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PROPOSITION P ROP OS I TI ON 13 13

Yes Y ees IN one day day last week, 15 earthquakes ear thquakes e occurred occurred worldwide.. Of w worldwide Of course, course, one of a small them was was in i California, Califfornia, o magnitu 1.7 magnitude ude temblor on the Mexican M Me xic i an border. bor o der d r. Earthquakes E thquak Ear h kes are are a daily occurrence occurrence in the Golden State, State a , and this year’s year’s Proposition Pr oposition n 13 is aimed at homeowners m making hom meowners at least a little little bit safer s feer when the next saf neexxt hitts. b one hits. big Like L ike its its circa-’78 circa-’78 namesake, nam mesake, this this proposition p roposition deals deals with with property property ttaxes. axes. But But unlike unlike the the other, other, stillstillccontroversial ontroversial one, one, this this Prop.

Prop. 13 13 is is vvirtually irtually unopposed. unopposed.

Currently, C urrently, homeowners homeowners who who perform p erform seismic seismic retrofits retrofits on on their their homes, h omes, particularly particularrly those those built built of of nonreinforced n onreinforced masonry massonry (known (known to to most off us m ost o us as as “bricks”), “bricks”), may may find find their their

home vvalues home allues reassessed reasssessed after after tthey’ve hey’ve made m ad de iimprovements. mprovements.

Under new U nder tthe he n ew Prop.

Prop. 113, 3, seismic seismic rretrofitting etrofitting would would not not result result in in higher higher property until building p roperty ttaxes axes u ntil tthe he b uilding iiss ssold, old, ggiving iving homeowners homeowners a chance chance to to all aact ct before before iit’s t’s al ll a rrubble. ubble.

Estimations are may E stimations ar re that that there there m ay bee a ssmall property b malll drop drop iin n local local p roperty ttax ax passage rrevenues evenues rresulting esulting from from tthe he p asssagge off Prop. unwarranted o Prop. 113, 3, but but no no other other u nwarran nted eeffects ffeects are ff are fforecast. orecast.

PROPOSITION P RO P OS ITI ON 114 4

Noo N THE bipartisan THE T bipartisan group group California announced C aliffo ornia Forward Forward announced last la ast year year that it was was workingg on o n a package package of constitutional constitution nal amendments am mendments designed to shatter sh hatter the gridlock gridlock that hass paralyzed p aralyzed Sacramento and California m made Califfo ornia essentially ungovernable. month u ungo vernable. A few few months hs later, la aterr, inertia inertia forced fo orced the group grou up

The T he ssubstance ubstan nce o off Prop.

Prop. 114 4 ccomes omes ffrom rom tthat hat rreform eform eeffort. ffo ff ort. W ithout tthe he Without aaccompanying ccompanying measures, measures, however, however, it it ccould ould vvery ery w ell rreplace eplacce o ne p olitical well one political p roblem with with another an nother potentially potentially problem b igger problem. problem. bigger P rop. 114 4w ould do do aaway way w ith p arty Prop. would with party p rimarries and and replace replace them them with with an n primaries ““open open primary, primarry,” in in which which Democrats, Democrats, R epublican ns, Greens, Greens, L ibertarrian ns an nd Republicans, Libertarians and P eacce & F reedom ccandidates andidates w ould Peace Freedom would b attle it it out. out. The The top top two two vvote-getters ote-getters battle w ould win win the the opportunity opportunity to to face face o ff would off iin n a general generall election. election.

S upporters cclaim laim the the amendment amendment Supporters w ould diminish diminish the the power power of of the the two two would m ain parties, parties, and and more more importantly, importantly, main tthe he sspecial pecial iinterests—unions nterests—unions an nd b ig and big b usiness—who w ield such such power power over over business—who wield tthe he p arties. parties.

B ut tthere’s here’s n o gguarantee uarran antee tthat hat But no ssimply imply doing doing aaway way w ith the the p rimaries with primaries w ill have have any any such such effect. eff ffeect. IIn n fact, fac act, the the will o pposite could could happen. hap ppen. opposite T he p roposition sstates: tates: ““Political Political The proposition p arrties may may establish establish such such procedures procedures parties aass they they ssee ee fi o eendorse ndorse o upport fitt tto orr ssupport ccandidates andidates or or otherwise otherwise participate participate in in aall ll elections, elections, an nd they they may may informally informally and ‘‘nominate’ nominate’ candidates candidates for for election election tto o vvoter-nominated oter-nominated offices offices aatt a p arty party cconvention onvention o hatever llawful awful orr b byy w whatever m echanism they they sso o cchoose, hoose, o ther mechanism other tthan han n at at state-conducted state- conducted primary primary eelections. lections.”

W hat’s tto o keep keep llobbyists obbyists and and p arty What’s party iinsiders nsiders ffrom rom holding holding backroom backroom m eetings with with their their moneyed moneyed meetings ssponsors, ponsors, aand nd then then funneling funneling gobs gobs o ash tto o ttheir heir cchosen hosen ccandidates? andidates? off ccash N othing. T he o nly tthing hing Prop.

Prop. 114 4d oes Nothing.

The only does iiss ttake ake tthe he vvoters oters o ut o he p icture. out off tthe picture.

C allifornia needs needs comprehensive comprehensive California p olitical reform, reform, aalong long the the llines ines political o hat California California Forward Forward off w what rrecommended. ecommended. P rop. 114 4 iisn’t sn’t it. it.

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Yes Y ees THE California THE Calliffornia o Fair Elections Act A ct would wou uld ttake ake a small step toward special interests ests tow ard getting g ting sp get ecial inter out of campaigns by creating eating campaigns a by cr a pilot il program prrogram for for o publicly bli l funded elections. e elections . It would ffocus, ocus, ffor o orr ssymbolic ymbolic reasons, reasons, on the vvery state officee that e y st er ate offic oversees o versees balloting. balloting.

Candidates C andidates ffor or ssecretary ecretary o off sstate tate would have option off ttapping w ould h ave tthe he o ption o ap pping pool iinto nto a p ool of of money money collected collected from from off a rregistered egistered llobbyists obbyists ((in in tthe he fform orm o $700 using $ 700 ffee ee eevery very ttwo wo yyears) ears) aand nd u sing ostensibly iitt to to fund fund ttheir heir ccampaigns, ampaigns, o stensibly obligations big ffreeing reeing tthem hem ffrom rom o bligations to to b ig donors.

The would also d onors. T he iinitiative nitiative w ould al lso llift ift California’s ban on public C allifornia’’s 20-year 20-yearr b an o np ublic financing off ccampaigns, paving fi nancing o am mpaigns, p aving tthe he way publicly w ay ffor or ffuture uture p ublicly ffunded unded rraces. aces.

The most T he m ost ccommon ommon ccriticism riticism of of would waste tthis his iinitiative—that nitiative—that iitt w ould w aste hard-earned dollars— ttaxpayers’ axpayers’ h arrd-earrned d ollars— utterly overlooks u tterly o verlooks the the fact fact that that funding funding would not would ccome ome ffrom rom lobbyists, lobbyists, n ot Another ttaxpayers. axpayers. A nother ccriticism—that riticism—thatt ttaxing axing lobbyists lobbyists tto o ffund und eelections lections has been proven unconstitutional— h as b een p roven u nconstitutionall— doesn’t account d oesn’t ttake ake iinto nto ac ccount tthe he ffact act tthat hat not modest tthis his iiss a ffee, ee, n ot a ttax, axx, aand nd a m odest one o ne aatt tthat hat ((the the ffailed aaiiled ttax, ax, llevied evied iin n Vermont, was hefty percent off V ermont, w as a h efty 5 p ercent o ggross ross iincome). ncome).

Others Ot hers ffret ret tthat hat iit’s t’s a ggateway ateway tto oa byy ffat-cat politicians ggold old rrush ush b at-cat p oliticians eeager ager with tto o sstick tick taxpayers taxpayers w ith ttheir heir ccampaign ampaign bills.

That’s pure Tea Party b ills. T hat’s p ure T ea P arty rrhetoric hetoric bee iignored. aand nd sshould hould b gnored.

Wee ssay one W ay o ne sstep tep aatt a ttime. ime.

Supporters point S upporters p oint to to successful successful ““fair fair five eelections” lections” frameworks fram meworks iin nfi ve sstates tates

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PROPOSITION P ROP OS I TI ON 16 16

Noo N THE “Taxpayers THE “T Taaxp paayers Right to Vote Vo ote A ct,”” as it’s it’s b een dubb ed b Act,” been dubbed byy its corporate corporatte sponsor, sponsorr, has a patriotic ring rin ng to it. But this initiativ h nothing to do initiativee has with an existing x anyy existing right to vvote. ote. When n local local politicians politicians p oint out that t Prop. 16’s 16’s point Prop. purposse is to eliminate sole purpose cconsumer onsumer choic cchoice, e, and ccould ould cripple local local a governments governments seeking alternative gy alteernative ener energy sour ces, they theey ar orrect. sources, aree ccorrect.

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aatt all. all. District District 3 Sen. Sen. Mark Mark Leno Leno has hass ccalled alled it it ““aa stake stake in in the the heart heart o off C CCA. CA.” Proponents P roponents o off tthe he m measure eassure say say tthe he eelectricity lectricity b business usiness is is risky, risky, and and vvoters oters sshould hould b bee aable ble to to vote vote w when hen p public ublic money m oney iiss b being eing leveraged. leveraged. O Opponents pponents ssay ay Prop.

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PROPOSITION P RO P OS ITI ON 17 17

Noo N IF the Continuous Continuouss Coverage Coverage A uto Insurance Insurance Discount Discount Auto A ct sounds too too good go ood to be be Act true it’s because because itt is. is. This act true,, it’s allows consumers consumers to qualify qualiffy q ffor o or a continuous continuous coverage coverage disc ount while still stilll shopping discount ar ound for fo or the lowest low west rate, rate, around pr omoting competition competition e promoting in the fr ee market. market. But itt would also free ha ave a pernicious pernicious effect eff ffeect that have

IIff p passed, assed, iinsurance nsuran nce ccompanies ompanies would b would bee p permitted ermitted tto o aask sk a cconsumer onsumer ffor or p proof roof o off auto auto insurance insurance ffor or tthe he llast ast fi five ve yyears ears w without ithout an any ny llapse ap pse o over ver 9 90 0d days, ays, eeven ven iiff h hee o orr sshe he hadn’t h adn’t b been een d driving riving d during uring tthat hatt ttime. ime.

IIff tthe he cconsumer onsumer ccan’t an’t p prove rove ccoverage, overage, aan n aautomatic utomat atic p penalty enallty o off u up p tto o$ $1,000 1,000 ccould ould b bee aadded dded tto o tthe he p premium. remium.

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1177 p romises a 9 0- day ggrace race p eriod iiff promises 90-day period d rivers llapse apse o n ttheir heir ccar arr iinsurance nsuran nce drivers on p ayments. U nder ccurrent urrent llaw, aw, iiff payments.

Under d rivers q ualify ffor or tthe he ccontinuous ontinuous drivers qualify ccoverage overagge d iscount an nd tthen hen sswitch witch discount and iinsurers, nsurers, tthey hey ccannot annot ttake ak ke tthat hat d iscount w ith tthem hem tto oan ew discount with new ccompany. ompan ny.

P enalties b ased o n ccoverage overage Penalties based on h istory w ere made made iillegal llegall iin n 11988 988 b history were byy vvoters oters ass a d iscriminatory p ractice. discriminatory practice.

P rop. 1177 ccould ould eeasily asily m ake iinsurance nsurance Prop. make ccompanies ompan nies lless ess aaccountable ccountable w hile while ggiving iving tthem hem tthe he ab bility tto o rraise aiise ability p remiums an nd aadd dd p enalties. premiums and penalties.

CITY O CITY OFF SSANTA AN TA CCLARA LARA MEASURE M E AS U R E J

Yes Y ees AS this issue issue goes goes to press, press, the National National Football Football League League has just decided d that the 2014 Sup er Bowl owl will take take place place in Bo Super N ew Jersey’s Jersseey’ y s Meadowlands New St adium, home to the N ew Stadium, New Y o ork Giants Giaants and JJets. ets. Ev eryone York Everyone in the New New York York o metr opolitan metropolitan area is happy haappy today—and today—and not area just football football fans. fans. The nation’s nation’s porting event event will biggest ssporting bring hu undreds of millions of hundreds

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EENDORSEMENTS NDORSEMENTS

IIff voters voters in in Santa Santa Clara Clara decide decide to to San aallow llow tthe he S an Francisco Francisco 49ers 49ers to to build b uild a sstadium, tadium, the the same same thing thing will will happen here—that’s h app en h ere—that’s a stone-cold stone- cold The Meadowlands llock. o ck. T he M eadowlands was was selected selected forr Super Bowl fo Sup er B owl XLVII XLVII because b ecause the the New Sports Ne w JJersey ersey S por ts Authority Authority just just built new b uilt a n ew stadium stadium there. there. Last Last year, year, Superbowl was tthe he S up erb owl w as held held in in North North Arlington, Texas, A rling ton, T exas, right right after aft fter Dallas Dallas Cowboy’s owner C owb oy’s o wner Jerry Jerry Jones Jones built built a sstadium tadium there. there. That’s That’s how how it it works. works.

This not T his iiss n ot tto o ssay ay that that Santa San nta Clarans C larans sshould hould vvote ote yes yes on on Measure Meassure bring Super J jjust ust to to b ring a S uper Bowl Bowl to to neighborhood tthe he n eighborhood (or (or the the World World Cup—also possibility).

C up —allso a p ossibility). This This measure measure deserves d eserves ssupport upport because because the the stadium stad dium will big positive w ill have have a b ig p ositive impact impact on on the the rregion—economic egion—economic and and otherwise. otherwise.

Building B uilding tthe he sstadium tadium will will mean mean off cconstruction a bunch bunch o onstruction jobs jobs right right now, down n ow, in in a d own eeconomy. conomy. Every Every year yearr aafter fter tthat, hat, tthe he sstadium tadium is is projected projected $249 tto o ggenerate enerate $ 249 million million in in ongoing ongoing activity eeconomic conomic ac ctivity from from home home games, games, other cconcerts oncerts aand nd o ther big big events. events. That’s Thatt’s part-time ffull-time ull-time aand nd p art-time jobs, jobs, hotel hotel sstays, tays, restaurant restau urant meals mealls and an nd tax taxx dollars dollars ffor or llocal ocal ccoffers. off ffeers.

This would T his w ould aalso lso have have powerful powerful ssymbolic ymbolic vvalue. alue. It It will will be be a new new piece piece off eevidence o vidence tthat hat Silicon Silicon Valley Valley has hass aarrived rrived aass a ccenter enter of of power power and and aactivity. ctivity.

The majority T he vvast asst m ajority of of the the $823 million $ 823 m illion ccost ost of of the the stadium stadium will born byy tthe w ill be be b orn b he 49ers.

49ers. Measure Measure Santa Clara J ccalls allls for for S anta C lara to to pony pony up up $114 million, which $ 114 m illion, w hich will will come come from from Redevelopment R edevelopment Agency Agency funds funds and and a hotel h otel ttax axx that that vvoters oters passed passed last lasst year. yearr.

San S an JJose ose just just ssaw aw an an example example of of what w hatt a ssports p orts arena arena can can do do for for a few weeks when ttown own a fe ww eeks aago, go, w hen HP HP Pavilion P avilion hosted hosted the the semifinals semifinals in in the the NHL Stanley N HL S tanley Cup Cup tournament. tournament. The The Shark Tank was S hark T ank w as built built with with almost almost 80 percent 8 0p ercent public public money, money, and and that thatt has iinvestment nvestment h as paid paid off off big big time, time, week after week, w eek aft fter w eek, in in hockey hockey season season aand nd tthroughout hroughout the the year. yeear. It’s It’s a safe saffe bet one b et tthat hat tthis his o ne will will too. to o.

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SAN JOSE MAYOR

CHUCK REED

DISTRICT ATTORNEY

JEFF ROSEN

COUNTY SUPERVISOR DISTRICT 1

TERESA ALVARADO SANTA CLARA COUNTY SHERIFF

LAURIE SMITH

SAN JOSE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 3

SAM LICCARDO

SAN JOSE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 5

MAGDALENA CARRASCO SAN JOSE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 9

DON ROCHA

PROPOSITION 13

YES

PROPOSITION 14

NO

PROPOSITION 15

YES

PROPOSITION 16

NO

PROPOSITION 17

NO

JUDGES

JULIA ALLOGGIAMENTO VANESSA ZECHER SCHOOL BOND MEASURES

YES

MEASURE J

YES

MEASURE K

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EENDORSEMENTS NDORSEMENTS SCHOOL B SCHOOL BOND OND MEASURES M E AS U R ES

Yes Y es e IN tthis his aage ge o off aafter-school fter-school p rogram ccuts uts aand nd iincreased ncreased program cclass lass ssizes, izes, w hen iitt ccomes omes tto o when eeducation-supporting du ucation-supporting measures measures llike ike A, A, B, B, C, C, E H, I and and L, L, it’s it’s E,, G G,, H, iimpossible mpossible tto o say say no. no.

IIn n tthe he ccase ase o off M Measure easure II,, tthere’s here’s o one ne Though wee u ultimately back ccaveat. aveat. T hough w ltimately b ack parcel would bring tthe he p arcel tax tax tthat hat w ould b ring iin n $3.3 million Alum Rock School $ 3.3 m illion tto o tthe he A lum R ock S chool District, D istrict, we we do do so so with with ssome ome rreservations. eservations.

Foremost, needs F oremost, tthe he sschool chool board board n eeds tto o gget et Alum Rock has had iits ts aact ct ttogether. ogether. A lum R ock h as h ad a history off q questionable wee h istory o uestionable sspending, pending, sso ow hope money h ope to to see see this this m oney ggo o to to iits ts intended intended use: helping keep East K-5 u se: h elping k eep E ast San San Jose Jose K -5 cclasses lasses ssmall. mall.

We’d W e’d also also like like to to see see the the school school board become bo arrd be come more more open ope p n to to sharing sharing with tthe he revenue revenue w ith ssome ome of of the the district’s district’s public p ublic ccharter harrter sschools—so chools—so far, far, Alum Alum Rock Superintendent Manzo has R ock S o uperintendent JJose ose M an nzo h as made m ad de sure sure tthey hey are are cut cut out out from from tthe he measure’s overall m eassure’s llanguage. an nguage. However, However, o verall deserve public’s tthese hese measures measures d eserve tthe he p ublic’s ssupport. upport

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MEASURE M E AS U R E K

Yes Y ees AS sin taxes taxes a go, go, San Jose’s Jose’s Measuree K is actually pretty Measur pretty increase ttame: ame: it would w increase the city’s cit y’s card card room room cap cap from from 40 to 49, and an nd raise taxes taxes on casino casino rrevenues evenuess from from 13 to 15 percent. percent.

The biggest bigggest change it would bring about about is the lifting of San Jose’s Jose’s long-established long- established $200 $20 0 bet bett limit.

Detractors D etractors ssay ay tthat hat d decreasing ecreassing ccard-room ard-room rregulations egulattions will will d amage damage n eighborhoods and and b ring iincreased ncreassed neighborhoods bring ccrime rime aand nd lloan oan ssharking, harking, p arrticularly particularly iin nS ilicon V alley’s ggambling-plagued ambling-plaggued Silicon Valley’s A sian ccommunities. ommunities. However, However, m ost Asian most ccivic ivic leaders leaders h ave ccome ome o ut iin n ssupport upport have out ffor or K because becau use iitt w ill rrake ake iin n aabout bout will $ 5.25 m illion a yyear ear tto oh elp ccurb urb S an $5.25 million help San JJose’s ose’s m ammoth b udget d eficit. mammoth budget deficit.

IIn n the the aage ge o he iinternet, nternet, o nline off tthe online ccasinos asinos o ffeer ggamblers ff am mblers u nfettered offer unfettered aaccess ccess tto o tthe he ac ction. IIff llocals ocalls cchoose hoose action. tto o drive drive tto he G arrden C ity C asino o tthe Garden City Casino o ay 1101 01 iinstead, nstead d, tthe he ccity’s ity’s rresidents esidents orr B Bay m ight aass w ell b enefit ffrom rom iit. t. M eassure might well benefit Measure Kw ill d om ore ggood ood than than harm. harrm. will do more

THE JUDGES Julia Alloggiamento WE are supporting District Attorney Julia Alloggiamento over her opponent Robert Camors, a civil lawyer for Foley & Lardner. Camors is running at retirement age for what we can only assume to be altruistic reasons, but Alloggiamento is a more vibrant candidate, lauded for her work on the important Parent Project for at-risk youth, and has racked up an impressive endorsement list of sitting judges, Das and former bar presidents, not to mention Sheriff Laurie Smith and Assemblymember Jim Beall.

Vanessa Zecher IN his third run for judge, retired prosecutor Tim Pitsker has been widely recognized as a workhorse of an attorney, but he exhibits some willfully anachronistic behavior we’re not entirely sure about (he has no website, no cell phone, no computer). His opponent, family law attorney Vanessa Zecher, comes from a long line of judges and has won the confidence of two former district attorneys, five San Jose City Council members and a battery of sitting and retired judges. She seems a fresher face and a better bet for the bench.

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sv 411.com Twitter’s Most Influential Users On March 21, 2006, Twitter’s founders published their first tweets.

If you look at that moment as a big bang of influence in the everKN@KK<IM<IJ< <OGFJ<; @e]fidXk`fe 8iZ_`k\Zkj expanding Æ5`8 ZXccj `k k_\ Ç:fjd`Z (+'#È X N\Y Ki\e[ DXg f] Twittersphere, k_\ _`jkfip f] Kn`kk\i Xe[ `kj lj\ij% how does Twitter’s cosmos look today? Web design studio Information Architects aims to answer that with an enormous visualization of the Cosmic 140, or the 140 most influential users on Twitter.

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Tesla to Build Electric Cars at NUMMI Gov. Arnold Scharzenegger leaked earlier today that Tesla Motors will be partnering with Toyota to build a new electric vehicle. Now, chief executive Elon Musk confirms that this is true—but that Tesla will also be acquiring the recently closed NUMMI automotive manufacturing plant in Fremont, Calif., potentially bringing back thousands of jobs lost when that facility closed last month.

Victor $50 Million is less than a rounding error for Toyota, paid out merely for the sake of PR. Tesla is nothing and has nothing, except almost $500 from the U.S. taxpayer that they are about to squander.

Sample032 Toyota and Daimler see the electric car as something that could disrupt their market, and they’d rather take a risk than be left behind.

The company’s deal with Toyota has three facets: (1.) The joint development of a brand-new, sub-$30,000 electric car that will contain Tesla’s unique powertrain design, with everything else built by Toyota; (2.) The purchase of the NUMMI plant, where Tesla plans to manufacture both its Model S sedan due out in 2012, a new $30,000 Tesla-designed vehicle and the more affordable jointly designed “thirdgeneration” vehicle; (3.) A $50 million investment from Toyota into Tesla when the company goes public, probably later this year.

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There are several pieces of huge news here.—CAMILLE RICKETTS, GREEN.VENTUREBEAT.COM

Meg Whitman spent a staggering $68 million running for California governor, and all that’s bought the former eBay chief is a lead down to 9 percentage points from 50 points in March. How terribly embarrassing.

Quistri Maybe you reporters should analyze Tesla’s S1 and figure out if they have a chance a making it through 2010 before predicting what they will do in 2012.

Whitman’s rapid loss of support two weeks before the Republican primary is especially sad for her, because Poizner is so boring; Whitman’s fellow milquetoast tech exec was previously insurance commissioner, of all things. And his

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strategy for winning—highlighting Whitman’s poor voting record, out-demagoguing her on illegal immigrants—is not exactly rocket science. But then Whitman’s been a slow student at politics, never properly equipped to pander to the right but unwilling to run as a moderate, pretending the governorship is “not a popularity contest” and then spending a staggering sum to become popular.

Maybe the campaigns of George W. Bush somehow convinced Whitman that a Harvard MBA and tons of cash were all she needed to run a winning election operation. But Bush had an evil genius and a willingness to follow the evil genius’s advice.

Whitman hasn’t been willing to sink to Rovian depths yet. But then there are still some weeks left to go. RYAN TATE, VALLEYWAG.GAWKER.COM

SolomonGrundy I just want the winner to be whoever is more likely to lose to Jerry Brown. Mostly because on the very first season of the Real World big gay Norm supported him.

Siuol11.2 So she’s just as mediocre a candidate as she was a CEO? That’s a shocker. . . . Usually they’re just laughably bad (see Fiorina’s campaign).

DogsOfWar Spending $68M means that she has annoyed every Californian to the point that they won’t vote for her just out of spite. growhappy Let me ask, where are the Democrats in this election? I don’t even know their names, and California is supposted to be a democrat stronghold.

Edit: Jerry Brown—doesn’t ring any bells. superbunny Did Poizner insert a double agent to run her campaign? I noticed her campaign manager Jillian Hasner, has a grand total of 12 tweets and 75 followers. At $28,500 per month, you’d expect a bit more. Maybe Whitman will forget to vote, again. whatpeopledoallday Were her campaign an auction on eBay, the reserve would not have been met.

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`jki`Zk , JXe Afj\ :`kp :fleZ`c ZXe[`[Xk\ 8Xife I\j\e[\q _Xj i\c\Xj\[ Xe fg\e c\kk\i kf EfiX :Xdgfj# [\dXe[`e^ Xe Xgfcf^p ]ifd k_\ ZfleZ`cd\dY\i Xe[ _\i Z_`\] f] jkX]] IpXe =fi[% Last Friday, following a press conference at City Hall denouncing the malicious mailers sent out against fellow candidate Magdalena Carrasco, Resendez says Ford approached him for what can only be described as a public badmouthing. Campos’ brother, Xavier Campos, is running against Resendez for the East Side seat.

“I am writing this open letter to you and the community to bring attention to Mr. Ford’s insulting and disrespectful behavior,” the letter reads. “Behavior that seeks to intimidate, to disrespect and to threaten has no place in political life, and I demand a public apology. . . . As a District 5 resident and community leader for the past 17 years, I have never been attacked in such an unprovoked manner. Mr. Ford’s speech and decorum in front of City Hall was disrespectful to me and my wife, Lucy.”

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Apparently, Ford’s tirade was a response to one of Resendez’s campaign mailers, which listed the “Exceptional Leadership Award” he received from Campos’ office back in 2002.

“Your Chief of Staff Ryan Ford approached me and denounced my ethics. He accused me of being unethical because I quoted the language of an award I had received from you on my campaign mailer. He stated that this implied that you had endorsed me,” says the letter.

“The voters of District 5 deserve better than this type of insulting and disrespectful behavior.

Intimidation and innuendos are part of the politics of the past. We need to focus on the politics of the future to better serve the residents of District 5,” the letter ends.

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And though it would be easy to write him off as a run-of-themill Japanimation geek, that would miss the mark. Pleasant is a cosplayer—an anime fan who takes his love of the Japanese art and cranks the nerd dial up to dizzying heights by creating costumes and dressing the part of his favorite characters.

And for four days at the FanimeCon anime convention at the San Jose Convention Center this week, his ilk will reign supreme.

“I started in 2004 or 2005 when a friend suggested I go to an anime convention and I said, ‘Yes, but I want to cosplay,”’ says the 20-year-old UC–Santa Cruz literature major matter-of-factly.

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Cosplaying, or as it’s known in Japanese (and to the more hardcore fans), kosupure, represents a fervent subculture of anime fanatics that travel to conventions like FanimeCon and Anime Expo in Los Angeles, chat on message boards like cosplay.com and meet up at parks and coffee shops around the world dressed like everything from twinkly-eyed schoolgirls to multitentacled beasts.

Their source material is most often anime titles, manga (comic book) series and Japanese fashion trends, though video game heroes and American animation characters also find traction in certain circles.

At FanimeCon, which has been held every year since 1994 and drew 15,000 fans last year, the motto is “By Fans, For Fans.” That might as well be “By Cosplayers, For Cosplayers” because for folks like Pleasant and others like Jerry Pang, who’s coming dressed as “Russell” the plump, Asian Cub Scout from Disney Pixar’s Up, the anime art itself takes a back seat to the elaborate costumes created in tribute to it.

“Cosplaying is its own universe,” say Pang. ”It’s essentially representing something you have viewed on mainstream media and emulating it. Five to seven years ago it was really underground, now it’s pretty widespread. It’s just an excuse to hang out with friends who are into the same things you are.”

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While other geek mainstays like Dungeons and Dragons or Magic: The Gathering exist suspended in a thick solution of nearly pure testosterone, cosplaying manages to attract a sizable number of ladies. In anime ďŹ lms and comics, female characters often ďŹ nd leading roles as deadly assassins, seductive temptresses and powerful matriarchs. And if the powerful roles werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough, the female characters are also often dressed like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on their way to a beachside bondage party, giving a gal with some assets to showcase plenty of options. And for the girls who would rather go as a hulking hero or the guys who long to wear miniskirts and knee-highs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;crossplayingâ&#x20AC;? is a

common and accepted practice.

Kai Gault, a 21-year-old San Jose resident who moved from Michigan last year and starts at West Valley College this fall, has been cosplaying since 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember seeing cosplayers in magazines and saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Man I want to do that,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says the young woman whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to FanimeCon as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tall Aliceâ&#x20AC;? from Alice in Wonderland and also as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Revyâ&#x20AC;? from the anime series Black Lagoon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think of it as an expression of my fandom. Also, being able to dress up and act differently, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of an escape from reality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A common misconception is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just nerds. Yeah, you have to be a nerd, but most of us do have jobs and lives and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live in our momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basement.â&#x20AC;?

The more crafty cosplayers like

Gault and Pleasantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandma make their own costumes from items found at stores like Goodwill, Savers and Home Depot. Others buy their costumes from sites like qqcosplay. com where hundreds of precisely made anime costumes are available for anywhere from $75 to $1,000. A sales agent from the Chinese-based company says they ship about 200 costumes per month to fans around the world and that characters from Bleach, Naruto and Kingdom Hearts are the most common items. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some people will spend whatever it takes to look like their particular character,â&#x20AC;? says Pleasant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be nice to have that kind of money.â&#x20AC;?

Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a $1,500 two-person â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chocoboâ&#x20AC;? suit or a $5 set of tattered Tetsuo hospital scrubs, dressing up like a Japanese cartoon character can

appear geeky to a fault to outsiders, no doubt. But is it unprecedented?

Hardly. Since shamans ďŹ rst danced in feathers and football fanatics showed up on Sundays in face paint, obsessive fans have been doing their best to imitate their idols.

With intellectual and sometimes arcane hobbies like science ďŹ ction and fantasy art, however, simply ďŹ nding imaginary avatars that one can relate toâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so much so, indeed that one is prepared to dress like themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is like bonding with a new friend. And in a society where nerdbashing is still an American pastime for whenever there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t computers that need programming, a nerd can never have too many friends. Where the culture falls short, ďŹ ction ďŹ lls the gap.

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When Pleasant, Gault, Pang and others get to FanimeCon, one of the ďŹ rst orders of business will be seeking out other fans who dressed as characters in the same anime title.

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We know that anime is the future, because the best minds in U.S. animation remain entranced by the past: for instance, Toy Story 3 is about the toys of the 1950s; Up fancies the explorers of the 1930s and a return to a childhood vision of Jungleland.

You can love the Pixar team and Henry Selick even while realizing they are roots artists, ďŹ guring out a way to reinterpret modes of classic animation with new technology and new styles.

Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli is the best mind in anime, without peer or rival, but his work is of such major difference from the rest of the ďŹ&#x201A;ow that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost as if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not in the same ďŹ eld. Anime is like pop music; Studio Ghibli does full-orchestra symphonies, ďŹ lms obsessed with color and mood instead of action. And Miyazaki is another nostalgistâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just look at the European operetta world in Howlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Moving Castle or the ghostly Japanese teahouse and baths life in Spirited Away.

In the abstract, Miyazaki, just like the god of anime, Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy), before him, looks backward to a golden age of 2-D animation. On a deeper narrative level, the living gems in Ghibliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jewel box are putting up a defense of traditional life against the modern

world. Like the narrator in George Orwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coming Up for Air, they reach toward a vanishing rural way of life: â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;?Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s precisely in a settled period, a period when civilization seems to stand on four legs like an elephant, that such things as a future life donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter.â&#x20AC;?

Not only is mainstream anime the style of the future, it also deals with the subject of the future.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fascinated with electronics, with the idea of humans melding with machinery, of the cities of the world becoming neo-Tokyos: mazes of towers and small interior spaces. Animeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s familiarity with science ďŹ ction puts it about a decade ahead of the American ďŹ lm industry. Anime is the future in all of this chaos: boisterous, extremely commercial, cheaply made.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re partial to the realism of American-style artists, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s instructive to see the ways in which popular D.C. superheroes have been done in the anime style: The Batman on WB, or Teen Titans, for example. Child fans ďŹ nd no difference whatsoever between this kind of animation and something more Westernized. Indeed the noir shadows and Fleischer brothers realism of TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Batman Adventures of the 1990s must appear old and musty to the young anime fan. Once, critics scored points on the animated theatrical version of The Batman Adventures, 1993â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Mask of the Phantasm, as being â&#x20AC;&#x153;too Japanese-looking.â&#x20AC;? Fifteen years later, Warner Bros. produced a six-story compilation of Batman: Gotham Knight all done the Japanese way.

Anime is naturally multicultural, with a couple of thousand years of Japanese culture as its bedrock. Asian religions co-exist: different varieties of Buddhism plus Taoism plus Hindu roots . . . and Christianity, too, because why not? And in anime, gender goes haywire in a way not seen in the West since Shakespeare.

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At night at FanimeCon, adultsonly cartoons come out, including a screening of some examples of the hentai porn subgenre, which is like a cuter version of American porn.

Elsewhere, there’s some gaming: a group Japanese spelling-bee game in which players make male cartoon figures (bishonen, they’re called— meaning, essentially, the young David Bowie type) give up their Armani-oid wardrobes bit by bit. Anime has what U.S. animation lacks in its category of yaoi and yuri—male/male and female/ female love stories, scripted with a soap-opera elaboration unmatched in American animated films.

Yaoi is an anagram meant to advertise the harmlessness of the material: Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi (no climax, no point, no meaning), in other words, not hentai on the whole, with unrequited love and hurt feelings. The female audience for yaoi (and it’s almost all female) gets to see the common unthreatening boy love we usually see in Disney programs, only in yaoi it’s taken to the next step.

Yuri is the other side of the

spectrum, presumably enjoyed by some males. If you like wading through verbal labyrinths, try finding even a simple summing-up of the plot of the yuri manga-turnedanime Strawberry Panic, filmed in 26 episodes by Madhouse Studios.

The Sapphic (but again, never very explicit) conduct at the three separate girls schools in this series is more complicated than the who’s who at Hogwarts.

The idea of erotic animation is loaded, because it’s always assumed that the key audience for animation is sheltered children, plus it makes good copy. The point is that anime doesn’t have to be either Pikachu or battle robots. Of course, you don’t become a multibillion-dollar industry without leaving some toxic waste around.

The visiting Anime Hell “otakalypse” show at Fanime will offer some of the worst of the worst; bad animation is always prized by hipsters. Still, a tradition that offers up Princess Mononoke, Barefoot Jen, Paprika and Ghost in the Shell still has its best years ahead of it.

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Their single “Blaster” sounded like Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy” and other post-grunge hits circa 10 years earlier, with the slightest touch of rap-metal-lite.

“Blaster” absolutely defined them as a group. With a squeaky clean take on hip-hop style (Koshi wears a Clippers jersey in the video), their look was as perfectly constructed as the Backstreet Boys’ (another ’90s pop icon, of course), with each member standing out in stark contrast to the next.

Ironically, the lyrics to the song claim “We don’t care how we look,” which no doubt ranks as one of the biggest bold-faced lies to be found in any pop hit that year.

FLOW’s lyrics are ridiculous in a way that only J-pop can get away with—although, it’s only fair to note that few lyrics come well translated from Japanese to English, and these are rough translations at best. Still, “Right now we are a blaster that’s starting

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The most popular J-pop acts right now, such as KAT-TUN and Arashi, do the classic boyband dance-and-look-sensitive bit better (plus, Arashi turned into anime heroes in the video for “Believe,” which was really pretty cool), but FLOW is like an encyclopedia of ’90s pop music. “World End” sounds like a cheery version of Sponge’s

“Plowed,” “Colors” recalls third-wave ska.

Personally, I prefer some of the more out-there Japanese bands—the bizarre noise-rock band Melt-Banana, the poppunk Beat Crusaders and of course, Shonen Knife—to J-pop.

The term has gotten less and less useful, though—at the same time that “J-pop” is sometimes used as a catch-all for Japanese rock, the music scene in Japan has also been splintered every which way—J-punk, J-hip-hip, J-club, J-whatever-else. Still, J-pop fans show up for their favorites, and that brand loyalty is what has always defined the greatest moments of post-Elvis massmarket music—the fainting, the panty-throwing, the sheer mania of pop.

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IILL FO FORNAIO RNAIO RRegional egional IItalian. talian. $$. Embraced Embraced by the graceful graceful Sainte Sainte Claire Claire Hotel, this location (there (there are are several several up and down the coast) transports transports the diner. diner. The The menu showcases a different different region monthly.. 7amregion of Italy Italy monthly 10pm, 10:30am-11:30pm 10:30am-11:30pm Mon-Thu, Mon--Thu, 8am-11pm 8am-11pm Fri-Sat, Fri-Sat, 8am-10pm 8am-10pm Sun. Sun. Full bar. bar. 302 S. S. Market Market St. St. 408.271.3366.

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Miller has survived restaurant closures before. A sour economy doomed his restaurant UMUNHUM in 2003. Miller landed a job at San Jose’s SILICON VALLEY CAPITAL CLUB three months ago. The private club sits atop the Knight Ridder building in downtown San Jose. It has an incredible, panoramic view of San Jose and Silicon Valley. The food should rise to the level of one of the valley’s tallest building.

The current menu, which still bears the name of former executive chef RANDY APRILL, includes such yawn inducers as spinach salad with orange slices (please tell me they weren’t canned), parmesancrusted chicken and herb-dusted mahi mahi. You would think that a restaurant that caters to Silicon Valley’s corporate elite would offer a more progressive menu. But like so many Silicon Valley restaurants, the food is timid, uninspired and unimaginative. Capital Club members fork over $150 a month for the privilege of paying for this food. They have to pay to pay.

Miller has yet to put his signature on the menu, which raises the question: Why hire a brand-name, Michelin-star chef and continue to serve the same lackluster, stuck-in-time menu? Why not let Miller do his thing?

Miller says he submitted a menu to CLUB CORP, the Capital Club’s corporate owner in Dallas, Texas, and is still awaiting approval.

JEFF ZIMMERMAN, Club Corp’s director of culinary operations, says that he has received Miller’s new menu and that new dishes may start to appear at the restaurant in the next few weeks.

Zimmerman says Club Corp is hoping to freshen its image and appeal to a younger generation of executives. Hiring innovative chefs is part of that strategy. “We’re redefining ourselves as a company,” he says.

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Japanese. In In spite of Koji’s Koji’s well-tuned atmospher atmosphere, it’s e, it ’s the sakes that really really set the tone. Koji’s Koji’s sake list includess tasting notes that help you find one that suits you.

Happy hour 6-9pm 6-9pm Wed-Fri Wed-Fri with $3 beers and $5 small plates. 6pm-late Wed-Fri, Wed-Fri, 8pm-late Sat. Sat. 48 S. S. First St. St. 408.287.7199.

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LLA AP PASTAIA A ASTAIA IItalian. talian. $$. LLaa Pastaia Pastaia remains remains a stalwart of downtown San San Jose’s Jose’s dining scene. Set Set inside the Hotel De Anza, Anza, the rustic Italian Italian restaurant restaurant has big city style to spare. spare. Lunch Lunch 11am-3pm 11am-3pm Mon-Fri Mon-Fri and noon-2pm noon-2pm SatSatSun; Sun; dinner 5-9pm 5-9pm Mon-Thu, Mon--Thu, 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri-Sat Fri-Sat and 5-9pm 5-9pm Sun. Sun. 233 W. W. Santa Santa Clara Clara St. St. 408.286.8686.

LLA AV VICTORIA ICTORIA T TAQUERIA AQUERIA Mexican.

Mexican. $. La La Vic’s Vic ’s famously famously

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addictive orange orange hot sauce merely merely tops off its tasty taqueria fare: fare: big burritos burritos of the breakfast breakfast and lunchtime varieties, overflowing nachos, delectable chili rellenos. rellenos. 7am3am daily. daily. 140 E. E. San San Carlos Carlos St. St. 408.298.5335.

LLOS OS CCUBANOS UBANOS CCuban. uban. $$.

Cuban Cuban food food exudes an earthy, earthyy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Los Cubanos Cubanos has it in spades.

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MCCORMICK AND MCCORMICK AND SSCHMICK’S CHMICK’S SSeafood. eafood. $$$.

Harks Harks back to big-city fish houses with stately, statelyy, masculine interiors. Menu Menu follows the follows ll th freshest f eshest fr h t fruits f it off the sea, grilled, pan-seared, pan-seared, steamed. Desserts will hook you. 11:30am-10pm 11:30am-10pm daily, dailyy, 11pm happy hour Fri-Sat. Fri-Sat. 170 0 S. S. Market Market St. St. 408.283.7200.

MEZCAL M EZCAL RRegional egional M Mexican. exican. $$. Mezcal Mezcal specializes in delicious regional regional cuisine from from the southern Mexican Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Oaxaca. People People who need nachos and sourcream-topped cream-topped eam topped burritos burritos on the menu will probably probably be miffed, miffed, but for for those willing to venture venture beyond the samee old Mexican-American Mexican-American standards, standards, Mezcal Mezcal offers offers an excellent point of departure. departure.

11:30am-11pm 11:30am-11pm Sun-Fri Sun-Fri and 55 11pm Sat. Sat. 25 W. W. San San Fernando Fernanddo St. St. 408.283.9595.

MOROCCO’S M OROCCO’S Moroccan.

Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s Morocco’s is the kind of rrestaurant estaurant downtown moree of: SSan an JJose ose needs mor distinctive ffood ood cooked served and ser ved by people with a personal investment in customer happiness.

Morocco’s M orocco’s personal touch is all over the rrestaurant. estaurant.

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N.. M Market SSun un 59pm. 86 N arket SSt. t..

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MORTON’S M ORTON’S STEAKHOUSE STEAKHOUSE SSteakhouse. teakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, Morton’s, a CChicago-based hicago-based chain of moree than rrestaurants estaurants with mor across 80 locations acr oss the United abroad, oad, U nited SStates tates and abr offers premiumoff ers delicious, pr emiumsteaks. priced steak s. TThe he rrest est of thee menu is a mixed bag. 5:30Mon-Sat, 5-10pm 11pm M on-Sat, 510pm SSun. un..

Park Ave. 408.947.7000.

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NAGLEE N AGLEE P PARK ARK GARAGE GARAGE New New American.

American. $$. Lots Lots of restaurants restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood jointss but few few deliver. deliver. The The Garage Garage does. Small Small but satisfying menu of well executed comfort comfort food food classics. 59:30pm Tue-Thu, Tuue--Thu, 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri, Frii, 9am-1pm, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm 5-10pm Sat, Sat, 9am--

1pm Sun. Sun. 505 E. E. San San Carlos Carlos St. St. 408.286.1100.

408.286.1100.

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NHA N HA T TOI OI VVietnamese. ietnamese. $-

SSCOTT’S COTT’S SSEAFOOD EAFOOD SSeafood. eafood.

Nha $$. N ha Toi Toi o is the place ffor or Vietnamese northern style V ietnamese ffood—less ood—less sweet than Vietnamese southern V ietnamese ffood ood and less spicy than the central Vietnam, ffood ood of centr al V ietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients ar omatic ingr edients 9am9am daily.. 460 EE.. William SSt. 10pm daily t.

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$$$. CCulture ulture lovers and power brokers br okers alike find impeccable sourdough, sour dough, a sea of marine treats entrees tr eats and other entr ees and panoramic a panor amic view (there’s (there’s a Palo Alto). sister eatery in P alo A lto). For pleasure, theree maximum pleasur e, get ther bar.. 11:30amat sunset. sunset Full bar 11:30am Mon-Fri, at, 5pm M on-Fri, 5pm-close SSat, Park 4:30pm-close SSun. un. 185 P ark Ave. 408.971.1700.

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ORIGINAL O RIGINAL JOE’S JOE’S IItaliantalianAmerican.

American. $$. For five decades OJ’s OJ’s has been serving serving classics of American American and Italian-American Italian-American food food with heaping portions of big city attitude and glamour. glamour.

The The restaurant restaurant underwent underwent an extensive remodel, remodel, but the menu is the same as it ever was. 11am-1am 11am-1am daily. daily. 301 S. S. First St. St. 408.292.7030.

PAGODA P AGODA R RESTAURANT ESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. TThe Chinese. he cuisines of CChina hina share share top billing with décor.. the opulence of the décor Pagoda P agoda offers offers the gamut of Dressy. rregional egional all-stars. Dr essyy. bar.. 66-10pm Full bar 10pm TTue-Sat. ueu Sat. Market Fairmont Hotel, 170 SS.. M arket 408.998.3937.

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PAOLO’S P AOLO’S N New ew IItalian. talian. $$$$.

Filled with artistic spins on California-meets-Italy, California-meets-Italyy, the kitchen turns out elegant entrees entrees spearheaded by seasonal vegetables.

The The impeccable service service compensates for for the modest portions. Full bar. bar. 11:30-2:30 11:30-2:30 Mon-Fri, Mon-Fri, 5:30-10pm 5:30-10pm MonMonSat. Sat. 323 W. W. San San Carlos Carlos St. St. 408.294.2558.

P.F. P .F. CCHANG’S HANG’S CHINA CHINA B ISTRO CChinese. hinese. $$. With BISTRO atmosphere atmosphere to spare, spare, Chang’s Chang’s doesn’t doesn’t neglect taste.

Vibrant Vibrant SSzechuan zechuan flavors mix surprisingly well with rich Western-style Western-style desserts. TTakeakea out. Patio Patio dining. Full bar. bar.

11am-10pm 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, Sun--Thu, 11am11pm Fri-Sat. Fri-Sat. 98 S. S. Second Second St. St. 408.961.5250.

POOR P OOR H HOUSE OUSE B BISTRO ISTRO New Orleans.

Poor N ew O rleans. l $$ TThe $$. h P he oor Bistroo off offers House Bistr ers a lowpriced menu of CCrescent rescent CCity ity classics like po’ po’ boys, barbecued shrimp, gumbo muffaletta. and muff aletta. LLive ive music on Fridays and SSaturdays. aturdays.

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A merican. $$$. TThis his rromantic omantic offers eatery off ers upscale Mediterranean M editerranean ffood ood in an Beer,, wine. intimate setting Beer N.. SSan Pedro CClosed losed SSun. un. 71 N an P edro 11:30am-1pm, 5-9pm SSt. t. 11:30am1pm, 59pm Mon-Sat. M on-Sat. 408.971.8523.

SSONOMA ONOMA CCHICKEN HICKEN CCOOP OOP Mixed.

Mixed. $. If If you don’t don’t mind carrying carrying your own tray tray and fighting for for a table you’ll be rrewarded ewarded with hearty spit-roasted spit-r oasted chicken that requires requires at least six napkins.

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Square. 11am-9pm 11am-9pm SSun-Thu, un--Thu, 10pm Fri-Sat Fri-Sat 408.287.4098.

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VEGETARIAN V EGETARIAN H HOUSE OUSE Vegetarian. meat-free V egetarian. $. TThis his meat-fr ee offers stalwart off ers vegetarian from around dishes fr om ar ound the serving world with a side ser ving of rreligious eligious rreading eading material from fr om spiritual leader CChing hing 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Hai. 11am2pm, 59pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm M on-Fri, 11am9pm SSatatSSun. un. 520 EE.. SSanta anta CClara lara SSt. t.

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VUNG V UNG T TAU AU V VIETNAMESE IETNAMESE $$. TTraditionalists raditionalists might gripe that they can get Vietnamese authentic th ti V i t ietnamese ffood oodd elsewhere, it’s ffor or less elsewher e, but it ’s hardd to top V Vung har ung TTau au a ffor or its fresh, ingredients fr esh, quality ingr edients comfortable and sleek yet comf ortable décor.. EEncyclopedic décor ncyclopedic menu.

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ROBERTO R OBERTO CARLOS CARLOS May 28 at HP Pavilion Pavilion

TIM T IM MCGGRAW RAW A AND ND LLADY ADY A ANTEBELLUM NTEBELLUM May 29 at Shor Shoreline eline

MR. M R. BA BARKY RKY R RIDES IDES A AGAIN GAIN May 29 at Unitarian Chur Church ch of Palo Alto P alo Al to

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DETOX D ETOX P POOL OOL P PARTY ARTY May 30 3 at DoubleTree DoubleTTree Hotel, San Jose

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once John Rzeznik onc ce said. Having “Rzeznik,” been born “Rzezn nik,” he picked the band name Goo G Goo Dolls, just his luck. Wait, Wait, “Slide” “Slide” isn’t isn’t by the Band? sure?

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Buffalo!

Buff alo! Rock City!

Cityy! (RvB)

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SubZERO is a diy, artistically bent, hi/lo-techno-mashup where street meets geek. In addition to the South FIRST FRIDAYS monthly art walk you’ll find an outdoor stage of entertainment and artists, performers & musicians celebrating the indie creative spirit!

June 4th in the SoFA District from 6pm ’til midnight

The Bangerz featuring San Jose Taiko

Ben Henderson & Friends

Corpus Callosum

The Ferocious Few

Brave New World Fashion Show

Tsigoti

ARTISTS / INDIE VENDORS Ai & Ai Al Preciado Alfredo Reyes Amul Goswamy Andrew Hedges Are We There Yet? by Genevieve Hastings Art Ark Gallery Beadworker Canvas Ghost Gallery Chris Kisler, Gretchen Kisler Cloud Concepts David and Lisa Mejia Dinosaur Dance Party DonBon Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Eazi & Jodi Macarenas Element 151 Empire 7 Gallery Field Day Folded Inc Force 129 Gianfranco Paolozzi Haptic Synapse Heart of Chaos Helium Magazine The Inside is the Outside by Lacey Bryant Keith Bunnel Kookaburra by Emily Bones Korrupt Clothing Kurtis Rykovich Looping Lounge hosted by Rick Walker Love & Logic Studios Michael Borja Michael Foley Michelle Waters MopedHeads Munio Ink The Museum Proper by Dax Tran-Caffee Pellet Persephone Belly Dance Troupe San Jose Bike Party SHARE San Jose Shorty Fatz SJFAM SJ Yarn Bombers Slave Labor Graphics (SLG) The Street Swag Photo Booth by Abe Menor Joey Syta Tarot Reading by Drew Clark Theresa Munoz Trina Merry The Usuals Veggilution Zine Party Tonite! hosted by Yumi Barefoot Coffee Treatbot Karoke Icecream Truck METRO KSCU 103.3 FM

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The orchestra with help from three youth ensembles presents a world premiere called Cruise Control by Kerry Lewis. The guest artist for the evening is young violinist David Do (left), who will deliver Vivaldi’s Spring and Summer concertos from The Four Seasons. (MSG)

A cclassic lassic ddrama rama presented presented by by West Bay W est B ay Opera.

Opera. Sat, Sat, 8pm, 8pm, Sun, Sun, $30–$55.

22pm. pm. $ 30–$55. LLucie ucie SStern tern Palo Alto.

TTheater, heater, P alo A lto.

Ballet San Jose

THE T HE CRUCIBLE CRUCIBLE

Saturday–Sunday, 1:30pm, California Theatre, San Jose; $16–$47

Lift-Off May 29–June 19, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Unafraid to risk their careers (because they haven’t really started yet) with genuinely experimental work, the SJSU MFA graduate students in the annual “Lift Off” show delight in busting genres and mingling media in pursuit of fresh new visions—Track Burk’s untitled bronze and wood snapshot of nature at work, for instance (left). Today the gallery, tomorrow the museum.

There will be a reception on Friday, 6–8pm. (MSG)

Wings of Freedom Through May 29, Moffett Field, Mountain View; www.cfdn.org Some illustrious planes from the era of the Greatest Generation will be on display through the weekend as part of the commemoration of Memorial Day. The vehicles include fully functional versions of the P-51 Mustang (pictured), the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator. Tours are available for $12 ($6 for kids). For a great deal more, one can actually get airborne. (MSG)

Dance D Da Danc nce

ARTISTS A RTISTS FELLOWSHIP FELLOWSHIP AWARD A WARD Presented P resented by

by Arts Arts Council Council Valley SSilicon ilicon V alley with with a dance dance

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Monday, 7pm, Le Petit Trianon, San Jose; $5

The up-and-coming leapers at the Ballet San Jose School show off what they’ve learned in a production of Hans Christian Andersen’s beloved tale The Ugly Duckling choreographed by Lise la Cour, and Strauss by la Cour and Dalia Rawson. (MSG)

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performance performance of of “Birthing “Birthing the the Ascension.”

Ascension.”TThe he sshow how hhonors onors Maria Basile.

Basile. Wed, Wed, 6pm.

6pm. Free.

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Maria Triton Museum, Museum, Santa Santa Clara.

Clara.

Triton

“Alice “Alice in in Wonderland.”

Wonderland.” Fri, Fri, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, Sat, Sat, 2 and and 7:30pm.

7:30pm.

West Valley Valley College.

College.

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SSat-Sun, at-Sun, 1:30pm.

1:30pm. $ 16-$47. $16-$47.

CCalifornia alifornia Theatre, Theatre, San San Jose.

Jose.

Jiri Kylian’s Jiri Kylian’s ““Petite Petite M Mort,” ort,” M Maa CCong’s ong’s ““French French TTwist” wist” and and M ichael Smuin’s Smuin’s ““Songs Songs ooff Michael M ahler.” SSat, at, 8 pm, SSun, un, 22pm. pm.

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8pm, $ 18-$56. FFlint lint CCenter, enter, CCupertino. upertino. $18-$56.

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Theater T heater Broadway West Broadway West Theatre Theatre CCompany ompany ppresents resents Arthur Arthur Miller’s M iller’s ffamous amous drama. drama. Thu-Sat, Thu-Sat, 8pm, 8 pm, SSun, un, 11pm. pm. TThru hru Jun Jun 12.

12. $15-$22. $ 15-$22. FFremont. remont.

THE T HE EELEPHANT LEPHANT An eedgy An dgy ccomedy omedy aabout bout ccoping oping aand nd lloss, oss, written written bbyy Alice Pencavel.

Dragon A lice P encavel. FFrom rom D ragon Productions. $15.

P roductions. FFri-Sun, ri-Sun, 8pm.

8pm. $ 15.

Dragon Palo Alto.

D ragon TTheatre, heatre, P alo A lto.

FFAHRENHEIT AHRENHEIT 4 451 51 Ray Bradbury’s Ray Bradbury’s classic classic Palo Alto ppresented resented bbyy P alo A lto 8pm, CChildren’s hildren’s TTheater. heater. FFri, ri, 8 pm, Sat, Sat, $5/$10.

2 aand nd 8pm.

8pm. $ 5/$10. LLucie ucie SStern tern Palo Alto.

TTheater, heater, P alo A lto.

THE T HE GGLASS LASS MENAGERIE MENAGERIE TTennessee ennessee W Williams’ illiams’ ddrama rama Pear P ear Avenue Avenue TTheatre heatre sshow. how.

8pm, TThu-Sat, hu-Sat, 8 pm, SSun, un, 22pm. pm. Thru Thru May $15-$30.

Pear, M ay 30.

30. $ 15-$30. TThe he P ear, Mountain View.

M ountain V iew.

GGYPSY YPSY The m The musical usical sstory tory ooff sstripper tripper Gypsy Rose.

G ypsy Lee Lee R ose. TThu-Sat, hu-Sat, 8pm, 8pm, $17SSun, un, 22pm. pm. TThru hru May May 30.

30. $ 17$34.

Hillbarn $ 34. H illbarn ttheatre, heatre, FFoster oster City.

City.

HELLO H ELLO DOLLY! DOLLY! The ffamed The amed musical musical aabout bout a matchmaker, m atchmaker, ppresented resented bbyy Bay SSouth outh B ay Musical Musical TTheatre. heatre.

8pm, TThis his week: week: FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, 8 pm, SSun, un, 22:30pm. :30pm. Thru Thru Jun Jun 5.

5. $13-50$13-50$27. $ 27. SSaratoga aratoga Civic Civic Theatre.

Theatre.

LITTLE SSHOP LITTLE HOP O OFF H O R RO RS HORRORS Presented by Presented

by Bus Bus Barn Barn Stage Stage CCompany. ompany. Wed, Wed, 77:30pm, :30pm, 8pm, TThu-Sat, hu-Sat, 8 pm, SSun, un, 3 oorr 77pm. pm. $24-$32.

Bus Barn $ 24-$32. B us B arn Theatre, Theatre, Altos.

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By Santa By Santa Clara Clara University University Drama D rama Department.

Department. Mon-Tue, Mon-Tue, 77pm. pm. FFess ess Parker Parker Studio, Studio, Santa Santa CClara. lara.

SHAKESPEARE ON SHAKESPEARE ON T THE HE SSQUARE QUARE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL “The Taming “The Taming of of the the Shrew” Shrew” uupdated pdated to to the the world world of of 1950s 1950s Arclight ssitcoms. itcoms. A rclight Rep Rep Theatre.

Theatre.

TThu-Fri, hu-Fri, 8pm, 8pm, Sat, Sat, 2 aand nd 8pm, 8pm, SSun, un, 22pm. pm. TThru hru Jun Jun 6.

6. $15/$20. $15/$20.

TTheatre heatre on on San San Pedro Pedro Square.

Square.

SSONIA ONIA FFLEW LEW Melinda Lopez’s Melinda Lopez’s play play about about a woman who w oman w ho left left Cuba Cuba when when she she was w as yyoung oung and and is is confronted confronted with w ith family family secrets secrets yyears ears later. later.

Presented P resented bbyy SSan an Jose Jose Rep. Rep. Wed-Fri, W ed-Fri, 8pm, 8pm, Sat, Sat, 3 aand nd 8pm, 8pm, SSun, un, 22pm, pm, TTue, ue, 7:30pm.

7:30pm. Thru Thru JJun un 6.. $ $35-$74.

6 35-$74. TThe he Rep, Rep, San San Jose.

Jose.

S E CO N D W SECOND WEEKEND EEKEND IIN N SSEPTEMBER E PT E M B E R CCity ity LLights ights TTheater heater Company Company ppresents resents tthe he world world premiere premiere of of Andrew A ndrew Black’s Black’s play. play. TThu-Sat, hu-Sat, 8pm, 8 pm, Sun, Sun, 7pm 7pm (May (May 30 30 and and Jun Jun 6)) oorr 2pm 6 2pm (Jun (Jun 13 13 and and 20).

20). Thru Thru JJun un 20.

20. $25-$40. $25-$40. San San Jose.

Jose.

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Museums M useums Opening O pening CHILDREN’S D CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY ISCOVERY MUSEUM M USEUM “Run! Jump!

“Run! Jump! Fly! Fly! Adventures Adventures iinn Action.”

A ction.” A show show about about the the jjoy oy ooff bbeing eing pphysically hysically aactive. ctive. May May 2828SSep ep 9.

9. Mon-Sat, Mon-Sat, 110am-5pm 0am-5pm and and SSun, un, nnoon-5pm. oon-5pm. San San Jose.

Jose.

CContinuing ontinuing CCANTOR ANTOR ARTS ARTS CCENTER ENTER “Collection H “Collection Highlights ighlights From From EEurope urope 1500-1800, 1500-1800, Ancient Ancient Greece Ongoing.

G reece and and Rome.”

Rome.” O ngoing. ““The The Eye Eye ooff tthe he Beholder.”

Beholder.”

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0. “Tracing “Tracing the the Past, Past, Drawing D rawing tthe he Future: Future: Master Master IInk nk Painters Painters in in 20th-Century 20th-Century CChina.” hina.”Thru Thru Jul Jul 4.

4. Wed-Sun, Wed-Sun, 111am-5pm, 1am-5pm, Thu, Thu, 11am-8pm.

11am-8pm.

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5. Louis Louis B. B. Mayer Mayer Theatre, Theatre, SSanta anta CClara. lara.

“What Makes “What Makes a Picture Picture a Portrait?”

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IIMPROV MPROV Wed, 8 Wed, 8pm: pm: U Unfiltered nfiltered Underground U nderground with with Shaun Shaun LLatham. atham. $10. $10. Thu, Thu, 8pm, 8pm, Fri, Fri, 8 aand nd 10pm, 10pm, SSat, at, 7 and and 9pm, 9pm, Sun, Sun, Pablo 77pm: pm: P ablo Francisco.

Francisco. $25. $25.

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ROOSTER R OOSTER T T.. FEATHERS FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: Wed, 8pm: New New Talent Talent 8pm, SShowcase. howcase. $10. $10. Thu, Thu, 8 pm, FFri, ri, 9pm, 9pm, Sat, Sat, 8 and and 110:30pm, 0:30pm, 8pm: SSun, un, 8 pm: Myq Myq Kaplan.

Kaplan. $12. $12.

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THREE T HREE O OFF A K KIND IND CCOMEDY OMEDY Standup fun Standup fun with with Kellen Kellen Erskine Erskine ((from from Campbell), Campbell), Andrew Andrew Norelli N orelli and and Dave Dave Burleigh.

Burleigh. Wed, Wed, 77:30pm. :30pm. $15. $15. Heritage Heritage Theatre, Theatre, CCampbell. ampbell.

“Explore SSan “Explore an Jose Jose Parks— Parks— Open O pen ttoo the the Public Public Since Since 1850.”

1850.”

Att Pacific Hotel Att A Pacific H otel Gallery.

Gallery. A McKay M cKay Gallery: Gallery: ““Everyday Everyday San San Wayne JJose: ose: Paintings Paintings bbyy W ayne JJiang.” iang.”

TThru hru May. May. Tue-Sun, Tue-Sun, noon-5pm. noon-5pm.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE MUSEUM MUSEUM OFF A ART O RT “New Stories “New Stories From From tthe he Edge Edge Plastic ooff Asia: Asia: P lastic LLife.” ife.”TThru hru SSep ep 119.

9. ““Wayne Wayne Thiebaud: Thiebaud: Seventy Seventy YYears ears ooff Paint.”

Paint.”Thru Thru Jul Jul 4.

4. “Real “Real & Hyperreal.”

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1. ““Juicy Juicy Paint.”

P aint.”TThru hru JJun un 6.

6. Tue-Sun, Tue-Sun, 111am-5pm, 1am-5pm, closed closed Mon. Mon. San San JJose. ose.

SAN JJOSE SAN OSE MUSEUM MUSEUM OF OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES Q UILTS A ND T E X T I L ES “Hawaii’s Alfred “Hawaii’s Alfred Shaheen: Shaheen: FFabric abric to to Fashion.”

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by Santa Santa Cruz Cruz Allll end Aug aartist. rtist. A end A ug 8.

8. Tue-Sun, Tue-Sun, 110am-5pm.

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The play brings these two men together every five years, which lets us observe them as they grow (David) or stagnate (Michael). For example, we watch David get politicized by his work as a nurse on Ward 5B at San Francisco General Hospital, which in 1987 was, as David puts it, “AIDS central.” We learn of Michael’s struggles with his son, who turns to drugs and ends up in prison. And we are surprised when the inevitable proposal by one of them to turn their yearly encounters into something more permanent is rebuffed.

As the play proceeds, with maid Katie Schurtz making the hotel room’s bed between each scene, numerous red herrings fall by the wayside until we finally meet Michael’s namesake son (Alexander Hero), who convincingly navigates the very steep character arc Black has prepared for him. It’s a strong ending to a strong evening of theater.Æ9\e DXibj

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ARTS RT S metroactive metr oactivve A 44 TECH T ECH M MUSEUM USEUM ”Genghis Khan.” ”Genghis Khan.” A nnew ew sshow how martial aabout bout tthe he ttechnological, echnological, m artial aand nd social social aadvances dvances of of the the Mongol warrior.

M ongol w arrior. Mon-Wed, Mon-Wed, 9am-5pm, 9 am-5pm, and and Thu-Sun, Thu-Sun, 9am9am8pm.

8 pm. SSan an JJose. ose.

TRITON T R I TO N M MUSEUM USEUM O OFF A ART RT “In the “In the R Raw: aw: N New ew W Work ork bbyy Robert R obert CChiarito.” hiarito.”TThru hru Jun Jun 6.

6.

Reflections.” ““Xicana: Xicana: SSpiritual piritual R eflections.” A ggroup roup show show by

by CChicana hicana artists. artists.

TThru hru Jun Jun 13.

13. Tue-Wed Tue-Wed and and FriFriSSun, un, 111am-5pm.

1am-5pm. TThu, hu, 111am-9pm.

1am-9pm.

Mon. CClosed losed M on. SSanta anta Clara.

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1-26.

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R eception JJun un 44,, 6 -8pm. TTue, ue, Wed-Sat, 111am-4pm, 1am-4pm, W ed-Sat, 111am1am8pm, Palo Alto.

8 pm, SSun, un, 111am-3pm.

1am-3pm. P alo A lto.

and Beyond,” and Beyond,” paintings paintings and and ddrawings rawings at at the the historic historic site. site.

TThru hru Jun Jun 6.

6. Tue-Sat, Tue-Sat, 10am10am33:30pm, :30pm, Sun, Sun, 11am-4:30pm.

11am-4:30pm.

Woodside.

W oodside.

GGOOD OOD K KARMA ARMA V VEGAN EGAN CCAFE AFE “Iconic Urbanity—Symbols “Iconic Urbanity—Symbols of of a CConcrete oncrete CCulture,” ulture,” paintings paintings bbyy Blaise Rosenthal.

B laise R osenthal. TThru hru May May 28.

28.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

KALEID K ALEID GGALLERY ALLERY “Efflorescence,” lumen “Efflorescence,” lumen pprints rints by

by Shannon Shannon Amidon.

Amidon. ““Preconscious,” Preconscious,” photographs photographs by by May CCenta enta Schumacher.

Schumacher. Thru Thru M ay 228.

8. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

MONTALVO P MONTALVO PROJECT ROJECT SSPACE PACE “Seeing LLight.”

“Seeing ight.” Paintings Paintings by by Nicole N icole SSchmoelzer chmoelzer based based on on hher er with Montalvo iinteractions nteractions w ith the the M ontalvo ggrounds. rounds. Thru Thru Jun Jun 6.

6. Thu-Sun, Thu-Sun, 111am-3pm.

1am-3pm. Saratoga.

Saratoga.

MOHR M OHR GGALLERY ALLERY

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“Urban Animals,” “Urban Animals,” paintings paintings bbyy Gomez.

EElizabeth lizabeth G omez. Thru Thru May May 30.

30.

6-8pm.

6 -8pm. Community Community School School of of Music M usic and and Art, Art, Mountain Mountain View.

View.

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“Re: B “Re: Bob,” ob,” nnew ew ppaintings aintings bbyy Barron B arron Storey.

Storey. Thru Thru Jun Jun 19.

19. Thru Thru May M ay 22.

22. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

“Youth Art.” “Youth Art.”TThru hru May May 30.

30. ““Cultural Cultural Kaleidoscope,” Kaleidoscope,” ccollaborative ollaborative art art by by local local sstudents. tudents. TThru hru 330.

0. TTue-Sat ue-Sat 110am-5pm, 0am-5pm, Sun, Sun, 1-5pm, 1-5pm, TueTuePalo Alto.

TThu, hu, 77-10pm.

-10pm. P alo A lto.

ART A RT A AND ND W WELLNESS ELLNESS STUDIO STUDIO “Floating Thresholds.”

“Floating Thresholds.” New New work w ork bbyy KKristine ristine IIdarius. darius. Thru Thru JJun un 25.

25. FFri, ri, 6-8pm, 6-8pm, or or by by Grace aappointment. ppointment. G race Community Community CCenter, enter, SSan an Jose.

Jose.

SAN JOSE SAN JOSE IINSTITUTE NSTITUTE OF OF ART CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY A RT

“un-titled.” A “un-titled.”

An n eexhibit xhibit bbyy SSJSU JSU BFA B FA graphic graphic ddesign esign students. students.

TThru hru May May 27.

27. San San Jose.

Jose.

“Work Out.” “Work Out.” An An installation installation bbyy Libby Libby Black.

Black. Thru Thru Jun Jun 119.

9. ““Modesto Modesto Covarrubias: Covarrubias: Liminal,” Liminal,” iinstallation nstallation bbyy San San Jose Jose native. native.

TThru hru Jul Jul 3.

3. Tue-Fri, Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, 10am-5pm, SSat, at, noon-5pm. noon-5pm. San San Jose.

Jose.

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““On On tthe he EEdge,” dge,” nnew ew ppieces ieces bbyy Richard R ichard Gullion, Gullion, CChris hris Elliman Elliman aand nd Tony Tony Nozero.

Nozero. Wed-Sat, Wed-Sat, nnoon-6pm. oon-6pm. San San JJose. ose.

CCAFFÉ AFFÉ TRIESTE TRIESTE “What Is “What Is H Happening?” appening?” Scroll Scroll ppaintings aintings bbyy Matthew Matthew SSeigel. eigel.

TThru hru May May 28.

28. San San Jose.

Jose.

CCREMA REMA COFFEE COFFEE “Singular.” A sshow “Singular.” how ooff ttravel ravel R.. R Ragazza. pphotos hotos bbyy Robertino Robertino R agazza.

TThru hru Jun Jun 6.

6. Crema Crema Coffee, Coffee, The The Alameda, A lameda, SSan an JJose. ose.

DOWNTOWN D OWNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SSHALA HALA “Re-Arrangements,” joint “Re-Arrangements,” joint sshow how ffor or JJonathan onathan and and Joella Joella Kermit.

Kermit.

TThru hru May May 28.

28. San San Jose.

Jose.

FFILOLI ILOLI GARDENS GARDENS ““Plein Plein A Air ir iin n tthe he G Garden arden

“Weirdos, Porn “Weirdos, Porn SStars tars and and Other Other EEccentrics,” ccentrics,” works works by

by KKarl arl CChristian hristian Krumpholz.

Krumpholz. Thru Thru May May 228.

8. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

Books MAYA M AYA ANGELOU ANGELOU Famed poet Famed poet speaks. speaks. Tue, Tue, 77:30pm. :30pm. $39 $39 and and up up (www (www ..uniquelives.com). uniquelives.com). SSan an JJose ose CCenter enter for for the the Performing Performing Arts.

Arts.

DAVID D AVID H HELVARG ELVARG A ssigning igning event event with with the the author author ooff “Saved “Saved by by the the SSea: ea: A Love Love With SStory tory W ith Fish.”

Fish.”Tue, Tue, 7:30pm.

7:30pm.

Menlo Park.

FFree. ree. Kepler’s, Kepler’s, M enlo P ark.

KATE K ATE MOSES MOSES LLocal ocal author author discusses discusses

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METROACTIVE.COM M ETROACTIVE.COM “Cakewalk,” her “Cakewalk,” her memoir. memoir. Wed, Wed, Books Palo Alto.

77pm. pm. FFree. ree. B ooks IInc, nc, P alo A lto.

JJULIET ULIET B B.. SSCHOR CHOR Author ooff “Plentitude: Author “Plentitude: The The New New EEconomics conomics of of TTrue rue Wealth” Wealth” aappears. ppears. Wed, Wed, 7:30pm.

7:30pm. Free.

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Menlo KKepler’s, epler’s, M enlo Park.

Park.

BELLE B ELLE YANG YANG Author aand Author nd illustrator illustrator of of “Forget “Forget SSorrow.” orrow.” Wed, Wed, 3:30pm, 3:30pm, East East San San JJose ose Carnegie Carnegie Branch Branch Library.

Library.

Also 6:30pm.

A lso 6 :30pm. King King Main Main Library, Library, SSan an Jose.

Jose.

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SSat-Sun, at-Sun, noon-5pm. noon-5pm. Free Free ($10 ($10 Riedel ffor or a R iedel gglass). lass). 44545 545 FFelter elter Rd, R d, Milpitas.

Milpitas.

GGILROY ILROY MEMORIAL MEMORIAL DAY DAY B BBQ BQ All all-you-can-eat All all-you-can-eat meal meal family family Mon, eevents. vents. M on, 110am–6pm.

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Parade P arade sstars tars 11am 11am on on 10th 10th SStreet. treet. BBQ BBQ aatt Gilroy Gilroy Gardens, Gardens, Hecker Pass H ecker P ass Hwy, Hwy, Gilroy.

Gilroy.

LLADIES ADIES NIGHT NIGHT SShopping hopping opportunities opportunities for for women. w omen. Thu, Thu, 6-9pm.

6-9pm. Downtown Downtown Willow W illow Glen.

Glen.

LLOS OS GGATOS ATOS M MEMORIAL EMORIAL D DAY AY With the With the San San Jose Jose Metropolitan Metropolitan Band.

Mon, Gatos B and. M on, 10am.

10am. LLos os G atos Memorial M emorial Park.

Park.

MUSHROOM M USHROOM M MARDI ARDI GGRAS RAS Food, wine Food, wine and and beer, beer, m music usic aand nd ccrafts. rafts. SSat-Sun, at-Sun, all all day. day. Free.

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Downtown D owntown Morgan Morgan Hill.

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SSAKE AKE SAN SAN JJOSE OSE A benefit benefit ssake ake ttasting asting ssponsored ponsored by

by Yu-Ai Yu-Ai Kai Kai Senior Senior CCommunity. ommunity. TThu, hu, 55–8:30pm.

–8:30pm. $40/$50. $ 40/$50. Japantown Japantown San San Jose.

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SANTA CLARA SANTA CLARA M MEMORIAL EMORIAL DAY D AY FFIREWORKS I R E WO R K S A holiday holiday fireworks fireworks display. display. Sun, Sun, 9:45pm.

Paramount’s 9 :45pm. P aramount’s Great Great America, A merica, Santa Santa Clara.

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be a counselor counsselor because because of another be c de in n thee pla p ayeer’s lor o ee: how o incident player’s lore: ep porters that he went to he told rreporters plaay so ccerr in England because because his play soccer psychiatrisst advised him to do it. psychiatrist The F ran ncophobia eendemic ndemic The Francophobia in A merican/English fi lms h as in American/English films has contributed tto o tthe he d eath o he contributed death off tthe roman ntic Frenchman Frenchman no nscreen; romantic onscreen; he’s b een rreplaced eplaced b he b loodless he’s been byy tthe bloodless ditherer an nd tthe he d ialect- comedy ditherer and dialect-comedy clown. C an ntona, a M arseillan ffrom rom clown.

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New THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION (PG-13; 118 min.) Laura Linney and Anthony Hopkins star in the new James Ivory feature. Read a review on MovieTimes.com. (Opens May 28 at the Aquarius in Palo Alto.) (RvB)

GEORGE A. ROMERO’S SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD (R; 90 min.) Zombies by the master.

(Opens May 28.)

LOOKING FOR ERIC (Unrated; 116 min.) See review, page 48.

PRINCE OF PERSIA (PG-13; 116 min.) Jake Gyllenhaal stars in a video-game adventure about the ancient world. (Opens May 28.)

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (R; 146 min.) Read a full-length review on MovieTimes.com. (Opens May 27.)

Revivals THE BREAKFAST CLUB/FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1985/1986) Two by the late popular entertainer John Hughes, whose haute-Reagan-era view of social life

made for a lot of genial teen date movies. Ferris: Easygoing piece of nothing about the art of playing hooky; Matthew Broderick is inoffensive as always in the lead. An actor named Alan Ruck steals the picture with his parody of an old spiritual: “When Cameron was in Egypt’s land.” The Breakfast Club: Five students at an affluent suburban Chicago high school endure weekend detention. They include Molly Ringwald as the alphafemale, a jock (Emilio Estevez), alternaboy Judd Nelson, a geek (Anthony Michael Hall) and the odd girl (the very cute Ally Sheedy). It gets its tears, but the conformist, make-over finale

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NILES FILM MUSEUM Sparrows (1926). An unusually dark film for Mary Pickford, closer to Night of the Hunter than Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She plays a waif trapped in the Florida swamps, working as a laborer for a tyrant. What Shall We Do With Our Old? (1911). This early Griffith film of some 14 minutes earns the Tolstoyesque seriousness of the title. An aged carpenter is laid off and unable to sustain his ailing wife. The vitality of Griffith’s composition shows in the scenes at a night court and a woodshop, with the frame crowded with comings and goings; they’re staged for asymmetry: a woman

weeping, eclipsed by the frame, the old man pushed off to one side in the chaos of the court: a figure in misery sinking to the bottom of the frame.

“A familiar tale,” notes the title card, and the lack of much change in the subsequent 99 years makes this tragedy all the keener. Also: In the Grease (1925). Mr. Finlayson, usually the foil to L&H, stars in his own Hal Roach comedy. Judy Rosenberg at the piano.

(Plays May 29 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.) (RvB)

STAGECOACH/HIGH NOON (1939/1952) During an Apache uprising, a stagecoach full of mixed souls makes a perilous trip. John

Ford’s film is a story of the closing of the West, with the gunslingers, the whores and the gamblers on their way out of town. These colorful characters are about to be replaced by the “blessings of civilization,” as a well-known line of dialogue has it. Blessings, that is, like the skinny peddler Mr. Peacock (Donald Meek) and the embezzling banker Gatewood (Berton Churchill). Their fellow passenger, the drunk Irish doctor Josiah Boone (Thomas Mitchell), gets many of the best scenes. Bert Glennon’s photography gives this sponging character dark shadows. While Claire Trevor’s shamed but gold-hearted prostitute

Dallas has her own realistically tough moments, Stagecoach made a major star out of the tall, courtly Bpicture actor who played an outlaw named the Ringo Kid. And millions since have found a kind of music in the phrasings of John Wayne’s voice. BILLED WITH High Noon.

Gary Cooper plays the newly retired Marshall Kane, his back against a

wall as three criminals arrive on the noon train. Grace Kelly plays the marshal’s Quaker wife. The action unfolds in real time, which adds to the tension. Cooper’s ill-at-easeness complements the ideological questions. (Plays May 29-Jun 1 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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forecasts director Hughes’ descent into more spineless movies (the Home Alone trilogy, Baby’s Day Out, etc.)

(Plays May 28-30 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

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Thrill Ride

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““There’s There’s a ffair air sshare hare o off tthat, hat,” aacknowledges cknowledges M ann. “ I d on’t k now, I Mann. don’t know, tthink hink tthere’s here’s aalso lso sstuff tuff tthat hat d eals w ith deals with d eep melancholy—not melancholy—not n ecessarily deep necessarily ddepressing, epressingg,, b ut ssort ort o ark q uestions but off d dark questions o reallity aand nd sself-reflection, elf-reflection, w ith d rug off reality with drug u se and and d rug aabuse buse aand nd al lcohol, yyou ou use drug alcohol, k now? It’s It’s a w hole ccollage ollage o hat w e’re know? whole off w what we’re aall ll entwined entwined iin no ur llives. ives. IIt’s t’s llike, ike, ‘‘This This iiss our w hat’s h appening tto ou s; iiss iitt h appening what’s happening us; happening tto o you?’ you?’ T hen w ut o ut o ur w ork Then wee p put out our work aand nd people people aare re llike, ike, ‘‘Oh Oh m od, tthat’s hat’s myy G God, eexactly xactly h ow I w as ffeeling. eeling.’” how was M nitial rreaction eaction iiss tto ow orry aabout bout Myy iinitial worry aanyone nyone w ho ccan an rrelate elate ttoo oo m uch tto o who much ssongs ongs llike ike ““A AD aisy C hain ffor or S atan” o Daisy Chain Satan” orr ““Rivers Rivers o lood, Y ears o arrkness.” B ut off B Blood, Years off D Darkness.

But T hrill K ill K ult h ave aalways lways eexplored xplored Thrill Kill Kult have tthe he dark dark sside ide o he p syche, eespecially speciallly off tthe psyche, o n their their eearly arrly d eath-dance rreleases eleases llike ike on death-dance 11988’s 988’s I SSee ee G ood Spirts Spirts and and I See See B ad Good Bad SSpirits pirits aand nd 11990’s 990’s C onfessions ooff a K niffe. e Confessions Knife.

T he packaging pacckaging ffor or tthese hese rrecords ecords ffeatured eatured The sspooky pooky p hotos, ccartoons artoons o atan no na photos, off S Satan on ccross, ross, n ak ked w omen aand nd aabsolutely bsolutely n o naked women no

pictures pictures of of the the band, band, which which especially especially in in a pre-Internet pre-Internet era era wound wound a menacing menacing mystique mystique around around a group group that that aatt tthat hat point point was was really really just just the the duo duo of of Mann Man nn and and guitarist-keyboardist guitarist-keyboardist Buzz Buzz McCoy. McCoy. “We “We kind kind of of started started out out imageless, imageless,” says says Mann.

Mann. “It “It was waass just just the the way way we we felt felt about about the the time. time. We We were were nonband, nonband, nonimage, nonimage, sort sort of of over over the the whole whole past passt of of that that kind kind of of stuff. stuff ff. We We went went out out electronic, electronic, and and people people were were like, like, ‘What?’

‘What?’

I mean, mean, they they liked liked it, it, but but they they were were confused. confused. It It was was like, like, ‘We’re ‘We’re not not a band. band.

We’re We’re a happening. happening.’”

Appropriately Appropriately for for a nonband, nonband, they they hadn’t hadn’t set set out out to to make make music. music. Instead, Instead, Mann Mann and an nd McCoy McCoy were were planning planning an an artsy, Myy LLife With artsy, trashy trashy B-movie B-movie called called M iffe W ith the but music was the Thrill Thrill Kill Kill Kult, Kult, b ut tthe he m usic w as more more interesting interesting than than the the movie. movie.

“We “We were were screwing screwing around around with with film film ideas. ideas. But But the the soundtrack soundtracck ccame ame first, first, and and then then we we were were piecing piecing tthe he movie movie into into it. it. It It was was really really funny, funnyy, y”” he he remembers. remembers. “We “We had had d borrowed borrowed somebody’s somebody’s video video camera, camera, and and we we were were shooting shooting all all kinds kinds of of funny funny little little things, things, like like dripping dripping iodine iodine in in the the sink. sink. Ugh, Ugh, just just strange strange stuff. stuff ff.” ff” After After finding finding a following following with with the the

catchy, dark catchy, d arrk beats beats of of “Kooler “Kooler Than Than Jesus, Jesus,” “And “And This This Is Is What What the the Devil Devil Does” off Swine Does” and and “Days “Days o Swine aand nd Roses, Roses,” all all of of which which pointed pointed back back to to their their love love of movies of cult cult m ovies with with cleverly cleverly llooped ooped dialogue diallogue ssamples amples (“I am (“I live live for for drugs drugs . . . it’s it’s great great . . . it’s it’s great great . . . I’m I’m the the white white rabbit”), rabbit”), Thrill Thrill Kill Kill Kult Kult drastically drastically changed on changed o n 1991’s 1991’s SSexplosion!, explosion!, ttrading rading in magic in black blacck m agic for for black black leather leather on on songs songs like like “The “The International International Sin Sin Set, Set,” “Leathersex” “Leathersex” and and what what would would become become their their most most popular popular song, song, “Sex “Sex on on Wheelz.

Wheelz.”

“It “It was was kind kind of of ‘Enough’s ‘Enough’s enough. enough.

Let’s wee are.

Let’s see see who who else else w are.’ “Some “Some of of the the fans fans from from the the beginning beginning were were like, like, ‘Disco?

‘Disco? Ehhhh!’”

Ehhhh!’” admits admits Mann.

Mann. “But “But at at the the same same time, time, we we got got a lot lot of of new new people people aboard. aboarrd. We’ve We’ve always always had had so so many many different diff ffeerent kinds kinds of of audiences audiences come us, one come to to see see u s, it it wasn’t wasn’t o ne certain certain type. type. It It was was secretaries secretaries and and tteachers eacchers and and strippers, strippers, just just a blend. blend. Subsequent Subsequent releases releases mined mined a similar similar groove, groove, throwing throwing ttouches ouches of of noir noir crime crime aand nd retro-hustler retro-hustler cool cool iinto nto the the signature signature aggressive aggressive riffs riff ffss and and electronic electronic rhythms. rhythms.

The The group’s group’s tour, tour, supporting supporting both both the The Whisper, the new new aalbum lbum and and T he SSinister inister W hisper, a remixed remixed collection collection of of their their Wax Wax Trax Trax songs, songs, should should combine combine all all the the elements elements of of their their career. career. “It’s “It’s basically basically back back to to the the original original form form of of Thrill Thrill Kill Kill Kult.

Kult.

Our Our dark dark songs, songs, but but freshened freshened up, up,” ssays ays Mann.

Mann.

Whether Whether celebrating celebrating lust lust or or danger, danger, or or both, both, what what defines defines all all of of Thrill Thrill Kill Kill Kult’s Kult’s music music is is ttheir heir sheer sheer delight delight at at indulging indulging taboos, tab boos, toying toying with with symbols symbols and and breaking break king whatever whatever rules rules they they can can think think of of in in pursuit pursuit of of making mak king something something unique. unique. “It’s “It’s not not just just a beat beat and and a bunch bunch of of samples sam mples and an nd catchcatchphrases. phrasses. IIt’s t’s the the continuity continuity and and the the creative creative craft craft that that goes goes into into it it that that makes makes it it work—for work—for me, me, at at least. leasst. I grew grew up up listening listening to to David David Bowie, Bowie, Alice Alice Cooper Cooper and an nd T Rex, Rex, aall ll those those weird weird lyrics and lyrics an nd characters charracters and and personalities personalities that that kept kept drawing drawing people people back bacck for for more more, more and an nd m ore, like, like, who who are are these these people? people? Are Are they they from from another another planet? plan net?

Oh Oh my my God, God o , this this is is the the strangest strangest music music I’ve I’ve ever ever heard. heard.”

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Tim McGraw

Saturday, 7pm, Shoreline, Mountain View; $28.50–$76.50 I always feel terrible about Tim McGraw, because I confuse him with the jackass who gives country music a bad name. What’s that guy’s name? Toby Keith, right. Anyway, Tim McGraw is way better than Toby Keith. He’s the guy who married Faith Hill and has sold about 30 million more records than Keith.

Yup, that guy. (SP)

Kaye Bohler

Saturday, 9pm, JJ’s Blues, San Jose; $10

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Fresh off her appearance at the Metro Fountain Blues Festival, as part of their all-star band, blues belter Kaye Bohler returns to her second home at JJ’s Blues.

Detox Pool Party

Sunday, noon–sunset, Doubletree Hotel, San Jose; $20 What Las Vegas’ Rehab started, Detox finishes every fourth Sunday of the month at Doubletree Hotel in San Jose. Beginning this week, the third season starts up; for VIP reservations, call 408.483.1182.

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Jazz Jazz and and pop pop dance dance bands. bands.

San San Jose.

Jose.

Wed, 6 Wed, 6pm: pm: N Nick ick and and tthe he JJungle ungle Band.

B and. SSun, un, 44pm: pm: FFull ull TTime ime Beret Dandrea.

B eret aand nd CCraig raig D andrea. SSan an JJose. ose.

GGRAND RAND D DELL ELL SSALOON ALOON

VOODOO V OODOO LOUNGE LOUNGE

HEDLEY H EDLEY CCLUB LUB

Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: A Art rt n SSoul oul ppresents resents Dead Under Our D ead TTrees rees U nder O ur FFeet, eet, music Ugly Winner, RS2 m usic bbyy U gly W inner, R S2 Hans SSolid olid SSound ound aand nd H ans KKeller, eller, Paco Noggin pplus lus aartists rtists P aco Excel, Excel, N oggin DJs aand nd JJai ai TTanju anju pplus lus D Js CCoco oco Porno Bob. $5.

9pm: aand nd P orno B ob. $ 5. FFri, ri, 9 pm: Black Robot, Relapse.

B lack R obot, R elapse. SSan an JJose. ose.

World W orld ALBERTO’S A LBERTO’S Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: H Hot ot ssalsa, alsa, P Pantea. antea.

8pm: Pantea FFri, ri, 8 pm: SSalsa alsa FFridays, ridays, P antea Bollywood aand nd llessons. essons. SSat: at: B ollywood Nights.

Mountain View.

N ights. M ountain V iew.

ARYA A RYA GGLOBAL LOBAL CCUISINE UISINE Fri-Sat: LLive Fri-Sat: ive m music usic aand nd bbelly elly ddancing. ancing. CCupertino. upertino.

CCASCAL ASCAL Fri: LLos Fri: os B Boleros. oleros. SSat, at, 8 8:30:30Robinson.

111:30pm: 1:30pm: James James R obinson.

FFlamenco lamenco jjazz azz gguitarist. uitarist.

Mountain View.

M ountain V iew.

MOROCCO’S M OROCCO’S RESTAURANT RESTAURANT Sat, 77pm: Sat, pm: LLemo, emo, CCaribbean aribbean music. m usic. SSan an JJose. ose.

PARRANDA P ARRANDA NIGHTCLUB N IGHTCLUB Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm-2am: pm-2am: B Banda anda 3300.

00.

Plus DJJ A Akustik P lus D kustik aand nd bbullullNoo ccover. rriding iding ccontest. ontest. N over.

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

JJazz/Blues azz/Blues ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’S BISTRO BISTRO Thu, 7:30pm: Blues Jam Friends.. w ith Mikel Bee and Friends Fri: Nick Lehr Quartet at 6pm; Jeff Buenz and Dennyy Berthiaume at 8pm. Sat: Jazz Maddaline at 11am; RWH Ja zz TTriad rriad at 6pm; Bautista City. at 8pm. Redwood City y.

CCAFFE AFFE T TRIESTE RIESTE

Thu: B Thu: Blues lues Jam Jam w w/AKI. /AKI. Fri, Fri, 8pm: Ami Blues Band.

8 pm: A mi LLou ou B lues B and. SSat, at, 8pm: 8 pm: TTip ip ooff tthe he TTop. op. CCampbell. ampbell.

SSENZALA ENZALA Wed, 77:30pm: Wed, :30pm: SSJSU JSU JJazz azz EEnsemble. nsemble. $5/$10. $5/$10. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

CC&W/Folk &W/Folk

Thu, 8pm: Thu, 8pm: R Russo usso A Alberts lberts TTrio. rio.

8:30pm: Hristo Vitchev.

FFri, ri, 8 :30pm: H risto V itchev.

Brian Hoo TTrio.

SSat, at, 8:30pm: 8:30pm: B rian H rio.

Hotel Anza, H otel ddee A nza, San San JJose. ose.

BOSWELL’S B OSWELL’S

JJ.J.’S .J.’S B BLUES LUES CAFE CAFE

Sat, 7pm: Sat, 7pm: KKavanaugh avanaugh Brothers Brothers CCeltic eltic Experience.

Experience. San San Jose.

Jose.

Wed: SSuska.

Wed: uska. TThu: hu: JJimmy immy Dewrance.

Mackey, D ewrance. FFri: ri: JJake ake M ackey, $10.

Bohler, $10. $ 10. SSat: at: KKaye aye B ohler, $ 10.

Alvin Draper.

Mon: Dennis SSun: un: A lvin D raper. M on: D ennis Dove.

D ove. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

Sun: M Sun: Mike ike LLeatherman. eatherman.

CCampbell. ampbell.

CCAFFE AFFE TRIESTE TRIESTE

MISSION M ISSION CCITY ITY ROASTING ROASTING

Thu, 7-11pm: Thu, 7-11pm: Live Live jjazz. azz. SSan an JJose. ose.

Thu, 7pm: Thu, 7pm: SSouth outh B Bay ay FFolks olks mic. oopen pen m ic. FFri, ri, 77:30pm: :30pm: Wind.

TTrue rue W ind. Sat, Sat, 8pm: 8pm: Vnote Vnote EEnsemble. nsemble. Sun, Sun, 4pm: 4pm: JJeff eff aand nd Amanda’s Bon Voyage A manda’s B on V oyage SShow. how.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

MARQS M ARQS IN IN MENLO MENLO

NETO’S N ETO’S B BAR AR & GRILL GRILL

LLOFT OFT BAR BAR AND AND BISTRO BISTRO

Wed, 8pm: Wed, 8pm: JJoey oey FFabian abian FFour. our.

Open mic w/Kelly TThu, hu, 8pm: 8pm: O pen m ic w /Kelly Park Buca Necak.

8pm: P ark aand nd B uca N ecak. FFri, ri, 8 pm: LLavay avay SSmith. mith. SSat, at, 8pm: 8pm: The The Bartron Group with B artron TTyler yler G roup w ith JJoey oey FFabian. abian. Mon: Mon: FFreddy reddy Clarke.

Clarke.

Menlo Park.

M enlo P ark.

Wed: SSanta Wed: anta Clara Clara A Acoustic coustic Bluegrass B luegrass JJam. am. SSanta anta Clara.

Clara.

MURPHY’S M URPHY’S LAW LAW

Wed, 77:30pm: Wed, :30pm: KKasey asey A Anderson. nderson.

Matthew SSat, at, 8pm: 8pm: TTyler yler M atthew Mountain SSmith. mith. M ountain View.

View.

Mon: P Mon: Pro ro B Blues lues JJam. am.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

NETO’S N ETO’S B BAR AR & GRILL GRILL Wed; A Wed; Acoustic coustic JJam. am. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

POOR P OOR HOUSE HOUSE B BISTRO ISTRO Wed, 6pm: Wed, 6pm: R Ron on TThomson homson aand nd Price.

FFriends. riends. Thu, Thu, 6pm: 6pm: Lara Lara P rice.

6pm: FFri, ri, 6 pm: EEarl arl TThomas homas aand nd tthe he Blues Blues Ambassadors.

Ambassadors. SSat, at, 6pm: 6 pm: SSteve teve FFreund reund with with Jan Jan FFanucchi. anucchi. Sun, Sun, 2pm: 2pm: ZZydeco ydeco Voodoo Revival.

V oodoo R evival. San San Jose.

Jose.

QUARTER Q UARTER NOTE NOTE Wed, 8pm: Wed, 8pm: JJam am ssession. ession. SSun, un, Brisket Blues with 11pm: pm: B risket aand nd B lues w ith BBQ Roc Griffin B BQ aand nd Will Will R oc G riffin ooff Vicious Groove, Martha V icious G roove, pplus lus M artha LLiz. iz. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

THREE FFLAMES THREE LAMES RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT Sun, Tue, Sun, Tue, 7:30pm: 7:30pm: M Modesto odesto Briseno music.

B riseno SSeptet, eptet, LLatin atin m usic.

Willow Glen.

W illow G len.

UNWINED U NWINED

Fri, 8 Fri, 8pm: pm: JJohn ohn R Rubin, ubin, aacoustic coustic jjam. am. SSan an JJose. ose.

Sat, 7-9:30pm: Sat, 7-9:30pm: JJazz azz N Night.Thu, ight.Thu, Don Balistreri.

77pm: pm: D on B alistreri. SSan an JJose. ose.

FAIRMONT HOTEL FAIRMONT HOTEL LLOBBY OBBY LLOUNGE OUNGE

WINE W INE AFFAIRS AFFAIRS

Wed, 8 Wed, 8:30pm: :30pm: TThe he G Girlz irlz B Band. and.

8:30pm: TThu, hu, 8 :30pm: CContemporary ontemporary 9pm: oorr LLatin atin jjazz. azz. FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, 9 pm:

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Thu, 7:30pm: Thu, 7:30pm: R Russell ussell B Barber arber Blues Neil B lues Duo. Duo. Thu, Thu, 7:30pm: 7:30pm: N eil 8pm: Dog KKelly elly JJazz azz Trio.

Trio. FFri, ri, 8 pm: A D og Named Buckley.

N amed B uckley. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

O’FLAHERTY’S O ’FLAHERTY’S Sun, Tue, Sun, Tue, 5pm: 5pm: Traditional Traditional Irish Irish music. m usic. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

RED R ED ROCK ROCK CCOFFEE OFFEE CO. CO.

THE T HE SSADDLE ADDLE R RACK ACK Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm: pm: CCalifornia alifornia Cowboys Cowboys with Bobby Black.

Wed-Fri, w ith B obby B lack. W ed-Fri, 9pm, Diablo 9 pm, SSat, at, 110:15pm: 0:15pm: D iablo Road.

Rodeo R oad. Sat, Sat, 77:15pm: :15pm: R odeo House.

H ouse. Fremont.

Fremont.

SST. T. SSTEPHEN’S TEPHEN’S GGREEN REEN TTue, ue, 7:30pm: 7:30pm: IIrish rish M Music. usic.

Mountain M ountain View.

View.

SSAM’S AM’S B BBQ BQ Wed, 6 Wed, 6-9pm: -9pm: SSidesaddle idesaddle & CCo. o.

Beach TTue, ue, 6-9pm: 6-9pm: SSeabright eabright B each Mountain Boys.

M ountain B oys. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

THREE FFLAMES THREE LAMES RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT Thu, 9pm-closing: Thu, 9pm-closing: LLive ive music, Doug Rose ccountry ountry m usic, D oug R ose Productions w/Bit P roductions w /Bit aand nd SSpur pur Band B and ffeaturing eaturing CCowboy owboy Larry.

Larry.

Willow Glen.

W illow G len.

Open M Open Mic/ ic/ Poetry P oetry ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’S BISTRO BISTRO TTue, ue, 6 6:30pm: :30pm: B Bring ring yyour our musical m usical instrument. instrument.

Redwood R edwood CCity. ity.

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BAREFOOT CCOFFEE BAREFOOT OFFEE ROASTERS R OASTERS

Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm: pm: KKaraoke araoke N Night. ight.

Milpitas.

M ilpitas.

Wed, 77pm: Wed, pm: M Musical usical oopen pen m mic. ic.

SSign ign uupp bbyy 55pm. pm. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

HOMESTEAD H OMESTEAD LLOUNGE OUNGE

TTue, ue, 77pm: pm: O Open pen M Mic. ic. SSan an JJose. ose.

Wed, Fri, Wed, Fri, SSun, un, 8pm-2am: 8pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

Fri, 9 Fri, 9pm: pm: V Vinnie. innie. Mon, Mon, 9pm: 9pm: KKaraoke araoke in in the the lounge lounge w/ w/ Vinnie.

9pm: V innie. Tue, Tue, 9 pm: August.

August.

CCupertino. upertino.

CCITY ITY ESPRESSO ESPRESSO

BOSWELL’S B OSWELL’S

HUDDLE H UDDLE

CCAFFE AFFE T TRIESTE RIESTE

FFri, ri, 77-10pm: -10pm: SSingers ingers aand nd musicians. m usicians. SSan an JJose. ose.

FFIBBAR IBBAR M MAGEE’S AGEE’S Mon: CComedy Mon: omedy N Night. ight.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

MISSION M ISSION CITY CITY ROASTING ROASTING Thu, 77pm: Thu, pm: SSouth outh B Bay ay FFolks olks Open Mic. O pen M ic. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

RED R ED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE

BOGART’S B OGART’S LLOUNGE OUNGE

TTue: ue: DJ DJ Davey Davey K. K. Campbell.

Campbell.

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

KKaraoke. araoke. D Hank. TTue, ue, 7:30pm: 7:30pm: Pub P ub SStumpers. tumpers. San San JJose. ose.

KATIE K ATIE BLOOM’S BLOOM’S

BRITANNIA ARMS BRITANNIA ARMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO

KCC B K BAR AR AND AND R RESTAURANT ESTAURANT

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Sun-Tue, 10pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

CCupertino. upertino.

Fri, 8 Fri, 8pm: pm: TThe he P Poetry oetry CCabal abal Mouth, ppresents resents M outh, aan n eevening vening ooff Mountain View. rreadings. eadings. M ountain V iew.

BRITISH B RITISH B BANKERS ANKERS CCLUB LUB

VENUEZ V ENUEZ

CC&J’S &J’S SPORTS SPORTS B BAR AR

TTue, ue, 77-10pm: -10pm: O Open pen M Mic. ic. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

Karaoke K araoke 7B BAMBOO AMBOO Wed-Sat, 9 Wed-Sat, 9pm-2am: pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke.

9pm-1am: TTue, ue, 9 pm-1am: KKaraoke. araoke.

SSan an JJose. ose.

ALBERTO’S A LBERTO’S B BAR AR & GGRILL RILL Mon, 8 Mon, 8pm-midnight: pm-midnight: KKaraoke araoke Monday.

Hosted Whirl.

M onday. H osted bbyy KKJJ W hirl.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

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

Karaoke. Fremont.

Fremont.

Mon, 9:30pm: Mon, 9:30pm: KKaraoke. araoke. M Menlo enlo Park.

P ark.

Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke.

CCampbell. ampbell.

Wed, 8 Wed, 8pm: pm: D DJJ D Desmond. esmond. SSan an JJose. ose.

KHARTOUM K HARTOUM Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: D Davey avey K. K. No No cover. cover.

CCampbell. ampbell.

KING K ING O OFF CLUBS CLUBS

Thu: Melissa Thu: Melissa and and Heather.

Heather.

SSanta anta Clara.

Clara.

Thu, SSun-Mon, Thu, un-Mon, 8:30pm-close: 8:30pm-close: Bruce Noo B ruce ooff KKOR OR KKaraoke. araoke. N Mountain ccover. over. M ountain View.

View.

CCARDINAL ARDINAL LOUNGE LOUNGE

LLILLY ILLY M MAC’S AC’S

Mon, Wed, Mon, Wed, 9 9pm-1am: pm-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.

DAN D AN B BROWN’S ROWN’S TTue ue & TThu, hu, 9pm-1am: 9pm-1am: B Brian rian Palo Alto.

JJames. ames. P alo A lto.

DASILVA’S D ASILVA’S B BRONCOS RONCOS Wed: G Wed: Guitar uitar Hero Hero TTournament ournament 9pm-1am: pplus lus karaoke. karaoke. TThu, hu, 9 pm-1am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta Clara.

Clara.

DIVE D IVE B BAR AR Wed, 8pm-2am: Wed, 8pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an JJose. ose.

EEFFIE’S FFIE’S RESTAURANT RESTAURANT

Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: D DJJ Thomas Thomas ““Soulman.”

Soulman.” SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

MARIANI’S M ARIANI’S TThu, hu, 8 8pm: pm: CChris. hris. SSanta anta Clara.

Clara.

NETO’S N ETO’S MARKET MARKET & GRILL GRILL Fri, 6 Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: :30-10:30pm: B Bands ands w with ith llive ive karaoke. karaoke. Santa Santa Clara.

Clara.

NUMBER N UMBER ONE ONE BROADWAY BROADWAY Thu: Singles Thu: Singles party party with with DJ. DJ. Los Los Gatos.

G atos.

OASIS O ASIS Wed, FFri-Sat, Wed, ri-Sat, 8:30pm: 8:30pm: D Doug. oug.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

TTue-Sat, ue-Sat, 9 9pm-2am, pm-2am, and and llast ast month, SSun un of of eevery very m onth, 2-7pm: 2-7pm: B&S B &S KKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

OFFICE O FFICE BAR BAR

Mon-Sat, M on-Sat, 9 9pm-2am: pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke.

SSan an JJose. ose.

THE T HE B BEARS EARS

FFLAMES LAMES COFFEE COFFEE SHOP SHOP

PEACOCK P EACOCK LOUNGE LOUNGE

ALEX’S A LEX’S 4 49ER 9ER IINN NN

FFri, ri, 9 9pm: pm: TThomas. homas. SSan an JJose. ose.

BENNIGAN’S B ENNIGAN’S GGRILL RILL SSat, at, 9 9pm: pm: KKaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

BLINKY’S B LINKY’S CAN’T CAN’T SAY SAY

Thu-Sat, 9pm: Thu-Sat, 9pm: Uncle Uncle D Dougie ougie Noo ccover.

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

GGALAXY ALAXY Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm-2am: pm-2am: KKaraoke araoke w w/ / August.

A ugust. Milpitas.

Milpitas.

Fri, 9 Fri, 9pm-1am: pm-1am: D Danielle. anielle.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

Sun, 7pm, Sun, 7pm, and and Fri, Fri, Sat, Sat, 9pm9pmMountain 22am: am: KKaraoke. araoke. M ountain View.

View.

Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: D DJJ Brian.

Brian. Sun, Sun, 9pm: 9pm: DJJ aand DJ, D nd karaoke. karaoke. Tue, Tue, 9pm: 9pm: D J, ddancing, ancing, karaoke. karaoke. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

PIONEER P IONEER SALOON SALOON TTue, ue, 8 8:30pm: :30pm: A Acoustic coustic kkaraoke araoke w/ Marshall. w / SSam am M arshall. Woodside.

Woodside.

POINCIANA P OINCIANA LOUNGE LOUNGE

BLUE B LUE B BONNET ONNET B BAR AR Mon M on & W Wed-Thu, ed-Thu, 8 8pm: pm: Noo ccover.

KKaraoke. araoke. N over. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

Wed, 9 Wed, 9:30pm: :30pm: W Wildside ildside EEntertainment. ntertainment. No No cover. cover.

SSanta anta Clara.

Clara.

BLUE B LUE M MAX AX

QUARTER Q UARTER NOTE NOTE

Fri-Sat, 9 Fri-Sat, 9pm-1:30am: pm-1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

BLUE B LUE P PHEASANT HEASANT TTue, ue, 77pm: pm: SSteve teve TTiger. iger.

CCupertino. upertino.

THE T HE GOOSETOWN GOOSETOWN LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Willow Glen.

KKaraoke. araoke. W illow G len.

TTue, ue, 9 9pm: pm: SSherrie herrie aand nd Sue. Sue. No No ccover. over. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

REDI R EDI ROOM ROOM Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm-1am: pm-1am: Joseph.

Joseph.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

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Big Sandy A GREAT LINEUP up helps to kick off Left Coast Live season at the Landmark Ballroom in the San Jose Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club on Friday night. Openers B Stars and Stompy Jones play two very different versions of swingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the former, hillbilly; the latter, R&Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;while headliner Big Sandy puts his own Western stamp on the music. Rarely are bills that showcase Americana music so well put together.

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TTue, ue, 8:30-11:30pm: 8:30-11:30pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

Noo cover.

N cover. Santana Santana Row. Row.

Thu, 9 Thu, 9:30pm-1:30am: :30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

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Wed, 110pm-1:30am: Wed, 0pm-1:30am: DJ DJ Purple.

Palo Alto.

P urple. P alo A l to.

SSun: un: KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE BA BAR R & GRILL GRILL

Sun, 3-7pm, Sun, 3-7pm, aand nd Tue, Tue, Wed, Wed, 8pm-1:30am: 8 pm-1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke. Except Except ďŹ rst month. ďŹ rst SSun un ooff m onth. Santa Santa CClara. lara.

Wed, 8pm: Wed, 8pm: Jose Jose SSoto oto and and Acereko Orchestra A cereko O rchestra for for Salsa Salsa Wednesdays.

W ednesdays. TThu: hu: Tech Tech IItt Up Up B*Tch w/Paul B *Tch w /Paul LLeath eath aand nd Residents.

R esidents. Sat: Sat: Hyphidelity Hyphidelity ppresents resents the the Slump Slump with with Caley Caley Martin.

Planet M artin. Sun: Sun: P lanet Reggae.

Reggae.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

TTue, ue, 10pm-close: 10pm-close: Kamikaze Kamikaze Karaoke.

Ka raoke. SSan an JJose. ose.

SSHERWOOD HERWOOD IINN NN Wed, SSat-Sun: Wed, at-Sun: CChris. hris. Thu-Fri, Thu-Fri, 8:30pm: Uncle Dougie.

8 :30pm: U ncle D ougie.

SSan an JJose. ose.

VENUEZ V ENUEZ

WOODHAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S W OODHAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LLOUNGE OUNGE TTue-Thu ue-Thu and and SSat, at, 9 9:30pm: :30pm: Vinnie.

V innie. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

Dance D ance Clubs Clubs

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The male apparatus is outside, the female components are inside. Not to get clinical, but this is a system that works. I suppose aspects of the plumbing might have been arranged differently, the location of the testicles in particular, but there seem to be reasons they weren’t. We’ll get to that. First let’s answer the more urgent question: why does a shot to a man’s precious make him want to throw up?

It’s not complicated. You’ve heard the way to a guy’s heart is through his stomach? Turns out the route to his gonads goes through the stomach, too—more precisely, through the cluster of nerves called the celiac plexus, popularly known as the solar plexus.

Here’s how one medical team (Jefferson et al., 1997) describes the situation: “The celiac plexus provides the autonomic nervous supply to the testis as well as to the liver, pancreas, duodenum, gallbladder, and colon.

Therefore, testicular pain may result in gastrointestinal symptoms, such as abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting, through reflex stimulation of the celiac ganglion.” In other words, some pain impulses race up to your brain to inform you that you’ve absorbed a jolt to the vitals, while others branch off to the gut and make you feel sick and possibly vomit, in case there was any lingering doubt.

It’s a bit of an overreaction, if you ask me. Serious testicular injury is, thankfully, fairly rare. The testes are flexible and move freely, enabling them to withstand rough treatment.

A review of 5,400 reported sports injuries to boys aged five to 18 during the 1990s found hundreds of abdominal injuries but zero testicular injuries (Wan et al., 2003).

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testicles do happen, they’re bad. Three main types of things can happen: blunt trauma, which is what it sounds like; penetrating trauma (gunshots and such); and degloving injury, which may occur when the scrotum is caught in machinery and about which I’ll say no more.

Blunt trauma is what most guys worry about. In the medical literature we find a typical story involving a 25-year-old man who took a blow to the pelvis during a motorcycle accident. On examination he was found to have a ruptured testicle, which left unattended can lead to orchiectomy—and that doesn’t mean digging up orchids.

Surgeons put everything back together and sewed him up, and after three days he was—well, good as new probably overstates matters. But he was healed enough to go home (Herrera and Coimbra, 2009).

On rarer occasions impact can result in a condition called testicular torsion—a twisting of one or more of the testes and spermatic cord—which may be accompanied (once again) by intense pain, nausea and vomiting. Another relatively unusual one is dislocated testes, in which a testicle gets knocked out of the scrotum altogether, potentially winding up anywhere from up by your hips to partway down your thigh. Motorcycle accidents are good for this type of injury too, collision with the gas tank or handlebars commonly being the culprit.

Deliberately dislocating the testicles allegedly was a method used by Russian army recruits in the 1800s to avoid military duty, although to me this sounds like Russian roulette— that is, largely a myth. One thing’s for sure: if testicular pain persists for more than an hour, seek medical attention without further delay.

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The kitchen attracts natural sunlight and is a great place to prepare an intimate family meal. You can eat it in the cozy breakfast room, or out on the private patio facing the front of the house. For more elaborate occasions, you can entertain guests in the large family room, but keep the wall of glass doors open so your guests can wander out to the backyard, a hodgepodge of common spaces and nooks and crannies, where kids can build their own wonderland.

With neighbors on only two sides, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nice quiet place for them to grow up.

For the more outdoorsy types, another four-bedroom, two-bath home for sale is at 273 N. Milton Ave. At 1,787 square feet on an 8,276-square-foot lot, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even bigger than the previous home, but what really sets it apart are the three majestic Redwoods that grace the property. Most of the house was redone just six years ago, and now features a spacious, open-ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan kitchen, living room and dining room, all of which open into each other. The kitchen offers a wonderful view of the backyard, where you can plant your own garden.

At $856,000, this is truly a home with potential, a home that would make Benjamin Campbell proud.

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Boulder Creek

40 acres. Timber Preserve Zoning. Creek frontage. Wild and serene. Off grid. Private Road. Good owner financing offered. $295,000.

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Boulder Creek

3 acres. Harmon Gulch.

Creek. Private road. Quiet.

Excellent neighborhood.

Sunny. Gated Access. Utilities Sunny possible site. at lot line Most reports com- $149,000. Owner financing.

Shown by appointment only. pleted. 1/3 acre. This is a pretty spot. $289,000. owner Contact Deborah J. Donner, Donner Land and Mortgage financed. 408/395-5754 or Co., Inc. 408/395-5754 or www.donnerland.com www.donnerland.com

Los Gatos Mountains

80 acres. Buzzard Lagoon.

Fabulous! pond, well, lots of useable land. Easy access.

Timber Preserve zoning = reduced taxes! Backs to Nisene State Park. Good for horses.

675,000 owner financing available. 408/395-5754 or www.donnerland.com

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