticket.

I’m fine, it doesn’t bother me. I’m completely fine with charging $350 for someone to use the studio. I’m a capitalist, I’m an econ major. It’s not the money,” he says. “But these are infinite copies. Why would it be 10 dollars for a digital record? The through-put costs are like .0001 cent. It’s ridiculous.”

Then again, Vanderslice is a bit of a contrarian. Despite his geek credentials, he built Tiny Telephone’s rep on his love for analog tape rather than digital gadgetry. He’d rather put out 180-gram vinyl than iTunes exclusives. And his musical forays are unpredictable; for instance, his next album will feature the symphonic backing of the Magik*Magik Orchestra, an interesting change-up, since the “D.I.A.L.O.” single he released in January features one of his most electronic recordings, with a marching, pulsing synth beat that sounds a lot closer to the Kills than ELO. “It’s not a band record with string overdubs. It is a complete and total reworking of songs,” explains Vanderslice. “I wouldn’t say they’re classical Saturday, arrangements, because they don’t sound in any way May 22, 8pm tied to a particular style.”

Anyone who saw Vanderslice perform with the Homestead Lanes, group at the Tiny Telephone 10th anniversary Cupertino show at Great American Music Hall last year knows that the combination elevates Vanderslice’s already $10 complex songs like “Time Travel Is Lonely,” and “Fiend in a Cloud” to something rather epic. In a word, Vanderslice sounds far more cinematic than any rock musician who’s basically at heart a singer/songwriter has a right to be. This impression was only intensified by 2004’s Cellar Door.

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Smile Empty Soul

Tuesday, May 25 at the Avalon, Santa Clara, at 8pm; $10 Post-Nirvana rockers Smile Empty Soul came out of L.A. with a gold-certified debut in 2003, but had been MIA for a few years. Last fall, they returned with the album Consciousness, and now they’re touring in support of More Anxiety, a deluxe new version of their “lost” 2005 album, Anxiety. (SP)

Los Bastardos de Amor

Wednesday, May 19, at Avalon Nightclub, Santa Clara, 8pm; $10/$12 San Jose rockers Los Bartardos de Amor open for Nashville Pussy at the Avalon. They’ve been gigging regularly around the South Bay while they work on their upcoming record.

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B ue: Smile Smile EEmpty mpty SSoul, oul, SSoil. oil.

B.. TTue: SSanta anta CClara. lara.

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed, W ed, 9 9pm: pm:TTrainwreck rainwreck w with ith KKyle yle G ass, Rogue Rogue A postles. $10/$12. $10/$12.

Gass, Apostles.

FFri, ri, 9 pm: Picture Picture Atlantic, Atlantic, G host 9pm: Ghost aand nd tthe he CCity, ity, M an iin n SSpace. pace. $7. $7. Sat, Sat, Man 9 pm:TTsigoti, sigoti, Q umran O rphix. $ 9pm: Qumran Orphix. $7.7.

TTue, ue, 9pm: 9pm: SSilian ilian R ail, B unlight, Rail, Byy SSunlight, EEvan van JJewett, ewett, FFree. ree. SSan an JJose. ose.

BOSWELL’S BOS WELL’S Wed: W ed: JJack ack R Ripoff. ipoff. TThu: hu: CChili hili Sauce.

Sauce.

FFri: ri: Savoir Savoir Faire.

Faire. Sat: Sat: Bitchin’ Bitchin’ CCamaros. amaros. SSun: un: M ike LLeatherman. eatherman.

Mike M on: Element.

Element. CCampbell. ampbell.

Mon:

BRITANNIA B RITANNIA A ARMS RMS A ALMADEN LMADEN Fri: CCheeseballs.

Fri: heeseballs. SSat: at: JJunkshaker. unkshaker.

SSan an JJose. ose.

BRITANNIA B RITANNIAA ARMS RMSCCUPERTINO UPERTINO FFri, ri, 9 9pm: pm: A Artistic rtistic LLube. ube. Sat, Sat, 9pm: 9 pm: CChris hris R Reed eed P Productions. roductions.

CCupertino. upertino.

NICKEL CITY Fri, 6 Fri, 6pm: pm: W Wee SStand tand U United, nited, H How ow H igh the the Moon, Moon, Phoenix Phoenix Ash, Ash, High V alorie, tthe he SSoothing oothing SSound ound of of Valorie, FFlight light and and Arm Arm the the Alarm.

Alarm. SSat, at, 44:40pm: :40pm: H illpeople, R apid FFire, ire, Hillpeople, Rapid IIpswich pswich aand nd more. more. San San Jose.

Jose.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY BROADWAY Wed: JJCC Smith Wed: Smith Band.

Band. Thu: Thu: The The B lind P ilots. Fri, Fri, 9:30pm: 9:30pm: TTouch ouch Blind Pilots.

NG o, $10. $10. Sat, Sat, 9 :30pm: The The Go, 9:30pm: G roove Doctors.

Doctors. $10. $10. Los Los Gatos.

Gatos.

Groove

QUARTER QU ARTER NOTE NOTE Thu, 8 Thu, 8pm: pm: R Rock ock band. band. Fri, Fri, 9pm: 9pm: P owder TTrain, rain, B lair Hansen.

Hansen.

Powder Blair $ 10. SSat, at, 44pm: pm: Cool Cool Fire.

Fire. Free.

Free. $10.

SSat, at, 8 pm: Tooth Tooth and and Nail, Nail, 8pm: M adman’s LLullaby, ullaby, CCity ity JJade, ade, Madman’s B lind CCavefish. avefish. $10. $10. Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale.

Blind

RED R ROCK OCK COFFEE COFFEE CCO. O. SSat: at: Per Per Se. Se. M Mountain ountain View.

View.

THE T HE R REFUGE EFUGE Sat, 6 Sat, 6pm: pm: TThe he Parade, Parade, Picture Picture M Broken, 55606, 606, TTen en D ays Mee Broken, Days N ew aand nd m ore. Cupertino.

Cupertino.

New more.

SSTREETLIGHT TREETLIGHT RECORDS RECORDS

TThu: hu: SSoo TTimeless. imeless. SSan an JJose. ose.

Wed, 6 Wed, 6pm: pm: TThe he Finches, Finches, KKey ey LLosers, osers, JJubilant ubilant LLow. ow. SSan an JJose. ose.

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VOODOO V OODOO LOUNGE LOUNGE

Fri: W Fri: Wise ise G Guys. uys. SSat: at: 4 One One 55..

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

Fri, 9 Fri, 9pm: pm: Black Black Robot, Robot, Relapse.

Relapse.

SSan an JJose. ose.

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ALBERTO’S ALBER TO O’SS Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: H Hot ot ssalsa, alsa, P Pantea. antea. FFri, ri, 8pm: 8 pm: SSalsa alsa FFridays, ridays, Pantea Pantea aand nd Bollywood Nights. llessons. essons. SSat: at: B ollywood N ights.

Mountain View.

M ountain V iew.

ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’S B BISTRO ISSTRO Fri, 8pm: Fri, 8pm: O Orchid rchid B Belly elly Dance Dance $10.

8pm: Argentine TTheater. heater. $ 10. SSat, at, 8 pm: A rgentine Night. $15.

Redwood TTango ango N ight. $ 15. R edwood CCity. ity.

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YOUR MUSIC OLYMPICKS FINALS A Band of Orcs • Eliquate Cylinder • Mordor • Pariah Faction Hollywood Scars • Almost Chaos

$12 Adv./ $15 Dr. • Drs. 7:30 p.m., Show 8 p.m. :H[\YKH` 4H` (.,: Santa Cruz TME

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presents with DJ Sal $10 Adv./ $15 Dr. • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m.

ARYA AR RYA GLOBAL GLOBAL CUISINE Fri-Sat: LLive Fri-Sat: ive music music aand nd bbelly elly ddancing. ancing. CCupertino. upertino.

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CASCAL CA SCAL Fri, 9:30pm: Fri, 9:30pm: KKaweh. aweh. SSat, at, 8 8:30:30Robinson.

111:30pm: 1:30pm: JJames ames R obinson.

Mountain View.

M ountain V iew.

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Jelly, Psychostick, Riot Brides

$15 Adv./ $19 Dr. • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m. >LKULZKH` 4H` (.,:

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PARRANDA P ARRANDA NIGHTCLUB NIGHTCLUB

$39.50 Adv./ $44 Dr. • Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm-2am: pm-2am: B Banda anda 3300.

00. N Noo 8pm-2am: Norteño ccover. over. FFri, ri, 8 pm-2am: N orteño Bandas aand nd B andas llive. ive. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

May 20 Chris Pureka Atrium (Ages 21+) May 21 Soul Majestic Atrium (Ages 21+) May 28 Zion I/ Erk Tha Jerk (Ages 16+) May 29 Tech N9ne/ Brotha Lynch Hung (Ages 16+) Jun 5 Sage Francis/ Free Moral Agents (Ages 16+) Jun 5 MC Chris Atrium (Ages 21+) Jun 6 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Ages 16+) Jun 9 The Glitch Mob/ Free the Robots (Ages 16+) Jun 10 The Subhumans Atrium (Ages 16+) May 21 Nora Cruz Atrium (Ages 21+) Jun 18 Eagles of Death Metal (Ages 16+) Jul 29 Wolf Parade/ The Moools (Ages 16+) Aug 11 Reverend Horton Heat (Ages 21+) Aug 13 Smash Mouth (Ages 16+) Aug 14 Eek A Mouse (Ages 16+) Aug 16 Xavier Rudd (Ages 16+) Sep 20 Willie Nelson & Family (Ages 21+)

Jazz/Blues ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’S B BISTRO ISSTRO Thu, 77:30pm: Thu, :30pm: Blues Blues Jam. Jam. Redwood R edwood CCity. ity.

CAFFE TRIE TRIESTE STE Thu, 8 Thu, 8pm: pm: Alejandro Alejandro CChavez havez aand nd Ruby 8pm: R uby Castellano.

Castellano. FFri, ri, 8 pm: San San

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MUSIC USIC metroactive metr oactivve M 7777 Jose LLyric Jose yric Theatre.

Theatre. Sat: Sat: Curious Curious Quail, Q uail, Slow Slow Trucks, Trucks, Mice Mice bacon bacon Warbler. aand nd W arbler. San San Jose.

Jose.

GGRAND RAND DELL SSALOON ALOON Thu: Blues Jam w/AKI. Fri, Vegas 8pm: 8pm: V egas Nights. Sat, 8pm m: ampbell.

Jump Kings. CCampbell.

HEDLEY HEDLE Y CLUB CLUB Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts TTrio. rrioo.

Fri, 8:30pm: Ed Johnson andd Novo Tempo Tempo e Quartet. Sat, Hotel 8:30pm: Primary Colors. Ho tel de Anza, San Jose.

JJ.J.’S .J.’S BL BLUES UES CAFE Wed, 9pm: Susie Q Wed, Q.. Thu, 9pm 9pm: m: Madylan Rose. Fri, 9pm: 9pm: Vicious Groove.

Groove. $10. Sat, 9p m: Liar’s Liar ’s Club. $10. Sun, 9pm: Washington Gene W ashington and High 5.

Friends.

Mon,, 9pm: p Oliver and Friend ds.

TTue, uue, 9pm: Dennis and SStuart. tuart.

San Jose.

MARQS MAR QS IN MENL MENLO O Wed, 8pm: Joey Fabian Fou Wed, Four.r. w/Kelly Thu, 8pm: Open mic w/K ellyy Park P ark and Buca Necak. Fri, 8pm: Macy Blackman and Marty Bing Nathan. Sat, 8pm: Mar ty Group.

Williams Gr oup. TTue, uue, 8pm: Park. ark.

KKeith eith Williams. Menlo P

NETO’S N ETO’S B BAR AR & GRILL Sat, Tue: Tuue: Dan Gogh’s Gogh’s Proo Blues Jam. Invitational Pr Clara.

Santa Clar a.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO BISTRO Wed, 6Wed, 6-9pm: 9pm: Ron Thomson.

6-9pm: Thu, 69pm: Mark Hummel John and Rusty Zinn. Fri, 7pm: Jo hn 6-10pm: Nemeth Band. Sat, 610pm: Sid Morris.

Morris. Sun, noon-6pm: School of Blues SStudents tudents Performance.

6-9pm: Performance. Tue, Tuue, 69pm: Open Mic Night. San Jose.

QUARTER QU ARTER NOTE NOTE Wed, 8pm: Jam session.

Wed, Sun, 1pm: Will Roc Griffin off Vicious Groove.

Groove. Sunnyvale.

THREE FLAMES FLAMES RESTAURANT RE STAURANT Sun, Tue, Tuue, 7:30pm: Modesto music.

Briseno Septet, Latin music c.

Willow Glen.

UNWINED Sat, 77-9:30pm: Sat -9:30pm: Jazz Night.

Night Fundraiser event Sun, 4-7pm: 4-77pm: Fundr aiser even nt ffor or San Jose Jazz. San Jose.

Wed, 7:30pm: Ames Jazz Wed, Band. $5/$10. Sunnyvale.

Karaoke Kar aoke

C&W THE SSADDLE ADDLE RACK RACK Wed-Fri, 9pm, Sat, 10:15pm: Wed-Fri, Brandi Br andi Thornton. Sat, 7:15pm: Bobby McDowell.

McDowell Fremont.

Fremont. emont

THREE FLAME FLAMESS RESTAURANT RE STAURANT Thu, 9pm: Country music, Productions Doug Rose Pr oductions w/Bit and Spur Band featuring featuring Cowboy Larry.

Larry. Willow Glen.

FFolk olk

ALEX’S ALEX ’S 4 49ER 9ER INN Mon-Sat, 9pm-2am: Mon-Sat, 9pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke.

SSan an JJose. ose.

BLINKY’S BLINK Y’S CAN’T SSAY AY Fri, 9 Fri, 9pm-1am: pm-1am: D Danielle. anielle.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

BLUE BL UE MAX Fri-Sat, 9 Fri-Sat, 9pm-1:30am: pm-1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

MISSION MIS SION CITY ROASTING ROASTING Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Thu Folks open mic. Fri, 7:30pm: TTrue rrue Wind. Sat, 8pm: Vnote Vnote Ensemble. Sun, 4pm: Jeff and Amanda’s Voyage Show..

Amanda ’s Bon V oyage Show Santa Clara.

Clara.

MOROCCO’S M OROCCO’S R RESTAURANT ESTAURANT Wed, 6:30 and 8:15pm: Wed, International Guitar Virtuoso Jerome Night with Jer ome Mouffe Mouffe and Grisha Goryachev.

Goryachev. $12.

Sat, 7pm: Hot Kugel Kugel klezmer. klezmer.

Sun 6pm: Spicy Beats from Sun, from Marrakech Mar rakech with Issam Jadrane.

Jadr ane. San Jose.

NETO’S N ETO’S BAR BAR & GRILL Wed: Santa Clar Wed: Claraa Acoustic Acoustic Bluegrass Bluegr ass Jam. Santa Clara.

Clara.

RED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE CCO. O. Wed, 7:30pm: Kasey Wed, Kasey Anderson. Sat, 8pm: TTyler yyler Matthew Smith. Mountain View..

View

SSAM’S AM’S BBQ Wed, 6-9pm: Wed, 6-9pm: Sidesaddle & Co. 6-9pm: TTue, uue, 69pm: Seabright Beach Mountain Boys. San Jose.

Open Mic

BOGART’S BO GART’S LOUNGE LOUNGE Wed, W ed, FFri, ri, SSun, un, 8pm-2am: 8pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

BOSWELL’S BOS WELL’S TTue: ue: D DJJ D Davey avey K. K. CCampbell. ampbell.

BRITANNIA B RITANNIA ARMS ARMS ALMADEN ALMADEN Sun, 10pm, Sun, 10pm, aand nd Wed, Wed, 10pm: 10pm: DJJ H Hank.

KKaraoke. araoke. D ank. TTue, ue, 77:30pm: :30pm: Pub P ub SStumpers. tumpers. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

BRITANNIA B RITANNIAA ARMS RMSCUPERTINO CUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Sun-Tue, 10pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

CCupertino. upertino.

C&J’S SPOR SPORTS TS B BAR AR Thu: M Thu: Melissa elissa aand nd H Heather. eather.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

CARDINAL LOUNGE LOUNGE Mon, W Mon, Wed, ed, 9pm-1am: 9pm-1am: D DJJ CCurtis. urtis.

Noo ccover.

9pm: Western N over. TTue, ue, 9 pm: W estern Noo ccover. kkaraoke. araoke. N over. SSan an JJose. ose.

DASILVA’S D ASILVA’’S BRONCOS BRONCOS Wed: W ed: G Guitar uitar H Hero ero TTournament ournament 9pm-1am: pplus lus kkaraoke. araoke. TThu, hu, 9 pm-1am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

FLAMESS CCOFFEE FLAME OFFEE SHOP Thu-Sat, 9pm: Thu-Sat, 9pm: U Uncle ncle D Dougie ougie Noo ccover.

SShow. how. N over. SSan an JJose. ose.

BAREFOOT COFFEE BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS R OASTERS Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Wed, Sign up by 5pm.

5pm Santa Clara.

Clara. a

CCITY ITY ESPRESSO ESPRESSO

WINE AFFAIRS AFFAIRS

Fri, 7-10pm: 7-10pm: Singers and musicians. San Jose.

Thu: Neil KKelly elly Jazz TTrio. rrio. Sat Sat:: LLoren oren Davidson TTropical ropical Music. San Jose.

MISSION MIS SION CITY ROASTING ROASTING

SENZALA

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Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Folks Clara.

Open Mic. Santa Clar a.

THE GGOOSETOWN OOSETOWN LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Willow Glen.

KKaraoke. araoke. W illow G len.

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778 8 GGOOSE OOSE LLOONEY’S OONEY’S

Wed, 9:30pm: Wed, 9:30pm: R Rock ock B Band and Night.

KKaraoke araoke N ight. San San Jose.

Jose.

Wed, 9pm: KKaraoke Wed, araoke Night.

Milpitas.

VENUEZ

HOMESTEAD H OMESTEAD LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri, 9pm: Vinnie. Mon, 9pm: KKaraoke araoke in the lounge w/ Vinnie. TTue, uue, 9pm: August.

CCupertino. upertino upertino.

KCC B K BAR AR AND RE RESTAURANT STAURANT T Wed, 8pm-midnight: DJ Wed, Desmond. San Jose.

KHARTOUM KHAR TOUM Thu, 9pm: Davey K. No cove cover.r.

CCampbell. ampbell.

LILL LILLY LY MA MAC’S C’S Thu, 9pm: DJ Thomas “Soulman.” Sunnyvale.

OASIS O ASIS Wed, Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug Wed, Doug..

Sunnyvale.

OFFICE B BAR AR Sun, 7pm-midnight, and Fri, Sat, 9pm-2am: 9pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke.

View..

Mountain View

PEACOCK PEA COCK LLOUNGE OUNGE

Sun, 3-7pm, Sun, 3-7pm, aand nd Tue, Tue, Wed, Wed, 8pm8pmfirst 11:30am: :30am: KKaraoke. araoke. EExcept xcept fi rst SSun un month. ooff m onth. Santa Santa Clara.

Clara.

WOODHAM’S W OODHAM’S LOUNGE LOUNGE TTue-Thu ue-Thu and and Sat, Sat, 9 9:30pm: :30pm: Vinnie.

Vinnie.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

Dancee Clubs Danc Clubs AGENDA A GENDA

Thu, 9pm9pm-1am: 1am: Joseph.

San Jose.

SHERWOOD SHER WOOD INN Wed, Sat-Sun: Chris. Thu-Fr Wed, Thu-Fri: ri: Uncle Dougie. San Jose.

SHOOTERS SHOO TERS B BAR AR & GGRILL RILL Thu, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: 1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.

SOUTH FIR FIRST ST BILLIARDS Sun: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

CARDINAL LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm-1am: pm-1am: D DJJ CCurtis. urtis. Plus Plus Mon, DJJ LLV. kkaraoke. araoke. M on, SSun: un: D V. TTue, ue, 9pm-1am: AV. 9 pm-1am: KKJJ A V. SSan an JJose. ose.

DIVE B BAR AR Sat: R Sat: Rhythm hythm SSaturdays. aturdays. Sun: Sun: Mix Mix TTape ape SSundays. undays. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

FFAHRENHEIT AHRENHEIT U ULTRA LTRA LLOUNGE OUNGE

MOTIF MO TIF

TTue: ue: B Beats eats and and B Beer eer P Pong ong w/ w/ Mike M ike Jones.

Jones. San San Jose.

Jose.

BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed: H Wed: Humpday umpday W Wednesdays. ednesdays.

DJJ and DJJ TThu: hu: D and karaoke. karaoke. SSat: at: D DJJ Chaos.

JJazzy azzy aand nd D Chaos. Hip-hop Hip-hop Hour Allll aand nd Top Top 40.

40. Sun: Sun: Happy Happy H our A Day. Mon: DJJ aand $22 D ay. M on: D nd karaoke. karaoke. TTue: ue: $ TTuesdays. uesdays. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

Thu: CCrave Thu: rave w with ith Jujubee.

Jujubee. $10. $10. Sat: Sat: Pump Up, DJs Bhzen, PG13 P ump IItt U p, D Js B hzen, P G13 aand nd Respin.

R espin. San San Jose.

Jose.

PARRANDA P ARRANDA NI NIGHTCLUB GHTCLUB Thu, 8pm-2am: Thu, 8pm-2am: DJ DJ Akustik.

Akustik. No No 8pm-2am: DJJ M Mayo. ccover. over. FFri, ri, 8 pm-2am: D ayo.

8pm-2am: DJJ M Mayo DJJ SSat, at, 8 pm-2am: D ayo aand nd D Akustik.

A kustik. SSun, un, 7pm-2am: 7pm-2am: LLatin atin Beat.

9pm-2am: B eat. SSun, un, 9 pm-2am: SSonidero onidero Night.

N ight. Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale.

PEACOCK PEA COCK LLOUNGE OUNGE

POINCIANA LOUNGE LOUNGE

REDI R ROOM OOM

Wed, SSat, Wed, at, 10pm: 10pm: D DJJ iin n tthe he Mix. Mix. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

AZUCAR

TTue, uue, 8:30pm-midnight: Acoustic A coustic karaoke karaoke w/ Sam Woodside.

Marshall. W oodside.

TTue, uue, 9pm: Sher Sherrie rie and Sue. No N cover.. Sunnyvale. cover

C&J’S SPOR SPORTS TS B BAR AR

Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm: pm: TThe he Lounge.

Lounge. Top Top 40 40 9pm: aand nd hhip-hop. ip-hop. Thu, Thu, 9 pm: Fortune Fortune 550/50.

0/50. Mashups.

Mashups. FFri: ri: KKarma arma Rotating Parties. pparty. arty. SSat: at: R otating P arties. TTue, ue, 9pm: 9 pm: CCollege ollege Night.

Night. San San Jose.

Jose.

PIONEER SSALOON ALOON

QUARTER QU ARTER NOTE NOTE

spins spins from from 9pm-2am.

9pm-2am. Tue: Tue: Take Take it it Off Off Tuesdays.

Tuesdays. San San Jose.

Jose.

Wed, 8pm: Wed, 8pm: Salsa Salsa Wednesdays.

Wednesdays.

Upp B B*Tch w/Paul TThu: hu: Tech Tech IItt U *Tch w /Paul LLeath eath and and Residents.

Residents. Sun: Sun: Planet Planet Reggae.

R eggae. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

Thu, 9pm: DJ Brian. Sun, 9pm 9pm: m: karaoke.

DJ,, DJ and kar aoke. TTue, uue, 9pm: DJ D karaoke.

Sunnyvale. dancing, kar aoke. Sunnyvale e.

Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside E Wed, cover.. Santa Cla Clara. nment. No cover ra.

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BRITANNIA B RITANNIAARMS ARMSALMADEN ALMADEN Wed, Sun: Wed, Sun: DJ DJ Hank, Hank, w/karaoke w/karaoke DJJ B Benofficial. aatt 110pm.

0pm. TThu: hu: D enofficial.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

BRITANNIA B RITANNIAARMS ARMS SAN SANJOSE JOSE Fri: D Fri: DJJ CChecko. hecko. SSat: at: G B Beats. eats. Tue: Tue: DJJ D David D avid Q. Q. San San JJose. ose.

BRITISH BANKERS BANKERS CLUB CLUB Sat, 9pm: Sat, 9pm: B Ballroom allroom SSpectacular pectacular aand nd Latin Latin dance dance show show featuring featuring David D avid Estrada Estrada and and Diana Diana Surkis.

Surkis. $15. $ 15. Menlo Menlo Park.

Park.

BRIX Wed, 9pm-2am: Wed, 9pm-2am: Whip Whip ItIt O Out ut Wednesdays.

W ednesdays. Thu: Thu: Huntress Huntress TThursdays. hursdays. Fri: Fri: IInferno nferno Fridays.

Fridays.

Noo cover.

SSat: at: SSinful inful Saturdays.

Saturdays. N cover.

SSun, un, 9pm-2am: 9pm-2am: Chill Chill Sundays.

Sundays.

Mon: Marathon Mondays.

VJJ M on: M arathon M ondays. V

Fri, 8 Fri, 8pm: pm: D DJJ aand nd ddancing. ancing. Sat, Sat, 9pm: DJJ aand 9 pm: D nd ddancing ancing ffeaturing eaturing R&B, DJJ CChill, hill, R &B, TTop op 40.

40. Sun, Sun, 9pm: 9pm: D ddancing ancing and and karaoke. karaoke. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

PEARL Fri: O Fri: One ne N Night ight Stand Stand w w/ / DJ DJ Shift.

Shift.

Money with SSat: at: I LLove ove M oney w ith bbashashbblowing lowing machine. machine. SSan an JJose. ose.

SSABOR ABOR T TAPAS AP APAS BAR BAR Thu: M Thu: Major ajor TThursdays. hursdays. TTue: ue: Two Two Buck B uck TTuesdays. uesdays. San San JJose. ose.

TOON’S T OON’S Wed: D Wed: DJJ TTito ito m mashups. ashups. TThu: hu: LLive ive DJJ CClassic.

Girls aartists. rtists. FFri: ri: D lassic. SSat: at: G irls Gone G one Wild.

Wild. Sun: Sun: Hip-hop.

Hip-hop. Mon: Mon: Monday Madness DJJ Spinner.

M onday M adness D Spinner.

TTue: ue: LLadies adies Night.

Night. San San Jose.

Jose.

VOODOO V OODOO LLOUNGE OUNGE SSat, at, 110pm: 0pm: D DJs Js D Dluzion, luzion, JJQuest, Quest, Dru more. $10.

D ru aand nd m ore. $ 10. SSan an JJose. ose.

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The overlap of the two races has caused conflict in the pro cycling community, where athletes have had to choose one race over the other. Though some say that fear of nasty winter weather motivated the California race’s organizers to bump the tour from February to May, other cycling experts and enthusiasts suspect a competitive spirit between the two tours influenced the change.

“It’s political,” said mountain bike guru Gary Fisher. “If they’d done this in the first couple of years, no one would have come. They knew they couldn’t have drawn the big names.”

This year, however, four years after the Tour’s launch, champions Levi Leipheimer and Lance Armstrong, each of whom raced in 2009’s Giro as well as the Tour of California, abandoned the 100-year-old race through Italy to compete in California, both as members of Team RadioShack. Mark Cavendish of Team HTC-Columbia, Tom Boonen of Team Quick Step and others have also ditched Italy for the Golden State.

But at Trek Bicycle on West Capitol Expressway, sales associate and amateur racer Robert Skinner believes that high-profile stars who chose to ride the Tour of California over the Giro d’Italia did so merely as a strategic decision to better prepare themselves for the Tour de France, still the recognized king of cycling stage races.

“The Tour of Cali is short and a great training ride, whereas the Giro is like two races back to back,” he said.

“It’s a long race and can be very hard on the body. If you ride in the Giro you may not do well in the Tour [de France].”

The Giro runs for a full three weeks, and many elite cyclists know that competing hard in the Italian ride just weeks prior to the Tour de France can damage one’s chances of performing well in the latter.

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Undoubtedly, weather was a major factor in why the Tour of California moved from winter to spring. The race got lucky in its first years with dry weather most of the way, but in 2008 and 2009 pelting rain made the ride a misery. By moving it to May, the Tour of California’s organizers have better assured that the sun will shine on the racers—although a damp Monday probably gave them pause.

The Giro d’Italia, 2,100 miles this time around, is now in its 101st year.

Only the Tour de France outweighs the Giro in clout and allure, but the fact that the young Tour of California has taken some of the edge away from the Italian ride could suggest its potential to someday compete directly with the Tour de France, Fisher says.

“Right now all these other races are just preludes to the Tour de France, but the [Tour of California organizers] want this race to be bigger than the Tour de France,” he said.

“That’s so American, but you know what? That’s a real possibility.”

Rowe of the Los Gatos club doubts it. “That would be like some new sporting event coming along and becoming bigger than the Olympics,” he said. “The Tour of California is just a warm-up for the Tour de France.”

On Monday, Mark Cavendish won the Tour of California’s Stage 1 from Nevada City to Sacramento, his third stage win in the race’s history. His victory capped a three-lap highspeed chase around the State Capitol building. J.J. Haedo of Team Saxo Bank followed Cavendish for second place, and Alexander Kristoff of the BMC Racing Team came in third. The weather was sunny and pleasant.

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aanswer nswer to to anybody anybody this this week, week, Taurus.

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GGEMINI EMINI ((May May 221–June 1–June 220): 0): W When hen P Paul aul M McCartney cCartney first got got the the inspiration inspiration to to w rite tthe he ssong ong ““Yesterday,” Yesterday,” first write he had had the the melody melody and and rhythm rhythm bbut ut ccouldn’t ouldn’t gget et a fe el he feel for what what the the lyrics lyrics should should be. be. FFor or a w hile, aass hhee w as for while, was waiting for for the the missing missing words words to to ppop op iinto nto hhis is bbrain, rain, waiting he used used nonsense nonsense stand-in stand-in phrases. phrases. TThe he ddummy ummy he version of of the the first first line line w as ““Scrambled Scrambled eeggs, ggs, ooh hm version was myy dear, you you have have such such lovely lovely legs.” legs.” TThis his aapproach pproach ccould ould dear, be useful useful for for you you in in the the coming coming weeks, weeks, Gemini.

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ttoo fe el a bbit it cconstrained onstrained iin n tthe he ccoming oming w eek s, feel weeks, Ca ncerian—maybe eeven ven iimprisoned. mprisoned. I suggest suggest you you Cancerian—maybe m ake tthe he bbest est ooff iit. t. Rather Rather than than feeling feeling sorry sorry for for make yyourself ourself aand nd sspiraling piraling ddown own iinto nto a ddark ark nnight ight ooff tthe he ssoul, oul, ttry ry tthis: his: IImagine magine tthat hat yyou’re ou’re a re sourceful resourceful hhermit ermit w ho’s ttemporarily emporarily uunder nder hhouse ouse aarrest rrest iin n who’s aan n eelegant legant cchalet halet w ith aallll tthe he aamenities. menities. R egard with Regard tthis his ““incarceration” incarceration” aass a cchance hance ttoo sstart tart w ork oon na work m asterpiece, oorr uupgrade pgrade yyour our m editation ppractice, ractice, oorr masterpiece, meditation read re ad a bbook ook yyou’ve ou’ve nneeded eeded aan n eexcuse xcuse ttoo llose ose yyourself ourself Believe iin. n. B elieve iitt oorr nnot, ot, yyour our ““deprivation” deprivation” ccould ould bbee oone ne ooff while. tthe he bbest est tthings hings tthat hat hhas as hhappened appened ttoo yyou ou iin naw hile.

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SSCORPIO CORPIO ((Oct. Oct. 223–Nov. 3–Nov. 221): 1): W Why hy w would ould yyou ou cchoose hoose moment tthis his bright, bright, ssunny unny m oment ttoo ddescend escend iinto nto tthe he ddark ark fermenting mysteries?

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CCAPRICORN APRICORN ((Dec. Dec. 222–Jan. 2–Jan. 119): 9): ““Is Is FFast ast FFood ood TToo oo Tempting?”

Tempting?” read read a headline headline in in TThe he W Week eek m magazine. agazine.

The The accompanying accompanying article article discussed discussed whether whether people people have have the the right right to to blame blame and and even even sue sue McDonald’s McDonald’s and and Burger Burger King King for for their their health health problems. problems. In In my my opinion, opinion, we we might might as as well well add add other other allegedly allegedly appealing appealing poisons poisons to to the the discussion. discussion. “Is “Is heroin heroin too too tempting?” tempting?”

“Is “Is cheating cheating on on your your lover lover or or spouse spouse too too tempting?” tempting?”

“Is “Is watching watching TV TV five five hours hours a day day too too tempting?” tempting?” I hope hope you’re you’re seeing seeing where where I’m I’m going going with with this, this, Capricorn.

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AQUARIUS A QUARIUS ((Jan. Jan. 220–Feb. 0–Feb. 118): 8): ““The The m mind ind lloves oves order, order, the the hheart eart lloves oves cchaos, haos, aand nd tthe he ggut ut lloves oves action,” myy aastrological Antero Alli. action,” ssays ays m strological ccolleague olleague A ntero A lli.

The The ideal ideal ssituation ituation iiss ttoo hhonor onor eeach ach ooff tthese hese nneeds, eeds, keeping But keeping them them iin n a ddynamic ynamic bbalance. alance. B ut nnow ow aand nd then, then, iit’s t’s healthy healthy to to emphasize emphasize one one over over the the other other two. myy aastrological two. According According ttoo m strological aanalysis, nalysis, yyou’re ou’re entering entering one one of of tthose hose ttimes imes when when the the heart’s heart ’s longing forr chaos But longing fo chaos sshould hould gget et ttop op ppriority. riority. B ut iiff yyou ou do way, mee oone do choose choose ttoo ggoo tthis his w ay, pplease lease ppromise romise m ne thing: Doo yyour thing: D our bbest est ttoo ttilt ilt toward toward the the fascinating, fascinating, rejuvenating rejuvenating kkind ind ooff cchaos haos aand nd ttilt ilt away away from from the the disorienting, disorienting, demoralizing demoralizing kkind. ind.

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Candidates: 1. Native Americans.

2. The human race. Seriously, you ever hear of cocker spaniels doing this?

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

First the facts.

The earliest mention I can find of Native American women having their noses cut off for adultery is in a memoir by Alexander Maximilian, a Prussian prince, naturalist and ethnographer who explored the Great Plains in the 1830s. He said this about the men of the Blackfeet tribe: “They generally punish infidelity in their wives very seriously, cutting off their noses in such cases; and we saw, about Fort McKenzie, a great many of these poor creatures horribly disfigured. When ten or twelve tents were together, we were sure to see six or seven women mutilated in this manner. The husband also cuts off the hair by way of punishment.”

Repudiated by her mate, the mutilated woman was no longer marriageable and ended her days laboring for other households— perhaps counting herself lucky she hadn’t been killed outright, as sometimes occurred. Did her paramour, meanwhile, have any appendages cut off ? Not that we hear about—he might have to surrender his horse. Not a trivial sanction, maybe, but to my way of thinking not terribly comparable.

In Blackfeet society, the status of women, even faithful ones, was far from exalted. According to Maximilian, a man interested in hooking up with a woman simply agreed on a price with his intended’s father, whereupon she moved in—no formal marriage took place. If the man tired of the woman, he sent her back whence she came with her belongings. He kept the kids.

Nose-cutting of adulteresses, though hardly universal among American Indians, was fairly widespread—we have credible reports of its occurrence among the Creek, Sioux and Navajo. In

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the 1870s, General George Crook reported Arizona Apache men both beat their wives and cut their noses off for infidelity. Crook tried to stop the practice by imprisoning a nosecutting husband for a year, with unknown success. The nose wasn’t always singled out; apparently an unfaithful Creek woman could have her ears cut off instead. I’ve even seen it said the cuckolded husband might bite his straying spouse’s nose off, but admittedly this comes from a secondary source.

To this point we’re mostly seeing evidence for premise number one above, which attributes such savagery specifically to Native Americans.

However, it’s not difficult to make the case for premise two: the savages here are people in general—or at the very least, male people in general.

Christopher Columbus ordered his men to cut off the nose and ears of any native guilty of theft. After the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, Andrew Jackson’s soldiers cut off the noses of 557 slain Red Stick Creek Indians, and some skinned the bodies to make souvenir bridle reins. So nonnatives weren’t known for their high-class behavior either.

Maximilian says white men who’d taken Indian wives punished adultery the same way Blackfeet males did.

Perhaps he only meant they hacked off their hair rather than their noses, but who knows?

Getting back to Native Americans, not all tribes punished adultery brutally. Cuckolded Cherokee men, it’s said, just sent their wives away.

More generally, in some tribes, women enjoyed considerable autonomy stemming from the traditional division of labor: men did the hunting and fighting, women farmed. Europeans supposedly upset this egalitarian arrangement by insisting the men take over the farming work, thus reducing women’s status. I’m not saying this makes nose-cutting the fault of the white man. I merely note that, in the long-running project of treating women like dirt, there’s lots of blame to spread around.

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