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Thanks Curtis Cartier’s Fanime convention piece (“Wild Anime,” Cover Story, May 26) was absolutely wizard.

Textbook, if not better. Engaging, personal, good use of quotes, a good sense of time and place, good narrative

flow, good structure, nicely researched, good use of the language and concise.

An example of the excellence that I’ve come to expect from Metro.

TERRY WHITTIER | SAN JOSE

No Thanks I found Ms. Clark’s article (“Get a Life!” Cover Story, July 7) to be shortsighted and borer-line offensive. She writes as though it is news that a 21hour workweek would improve our lives and make us all more “sane and healthy.” I don’t think anyone’s going to disagree that it would be nice to spend more time with our families, riding our bikes and growing our own food—except maybe those of us for whom Ms. Clark’s personal lifestyle choices are (1) uninteresting or (2)

unattainable due to our immigration status, education level or disability.

I’m pleased to see that the author remembered issues of health care and age. Perhaps the next article she writes will enlighten me on how my husband and I (collectively we work more than 90 hours per week), can move out of our shitty apartment and afford cable television.

SARAH LEGG | PETALUMA

Splitting Hairs So basically there’s little difference between Vietnamese “play by its own rules” news media and U.S. mainstream “fake but accurate” news media (“Blogging in Vietnamese,” The Fly, July 7).

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R.I.P. On Monday, author and sometime Metro contributor Harvey Pekar was found dead at his home by his wife of 27 years, cartoonist Joyce Brabner.

He was 70. The autobiographical comics written by this Cleveland resident put his city on the map; in his best work, including Our Cancer Year (co-written by Brabner), American Splendor and The Quitter, Pekar expanded the boundaries of what graphic literature can do. For more about Pekar and links to his work for Metro, see metroactive.com/harveypekar.

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Team Takes San Jose.org It looks like the lines between the city’s visitors bureau and the labor-business coalition that runs city-owned facilities is being further blurred, if they exist at all. Until very recently, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, a quasi-public, hotel tax–funded organization, and one of the three entities that make up Team San Jose, operated the SanJose.org website. The site made mention of Team San Jose as an “innovative public-private” partnership between the CVB, South Bay Labor Council and a group of local hoteliers, who joined forces to streamline the process by which out-of-towners can spend their cash.

But with the relaunch of SanJose.org, all distinction has been removed, and Team San Jose is given top billing—solidly defined as a nonprofit (wherein public and private may be innovative, but certainly are not distinct). DAN FENTON, the affable head of both the CVB and TSJ, was unavailable for Don’t comment, leaving it to forget communications manager to tip!

SARAH HILDENBERGER to try and find the fine FLY@ line separating public METRONEWS. money from private COM profit. “About a year ago we were technically two organizations,” Hildenberger said. “Now we’re officially Team San Jose.” When we tried the telephone number on SanJose. org, we were greeted by a cheery electronic message that said we’d reached “San Jose Convention and Cultural Facilities” as managed by “Team San Jose in partnership with the Convention and Visitors Bureau, organized labor, [and] local hoteliers.”

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Two weeks ago, the usually loquacious Lopez announced that he would run for his old job as president

of the San José Police Officers Association (POA). Lopez said he believes George Beattie, his media-shy predecessor, is a weak leader.

A few days later, on July 1, an independent investigation report concluded that no mole or spy had burrowed its way into the IPA’s office.

On the day the results of the investigation were released, LaDoris Cordell, the retired judge and Stanford Law School assistant dean who now heads the office, said: “I am greatly relieved that the investigation has determined that there are no leaks of confidential information by any member of my staff.” Six days later, she fired her senior analyst, Suzan Stauffer.

The move was praised by local community groups, who saw the sacking as confirmation that Cordell was doing what she could to remove a suspected informant from her midst.

Though she acknowledges the firing, Cordell still maintains that nobody was providing a back channel to Lopez.

“I have said this several times publicly, and I’ll say it to you: no one—including the person who is no longer on my staff—no one has ever, ever leaked confidential information to Bobby Lopez, or anybody else,” Cordell says. “I firmly, absolutely believe that. Period.”

Lopez won’t say why he’s lawyered up, and declines to comment further.

However, a source who has worked with Lopez and the IPA’s office says the longtime cop believes there are forces inside San Jose City Hall who do not want to see him re-elected to his old post.

“He’s concerned that if the friggin’ ACLU can get an IPA employee

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fired before an investigation is even completed, they’ll go after him next,” the source says.

The imbroglio resulted from a June 9 article by Mercury News reporter Sean Webby, which reported that an IPA staffer had “repeatedly leaked confidential information” to Lopez, and quoted Lopez confirming that he had a spy in the auditor’s office during his time as POA president.

The story sparked outrage from local activists, and strained the already shaky relationship between San Jose police and some community leaders.

“Let me just say that I have no idea who Bobby Lopez is,” Cordell says. “I have never had a conversation with him. I don’t know why he says the things he does. I have no idea.

“My way of dealing with people is to always be objective and not go in with biases. All I know of him is what I have read in the newspaper, and the investigative report. And that doesn’t really tell me much. In fact, it leaves me a bit confused about who this person is.”

Credibility Gap Cordell was already aware of the concerns about a mole in the IPA’s office by the time the Merc story hit the streets, having been tipped off by former local ACLU head Skyler Porras—one of Webby’s main sources.

The investigative report by attorney Mike Moye of Hanson Bridgett LLP states that Lopez told Webby straight up that he never received information on specific confidential complaints.

“Lopez makes clear that he received no confidential information from anyone on the IPA staff and that the news article was not accurate,” the report says on page 19.

Moye goes on to say that at the beginning and end of Lopez’s June 8 interview with Webby, Lopez told the reporter unequivocally that no confidential IPA information had been passed to him. The Mercury News has since reported that this exchange did not happen.

Lopez agreed to show up for a faceto-face interview for this article, but canceled the interview last week. He explained that in light of “the Pete Constant situation,” his lawyer has

barred him from talking to the press.

“As you know most cops don’t like to give interviews,” Lopez said. “It’s the conception that we are going to be misquoted. And I can honestly tell you that I was.”

Lopez said he believes that the Mercury News is going to try and do everything it can to defend Webby’s reporting of the IPA spy story.

“Otherwise, he’s toast.”

“I understand where they are coming from and what they were trying to do,” Lopez says, “but it doesn’t negate the fact that I didn’t do anything unethical, or anything wrong.”

San Jose District 1 Councilman Pete Constant, a retired police officer himself, says he believes Lopez is being untruthful.

“I talked to Sean [Webby] about it, and Sean told me that [Lopez] told him more than once. Sean said he even clarified with him what he meant. And now he’s completely recanting and saying something different.

“One can only assume one of two things: that he lied the first time, or he’s lying the second time, because they’re not the same story.

“It worries me whenever we have issues like that, because as a police officer, your credibility is you. He’s not just a police officer, he’s a police sergeant. That carries a lot of authority in our police department, and that concerns me.”

Moving On Lopez has still never named Stauffer as his source. That said, he has characterized his leaker as a “whistleblower” who let him know about potentially “unethical” practices being perpetrated by former IPA head Barbara Attard.

Cordell, who took over the IPA position in May, continues to refuse to comment further on Stauffer’s firing because it’s a “personnel matter.” She says that if Lopez is elected to become head of the POA again, she will not bring up this situation at all in their interactions.

“I have no interest whatsoever in why he said what he said, or why he does what he does,” Cordell repeated.

“He can be helpful to me as leader of

the POA by helping my office do the best that it can. I welcome that.”

Cordell points to her newly proposed officer-citizen mediation program as a solution to easing tensions between the community and police. She also just wants to get back to focusing on her job as IPA. “I’m moving forward,” Cordell says.

“There is no way I can operate by looking back. We did an investigation.

Done. Life is short, and I have a lot of things I want to do here in this office.”

For his part, Lopez has his November election to think about.

And apparently he has other concerns as well: before canceling his interview, he mentioned to Metro that his wife, Kathy, is “getting kind of pissed” at him for igniting this whole controversy in the first place.

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old Vietnamese political blog Little Saigon Inside has completely changed its look to a more generic Blogspot template, and reintroduced itself in a post that seems to swear off the kind of finger-licking local gossip pointed out in this column last week: “Now under the direction of AsianAmerican Poll Media, Little Saigon Inside will mainly focus on economic trends and business opportunities relating to Vietnam and its community abroad. When relevant, we will provide insights on political trends that affect ‘the pursuit of happiness’ by the Vietnamese people living in Vietnam as well as overseas.” Seems the new bosses are more interested in the actual Saigon. Although Fly could find no mention of “Asian-American Poll Media” other than on LSI, the change does seem absolute.

Though all the old posts remain—with the authors’ names removed—the latest post is about journalism fellowships to Vietnam. At least one commenter did not see it as an improvement, writing, “This is language that we’ve heard from the VC’s propagandas [sic]. Why would we want to focus on business opportunities for Vietnam and not our own opportunities here?”

11 the best of the local web

1. Visit the “Life in a Day” channel and learn more about the project.

Be sure to read through the steps you need to take to participate and the guidelines for creating your video(s). Also check out some of the sample videos for inspirational ideas.

Life in a Day

2. On July 24, capture your day on camera.

EVERY DAY, 6.7 billion people view the world through their own unique lens. Imagine if there was a way to collect all of these perspectives, to aggregate and mold them into the cohesive story of a single day on earth.

3. Upload your footage to the “Life in a Day” channel any time before July 31.

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Kevin Macdonald, the Oscar-winning director of films such as The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void and One Day in September, will then edit the most compelling footage into a feature documentary film, to be executive-produced

by Ridley Scott, the director behind films like Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Thelma & Louise, Blade Runner and Robin Hood.

LG Electronics is supporting “Life in a Day” as a key part of its long-standing “Life’s Good” campaign and to support the creation of quality online content that can be shared and enjoyed by all.

The film will premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and if your footage makes it into the final cut, you’ll be credited as a co-director and may be one of 20 contributors selected to attend the premiere.

Want to take part? Here’s what to do.

A New Way of Reading I have a piece in the August 2010 issue of the Smithsonian magazine, their 40th Anniversary issue. They commissioned 40 views of the future. I wrote about the future of reading, or what they titled “Reading in a Whole New Way.

provoke a reflex to do something: to research the term, to query your screen ‘friends’ for their opinions, to find alternative views, to create a bookmark, to interact with or tweet the thing rather than simply contemplate it.

“Book reading strengthened our analytical skills, encouraging us to pursue an observation all the way down to the footnote. Screen reading encourages rapid patternmaking, associating this idea with another, equipping us to deal with the thousands of new thoughts expressed every day. The screen rewards, and nurtures, thinking in real time. We review a movie while we watch it, we come up with an obscure fact in the middle of an argument, we read the owner’s manual of a gadget we spy in a store before we purchase it rather than after we get home and discover that it can’t do what we need it to do.” —KEVIN KELLY, KK.ORG/THETECHNIUM

blinddrew I think one of the things that this article doesn’t touch on is the difference in attention span required. I am a big fan of the screen and its connectivity but I wonder sometimes if we are losing our ability to concentrate? bodyhacker Until the technology that tracks eye movement is placed into devices: “Nielsen Norman Group’s study found that reading speeds declined by 6.2 percent on the iPad and 10.7 percent on the Kindle compared to print.”

“Soon enough, screens will follow our eyes to perceive where we gaze.

In the movie ‘Minority Report,’ the character played by Tom Cruise stands in front of a wraparound screen and hunts through vast archives of information with the gestures of a symphony conductor.

Reading becomes almost athletic.

Just as it seemed weird five centuries ago to see someone read silently, in the future it will seem weird to read without moving your body.

“Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Screens encourage more utilitarian thinking.

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Unfortunately for us, San Jose gets its name attached to the madness, as the “winner” of the event, Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, lives in San Jose. Why would anyone celebrate this guy? Is there any way that we can distance ourselves from Mr. Chestnut?

In his front page story, sportswriter Mark Purdy wrote, “I have no bones about this: Chestnut is my favorite Bay Area sports personality—unless you believe that competitive eating is not technically a sport.”

I hope that Mark Purdy is kidding.

I’m not sure that he is. Competitive eating is certainly not a sport . . . it’s

an obscenity. Purdy goes on: “In many ways, [Chestnut] is not unlike other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who found a niche, developed a strategy to exploit the niche, then prospered.” Please.

But Purdy’s story does provide us with some valuable information. He reports that Chestnut grew up in the city of Vallejo. This is news we can use. Let’s give Joey Chestnut back to Vallejo! From here on out, refer to Joey Chestnut in press and public as “The Pride of Vallejo.” “The Pride of Vallejo” sounds so much better than “The Shame of San Jose”!

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Anyone from the public is allowed to hang out—it isn’t restricted to Rosicrucians—but everything in Rosicrucian Park seems to exist behind some veneer of mystery. It’s just how they operate.

These days, once inside the

library, visitors are greeted with a display showcasing several copies of a 2009 Wired issue dedicated to esoteric mysteries, the CIA and the Rosicrucians. Also inside the room are portraits of Julie Scott, the current grand master of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas, Christian Bernard, the current Rosicrucian imperator in France, as well as busts of former imperator Ralph Davis and the Greek philosopher Epicurus.

And, of course, there are thousands of books on every occult and esoteric subject imaginable, in every format: ancient treatises, large-bound volumes, magazine articles, collectible Time-Life series, Rosicrucian material in probably 10 different languages, antiquarian volumes behind a glass case, folios and several shelves of new, yet-to-be-cataloged books.

Apparently, since people are donating books at such a frisky pace, the library has outgrown the current building, and the Rosicrucians will eventually move the entire library to the administration building on Naglee.

But there is another reason why I went to the library. There will be a conference, July 22–25, at Rosicrucian Park, five years in the making and commanding a hefty title: “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Influence of Western Esoteric Movements on Modern Thought.”

Esoteric voyagers from across the globe submitted academic papers and will be descending upon San Jose to present their research.

Everyone paid for their trips out of their own pockets.

“We wanted to reach out to other esoteric groups so that together we could really address the issues existing in the world at this time,” said Scott. “For several years, we had a call for papers online. It was totally open. . . . There are people from many esoteric groups; there are people not even associated with

esoteric groups. It’s wide open. There were no restrictions or requirements at all.”

The now-sold-out conference features a lineup of highly intriguing individuals. Every man and woman involved will be a star. Here are just a few examples: Dr. Patricia Downes, an organization development specialist with a doctoral degree from George Washington University, will give an interactive presentation titled “The Great Work and the Workplace: Transforming Work and Workplaces Through Stealth Esotericism.”

Providing guidance for dealing with boring work environments, she will lead an experiment on a “mystical perspective of work which examines work from the inside out, allowing us to open the door to deeper learning, wisdom and the workplace.”

Romanian-born Mioara Merié, Ph.D., wrote a paper titled “Christian Esotericism and the Inner Eye: Automatic Drawing, Sciences of the Mind and Religious Innovations in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain.”

Her presentation will explore, among other things, the afterlife investigations of Victorian-era Christian spiritualists.

Retired Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, Herm Cardona, MSSI, 32°, will talk about Freemasonry and the Enlightenment; professor Bruce Krajewski, Ph.D., will analyze the unpublished papers of a bizarre castle builder in New Jersey; and Geoffrey Redmond will discuss the I-Ching’s influence on Western esotericism. According to Scott, the presentations will be taped and made available on YouTube.

Back at the Rosicrucian Research Library, the shelves are overflowing due to lack of space. Even though the librarian isn’t allowed to give me the secret WiFi password, I am at peace nevertheless.

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SCREENWORLD 19 “But,” said I, “a pigeon couldn’t shit on your head.”

Granting that any experience can be called “real,” in that it is an experience, I argued that there are differences in the nature of virtual and actual reality. For one thing, on your walk through a virtual Rome, you aren’t even walking: you’re sitting. And what’s Rome without the wonderful smells of food? Even if your virtual Rome is accompanied by recorded sounds of Rome, that’s nothing like the sounds of racket, traffic, music, and language, the melodious cacophony of Italian, spoken all around you. A flat screen gives you no sense of Rome behind you, and to the side of you. The rain won’t rain on you, and you won’t have to dodge crazy drivers.

You’re having a one-dimensional experience, literally and figuratively.

And no matter what’s inputted into the program, there’s no chance of running into the girl who sat next to you in high school chemistry—or anyone else. What R.D. Laing once called “the freshness and forgivingness of creation” couldn’t reach out to you, nor you to it.

Your computer program couldn’t include the unprogrammed, yet the unprogrammed is generally what happens during the engagement of human beings with each other, and with the world. James Baldwin’s truth that “any human touch can change you” isn’t available on your computer.

I said what I thought obvious: the computerized Rome couldn’t give you what a Laing or a Baldwin would most value about Rome: the city as a medium for engaging life beyond personal, private acts and perceptions.

They didn’t get it. My argument left them utterly unconvinced, and they looked at me bemusedly, as though I was mildly to be pitied because I didn’t get it.

What separated us? Between my sense of the real and theirs gaped a chasm that I didn’t understand.

What would a psychotherapist make of it? If, in your consulting room, one of these students told you that the Rome on his computer is more real than the real Rome, is that a symptom? if so, of what? Would it be a syndrome to be addressed in therapy? or just a

piece of data, a reference-point for this particular client?

At around the same time, I saw related behavior that no one would connect to psychological difficulty, at least in any conventional sense.

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Waiting for her, maybe an hour, I had a very different experience. Cars and vans would pull up; couples and families and friends would get out and take pictures of the landscape, and of each other, with

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From Tactile to Virtual All this began to happen just as Google was getting off the ground, four or five years before YouTube, and before cell phones could take pictures. Since then, what seemed to

me aberrant behavior has become the world we live in.

I’m not a therapist: I’m a writer; but psychotherapy has always been key to how I make sense of the world, and I tend to look at behavior as symptomatic, in whatever sphere—intimate, political, commercial. Novelists and therapists share the fundamental assumption that behavior means more than itself, stems from deeper roots than what can be seen on the surface, and has wider implications than its supposed conscious purpose and assumptions. So it meant something when technologies that I view as disengaging became common in my own work. Something, but what?

I used to begin work with a tactile, blank page, making keystrokes on a typewriter whose mechanics I understood. Now I begin with a blank screen on a machine whose technology I can barely comprehend.

I don’t believe that’s changed me as a writer, but I miss the typewriter’s clickety-clack, the ding of the margin-bell, the movement of the carriage back and forth, the shudder of my desk under pounded keys. (I blew my first computer keyboard in a matter of weeks, before I learned to type more gently.) The computer, which once seemed alien, is now embedded in the dailiness of my life; but after 12 years, I’m no closer to understanding it. I believe more than ever that a virtual Rome isn’t Rome, and is, in fact, nothing like Rome, and I’d rather gaze at the Petrified Forest than photograph it—because, unless one is a photographer of the first rank, there’s no way to trap that grandeur in a box. Still, it must mean something that when I look about me, I see screens, screens, screens— everywhere, screens, including right here, in front of me, right now.

At arm’s reach are three: the trio of computers accessible from this chair (often I work on two computers at once). Another screen glares across the room—the television. My cell phone, also at arm’s reach, has a screen, even though I bought the simplest device possible: it cost 10 bucks, but it can take and transmit photos and

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video and still cameras. As I stood there, leaning on my car, at least a couple of dozen vehicles, maybe more, came and went. After a few minutes of disbelief, I began timing them. With three exceptions, they stayed no longer than five minutes.

Many stayed barely two or three.

They piled out of their vehicles, took their pictures, piled back in, and left, presumably headed for the next viewing point, presumably to do the same. Some came from as far as Europe and Asia. All had paid a bunch of money and expended great effort to get to the Petrified Forest, yet they could, in no way that I understood, be said to have been there. When they returned home, would they spend more time watching the Petrified Forest on their screens than they’d spent actually at the Petrified Forest?

Was I crazy to think that their compulsion (not too strong a word if you’d seen them) to squeeze the Petrified Forest into their little screens was a means not to engage this wondrous and disturbing place?

To me, they were locking these mysterious vistas into a controlled and unthreatening space. What was their connection to what I’d define as “reality”? They were treating the real, physical thing as if it were a TV show, and they were flipping channels.

All through that journey—at Monument Valley, Canyon de Chelly, the Grand Canyon—I saw the same behavior. Not everyone engaged the landscape that way, but most did— families, couples, busloads of tourists.

This behavior was their version of “normal.” Of course, cameras of all sorts have their place on a vacation, but only to take photos and videos.

Again, is it a psychological symptom? If so, of what, especially when considered as a mode of behavior on a fairly massive scale?

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Now you see screens at checkout counters and laundromats, in restaurants and waiting rooms, and on the dashboards of cars and in their back seats. Millions of regular folks preen for screens on YouTube and Facebook, marketing their image like politicians or starlets.

What with Blackberrys, iPhones, and

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Now that I think of it, it seems like half the people I know met their

present significant others via the screen, and they aren’t kids: they’re middle-aged and aging.

The power of these interconnected screens has grown enough that a virtually unknown woman can step before the media on a Friday and by the following Wednesday be a superstar, nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. A man touted not so long ago as a promising candidate for president uses the obscure racial slur macaca, and it takes just one person with a cell phone to make an audiovisual recording of the event. Presto! Within hours, the whole world knows, and the viability of a presidential hopeful evaporates into cyberspace.

In 1949, George Orwell published 1984, a vision of the worst possible society, in which screens were everywhere, inescapable. History has turned out to be not nearly so gloomy but far more surreal. If in 1980, say, after directing Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg had made a sci-fi adventure-comedy called Screenworld, well, he might have envisioned something very like our world, which, in 1980, would have seemed dizzying, funny, ridiculous, scary, technologically promiscuous, 24/7 exhausting, and appallingly lacking in privacy (privacy as a fact and as a value). Above all, in 1980, Screenworld would have seemed impossible, or, at the least, an uncertain, unmanageable future that lay thankfully in some alternate universe, far, far away.

Yet today, here we are, you and me, often engaging the world more through screens than faceto-face. Without planning to, and without especially wanting to, willy-nilly, we’ve become citizens of Screenworld.

A Collective Delusion of Reality Something enormous has happened: the scale on which our society judges a human event has changed—which, in itself, is a human event of the first magnitude, and is, to my knowledge, something psychotherapy has barely begun to gauge.

23 inflections so subtle we aren’t aware of making them in. Consider something as uncomfortably intimate as standing with strangers in an elevator: there are strict rules of elevator etiquette—never stare at anyone, keep your eyes front and slightly downward—precisely to protect ourselves from how forcefully bodies speak to one another, even unintentionally. Or consider the subtle signals that pass through a simple handshake. That entire realm of reality is absent from Screenworld, where one need never deal with the bodily strangeness of strangers—for even face-to-face on a web-cam, one responds to the image of a body, not a body, and that image rarely conveys skin-tone, not to mention scent.

Is this bad? Is it good? I’m not making those judgments. I’m simply pointing out that Screenworld is another order of reality, one that has overwhelmingly instituted itself amid what we used to call reality, changing the givens, the rules, the environment. As animals, we’re built to live in a physical world; in Screenworld, we’re living in something else. In our overlay of cyberspace and physical space, bodily reality is devalued, while the adage that “the unexamined life is not worth living” gets distorted into “what the screen does not record or project is not really happening.”

Without anyone’s intending it, the über-reality of Screenworld tends to frame as inferior or minor that which is beyond its concern or reach, for that’s the fundamental and unstated assumption that it enforces, and it’s Screenworld’s most dangerous illusion—or, more accurately, its delusion, a delusion that should interest the entire field of psychotherapy, a delusion that what’s untranslatable through Screenworld, or of no interest to it, has no urgency, no vitality.

That very delusion bestows upon Screenworld its power—the notion, especially in the young, that not to pay close attention to all these screens is to be less than fully engaged.

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In Screenworld, images of reality supersede reality itself, editing it, transforming it, playing with it in any fashion, until the source of the image ceases to matter while the image itself becomes all that matters.

It began a century ago, with motion pictures, when one had to seek out the screen but couldn’t control it.

Sixty years ago, television brought the screen into our homes. However great their influence, one left the TV and the movie theater to go out into the world. Now, cyber-powered Screenworld is ever-present, making reality seem infinitely malleable, and all of us may add our own twists at a whim. In Screenworld, the world has become a place in which, as a band called Living Color put it, “everything is possible, but nothing is real.”

When a Blackberry brings the workplace with you wherever you go, where you are becomes less itself, less important as itself: the sense of a place loses its specificity, its particularity, its own complete reality. When you shop online, your community becomes less real; you don’t need it as you once did: you don’t need the bookstore; you don’t need the music store.

Losing their reality, such places disappear—literally. You walk down the street talking on your cell, and the observable world becomes a mere backdrop—unless you see something to video on your phone, when the world becomes your movie set, gauged for its value as entertainment, not engagement.

With an iPhone on your belt and an iPod in your ear, solitude is no longer solitary, while you hear not the sounds of the world, but your programmed soundtrack. The very idea of privacy is close to becoming alien, especially to the young, for whom to be “out of touch” is unthinkable, while calling and texting are seemingly constant.

A place inaccessible to Screenworld is called a “dead zone”—which kind of says it all about Screenworld.

Isn’t there something peculiarly disembodied about it? Human beings evolved to take in an enormous amount of information through our bodies. That’s what “body language” is all about, not only gestures and postures, but physical

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Therapy as Counterculture If I felt the need to consult what would be my fifth (or sixth?) therapist, I’d be stepping into a space that’s rarer and rarer: an American environment, an American institution, free of Screenworld. In fact, psychotherapy, by its nature and purpose, is Counter-Screenworld, Anti-Screenworld.

Consider the psychotherapist’s consulting room: quiet, intimate, a place to which Screenworld has no access. Oh, there may be a computer about, but it isn’t likely to be functioning during my 50-minute hour, because the purpose of my being there is to engage with my therapist in a face-to-face encounter.

Rather than a devalued physical reality, in the consulting room, physicality is magnified. Client and therapist register every sigh, every glance, every fidget—and either they’re looking at each other or they aren’t, and both are intensely aware of that, either way.

My therapist and I meet privately to do a job of work, the work of understanding—as opposed to, say, conducting business, negotiating a contract, or any of the task-oriented reasons for which one may meet formally face-to-face. We meet in the consulting room to understand why I’m there. To do that, we try to understand who I am—because I don’t understand anymore, or I wouldn’t be there. To use the indelicate expression of my old Bronx neighborhood, I’m fucking up, or something’s fucking with me, or both, and if that weren’t so, I wouldn’t be in your consulting room, and that’s what you and I, therapist

and client, face-to-face, will try to understand. And in that attempt, some foothold of understanding, however basic or tentative, whether achieved intellectually, intuitively, or emotionally, may spur wanted but unexpected personal change.

I wouldn’t be there if I didn’t want to change something, to feel more alive, feel more myself, deal better with whatever I’ve been unable to deal with. The therapist’s sole job is to try to understand another human being, or at least another human being’s situation—and in my hour, that human being happens to be me. In a world that’s become Screenworld, incessantly inviting and/or goading me to pay attention to something other, only this Counter-Screenworld exists for the express purpose of making me face myself while facing another, and of inviting another to face the real me.

The 50-minute hour is as far from “surfing the net” as it can be. Amid Screenworld’s constant interruptions, where focusing is harder and harder and multitasking subverts that ability, the therapist and I have met in order to focus. Ours isn’t the autohypnosis of focusing on a screen that one can control: ours is a vibrant exchange, which neither party wholly controls. We meet in a formal intimacy, in that it has a form (50 minutes), which, like the poetic forms of sonnet and haiku, imposes its own intensity, an intensity that depends on nothing but us, because it can emerge only from the therapist and myself. You can’t get more Anti-Screenworld than that—not with your clothes on, anyway.

Amid Screenworld’s special effects that seem to make reality malleable, the therapist asks, “What’s your real world? the one that’s yours?” In Screenworld, where, especially for the young, life looks like a performance, good therapy questions the construct of audience– performer, asking, in effect, “Who’s your audience? your peers? your daddy? the mirror?”—asking you to rethink what you’re playing to, questioning your own assumptions and Screenworld’s.

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That isn’t a question Screenworld encourages or entertains, and isn’t a question I’ll attempt to answer here, but it’s an issue that psychotherapy must investigate—because, for many, Screenworld is the only world. Psychotherapy is uniquely positioned for such an investigation, because it’s one of the few endeavors that Screenworld doesn’t rule.

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SCREENWORLD 25 outward; that’s the nature of its existence. In the consulting room, you’re looking inward, not safely alone, but in the always unpredictable presence of another human being. Stripped of psychotherapy’s often obfuscating terminology, the core of the practice is the timeless truth that nothing has more potential to shift our experience of ourselves than a frank, face-to-face encounter.

limited the practice, and “the talking cure” has become a quaint phrase for a now seemingly old-fashioned worldview. Yet if psychotherapy still saw itself as a movement (as it once did), and if that movement were starting now instead of a century ago, in the context of Screenworld, it would be nothing less than revolutionary, because of its quiet, its intimacy, its demand for face-toface frankness, its worldview, and its purpose—not information, but meaning; not entertainment, but understanding; not passivity, but engagement.

It would be nothing less than revolutionary because it’s everything that Screenworld isn’t; and because the consulting room, by its nature, is one of the few places where the values of Screenworld are seriously questioned and alternatives seriously investigated, not in any abstract sense, but for your particular life.

Is it too much to say that if psychotherapy were a movement starting today, pitting its faceto-face ways and values against an omnipresent and ultimately impersonal Screenworld, the project of psychotherapy might be seen as heroic?

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Now the language of psychotherapy has been assimilated into the culture and made commonplace, impositions of commerce have intruded upon and in many cases

anymore—which is a pain in the ass and knocks away my favorite crutch and most practiced pose. (Ah, for the olden, golden days, when my therapists smoked!)

My therapist asks a question as my cell phone rings.

“Turn that off,” my therapist says gently—or not so gently, as the case may be.

There goes my connection (or what I feel is my connection) to the entire world, my lifeline to Screenworld. Now it’s just me and this damned therapist—the two of us, plus the reasons I’m there in first place.

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SCREENWORLD 26 the consulting room is turn on their cells. Calling it a “cell” indicates how our attachment to Screenworld has made it a kind of body-part.)

Now there’s nothing left to do but face this therapist, and there’s nothing this therapist can do but face me—which is to say, there’s nothing more ancient than the situation we find ourselves in. As Socrates said to Alcibiades, “For the soul, if it’s to know itself, it’s into a soul that it must look.”

So we look. We talk. We endure mutual, unquantifiable silences.

We talk some more. Eventually, something comes of that—each “something” being entirely different, shaped by my unique nature and this therapist’s. The “something” we achieve is a result beyond the powers of Screenworld to display.

There are no faces I recall more vividly than my therapists’, because their faces were the most prominent—indeed, dominant— features of the consulting room. Dr. L, who could double for Sebastian Cabot (that’s a reference for oldtimers like me). Dr. T, always so slyly amused, even when I threatened suicide, who said, “All I’m trying to tell you is that up is down, black is white, and tomorrow everything changes.” Gray-eyed Dr. K, so disarmingly old, who wasn’t as smart as me (so I thought), yet usually knew where I was going before I got there. And M—not “Doctor” anymore; we’re now in the era of first names—who was plump, pillowy, yes, sexy (in a demure, therapeutic way); to be frank, my sense of her sexiness helped me stay present, even when I didn’t want to. And N, how everything she said was said with a laugh, either expressed or implied, always making a problem manageable in that, by her lights, it was always at least slightly comic. And the furniture of the consulting room, how it looms, has to be dealt with and worked around! Dr. L, behind his imposing, dark-wood desk, and me, a teenager, not quite knowing how to sit in that big, plush, real-leather chair. Dr. T, behind a less formal desk; he liked his office dark and shadowy, small and spare, large, clear-glass ashtrays always to hand, the room filling up with our smoke, which seemed the

smoke of us burning through my past. Dr. K, who didn’t have a desk, his chair facing mine in a small and bright—though not uncomfortably bright—space. In M’s consulting room, I sat on a sofa. I don’t like to sit on sofas; I like hard chairs. Her sofa was something to deal with. N’s pleasantly dim room was cluttered with interesting objects and oddly titled books by authors I’d never heard of.

Each tactile, visual environment expressed the therapist’s tone and approach, so that the client was surrounded by an intentional (so I’ve always supposed) expression of the therapist’s psyche. The faceto-face environments were full of things to be dealt with, not the least of which was my therapist’s eyes, never unkind (in my experience, anyway), always asking that I go a little further, dig a little deeper—an expectation rare in any world, especially Screenworld.

Psychotherapy is many techniques and theories that combine into an evocative art, uniquely expressed in every consulting room, not (to the bane of the insurance people) easily defined or quantifiable. It’s a face-to-face, you-to-me effort toward nuanced understanding—far away, though only steps away, from a soundbite Screenworld, where understanding is subsumed by spectacle.Screenworld is about information, most of it useless to any particular human being. Psychotherapy is about meaning—which, in the end, the human animal cannot live without.

Psychotherapy is two flesh-andblood, breathing, speaking, silent, smiling, frowning, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, sometimes yelling humans, present to each other as a Screenworld facsimile can’t be.

Whatever its flaws and faults, and however far it has yet to go, psychotherapy stands for the ancient truth that the journey of a thousand miles begins beneath your feet, and, as Basho wrote, “The journey itself is the home.”

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Goat doesn’t get near enough love in this country, but I predict its day is coming. Worldwide, more people eat goat than any other single animal.

Because of their small size and adaptability, goats don’t require the vast amounts of land, feed and water that cattle do, making them an environmentally superior source of protein. It’s easier to digest than beef, and it’s low fat, too.

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La Birrieria is 100 percent Mexican.

The tidy, family-run restaurant is located next to a liquor store off South White Road and can be easy to miss. Inside, the wood-paneled walls, handwritten signs and family photos give the place a welcoming, friendly appeal. But most appealing of all is the birria.

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There are other ways to try the birria: one with meat on the side and one with goat ribs. You can also try the low-commitment goat tacos ($3), with goat meat inside superb handmade tortillas and a small bowl of birria broth on the side. This is a good choice for first-timers.

While birria is the star attraction here, there are other options. Birria is the pride of the state of Jalisco, but the restaurant serves a great version of enchiladas Michoacan ($11.90), four tortillas dipped in a chile sauce and filled with a light sprinkling of dry Mexican cheese and excellent pan-fried chicken served on the side.

The enchiladas Jalisco ($9.90) come filled with a choice of meat and are also good.

For another taste of Michoacan, try the uchepos ($3), a tamalelike snack made with sweet corn.

Pozole ($9) is another classic Mexican soup. This one is made with slow-cooked cubes of pork, hominy and chile-enlivened broth.

The recommended accompaniments are dried Mexican oregano, dried chiles and more squeezes of lemon. The broth is tamer than the color would suggest, so I relied heavily on the chile flakes to take the soup up to my preferred level of spiciness.

Agua frescas ($3) are great, here, too, especially the creamy horchata.

The one disappointment was the sopes ($9.90). The goat, beef and chicken toppings were good, but the thick masa patties on which they rode were chewy when they should have been crisp and light.

But at a place called La Birrieria (literally the birria serving place), it’s really all about the birria.

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10:30am-2pm, 10:30am-2pm, 5:30-10pm 5:30-10pm daily. daily. 135 135 N. N. Santa Santa Cruz Cruz Ave. Ave. 408.395.6650.

408.395.6650.

MAIN M AIN SSTREET TREET B BURGERS URGERS Burgers.

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than than what what you’d you’d find find at at the the golden golden arches. arches. 11am-8:30pm 11am-8:30pm Mon-Thu, Mon-Thu, 9am-9pm 9am-9pm Fri-Sat, Fri-Sat, 9am-8:30pm 9am-8:30pm Sun. Sun. 20 20 S. S. Santa Santa Cruz Cruz Ave. Ave. 408.354.1881.

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408.354.8108.

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Saratoga’s SENT SOVI is debuting a new, lower-priced patio menu starting Friday, July 16. The menu will be offered alongside the regular menu and served on the restaurant’s newly renovated garden patio until the weather turns cold. The idea is to offer fairly inexpensive small plates and wine flights Friday–Sunday.

The inaugural flight will include a MARIMAR TORRES ESTATE chardonnay, a FRIAS FAMILY VINEYARD rosé and rather hard to find 2005 DOMAINE ALFRED Edna Valley Grenache. The wines will go for about $10 a glass, far less than the restaurant’s typical $15 to $25 a glass. The menu will include things like duck basil sausage, fried padron peppers and stuffed squash blossoms. Call 408.867.3110 for more information.

Up the hill, the MOUNTAIN WINERY will host its first PETS, PINOT AND PETROGLYPH, noon–5pm, Saturday, July 17. Guests who bring a pet will enjoy a complimentary tasting of the winery’s reserve pinot noir, and pets will get a special treat as well. Petroglyph paint-yourown-pottery will be available at the event. Attendees can decorate and have their creations fired available for pick up at several local Petroglyph locations. Parking and entry to the event is free. Call the winery at 408.741.5181.—Stett Holbrook

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Chinese. $$. $$. ABC ABC is is a Hong Hong Kong-style Kong-style restaurant, restaurant, and and that that means means dim dim sum sum and and lots lots of of fresh, fresh, fancifully fancifully prepared prepared seafood. seafood. At At lunch lunch the the place place is is a traffic traffic jam jam of of dim dim sum sum carts carts proffering proffering an an assortment assortment of of little little snacks snacks 11am-2:30pm 11am-2:30pm and and 5-9:30pm 5-9:30pm daily. daily. 768 768 Barber Barber Lane.

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BODRUM B ODRUM CCAFE AFE TTurkish. urkish. $ $$. $.

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650.396.7010.

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650.965.1111.

650.965.1111.

NAMI N AMI N NAMI AMI JJapanese. apanese. $ $$$. $$.

Nami Nami Nami Nami specializes specializes in in kappo-style kappo-style Japanese Japanese food, food, food food prepared prepared in in the the artful, artful, labor-intensive, labor-intensive, seasonally seasonally driven driven style style associated associated with with the the city city of of Kyoto.

Kyoto. For For diners diners willing willing to to open open their their minds minds and and mouths, mouths, it it offers offers one one of of the the most most exciting exciting restaurant restaurant experiences experiences in in the the Bay Bay Area.

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650.964.6990.

XANH X ANH R RESTAURANT ESTAURANT Modern Modern Vietnamese.

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Xanh Xanh (pronounced (pronounced “zahn”) “zahn”) epitomizes epitomizes the the new new breed breed of of upscale, upscale, contemporary contemporary Vietnamese Vietnamese restaurant. restaurant. The The appealing appealing menu menu ranges ranges from from the the traditional traditional to to the the unconventional unconventional and and includes includes

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YAKKO Y AKKO Japanese, Japanese, sushi sushi bar. bar. $$. $$. A pairing pairing of of swift swift service service with with an an exotic exotic range range of of sushi sushi and and udon udon makes makes this this a favorite favorite among among sushi sushi lovers. lovers. Casual.

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650.960.0626.

ZZUCCA UCCA M Mediterranean. editerranean. $$. $$.

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11:30am-2:30pm 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, Mon-Fri, 5510pm 10pm Mon-Sun Mon-Sun 186 186 Castro Castro St. St. 650.864.9940.

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Strolling around the airport, I was impressed with the soaring ceilings, light-filled spaces, public art and even the outdoor garbage cans with solar-powered trash compacters. But what really got me was the lineup of new restaurants. Instead of being held hostage to restaurants serving low-grade fast food, there are actually places you might eat at by choice here rather than because you have no alternative.

I used to joke that if anyone ever asked me where the most expensive restaurant in town was I would direct them to the airport. It’s not true, of course, but the unjustly high prices and low-quality food at airports has always struck me as a moral failing. But those wrongs have been righted at the new airport. Officials could have populated the airport with the same lackluster chain restaurants that blight most of the country, but as they planned the new facility they sought a balance of local, regional and national eateries. The skyport reflects a slice of Silicon Valley rather than a generic shopping-mall food court.

“It’s a good mix of restaurants that you won’t find at any other airport,” says DAVID VOSSBRINK, airport communications director. The airport is not chain-free. Starbucks, Togo’s and Fresh Choice all have storefronts here, but there are also local places like MOJO BURGER, GORDON BIERSCH and even 102-year-old CHIARAMONTE’S DELI. Chiaramonte’s is San Jose’s oldest Italian deli. The original store is on 13th Street, a neighborhood that used to be called Little Sicily when Lou Chiaramonte’s great-grandfather opened a butcher shop in 1908 back when the dirt road was called the Oakland Highway because it was the most direct horse and buggy route to the city. “There was no such thing 880,” he says.

Chiaramonte responded to the call for new airport vendors more than five years ago along with nearly 1,000 other businesses. He was one of the few to be selected. “The picking process was kind of elaborate,” he says. “We just hung in there. They chose us for the quality of our product.” I can attest to that. Chiarmonte’s sells the sausage by the mile, shipping it as far as New York for people who just can’t go without it.

The deli also makes great meatballs. To enjoy a slice of this ItalianAmerican institution, try a sausage sandwich—a fat link of Sicilian spiced pork with a ladle of thick marinara sauce. The sausage comes from a family recipe that Chiaramonte says is 300 years old. Take that, Burger King! The airport restaurant, which opens in a few weeks, will serve sausage sandwiches, pasta and salads. Chiaramonte’s is also opening a bar adjacent to the restaurant. I can think of worse ways to wait for a flight than eating a sausage sandwich and drinking a cold beer.

Other locally grown eateries include PIZZA MY HEART, SAN JOSE JOE’S (Original Joe’s), LE BOULANGER, OLSON’S CHERRIES and THE BRIT. The only thing missing from the airport’s restaurant row is a pho or ramen vendor.

No taste of Silicon Valley is complete without a good bowl of noodle soup.

But I’m more than happy with an Italian sausage sandwich.—Stett Holbrook

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Tue-Sat Tue-Sat 11:30am-9pm, 11:30am-9pm, 410pm 10pm Sun. Sun. 150 150 S. S. Second Second St. St. 408.287.9955.

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MEZCAL M EZCAL RRegional egional Mexican.

Mexican. $$. $$. Mezcal Mezcal specializes specializes in in delicious delicious regional regional cuisine cuisine from from the the southern southern Mexican Mexican state state of of Oaxaca.

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

11:30am-11pm 11:30am-11pm Sun-Fri Sun-Fri and and 5-11pm 5-11pm Sat. Sat. 25 25 W. W. San San Fernando Fernando St. St. 408.283.9595.

408.283.9595.

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

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

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

408.294.2558.

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KABAB K ABAB H HOUSE OUSE H HALAL ALAL Middle Middle Eastern.

Eastern. $. $. Santa Santa Clara’s Kabab House Clara’s Ka bab H ouse Halal, Halal, a spare, spare, eight-table eight-table restaurant, restaurant, serves serves a panpanMiddle Middle Eastern Eastern menu menu that that leans leans toward toward Iran.

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11am-9pm 11am-9pm Mon-Sat. Mon-Sat. 2521 2521 Newhall Newhall St. St. 408.984.2204.

408.984.2204.

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Salvadoran. $. $. One One of of the the few few outposts outposts for for Salvadoran Salvadoran food food in in the the South South Bay, Bay, Sabor Sabor Salvadoreño Salvadoreño serves serves excellent excellent pupusas, pupusas, soups, soups, tamales tamales and and other other standards standards from from the the tiny tiny Central Central American American nation. nation.

9am-9pm 9am-9pm daily. daily. 2045 2045 White White Oak Oak Lane.

Lane. 408.985.6464.

408.985.6464.

SSHAN HAN Pakistani Pakistani and and Indian.

Indian. $. $. Shan Shan serves ser ves a mix mix of of northern northern Indian Indian and and Pakistani Pakistani food. food. Unlike Unlike India, India, most most of of which which is is Hindu, Hindu, Pakistan Pakistan is is Muslim, Muslim, and and that that means means that that meat—chicken, meat—chicken, beef, beef, lamb, lamb, and and goat—plays goat—plays a starring starring role. role. Kebabs.

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5251 5251 Stevens Stevens Creek Creek Blvd.

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408.260.9200.

408.260.9200.

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408.261.3030.

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

408.867.5272.

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RISTORANTE R ISTORANTE D DA AM MARIO ARIO Italian.

Italian. $$. $$. Ristorante Ristorante Da Da Mario Mario serves serves the the greatest greatest hits hits of of Italian-American Italian-American food food but but prepares prepares them them with with a freshness freshness and and integrity integrity

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

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CCHELOKEBABI HELOKEBABI. PPersian. ersian. $$. $$. Go Go straight straight for for the the baghali baghali ghatogh, ghatogh, a fantastic fantastic appetizer appetizer made made from from delicate delicate but but rich rich baby baby lima lima beans, beans, scrambled scrambled eggs eggs and and lots lots of of garlic. garlic. Just Just as as good good is is ghaymeh, ghaymeh, a daily daily special special made made from from tender tender chunks chunk s of of beef, beef, split split peas, peas, eggplant eggplant and and tomato tomato sauce. sauce. 11am11am10pm 10pm daily. daily. 1236 1236 Wolfe Wolfe Rd. Rd. 408.737.1222.

408.737.1222.

DISHDASH D ISHDASH M Middle iddle Eastern.

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IILL POSTALE POSTALE IITALIAN TALIAN American.

American. $$$. $$$. Its Its previous previous incarnation incarnation as as a post post office office lends lends this this space space eccentric eccentric charm, charm, and and the the food food delivers delivers

familiar familiar and not-so-familiar not-so-familiar Japanese dishes at prices that beat just about any restaurant’s.Closed restaurant’s.Closed Sun. 155 E. Maude Ave. Ave. 408.735.7777.

408.735.7777.

SSHALIMAR HALIMAR Indian-P Indian-Pakistani. akistani. $. Walk Walk up to the counter, counter, grab grab a menu and place your order. order. One One of the best dishes is the plain-looking haleem, a lentil and barley stew available with chicken or beef. beef. Nihari, a rich beef shank stew, stew, is also great. great. 11:30am2:30pm and 5:30-10:30pm 5:30-10:30pm Sun-Thu Sun--TThu and noon-3:30pm noon-3:30pm and 5:30-11pm 5:30-11pm Sat-Fri. 1146 W. W. El Camino Camino Real.

408.530.0300.

PEZELLAS P EZELLAS FFamily amily IItalian. talian. $$. $$. Serves Serves popular popular Italian Italian dinners dinners with with rich rich sauces sauces and and generous generous portions. portions.

East East Coast Coast seafood seafood dishes dishes like like linguini linguini and and clams clams and and calamari calamari sautéed sautéed in in tomato, tomato, garlic, garlic, and and basil basil stand stand out. out.

Pizza Pizza and and pasta pasta abound. abound. Full Full Bar. Bar. 11am-2:30pm 11am-2:30pm Tue-Fri, Tue-Fri, 5-10:30pm 5-10:30pm Tue-Sat. Tue-Sat. Closed Closed Sun-Mon. Sun-Mon. 1025 1025 W. W. El El Camino Camino Real.

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408.733.7423.

Palace, $$. Udupi P alace, a South Indian vegetarian rrestaurant, estaurant, specializes in dishes—dosas aree and uthappams. Dosas ar crepes long, thin cr epes made with flour.. Uthappams ar aree rice flour pancakes made with rice and flour.. 11:30am11:30am-10pm lentil flour 10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm 11pm Mon-TThu, 11:30am11:30am-10:30pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am10:30pm Sun. 97 976 6 E. El CCamino amino Real.

408.830.9600.

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408.530.8156.

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ARTEMSIA BLACK VooDoo Lounge, San Jose Wed – 8pm; $5

Artemsia Black’s Sabine Heusler writes ghost stories. Not just for an occasional song, but for all of them.

“Really, the whole thing is about ghosts,” says Heusler, “and people not being forgotten. I think my take on the whole ghost thing is that they’re just people. But a lot of people don’t realize the songs are about ghosts.”

“Her lyrics are cryptic enough that you might not know,” says partner Kenny Schick. Maybe not, but clues are likely to jump out at even the casual listener.

“You lost your head back in Spain, you

blame me,” Heusler sings on “Rosie.”

Or on “Maryjanes”: “They say I fell, they say I drowned or something.” For a woman who writes and sings ghost stories, what happens to the normally reserved Heusler onstage couldn’t be more apt. “I think I get possessed, actually,” she admits. “I become someone else.” At this show, Artemsia Black will perform a set, and Schick will play solo, along with Ish, Riverwinds and the Devil’s Sunday Best. (SP)

AUDRYE SESSIONS Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free This band has one of the best marketing angles: “As heard on VH1’s Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew.” Hey, anything to put your music in the same room with Gary Busey and Jeff Conaway is

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FDR San Jose Rep Wed-Fri – 8pm, Sat –3 and 8pm, Sun – 2pm; $39-$74 Now that we’ve all gotten over our disappointment that Barack Obama is not the second coming of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, we can relive some of the highs (and lows) of the president who brought us through the Depression (with help from John Maynard Keynes) and World War II. Ed Asner (crusading editor Lou Grant and the voice of the cranky old gent in Up) stars in Dore Schary’s one-man play. (MSG)

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MIDSUMMER MOZART Mission Santa Clara Thu – 8pm; $20-$65

The summer classical season gets under way with the reliable pleasures of Midsummer Mozart, under the careful eye of conductor George Cleve. The first concert includes the Symphony no. 15, Piano Concerto no. 21 (with guest Audrey Vardanega), Violin Concerto no. 4 (with Robin Hansen) and Symphony no. 40. The second program—with guest artist Seymour Lipkin—takes place July 22 at the California Theatre in San Jose. (MSG)

RICHIE HAVENS Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Thu – 7:30pm; $35/30 The sound is unmistakable: a percussive guitar that revs up and stays revved, a voice that prophesizes over the top. Honored griot Richie Havens opened Woodstock 41 years ago with a three-hour set, since a lot of the talent was stuck on the New York Throughway. Haven’s unshaken commitment to political activism through music makes him one with the tradition of Pete Seeger; the charging guitar is evidence of an energy that outlasts beatnik roots, outlives hippie popularity and stays strong enough to face up to these damned perilous times. This show is a make-up for the performance canceled on May 13, and tickets from that date will be honored. (RvB)

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Shakespeare Three Ways Friday–Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 2pm, through July 25; Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose; $15 Three of a Perfect Pair Theatre Troupe rifles through the plays of the Bard to come up with three comic one-acts. The language has been reworked, but the characters and themes are timeless, from the truism that “Love Is Blind” to the caution about “Vaulting Ambition.”

Sisters of Swing Friday–Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 2pm, through Aug. 15; the Retro Dome, San Jose; $24–$36 Back in the heyday of big-band swing, the singing Andrews Sisters were Destiny’s Child and the Supremes rolled into one. Their hit “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” still rushes ahead at warp speed, 70 years on. The Retro Dome presents a musical celebration of the group.

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Auctioning the Ainsleys July 14–Aug. 8; Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto; $19–$67 TheatreWorks opens its 2010–11 season with the world premiere of Laura Schellhardt’s comedy with dramatic overtones about the lives of some professional auctioneers with stories to share and secrets to sell. It’s based on a project that premiered at TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival.

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O ct 117.

7. W ed-Sun, 111am-5pm, 1am-5pm, Oct Wed-Sun, TThu, hu, 11am-8pm.

11am-8pm. Stanford.

Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY M USEUM MUSEUM “Run! JJump!

“Run! ump! FFly! ly! A Adventures dventures Action.”

9.. M Moniin nA ction.” TThru hru SSep ep 9 onSSat, at, 110am-5pm 0am-5pm aand nd Sun, Sun, nnoon-5pm. oon-5pm. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

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3. At At P Pacific acific Hotel Gallery.

H otel G allery. TTue-Sun, ue-Sun, noonnoon55pm. pm. SSan an JJose. ose.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE MUSEUM MUSEUM OF OF A ART RT “Vital Signs: “Vital Signs: N New ew M Media edia FFrom rom tthe he Permanent Permanent Collection.”

Collection.”

TThru hru FFeb eb 6.

6. ““New New SStories tories FFrom rom the the Edge Edge of of Asia: Asia: P Plastic lastic LLife.” ife.” Thru Thru SSep ep 119.

9. ““Real Real & Hyperreal.”

Aug H yperreal.” TThru hru A ug 11.. TueTueSSun, un, 11am-5pm, 11am-5pm, closed closed Mon. Mon. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

SAN JJOSE SAN OSE MUSEUM MUSEUM OF OF QUILTS TEXTILES Q UILTS AND AND T EXTILES “Hawaii’s A “Hawaii’s Alfred lfred Shaheen: Shaheen: FFabric abric ttoo FFashion.” ashion.” ““Grand Grand A ppliqué: H awaiian Q uilts.”

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10am-5pm.

Aug 8.. TTue-Sun, SSan an Jose.

Jose.

TECH T ECH M MUSEUM USEUM ”Genghis KKhan.” ”Genghis han.” Mon-Wed, Mon-Wed, 9am-5pm, 9am9 am-5pm, aand nd Thu-Sun, Thu-Sun, 9 am8pm.

8 pm. SSan an JJose. ose.

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19. TTueueWed W ed and and FFri-Sun, ri-Sun, 11am-5pm.

11am-5pm.

TThu, hu, 11am-9pm.

11am-9pm. Santa Santa Clara.

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R etrospective.” Reception Reception Sun, Sun, 11-4pm.

-4pm. Thru Thru SSep ep 26.

26. Belmont.

Belmont.

SSAN AN JOSE JOSE M MUSEUM USEUM OF OF A ART RT The museum hosts a The screening scr eening of artist SSandow andow Birk’s “Dante’s “Dante’s IInferno,” nferno,” illustrations based on his illustr ations ffor or Dante and using paper puppets. Sat, Sat, noon. $6/$10 at CCamera amera 12 in SSan an JJose. ose.

OPENING O PENING B BRUNI RUNI GGALLERY ALLERY Bruni SSablan ablan shows new painting of President President O Obama bama ffor or California California Democr Democratic atic Party P arty Gallery Gala. TThu, hu, 77-9pm. COntributions COntributions $50 and up. Campbell.

Campbell.

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Frit CCity ity Hall, SSouth outh Fourth St, St, SSan an Jose.

Jose.

GGOOD OOD KARMA KARMA VEGAN VEGAN CAFE CAFE Works bbyy G Works Guy uy Brookshire.

Brookshire. Thru Thru JJul. ul. SSan an JJose. ose.

MACLA M ACLA â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art of of P Politics: olitics: Three Three Generations Political G enerations ooff P olitical Printmaking Bay Area.â&#x20AC;?

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Wed-Thu, TThru hru Aug Aug 77.. W ed-Thu, nnoon-7pm, oon-7pm, FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, noon-5pm. noon-5pm. SSan an JJose. ose.

SSUSAN USAN M MOON OON The aauthor The uthor ooff â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;This This Is Is G Getting etting Oldâ&#x20AC;?

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Park.

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Palo Alto P alo A lto Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre.

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RICHARD R ICHARD DREYFUSS DREYFUSS The actor The actor aappears ppears at at a CCommonwealth ommonwealth Club Club event event ttoo ttalk alk about about the the Campaign Ca m p a i g n ttoo IImprove mprove Civic Civic Education.

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M on, 77pm. pm. $ 15/$25. SSchultz chul t z Mon, $15/$25.

CCultural ultural Hall-Oshman Hall-Oshman Family Family Palo Alto.

JJCC, CC, P alo A l to.

FFLOWERS LOWERS IN IN T THE HE H HOME OME A program program fo forr tthe he family family aabout bout working working and and living living with w ith planets. planets. Fri-Sat, Fri-Sat, 110am0am33:30pm, :30pm, Sun, Sun, 11am-3:30pm.

11am-3:30pm. ((Reserve Reserve aatt www.ďŹ loli.org.) www.ďŹ loli.org.)

Gardens, Woodside.

FFiloli iloli G ardens, W oodside.

Paintings aand Paintings nd pprints rints bbyy Andy Aug A ndy Muonio.

Muonio. TThru hru A ug 11..

CCommunity ommunity School School ooff M Music usic View. aand nd Art, Art, Mountain Mountain V iew.

Fairy tales Fairy tales and and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sstories tories ppresented resented bbyy Peninsula P eninsula Youth Youth Theatre.

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TTue-Sat, ue-Sat, 110am-5pm, 0am-5pm, TThu, hu, 779pm, Palo Alto.

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Jose. Thu-Fri, Thu-Fri, SSat at 2 aand nd 77pm, pm, SSun, un, 11pm. pm. $ $15-$18.

15-$18.

Montgomery M ontgomery TTheater, heater, SSan an JJose ose

A session session with with author author Don D on Mordasini Mordasini along along with with Mimi M imi H Hernandez ernandez aabout bout ddiscovering iscovering harmony harmony and and ppeace. eace. Mon, Mon, 7pm.

7pm. $15. $15. The The Pruneyard P runeyard Inn, Inn, Campbell.

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by Rainbow Rainbow TTheatre. heatre. TThu, hu, 77:30pm, :30pm, FFri, ri, 22:30pm, :30pm, SSat, at, 22:30 :30 aand nd 77:30pm. :30pm.

TThru hru JJul ul 224.

4. $6/$8. $6/$8. M Milpitas ilpitas CCommunity ommunity CCenter. enter.

A party party fo forr tthe he San San Jose Jose CCannabis annabis Buyers Buyers Collective Collective with w ith barbecue barbecue and and a rafďŹ&#x201A;e. rafďŹ&#x201A;e.

SSat, at, 12:30-3:30pm.

12:30-3:30pm. FFree. ree.

11082 082 SStockton tockton Ave, Ave, SSan an Jose.

Jose.

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by Peninsula Peninsula Youth Youth Wed, TTheatre. heatre. W ed, 77:30pm, :30pm, ThuThuFFri, ri, 110am 0am aand nd 77:30pm, :30pm, Sat, Sat, 2 aand nd 77:30pm, :30pm, SSun, un, 44pm. pm. Thru Thru JJul ul 118.

8. CCubberley ubberley CCommunity ommunity TTheatre, heatre, P Palo alo A Alto. lto.

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Sunnyvale.

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by Club Club Auto A uto SSport port and and Michiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Michiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CCatering atering to to sshow how off off the the with ffacilities acilities w ith food food aand nd eentertainment ntertainment by by the the LLeague, eague, DJ DJ Maniakal Maniakal and and EEmma mma and and Her Her Quartet.

Quartet. $50/$75. $ 50/$75. Sun, Sun, 5-9pm.

5-9pm. Club Club Auto A uto SSport, port, SSan an JJose. ose.

MOHR M OHR GALLERY GALLERY

PHANTOM P HANTOM GGALLERIES ALLERIES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Street SSwag â&#x20AC;&#x153;Street wag P Photos,â&#x20AC;? hotos,â&#x20AC;? bbyy Abe Abe Menor.

M enor. TThru hru JJul ul 226.

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SAN JJOSE SAN OSE INSTITUTE INSTITUTE OF OF CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY ART ART â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conservation ooff IIntimacy.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conservation ntimacy.â&#x20AC;?

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Reception 6-8pm.

R eception JJul ul 116, 6, 6 -8pm. Thru Thru SSep ep 119.

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

VIEWPOINTS V IEWPOINTS GGALLERY ALLERY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Traveling CConversations,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Traveling onversations,â&#x20AC;? 70 70 ccollaborative ollaborative ppaintings. aintings. Thru Thru JJul ul 30.

30. Mon-Sat, Mon-Sat, 111am-5pm, 1am-5pm, Altos.

SSun, un, 111am-3pm.

1am-3pm. LLos os A ltos.

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P assage.â&#x20AC;? Tue, Tue, 77pm. pm. FFree. ree.

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Menlo Park.

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THE DEAD SLEEP (Unrated) Free screening of locally made indie ďŹ lm concerning a dead man who rises again to help his family. Filmmakers Vicki de Mey and Tim Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill will be on hand. (Plays Jul 15 at 7pm in Cupertino at the Blue Light Cinemas.) (RvB)

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Silent Running THE San Francisco Silent Film Festival (July 15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 at the Castro Theatre) has no rivals in North America as a showplace for the pre-sound era. The big event this year, not counting the arrival of silent-ďŹ lm archivist Kevin Brownlow, is the latest edition of Fritz Langâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1927â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Metropolis, at last at its original length, since 20 minutes of 16 mm footage were recently discovered in a Buenos Aires archive. Popular revivals J`c\ek =`cd =\jk`mXc include Dziga Vertovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Man With a Movie Camera and Frank Capraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The July 15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 Strong Man with Harry Langdon. www.silentďŹ lm.org Despite early works by John Ford (The Iron Horse) and William Wyler (The Shakedown) and rare ďŹ lms from China and Italy, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a French comedy thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a standout.

The delightful Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Heureuse Mort (A Happy Death) (1924) concerns Theodore Larue (Nicolas Rimsky), ďŹ rst seen as his farce â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Friend of My Wife of My Friendâ&#x20AC;? dies horribly onstage during its opening night. Larueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife suggests a trip to the seashore; during a boat cruise, Larue is swept overboard. After deathâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not that he actually is deadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the writer is now acclaimed as a misunderstood genius. The plot is as rich as Preston Sturgesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hail the Conquering Hero. The ďŹ ne rapport between the Larues shows that the tradition in French comedies of the affable yet businesslike marriage has long, deep roots.

By contrast, Louise Brooks is nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea of domestic bliss. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) is basically a frame for its starâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face; that face, which reďŹ&#x201A;ected light as few actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; faces did, was the battleďŹ eld of purity and lewdness. Happily, lewdness wins the day, thanks to seven expurgated minutes recently restored. (Read more at www.metroactive.com.)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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(1951) The Gershwin score is the salient feature of the Gene Kelly/ Leslie Caron musical, in which the full force of MGM introduced America to French impressionism.

Nina Foch and Leslie Caron co-star as the rich older patron and the young gamine contending for Kelly, a painter. Pre-show: Broadway San Jose hosts Burn the Floor dance performance and lessons. (Plays Jul 21 in San Jose on Post Street near Market; part of the free summer program of Starlight Cinema Street.)

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THE BLIND SIDE (2009) The biggest football-based weeper since Brianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Song, with Sandra Bullock in her Oscar winning role as a Memphis housewife who ďŹ nds a homeless kid and turns him into an NFL star. (Plays Jul 15 at sundown in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square; free.) (RvB)

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID/THE STING (1969/1973) Relaxed rogues Paul Newman and Robert Redford in their escapist hits, both directed by the ever-inoffensive George Roy Hill. These are the movies you went to see if The Godfather made you feel queasy. Butch Cassidyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s softball William Goldman script and B.J. Thomasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; inescapable â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raindrops Keep Falling on My Headâ&#x20AC;? interfere with happy memories. In The Sting is a little more tart; here RedMan (or NewFord) are a pair of New York con artists facing down serious gangster Robert Shaw. (Plays Jul 14 and 16â&#x20AC;&#x201C;17 at 7pm and Jul 18 at 1pm in San Jose at the Retro Dome.)

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DANTEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S INFERNO (2007) Sean Meredith directs a hand-drawn paper puppet version of the poem: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in modern dress amid stygian slums, as todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bulgy bald senators descend into ever-deeper circles of Hell. Sandow Birk, who did the art, will be on hand for a Q&A. (Plays Jul 17 at noon in San Jose at the San Jose Museum of Modern Art; $6/$10.) (RvB)

DESIRE/CITY STREETS (1936/1931) Wearing marabou plume epaulets as big as feather dusters, Marlene Dietrich plays a jewel thief just passing through Paris who encounters a visitor from Detroitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gary Cooper. He unwittingly carries a pearl necklace sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stashed on him, and that becomes the link between two unlikely characters. BILLED WITH City Streets. Rouben Mamoulianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little-known second ďŹ lm is an expressionist layer-cake of symbols upon symbols; the beautiful Sylvia Sidney is a gangsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter who takes the rap for a crime she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t commit, and Gary Cooper as the shooting gallery operator who waits for her to get out of jail. (Plays Jul 14-16 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

HELEN OF TROY (2003) The TV epic, with Rufus Sewell as Agamemnon and Sienna Guillory as the face that launched a 1,000 ships. Part of series on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Homer in Performanceâ&#x20AC;?; actor Roselyn Hallett discusses the ďŹ lm.

(Plays July 19 at 7pm at Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annenberg Auditorium; free.) (RvB)

NORTH BY NORTHWEST/ Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M NO ANGEL (1959/1933) The grandfather of the James Bond adventures, with evertraveling hero, gentlemanly villain and untrustworthy womanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and smashing set pieces. When an ad man stands up at the wrong moment

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For a sci-ďŹ world, however, there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anything really sci-ďŹ about it. The planetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environment looks like any other exotic jungle found on Earth. Royce later deduces that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a game preserve.

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In Dreams THE BASIC idea of Christopher Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inception is simple. Led by Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), a sort of Impossible Mission Force, working for a Japanese trillionaire (Ken Watanabe), descends into the sleeping subconscious of the plutocratâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young rival (Cillian Murphy), using technology that allows them to design dreamscapes. Because of the complexity of this operation, the team is forced to create dreams within dreams, and each deeper dream takes place in an exponentially larger time frame. A false move could get the men locked up in an unreal, self-created prison for decades or even longer.

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Nolan insists on the practical effect: PG-13; 148 min. the miniature and the set, as opposed Opens July 16 to CGI. The visual tangibility of this Freudian caper adds to its sciďŹ plausibility. Inception is a cerebral, chilly effort, really only warmed by Ellen Page as a labyrinth maker called Ariadne. The ďŹ lm shakes you up, in a good way; Hans Zimmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digital Alpenhorns rattle the theater like the baritones in a grand opera.

More heartfelt than butt-felt is the subplot about Mal, the wife Cobb left behind, so to speak, played by touchingly by Marion Cotillard. Everything we see in Inception is unrealâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but what happens to her happens to schizophrenics every day, so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plausible horror in her fate.

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at the Plaza Hotel, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mistaken for one Irving Kaplan, an American super agent; from this point on Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is pursued by agents of the spymaster Van Damm (James Mason at his silkiest). The movie summed up Alfred Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s American ďŹ lms, according to the director. BILLED WITH Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m No Angel.

A lady lion tamer billed as Sister Honky Tonk (Mae West) tires of bossing cats around and decides to set her sites on more dangerous game. She romances a millionaire who balks at the altar and pays the price for it later ($1 million).

In his second bout with Ms. West, Cary Grant plays the unfortunate plutocratâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer who falls for the bad girl. (Plays Jul 17-20 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

Reviews 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 Chanel-Stravinsky love affair begins before World War I in Paris. Chanel goes to the ballet to see the debut of The Rite of Spring.

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CYRUS (R; 92 min.) The new ďŹ lm by Jay and Mark Duplass brings them upscale without too much compromise in presenting a general atmosphere of failure and recrimination. The protagonist is the galoot John (John C. Reilly), a free-lance editor who is still attached to his ex-wife, Jamie (Catherine Keener). John makes a serious ass out of himself at a party,

but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotionally rescued. A â&#x20AC;&#x153;sex angelâ&#x20AC;? named Molly (Marisa Tomei) takes him home. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the hitch?

Mollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 22-year-old live-at-home son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill), is a hulking adult big baby with a jaw like a bullfrog. He reacts to Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrival ďŹ rst passive aggressiveness and then out-and-out sabotage. (RvB)

JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK (R., 84 min) The subject is Rivers on and around her 75th birthday as she prepares a one-woman show for the Edinburgh Festival. One more exposĂŠ of the comedian as monster wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be worth writing aboutâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this, however, is a master class in standup. (RvB)

TOY STORY 3 (G; 103 min.) 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 new version of an old myth. (RvB)

WINTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BONE (R; 100 min.) Debra Granikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spare, gripping ďŹ lm concerns 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence).

Before her father skipped bail on a meth-making charge, he signed over his house to the bail bondsmen.

Ree had planned to join the Army Instead, the girl has to hunt up a father who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be found.

Granik ďŹ lms in the half-frozen hills near SpringďŹ eld, Mo., but one doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a sense of watching a city director exploiting the backwoods squalor. (RvB)

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Dark Streets WARNER HOME VIDEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S latest ďŹ lm noir (noirish, really) collection, Vol. 5, brings back in superb prints eight hard-to-ďŹ nd dramas of crime and desperation.

Don Siegelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1956 Crime in the Streets is a set-bound exposĂŠ of juvenile delinquents with John Cassavetes.

In The Phenix City Story (1955), Phil Karlson takes on gambling casinos in a Southern town. The sin palaces look relatively tame, but the powers that be strike back with outbursts of violence that are still shocking, especially when racism is layered on top of corruption.

Charles McGraw plays a cop in Armored Car Robbery (1950) pursuing a slick thief (William Talman, a.k.a Hamilton Burger on the Perry Mason TV show) who picks off his own co-conspirators as he sets his sights on a brass-hard ecdysiast (Adele Jurgens). In Desperate (1947), schlubby Steve Brodie and his ingenue wife (Audrey Long) ďŹ&#x201A;ee from both the police and heavy Raymond Burr. This early Anthony Mann includes some fantastic visual moments using harsh pools of light from a swinging lamp like a strobe to ramp up the menace of Burrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face. In both Cornered (1945), with Dick Powell, and BackďŹ re (1950), with Edmund Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien and Gordon MacRae, disaffected World War II vets =`cd Ef`i try to exorcize their tortured pasts in :cXjj`Z :fcc\Zk`fe# ways that only lead to more violence.

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A baby-faced psychopath (Marshall Warner Home Thompson) takes the patrons of a dive Video bar hostage in Dial 1119 (1950). The setup $49.92 is stagey, but the ďŹ lm views the crisis with a cynical edge, especially when the media and bystanders start to act like spectators at a freak showâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a motif that anticipates Billy Wilderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ace in the Hole. The real ďŹ nd is Deadline at Dawn (1946), based on a story by Cornell Woolrich. A sailor (Bill Williams) canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember what happened in the apartment where he left a corpse. With the help of a dime-a-dance girl (Susan Hayward), Williams tries to unravel a maze of mixed motives.

The ďŹ lm is full of the kind of Manhattan oddballs that enlivened Woolrichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories, even though their dialogue is sometimes overly mannered, thanks to the arch script by playwright Clifford Odets. The marvelously menacing mobster is none other than Joseph Calleia, who played Sgt. Pete Menzies to Orson Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil. He delivers a memorable cautionary line: â&#x20AC;&#x153;People with wax heads shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go out in the sun.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Michael S. Gant

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Since S ince forming forming iin n llate ate 2 2008, 008, Hard Girls have H arrd G irls h ave eearned arned tthemselves hemselves other well, ssome ome o ther iinďŹ&#x201A;uential nďŹ&#x201A;uentiall ffans, an ans, aass w ell, Mike Park, owner off A Asian iincluding ncluding M ike P ark, o wner o sian an Man Girls one off M an n rrecords. ecords. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hard Harrd G irls aare re o ne o best bands world, Park. tthe he be st b an nds iin n tthe he w orld,â&#x20AC;? ssays ays P ark. off m mouth way â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Word Word o outh ggoes oe o s a llong ong w ay underground punk and iin nu nderground p unk an nd ttheyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re heyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re building base aalready lready b uilding a sstrong trong ffan an b ase al aall ll aacross cross tthe he sstates. tates. I aam m cconďŹ dent onďŹ dent tthat hat people will iin n 110 0 yyears ears pe ople w ill sstill till be llistening istening music way tto o ttheir heir m usic tthe he w ay tthey hey llisten isten tto oa band b and llike an ike JJawbox awbox aand nd JJawbreaker. awbreaker.â&#x20AC;?

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The Phat Phunky w ould eeventually ventually eencapsulate ncapsulate al ll of of would all tthe he o ther musical musical projects projects tthey hey and and other ttheir heir friends friends were were involved involved in. in.

A ate w ould h ave iit, t, both both groups groups Ass ffate would have d isban nded iin n2 008, within within a few few disbanded 2008, m onths o ach o ther. Herrell Herrell and an nd months off eeach other.

F eshbach w ere lleft eft without without a guitar guitarr Feshbach were p layer. Huegenor Huegenor was was without without a band. band. player.

H arrd G irls w ass the the natural naturall offspring. off ffsspring.

Hard Girls was W ith tthe he two two main main singer/ singer/ With ssongwriters ongwriters now now iin n one one b and, things things band, w ere a little little different. diff ffeerent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We â&#x20AC;&#x153;We started started out out were b riting songs songs sseparately, eparrately, but but ass byy w writing w eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ggotten otten more more comfortable, comfortable, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ccollaborated ollab borated a llot ot m ore. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s w orking more. working o ut rreally eally well, well,â&#x20AC;? Herrell Herrell says. says. out H ard G irls sstill till rehearse rehearse in in tthe he same same Hard Girls p ractice sspace pace o nce sshared hared b he ttwo wo practice once byy tthe ggroups. roups. It It has has an an o dd legacy legacy going going back back odd tto o2 004, w hen tthe he Phat Phat n Phunky Phunky crew crew 2004, when d ecided it it would would b great place place to to decided bee a great tthrow hrow a sshow. how. T hey ccalled alled iitt tthe he â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cuddle Cuddle They S howâ&#x20AC;? d ue to to the the llimited imited space. space. A bunch bunch Showâ&#x20AC;? due o friends showed showed up up and and squeezed squeezed in. in. off friends T wenty subsequent subsequent sshows hows ffollowed ollowed Twenty w ith such such n am mes aass â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cuddlefest, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cuddlefest,â&#x20AC;? with names â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cuddlechella, Cuddlechella,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cuddle Cuddle L ilith Fair, Fair,â&#x20AC;?

Lilith aand nd â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cuddle Cuddle b uddlewest.â&#x20AC;? T he byy C Cuddlewest.

The m ost rrecent ecent ccuddle uddle sshow how w ass h eld aatt most was held N ickel C ity in in April.

April.

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not iindependent, ndependent,â&#x20AC;? Herrell Herrell says. says.

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Ziggy Marley Thursday, 6:30pm, Mountain Winery, Saratoga; $35-$65 In this tough economic climate, it pays to have a good name. And if your name is Ziggy Marley, chances are you’ll have no trouble finding work.

Lately, his younger brothers Damien, Julian and Stephen have overshadowed Bob and Rita’s eldest son. But Ziggy’s still the go-to candidate when it comes to silky-smooth mid-‘90s reggae-fusion. (SP)

Barenaked Ladies Monday, 7:30pm, Mountain Winery, Saratoga; $38-$73 You know it’s time for Barenaked Ladies to make a stronger push for their place in pop culture when I can remember the Weird Al parody of “One Week” better than I can remember the original song. The worst thing about this Canadian alt-pop band is that they are not barenaked ladies, which would make for a whole different kind of live show. The best thing is that Brian Wilson actually covered their song “Brian Wilson”; now if they could just get Yoko to cover “Be My Yoko One,” that’d be awesome. (SP)

Zion I Friday, 8pm, Avalon Nightclub, Santa Clara; $15 This hip-hop duo came up in the Bay Area in the late ’90s, firmly in the mold of earlier alt-hop acts like A Tribe Called Quest. Clearly rapper Zumbi got his ears cleaned out by Q-Tip back in the day, because he carries on the message of positivism, while his partner AmpLive is a genre-bending DJ who did the famous “Rainydayz Remixes” of Radiohead’s last album. (SP)

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Event. FFri: ri: Zion Zion I & tthe he Pack.

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CCampbell. ampbell.

BRITANNIA A BRITANNIA ARMS RMS A LMADEN ALMADEN Fri, 110pm: Fri, 0pm: Pop Pop Rocks.

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2. San San Jose.

Jose.

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TThu: hu: So So TTimeless. imeless. San San JJose. ose.

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FFree. ree. CCommunity ommunity CCenter enter Amphitheatre, Morgan Hill.

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EELL R RANCHO ANCHO SSPORTS PORTS B BAR AR Wed, 8 Wed, 8pm: pm: LLive ive m music/jam usic/jam nnight. ight. San San Jose.

Jose.

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Park, Mountain View.

CCuesta uesta P ark, M ountain V iew.

MURPHY’S M URPHY’S LLAW AW Wed: IIsis Wed: sis aand nd tthe he CCold old TTruth. ruth.

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NICKEL N ICKEL CITY CITY Fri, 55pm: Fri, pm: EEndings ndings ooff A Anastasia, nastasia, Vicarious Order, Mental V icarious O rder, M ental Disorder, Memory Me, D isorder, To To M emory aand nd M e, Goodnight Michelle.

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NUMBER N UMBER O ONE NE B BROADWAY ROADWAY Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm: pm: JJCC SSmith mith B Band. and. TThu, hu, 9:30pm: Mike Osborn Band.

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9 :30pm: G roove D octors. LLos os Gatos.

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N ajera B and, D arkhorse. SSat, at, 9pm: Black Mast, Blind 9 pm: B lack M ast, FFour our B lind Mice.

Mon, 8:30pm: Alvin M ice. M on, 8 :30pm: A lvin Draper D raper JJam. am. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

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M ichael B autista. SSun, un, 5pm: 5pm: Moroccan music Mon: M oroccan m usic night. night. M on: JJim im Farber.

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Mountain View.

M ountain V iew.

PARRANDA P ARRANDA NIGHTCLUB N IGHTCLUB Thu, 9pm: Thu, 9pm: B Banda anda 300, 300, D DJJ Akustik.

A kustik. FFri, ri, 8 8pm: pm: N Norteño orteño aand nd Bandas B andas live. live. Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale.

JJazz/Blues azz/Blues ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’S B BISTRO ISTRO Thu, 7:30pm: Thu, 7:30pm: B Blues lues JJam. am.

8pm: B2.

8pm: FFri, ri, 8 pm: KK&A, &A, B 2. SSat, at, 8 pm: Amy Gass.

A my G ass. SSun, un, 22-6pm: -6pm: IInternational nternational Blues Blues Challenge.

Challenge.

Mon, 8pm: RWH M on, 8 pm: R WH JJazz azz TTriad. riad.

TTue, ue, 77pm: pm: JJazz azz oopen pen sstage tage hhosted osted by

by Angelica’s Angelica’s JJam am Band B and ffeaturing eaturing Hristo Hristo Vitchez.

Vitchez.

Redwood R edwood CCity. ity.

CCAFFE AFFE TRIESTE TRIESTE Fri, 8pm: Fri, 8pm: San San Jose’s Jose’s LLyric yric TTheatre. heatre. Sat, Sat, 8pm: 8pm: Alfonso Alfonso Maya.

M aya. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

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

TThu, hu, 8:30pm: 8:30pm: CContemporary ontemporary 9pm: oorr LLatin atin jjazz. azz. FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, 9 pm: JJazz azz aand nd pop pop ddance ance bands. bands.

FFairmont airmont Hotel, Hotel, SSan an Jose.

Jose.

GGRAND RAND D DELL ELL SSALOON ALOON

Wed, 55:30pm: Wed, :30pm: N Night ight FFever. ever.

Downtown FFree. ree. D owntown SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

Thu: B Thu: Blues lues Jam Jam with with A Aki ki Dr.r. W West, KKumar. umar. Fri, Fri, 8pm: 8pm: D est, SSat, at, 8pm: Mad 8 pm: M ad JJack. ack. CCampbell. ampbell.

VASONA V ASONA V VIBRATIONS IBRATIONS

HEDLEY H EDLEY CCLUB LUB

Sat, 55pm: Sat, pm: JJessica essica JJohnson. ohnson.

Vasona Park, FFree. ree. V asona LLake ake CCount ount P ark, Gatos.

LLos os G atos.

VENUEZ V ENUEZ Fri-Sat, 8 Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: :30pm: LLive ive bbands. ands.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

VOODOO V OODOO LOUNGE LOUNGE Wed, 8 Wed, 8pm: pm: B Barb arb R Rocks ocks Presents. $5.

9pm: P resents. $ 5. TThu, hu, 9 pm: Anthony David.

A nthony D avid. SSan an JJose. ose.

WOODHAM’S W OODHAM’S LOUNGE LOUNGE FFri-Sun: ri-Sun: P Pro ro JJam. am. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

Mon: M on: P Pro ro Blues Blues Jam. Jam. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

POOR P OOR HOUSE HOUSE B BISTRO ISTRO Wed, W ed, 6 6pm: pm: Ron Ron TThompson hompson and and FFriends. riends. Thu, Thu, 6pm: 6pm: Lara Lara Price Price Band. aand nd YYesterdays esterdays B and. FFri, ri, 6pm: 6pm: Blues JJCC SSmith mith B lues Band.

Band. Sat, Sat, Noon: Noon: Onn tthe 6pm: O he SSpot pot TTrio, rio, 6 pm: Alabama Alabama Mike Degree.

M ike & 33rd rd D egree. Sun, Sun, 2pm: 2pm: Andre Magic.

A ndre TThierry hierry & Zydeco Zydeco M agic.

SSan an JJose. ose.

QUARTER Q UARTER N NOTE OTE Wed, 8 Wed, 8:30pm: :30pm: P Pro ro Jam Jam Night.

Night.

SSat, at, 44pm: pm: CCool ool Fire Fire Soul Soul Jazz.

Jazz.

Brisket SSun, un, 11pm: pm: B risket and and Blues Blues with BBQ Will w ith B BQ and and W ill Roc Roc Griffin Griffin ooff Vicious Vicious Groove, Groove, plus plus Martha Martha LLiz. iz. Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale.

SSANTANA ANTANA R ROW OW TTue, ue, 6:30-8:30pm: 6:30-8:30pm: Mark Mark Russo Russo Mediterranean TTrio rio aatt TThea hea M editerranean Round CCuisine uisine and and R ound Midnight Midnight aatt Restaurant.

SStraits traits R estaurant. SSan an JJose. ose.

THREE FFLAMES THREE LAMES RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT Sun, TTue, Sun, ue, 7:30pm: 7:30pm: Modesto Modesto Briseno music.

B riseno Septet, Septet, Latin Latin m usic.

Willow Glen.

W illow G len.

UNWINED U NWINED SSat, at, 77pm: pm: Jazz Jazz Night.

Night. San San Jose.

Jose.

WINE W INE A AFFAIRS FFAIRS Wed-Thu, 77:30pm: Wed-Thu, :30pm: LLive ive Music.

Music.

8pm: SSat, at, 8 pm: LLive ive Music.

Music. San San Jose.

Jose.

SSENZALA ENZALA Fri, nnoon: Fri, oon: LLive ive music. music. Sat, Sat, 77:30pm: :30pm: JJackeline ackeline Rago Rago and and VMP. V MP. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

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

8:30pm: Wally FFri, ri, 8 :30pm: W ally SSchnalle. chnalle.

8:30pm: SSat, at, 8 :30pm: FFrank rank SSumares. umares.

Hotel Anza, H otel ddee A nza, San San Jose.

Jose.

CC&W/Folk &W/Folk

JJ.J.’S .J.’S B BLUES LUES CCAFE AFE

Thu: M Thu: Mike ike LLeatherman. eatherman.

CCampbell. ampbell.

Wed: G Wed: Gomer omer H Hendrix endrix Madylan EExperience. xperience. TThu: hu: M adylan Rose.

Dog House Riley, R ose. FFri: ri: D og H ouse R iley, Vicious Groove. $10.

V icious G roove. $ 10. SSun: un: Gene Washington G ene W ashington and and Special Special Purpose.

Mon: Waynes Way P urpose. M on: W aynes W ay Band.

B and. TTue: ue: Blue Blue J, J, Dennis Dennis and and SStuart. tuart. San San Jose.

Jose.

World W orld

LLOFT OFT B BAR AR AND AND BISTRO BISTRO

ALBERTO’S A LBERTO’S

MOROCCO’S M OROCCO’S RESTAURANT RESTAURANT

Wed: B Wed: Bachata. achata. TThu: hu: SSalsa alsa w with ith Pantea.

P antea. FFri: ri: B Bollywood ollywood N Nights. ights.

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Thu, 7-10pm: Thu, 7-10pm: LLive ive jazz. jazz. SSan an JJose. ose.

Wed, 5pm: Wed, 5pm: FFlamenco lamenco M Music usic Night.

N ight. Thu-Fri, Thu-Fri, 5pm: 5pm: B Belly elly

BOSWELL’S B OSWELL’S

O’FLAHERTY’S O ’FLAHERTY’S Sun, TTue, Sun, ue, 5pm: 5pm: Traditional Traditional IIrish rish music. m usic. San San Jose.

Jose.

RED R ED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE CO. CO. FFri, ri, 8 8pm: pm: TToday oday O Okay. kay. SSat, at, 8pm: 8pm: Mountain View.

CChuck huck CCrowe. rowe. M ountain V iew.

THE T HE SSADDLE ADDLE R RACK ACK Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm: pm: Califorrnia Califorrnia B Boys. oys.

9pm: Diablo Road.

TThu hu aand nd FFri, ri, 9 pm: D iablo R oad.

Brothers, SSat, at, 77:15pm: :15pm: the the Bell Bell B rothers, Diablo D iablo Road.

Road. Fremont.

Fremont.

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MUSIC USIC metroactive metr oactivve M SST. T. STEPHENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S STEPHENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GGREEN REEN

SSAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S AMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BBQ BBQ Wed, 6pm: Wed, 6pm: D Dark ark Hollow.

Hollow. Tue, Tue, 6pm: 6 pm: Cabin Cabin FFever. ever. San San JJose. ose.

THREE T HREE FLAMES FLAMES RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm-closing: pm-closing: LLive ive country country music, Rose Productions m usic, Doug Doug R ose P roductions w/Bit Band w /Bit aand nd SSpur pur B and ffeaturing eaturing Willow Glen.

CCowboy owboy LLarry. arry. W illow G len.

Open Mic/ Open Mic/ Poetry P oetry ANGELICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S A NGELICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S B BISTRO ISTRO Wed, 6:30pm: Wed, 6:30pm: Open Open Mic. Mic. Tue, Tue, 77-11pm: -11pm: Jazz Jazz open open stage. stage.

Redwood R edwood CCity. ity.

ALEXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S A LEXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 4 49ER 9ER IINN NN Nightly ((except Nightly except SSun) un) , 9 9pmpm22am: am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an JJose. ose.

EELL R RANCHO ANCHO SSPORTS PORTS BAR BAR

THE T HE B BEARS EARS

FFAHRENHEIT AHRENHEIT

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

BENNIGANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S B ENNIGANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GGRILL RILL

CCAFFE AFFE T TRIESTE RIESTE TTue, ue, 77pm: pm: O Open pen M Mic. ic. SSan an JJose. ose.

CCITY ITY ESPRESSO ESPRESSO Fri, 7-10pm: Fri, 7-10pm: Singers Singers aand nd musicians. m usicians. SSan an JJose. ose.

MISSION M ISSION CCITY ITY R ROASTING OASTING

BLINKYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S B LINKYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CCANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T ANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T SSAY AY

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

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

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

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

BLUE B LUE B BONNET ONNET B BAR AR Wed-Thu, M Wed-Thu, Mon, on, 8 8pm: pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

Noo ccover.

N over. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

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

KKaraoke. araoke. W illow G len.

GGOOSE OOSE LLOONEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OONEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

TTue: ue: DJ DJ D Davey avey KK.. CCampbell. ampbell.

BRITANNIA A BRITANNIA ARMS RMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Sun-Tue, 10pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

CCupertino. upertino.

POOR P OOR H HOUSE OUSE BISTRO BISTRO

BRITISH B RITISH B BANKERS ANKERS CCLUB LUB

Mon, 77pm: Mon, pm: Cavin Cavin aand nd KKingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Mountain View.

O pen Mic. Mic. M ountain V iew.

THREE T HREE FLAMES FLAMES

Wed: W ed: KKaraoke. araoke. San San Jose.

Jose.

Wed-Thu, SSun, Wed-Thu, un, 9 9pm: pm: W Wild ild Nights N ights KKaraoke. araoke. FFremont. remont.

KATIE K ATIE B BLOOMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOOMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Sun, 9 Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: :30pm-1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke.

CCampbell. ampbell.

Thu: Melissa Thu: Melissa aand nd Heather.

Heather.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

KHARTOUM K HARTOUM

DAN D AN B BROWNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ROWNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

Wed-Sat, 9 Wed-Sat, 9pm-2am: pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke.

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

SSan an JJose. ose.

HUDDLE H UDDLE

Wed: W ed: D DJJ D Desmond. esmond. SSan an JJose. ose.

VENUEZ V ENUEZ

7B BAMBOO AMBOO

Fri, 9 Fri, 9pm: pm: V Vinnie. innie. M Mon, on, 9 9pm: pm: w/ KKaraoke araoke iin n tthe he llounge ounge w / Vinnie.

9pm: August.

V innie. TTue, ue, 9 pm: A ugust.

CCupertino. upertino.

CC&Jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S &Jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SSPORTS PORTS B BAR AR

Wed, M Wed, Mon, on, 9 9pm-1am: pm-1am: D DJJ CCurtis. urtis.

N over. TTue, ue, 9 pm: W estern Noo ccover.

9pm: Western kkaraoke. araoke. N over. San San Jose.

Jose.

Noo ccover.

Karaoke K araoke

HOMESTEAD H OMESTEAD LLOUNGE OUNGE

KCC B K BAR AR A AND ND R RESTAURANT ESTAURANT

Wed, 8pm: Wed, 8pm: O Open pen M Mic. ic. W Willow illow Glen.

G len.

Fri-Sat, 8 Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: :30pm: O Open pen Mic Mic and and Open mic with JJam. am. TTue, ue, 8pm: 8pm: O pen m ic w ith Dharma.

JJeff eff D harma. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

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

Milpitas.

M ilpitas.

Mon: M on: Karaoke.

Karaoke. Menlo Menlo P Park. ark.

CCARDINAL ARDINAL LLOUNGE OUNGE

Thu, TTue, Thu, ue, 9 9pm-1am: pm-1am: B Brian rian Palo Alto.

JJames. ames. P alo A lto.

DASILVAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S D ASILVAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S B BRONCOS RONCOS Wed: G Wed: Guitar uitar H Hero ero TTournament ournament pplus lus kkaraoke. araoke. TThu, hu, 9pm-1am: 9pm-1am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

DIVE D IVE B BAR AR Wed, TTue, Wed, ue, 9 9pm: pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

SSan an JJose. ose.

SAT. 7/17 9 PM $5

DAVE SMALLEN CALVIN STURGE

ATOMIC

New Wave, Electro & Indie DJ BASURA

SWEETHEAD

(Featuring Troy Van Leeuwen From QUEENS OF THE STONEAGE) SCARLET GREY GIRLS WITH GUNS

CLUB SATORI

DJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S VITUS & KEVIN goth industrial new wave deathrock

OBITS

NIGHT MARCHERS WORKER BEE

THE T HE GGOOSETOWN OOSETOWN LLOUNGE OUNGE

BOSWELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S B OSWELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

FRI. 7/16 9 PM $12

AUDRYE SESSIONS

UPCOMING EVENTS

TTue, ue, 77pm: pm: SSteve teve Tiger.

Tiger. CCupertino. upertino.

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

THUR. 7/15 8 PM $5 FREE B-4-9

WED. 7/21 9 PM $13/$15

BLUE B LUE P PHEASANT HEASANT

BRITANNIA B RITANNIA A ARMS RMS SSAN AN JJOSE OSE

RED R ED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE CO. CO.

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

Milpitas.

A ugust. M ilpitas.

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

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

BOGARTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S B OGARTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LLOUNGE OUNGE

WED. 7/14 9 PM FREE

GGALAXY ALAXY

BLUE B LUE M MAX AX

Thu, 77pm: Thu, pm: SSouth outh Bay Bay Folks Folks Open O pen Mic. Mic. SSanta anta Clara.

Clara.

TTue, ue, 6 6pm: pm: O Open pen M Mic ic N Night. ight.

SSan an JJose. ose.

Mon: M Mon: Monday onday N Night ight M Madness. adness.

SSan an JJose. ose.

FFLAMES LAMES CCOFFEE OFFEE SSHOP HOP

Wed, 7pm: Wed, 7pm: M Musical usical oopen pen m mic. ic.

SSign ign uupp by by 5pm.

5pm. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

Wed, 9:30pm: Wed, 9:30pm: Open Open Mic Mic N Night. ight.

CCupertino. upertino.

TThu, hu, 8 8pm: pm: KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an JJose. ose.

SSat, at, 9 9pm: pm: KKaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

BAREFOOT COFFEE BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS R OASTERS

BRITANNIA A BRITANNIA ARMS RMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO

Nightly ((except Nightly except Sun-Mon), Sun-Mon), 9pm-2am, 9 pm-2am, aand nd llast ast SSun un ooff month, B&S m onth, 22-7pm: -7pm: B &S KKaraoke. araoke.

CCampbell. ampbell.

Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: D DJJ D Davey avey KK.. N Noo ccover. over. CCampbell. ampbell.

KING K ING O OFF CLUBS CLUBS Thu, SSun-Mon, Thu, un-Mon, 8 8:30pm: :30pm: B Bruce ruce ooff KKOR OR KKaraoke. araoke. N Noo ccover. over.

Mountain M ountain V View. iew.

LLILLY ILLY MACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TThu, hu, 9 9pm: pm: D DJJ TThomas homas â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Soulman.â&#x20AC;?

Soulman.â&#x20AC;? SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

MARIANIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S M ARIANIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TThu, hu, 8 8pm: pm: CChris. hris. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

NETOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S N ETOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MARKET MARKET & GGRILL RILL Fri, 6 Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: :30-10:30pm: B Bands ands w with ith llive ive kkaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

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8/27 BLASPHEMOUS RUMOURS, LUVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;N ROCKETS 9/7 SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS 10/15 LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS

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EEFFIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FFIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RESTAURANT RESTAURANT

52 TTue, ue, 77:30pm: :30pm: IIrish rish M Music. usic.

Mountain M ountain View.

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MOB FIGAZ Feat, The Jacka & Huslah plus Strong Arm Steady

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$24 Adv./ $29 Dr. • Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

Tix for July 11 will be honored on this date or return to place of purchase for a refund.

;O\YZKH` 1\S` AGES 16+

“Bombtracks N Cognac”

ANDRE NICKATINA Bizzy Bone

(from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)

Glasses Malone T.Mills • Dot Dot Curve $30 Adv./ $35 Dr. • Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

Jul 15 Trip Delight Fantastic Atrium (Ages 21+) Jul 16 Fire Whiskey Atrium (Ages 21+) Jul 17 Eliquate Atrium (Ages 21+) Jul 21 Chicharones Atrium (Ages 21+) Jul 29 Wolf Parade/ The Moools (Ages 16+) Aug 11 Reverend Horton Heat (Ages 21+) Aug 13 Smash Mouth (Ages 16+) Aug 14 Eek A Mouse (Ages 16+) Aug 16 Xavier Rudd (Ages 16+) Aug 19 Ted Nugent (Ages 21+) Aug 23 Bad Brains (Ages 16+) Aug 24 The Hold Steady (Ages 16+) Aug 27 Jackie Greene (Ages 21+) Aug 28 Hieroglyphics (Ages 16+) Sep 18 Los Super Seven (Ages 21+) Sep 20 Willie Nelson & Family (Ages 21+) Oct 2 Easy Star All-Stars (Ages 16+) Oct 3 O.A.R. (Ages 16+) Oct 7 Tech N9ne (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 866-384-3060 & online

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MUSIC USIC metroactive metr oactivve M 55 NORMANDY N ORMANDY H HOUSE OUSE LLOUNGE OUNGE FFri-Sat: ri-Sat: KKaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

NUMBER N UMBER O ONE NE B BROADWAY ROADWAY TThu: hu: SSingles ingles pparty. arty. LLos os G Gatos. atos.

OFFICE O FFICE BAR BAR Fri-Sat, 9 Fri-Sat, 9pm, pm, SSun, un, 77pm: pm: Mountain View.

KKaraoke. araoke. M ountain V iew.

PEACOCK P EACOCK LLOUNGE OUNGE Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: D DJJ B Brian. rian. SSun, un, 9 9pm: pm: DJJ aand 9pm: DJ, D nd kkaraoke. araoke. TTue, ue, 9 pm: D J, ddancing, ancing, kkaraoke. araoke. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

POINCIANA P OINCIANA LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, 9 Wed, 9:30pm: :30pm: W Wildside ildside EEntertainment. ntertainment. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

QUARTER Q UARTER N NOTE OTE TTue, ue, 9 9pm: pm: SSherrie herrie aand nd SSue. ue. N Noo ccover. over. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

REDI R EDI R ROOM OOM Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm-1am: pm-1am: JJoseph. oseph.

SSan an JJose. ose.

RUDY’S R UDY’S P PUB UB Wed, 110pm-1:30am: Wed, 0pm-1:30am: DJ DJ P Purple. urple.

Palo Alto.

P alo A lto.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE B BAR AR & GGRILL RILL TTue, ue, 110pm-close: 0pm-close: KKamikaze amikaze KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an JJose. ose.

AZUCAR A ZUCAR

DASILVA’S D ASILVA’S B BRONCOS RONCOS

Wed: CComedy Wed: omedy CClub lub A After fter P Party. arty.

Urban DJJ Spinning TThu: hu: U rban D Spinning Beats’ Beats’ Nights. aand nd Brazilian Brazilian N ights. Fri Fri aand nd SSat: at: LLive ive SSalsa alsa Music.

Music. Sun: Sun: Hot Mon: SSizzlin’ izzlin’ H ot SSundays. undays. M on: SSalsa alsa Dancing.

Dancing. Tue: Tue: Beats Beats and and Beer Pong w/Mike B eer P ong w /Mike JJones. ones.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

Fri, SSat, Fri, at, 6pm: 6pm: DJ DJ or or live live band. band.

Noo ccover.

N over. Santa Santa CClara. lara.

THE T HE B BLANK LANK CCLUB LUB SSat, at, 9pm: 9pm: CClub lub SSatori atori w w/ /D DJJ Vitus V itus and and Kevin.

Kevin. $5. $5. San San Jose.

Jose.

BLOWFISH B LOWFISH SSUSHI USHI Wed-Sat: D Wed-Sat: DJs Js aand nd dancing. dancing.

SSantana antana Row. Row.

BLUE B LUE P PHEASANT HEASANT

VENUEZ V ENUEZ Wed, W ed, 9 9pm: pm: JJulz. ulz. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

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

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

Dance D ance Clubs Clubs AGENDA A GENDA Wed, 8 Wed, 8pm: pm: SSalsa alsa W Wednesdays. ednesdays.

Upp B B*Tch w/Paul TThu: hu: TTech ech IItt U *Tch w /Paul Residents.

LLeath eath aand nd R esidents. SSun: un: Planet Reggae.

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“I like the stage best of all, and that’s what I would do if I could do nothing else,” Tomlin told me last year. “I guess I’ll do it till I drop.” Though she’s never really stopped touring in a career that spans more than three decades, Tomlin’s most recent shows have Saturday, 8pm been a comeback—not for her, but for many of the characters she’s created over the years. “An Evening of Montalvo Arts Classic Lily Tomlin” is not a stage show like her Broadway Center, Saratoga hit The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, but a retrospective of multiple personalities. “It’s a $40–$125 compilation of characters I’ve done for the last 30 years.

It’s pretty informal,” she says. “I fancy that some of them are classic.” History is on her side; her creations have had a way of winding their way into the public consciousness—or just outright exploding overnight. That was pretty much the case with the two characters that launched her career: the 5-year-old Edith Ann, and the abrasive telephone operator Ernestine. After Tomlin joined the groundbreaking sketch comedy show Laugh-In in 1969, Ernestine in particular practically defined the kind of stardom that would later become a template for comedians on Saturday Night Live: an oddball character with one or more quotable catchphrases—in Ernestine’s case, lines like “Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?” and “One ringy dingy, two ringy dingy”—who becomes the talk of workplace watercoolers everywhere. To this day, Tomlin doesn’t really know what hit her. “How could I get so lucky with that character?” she wonders. “She really is one of those serendipitous things, you don’t know how they happen.”—Steve Palopoli

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Before we start, three critical questions: First, can bacteria really just land on your food while it’s sitting on the table? Second, what’s the best way to kill bacteria? Third, is a microwave a suitable tool for bactericide?

The first question is easy. Yes, bacteria not only are found on floors, tabletops and other surfaces, they drift around in the air too. Scientists collecting air samples for 17 weeks in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, recently found 1,800 types of airborne bacteria. Among them were cousins of Francisella tularensis, sometimes mentioned as a potential bioterror weapon.

Next question: killing bacteria.

Alcohol will do the trick; unfortunately, the alcohol concentration needed to kill bacteria will go a long way toward killing you. Sealing bacteria off from oxygen will suppress some, but anaerobic bacteria can do fine without.

The best method is heat. Milk, for example, is pasteurized by heating it to about 162 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 seconds. But some bacteria thrive at temperatures up to 167 degrees, and certain bacterial spores can survive for hours at 212 degrees.

Will a microwave kill microbes? Sure.

Microwave ovens use electromagnetic radiation to heat water molecules in food. It’s the heat, not the microwaves, that’s lethal here. The key is making it hot enough uniformly enough for long enough. If the food heats unevenly, a common problem in microwaves, some bacteria may survive.

Time for the Straight Dope science staff to do its stuff. My assistants Fierra and Una sprang into action as follows: 1. They assembled 30 petri dishes containing agar gel (a bacteria nutrient), plus graduated cylinders and other lab equipment.

2. One Pizza Hut Meat Lover’s Pizza was ordered. Upon delivery three swabs were taken of the pizza and applied to three petri dishes. Additional samples of

pizza were diluted with distilled water, in ratios of 1:10 and 1:100, and applied to two more pairs of dishes just in case the pure pizza swabs gave rise to such swarming masses of microbes that we couldn’t count the colonies individually.

3. The pizza was allowed to sit in the open air for four hours. Then three more swabs of full-strength pizza were applied to petri dishes, as were two each of the 1:10 and 1:100 dilutions, for a total of seven more swabbed dishes.

4. The pizza was microwaved in a 1,000-watt oven for 30 seconds on the highest setting. Another seven dishes.

5. The pizza was microwaved on high for 30 additional seconds. More dishes.

6. Control swabs were taken from distilled water; another control dish was exposed briefly to the air.

7. The petri dishes were set aside (in sealed bags to prevent dehydration) for one week at 75 degrees, then examined for bacteria. Results: • The undiluted samples taken from the freshly delivered pie generated 11 bacterial colonies. We’ll take that as our baseline for normal, generally harmless bacterial infestation.

• The full-strength samples taken after the pizza had been sitting out for four hours generated 28 bacterial colonies; two more showed up at the 1:10 dilution.

• The samples taken after 30 seconds of microwaving produced 17 bacterial colonies; the 60-second samples produced only three. The diluted and control samples produced nada.

Conclusions: (1) Heating the pizza for 30 seconds was relatively ineffectual.

(2) Heating it for a full minute killed most of the bacteria but not all.

Having exhausted the science budget, we didn’t go in for another round of testing, but we suspect that at least two minutes of microwaving would be needed to ensure 100 percent bacteria eradication, at the possible cost of rendering the pizza inedible.

(3) Fresh pizza has its share of microbes, most undoubtedly benign—still, you never know. Care to join me for a light supper of guaranteed-sterile agar gel?

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Halloway Hallloway even even incorporated incorporated this this idea idea into into the the company compan ny name name itself. itself. “‘Hallow’ “‘Hallow’ actually actuallly means means to to make make holy, holy, to to honor honor and an nd consider consider sacred, saccred,” he he says. says. “And “And we we thought thought that that would would be interesting, interesting, to to have have our our clothing clothing have have that that feel feel to to it it without without anybody anyb body really really knowing knowing that that word. word.”

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The partnership between T he award award iiss a p artnership b etween Association off C Collegiate tthe he National National A ssociation o ollegiate Directors Athletics, USA Today D irectors of of A thletics, U SA T oday marketing aand nd the the ccollegiate ollegiate ssports ports m arketing Learfield Sports. was ccompany ompan ny L earfield S ports. IItt w as previously Sears Cup. Six other p reviously tthe he S earrs C up. S ix o ther Cardinal placed nationally C ardinal tteams eams p laced ssecond econd n ationally Even more llast ast yyear. ear. E ven m ore iimpressive, mpressive, ttwenty wenty off 3355 S Stanford programs o tanford iintercollegiate ntercollegiate p rograms finished national fi nished ttop op 110 0 iin nn ationall rrankings. ankings.

Headlines H eadlines may may b bee dominated dominated by by men’s football men’s football and and basketball, basketball, b but ut it it iiss the the lesser lesser known known endeavors endeavors that that eearn arn S Stanford tanford rrepeated epeated L Learfield earfield Cups.

C ups. Since Since 1980 1980 Stanford Stanford won won more more cchampionships hampionships than than any any other other NCAA NCAA sschool, chool, USC USC included.Men’s included.Men’s sports sports rank rank tthird hird all-time all-time with with 60 60 championships, championships, while w hile w women omen rrank ank No. No. 1 w with ith 38.

38. ““It’s It’s a culture culture tthat hat has has been been developed developed over o ver m many any decades, decades,” Maurer Maurer says. says. “A “A lot lot off people o people that that have have d done one it it and and done done it it well w ell ccome ome b back. ack. Success Success breeds breeds success. success.”

The T he Cardinal Cardinal eenjoy njoy incredible incredible donor donor ssupport, upport, raking raking in in $ $640 640 m million illion iin n 2009.

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Glen. IItt h ass eeasy assy access access to to aall ll the the major highways major h ighways ass well well as as light light rrail. ail. IItt is is also near Santana Row also n ear enough enough to to S antana R ow aand nd downtown provide downtown tto op rovide easy easy access access to to shopping, dining shopping, d ining and an nd eentertainment. ntertainment. IItt is development, is still still a neighborhood neighborhood in in d evelopment, and plaza with and a p lazza w ith a new new llight ight rrail ail sstation tation is area. is planned plan nned for for tthe he ar rea. units IInside, nside, tthe he u nits offer off ffeer that that cool cool

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T here aare re h andsome w ood fl oors There handsome wood floors kitchens with marble aand nd sstunning tunning k itchens w ith m arrble ccountertops, ountertops, h hardwood ardwood ccabinets ab binets an and nd aall ll o off tthe he aamenities. menities.

Each Eacch u unit nit aalso lso ccomes omes w with ith a p patio atio orr d o deck, eck, an and nd tthe he ccomplex omplex h has ass iits ts o own wn llandscaped andscape p dp rivate ccourtyard. ourtyard. private Because new project, prices Because iit’s t’s a n ew p roject, p rices aare re sstill till vvery eryy aaffordable, ff ffo ordable, w with ith a o onenebedroom, one-bath unit be droom, o ne-bath u nit ggoing oing ffor or jjust ust $ 293,698. A llarger, arger, ttwo-bedroom, wo-bedroom, ttwowo$293,698. bath unit measuring b ath u nit m eassuring 11,274 ,274 ssquare quarre ffeet eet ccan an n be h had ad d ffor or jjust ust $ $408,248.

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Each off tthe bedrooms has Eacch o he ttwo wo be drooms h ass a sspacious pacious w walk-in alk-in ccloset. al loset. T The he k kitchen itchen iiss n ew, w ith al ll m ajor aappliances ppliances new, with all major iincluded. ncluded. T There here aare re ggranite ran nite ccountertops ountertops an and nd m maple aple w wood ood ccabinets, abinets, modern ggiving iving iitt a rrich, ich, m odern llook. ook.

As o ne m ight eexpect xpect iin nS ilicon As one might Silicon Valley, unit has Cat-5 V aallley, tthe he u nit aalready lread dy h ass C at-5 wiring w iring ffor or ffull ull d data ata ssupport. upport. T This his u unit nit ccan an n be h had ad d ffor or $ $411,911.

411,911. imilar b ut sslightly lightly ssmaller maller A ssimilar but aapartment part r ment ccan an be ffound ound o on n tthe he ttop op fl oor. W hat m akes tthis his u nit sspecial peciall iiss floor.

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