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Fly noticed a familiar, comely face in the corner of MercuryNews.com last week but was slightly confused to see a blue and orange PG&E logo where EVAN LOW’s dimple should be. The trail-blazing, openly gay mayor of Campbell, shilling for PG&E? It turns out to be an ad for the muchmaligned SmartMeter Program, the PG&E initiative to replace all old power meters with digital ones supposedly designed to provide more accurate readouts and give customers a better way to monitor their gas and electricity usage. However, the claim that some SmartMeters are racking up sky-high power bills is causing a major backlash. So, PG&E figured, deploy the cute local pol! “SmartMeters work by focusing consumption so that the consumer really understands how much they are using,” Low assuages us. Though Fly is of the opinion that SmartMeters are probably a good thing in the long run, voters all too recently showed that they do believe in evil after voting down Prop. 16, the deceptively named, PG&E-financed “Tax Payers Right to Vote Don’t Act.” Seems like a tricky forget time to be pasting a to tip!

PG&E logo so close to the name of a local politician.

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Rested and Ready Fresh off the heels of Spy-PA Gate 2010, BOBBY LOPEZ is throwing his hat in for another run at San Jose Police Officers’ Association president next fall. Apparently, there is a great deal of dissatisfaction with the cop union’s current leadership—and Police Sgt. Lopez’s media-shy predecessor, GEORGE BEATTIE, in particular.

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It started quietly, about two weeks ago. First, megastore Whole Foods announced it would join roughly a dozen suppliers in stopping sales of all unpasteurized kombucha tea products. The issue: concerns that the fizzy, fermented elixirs may contain more alcohol than the “trace amounts” listed on the label.

Soon after, the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, at the behest of the Food and Drug Administration, released a statement saying it had received complaints from Arizona, Maine, Minnesota and Vermont about the tea and that the alcohol-by-volume levels in some instances were found to “significantly

exceed” the 0.5 percent allowed for products not registered as beers, wines or spirits.

The FDA and TTB stopped short of issuing a recall but promised that more testing would be done and that if products were found to be over the limit, the agencies would “take appropriate steps to bring them into compliance.”

The high alcohol content is believed by many kombucha brewers to stem from a long shelf life; fermentation can sometimes continue inside the container, producing more and more alcohol as the bottle sits, making aged kombucha boozy kombucha.

“Right now, our primary concern is to ensure that consumers are not misled about the nature of alcohol beverage products that might be marketed as nonalcohol beverages,” reads the statement released by the TTB. In San Jose, Cosentino’s Market on Bascom Avenue still carries the

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researrcher SPINS SPINS Inc. Inc. researcher The biggest biggest name name in in kombucha, kombucha, The by far, far ar, is is Millennium, Millennium, which which makes makes by GT’s and and Synergy Synergy brand brand teas. teass. Metro Metrro GT’s tracked down down Mr. Mr. GT GT Dave, Dave, who who was was tracked in damage-control dam magge- control mode, mode, looking looking to to in comfort worried worried tea tea heads head ds that that they’ll they’ll comfort have their their precious precious bacteria-laden bacteria-laden have beverages back back ASAP ASAP. beverages “We want want to to reassure reassure people people that that “We we do do third-party third-party testing testing to to make make we sure of of the the alcohol alcohol content content of of our our sure kombucha,” says says Dave.

Dave. “This “This isn’t isn’t a kombucha, recalll, it’s it’s more more of of a precautionary precautionary recall, step. We’ll We’ll hopefully hopefully have have it it back back in in a step. matter of of weeks. weeks.” matter

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Poll: iPhone Issues SCREEN yellowing. Wonky cameras.

An antenna that hates left-handers.

If you take even the most cursory of glances around the Internet, it makes it seem like every iPhone 4 to come off the production line has one issue or another—but are the problems really that widespread?

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Now that everyone has had at least 24 hours with the device (with an apologetic exception to all of the Best Buy/Walmart/Radio Shack preorderers that left empty-handed yesterday), I’m interested to know: Are you having issues with your phone?

We’ve got at least a handful of iPhone 4s among the TechCrunch Network’s battalion of writers, and most of them seem to have at least one notable issue. My personal unit is a shining example of the left-handed antenna shorting problem; one finger across the left band, and my signal plummets from five bars down to zero.

My screen’s never shown the slightest hint of yellow (an issue that is purportedly caused by the still-wet glue not having dried yet after its trip from the factory), and the camera/ proximity sensors work like champs. It does, however, have a terribly hard time staying connected to WiFi networks running on certain channels. —GREG KUMPARAK, TECHCRUNCH.COM

Twitter Sets New Record Despite massive Twitter activity due to ongoing World Cup match play, Twitter’s biggest tweets per second record to date was during last week’s NBA finals. That record was shattered yesterday as Twitter users published 3,283 tweets per second at the close of Japan’s victory over Denmark in the World Cup. These new numbers come directly from Twitter. You may recall that the previous record of 3,085 tweets per second came at the close of the Los Angeles Lakers’ victory over the Boston Celtics on June 17.

Both of these recent records are staggering given that Twitter— during normal daily activity— averages roughly 750 tweets per second. The Japan-Denmark World Cup figure means that activity swelled 438 percent above average, which helps to put recent service issues into perspective. —JENNIFER VAN GROVE, MASHABLE.COM

emily margrit There are proportionately more Japanese on Twitter than Americans, and the Japanese apparently never took to Facebook or MySpace. Americans have.

So when the U.S. won the game versus Algeria, some of us American fans probably took to Facebook over Twitter to share the joy.

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MG Siegler I have a big issue: AT&T. Other than that, mine seems fine. :) Lucky If I tap on the right side of the glass edge, about an inch above the sim slot, it sounds like something’s loose, like glass is loose.

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Apple Coddles Russki Dictator Steve Jobs gave a new iPhone to the Russian president the day before patriotic American fanboys battled lines, shortages and debilitating heat to splurge on the smartphone.

Just what sort of “revolution” is the Apple CEO really planning, mmm?

Jobs’ gift confirmed rumors, reported here previously, that he’d make a pre-release iPhone part of “elected” Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev’s tour of Silicon Valley this week. The optics are unfortunate; Americans are exposing themselves to muggers and heat stroke in long, Soviet-style lines outside Apple stores while the elite swap precious goods among themselves.

Apple customers might be excluded from Apple’s Kremlin, but they consider themselves very much part of the intelligentsia. Your devotion to Mother Apple will not be forgotten, comrades. —RYAN TATE, VALLEYWAG.GAWKER.COM

Dwindle It’s full of spyware. Real spyware.

Remember a few weeks ago when the Dutch took all or almost all trending topics with #tk2010 related topics for quite some time? They were having elections.

Hack Esquire Medvedev isn’t Russia’s dictator. He’s Russia’s dictator’s beard. You can bet that new iPhone is going to Putin just as soon as Dmitry’s back in the motherland.

journik OK. Wait. How come Twitter trending words never has, “GOOO OOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!?”

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Cisco’s Smart Grid Competitors While Cisco is the kingpin of the Internet router market, it’s a relative newbie in the smart grid world. Cisco only introduced hardened networking gear for utility substations in May, and while it might seem like the giant Infrastructure company could easily tie up all the utility deals, there’s actually a variety of companies already selling such gear.

Already-established competitors selling ruggedized networking gear to utilities include RuggedCom, GarrettCom, Moxa, GE Multilin (a division of GE Energy), Hirschmann (a unit of Belden) and Kyland.

Most sell the gear for use in sectors that will put it outside, so it can’t be easily damaged; sectors include the military, industrial and transportation markets, as well as the power grid.

According to a report from Brad Casemore on GigaOM Pro, Cisco’s presence could cause some of these vendors to retrench into the more industrial markets. But other vendors are less likely to retreat, says Casemore.

In particular RuggedCom has captured more than 50 percent market share in smart grid networking, and the company won’t likely back away from Cisco’s challenge. It already has partnerships with heavyweights Siemens and Itron.

China’s Kyland and Taiwan-based Moxa are also both solid contestants, particularly in China, where Kyland has strong connections to the Chinese government.

China will be a very important market. Its energy needs are expected to double in 10 years and the country’s dominant power distribution company, State Grid Corp. said last year that it has set a goal of building a smart grid by 2020 at an estimated cost of as much as $10 billion a year. —KATIE FEHRENBACHER, EARTH2TECH.COM

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“Now Arriving,” the ad proclaims, “The Most Convenient, Passenger Friendly Airport in the U.S.” Let’s hope so, and it better be—the project costs a fortune. The airport’s “improvement program” costs $1.3 billion.

In August 2007, the city sold $725 million in bonds, the largest bond issue ever done by the city of San Jose. The airport will begin paying debt service on the borrowed funds “for the next 30 to 40 years.”

The airport has a huge deficit. Last year, workers were laid off, and this year, the city is looking to outsource

airport janitorial services. The city’s biggest construction project ever is being completed just in time to meet a depressed demand in passenger traffic. Well—at least it looks nice.

San Jose is a place where ceremony is placed before substance, and policy over purpose. Here, we actually spend more on the frame than we do on the picture. In the end, maybe “icon” is exactly the right word to describe the new airport. Perhaps it really is something that we should admire without questioning, and we should all make it, as the dictionary describes, “an object of uncritical devotion.”

We have to think this way, otherwise our minds will wander to the realization that we’ve just completed San Jose’s second billiondollar pyramid.

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A gargantuan gargaantuan 25-ton 25-ton live live Mousetrap p game featured featur e ed a bowling bowling ball making through makin ng its way way thr ough the entire apparatus—up entire app paratus—up and down kinetic scu sculptures, ulptures, homemade chutes, chutes, knocking kn nocking things over, over, triggeringg pulle pulleys, ys, plummeting into a bathtub and all sorts sorts of ccontrived ontrived pathways pathways y until it finally set off the destruction destructio on of a 1989 1989 Toyota Toyota V6 sedan. Esmerelda Esm merelda Strange provided provided the appropriate approp priate circus circus accordion accordion accompaniment. accompan niment.

Yo Tengo headlined the main Yo la T e engo stage Saturday, stage on Satur S daay, preceded preceded by by the Mumlers and locals a longtime longtime lo cals Lisa Dewey and Lotus Life.

Dewey an nd the L otus Lif fe. They They all provided sets. provided inspiring i sets. After Lisa’s Lisa’’s show, show, Chris Chrris Landon—whose Landon—whose band Shovelhead played Shovelheaad pla ayed the original SoFA Street Fair—emerged SoFA Str e Fair eet — emerged at the microphone microp phone and proclaimed proclaimed that Lisa should be s be mayor maayor of San Jose. agree.

Jose. I agr e . If that happens, ee happens, I will volunteer State volunteer to write the St ate of the City address.

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One panel member urged treating universities as â&#x20AC;&#x153;laboratories of business ideas and products.â&#x20AC;?

As someone who oversees investment policy decisions for the University of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $63 billion portfolio, and as the largest shareholder in two for-proďŹ t corporate-run universities (in which UC invests), Blum had a unique perspective to share at the conference.

He advised public universities to attract business-oriented students with clever advertisements as vocational schools do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like anything else,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how you market it.â&#x20AC;?

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Marketing strategy aside, Blum has taken on two seemingly disparate roles—one as an advocate for a nonprofit university, and the other as an owner of two for-profit educational corporations. However, as a regent, Blum has taken actions that, intentionally or not, have enhanced the value of his vocational schools. Are his loyalties conflicted?

For several years, Blum’s firm, Blum Capital Partners, has been the dominant shareholder in two of the nation’s largest for-profit universities, Career Education Corporation and ITT Educational Services Inc. The San Francisco–based firm’s combined holdings in the two chain schools is currently $923 million. As Blum’s ownership stake enlarged, UC investment managers shadowed him, ultimately investing $53 million of public money into the two educational corporations.

The Regents’ conflict-of-interest policy requires them to “avoid the potential for and the appearance of conflicts of interest with respect to the selection of individual investments,” and says

“public officials shall not make, participate in making, or influence a governmental decision in which the official has a conflict of interest.” And the California Political Reform Act of 1974 provides civil and criminal penalties for officials who ignore conflicts of interest—as UC makes clear in ethics training presentations specifically created for university officials.

The Board of Regents, however, is self-policing and tolerates situations that cause others concern. John M. Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit education and advocacy organization based in Santa Monica, says that’s wrong.

“It is hugely inappropriate for the University of California to invest in for-profit colleges when it should be promoting public education,” Simpson says. “And something stinks when university investments end up in companies largely controlled by a regent.

“To the average fellow on the street, this would seem to be a conflict of interest. It is up to Mr.

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Disaster Capitalism Due to serial tuition hikes by the UC Regents, their gutting of many classes and educational programs, and the imposition of a 15 percent reduction of in-state admissions to the university, the gateway to higher learning in California has seriously narrowed. As a UC regent, Blum voted in favor of all of these measuresâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and such actions have indirectly beneďŹ ted his corporate colleges. But his schools are not the only ones proďŹ ting from the ďŹ nancial disaster that besets many public universities.

On March 13, 2010, The New York Times investigated the situation, reporting that many chain schools, including ITT Educational Services and Career Education Corporation, â&#x20AC;&#x153;have exploited the recession as a lucrative recruiting device while tapping a larger pool of federal aid . . . selling young people on dreams of middle-class wages while setting them up for default on untenable debts, low-wage work and a struggle to avoid poverty.â&#x20AC;?

The Times noted that for-proďŹ t schools are directly beneďŹ ting

from cuts in education, especially in California where state-funded universities and community colleges have been â&#x20AC;&#x153;forced to cut classes just when demand is greatest.â&#x20AC;?

Indeed, ITT Educational Services recently reported to its shareholders that due in large part to â&#x20AC;&#x153;higher unemployment rates among unskilled workers,â&#x20AC;? company revenue increased by $300 million, to $1.3 billion.

Responding to a recession-induced increase in demand for vocational training, ITT increased its tuition by 5 percent; 70 percent of ITTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revenue comes from federal tuition aid programs. And ITTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proďŹ ts rocketed in tandem with new enrollments even as UC and other public universities were turning away students for lack of programs.

Nationwide, vocational school students are paying billions of dollars in tuition to stockholderowned education corporations, primarily using federal grants and loans guaranteed by taxpayers. In the United States, the dominant vocational education corporations are the University of Phoenix, Corinthian Colleges, Strayer University, Kaplan (owned by the Washington Post Company), Career Education Corporation and ITT Educational Services.

Collectively, these companies operate hundreds of schools and teach hundreds of thousands of students, most of them eligible for public and private ďŹ nancial aid.

The chains offer training for such technical professions as radiological technician, beautician, automotive mechanic, medical billing clerk, web designer and massage therapist.

But they also offer degrees in engineering, computer science and business. Increasingly, they are promoting online education, which limits their operational costs, even though virtual courses are often not suitable for teaching nursing, cooking or car repair. As a result of delivering substandard education, some for-proďŹ t schools suffer from accreditation problems, according to recent news reports.

On a fairly regular basis, government regulatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including the U.S. Department of Justiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

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Such a high dropout rate requires the corporations to continuously wage television, radio, Internet and print media marketing campaigns aimed at enticing students who want to better themselves—and who are, not incidentally, eligible for stateguaranteed loans.

Unfortunately, those who do graduate with two-year associates degrees often find out that the curriculum did not prepare them for the technical requirements of the jobs they seek. And often, government reports note, when they do find work, their wages do not match the inflated salaries promised by school recruiters. When dropouts and underpaid graduates default on their student loans, the taxpayers remain on the hook.

Profits of Doom Blum’s investment bank entered the for-profit education business in 1987, when he purchased a large block of shares in National Education Corporation, an Irvine-based vocational school that specialized in awarding mail-order diplomas.

He joined the company’s board of directors, sitting alongside former U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater and David C. Jones, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Two years later, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Blum got in hot water when angry shareholders filed a lawsuit contending that “the company issued rosy financial statements while Blum and other directors were selling their shares.” The shareholders claimed in court documents that Blum sold $2.7 million worth of shares at about $24 per share after he learned, a day before the public announcement, that the company president planned to resign. When the share price

bottomed out at $3.50 a share after the announcement, Blum reinvested in the troubled company.

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A new president was hired in 1994 to reform the school and bring it into the age of computerized learning. By 1995, Blum had gained control of 11.5 percent of National Education Corporation stock after combining his firm’s holdings with that of a nonprofit investment fund, Commonfund, for which Blum worked as an investment advisor.

(Commonfund manages investments for more than 1,400 universities, including UC.) In 1997, Harcourt, the textbook publisher, bought National Education Corporation for about $750 million, or $21 a share. Blum and his private partners profited handsomely.

After he became a regent in 2002, Blum greatly increased his investment in for-profit education.

In June 2005, Blum Capital Partners bought 5 percent of the stock, worth $24 million, in Lincoln Education Services Corp., a $300 million operation with 32 campuses. Blum also acquired large blocks of shares in ITT Educational Services and Career Education Corporation.

These two purchases followed dips in the companies’ stock prices brought about by allegations of corrupt practices made against them by government agencies.

23 the fact that these two companies were largely owned by a regent—a Wall Street speculator who sat on the university’s investment committee—not pose at least the appearance of a conflict?

Not to UC officials. When UC Treasurer Marie Berggren was questioned about the propriety of UC investing in Blum’s for-profit college chains, her spokesman, Steve Montiel, replied by email, “The Treasurer’s Office doesn’t track Regents’ holdings in making decisions about security selections, though Regents’ holdings are disclosed as a matter of policy.”

In other words, the treasurer does not review the Regents’ financial disclosure statements, which are public records, for potential conflicts.

Of course, UC’s investments are also public records available to the Regents, so a regent could easily avoid conflicts, should he or she choose to do so, by not taking controlling positions in companies in which the university invests.

Blum did not respond to repeated requests for comment. But UC spokeswoman Lynn Tierney called on his behalf, saying that the university recruits its students from the intellectual elite of applicants.

Only those with very high grade averages and SAT scores get in, she said. Therefore, “UC is not losing students to Blum’s vocational schools, and there is no conflict of interest,” she said.

The bottom line is that UC is investing tens of millions of public dollars in two for-profit school chains largely controlled by a regent and Wall Street arbitrager who sits on UC’s investment committee.

Shown the documentation used to support this story Noah Stern, president of Associated Students at the University of California, says, “Student trust in the Regents was already shaky. In light of this revelation of investment abuse, we need a structural overhaul of the university governance system.”

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In the case of ITT Educational Services, federal and state regulators investigated the company in 2004 after shareholders and students alleged that it falsified student attendance, grades and job placement records in order to keep federal financial aid flowing. When the news broke, the price of ITT shares halved.

Blum Capital Partners pounced, purchasing reams of devalued ITT stock. It soon owned the largest block of stock in the company, achieving a 10 percent ownership stake in 2006.

Not long afterward, the investigations were closed, with no findings of wrongdoing. By May 2010, ITT’s revenue exceeded $1.3 billion, and Blum Capital Partners’ stake was valued at $415 million.

Similarly, Blum Capital Partners bought shares of Career Education Corporation, a $1.8 billion operation that serves 90,000 students, following a corruption controversy.

In 2004, Career Education Corporation was investigated by multiple federal agencies after whistleblower lawsuits alleged that the school had allowed failing students to remain enrolled in order to keep its pipeline to federal grants and loans tapped. In 2005, after 60 Minutes televised an unfavorable story about the chain school, the value of its stock dropped by more than half. Blum Capital Partners bought in for $33 million. By May 2010, its stake had grown to $508 million, making Blum’s firm by far the largest and most powerful shareholder of the chain school. A partner with Blum Capital Partners, Greg L. Jackson, sits on the board of Career Education Corporation.

UC is an investor in both educational corporations.

Even as Blum was buying stock in Career Education and ITT Educational Services, UC financial records show that the university’s investment managers were actively buying and selling these same stocks—to the tune of $53 million.

The university was not just holding onto these stocks to accrue value over time (as a prudent manager would do), it was day trading them in large amounts, as much as $2 million a trade, thereby affecting the daily price of these stocks. Did

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Chef and co-owner Ross from Hanson takes his cues fr om the seasons and ffavors avors a ingredient-driven simple, ingr edient-driven approach appr oach that places it squarely squar ely in the CCalifornia alifornia school of cooking. He ffavors avors large big, rrobust obust flavors and lar ge serving create ser ving sizes to cr eate a comfort kind of CCalifornia alifornia comf ort 5:30-11pm ffood. ood. Dinner 5:3011pm TTueuueAve. Sat 303 N. Sat. N Santa Cruz A ve ve.

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VALERIANO’S V ALERIANO’S ITALIAN ITALIAN RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT A AND ND B BAR AR Contemporary Contemporary Italian. $$$.

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WILLOW STREET WILLOW STREET WOODWOODFFIRED IRED PIZZA PIZZA Pizza. $$.

Silicon Valley’s Valley’s three three Willow Street Street pizza locations prepare prepare the definitive upwardly upwardly mobile California California pizza.

Crispy, Crispyy, thin crusts breathe breathe with accents of almond from from the Italian wood-fired wood-fired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas— delicate, light and satisfying.

Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am10pm Sun-Thu; Sun--TThu; 11:30am9:30pm Fri-Sat. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. Ave. 408.354.5566. For other locations see www. www. willowstreet.com. willowstreet.com.

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BISTRO B ISTRO VIDA VIDA Fr French ench $$.

Impeccably authentic bistro bistro dishes and welcoming prices aree spun thr through ar ough Bay Area Area culinary consciousness to create create regional regional homey French Fr ench cuisine. Brunch 11:30am-2:30pm 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 9am-2:30pm 9am2:30pm Sat-Sun. Dinner 5-9:30pm 59:30pm Mon-Thu, Mon-Thu, 5-10pm 5-10pm 5-9pm Fri-Sat, 59pm Sun. 641 6441 Santa Ave. Cruz A ve. 650.462.1686.

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IIBERIA BERIA. $$. Spanish.

Iberia’s Iberia’s cheap tapas menu is available at the bar anytime or in the dining room room at lunch, but these nibbles alone are are worth the trip. Lunch Lunch noon-2pm noon-2pm

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SSULTANA ULTANA Turkish.

Tuurkish. $$$. If you’ve eaten Gr Greek, Iranian eek, Ir anian or Middle Eastern ffood, you’ll ood, you ’ll find much that that’s ’s familiar familiar here.

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BANANA B ANANA LLEAF EAF Southeast Asian/Malaysian.

Asian/Malaysian. $$$.

A charming, exotic gem of a place with some of the best Southeast Asian Asian food food in the county. county. Sauces are are masterfully crafted crafted and reduced reduced to glossy consistencies. 11am-3pm, 11am-3pm, 559:45pm Mon-Thu, Mon--TThu, 5-10:30pm 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 182 Ranch Dr. Dr. 408.719.9811.

CCHILI HILI GARDEN GARDEN Szechuan.

S h $$. There’s There’s a lot to Szechuan rrecommend ecommend at this Szechua an standout. Mapo tofu is a here. classic that rules her e. For fireworks, sheer fir eworks, go ffor or the Chongqing spicy chicken, a ffearsome-looking earsome-looking dish battered of chicken lightly batter ed 10:30am-2:30pm and crisp. 10:30am2:30pm m 4:30-10pm Mon-Thu, and 4:3010pm Mon-TThu, 10:30am-2:30pm 10:30am2:30pm and 4:30-Barber 10:30pm Fri-Sun. 210 Barbe er L Lane.

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SSAVORY AVORY CCHICKEN HICKEN Filipino.. offers $. Savory Chicken off ers a poultry.

Filipino take on fried poul try.

The chicken is tossed in a proprietary pr oprietary blend of herbs and spices and fried in bread soybean oil. No flour or br eaad aree used. The rresult crumbs ar esult translucent skin is an almost tr anslucent ski in that is so crisp it shatters on contact. 11am-8pm Ave. TTue-Sun. ue Sun 1557 Landess A uue-Sun. ve. ve.

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TIRUPATHI T IRUPATHI B BHIMAS HIMAS Indian. $$. TTirupathi irupathi Bhimass specializes in vegetarian ffood oood from particularly fr om south India, particular ly Andraa Pr Pradesh, that of Andr adesh, a aromatic spicy and ar omatic cuisine, Indian as well as a ffew ew north India n

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408.945.1010.

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AGENDA A GENDA New California.

California. $$. Agenda features features a hip nightclub upstairs, a fullyappointed rrestaurant estaurant at street str eet level and DJ-ing in the basement. Full bar. bar. 399 S. First SSt. t. 5:30pm-close WedWedSat. 408.287.3991.

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

408.278.4555.

BELLA B ELLA M MIA IA Italian-American. $$$. One of downtown attractive San Jose’s Jose’s most attr active serves eateries, Bella Mia ser ves flair.. Full rregional egional dishes with flair bar.. 11:30am11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, bar 9pm Mon-Thu, T 11:30am-10pm 4:30-10pm 11:30am10pm Fri, 4:3010pm Sat, 4:30-8pm Sun. 58 S. First 408.280.1993.

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BILLY B ILLY B BERK’S ERK’S Eclectic. $$.

Billy Berk’s restaurant restaurant looks looks and taste likes the offspring of the Hard Hard Rock Cafe Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant restaurant offers offers a populist mix of American, Mexican and Asian Asian ffood. ood.

Most dishes are are designed for for sharing—appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods foods that pair well with the prodigious prodigious drink list.

11:30am-10pm 11:30am-10pm Mon-Wed, Mon-Wed, 11:30am-10pm 11:30am-10pm Thu, 11:30am11pm Fri, Fri 5-11pm 5 11pm Sat, 5Sat Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St, St, San Jose. 408.292.4300.

EEMILE’S MILE’S CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY French.

French. $$$. White-tablecloth amenities without the stuffiness. An old favorite favorite comes back strong strong with a

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408.289.1960.

EEULIPIA ULIPIA New American. $$$. The rrevamped evamped menu emphasizes rrobust obust flavors presentations. and beautiful pr esentations.

Several Sever al standouts have been from previous rretained etained fr om the pr evious menu, as have the sexy bar..

Eulipia cocktails. Full bar 5:30-10pm 5:3010pm TTue-Sat, uue-Sat, 4:303744 S. First SSt. 9:30pm Sat. 37 t.

408.280.6161.

FLAMES EEATERY FLAMES ATERY AND AND BAR B AR American. $$. In Silicon Valley, home-grown V alleyy, the home-gr own Flames rrestaurant estaurant chain is coffee the area’s area’s definitive coff ee shop. And now they’ve opened p in downtown San great Jose to gr eat acclaim. 7amdaily.. 88 S. Fourth midnight daily 408.971.1960.

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71 SSAINT AINT P PETER ETER New American. $$$. This romantic romantic offers eatery off ers upscale Mediterranean Mediter ranean ffood ood in an Beer,, wine. intimate setting Beer Closed Sun. 71 N. San Pedro Pedro SSt. t. 11:30am-1pm, 11:30am-1pm, 5-9pm 5-9pm Mon-Sat. 408.971.8523.

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THE T HE B BASIN ASIN New American. $$$. The Basin has some standards. rrefreshingly efreshingly high standar ds.

Produce organic, seafoods Pr oduce is or ganic, seaf oods aree fr fresh ar esh and the menu accentuates American ideas, enhanced by Spanish and Italian spin. spin 5pm-close 5pm close seven days a week. 14572 Big Basin Way. 408.867.1906.

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LLA AM MERE ERE M MICHELLE ICHELLE French-European.

French-European. $$$. After three three decades, La Mere Mere is a tradition. tradition. Old World World standards standards such as pâté, escargots, schnitzel escargots, wiener schnit zel and veal scaloppini find a distinguished setting in the crystal-dotted dining room. room.

11:30am-2pm 11:30am-2pm Wed-Sun, 11:30am Wed ed-Sun Sun, 5:30-9pm Closed 5:30-9pm Tue-Sun. Tue-Sun. u Mon. 14467 Big Basin Way. Way. 408.867.5272.

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PLUMED P LUMED H HORSE ORSE Contemporary French.

Contempor ary Fr ench. $$$$. undergoing After under going a $9 million

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nightly. nightly. 14555 Big Basin Way. Way. 408.867.4711.

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RISTORANTE R ISTORANTE DA DA M MARIO ARIO Italian. $$. Ristorante Ristorante Da Mario serves serves the greatest greatest hits of Italian-American food food but prepares prepares them with

a freshness freshness and integrity that elevates them above your typical red-and-white red-and-white checkered checkered tablecloth ItalianAmerican restaurant. restaurant. Lunch Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, dinner 5-9:30pm 5-9:30pm daily. daily. 14441 144441 Big Basin Way. Wayy. 408.741.1518.

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BAY B AY LEAF LEAF Indonesian and Leaf’s Thai. $$. Bay Leaf ’s menu is divided into Thai and it’s Indonesian ffood ood and it ’s the latter that stands out. While characterized Thai ffood ood is char acterized byy Indonesian bright, high notes, Indonesia an ffood ood strikes a lower bass 11am-3pm note. 11am3pm and 5Mon-Thu, 9:30pm Mon-TThu, 11am11am-9pm 10pm Fri-Sat Fri Sat and 11am11am 9pm m Ave. Sun. 122 S. Sunnyvale A ve.

408.481.9983.

CCHELOKEBABI HELOKEBABI. PPersian. ersian. $$. Go straight straight for for the baghali ghatogh, a fantastic fantastic appetizer made from from delicate delicatte but rich baby lima beans, scrambled scrambled eggs and lots of garlic. Just as good is ghaymeh, a daily special made from from tender chunks chunks of beef, beef, split peas, peas eggplant and tomato sauce. 11am10pm daily. daily. 1236 Wolfe Wolfe Rd. 408.737.1222.

408.7377.1222.

DISHDASH D ISHDASH Middle Eastern. celebrates $$. Dishdash celebr ates the Middlee culinary glories of the Middl East beyond ffalafels alafels and hummus. The menu is madee from traditional fr om tr aditional rrecipes ecipes and ingredients presented ingr edients but pr esented contemporary flourish. with a contempor ary flouris h.

There’s wellTher e’ss also a small but well llchosen wine list to match.

11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm 11am2:30pm, 59:30pm Sat-Sun.190 Mon-Fri. 10pm Sat-Sun. 190 S. Ave. 408.774.1889.

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IILL P POSTALE OSTALE IITALIAN TALIAN American. $$$. Its previous previous incarnation as a post office lends this space eccentric charm, and the food food deliverss full-bodied taste in generous generou us portions. Veal Veal marsala, thin-crust pizza and New p York Yoork steak are are featured. featured.

11am-1:30pm, 11am-1:30pm, 4-9:30pm 4-9:30pm TueTue ueSun. 127 W. W. Washington Washington St. St. 408.733.9600.

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PEZELLAS P EZELLAS Family Italian. $$. Serves Serves popular Italian dinners with rich sauces and generous generous portions. East Coast seafood seafood dishes like linguini and clams and calamari sautéed in tomato, garlic, and basil stand out. Pizza and pasta abound. Full Bar. Bar. 11am2:30pm Tue-Fri, Tuue-Fri, 5-10:30pm 5-10:30pm Tue-Sat. Closed Sun-Mon. Tue-Sat. u 1025 W. W. El Camino Camino Real.

408.738.2400.

408.738.2400.

P.F. P .F. CHANG’S CHANG’S CHINA CHINA B ISTRO Chinese. $$. With BISTRO atmosphere atmosphere to spare, spare, Chang’s doesn’t doesn’tt neglect taste. taste Vibrant Vibrant Szechuan flavors mix surprisingly well with rich Western-style Western-style desserts. Full bar. bar. 11am-10pm 11am-10pm Mon-Sun, 11am-11pm 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 390 W. W. El Camino Camino Real. 408.991.9078.

408.991.9078.

SSAIZO AIZO Japanese. $$. PPart art bar, bar, part eatery, eateryy, Saizo served served small plates of grilled and fried dishes made to go with sake and beer beer.. It It’s ’s all good.

Open daily for for lunch and dinner Mon-Sat. 592 E. El Camino Camino Real. 408.733.7423.

408.733.7423.

SSENZALA ENZALA Br Brazilian. azilian. $$.

Senzala restaurant restaurant is like a Brazilian cultural Br azilian cul tural center that also serves serves food. food. Brazilian Brazilian art and photogr photographs aphs cover the walls. Go ffor or the feijoada, feijoada, a hearty, heartyy, smoky smoky black bean stew made with chunks chunks of beef and pork. 11am11am-10pm 10pm Mon-Sat. 250 E. Java Dr. Dr. 408.734.1656.

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SSETO ETO D DELI ELI Japanese. $.

Folksy offers Folk sy country deli that off ers hot and cold, takeout, eat-in order and made to or der ffood ood in a vibrant array vibr ant ar ray of ffamiliar amiliar and not-so-familiar not-so-f amiliar Japanese dishes at prices that beat just about any rrestaurant’s. estaurant’s.

Ave. Closed Sun. 155 E. Maude A ve.

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SSHALIMAR HALIMAR IndianIndianPakistani.

Pakistani. $. $. Walk Walk up up to to the the counter, counter, grab grab a menu menu and and place place your your order. order. One One of of the the best best dishes dishes is is the the plainplainlooking looking haleem, haleem, a lentil lentil and and barley barley stew stew available available with with chicken chicken or or beef. beef. Nihari, Nihari, a rich rich beef beef shank shank stew, stew, is is also also

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TAVERNA T AVERNA GGYROS YROS O Old ld Mediterranean/Turkish.

Mediterranean/Turkish. $$. $$. Mustard Mustard and and ruddy ruddy pomegranate pomegranate hues hues warm warm the the restaurant’s restaurant’s interior; interior; zesty zesty Arabic Arabic infusions infusions warm warm the the food. food. Choose Choose from from mezes mezes such such as as hummus hummus or or tabouli. tabouli.

Entrees Entrees include include lamb, lamb, beef beef or or chicken chicken gyros gyros or or lamb lamb kebab. kebab.

11am-10pm 11am-10pm daily. daily. 133 133 S. S. Murphy Murphy Ave. Ave. 408.735.9971.

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UDUPI U DUPI P PALACE ALACE IIndian. ndian. $$.

Palace, $$. Udupi Udupi P alace, a South South IIndian ndian vvegetarian egetarian re restaurant, staurant, sspecializes pecializes iin n ddishes—dosas ishes—dosas Dosas aand nd uuthappams. thappams. D osas aare re made with llong, ong, tthin hin ccrepes repes m ade w ith flour.

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YUME-YA Y UME-YA JJapanese. apanese. $$. $$.

Don’t forr Don’t ccome ome hhere ere llooking ooking fo sake sake bombs bombs and and macadamia macadamia nut-encrusted nut-encrusted gimmicky gimmick y sushi sushi rolls. rolls. What What sets sets this this restaurant restaurant apart apart is is its its selection selection of of izakaya-style izakaya-style dishes, dishes, little little plates plates of of food food designed designed to to go go with with beer beer and and sake. sake. Open Open 6-11pm 6-11pm MonMonSat. Sat. 150 150 El El Camino Camino Real.

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pretty $$$$. A pr etty dining rroom oom inspired, hosts an inspir ed, always fresh fr esh and seasonally driven contemporary menu of contempor ary French American and Fr ench ffood, ood, complete with seductive desserts. 14583 Big Basin Way. 408.867.3110.

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THE M THE MUSIC USIC OFF B O BILLY ILLY SSTRAYHORN TR AYHORN Campb Campbell bell Recital Hall, C Campbell ampbell $16/$28 Fri – 8pm; 8 The Stanford Stanf t ord Jazz Festival presents pr esennts a salute to pianist Billy SStrayhorn, trayh horn, who was best known as Duke Dukke Ellington’s Ellington’s right-hand man. He H wrote wrote some of Ellington’s Ellington’s

best-known besst-known tunes, like “Take “TTake a the A Train.”

Train.” Pianist Adam Shulman putt together a collection of topp Bay Area Area players— Patrick Patrick Wolff, Wolff o , saxophone; Erik Jekabson, trumpet; trumpet; p Marcus Marcus Shelby, Shelbyy, bass; Smith Smith Dobson, drums—to give Strayhorn his due. (SP) Strayhorn a

AIRPLANE A I RP LA NE SKIES S K I ES Nicckel City Nickel City, y, San Jose Fri– Fri – 4:30pm There The ere is something endearing about abo out the simplicity of Khoa TTran, ran, thee singer/songwriter known as Airplane Airp plane Skies. TTran ran plays guitar with modesty.. He wit th gentle, earnest modesty breathes lifee into the banal, while br e eathes lif his boyish voice meanders, never straying We’re str a aying off course. W e’re talking about abo out a guy who describes himself likee this: “I am seventeen. I am

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P I N B AC K : T PINBACK: THE HE ROB R OB & ZZACH AC H SSHOW H OW Blank Club,, San Jose Blank Fri – 9pm; $14 Pinback IIn n aan n aalternative lternative universe, universe, P inback would music w ould rrule ule tthe he m usic sscene cene and and ddominate ominate tthe he charts. charts. They’d They’d bbee kknown nown ffar ar aand nd wide wide and and rrecognized ecognized while walking w hile w alking ddown own tthe he sstreet. treet.

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Shoreline, Mountain View Shoreline, Viiew Mon – 3pm; $33-$126 Sarah McLachlan Headlined by Sar ah Mc Lachlan Miranda and Heart, and ffeaturing eaturing Mir anda

Lambert, Lambert, Colbie CCaillat, ailllat, A Fine Frenzy, Frenzy, Marina & thee Diamonds, Susan Justice, the Submarines Suubmarines and Ann Atomic, Atomic, you’ll have haave to look far far and wide for for a Y chromosome c omosome chr here. here. Although Although g it would would be totallyy awesome if they hadd one boy band that they kept around arounnd as the token guy group sexuaally objectified group and sexually all the time. Opinions Opinions vary regarding regarding this separatist separatist approach approach to summer festivals, festivals, but I don’t don’t see why. headbangers why. From From the he eadbangers to the emo kids, everybody everybody else gets their own festival. festivval. However, However, I’m reminded reminded of what whaat Valerie Valerie Agnew from once said, from 7 Year Year Bitch B “Women’s “W Women’ss music myy ass ass—you’d you d better put some Motorhead Mottorhead in that section, because because as far far as I’m concerned, that’s that’s women’s woomen’s music.”

Next year’s year ’s Lilith Lilith Fair Faiir headliner: Lemmy!

Lemmy! (SP)

Jul 3 at a 5pm at Vasona Vasona na Park, Park, Los Los Gatos

TAHITI T AHITI FFETE ETE OF OF SAN SAN JOSE JOSE Jul 3-4 3-44 at SSJSU JSU Event Cent Center nter nte

CAULFIELD CAULFIELD L &H HIS IS MA GICALL V IOLIN MAGICAL VIOLIN Streetlight Records, Streetlight Records, San Jose Mon – 5pm; free free Whatever you do,, don’t don’t confuse this gentle, Big SStar-ish t tar-ish Washington W ashington indiee band with band Caulfield and the Texas Texas e Caulfield a His Magic Violin. But, of course, that?

That’d who would do tha at? That ’d be crazy! cr azy! Heck, there there are are plenty of CCatcher atcher a in the Ry Rye ye rreferences eferences to go around! around! This Caulfield Caulfield has a self-titled EP out this week and will be power-popping power-popping their way around aroundd the th West Westt Coast C t with ith fellow fellow ll Washington Washington statee rockers rockers Skinny Whiskers. (SP)

LLIVIN’ IVIN’ IIN NT THE HE USA USA Jul 4 at Civic Center C Lawn, Lawn, Los Loss Gatos Ga s

MISSION M ISSION CITY CITY OPERA OPERA A AND ND SSANTA ANTA CCLARA LARA CCHORALE HORALLEE Jul 7 at 6:30pm 6 p in Central C Cen Centr al Park Park Clara Santa Cla aa ar

JJAZZ AZZ ON ON THE THE PLAZZ, PLAZZ, JJOHN OHN PROULX PRO OULX Jul 7 at 6:30pm 6:30 0pm at LLos os Gatos os Town Toown Pla Plaz Plaza

THE T HE COURT COURT YARD YARD HOUNDS HOUNDS Jull 9 at Mountain Winery Winnery

RIHANNA R IHANNA A AND ND K KESHA ESHA A AND ND N NICKY ICKY M MINAJ INAJ Jul 10 0 at Shoreline Shoreline

LLILY ILY TOMLIN TOMLIN July 17 aatt Montalvo n A Center Arts ter

ALEJANDRO A LEJANDRO SSANZ ANZ Jul 18 at HP P Pavilion avilion on

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Vanities

Thursday–Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 3pm, through July 11; Northside Theatre Company, San Jose; $15/$20 The newest from Northside looks at the lives of three high school cheerleaders, first in the 1960s, then five years later in college and finally in the 1970s when then meet again in New York. Jack Heifner’s comedy has been an off-Broadway hit for many years.

Master Class Series Nor Cal Dance Arts, 418 N. Capital Ave., San Jose; 408.923.5300

For the month of July (July 6–29 to be exact), Nor Cal Dance Arts welcomes a whole slew of guest choreographies in different dance genres to teach in a Master Class Series. Some of the participants include Robert Hoffman from Step Up 2, You Got Served and other dance films, plus hip-hop stylists Bibi Kahlili and Ellen Kim.

Conservation of Intimacy

July 3–Sept. 9; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Cutting against the grain of iThises and iThats, artist Bernie Lubell has created an installation featuring lowtech machinery made from old-fashioned wood and pulleys and springs for his new show “Conservation of Intimacy.” It’s a contrapuntal warm-up for the hightech 01SJ festival coming later this year.

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Richards. ““Tracing Tracing the the Past, Past, Drawing Drawing tthe he FFuture: uture: M aster IInk nk Master P ainters in in 220th-Century 0th-Century Painters CChina.” hina.” Thru Thru Jul Jul 4.

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CCommunity ommunity SSchool chool ooff M usic Music aand nd A rt, M ountain V iew.

Art, Mountain View.

PALO P ALO A ALTO LTO A ART RT CCENTER ENTER “Secret Drawings.”

“Secret Drawings.” A show show bbased ased oonn tthe he SSurrealist urrealist iidea dea ooff tthe he eexquisite xquisite ccorpse. orpse. “Dream “Dream Sequences.”

Sequences.”

CCeramic eramic fi figures. gures. “Surreal “Surreal Reinventions.”

R einventions.” More More images images iinn a SSurrealist urrealist vein. vein. Thru Thru Sep Sep 44.. TTue-Sat, ue-Sat, 10am-5pm, 10am-5pm, TThu, hu, 77-9pm, -9pm, Sun, Sun, 1-5pm.

1-5pm. Palo Palo Alto.

A l to.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE IINSTITUTE NSTITUTE O OFF CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY A ART RT “Modesto Covarrubias: “Modesto Covarrubias: LLiminal,” iminal,” installation installation by

by San San JJose ose native. native. Thru Thru JJul ul 33.. ““Cat Cat Mazza: M azza: TThe he M Mill ill SSeries.” eries.” A Night Moves N ight M oves installation. installation.

TTue-Fri, ue-Fri, 110am-5pm, 0am-5pm, SSat, at, nnoon-5pm. oon-5pm. SSan an JJose. ose.

SSLG LG A ART RT B BOUTIKI OUTIKI “Robot Attack!!”

“Robot Attack!!” Paul Paul robots LLoughridge oughridge ffashions ashions ro bots Plus ffrom rom hhousehold ousehold sstuff. tuff. P lus ttie-dye ie-dye exhibit exhibit bbyy local local aartists. rtists. Thru Thru Jun. Jun. SSan an JJose. ose.

SSONYA ONYA P PAZ AZ GGALLERY ALLERY “Retrospectives and “Retrospectives and Revelations—A R evelations—A Decade Decade of of Design.”

D esign.” A llook ook back back at at tthe he work Paz. w ork ooff SSonya onya P az. CCampbell. ampbell.

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TThru hru JJuly. uly. SSan an JJose. ose.

“Recent Works.”

“Recent Works.” Paintings Paintings by by TTerri erri H Hill. ill. Thru Thru JJul ul 22.. M Mon-Sat, on-Sat, 111am-5pm, 1am-5pm, SSun, un, 111am-3pm.

1am-3pm.

Altos.

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KALEID K ALEID GGALLERY ALLERY “See Here,” “See Here,” paintings paintings bbyy M Murphy urphy A Adams, dams, aand nd ppaintings aintings bbyy Charis Charis D DeRemer. eRemer.

TThru hru JJul ul 9 9.. SSan an JJose. ose.

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ARTS RT S metroactive metr oactivve A 34 Prescription.” W Prescription.”

Wed, ed, 77:30pm. :30pm.

Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

FFree. ree. Ke pler ’s, M enlo P ark.

FFourth ourth ooff JJuly uly

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The aauthors The uthors of of a new new book book aabout bout the the hhistory istory of of the the city city work. ssigns igns copies copies ooff their their w ork.

Kepler’s, TThu, hu, 7:30pm.

7:30pm. Free.

Free. Ke pler ’s, Menlo Park.

M enlo P ark.

Fourth of Fourth of July July celebration celebration for for tthe he 1115th 15th time, time, with with barbecue barbecue aand nd music. music. Sun, Sun, 11:30am-3pm.

11:30am-3pm.

Ben B en LLomond. omond.

DORA D ORA CCALOTT ALOTT W WANG ANG

Family-friendly FFourth Family-friendly ourth with with fireworks. eentertainment ntertainment aand nd fi reworks.

SSun, un, 8am–5pm; 8am–5pm; Central Central Park, Park, SSanta anta Clara.

Clara.

A bbooksigning ooksigning event event fo forr tthe he aauthor uthor of of ““The The Kitchen Kitchen SShrink: hrink: A P sychiatrist ’s Psychiatrist’s R eflections oon nH ealing iinn Reflections Healing a CChanging hanging World.”

World.” Tue, Tue, Kepler’s, 77:30pm. :30pm. FFree. ree. Ke pler ’s, Menlo Park.

M enlo P ark.

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A DV E N T U R E S O ADVENTURES OFF R ROBIN OBIN HOOD H OOD Better than the R Russell ussell CCrowe row we Version.

Wed-Fri, V ersion. W ed-Fri, 6:30pm.

Runs R uns thr through ough JJul ul 17 17.

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Palo P alo A Alto lto Children’s Children’s TTheatre. heatre. e

CCHILDREN’S HILDREN’S T THEATRE HEATRE IIN NT THE HE P PARK ARK Fairy tales Fairy tales and and children’s children’s sstories tories ppresented resented bbyy Peninsula P eninsula Youth Youth Theatre.

Theatre.

6:30pm, TThis his week: week: FFri, ri, 6 :30pm, ““Hansel Hansel and and Gretel.”

Gretel.” Free.

Free.

ParkStage Mountain P arkStage ooutside utside M ountain View forr tthe V iew CCenter enter fo he Performing Arts.

P erforming A rts.

vents *eevents Big B ig D Deals eals

DANCING D ANCING O ON NT THE HE SSQUARE QUARE Free ddance Free ance llessons essons aare re iinn CCountry ountry and and Western.

Western. Tue, Tue, 6–8pm.

6 –8pm. CCourthouse ourthouse Square, Square, Redwood R edwood CCity. ity.

FFARMERS A R M E RS M MARKET ARKET Aw weekly eekly ssale ale ooff ffresh, resh, llocal ocal pproduce. roduce. FFri, ri, 110am-2pm.

0am-2pm. SSan an P edro SSquare, quare, SSan an JJose. ose.

Pedro

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ARDENWOOD A R D E N WO O D A llook ook back back at at how how people people uused sed ttoo celebrate celebrate the the holiday. holiday.

SSun. un. Ardenwood Ardenwood Historic Historic Farm, Farm, FFremont. remont.

CCHILI HILI CCOOK-OFF O O K- O F F

SSun, un, 10am.

10am. Free.

Free. Shoup Shoup Park, Park, Altos.

LLos os A ltos.

LLOS OS GGATOS ATOS FOURTH F O U RT H An old-fashioned An old-fashioned celebration celebration with w ith a ttraditional raditional band band cconcert oncert Wind ffeaturing eaturing the the San San Jose Jose W ind SSymphony. ymphony. SSun, un, aallll dday; ay; ffree. ree.

LLos os Gatos.

Gatos.

MILPITAS M ILPITAS FFOURTH O U RT H With fireworks With fireworks ddisplay isplay aand nd JJamFunkShus. amFunkShus. Pool Pool pparty arty aand nd bbarbecue, arbecue, 11–5pm; –5pm; cconcert, oncert, 8 8– – 110pm, 0pm, fireworks, fireworks, 9 9:30pm. :30pm. Sun; Sun; ffree. ree. Sports Sports Center, Center, Milpitas.

Milpitas.

MORGAN M O RG A N H HILL ILL FFOURTH O U RT H

Music, dancing, Music, dancing, food food vendors, vendors, kkids’ ids’ activities activities and and lots lots of of cchili hili vvying ying ffor or top top pprizes. rizes. Sun, Sun, nnoon–5pm; oon–5pm; ffree. ree. Mitchell Mitchell Park, Park, Palo Alto.

P alo A lto.

With a pparade With arade at at 10am 10am aand nd aallll the the ttraditional raditional trappings. trappings.

EEvent vent iincludes ncludes a 55kk aand nd 11-mile -mile rrun/walk un/walk and and ffamily amily ffestival, estival, pplus lus fireworks. fireworks. Sun; Sun; free. free.

Morgan M organ Hill.

Hill.

CCUPERTINO UPERTINO FFOURTH O U RT H

POOR P OOR H HOUSE OUSE BISTRO B I ST R O

A pancake pancake breakfast, breakfast, children’s children’s pparade arade at at M Memorial emorial Park Park at at 110am 0am and and fireworks fireworks at at 9:30pm.

9:30pm.

SSun, un, all all dday. ay. V Various arious llocations, ocations, CCupertino. upertino.

The club The club ccelebrates elebrates w with ith a music sstreet treet pparade arade (4pm), (4pm), llive ive m usic aand nd Cajun Cajun food food for for the the hholiday oliday aand nd its its fifth fifth aanniversary. nniversary. Sun, Sun, aallll day. day. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

FFELTON ELTON JULY JULY FOURTH F O U RT H

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With W ith a sock sock hop hop and and other other ’’50s-themed 50s-themed fun. fun. Sat-Sun. Sat-Sun. Roaring R oaring Camp, Camp, Graham Graham Hill Hill aand nd Mt.t. H M Hermon ermon R Road, oad, FFelton. elton.

Presented P resented bbyy P Peninsula eninsula with CCelebration elebration Association, Association, w ith a pparade, arade, festival festival aand nd fi fireworks. reworks.

SSun, un, 9am–5pm, 9am–5pm, pparade arade sstarts tarts aatt 10am; 10am; free. free. R Redwood edwood City.

City.

FFOURTH OURTH FFIREWORKS I R E WO R K S The San The San Jose Jose Giants Giants hhost ost Alla blowout blowout event event with with A llAmerican A merican Country Country JJam am (from (from 95.3 9 5.3 KKRTY) RTY) w with ith CChris hris Cagle Cagle Bowers fireworks. aand nd Ash Ash B owers pplus lus fi reworks.

SSun, un, 7pm.

7pm. $15. $15. M Municipal unicipal SStadium. tadium. SSan an JJose. ose.

FREMONT FFOURTH FREMONT O U RT H O OFF JJULY ULY PARADE PARADE Patriotic pparade Patriotic arade with with floats floats aand nd bands. bands. Sun, Sun, 10am.

10am. W Warm arm Boulevard, SSprings prings B oulevard, South South FFremont. remont.

GGILROY ILROY FFIREWORKS I R E WO R K S Annual salute.

Annual salute. SSun; un; 9 9:15pm. :15pm.

G ilroy H igh School.

School.

Gilroy High

ROSE, WHITE ROSE, WHITE & B BLUE LU E PARADE P ARADE A traditional traditional patriotic patriotic eevent vent ppresented resented by by tthe he Alameda Alameda Business B usiness Assoc., Assoc., tthe he SShasta/ hasta/ Hanchett H anchett P Park ark Neighborhood Neighborhood aand nd the the Rose Rose Garden Garden Neighborhood.

N eighborhood. Sun. Sun. Parade Parade aatt 10am, 10am, festival festival aatt 111am.

1am.

Hanchett H anchett A Avenue venue aand nd The The Alameda, A lameda, San San Jose.

Jose.

SARATOGA SARATOGA IINDEPENDENCE NDEPENDENCE DAY DAY A day day of of patriotic patriotic m music usic aand nd cchildren’s hildren’s ffun un ppresented resented bbyy Saratoga Saratoga Historical Historical FFoundation. oundation. Sun, Sun, 2-3:30pm.

2-3:30pm.

Moran KKevin evin M oran Park, Park, Saratoga.

Saratoga.

A ssummer ummer sseries eries w with ith llive ive music m usic aand nd food. food. Sat, Sat, 5:30pm.

5:30pm.

FFree. ree. P Paseo aseo ddee SSan an A Antonio ntonio ffrom rom CCesar esar ddee CChavez havez Park Park ttoo FFirst irst SStreet, treet, SSan an JJose. ose.

GILROY IINDEPENDENCE GILROY NDEPENDENCE DAY D AY B BBQ BQ With aallll the With the trimmings. trimmings. Fri, Fri, 111am–5pm, 1am–5pm, SSat-Sun, at-Sun, 10am– 10am– 6 pm. Gilroy Gilroy Gardens, Gardens, Gilroy.

Gilroy.

6pm.

Concert aand Concert nd fi fireworks. reworks. SSun, un, $13.50–$29.50.

55–10pm; –10pm; $ 13.50–$29.50.

Mountain View.

SShoreline, horeline, M ountain V iew.

TAHITI T AHITI FETE FETE O OFF SSAN AN JJOSE OSE

LLOS OS A ALTOS LTOS FFOURTH O U RT H

Featuring a Tahitian Featuring Tahitian dance dance food ccompetition, ompetition, pplus lus fo od aand nd ccrafts. rafts. July July 3–5.

3–5. $20 $20 per per day. day.

SSJSU JSU EEvent vent Center.

Center.

SSUNNYVALE UNNYVALE PICNIC PICNIC

With m With music usic bbyy Ye Ye Old Old Towne Towne Band B and pplus lus a parade, parade, music music aand nd ffood. ood. Presented Presented by by the the Los Los Altos A ltos Community Community Foundation.

Foundation.

With bbarbecue With arbecue ggrills, rills, a sstilt tilt walker w alker and and kkids’ ids’ aactivities. ctivities. Sun, Sun, 8am 8 am oon. n. Free.

Free. B Baylands aylands P Park, ark, SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

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New CYRUS (R) An offbeat drama by Mark and Jay Duplass about a man (John C. Reilly) whose affair with a single mom (Marisa Tomei) is deeply complicated by her weird, often creepy live-at-home adult son (Jonah Hill). (Opens Jul 2 at CinĂŠArts Santana Row; the Aquarius in Palo Alto.)

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and around her 75th birthday as she prepares a one-woman show for the Edinburgh Festival. Meanwhile, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keen to make sure her calendar is full. Her material was risky from the beginning; she made jokes about abortion in the 1970s. Her own husband (and producer) may have committed suicide because of the pressure of the chat-show wars. One more expose of the comedian as monster wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be worth writing aboutâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this, however, is a master class in how standup comedy is done. Access is the essence of a good proďŹ le piece; Rivers gave it, and directors Ricki Stern and Anna Sundberg have it: yet they keep the right amount

of distance. (Plays at selected theaters and opens Jun 2 at Camera 3 in San Jose and Camera 7 in Campbell.) (RvB)

THE KILLER INSIDE ME (R; 109 min.) See review on page 38.

THE LAST AIRBENDER (103 min.) A fantasy adventure directed

by M. Night Shyamalan about Aang the Avatar. (Opens Jul 1.)

RESTREPO (Unrated) A documentary about a platoon in Afghanistan, directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger.

(Opens Jul 2 at CinĂŠArts Santana Row.)

Adam Bomb THE NEW Adam Sandler ďŹ lm, Grown Ups, takes some cues from the novel Tuesdays With Morrie, with its theme that growing older doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily mean growing up and not having fun anymore. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funny how that theme is an analogy to Sandlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career. The story involves Lenny Feder (Sandler) and his gangâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, plus Chris Rockâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;reuniting when their childhood basketball coach passes away. Afterward, the ďŹ ve pals and their families stay together over a Fourth of July weekend at a lake house where they celebrated their championship more than 30 years ago. Why are they there? To hang out for about 100 minutes of running time. Seriously, >ifne Lgj nothing of signiďŹ cant note happened.

PG-13; 102 min.

Juggling ďŹ ve stars in one ďŹ lm leads to Plays valleywide too many underdeveloped characters.

Only Sandlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lenny, a wealthy Hollywood agent, gets some of his due.

Great comedians such as Rock are underutilized and not in their element. The friends interact throughout the ďŹ lm as joke-cracking wise guys. While some of the gags are funny, they eventually grow old; it looks as if Sandler and his buddies were more interested in making each other crack up on set than entertaining the paying customers.

The ďŹ lm moseys along raising a number of conďŹ&#x201A;ictsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; materialistic kids of today needing more outside play time, family and friends sticking together, husbands and wives getting alongâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;although none of them are ever fully developed.

Director Dennis Dugan of Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy fame does not live up to those Sandler classics.

Instead, Grown Ups continues the trend of Duganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent ďŹ lmsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;You Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Mess With the Zohan and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as phoned-in cheese fests. Growing up with Sandler ďŹ lms has been a pleasure, but he strikes out once again with Grown Ups, leaving a void for fans of his early work. If only he could cultivate another Bobby Boucher to wrestle those fans back on his side. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Scott Reyburn

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Revivals GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES/ NIAGARA (Both 1953) â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was nothing real about her,â&#x20AC;? observed Howard Hawks, which suggests why Marilyn Monroe has persisted in the realm of dreams.

But Monroeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place as a dream girlâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the most guileless, the most available, the tenderestâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;led to a minor industry in daydreamy lit and merchandising. As Dolly Parton said about Hank Williams, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What a sad life.

I wonder who got all that money?â&#x20AC;?

Niagara is Technicolor ďŹ lm noir. Marilyn has had enough of her husband (Joseph Cotten) but her scheme to kill him goes drastically wrong, and an innocent newlywed (Jean Peters) gets caught in the vortex near those raging waters. Gentlemen is the movie they were trying to make recently when they titled it Chicago: Monroe and Jane Russell play a couple of (Anita) Loos women on an ocean liner, trying to get diamonds out of crabs (Charles Coburn is one such). The sparkle of Monroeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hymn to the gems, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Diamonds Are a Girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Friend,â&#x20AC;? ought to have been remembered by Elton John when he wrote that depressing dirge about her. (Plays Jul 3-6 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD/ THE WORKING MAN (1934/1933) The moviegoer of 1932 would be shocked to hear how unfamiliar the name of George Arliss is to the moviegoer of 2010. In his string of successes, Arliss showed that youth and exuberant Americanism was sometimes no match for the ringing voice, measured syllables and wellstocked makeup kit of a stage-trained British thespian. David Thomson, whose article in the Biographical Dictionary of Film is a ďŹ ne memorial to Arliss, claims that The House of Rothschild gives us the best movie this stage-trained actor ever made, despite previous roles as Wellington, Voltaire and Alexander Hamilton. In a dual role, Arliss walks us through the history of the banking family. The follow-the-money script explains how Wellington (C. Aubrey Smith) comes to the Rothschilds to bankroll his ďŹ nal campaign against Napoleon, while a Jew-hating Prussian count (Boris Karloff) schemes against the family. Meanwhile, romance interrupts ďŹ nance in a cross-cultural love affair between Loretta Young and Robert Young (no relation). Threestrip Technicolor wowed the early â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;30s audience in the ďŹ nal sequence.

BILLED WITH The Working Man, an Arliss vehicle about a shoe-factory owner who goes on holiday; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most memorable for the presence of Bette Davis (hired by Arlissâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; special request).

(Plays Jul 7-9 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER/ THREE LITTLE WORDS (1942/1950) One of the more obscure of Fred Astaireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musicals.

He plays a hired hand at the Latin American nightclub belonging to Rita Hayworthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old-fashioned father, Adolphe Menjou. BILLED WITH Three Little Words. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of bad-time musical in which Astaire is laid up through a third of the picture with a bum leg. It purports to be the story of Harry Ruby (Red Skelton) and Bert Kalmar (Astaire), Tin Pan Alley songwriters. While Ruby was a legendary witâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;the funniest man I ever knew,â&#x20AC;? said Grouchoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Skelton plays him as a clumsy oaf obsessed with the Washington Senators, which gives us an excuse to see Skeltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slapstick-baseball routine.

Astaire dances with Vera-Ellen, an athletic though bland partner, in a gaudy Hermes Panâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;choreographed jitterbug number about the home life of two dancers. Still the closest this movie comes to the customary Astaire magic is a too-short scene where he practices a few moves by himself. While Carter De Havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sorry Now?â&#x20AC;? is a stunner, the tunes canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t save this.

A Japanese-dialect number may be the low point, though the Frenchy routine rivals it. (Plays Jun 30-Jul 2 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

(RvB)

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Red Desertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; SEEING the emotionally distressed Giuliana (Monica Vitti) of Michelangelo Antonioniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1964 Red Desert staring hopelessly at a small pool of oil lapping against the banks of a river puts the viewer in mind of the disaster in the Gulf of the Mexico and how it is driving people to despair and even suicide. Antonioni says in an interview extra with this Criterion DVD, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are aspects [of the industrial world] that I even ďŹ nd beautiful,â&#x20AC;? but his famous ďŹ lm seems to ďŹ nd only deep anxiety in the reďŹ neries around Ravenna. Giuliana is recovering from an auto accident that has left her estranged from her husband; her illness, however, is more existential than a case of post-traumatic-stress syndrome. She wanders, a lost soul, through a landscape that overwhelms herâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;full of looming metal pipes, long rows of metal barrels and gray empty streets. Inside, she hunches in corners and presses herself :i`k\i`fe against whitewashed walls.

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Other people are deďŹ nitely a kind $39.99 of hell, a point well made in a claustrophobic scene in a waterfront shack where some brittle couples try to goad each other into sexual dalliances. Giuliana takes up, tentatively, with a visiting engineer (Richard Harris), but he offers no real solace. Finally, as she starts to break down, cowering like a rat that has failed the maze, he asks her, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What are you afraid of ?â&#x20AC;?

She answers, dismally, all-encompassingly: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Streets, factories, colors, people, everything.â&#x20AC;? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no cure for that.

The Technicolor widescreen ďŹ lm, with cinematography

by Carlo De Palma, is seductive even when the air is ďŹ lled with poisonous yellow vapors from the factory smoke stacks. Antonioniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye for formal compositions captures his characters and pins them down in a hardedged world of metal plates, conduits, storage tanks and girders. The only relief comes in a strange fairy tale that Giuliana tells her young son about a girl who lives alone on an island; these scenes are full of rapturous close-ups of sandstone outcroppings and rhythmically lapping waves on the curved beach of a tiny bay. That dream state cannot endure. At the end, Giuliana and the boy pick their way through a patch of earth so polluted that steam rises from the ground itself. The transfer is immaculate, and this package comes with a booklet, interviews with Antonioni and Vitti and two early Antonioni shorts.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Michael S. Gant

Reviews THE A-TEAM (PG-13; 117 min.) A big-screen adaptation of the relentlessly smallscreen TV show.

COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINKSY (R; 120 min.) You might suspect a sequel from the title, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just coincidence: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky ďŹ ts snugly into last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unrelated Coco Before Chanel.

Chanel here is Anna Mouglalis, a knifelike, severe creature, with a wide scarlet mouth. The ChanelStravinsky love affair begins before World War I in Paris. Chanel goes to the ballet to see the debut of The Rite of Spring. The audience starts to riot. We see Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen) blaming the dancers for not being able to dance to the music. Sympathizing, Chanel invites Stravinsky and his equally poor family into her silk-lined chateau.

Director Jan Kounen waltzes the camera around a plush house, as Stravinsky pounds the keyboard and Chanel draws the composer closer to her. Love isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t her sole occupation;

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sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also supervising the creation of her namesake perfume. This olfactory task is hampered by the smell of burning emanating from Stravinskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife (Yelena Morozova).

From the art nouveau kaleidoscope titles to the nostril-ďŹ&#x201A;aring ďŹ nish, Kounen presents a standard love triangleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rich-looking, spotless. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s engrossing until it suddenly isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

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GET HIM TO THE GREEK (R; 109 min.) Russell Brandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decadent rock star Aldous Snow proved popular enough in Forgetting Sarah Marshall that director Nicholas Stoller decided to make an entire ďŹ lm dedicated to him. Unfortunately, what made Jason Segelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ lm such a success wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t solely Brandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character. Get Him to the Greek sloppily copies Marshall with Jonah Hill in the title role as a record label intern acting as a babysitter for Snow. While there are deďŹ nite laughs, it lacks the heart and soul its predecessor had in spades. Like any spin-off, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a pale comparison of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original. Fortunately, Hill and Brand offer enough humor to make it a good second-class comedy. (MM)

LETTERS TO JULIET (PG-13; 105 min.) As Sideshow Bob might have predicted: The chick ďŹ&#x201A;ickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bottomless chum-bucket has claimed Vanessa Redgrave.

In Verona, an aspiring New Yorker writer Sophie (Amanda Seyfried)

tours the Casa di Giullieta, which the Veronese assert is the actual home of Juliet Capulet. The lovelorn have been leaving letters to the not only dead but imaginary girl for years. Sophie ďŹ nds a 50-yearold communiquĂŠ from an English woman (Redgrave) who had to leave an Italian lover behind. Sophie answers the letter; the lady arrives with her difďŹ dent yet cute British grandson (Christopher Egan), his insults hiding a tender bruised heart.

Loads of locations, but director Gary Winick doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t frame them well.

Seyfried, despite divine shape and alertness, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make this work. You know the saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;The lights are on, but nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home? In Seyfriedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s someone clearly at home, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just that the lights arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t on. (RvB)

KNIGHT AND DAY (PG-13, 109 min.) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to tell whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too old for whom: the script for this stale slice-of-cake spy movie or the actors reciting it. Boston garage owner June (Cameron Diaz) encounters mischievous yet oddly trustworthy secret agent Roy (Tom Cruise). Soon the two head to the Caribbean, then to Salzburg, then to Seville. Diaz is repeatedly knocked out so she can keep waking up looking tousled and post-coital.

Cruise hides his own crowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feet behind sunglasses. The ďŹ lmmakers have way too much faith in strikingly cheap-looking green screenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

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TOY STORY 3 (G; 103 min.) Sit through the pretty ordinary grabber sequence at the beginning of the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a frontier adventure with a runaway trainâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; because once this latest Pixar effort gets started, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfection. Woody (Tom Hanks), the toy-size avatar of a cinematic centuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of action heroes, is the lone skeptic when the rest of the gang is donated to a seemingly wonderful day-care center run by a too-friendly huggy bear (Ned Beatty). What transpires is a Great Escape parody that is less a joke and more like a captivating (and terrifying) new version of an old myth. Things get very heavy indeed; these talking walking toys end up on the edge of extinction, which is why the seasoned professionals doing the voice acting add the right note of mortality to this sequel. A stunner, all told, in color, action, humor and serious underpinnings. (RvB)

compounds guarded by chainedup pit bulls. But one doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a sense of watching a city director exploiting the squalor. Winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bone stays mysterious, even as it strays close to documentary. Lawrenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own ďŹ erceness gives this survival story the kind of immediacy that the summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action movies can only grope at. (RvB)

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planned to join the Army and use the signing bonus to help the rest of her familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two young children and a mother incapacitated with depression. Instead, the girl has to hunt up a father who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be found. Granik ďŹ lms in the halffrozen hills near SpringďŹ eld, Mo.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a forbidding landscape of bare trees, blue wood smoke and mobile home

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David Slade proves that the mark of a former musicvideo director is that the movie will be sustainable for three or four minutes at a time. Still the climactic battle of good vs. evil looks like a petting zoo version of the funny-animal Gotterdammerung in The Chronicles of Narnia. It resembles a pick-up football game in which the players are suddenly devoured by the mascots. As always Edward, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;True Love Waitsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Vampireâ&#x201E;˘,â&#x20AC;? delays consummation. Or does he? In one scene, he puts a ring on Bellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ nger. The next time we see this ďŹ nger in close-up, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bleeding: symbolic badge of the transďŹ xed hymen? No matter what heat the actors bring to it, they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t boil the Mormon starch out of it. Meyer is devious, switching the genders on the traditional should-we-or-shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-we-do-it argument.

The ďŹ lm is basically a cheat: the two prettiest people in it donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kiss.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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“I hate the blues,” Rodriguez says.

“To be punk, you have to hate the blues.”

But after the first session, he was sold.

“I can’t shake it,” he admits. It’s infective. I’m a punk rocker, but I’m still a musician. When I went

to jam with Grimace, it was good in terms of volume. He was loud, and that impressed me right off the bat.

It was strong and potent music. I liked it and wanted to work with it.”

Meredith didn’t necessarily expect Rodriguez to go for it, either.

“I heard from a friend of mine that Jamie might be looking for something,” Grimace says. “I had met Jamie a couple years earlier, and he wanted to jam with me, but I thought he was this sort of Gypsy, and there was no way we were going to be able to chain him down.

But I called him, and I thought the conversation was going to be me trying to get him in the band. As soon as he picked up the phone, it was about 15 minutes of him yapping.”

Now all they needed was a

drummer, so they put an ad on Craigslist. Les Shanrock was the lucky fourth caller.

“I called them up and decided to show up to see what would happen,” Shanrock said. “I hadn’t really been gigging around at that point and was looking to get into a full-time project. It turned out to be a real serendipitous thing.

We started jamming and we just clicked.”

“We tried out other drummers,” Rodriguez says, “but they imploded because they couldn’t take the volume.”

Indeed, one thing all the members of this self-proclaimed “alt-blues band” agree on is they like to play loud. Meredith says most people who tried out walked out after hearing where he was going with it.

“They said, ‘This is going to destroy my hearing,’” Meredith remembers. “I’ve almost gotten into a fist fight because one of the bass

players we tried out said the volume snapped his glasses.”

In the end, vocalist and guitarist Meredith ended up with a trio of players who have more than 60 years combined experience in the South Bay music scene.

“We’re not three guys who just picked up our instruments five years ago,” he says.

Their roots in San Jose not only shaped their personalities, but also their music. Meredith had been in a few bands in the ’80s and ’90s, but until Grimace and the Fakers, he was never able to realize his vision of a band based on his biggest blues influences, like Mississippi Fred McDowell, Hound Dog Taylor and Muddy Waters.

His affinity for loud music also was born in San Jose, way back in the early ’80s.

“I first saw Ribzy when it I was 13 years old,” Meredith says. “I took the bus downtown and went to this punk rock show. I didn’t even know what a punk rocker was. My friends and I went to this house, down to the basement, and we were scared shitless. At that time, the twins [Donovan and Jason Drummund] were singing, and I thought someone was going to kill me.”

However, the scene has changed since then.

“It’s changed with the times,” Rodriguez says. “The venues, the music; it’s all retro nowadays. It’s harder to find venues to play, and it’s harder to find new music and a new sound.”

But the more things change, the more they stay the same—hopefully.

“I grew up here in San Jose,” he says, “hanging out with a bunch of dirtbags, drinking 40 ounces and hiding out behind the bleachers, smoking weed and playing in bands my whole life. That’s what I know, and that’s what I got good at. It’s hard to stop, and I don’t know what else I would do.”

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Wednesday, June 30, 7:30pm; Mountain Winery, Saratoga; $39.50–$89.50 It’s rare that a band hits it big once, let alone twice, but the Black Crowes have done it, first breaking in 1990 with Shake Your Money Maker, then again in 2008 with their Warpaint comeback album.

Smartasses could argue that the band itself is simply one more comeback for the Rolling Stones, but hey, that’s not nice. (SP)

Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio Saturday, 8pm; Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Palo Alto; $16/$28

Some 30 albums in, Dr. Lonnie Smith is a legend of the B3 organ. He was recording on Blue Note back in the ’60s, producing some of the best soul jazz ever. By the way, the headgear isn’t a shtick; Smith converted to Sikhism back in the ’70s. (SP)

The American Scene Saturday, 5pm; Nickel City, San Jose

Vacaville alt-pop band the American Scene know their American scene—witness “Marty McFly, Nostradamus and I,” which directly references neither Back to the Future nor overrated prophets, but manages to get their point across. Not quite emo, not quite pop-punk, not quite modern rock, they’re melodic, but still manage to make some noise. Ipswitch and Chris Vaughn open. (SP)

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The Phenomenauts THE Phenomenauts are gods among geeks these days, but it wasn’t always as such. Ten years ago, singer/guitarist Angel Nova, drummer Jimmy Boom and former ‘Naut Joebot 1.0 set up camp on Fisherman’s Wharf, busting out ‘80s covers on accordions and ukuleles. “We Saturday, 8pm thought we’d show up in costume, make a whole bunch With Monkey and of money, and go home rich and cool,” says Nova. Under Gnarboots the name Space Patrol, they hopped out of a van in white jumpsuits and attracted the attention of passersby. “A lot of Homestead Lanes, people took pictures, but not a lot of people gave us money.”

Cupertino They still don’t get paid much more than most local indie acts, but they’ve gained a few more fans since then. The $8 Phenomenauts have come a long way since hustling tourists on the wharf. Not only is their name known far and wide across the Bay Area and in certain geeky circles, they’ve got a slightly bigger budget to work with. These days, it’s Have fog machines, lasers and toilet-paper gun, will travel. The band has become legendary for its ghetto-rigged live shows, featuring audience-interactive toys, gadgets and games, and has attracted legions of devout followers who dress alike, organize into regional chapters and write themselves into the Phenomenauts storyline.

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Constantly playing and prepping for the release of The Electric Sheep EP on Aug. 6, the band is busy unleashing new songs on its audiences. “I don’t know what we’re gonna do in the future; the industry’s changing so much,” says Nova.

In appropriately futuristic form, Electric Sheep will be available for download only. No matter what they do, it’s always in the name of their ubiquitous slogan: science and honor. —Jody Amable

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Thu, 77-10pm: Thu, -10pm: Live Live jjazz. azz. San San JJose. ose.

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Sun, TTue, Sun, ue, 55pm: pm: TTraditional raditional IIrish rish music. m usic. SSan an JJose. ose.

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6pm: Bean TTue, ue, 6 pm: B ean Creek.

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THREE FFLAMES THREE LAMES RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm-closing: pm-closing: Live Live ccountry ountry music, Doug Rose m usic, D oug R ose Productions Productions w/Bit w /Bit aand nd SSpur pur Band Band featuring featuring Willow Glen.

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Wed, 6 Wed, 6:30pm: :30pm: O Open pen Mic. Mic. TTue, ue, 77-11pm: -11pm: Jazz Jazz oopen pen stage. stage.

Redwood R edwood City.

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Wed, Fri, Wed, Fri, Sun, Sun, 8pm-2am: 8pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.

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

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Wed: W ed: Karaoke.

Karaoke. SSan an JJose. ose.

Wed, Sat-Sun: Wed, Sat-Sun: CChris. hris. Thu-Fri, Thu-Fri, 8:30pm: 8 :30pm: U Uncle ncle Dougie.

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Noo cover.

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Jose.

DASILVA’S D ASILVA’S B BRONCOS RONCOS Wed: Guitar Wed: Guitar H Hero ero Tournament Tournament pplus lus karaoke. karaoke. Thu, Thu, 9pm-1am: 9pm-1am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

DIVE D IVE BAR BAR TTue-Wed: ue-Wed: Karaoke.

Karaoke. San San Jose.

Jose.

FFAHRENHEIT AHRENHEIT Mon: Monday Mon: Monday Night Night Madness.

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FFLAMES LAMES COFFEE COFFEE SHOP SHOP Thu-Sat, 9pm: Thu-Sat, 9pm: Uncle Uncle Dougie Dougie SShow. how. No No cover. cover. San San Jose.

Jose.

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Milpitas.

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SSun: un: KKaraoke. araoke. San San JJose. ose.

WOODHAM’S W OODHAM’S LLOUNGE OUNGE TTue-Thu ue-Thu aand nd SSat, at, 110pm: 0pm: V Vinnie. innie.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

Dance D ance Clubs Clubs

Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Willow Glen.

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Wed, Fri: Expressions Expressions Zodiac. Sat: Fame TTue, Fame. ue 9pm: College uue, Night. San Jose.

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Wed: The CCypher Wed: ypher with Adio Dru. Tue: Tuue: DJ Scott Rich. San Jose.

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Jones. San San Jose.

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Thu: DJ Akustik. Fri: DJ Mayo.

Sat: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik.

Sun: Latin Beat. Sun: Sonidero Sonidero Night. Sunnyvale.

TTue-Sun, ue-Sun, 77pm-close: pm-close: D DJJ aand nd Big ddancing. ancing. B ig band, band, swing. swing. No No ccover. over. Cupertino.

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Jose.

Fri: DJ Girl 6. Sat: Hella Miles, Panic City.. San Jose.

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Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: Davey Davey K. K. No No cover. cover.

CCampbell. ampbell.

Wed: The Pick Up, Wed: Up, DJ Sig O. Thu: Dig. Fri: AHHH with DJ Radio Raheem. Sat: the TTemple eemple All-Stars.

All-Stars. San Jose.

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Fri-Sat: Old School. Milpitas.

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TThu: hu: TTech ech IItt U Upp B B*Tch *Tch w w/Paul /Paul LLeath eath and and R Residents. esidents. Sat: Sat: Hyphidelity H yphidelity presents presents tthe he SSlumps. lumps. Fri: Fri: IIndie ndie Electro.

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BRIT BRITANNIA TANNIA A ARMS A RMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh.

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Fri: DJ Classic. Sat: Hip-hop band live. Sun: Showcase Sundays Mon: DJ Spin.

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VOODOO V OODOO LLOUNGE OUNGE Sat, 10pm: First Saturdays Saturdays club dance, $10. San Jose.

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Why might night work lead to more breast cancer? One theory points to the hormone melatonin, which is secreted by your pineal gland and helps regulate your body clock. Melatonin is produced most abundantly at night, but this can be substantially reduced by exposure to light, including artificial light while you’re on the job. Some researchers say suppressed melatonin levels can lead to an increase in sex hormones, which in turn can increase cancer risk.

Scary? You bet. But let’s dive a little deeper into the numbers. The Danish investigators matched up 7,000 women who had breast cancer with 7,000 women who didn’t, factored out things like age and socioeconomic status, then compared job schedules.

The night workers seemingly got more than their share of cancer. Trouble is, we’re not sure the “night workers” actually worked at night. The test subjects weren’t interviewed—their personal information was pulled from various databases and their schedules were inferred based on the likelihood of women’s doing night work in their various occupations, as determined by a prior survey. The process was imprecise, the possibility of confounding influences difficult to rule out.

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I’m not seeing much reason to revise the conclusion of a 2003 review in the journal Occupational Medicine: “Today there is no conclusive evidence that night work per se increases the risk of cancer.” I’ll boldly say the risk of rotating-shift work is unproven too.

Of course, the big C isn’t the only alleged danger: • One study found a third of night-shift workers suffered from insomnia and such, compared to less than a fifth of day workers.

• A German study found night-shift workers were 60 percent more likely to have had an ulcer and 70 percent more likely to have had gastrointestinal complaints.

• A study from Sweden correlated night-shift work with a poorer ratio of good to bad cholesterol. Other studies have noted a possible link between night work and weight gain.

But so far dire reports like these haven’t added up to anything either.

As that 2003 review puts it, “Today, no evidence exists showing that shift work affects longevity.” Still, you never know.

Common sense suggests night work is stressful; studies show the risk of onthe-job accidents is 30 percent higher at night. Science may someday succeed in penetrating the smoke and finding a fire. But it hasn’t yet.

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Despite m anager B ennie K ing. D espite tthe he figures, llow ow attendance attendance fi gures, King King said said was tthat hat tthe he team team mw ass in in good good sshape hape financially. fi nancially. ““We’ll We’ll sstay tay aafloat, float,” King King said. said. ““First First and when an nd fforemost, oremost, w hen you you start starrt aany ny organization, primarily here, o rganization, p rimarrily h ere, yyou ou have have bee fi financially tto ob nan nciallly sstable tab ble rregardless egardless iiff have five up.

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organ organization nization decisions decisions in in tthe he offoff ff-sseason. eason. T The he W Wolves olves may may d drop rop tthe he S San an JJose ose m moniker oniker come come off-season. off ff--seasson. ““There There aare re other other b buildings uildings iin n tthis his ar area rea that that we we d definitely efinitely want want tto op possibly ossibly p pursue ursue an and nd tthat hat ccould ould possibly p ossibly aaffect ff ffeect tthe he n name ame cchange hange aass well, w ell,” K King ing ssaid. aid.

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