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A must read for all string pullers, pickers, glum Blum and family, and cherished shareholders. All may not be lost for our state’s learners if said shareholders might graciously reinvest in a state-funded higher learning.

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Clapping Sound A merry-go-round of applause for Peter Byrne’s article on the mixed state of adult education and higher learning here in California (“The Selling of UC,” Cover Story, June 30).

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by Gary Singh (“Tour the Obscure,” Cover Story, July 25.) It made me homesick. I appreciate the

“unappreciated view concept” in which the story was done. I, like the writer, spent a lot of time just walking through the unappreciated back alleys of the city. The quick yet descriptive manner of the locals paints a wonderful mosaic. By the way, my aunt is the proud owner of “Baby Land” on the corner of San Carlos and Bascom.

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Tax Party In many ways, Republicans are the party of taxation and big government.

For a half-century, they have been the primary advocates of excess trillions of dollars for military expenses.

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Gloves Coming Off Two weeks ago, LARRY PEGRAM handdelivered a letter to DONALD ROCHA, his opponent for the District 9 seat on the San Jose City Council. The three-page missive asked Rocha to pledge support for a doctrine labeled the “Pegram Principles,” obviously modeled on the “Reed Reforms” that helped Larry’s friend Chuck win the mayor’s job a few years back. (As if front-runner Rocha would have anything to gain by endorsing his opponent’s philosophy.) Pegram attached a personal note, essentially one of those “no-negative campaigning” promises: “Dear Don, I look forward to a campaign that is worthy of our consultants [?!] and is carried out in an honorable manner.” Six days later, a public records request was received by San Jose City Clerk LEE PRICE. The request, submitted by JAMES SPENCE of the San Jose–based Corporate Security Concepts, asked for Rocha’s expense reports, copies of all his emails (particularly those to and from the South Bay Labor Council), his reimbursement requests and his call records. VICTOR AJLOUNY, Pegram’s (and Reed’s) Don’t political consultant, forget confirms that he hired to tip!

Spence, a former SJPD officer whom Ajlouny FLY@ advised during a failed METRONEWS. run for the District 6 COM council seat. Rocha was notified of the request when it was submitted. He pegged it as opposition research, naturally, and is bracing for some negative ads from camp Pegram in the near future—although he says he’s not too worried: “He’s got so much ground to make up that even if he did succeed on some level, I’m still ahead.” Ajlouny says he doesn’t know why Rocha is worked up. “If there is something in his voting record that he has a problem with, then we’ll probably find it, and the voters will know about it,” he says. “If Don Rocha is proud of every vote he’s ever taken, and believes in every vote he’s ever taken, and thinks everything he’s done in public life can stand up to the scrutiny of the voters, then he’s got nothing to worry about.”

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that I was prepared to endorse him,” Stone says. “I called Forrest [Williams]. I guess I wanted him to hear my decision, not find out from the press. It was a very short but cordial conversation.”

After the June primary shook off three of the five candidates vying for the seat, the two men left standing are Wasserman, former mayor of Los Gatos, and Williams, former District 2 San Jose City Council member.

Stone’s decision that morning was remarkable because of the fact that the four-time re-elected assessor—who coasted unopposed to another term in June—is a prominent and staunch Democrat. “I run nonpartisan, but I don’t think there’s too many people

that don’t know I’m a Democrat,” Stone says. “I can’t think of the last time I endorsed a Republican.”

Stone is the latest in a lengthening list of Democrats crossing party lines to support Wasserman; some of them high-profile supporters of Democratic candidate Teresa Alvarado, who lost the chance at the run-off by a narrow margin to Williams. (Alvarado has not endorsed either candidate, but was seen seated near Wasserman at last week’s Rotary Club meeting.)

While Wasserman is entering the general election as the clear favorite—he received more than twice the number of votes of either of his closest opponents—the November election is sure to draw more Dems, who will no longer be split between two Democratic candidates.

Wasserman says he’s been pushing ever since the primary to win the support of those who would, based solely on the letter behind their names, naturally gravitate from Alvarado to Williams. Stone, who served as

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Williams has had strong support, throughout his career and in the most recent election, from the South Bay Labor Council. That’s becoming an increasingly tricky affiliation when it comes time to talk tough about negotiating with county employees— particularly when balancing the budget relies on reducing pensions and cutting jobs.

The organized labor issue was foremost in Assistant District Attorney

Karyn Sinunu-Towery’s mind when she, another Democrat and former Alvarado supporter, endorsed Wasserman.

“Forrest is very hard working and very dedicated to this community,” Sinunu-Towery says, “but at this time, labor is a little bit unrealistic as to what is important for the county as a whole.

“I see Forrest as a labor candidate, not a Democrat or a Republican.”

Norm Kline, the former mayor of Saratoga who currently sits on the San Jose Planning Commission, says that when it comes to dollars and cents, a small-town mayor who doesn’t balance his budget with reserves is more attractive than yet another alum of the San Jose City Council, which has had increasingly messy budget problems.

Counting himself as another Dem for Wasserman, Kline says he does see a trend emerging that could spell trouble for Williams. “[Wasserman] looks further ahead in the fiscal year. That’s a trait most small cities have. After one or two years of making cuts, you know you have a new norm. You hit a reset button and balance your budget not with reserves but with the revenues of today,” he says.

“Jeff Smith, the new county executive, he’s a numbers person too. I think with a new board and a new norm, the county’s going to be OK.” Williams rejects the idea that he is in the pocket of labor and that the county’s woes can be blamed on the employees. He says he is also open to reformulating the pension plan but stresses a collaborative approach. “I believe we will be able to do some of that work. We gotta do that work,” he says. “The key is to respect everyone’s ideas, come up with a way that we can all agree that this is the way we want to go.” He also seems genuinely surprised that anyone would say that he can’t handle the budget as well as Wasserman, or that all his decisions are made from a pro-labor standpoint.

“I want to have a dialogue with those people who say I’m going to do this or that. I want them to look at my record,” he says. “I represent the Democratic party in regards to moving forward to win this primary. We need everyone.

Let’s get together and let’s go.”

It remains to be seen whether a handful of well-known Democrats will be able to sway the casual Dem voter

come this November, and whether or not the real affiliation voters are concerned with will be “labor” or “independent.”

“Mike cares deeply about workers and their conditions and how they’re treated,” says Sinunu-Towery. “I’m not saying he’s anti-labor. But he won’t be controlled by labor.”

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East Side Race On Though he’s yet to decide whom he’s endorsing in the District 5 runoff, J. MANUEL HERRERA will indeed be running to retain his long-held East Side Union High School District Board Trustee seat next fall. When Herrera hoofed it to the County of Santa Clara Registrar of Voters Office to pull his papers earlier this month, however, whom did he discover in line ahead of him? None other than former East Side Superintendent BOB NUÑEZ. Turns out that Nuñez has also thrown in his hat for a spot on the embattled school board, where trustee Frank Biehl’s, Herrera’s and board president Eddie Garcia’s seats are all up for grabs. (As an aside, we hear Garcia has had complications following his June heart attack and is still in intensive care.) Herrera says he and Nuñez chatted congenially about the World Cup while in line. Considering that Nuñez has been hovering around the East Side Board like a (ahem) fly ever since getting unceremoniously ousted amid a swirl of controversy last October, the news that he wants to get back on the board is somewhat unsurprising. Nuñez has already won the East Side Teachers Association endorsement, having been outspoken at board meetings on his concerns about fraud and intimidation within the district—particularly taking issue with East Side associate superintendent of facilities ALAN GAROFALO. Curiously, Garofalo quietly retired from the district on July 1, after having his contract renewed by the board on May 10. He gave one week’s notice.

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Alvarado’s finance director and was quoted in her campaign literature, is just the latest trophy.

“It’s a very significant endorsement,” says Wasserman. “A moderate Dem endorsing a moderate Republican is a very good thing. I think we’re both doing what’s best for the county.”

Williams dismisses the idea that Stone’s endorsement is a big deal, and waves it off with a joke: “I just concluded it’s probably OK because most people hate tax assessors,” he says.

“I don’t know what the loss is.”

He also dismisses the notion that it’s somehow indicative of a sea change, and is able to name a few Democrats who have come over from Alvarado’s failed campaign to his—San Jose City Councilmember Ash Kalra and Assemblymember Joe Coto.

Wasserman has spent much of the campaign so far stressing his fiscal conservatism, a message that seems to be playing well in the current economic climate. Though the county recently closed a $223.2 million shortfall in its 2011 budget without much fur flying, Wasserman is attempting to position himself as the guy who can right the ship permanently.

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sv 411.com Musk is now responding yet again.

What bothers me about this exchange is that the Silicon Valley press, VentureBeat in particular, is so focused on an entrepreneur’s personal life. A divorce isn’t anything that our readers want to know about. This isn’t Hollywood and these individuals aren’t out there trying to get lots of press about their personal lives. If they were, they’d hire agents and publicists and make the best of it. Instead they are focused on imagining and building the future.

There’s no place in our community for these kinds of attacks. Venture Beat should apologize and move on, and let Tesla continue to disrupt the car industry. —MICHAEL ARRINGTON, TECHCRUNCH.COM

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Elon Musk on ‘Silicon Valley’s Jayson Blair’ TESLA MOTORS founder and CEO Elon Musk isn’t a man who backs down when facing the press. When The New York Times wrote an error-filled article, Musk lashed out at the author, saying, “What is he doing picking on an electric car company? Why would he pick on the little guy who is trying to do good when you’ve got egregious waste of money in the tens of billions occurring in Detroit?” He added “He’s a huge douchebag . . . and an idiot.”

Ned Owen’s diatribes regarding Elon are so freighted with conflated issues and deliberately manipulated semantics they’re exhausting to read, much less rebut. [He] has become a tax on anyone forced to explain the truth to anyone credulous (or inebriated) enough to embrace his work as an accurate depiction of reality. igniman I don’t know. . . . the Facebook movie . . . this thing with this guy, it seems to me the voracious audience DOES care about what goes on in entrepreneurs’ bedrooms (or dorm rooms) nowadays.

Timm3 Sorry guys . . . but when you’re out trying to do an IPO, build a public company, every shred of your life is fair game. If you don’t like it, get out of the game.

And that was just when a journalist was poking at Tesla. Get into Musk’s personal life, and he’ll take off the kid gloves.

Valleywag’s Owen Thomas, now writing for VentureBeat, has for some reason become fascinated with Musk’s personal life and continues to write about the man’s marital woes.

He’s called Musk a liar on multiple occasions and seems delighted to get into the sordid details of Musk’s divorce.

Musk wrote his side of things on the Huffington Post.

Thomas hit him again.

Toyota: We’re Building a Car To Test Tesla’s Battery One of the many unknowns about Toyota’s partnership with Tesla was whether it would result in a jointly produced car.

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That won’t be known for many months yet, but Toyota has already taken a first step: It’s building Tesla’s battery into a test car so it can compare the Silicon Valley startup’s technology to its own lithium-ion pack.

Toyota president Akio Toyoda told journalists at a briefing today in Nagoya, Japan, that Toyota is building an electric vehicle with a Tesla battery pack. The Japanese company’s in-house lithium-ion pack uses fewer, larger-format cells than the 6,831 commodity cells (essentially like mobile-phone batteries) that Tesla uses in the battery pack fitted to its 2011 Tesla Roadster 2.5.

The company may feel it’s a bit behind the curve in lithium-ion adoption. The all-new 2010 Toyota Prius was meant to have a lithiumion pack, rather than the carryover nickel-metal-hydride technology it’s used since 1997. But Toyota bet on the wrong battery chemistry, meaning it had to start from scratch. And now it clearly wants to see whether the very different Tesla Motors approach could be used in a lower-cost, highervolume vehicle.

Most analysts have concluded that the Tesla approach is fine for low volumes of $109,000 Roadsters, but too costly for Corollas.

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sv 411 Man Sues for a Piece of Facebook Paul Ceglia thinks that he should own Facebook. Ceglia, from Alleghany County, N.Y., claims that back in 2003 he made a deal :<>C@8 with Mark Zuckerberg that he would design the social networking site for $1,000 and a 50 percent ownership stake.

While it is unknown whether he got the $1,000, he certainly did not get his 50 percent. In fact, Zuckerberg himself only owns about 24 percent of the company, currently valued at up to $22 billion.

But the case gets weirder. Ceglia also claims that the terms of the agreement stipulate that for every day that he exceeded the Jan. 1, 2004, deadline to finish the project, he would receive another 1 percent share of ownership. In other words, he would be paid more for every day that he was late—not the usual terms for a contractor. In any event, when you add the 34 days that Ceglia was late to the original 50 percent, Ceglia claims that he should now own 84 percent of the company.

A judge in Alleghany County seems to agree with Ceglia and issued a restraining order preventing Facebook and Zuckerberg from “transferring, selling, assigning any assets, stocks, bonds, owned, possessed and/or controlled by the defendants,” at least until the case goes to court.

Facebook has filed a motion to dissolve the restraining order, arguing that the case is frivolous.

If Ceglia had any sense, he would have waited 60 days, and owned 110 percent of Facebook. But Ceglia is certainly serious.On his Facebook page, Ceglia describes himself as “self-employed” from 2003 to the present and as “Facebook owner.”

—DANNY WOOL, SV411.COM

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This illustrated tale by Harvey Pekar, with art by Joe Zabel and Gary Dumm, was the cover story for the July 11, 1996, issue of Metro, after a somewhat tortuous trail, as Pekar explained:

I originally wrote this story for Premiere. It had been commissioned by editor John H. Richardson with the approval of his superior, Susan Lyne. Richardson and other Premiere employees liked the story, but before it could be published, he and Lyne left the magazine, which had been purchased by the Hachette Filipacchi Corporation.

Lyne’s resignation may have been influenced by this transaction; quite

possibly she saw trouble down the road. . . . Chris Connelly got Lyne’s job. While in the process of determining what to do with my piece, he, too, left Premiere because of disagreements with his chiefs. When Connelly’s replacement, Jim Meigs, formerly with US magazine, saw my piece, he reportedly exclaimed, ‘What is this?’ I was free to offer it to other publications.

Vacation chronicles Harvey and Joyce’s early efforts to garner a deal for a movie based on American Splendor. As these excerpts show, Pekar found it hard to play Hollywood’s game.

Harvey Pekar, who died last monday, July 12, had a special relationship with readers of metro, where he published many original works over the years.

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Long before the movie version of American Splendor made Harvey Pekar a genuine if unlikely celebrity, the bard of Cleveland actively freelanced articles.

In the mid-1990s, Pekar established a rapport with Metro—thanks to reviewer Richard von Busack’s abiding belief in comic books as an art form. This connection led to a variety of reviews on a wide range of books and music

by Pekar, as well as a three-page illustrated epic called “An Almost All-Expense-Paid Vacation.”

Pekar was a prodigious talker, surging forward past my feeble attempts to steer our conversations toward mundanities like word counts and per-word rates.

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As the city’s fortunes improved slightly, Pekar’s did also: his marriage

of 27 years occurred because he met Joyce Brabner, a fan from Delaware.

The story is told in the celebrated movie that’s the perfect intro to Harvey’s life and times, also called American Splendor.

One famous thing about Cleveland: Superman was created there. It doesn’t take much effort to contrast the ideal altruistic superhero and Pekar himself, whose works—whose persona as an artist—exemplified humanity, and

warts-and-all storytelling.

Pekar’s work grew with the 1970s, a serious decade in his working-class town. Underground comics, then coming to their close as a popular medium, stressed sex, drugs and escapism.

You’ll find only one sex scene worthy of the name in Pekar’s works, in American Splendor #1 (1976), a story (which Pekar never republished later) about his encounter with a

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childhood friend who became a prostitute.

Pekar wasn’t a stoner, and he didn’t get out of town much. So most of the time, Pekar’s subject was work—the livelong day of his job as a clerk at a government hospital, the push-andpull of the relations with the people who worked there; his frustrations at trying to be a writer, of trying to get published and trying to promote his writings. (It was this quality that got Pekar called “a self-promoter” by Robert Christgau—big praise from a writer who trumpets himself as “The Dean of Rock Critics.”)

Pekar originally self-published his work; it got national distribution because of a chance encounter he had with a friend from Hebrew school who owned a comic-bookdistribution system. (That’s how I found his work for the first time, in a now-defunct magazine stand in a Jewish neighborhood in L.A. at Pico and Robertson.) Pekar also had a big-name talent aiding him from the beginning; his friendship with Marty Pahls led him to befriend Robert Crumb when Crumb was still an artist for American Greetings.

Before he was internationally famous, Crumb toiled for a couple of years under the direction of his thenboss Tom Wilson, whom Crumb characterized as the creator of “that fucking Ziggy.”

Since they hung out for a while, Pekar got the idea from Crumb’s work of telling his own story.

The collaboration between celebrated cartoonist and Cleveland clerk produced not just some of Pekar’s best work, but some of Crumb’s best work as well. Pekar’s focus on good conversation and pungent silences harmonized with Crumb’s own longings to connect with the class of people who’ll never own a yacht, in Drew Friedman’s phrase. Their senses of humor overlapped, and so did their sense of tragedy and solitude.

Their finest work together— collected in the essential book Bob and Harv’s Comics (1996)— observes the small talk of Pekar’s fellow employees and a co-worker’s casual mention of a near-death experience. (“I talked, I talked Jesus off the cross . . . but he shot me anyway.”). It’s likely Crumb never did anything in his career as soulful as the story of Pekar mulling over his own mortality during a Saturdaymorning trip to a bakery.

When they stopped working together, Pekar found other collaborators. Despite the wildly different styles of these artists, Pekar became an easily recognizable comic character: a balding elder man with big sideburns and the neck of a white T-shirt showing under his button-down shirt.

Unable to draw much, Pekar storyboarded out stick figure drawings, telling the story of his life; he paid various illustrators to flesh them

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out, and that’s how we have his story.

He grew up the son of firstgeneration Polish-Jewish immigrants who ran a small mom-and-pop grocery store. There were two failed marriages, a year at Case Western University, a stretch in Navy boot camp. In the early 1970s, he made an unhappy trip to Santa Cruz and the Oregon coast.

He also recorded personal moments in his living room—pondering books and jazz records (he was a contributor to Downbeat). Pekar was an autodidact; it’s clear he was intelligent enough for academia, and he was proud of the fact that his father was a Talmudic scholar. But as related in his 2006 memoir The Quitter he got his education through secondhand bookstores and the library.

He was an anxious, argumentative man—a nitpicker who could drive people nuts. He was basically gentle despite a temper for two, as the song goes. It was still a surprise to hear that he was a serious fistfighter when he was young, when the various turfs of Cleveland were very clearly marked out for the different ethnics who lived there.

But Pekar was always pugnacious and took great satisfaction in trying to keep David Letterman honest during his various trips to New York

to do the talk show. Letterman’s scheme seemed to be to have Pekar as part of his weekly roster of weirdos, a salt-of-the-earth eccentric from a city that’s better known as a punch line than a place. Pekar outwitted Letterman, preferring to bring home bad news about General Electric’s misdeeds to NBC, the TV station owned by the conglomerate.

Though he delighted in chronicling his neuroses and fears, Pekar was a brave, honorable man. And he was humble. When I praised his work during my single visit to his house in Cleveland Heights in the early 1990s, he cut me off, “I put my pants on one leg at a time, you know?”

Pekar once described the time he had after he recovered from lymphoma in the 1990s as “windfall years.” (He told the story of that illness in the outstanding memoir Our Cancer Year, illustrated by Frank Stack.)

Pekar had a few of those vintage years after the film of American Splendor came out; he had some fame, and got to see a little of the world and a lot of his faithful readers. Pekar, who was concerned about his life and legacy, who thought of himself as a quitter and a nobody, who feared that his life would leave no impression, was mourned worldwide by fans.

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Since most of these marathon calls were on his dime, I sometimes wondered if his expenses didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t outrun his freelance income. But then again, when Pekar got to waxing about unknown streamof-consciousness novelists and forgotten musicians, I ďŹ gured he was really doing it for the love of exposing others to his favorites.

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feminist, but it doesn’t seem to have grown much lately.

Dykes to Watch Out For focuses on a group of intelligent, middleclass lesbians—black, white, Asian and Hispanic—living in a deliberately unnamed mediumsized city. The central figure is Mo, a feminist bookstore clerk.

She’s bright, politically active and well-informed but full of crippling self-doubt.

Straight people, including men, can relate to much that these women think and experience.

Currently, Dykes to Watch Out For is carried almost exclusively in gay publications. It’s got crossover potential, though. You don’t have to be gay or female to appreciate Bechdel’s wit, thoughtful illustration and perceptiveness.

Hers are thinkers’ comics, full of the stuff that classics like Gasoline Alley and Doonesbury are made of.

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with stream-of-consciousness passages. After Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d pointed them out, Fiedler agreed, but he was astounded that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d missed the fact that Ornitz was such an advanced stylist. He had always associated stream-of-consciousness writing with Joyceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complex prose and the art-for-artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-sake attitude of most modernists.

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Among them Rojas, [Steven] Bernstein and [David] Tronzo have a huge musical frame of reference and draw from many genres. . . . All three trio members value spontaneity and want to make music they couldn’t produce with anyone else. Says Rojas, “We’re not doing a gig just to do a gig. Sometimes we just show up and play; we don’t talk. I happen to get lost if I know where I’m going.”

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All those cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets are bad news for the planet because industrial livestock production is responsible for massive outputs of carbon, nitrous oxide and methane, not to mention soil erosion, deforestation, groundwater pollution and loss of biodiversity.

Fast food also contributes to the needlessly cruel treatment of animals, with crowded feedlots, dark cages and pens too small to turn around in.

With type 2 diabetes, heart disease and obesity on the rise, fast food isn’t so good for humans, either. Any notion that fast food is cheap or convenient sorely misses the big picture.

The world would be a better place

if there were no fast food. But what about healthier fast food? San Jose’s 2-month-old Sante Grill takes a modest step in that direction. Owner Bill Cory says he doesn’t trumpet his restaurant’s healthy aspirations lest they scare folks away since many diners equate fresh and healthy food with food that doesn’t taste good.

(But unfresh and unhealthy food?

Now that gets people’s appetite going.

Go figure.)

Sante Grill aims to “revolutionize” fast food with its lighter, nonfried, less calorically dense menu. The restaurant isn’t out to save the world through its food, it’s just trying to make fast food that doesn’t taste like fast food.

And on that score the restaurant does pretty well.

The t-bacon cheeseburger ($5.49) is lightened up with turkey bacon, “lite” American cheese and grass-fed beef.

It’s a decent burger that doesn’t leave such a large carbon footprint. The patty—80 percent beef/20 percent fat—is rather thin and a bit dry, but taken as a whole with the pickles,

lettuce, other condiments and whole-wheat bun, it’s a step above a Whopper.

Cory couldn’t say exactly where his grass-fed beef comes from, because he buys it from a wholesale supplier, but the bison in the buffalo burger ($5.99) comes from Durham Ranch in Wyoming where media-mogulturned-rancher Ted Turner is trying to revive interest in this great American meat. Leaner than beef and pasturefed (instead of fattened on corn and other grain like most industrial meat), bison is a forward-thinking alternative to beef. The lower-calorie pepper jack cheese and chipotle-flavored mayonnaise are nice touches, too.

Along with burgers, any selfrespecting fast-food joint has to get its fries right, too. Sante’s are good, especially considering they aren’t fried. Instead, the restaurant uses an 5,000-watt infrared convention oven to bake the fries in superheated air.

The potatoes come out pleasingly crisp outside and moist inside. For something different, try the crispy green-bean fries, lightly battered green beans taken for a spin in the turbo oven.

For something really good in a messy, nachos kind of way, go for the white-bean chili chicken cheese fries ($6.25). The name pretty much tells

you everything you need to know about the dish except that you have to eat it quickly to avoid soggy-fry syndrome.

Spicy Pacific Rim grilled chicken ($10.99) is another winner. The twin chicken breasts are lacquered with a sweet and spicy sauce that’s actually spicy. It and other entrees come with a choice of two sides. The menu might switch to a choice of just one side in order to bring the price down.

Either way, try the sweet potatoes.

Rather than being cloyingly sweet, the puréed potatoes have a spiced, savory side to them that was surprisingly good. I’d welcome them to dinner for Thanksgiving.

For desserts, head for the fat-free frozen yogurt shakes ($4.99). The mocha biscotti is a good flavor. Sante also serves beer and wine, which further differentiates it from other fast-food restaurants.

Sante Grill gets points for serving its food on washable plates rather than disposable paper, plastic or Styrofoam.

What’s really revolutionary is the availability of vegetarian options. The menu includes a vegetable burger ($4.99), various wraps like the “south of border” veggie wrap for $3.99 (let’s call it what it is: a burrito) and the “Mediterranean portobello” mushroom wrap ($5.99). I liked the veggie potstickers ($4.99), too. They’re available steamed or fried.

None of Sante’s produce is organic.

Cory says that for a fast, casual place, serving organic produce would make the cost too high. That’s probably true.

It’s too bad few people are willing to spend a little more in defense of their own self-interest, i.e., a healthy planet.

Low-calorie is good, but so is lowcarbon food. Serving fast food that’s not quite so fattening is a needed change to the market, and I commend Sante for it. But better-for-you fast food addresses only a small part of a much larger problem. What good is a flat stomach and a low cholesterol count if the natural world on which we ultimately depend for our wellbeing is in peril?

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Recently, I’ve caught the whiff of a new culinary phenomenon that has San Jose buzzing: pot club cuisine. There has been an explosion of pot clubs (medicinal marijuana dispensaries or cooperatives is the preferred term) in San Jose. Anyone with a medicinal marijuana card will encounter a smorgasbord of weed-laced food. Some patients don’t like to inhale their medicine, so edible forms of THC offer another option. Instead of take and bake, think take and get baked.

Stoner food has gone way beyond pot brownies: pizza, ice cream, chocolate sauce and even soda pop. I hasten to say that this will not be a review of pot clubs. Let’s call it a survey. While I pride on myself on my stomach’s capacity and resiliency, I don’t think my brain could handle the rigors of a thorough taste test.

As pot shop workers will tell you, eating your medicine instead of smoking it means the effect is delayed and can be stronger. So you’d want to be careful about eating, say, a quarter bag of “I Can’t Believe It’s Pot Butter” buttered popcorn at 9pm and then go to bed stonecold sober only to wake up a few hours later with the sinking feeling that you’re deeply and inconveniently stoned. Not that I have any firsthand knowledge of that or anything.

DOUG CHLOUPEK, co-owner’s of San Jose’s MEDMAR HEALING CENTER, a pot club that offers customers medical marijuana as well as massage, yoga, marijuana-growing classes and hemp clothing, says edibles account for about a quarter of the nonprofit organization’s business.

Prices range from $7 to $15. Most products come from bakeries in Oakland and Santa Cruz and include a wide range of pastries like cookies and cupcakes but also candy, bubble gum and even savory items like peanut butter, salad dressing and barbecue sauce. “If you can think of it, they’ve done it,” says Chloupek.

The medicinal component of the food generally comes from butter or oil that has been cooked with marijuana. It’s also possible to make pot-steeped glycerine that goes into hard candies and beverages like Lazy Lemonade, OG Kush and Green Crack.

Over at the SAN JOSE PATIENTS GROUP on The Alameda, volunteer Amy, who didn’t want to give her last name, says edibles account for half of the businesses’ sales because so many of their customers are elderly and don’t like to smoke. She has one customer who is 98 and another who is 92. Many vendors offers their edibles for free to terminally ill elderly patients. “Everyone loves us because we’re like a bakery,” she says.

“We had to get two refrigerators because we have so much stuff.”

PALLIATIVE HEALTHCARE CENTER is unique among San Jose marijuana dispensaries in that it has a pastry chef who creates its own line of food. JESSICA MCMANNUS graduated from California Culinary Academy and worked in local restaurants before she began cooking up medical marijuana treats. Some of her products include lollipops, German chocolate cupcakes, cookies, truffles, and gummy candies.

With dozens of other dispensaries in the city, there’s more opportunity for other pastry chefs to move into this homegrown business.—Stett Holbrook Metro intern Mariel Balderas contributed to this story.

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From 6 to 9pm on Saturday, the COLONY STREET BAND will play covers from the ’70s to today.

Wine tasting is free, but $10 gets visitors a Riedel glass with Big Dog’s logo. The cost of the concert is $10 and includes parking. Space is limited.

Big Dog Vineyards specializes in cabernet franc and cabernet sauvignon, grape varieties that do well in the rocky hills and cool climate in the hills above Milpitas.

You can make a reservation for the concert or get more information on the winery’s web site at www.bigdogvineyards.com.

Or call 408.935.9194 for more details.—Stett Holbrook

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Lucky for him, he’s got one of the most polished, heart-rendingly resonant voices to ever fog up a Texas microphone. Those golden vocal cords, plus a knack for subdued guitar arrangements and gospel undertones, have earned him four Grammy Awards and undoubtedly helped him land a marriage to Julia Roberts and a steamy fling with film producer April Kimble. No, Lovett may not look like he knows what women

want, but he most certainly knows what they want to hear, and that, it seems, is the same thing country and blues fans do. (CC)

THA DOGG POUND VooDoo Lounge, San Jose Thu – 9pm; $15 Despite their cred as two of the OGs, it hasn’t always been smooth rollin’ for Kurupt and Dat Nigga Daz; as the duo behind Tha Dogg Pound, they’ve had a lot of ups and downs. First breaking big with Snoop on his classic debut Doggystyle, they released one album, Dogg Food, in 1995, then rapped with 2Pac on his last record, All Eyez on Me. After his death, they got swept up in the drama, with Daz replacing Dr. Dre at Death Row and both of them falling out and in and back out with Suge Knight. It was Snoop

who once again brought them together in 2005, and they’ve released two albums since. That’s already double their output at the height of their fame, and 2007’s quasi-sequel Dogg Chit is better than the original, so they’re definitely at the height of their thuggy powers. (SP)

ADEMA Avalon, Santa Clara Thu – 8pm; $10-$15 It seems as if you can’t mention Adema without a footnote about how the singer is the half-brother of Korn’s Jonathan Davis. See, I did it already! The thing is, this band doesn’t need the nepotism angle; the music stands on its own. Some describe Adema as nu-metal, which is completely wrong. It is a hard-rock band with some heavymetal influence. Going on 10 years together, Adema has come full circle with its members; three

leaving, then rejoining. They’re currently on tour for a yet-to-bereleased new album, showing why they’ve lasted so long and proving family doesn’t matter. Insolence, Solid State Logic, Nova and Zed start things off. (BD)

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AZIZ ANSARI Mountain Winery, Saratoga Fri – 8pm; $35-$50 Flight of the Conchords fans will know him as the racist fruit vendor who wouldn’t sell an apple to a Kiwi. Fans of Human Giant have seen him in a sky-blue bonnet with a giant lolly, sitting on the lap of a full-grown man. And viewers of Parks & Recreation

will recognize him as that guy on Parks & Recreation. Live, Ansari is—well, kind of angry.

But hilarious. The guy doesn’t care if you don’t know where the cranberries are, that’s for sure.

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MUSIC@MENLO Various venues, Menlo Park and Palo Alto July 23-Aug. 14; $15-$72 The ambitious summer classical festival returns for its eighth season bearing the overarching theme “Maps & Legends,” with the intention of taking listeners on a journey through human experience as expressed in music.

The main concerts include works

by Vivaldi and Beethoven all the way to Copland and Crumb.

Among the guest artists this year are the Jupiter String Quartet and the Miró Quartet. (MSG)

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MUSIC IN THE PARK, GASLIGHT ANTHEM Jul 22 at 5:30pm, Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose

MIDSUMMER MOZART, PROGRAM II Jul 22 at 8pm, California Theatre, San Jose

CHILDREN’S MUSICAL THEATER SAN JOSE, MISS SAIGON Jul 23–Aug 1, Montgomery Theater, San Jose

CHRISTOPHER KOELZER PIANO RECITAL Jul 23 at 7:30pm, Le Petit Trianon, San Jose

LAZZARI EXPERIMENT, DOUBLE-CD-RELEASE PARTY Jul 24 at 9:30pm, South First Billiards, San Jose

VOICES OF THE VALLEY CONCERT Jul 24 at 7:30pm, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

DETOX SUNDAY POOL PARTY Jul 25, DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose

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But it’s not just the solid beat of Good Hustle that draws you in. Oh my, no. The infectious grooves of this band will force your booty to be out there on the dance floor.

Versatile in genres, with a sense of humor to match, Good Hustle provides further evidence that my life’s work is finally ready for Geneva. Stay tuned for news of my impending Nobel Prize.

Thanks, science! (BD)

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TARGET SUMMER POPS SJSU Mall Sat – 7pm, Sun – 5:30pm; free Building on the success of last year’s free outdoor concerts, Symphony Silicon Valley presents four rousing displays of classical music for the whole family—and in keeping with the season, the water and ice cream will be frtee. Saturday’s show, “American All Stars,” features the works of Copland, Ellington, Gershwin and more, with guest conductor Peter Jaffe and pianist Jon Nakamatsu. The Sunday concert includes such favorites as the William Tell Overture Finale and The Ride of the Valkyries. The concerts continue July 30–Aug. 1. (MSG)

LOS OLVIDADOS Blank Club, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $10 Though they broke up before releasing a full-length record, Los Olvidados were pioneers in the emerging skate punk scene of the early ’80s. Bands like Suicidal Tendencies, NOFX, and even fellow San Jose punkers the Faction (which Los Olvidados’ bass player Ray Stevens II played for) would gain more recognition in this growing scene, but Los Olvidados’ music lasted beyond their brief three-year stint.

Alternative Tentacles reissued plenty of their old recordings years later, more than was ever released during the heyday. Now, 30 years later, they’re as fast and vibrant as ever. Their music’s packed with the same manic, explosive energy that was oozing out their pores in 1982. And it still makes you want to skateboard through downtown San Jose with both middle fingers proudly extended and aimed at every passing cop car. (AC)

THE LAZZARI EXPERIMENT South First Billiards, San Jose Sat – 9:30pm; free Not content with just one new album. San Jose’s Lazzari Experiment went to work on two at the same time: In the Red and Hope, for a total of 24 tracks of serious, no-nonsense rock in a psychedelic vein. The bandmembers—Cameron Lazzari, Lance Ross and Kris Ugrin—will unleash the albums simultaneously at this CD-release party, performing both of them live. The evening will be rounded out by Minor Gray playing acoustic material between the two sets.

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Jul 25 at 4pm, City Lights

MARTINA MCBRIDE Jul 26 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery, Saratoga PAT BENATAR Jul 27 at 6:30pm, Mountain Winery, Saratoga

MUSIC IN THE PARK, PETE ESCOVEDO Jul 22 at 5:30pm, Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose

DAVE KOZ Aug 6 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratgoga

RUSH TIME MACHINE TOUR Aug 6 at 7:30pm, Shoreline

JOAN BAEZ Aug 12 at 7pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

LADY GAGA Aug 16-17 at 8pm, HP Pavilion, San Jose

JOHN MAYER Aug 20 at 7pm, Shoreline

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Anything Goes July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 15; Smithwick Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills; $10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$26 Cole Porter hits the high season in the famous musical about love, intrigue and high jinks aboard a luxury liner; the score includes such favorites as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Delovely,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Get a Kick Out of Youâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the Top.â&#x20AC;? This production is a Foothill Music Theatre presentation.

Rent July 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 29; City Lights Theater Co., San Jose; $25â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$40 Just about the smartest theatrical idea of the last 20 years was Jonathan Larsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s canny realization that Pucciniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s La Bohème could be updated to contemporary New York, where the young and creative were living under the threat of HIV/AIDS. Rent has gone on to amazing success, turning up at theater companies of all sizes across the country.

Lisa Mallette directs City Lightsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; version.

Hill House Opening Sunday, 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4pm; History Park, San Jose; free The memory of San Jose painter and photographer Andrew Putnam Hill (1853â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1922) is honored in the newest house museum, Hill House, at History Park. The landmark building has been undergoing restoration for more than a decade and is now ready for public viewing. The opening ceremonies include a ribboncutting, antique autos, music and refreshments.

Garlic Festival Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sunday, 10amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;7pm; Christmas Hill Park, Gilroy; $8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$17

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Art Rage Thursday, 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8pm; San Jose Museum of Art; $5 The museum introduces its after-work series, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art Rage.â&#x20AC;? Guests are encouraged to stop by to enjoy music, cocktails (cash bar) and social networking. Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott will be available for tours of their â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Matterâ&#x20AC;? project, consisting of paper versions of ďŹ ctitious objects created in Second Life. Twenty works from â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Matterâ&#x20AC;? will be featured in the new exhibition â&#x20AC;&#x153;Retro-Tech,â&#x20AC;? which opens the next day.

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1. $20-$48. $20-$48.

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8. $19$19$67.

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24. $18-$30. $18-$30. Saratoga Saratoga Civic Civic Theater.

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AM MIDSUMMER IDSUMMER N NIGHT’S IGHT’S DREAM D REAM Shakespeare reinterpreted Shakespeare reinterpreted California bbyy Ca lifornia TTheatre heatre CCenter. enter.

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9. $25-$40. $ 25-$40.

SSEASCAPE E AS C A P E Edward Albee’s Edward Albee’s tthoughtful houghtful ccomedy omedy aabout bout llife ife aand nd ccommunication ommunication iiss ppresented resented Dragon Productions. bbyy D ragon P roductions. TThuhuAug SSat, at, 8pm, 8pm, SSun un 22pm. pm. Thru Thru A ug 8.. $ $16-$25.

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992. Thu, Thu, 77pm, pm, FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, 8pm, 8pm, Sun Sun 2 Nitery aand nd 77pm. pm. $10-$20. $10-$20. N itery TTheater, heater, Stanford.

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SSan an JJose. ose.

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SSAN AN JJOSE OSE M MUSEUM USEUM OF OF A ART RT “Retro-Tech.” A ggroup “Retro-Tech.” roup show show reusing aabout bout aartists rtists re using oold ld aand nd nnew ew ttechnologies. echnologies. JJul ul 22-Feb 22-Feb 6.. ““Degrees 6 Degrees ooff Separation: Separation: CContemporary ontemporary Photography Photography FFrom rom the the Permanent Permanent CCollection.” ollection.” Jul Jul 22-Mar 22-Mar 14.

14.

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5-8pm. $ 5.

TTue-Sun, ue-Sun, 111am-5pm, 1am-5pm, cclosed losed Mon. M on. SSan an JJose. ose.

CCONTINUING ONTINUING CCANTOR A N TO R A ARTS RTS CENTER CENTER “True ttoo N “True Nature.” ature.” Drawings, Drawings, watercolors w atercolors and and oil oil sketches sketches William bbyy llandscape andscape artist artist W illiam TTrost rrost Richards.

Richards. TThru hru SSep ep Highlights 226.

6. ““Collection Collection H ighlights FFrom rom Europe Europe 11500-1800, 500-1800, Ancient Greece Rome.

A ncient G reece and and R ome. A nnew ew look look at at the the museum’s m u s e u m’ s ppermanent ermanent holdings. holdings. ““Buildings Buildings oonn Paper: Paper: Architectural Drawings.”

A rchitectural D rawings.”

Wed-Sun, TThru hru Oct Oct 117.

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

1am-8pm.

Stanford.

St anford.

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

“Run! ump! Fly! Fly! Adventures Adventurees iinn Action.”

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9. Mon-Sat, Mon-Sat, 110am-5pm 0am-5pm and and Sun, Sun, noonnoon55pm. pm. SSan an JJose. ose.

HISTORY H ISTORY PARK PARK SSAN AN JOSE JOSE “Explore SSan “Explore an JJose ose Parks— Parks— Open O pen ttoo tthe he Public Public Since Since Att Pacific 11850.”

850.” TThru hru JJan an 23.

23. A Pacific Hotel H otel Gallery.

Gallery. Tue-Sun, Tue-Sun, nnoon-5pm. oon-5pm. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

PENINSULA P ENINSULA M MUSEUM USEUM O RT OFF A ART ““Cork Cork M Marcheschi: archeschi:

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SSAN AN JJOSE OSE M MUSEUM USEUM OF OF A ART RT “Vital SSigns: “Vital igns: N New ew M Media edia Permanent FFrom rom tthe he P ermanent New-media CCollection.” ollection.” N ew-media aartists rtists eexplore xplore ttechnology’s echnology’s relation re lation ttoo hhuman uman aand nd 6.. nnatural atural rrhythms. hythms. TThru hru FFeb eb 6 “New Stories “New St ories FFrom rom the the EEdge dge Plastic ooff Asia: As i a : P lastic LLife.” ife.” TThru hru Hyperreal.”

SSep ep 119.

9. ““Real Real & H yperreal.”

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SAN JJOSE SAN OSE M MUSEUM USEUM OF OF QUILTS Q UILTS A AND ND T TEXTILES EXTILES ““Hawaii’s Hawaii’s Alfred Alfred SShaheen: haheen: FFabric abric ttoo FFashion.” ashion.” TTextiles extiles wear aand nd aaloha loha w ear ffrom rom aan n Oahu manufacturer.

O ahu m anufacturer. ““Grand Grand Appliqué: Hawaiian Quilts.”

A ppliqué: H awaiian Q uil ts.”

Works Carol Kamaile.

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SSun, un, 9 am-8pm. SSan an JJose. ose.

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33pm. pm. P alo A l to.

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CCITY ITY W WINDOWS INDOWS GALLERY GALLERY “Earth-Bound.” A show “Earth-Bound.” show ooff works w orks by by local local clay clay sculptors, sculptors, Welsh, Don iincluding ncluding Stan Stan W elsh, D on FFritz ritz and and Diane Diane Levinson.

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WITH its comic-book set and toy-piano background music, Auctioning the Ainsleys, the new production at TheatreWorks, creates a mood of absurdist unreality before the first words come out of the first character’s mouth. The fast-paced comic drama by Laura Schellhardt (directed by Meredith McDonough) opens with second-generation auctioneer Avery Ainsley (Heidi Kettenring) selling the last possessions of her domineering mentor father—a Stetson hat, a man’s coat and a pair of size-10 shoes.

“Summertime.” SSelections “Summertime.” elections ffrom rom ggallery allery members. members. TThru hru JJul ul 23.

23. Tue, Tue, 11am-4pm, 11am-4pm, WedWedSSat, at, 11am-8pm, 11am-8pm, Sun, Sun, 11am11amPalo Alto.

33pm. pm. P alo A l to.

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TThru hru Jul. Jul. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

MACLA M ACLA “The Art “The Art of of Politics: Politics: TThree hree Generations G enerations of of Political Political Printmaking Bay P rintmaking iinn tthe he B ay Area.”

A rea.” Thru Thru Aug Aug 7.

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Jose.

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TThru hru Jul Jul 30.

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Cut to the matriarch of the clan, Alice Ainsley (Diane Dorsey), who has hired a young man named Arthur (Lance Gardner) to record her fading memories, as her mind and body prepare to leave her life of cataloging and selling material possessions behind. Arthur assumes that Alice will have scores of richly detailed stories to share, since three out of four of her adult children still live at the auction house they all call home, but Alice is clear-eyed as she explains to Arthur that proximity is not the same thing as intimacy.

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As Alice spills her remaining beans, we meet Annalee (Molly Anne Coogan), who has commandeered her father’s office and turned it into her nerve center for organizing the random scraps of information about the people whose possessions have passed through her family’s hands. She’s so scatterbrained that many of these scraps end up being stapled to her clothing. Living out in the carriage house, which the script repeatedly reminds us is just 10 feet away, is Amelia (Jessica Lynn Carroll), whose forte is assembling the stuff that’s been brought in for sale into attractive, harmoniously balanced lots. And down in the basement is Aiden (Liam Vincent). He is a master at making sure the pieces the Ainsley Auction House offers for sale have just the right amount of tarnish and patina. He’s so good at authentic deception he’s come to see himself as an enabler of other people’s spiritual decay.

The play is filled with fine performances (Kettenring’s fast-paced auctioneer banter is convincing, as is Carroll’s naiveté), despite the fact that Schellhardt’s characters are essentially caricatures. And if on occasion the play sinks to platitudes (Avery: “It isn’t time to take stock; it’s time to move on”) and shtick (Amelia: “There were signs, and I ignored them.”

Avery: “What signs?” Amelia: “I don’t know; I ignored them.” Ba-dabump!), we only have to sit on our bidding paddles for a moment or two until another exchange is presented for our consideration.—Ben Marks

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Montalvo Arts Center

Sculpture on the Grounds JUNE 2010 – OCTOBER 2010

ARTS RT S metroactive metr oactivve A 35 3 5 MONTALVO M ONTALVO A ARTS RTS CENTER CENTER Sculpture bbyy A Sculpture Ann nn W Weber, eber, Alili N Naschke-Messing A aschke-Messing and and David Middlebrook D avid M iddlebrook ddisplayed isplayed ooutdoors. utdoors. TThu hu Oct. Oct. Opening Opening pparty arty Jul Jul 23, 23, 77pm. pm. Saratoga.

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OPENING CELEBRATION PARTY!

David Middlebrook, Ann Weber and Ali Naschke-Messing

FRIDAY, JULY 23 | 7 PM - 9 PM

Live Music, Performance, Food & Libations!

Free Admission :: No-host Bar

Project Space Gallery

Ali Naschke-Messing’s exhibition, Open, will also be celebrated on July 23rd. The exhibition is on view through August 15. Free Admission For more information: montalvoarts.org 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga, CA 95070

“Secret D “Secret Drawings.” rawings.” A sshow how bbased ased on on the the Surrealist Surrealist idea idea ooff tthe he eexquisite xquisite corpse. corpse. ““Dream Dream SSequences.” equences.” CCeramic eramic figures fi gures bbyy Michael Michael LLucero, ucero, Beverly Mayeri B everly M ayeri aand nd others. others.

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4. Tue-Sat, Tue-Sat, 110am-5pm, 0am-5pm, TThu, hu, 7-9pm, 7-9pm, Sun, Sun, Palo Alto.

11-5pm.

-5pm. P alo A l to.

P PHANTOM HANTOM GGALLERIES ALLERIES “Street SSwag “Street wag P Photos,” hotos,” bbyy Abe Menor.

A be M enor. TThru hru JJul ul 26.

26.

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TThru hru Sep Sep 19.

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JJul ul 16, 16, 6 -8pm. TThru hru Sep Sep 19.

19.

TTue-Fri, ue-Fri, 110am-5pm, 0am-5pm, SSat, at, nnoon-5pm. oon-5pm. San San Jose.

Jose.

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

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SSTANFORD TANFORD ART ART SPACES SPACES Paintings by Paintings

by Eliana Eliana Iurato, Iurato, Monika M onika aand nd Matt Matt Rhoades.

Rhoades.

TThru hru Aug Aug 26.

26. 8:30am-5pm, 8:30am-5pm, Mon-Fri. Stanford.

M on-Fri. St anford.

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Director Lisa Cholodenko D irector L isa C holodenko aand nd Stuart cco-writer o-writer S tuarrt Blumberg Blumberg take tak ke their their film off the fi lm aaway way ffrom rom tthe he rrealm ealm o the ttypical ypicall gay gay and and lesbian lesbian n film film festival– festival– sstyle tyle talkathon talkathon and and move move it it up up to to with sspeed peed w ith blogs, blogs, Alison Alison Bechdel’s Bechdel’s Dykes Watch Out For and ccartoons artoons D ar ykes ttoo W atch O ut F or an nd the off M Mary the fiction fiction o arry Gaitskill.

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Moore’s M oore’s JJules ules iiss a cclassic lassic California California girl: girl: no n o intellectual, intellectual, very very earthy, earthy, a blurterblurterout-er off things o ut-er o things she she probably probably shouldn’t shouldn’t have h ave ssaid. aid. Her Her wife, wife, an an obstetrician, obstetrician n, Nic N ic ((Annette Annette Bening, Bening, amusingly am musingly dour), dour), back work miasma ccomes omes b ack ffrom rom w ork iin nam iassma off d disapproval, o isap pproval, ttrying rying to to get get some some dead rrelaxation elaxation iin n tthe he very very d ead bed bed tthey hey sshare. harre. ((Here Here iiss tthe he year’s year’s funniest funniest scene scene off ttwo o wo llong-married ong-married humans humans ttrying rying tto o gget et iitt on.) on.)

They have both T hey h ave ttwo wo cchildren, hildren, b oth ggotten otten by by a sperm sperm donor: donor: Joni Joni (Mia (Mia Wasikowska off T Tim Burton’s Alice W asikowska o im B urton’s A lice and Laser iin n Wonderland) Wonderland) an nd L asser ((Josh Josh

Hutcherson)—“Laser” must have H utcherson)—“Laser” m ust h ave been been JJules’ ules’ cchoice. hoice. Joni, Joni, ready ready to to lleave eave for for wants meet ccollege, ollege, w aan nts tto om eet tthe he aanonymous nonymous donor who d onor w ho ffathered athered her. her. He He tturns urns up, up, a sshaggy hagggy chef chef named nam med Paul.

Paul. It’s It’s Mark Marrk Ruffalo Mark Ruffalo part: R uff ffaalo iin n a cclassic lasssic M ark R uff ffaalo p arrt: a off desire sslackerly lacckerly aanalogue nallogue tto o tthe he chef chef o desire Edoardo Gabbriellini played tthat hat E doarrdo G ab bbriellini p layed in in I Am Nic and kids A m LLove. ove. N ic an nd Jules’ Jules’ k ids get get along along with man w ith tthe he m an well well enough enough that that he he become sstarts tarts tto ob ecome a sort sort of of member member off tthe And o he ffamily. aam mily. A nd Jules Jules finds finds herself herself becoming disturbingly b ecoming d isturbingly aattracted, ttraccted, despite being d espite b eing as as gay gay as as tthey hey come. come.

This T his sstory tory ccarries arrries a sstrong trong ssense ense of of place, with deft p lace, w ith d eft scenes scenes of of life life west west of of the the 405.

4 05. The The film film begins begins with with the the camera camera ttaking aking a sskateboard kateboarrd rride ide aand nd iincludes ncludes Whole aW hole Foods Foods joke: joke: “They “They push push açai aççai berries The b erries like like ccrack. racck.” T he sense sense of of place placce ggives ives dimension dimension tto o these these characters charracters and and makes m ak kes tthe he acting acting reminiscent reminiscent of of tthe he performances Leigh llived-in ived-in p erforman nces iin n Mike Mike L eigh films.

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The T he rreason eason the the “kids “kids are arre all all right” right” is is tthat hat tthey’re hey’re young young enough enough that that their their motives are m otives ar re cclear. learr. In In this this comedy, comedy, it’s it’s and tthe he adults adults who who dissemble dissemble an nd wound wound Nic eeach acch other. other. N ic looks looks right right through through tthe he spouse spouse she she ssupposedly upposedly loves; loves; JJules ules ssneaks neaks out out and and gets gets sex sex on on tthe he side side and and who bee vvictimizes ictimizes a cco-worker o-worker w ho sseems eems to to b llearning earning aabout bout the the affair. aff ffaair.

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ERIC CLAPTON CROSSROADS 2010 A ďŹ lm of the big Chicago blues festival hosted by Clapton. (Screens Tue at 7pm at CinĂŠArts Santana Row, Oakridge 20 and Eastridge Mall 15 in San Jose, Cupertino 16, Century 16 in Mtn View and Milpitas Great Mall 20.)

NILES FILM MUSEUM Jul 24: Charlie Chaplin in The Immigrant (1917), Now or Never (1921) with Harold Lloyd, Angora Love (1929) directed by Ed Wood (just kidding), with Laurel and Hardy and a goat; and Buster Keaton in The Electric House, where Buster

wires up a rich manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mansion with all modern conveniences. Jul 25: A special program on Playland by the Beach, the San Francisco amusement park immortalized in Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Lady From Shanghai; ďŹ lms on view include Chaplinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1915 â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Jitney Elopement,â&#x20AC;? ďŹ lmed in Niles and San Francisco, and Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts in the Coney Island ďŹ lmed â&#x20AC;&#x153;On The Loose,â&#x20AC;? plus the documentary Remembering Playland at the Beach. (Plays Jul 24 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.)

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RAMONA AND BEEZUS (G) A screen adaptation of Beverly Clearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories about the precocious grade school girl. Stars Joey King and Selena Gomez. (Opens Jul 23.)

SALT IS THE NEWEST, SEXIEST SPY IN TOWN.â&#x20AC;?

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THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (R; 104 min.) See review on page 38. (Opens Jul 23 at Camera 7 in Campbell, Century 16 in Mtn. View and CinĂŠArts Santana Row.)

â&#x20AC;&#x153; MORE STRENGTH THAN BOURNE,

-Patrick Goldstein, LOS ANGELES TIMES

-A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

RESTREPO (R; 93 min.) The documentary looks at a year of living dangerously for a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. (Plays at CinĂŠArts Palo Alto Square.)

(PG-13; 100 min.) Angelina Jolie plays a CIA ofďŹ cer who has been called a Russian spy by a defector.

Directed by Phillip Noyce. (Opens Jul 23.)

SALT

-David Edelstein, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

-Mike Sargent, WBAI RADIO

Revivals AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (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; also Jul 22 in Redwood City at dusk in Old Courthouse Square.

San Jose screening at part of the free summer program of Starlight Cinema. Bring lawn chairs and blankets to either venue; free.) (RvB)

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1971) A hit that had some merit, thanks to the Yugoslavian farm settings and warm and humane Israeli actor Topol in the lead. This warhorse musical is of course about

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the problems of Tevye the milkman, his disobedient daughters and the changing times that threaten him. Showtime is 7pm; courtyard opens an hour and a half earlier at 5:30pm for sale of snacks and adult beverages. (Plays Jul 23 in San Jose at the California Theatre.) (RvB)

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entertainer (with the 10,000 percent ironic name â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddy Loveâ&#x20AC;?) as well as scuttling, love-seeking creep.

Cinderfella, a male version of the fairy tale, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in the same league: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lewis as we love to loathe him: touchy, greasy, self-pitying yet aggressive as a wolfhound. (Plays Jul 21 and Jul 23-25 in San Jose at the Retrodome.) (RvB)

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Hot for Teacher SEEKING a movie about the ancient world that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually about people sticking swords into one another? Pity. Alejandro AmenĂĄbarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Agora is a beautifully dressed disappointment, highlighting a lovely but severely miscast Rachel Weisz as a pagan logician holding out against insurgent faith. The war on Muslim extremism is all over Agora, which is barely disguised as a 8^fiX story of Christian malice vs. the old Unrated; 127 min. world of religious polytheism% Opens July 23 Agora is all the more disappointing for at Camera 3 and being focused on a place and a time Aquarius in the Roman empire that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been ďŹ lmed before: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the early 400s during the Christian end of the empire. Hypatia (Weisz), daughter of the librarian of Alexandria, is a woman with the rare privilege of being allowed to teach philosophy; her two prize students are the slave Davus (Max Minghella) and the well-born Orestes (Oscar Isaac). As little is known of Hypatiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actual teachings, the ďŹ lm poses that her concerns were the matter of the shape of the Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s orbit round the sun The ďŹ lm presents an ant-hill-like squabble of different faiths, centered around the increasing viciousness of the local Christian bishop and the inability of the Roman government to stop the violence to come.

Weisz looks very fetching in togas, but the force of Hypatiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sweet, no-monkey-business character is stressed rather than her gravity of an intellectual. One gets the unfortunate sense that Weisz is doing what Julie Andrews would do with the role. Meanwhile, pogroms between ever more ill-identiďŹ ed groups remind one of how tough it is to make a ďŹ lm on the general theme of intolerance, or to put an upbeat ending on a story of sheer tragedy.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

REAR WINDOW/HARVEY (1954/1950) Photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart), laid up in a wheelchair in his studio apartment, recovering from a broken leg, spies on his neighbors across a courtyard. The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boundlessly clever techniques mirror the same mystery that a good ďŹ lm provides, and it comes to a terriďŹ cally simple point: In an instant, Jefferies is transformed from a watcher to a watched, the focus of all eyes in his courtyard. All a triďŹ&#x201A;eâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or it would be in the hands of any director less troubling than Alfred Hitchcock. With a gorgeous Grace Kelly and Raymond Burr as hulking Lars Thorwald. BILLED WITH Harvey, a genteel comedy about the DTs. Elwood P. Dowd (Stewart), a wealthy inebriate, begins to say too much about his imaginary friend, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;pookieâ&#x20AC;? Harvey (a 6-foot-tall talking rabbit); his relatives seek to toss him in the Laughing Academy for it. A little thing, but fondly remembered. (RvB) (Plays Jul 24-27 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) Call it what you like: ďŹ&#x201A;otsam from the wreckage of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s, a piece of the Old World before AIDS, herpes and Reagan, or the ultimate cult musical. The fact remains that someone out there apparently hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen this one yet, so hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoping it makes a new generation of pre-teens a little more comfortable with their sexuality. Pre-show; eminent RHPS troopers the Bawdy Caste entertains and leads audience participation. (Plays Jul 28 in San Jose at the intersection of South First and William streets.) (RvB)

ROYAL WEDDING/YOLANDA AND THE THIEF (1951/1945) Fred Astaire is in London to attend the nuptials of Princess Elizabeth. In the most memorable sequence, Fred takes a little twirl on the ceiling (a revolving set built in a drum is how it was done). Later, Fred asks Jane Powell the musical question â&#x20AC;&#x153;How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Been a Liar All My Life?â&#x20AC;? BILLED WITH Yolanda and the Thief. A crooked gambler (Astaire) in a studio-built version of South America, hooks up with an innocent convent girl (Lucille Bremer) who believes the conniving Fred is her guardian angel. Director Vincente Minnelli claimed it contained â&#x20AC;&#x153;the ďŹ rst surrealist ballet used in pictures.â&#x20AC;? Well, except for The Andalusian Dog. (Plays Jul 21-23 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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AS IF silent-film fans needed further proof that the past was better in every way, Flicker Alley presents a beautifully restored print of Chicago, which is decidedly funnier than the 2002 movie musical. The 1927 feature, derived from a stage play by reporter Lenore J. Coffee, follows the misadventures of Roxie Hart (Phyllis Haver), who plugs her sugar daddy (a svelte Eugene Pallette) when he threatens to dump her. Roxie, with help from slick lawyer William Flynn (Robert Edeson), manipulates the press, the jury and her long-suffering husband (Victor Varconi) with her tale of self-defense.

A new Criterion release brings back the little-known 1940 spy drama/comedy Night Train to Munich by director Carol Reed. Rex Harrison plays a British agent posing as a Nazi in order to rescue a Czech scientist and his daughter (Margaret Lockwood). Their antics take them across Europe to a shootout on a funicular. The film mixes comedy with some more serious early-wartime propaganda. This early on, the Nazis can still be satirized with a stiff upper lip and some vaudeville humor (Reed’s The Third Man demonstrates the cynicism that years of fighting wrought). Harrison, not yet hitting his stride, manages to outwit his military adversaries with an atrocious German accent. The disc includes commentary by film historians Bruce Babington and Peter Evans.—Michael S. Gant

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a two-hour slot; it was a task bound to meet with outrage. Certainly Milo O’Shea is unimpeachable casting as Leopold Bloom, and Fionnula Flanagan’s Gerty MacDowell was so nice she played it twice—the second time in the unavailable-onDVD 1985 James Joyce’s Women, where this actress also did an anatomatically correct Molly Bloom.

Discussant is professor William Chace. (Plays Jul 26 at 7pm in Palo Alto at Stanford’s Annenberg Auditorium, as part of the Odyssean Cinema series; free.) (RvB)

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Haver, with bee-stung lips and a halo of blonde curls, is a consummate comedian. You can see the ripples of connivance pass across her features as she plots her way out of trouble and into the arms of a fawning press corps. In a bit of brilliant interplay with Edeson, she rehearses her cues :_`ZX^f for how to express her “courage” and Flicker Alley; “virtue” with demurely crossed arms $39.95 and fluttering eyelids for the rapt jury.

The film is credited to director Frank E`^_k KiX`e kf Urson but is more likely the work Dle`Z_ of producer Cecil B. DeMille. In one wicked touch, during the courtroom Criterion; $29.95 scenes, the camera keeps cutting to a chorus of enthralled women chewing gum with frenzied concentration. The two-disc set comes with a featurette about the real-life case the film is based on, plus a 1950 documentary about the Roaring 20s and The Flapper Story, a 1985 documentary by Lauren Lazin.

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(R; 92 min.) The new film by Jay and Mark Duplass (Baghead) brings them upscale without too much compromise in presenting a general atmosphere of failure and recrimination. Cyrus’ 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 he’s emotionally rescued.

A “sex angel” named Molly (Marisa Tomei) takes him home. What’s the hitch? Molly’s 22-year-old live-athome son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill), is a hulking adult big baby with a jaw like a bullfrog; he’s never really been weaned. He reacts to John’s arrival first with passive aggressiveness and then with sabotage. (RvB)

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(PG; 95 min.) Even the second tier of animated filmmaking is fairly advanced, and Despicable Me’s brisk and intelligent rephrase of the evil genius plot makes up for several cul de sacs. The bald, heavy-eyebrowed and Akim Tamiroff–accented Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) is a mad scientist working on his latest plot. If he can steal a shrink-ray just being developed, the Bank of Evil will give him a loan to finance his magnum opus: the theft of the moon itself. But Vector, an unsightly nerd bearing a notable resemblance to Bill Gates, swipes the ray from Gru. The scheme to retrieve it depends on a trio of forlorn, cookie-selling orphans who have been haunting his front door.

The action may be silly, but the directors take it seriously. The 3-D is mostly a gimmick, though there’s one startling moment of a rocket’s needle nose heading for the audience. (RvB)

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (Unrated; 129 min.) This second installment in the Stieg Larsson

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GROWNS UPS (PG-13; 102 min.) Lenny Feder (Sandler) and his gangâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Eric (Kevin James), Marcus (David Spade), Rob (Rob Schneider), plus Kurt (Chris Rock)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;reunite when their childhood basketball coach (Blake Clark) passes away. Afterward, the ďŹ ve pals and their families stay together over the Fourth of July weekend at a lake house. Why are they there? To hang out for about 100 minutes of running time.

Seriously, nothing of signiďŹ cant note happens. Juggling ďŹ ve stars in one ďŹ lm leads to too many leading to underdeveloped characters.

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

I AM LOVE (R; 120 min.) Tilda Swinton plays Emma, the wife of a distant businessman, who carries on an affair with a chef: Antonio (Edoardo Gabbrilini), a handsome devil with a tattooed bracelet. Director Luca Guadagnino touches upon the best novels about adultery: the name Emma, as in Bovary, is certainly signiďŹ cant. The director has one especially intelligent idea: the idea of how food and taste express information. The ďŹ rst connection between Antonio and Emma is through a meal he preparesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thunderstruck with how good it tastes. This is a rich movieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a banquet, certainlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the richness of it may seem off-putting; in these times, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much ďŹ nancial suffering that many may be impatient with the problems of a luxuriously clad woman of leisure. But this classic drama of

adulteryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;spare in plot, fascinating in designâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is a revenge of the world of art on the world of property. And we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen one this well framed in a long time. (RvB)

INCEPTION (PG-13; 148 min.) The basic idea of Christopher Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ lm 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.

Throughout the ďŹ lm, Nolan insists on the practical effect: the miniature and the set, as opposed to CGI. The ďŹ lm is audacious and frequently thrilling, especially when Nolan folds Paris in on itself and Escherizes interior spaces. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visionary ďŹ lmmaking, uncommon at this scale, with neither the mawkishness of What Dreams May Come or the spiritual horse feathers of the Matrix trilogy. (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. Meanwhile, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keen to make sure her calendar is full. Her material was risky from the beginning; she made jokes about abortion in the 1970s. Her own husband (and producer) may have committed suicide because of the pressure of the chat-show wars. One more expose of the comedian as monster wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be worth writing aboutâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this, however, is a master class in how standup comedy is done. (RvB)

PREDATORS (R; 107 min.) The plot begins with Royce (Adrien Brody), a no-nonsense mercenary, falling from the heavens unconscious until he wakes up scrambling to eject his parachute. He survives the fall, but worse for wear.

Royce later deduces that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a game preserve. He seems to know what was happening at every moment. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a walking, talking one-liner-plot-spewing machine.

Predators eventually just turns into any other run-of-the-mill chase ďŹ lm. Regardless of its mediocrity and lack of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get to the chopper!â&#x20AC;? line, Predators still manages to be the best ďŹ lm starring the alien race of hunters since the original Predator ďŹ lm. (SR)

THE SORCERERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S APPRENTICE (PG, 111 min.) Nicolas Cage is Balthazar, an eons-old sorcerer who dresses like Lemmy of Motorhead; he recruits a NYT physics major (Jay

Baruchel) to help him round up a wizard (Alfred Molina) who proposes to release the spirit of an evil sorceress (Alice Krige). Baruchelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; more ideally cast as the second or third assistant nerd in a high school movieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;emits various goofy whines during the live-action remake of the Mickey Mouse sequence in Fantasia.

Restaging this sequence live with CG animated brooms and mops is basically what would happen if you made a Daffy Duck cartoon with CG real ducks, taking loads of buckshot in the beak. Director Jon Turtletaub has obviously cut the ďŹ lm to make it move quicker, but camp or serious the movie fails. (RvB)

WINTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BONE (R; 100 min.) Like a Little Red Riding Hood story in which thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing but wolves. Debra Granikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spare, gripping ďŹ lm concerns 17-yearold Ree Dolly (a tough 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 and use the signing bonus to help the rest of her familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two young children and a mother incapacitated with depression.

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

Granik ďŹ lms in the half-frozen hills near SpringďŹ eld, Mo.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a forbidding landscape of bare trees. But one doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a sense of watching a city director exploiting the squalor.

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series brings back Noomi Rapaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ratty but invincible urchin Lisbeth Salander. Shortly after Lisbethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return to Stockholm, her old nemesis (and rapist) of a parole ofďŹ cer starts stirring up trouble. Meanwhile, trustworthily pockmarked investigative journalist Mikael (Michael Nyqvist) meets a new writer. He and his sociologist girlfriend are trying to expose the sex-slave trade conducted out of the former Soviet Union, apparently abetted by the Sapo, the Swedish Secret Police. It all comes together with help from the ever-clutching Hand of Coincidence. Director Daniel Alfredsen is trying to create a Euroanswer to Americanized thrillers by gentling them with humanism.

Match this with the kind of sexual politics unseen since the 1970s in ďŹ lm; ornery even before she was raped, Salander is an old-fashioned pulp heroine in a pulp plot. (RvB)

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Martina McBride Monday, 7:30pm, Mountain Winery, Saratoga; $45-$75 When people talk about how country went pop, they’re often talking about Martina McBride.

For over a decade now, every song this woman touches seems to go gold. Like a twangier version of her idol Pat Benatar, McBride does her material up huge and has little use for traditional notions of what country should be—her next collaboration is with Kid Rock and rapper T.I. (SP)

Obits & Night Marchers Wednesday, July 21, 8pm, Blank Club, San Jose; $13/$15 Rick Froberg and John Reis have been in a lot of bands that all sound like slight variations on the others. Best known are Drive Like Jehu and Rocket From the Crypt. The pair reunited for Hot Snakes, then broke up, with Reis starting Night Marchers and Froberg putting together Obits. (SP)

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Thu: A Thu: Adema, dema, LLeft eft ooff Christ, Christ, SSolid olid SState tate LLogic, ogic, N ova, ZZed. ed.

Nova, FFri: ri: A merie. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

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THE T HE BLANK BLANK CLUB CLUB Wed, 8 Wed, 8pm: pm: O Obits, bits, Night Night M archers. $ 15. FFri, ri, 9 pm: LLos os H ot Marchers. $15.

9pm: Hot B oxers, D ub FFX, X, CCado. ado. $ 8. SSat, at, Boxers, Dub $8.

9 pm: LLos os Olvidados, Olvidados, R ibzy, B ibles 9pm: Ribzy, Bibles &H and G renades. $ 10. SSan an JJose. ose.

Hand Grenades. $10.

BOGART’S B OGART’S LLOUNGE OUNGE SSat: at: P Party arty P Peanut. eanut. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

BOSWELL’S B OSWELL’S Wed: Jack Wed: Jack Rip Rip Off. Off. Fri: Fri: Bitchin’ Bitchin’ CCamaros. amaros. SSat: at: SSuga uga D addy.

Daddy.

Fri, 110pm: Fri, 0pm: SSpazmatics. pazmatics. Sat, Sat, 110pm: 0pm: JJunkshaker. unkshaker. SSan an JJose. ose.

BRITANNIA A BRITANNIA ARMS RMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO

EELL R RANCHO ANCHO SPORTS SPORTS B BAR AR Wed, W ed, 8 8pm: pm: LLive ive m music/jam usic/jam nnight. ight. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

FFIREHOUSE IREHOUSE GGRILL RILL Wed: W ed: G Greg reg Cross.

Cross. TThu: hu: Ted Ted B.. Sun, B Sun, 4pm: 4pm: Greg Greg Cross.

Cross.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

GGRAPEVINE RAPEVINE

Fri: CChris Fri: hris R Reed eed Productions.

Productions.

SSat: at: Barb Barb R Rocks. ocks. Cupertino.

Cupertino.

SSat, at, 77pm: pm: Daemon Daemon City City LLights ights Peter &P eter CChung. hung. San San JJose. ose.

BRITANNIA A BRITANNIA ARMS RMS DOWNTOWN D OWNTOWN

MILPITAS M ILPITAS B BACKYARD ACKYARD B OOGIE BOOGIE

TThu: hu: A Audiodub. udiodub. SSan an JJose. ose.

TTue, ue, 6:15pm: 6:15pm: Hit Hit Waves!

Waves! Free.

Free.

Pinewood Park, P inewood P ark, Milpitas.

Milpitas.

CCHAPALA HAPALA R RESTAURANT ESTAURANT Fri, 8 Fri, 8:30pm: :30pm: B Blank lank Manuscript, Manuscript, LLas as V ictimas ddel el D erebro.

Victimas Dr.r. CCerebro.

SSalinas. alinas.

MORGAN M ORGAN H HILL ILL FFRIDAYS RIDAYS FFri, ri, 77pm: pm: The The Shanks.

Shanks.

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A mphitheatre, M organ H ill.

Dogg P Dogg Pound. ound. $15. $15. FFri, ri, 10pm: 10pm: Ambitious A mbitious Productions.

Productions.

SSan an JJose. ose.

JJAZZ AZZ ON ON THE THE P PLAZZ LAZZ

WOODHAM’S W OODHAM’S LLOUNGE OUNGE

JJ.J.’S .J.’S B BLUES LUES CAFE CAFE

FFri-Sun: ri-Sun: P Pro ro JJam. am. Santa Santa CClara. lara.

MOUNTAIN V MOUNTAIN VIEW IEW SSUMMER UMMER SSOUNDS OUNDS Thu, 6 Thu, 6:30pm: :30pm: FFinding inding Stella.

Stella.

Dana CCastro astro aatt D ana Street, Street, Mountain View.

M ountain V iew.

MURPHY’S M URPHY’S LAW LAW Wed: CChris Wed: hris TTucker ucker aand nd H His is Guns.

Guns.

FFri: ri: After After SShock. hock. SSat: at: South South 446.

6.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

NICKEL N ICKEL CITY CITY Fri, 5pm: Fri, 5pm: A Att the the Skylines, Skylines, LLike ike Moths M oths ttoo FFlames, lames, Casino Casino Madrid.

M adrid. SSan an JJose. ose.

NUMBER N UMBER O ONE NE B BROADWAY ROADWAY Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm: pm: JC JC SSmith mith B Band. and.

9:30pm: After TThu, hu, 9 :30pm: A fter SSunset. unset.

FFri, ri, 9:30pm: 9:30pm: Touch Touch ‘‘N’ N’ Go. Go. Sat, Sat, 9:30pm: 9 :30pm: JJam am FFunkshus. unkshus.

Gatos.

LLos os G atos.

REDWOOD CCITY REDWOOD ITY M MUSIC USIC ON ON THE T HE SQUARE SQUARE

World W orld ALBERTO’S A LBERTO’S Wed: B Wed: Bachata. achata. Thu: Thu: SSalsa alsa with with Pantea.

P antea. FFri: ri: SSalsa alsa Fridays.

Fridays. SSat: at: Nights. with LLatin atin N ights. TTue: ue: Salsa Salsa w ith Pantea.

Mountain P antea. M ountain View.

View.

ARYA A RYA GGLOBAL LOBAL CCUISINE UISINE Fri-Sat, 8 Fri-Sat, 8pm: pm: LLive ive m music usic aand nd bbelly elly dancing. dancing. CCupertino. upertino.

CCASCAL ASCAL Sat, 8 Sat, 8:30pm: :30pm: JJames ames Robinson.

Robinson.

FFlamenco lamenco jazz jazz guitarist. guitarist. SSat, at, 9pm: Mountain 9 pm: KKaweh. aweh. M ountain View.

View.

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

8pm: Norteño A kustik. FFri, ri, 8 pm: N orteño aand nd Bandas B andas llive. ive. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

Fri, 6pm: Fri, 6pm: Cafe Cafe R R&B. &B. FFree. ree.

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City.

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Night.

8:30: music.

TThu, hu, 8 :30: LLive ive m usic. Fri, Fri, 9pm: 9pm: Acacia A cacia CCollective, ollective, tthe he FFlaming laming TTelepaths, elepaths, tthe he ZZ-Trane -Trane Electric Electric Band.

9pm: B and. SSat, at, 9 pm: Pinkie Pinkie & Blind Blind Resistance.

Mon, 8:30pm: R esistance. M on, 8 :30pm: Alvin Alvin Draper D raper JJam. am. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

Thu, 77:30pm: Thu, :30pm: Blues Blues Jam. Jam. FFri, ri, 8pm: Nigel 8 pm: N igel & CClive live aand nd the the British B ritish IInvasion. nvasion. SSat: at: EE.C. .C. SScott. cott. $20.

Mon: RWH $ 20. M on: R WH JJazz azz TTriad. riad. TTue, ue, 77pm: pm: JJazz azz open open sstage tage hhosted osted Band. bbyy Angelica’s Angelica’s JJam am B and.

Redwood R edwood City.

City.

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CCAFFE AFFE T TRIESTE RIESTE

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P ressure. FFree. ree. CCentral entral Park, Park, SSanta anta CClara. lara.

Fri, 8pm: Fri, 8pm: Emperor Emperor Norton’s Norton’s Band.

JJazz azz B and. SSan an JJose. ose.

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Wed, 6 Wed, 6:30pm: :30pm: SSpencer pencer Day. Day. Gatos Plaza.

FFree. ree. LLos os G atos TTown own P laza.

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R obinson. TThu: hu: JJimmy immy Dewrance.

Bluz, D ewrance. FFri: ri: CCatman atman B luz, Bohler.

KKaye aye B ohler. Sat: Sat: Cadillac Cadillac JJack, ack, W.H.A.T.!!!, W .H.A.T.!!!, John John Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer, Randy Haynes, R andy H aynes, EEndre ndre TTarczy. arczy.

Alvin Draper.

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

D ove. TTue: ue: Blue Blue J, J, LLiar’s iar ’s Club.

Club.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

LLOFT OFT BAR BAR AND AND BISTRO BISTRO Thu, 7-10pm: Thu, 7-10pm: LLive ive jazz. jazz. San San JJose. ose.

MOROCCO’S M OROCCO’S R RESTAURANT ESTAURANT Wed, 55pm: Wed, pm: M Margaret argaret & V Victor’s ictor ’s Duo. D uo. TThu, hu, 55pm: pm: JJason ason Bellenkes Bellenkes Duo. D uo. Fri, Fri, 55pm: pm: Belly Belly ddancing ancing music. aand nd m usic. SSat, at, 55pm: pm: Lemo.

Lemo.

SSun, un, 5pm: 5pm: Jazz Jazz night. night. Mon, Mon, Watson.

55pm: pm: Rob Rob W atson. San San Jose.

Jose.

MURPHY’S M URPHY’S LAW LAW Mon: M on: Pro Pro Blues Blues JJam. am. Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale.

PARK P ARK VALENCIA VALENCIA Sat, 1-4pm: Sat, 1-4pm: SSoul oul Intention Intention and and Band TTravis ravis LLarson arson B and ((starting starting aatt 55:30pm). :30pm). Free.

Free. Santana Santana Row. Row.

POOR P OOR H HOUSE OUSE BISTRO BISTRO Wed, 6 Wed, 6pm: pm: Ron Ron TThompson hompson and and FFriends. riends. TThu, hu, 6pm: 6pm: Lara Lara Price Price Band.

6pm: aand nd YYesterdays esterdays B and. FFri, ri, 6 pm: W.H.A.T. Hayes W .H.A.T. (Wedemeyer, (Wedemeyer, H ayes & TTarzy). arzy). Sat, Sat, Noon: Noon: OMG OMG Trio, Trio, 6pm: Hummel 6 pm: Mark Mark H ummel & the the Blues B lues SSurvivors urvivors w/ w/ Rusty Rusty ZZinn. inn.

Blues SSun, un, 12pm: 12pm: School School of of B lues Performance.

SStudent tudent P erformance.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

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SSTREETLIGHT TREETLIGHT R RECORDS ECORDS

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

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

FFairmont airmont Hotel, Hotel, San San JJose. ose.

Wed, 6 Wed, 6pm: pm: New New Limb.

Limb. Sat, Sat, 44pm: pm: Progress.

CCity ity ooff P rogress. SSan an JJose. ose.

Wed, 8 Wed, 8:30pm: :30pm: P Pro ro Jam Jam N Night. ight.

SSat, at, 4pm: 4pm: CCool ool Fire Fire Soul Soul JJazz. azz.

SSun, un, 1pm: 1pm: Brisket Brisket aand nd Blues Blues with BBQ Will Roc Griffin w ith B BQ and and W ill R oc G riffin Vicious ooff V icious Groove, Groove, plus plus Martha Martha LLiz. iz. Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale.

GGRAND RAND D DELL ELL SSALOON ALOON

SSANTANA ANTANA R ROW OW

SUNNYVALE SSUMMER SUNNYVALE UMMER SSERIES ERIES

Thu: B Thu: Blues lues Jam Jam w with ith A Aki ki 8pm: Mark Harvey KKumar. umar. FFri, ri, 8 pm: M ark H arvey Band.

8pm: B and. SSat, at, 8 pm: TTip ip of of tthe he Top. Top. CCampbell. ampbell.

SSOUTH OUTH FFIRST IRST BILLIARDS BILLIARDS Thu: R Thu: Rainvow ainvow N No-Goods. o-Goods. Sat: Sat: LLazzari azzari EExperiment. xperiment.

Wed, 55:30pm: Wed, :30pm: TTouch ouch ooff Class.

Class.

Downtown FFree. ree. D owntown SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

VASONA V ASONA V VIBRATIONS IBRATIONS

HEDLEY H EDLEY CCLUB LUB

VENUEZ V ENUEZ

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8:30pm: Rick SSandra andra A ran. SSat, at, 8 :30pm: R ick Vandivier.

Hotel Anza, V andivier. H otel ddee A nza, SSan an JJose. ose.

Fri-Sat, 8 Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: :30pm: Live Live bands. bands.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

JJAZZ AZZ O ON NM MAIN AIN

Sat, 55pm: Sat, pm: W Women omen With With SStrings trings Attached.

Vasona A ttached. Free.

Free. V asona LLake ake Park, Gatos.

CCount ount P ark, Los Los G atos.

VOODOO V OODOO LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm: pm: Leon Leon R Russell. ussell. $28/$30. $ 28/$30. Thu, Thu, 9pm: 9pm: Tha Tha

Mon, 6 Mon, 6-8pm: -8pm: Ed Ed Johnson Johnson and and Novo N ovo TTempo. empo. Free.

Free. Main Main SStreet, treet, Redwood ddowntown owntown R edwood CCity. ity.

TTue, ue, 6 6:30-8:30pm: :30-8:30pm: Jessica Jessica Wine Bar. JJohnson ohnson at at Cielo Cielo W ine B ar.

Wally Roux W ally SSchnalle chnalle at at R oux LLouisiana ouisiana KKitchen. itchen. San San Jose.

Jose.

SSENZALA ENZALA Fri, nnoon: Fri, oon: LLive ive m music. usic. SSat, at, 77:30pm: :30pm: Touch Touch of of CClass. lass. $10. $10.

TTue: ue: JJam am Session.

Session. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

SSTANFORD TANFORD JAZZ JAZZ FFESTIVAL ESTIVAL Wed, 77:30pm: Wed, :30pm: Kristen Kristen Strom Strom Quintet.

Att Campbell Q uintet. $14/$24. $14/$24. A Campbell Recital Hall.

R ecital H all. TThu, hu, 7:30pm: 7:30pm: TThe he Music Music of of Dave Dave Brubeck Brubeck Victor ppresented resented bbyy V ictor LLin. in.

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A uditorium. Sat, Sat, 8pm: 8pm: CCharles harles McPherson, Mance M cPherson, JJunior unior M ance aand nd Heath.

Att TTootie ootie H eath. $24/$40. $24/$40. A CCampbell. ampbell. SSun, un, 77:30pm: :30pm: Ruth Ruth Daviesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; D aviesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Blues Blues Night Night with with Kebâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kebâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mo. $18/$32.

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Mon, M o. $ 18/$32. D inkelspiel. M on, Dena DeRose 77:30pm: :30pm: D ena D eRose Trio.

Trio. $18/$32.

Dinkelspiel.

Allll on $ 18/$32. D inkelspiel. A on SStanford tanford CCampus. ampus.

THREE T HREE FFLAMES LAMES Sun, 55pm: Sun, pm: SSunday unday M Matinee atinee Pleazure.

JJamz, amz, FFoolish oolish P leazure. TTue, ue, Modesto 77:30pm: :30pm: M odesto Briseno Briseno Willow Glen.

SSeptet. eptet. W illow G len.

UNWINED U NWINED Sat, 7-9:30pm: Sat, 7-9:30pm: Jazz Jazz Night.

Night.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

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

8pm: Music.

SSat, at, 8 pm: LLive ive M usic. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

and Fri, and Fri, 9 9pm: pm: D Diablo iablo R Road. oad. Sat, Sat, 77:15pm: :15pm: Wild Wild at at Heart, Heart, Diablo Diablo Road.

R oad. Fremont.

Fremont.

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BOSWELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S B OSWELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Thu: M Thu: Mike ike LLeatherman. eatherman.

CCampbell. ampbell.

CCAFFE AFFE T TRIESTE RIESTE SSat: at: KKavanaugh avanaugh B Brothers rothers CCeltic eltic EExperience. xperience. SSan an JJose. ose.

RED R ED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE CCO. O. Fri, 8 Fri, 8pm: pm: R Reggie eggie Ginn.

Ginn. SSat, at, 8pm: Hot Watsonville.

8 pm: H ot CClub lub ddee W atsonville.

Mountain View.

M ountain V iew.

THE T HE SSADDLE ADDLE R RACK ACK Wed, W ed, 9 9pm: pm: CCaliforrnia aliforrnia Boys.

Boys. TThu hu

Thu, 9pm-closing: Thu, 9pm-closing: Live Live country country music, m usic, Doug Doug Rose Rose Productions Productions w/Bit Band w /Bit and and SSpur pur B and featuring featuring Willow Glen.

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That tells you pretty much all you need to know. But let me add some details.

First we need to clear up the difference between force and pressure.

Force is what causes something to accelerate, e.g., a fighter’s head in the direction of a thrown punch. In the U.S. force is normally measured in pounds.

Pressure is force per unit of contact area, commonly expressed in pounds per square inch (psi). When researchers study punching ability they usually focus on force rather than pressure, since the pressure varies as the contact area expands on impact. With that in mind, let’s look at the research: • A study of seven Olympic boxers in weight classes ranging from flyweight to super heavyweight showed a range of 447 to 1,066 pounds of peak punching force. Energy transferred from punch to target varied widely depending on how heavy the boxers’ hands and gloves were, how fast they punched and how rigidly they held their wrists. The three flyweights delivered more oomph than all but the two super heavyweights.

• A study of 70 boxers found elite-level fighters could punch with an average of 776 pounds of force. Another study of 23 boxers showed elite fighters were able to punch more than twice as hard as novices, the hardest hitter generating 1,300 pounds of force.

• A 1985 study of Frank Bruno, who’d go on to be WBC heavyweight champ, showed he could punch with a force of 920 pounds in the lab. Researchers extrapolated that to a real-life blow of 1,420 pounds, enough to accelerate his opponent’s head at a rate of 53 g—that is, 53 times the force of gravity.

• Martial arts punches generally involve much less force than those in boxing. A study of 12 karate black belts showed so-called reverse punches delivered an average force of 325 pounds. Short-range power punches averaged 178 pounds.

If a punch thrown by Rocky IV villain Ivan Drago is supposed to measure 2,150 psi and his glove’s impact area is

something like 4 square inches, he’d be exerting a force of 8,600 pounds, or more than 4 tons. Based on the professional literature, no boxer in real life comes anywhere close to that.

I did find a 2007 news account about WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli, whose punches supposedly packed a wallop of around 3.85 tons.

However, the researchers making this claim have yet to publish their findings in a scientific journal, and I’m not taking them seriously until they do.

Even without Drago in the ring, boxing is a punishing sport, especially where the head is involved. Damage comes from three things: (1) the impact itself, which may be manifested in, say, a broken jaw; (2) acceleration to the brain leading to abrupt contact with the skull; and (3) the rotational force that twists the brain within the skull, increasing the severity of injury and the likelihood of a knockout. One metric for gauging the risk and seriousness of a brain injury is the Wayne State tolerance curve, which looks at both the g-force imparted to the head and the span of time involved.

Generally speaking you don’t want to take a shot of more than 50 g, although you can stand more if the impact is really brief—say, a couple thousandths of a second. If you’re on the receiving end of a Bruno-class impact, my guess is you won’t soon get up.

Punches to the head can cause detached retinas, brain hemorrhage, fractured bones and permanent neurological disorders. Worse can happen. According to one estimate, boxing killed at least 650 fighters from 1918 through 1997. Mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters seem to be less at risk. Since MMA rules allow grappling (meaning less punching) and tapouts (giving up), actual knockouts occur only half as often as in boxing. Besides maybe getting killed, cumulative brain damage is the scariest part of boxing, as most fighters now recognize. To quote Terry Marsh, the undefeated light welterweight champion, “I don’t need the British Medical Association to tell me getting hit on the head can’t do me any good.” Muhammad Ali would surely concur.

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The home T he most most eexpensive xpensive h ome iin n tthis his period Palo Alto $7.3 million. p eriod ssold old iin nP alo A lto ffor or $ 7.3 m illion.

San however, most millionS an JJose, ose, h owever, had had tthe he m ost m illiondollar homes with d ollarr h omes sold sold w ith 54.

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What $1.3 million buy Silicon W hat can can $ 1.3 m illion b uy S ilicon Valley V al alley today? today? A tthree-bedroom, hree-bedroom, 2 11/2/2bath home, 273 Del Monte b ath h ome, llocated ocated at at 2 73 D el M onte Ave. Los Altos.

A ve. in in L os A ltos. IItâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a one-story, one-story, 2,0642,064with high ssquare-foot quare-foot ccottage ottage w ith h igh ceilings, ceilings, dining d ining room room aand nd kitchen kitchen sskylights, kylights, aand nd gglass lass ssliding liding doors doors iin n tthe he lliving iving rroom oom open up one decks.

Both tthat hat o pen u p tto oo ne of of tthe he d ecks. B oth decks private d ecks ((there there is is a sseparate, eparate, p rivate deck deck off bedroom) o ff the the master master b edroom) llook ook out out over over and with aan n eenormous normous yard yard an nd garden garden w ith The woodffruit ruit trees. trees. T he family faam mily rroom oom has has a w oodburning ďŹ replace kitchen b urning ďŹ replace aand nd tthe he k itchen iiss huge h uge with with a ccentral entral iisland slan nd aand nd a llarge arge dining The owner $1.388 d ining area. area.. T he o wner iiss aasking sking $ 1.388 million. m illion.

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Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Waverly Waverly P Park arrk at at 3365 3365 Tyrna Att 2,834 T yrna Drive.

Drive. A 2,834 square squarre feet, feet, iitt has hass ďŹ ve bedrooms bedrooms and and three three baths. baths. What What ďŹ ve ssets ets this this house house aapart part is is tthe he big big lot lot iitt is is sset et on, on, giving giving the the sense sense of of a home home in in the the park. p ark.

Both the the living living room room and an nd family family Both rroom oom have have tall, talll, vaulted vaulted ceilings, ceilings, aand nd the the ffamily amily room room includes includes a brick brick ďŹ replace ďŹ replace aand nd plantation plantation shutters shutters overlooking overlooking tthe he private private yard yarrd with with a deck, deck, p atio, and and patio, kitchen eeven ven a redwood. redwood. The The spacious spacious k itchen iincludes ncludes a spacious spacious walk-in walk-in pantry. pan ntry. The The ccabinets abinets are are cherry cherry and an nd the the counters, counters, iincluding ncluding the the central central island, island, aare re granite. gran nite.

The has T he master master bedroomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bedroomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bathroom bathroom h as an an o versize R oman tub, tub, nice nice ffor or tthose hose q uiet oversize Roman quiet eevenings venings when when tthe he kids kids are arre aall ll in in their their bedrooms. has b edrooms. The The home home h as just just been been rremodeled emodeled and and repainted repainted and and is is ready read dy ffor or m ove-in, and and can can be be had had for for $1.535 $1.535 move-in, million. m illion.

At $2.875 At $ 2.875 million, million, 1751 1751 Campbell Campbell Ave., Ave., Road iin n the the Dry Dry Creek Creek R oad area arrea near near Willow Willow Glen, bargain.

G len, is is something something of of a b argain. This This iiss a four-bedroom, four-bedroom, six-bath six-bath split-level, split-level, ssituated ituated on on a 12,000-plus-square-foot 12,000-plus-square-foot The llot. ot. T he towering towering ceilings ceilings on on tthe he lower lower llevel evel and and the the gglass lass d oors and an nd full full length length doors windows patio, w indows open open up up tto o a beautiful beau utiful p atio, ssurrounding urrounding the the pool pool and and JJacuzzi. acuzzi. The The lliving iving rroom/dining oom/ m/dining room room is is set set off off with with beams sstunning tunning wooden wooden b eams giving giving it it an an aalmost lmost rustic-lodge rustic-lodge look. look.

As ffor or lodge lodge living, living, tthe he kitchen kitchen As iincludes ncludes a brick brick oven oven which which houses houses the the modern, m odern, stainless stainless steel steel appliances, ap ppliances, and an nd tthere here is is a spacious spacious wine wine cellar. cellar. Perhaps Perhaps tthe he most most magniďŹ cent magniďŹ cent room room of of all all is is the the dark d arrk wood-paneled wood-paneled den den and an nd library, library, w hich o ffeers a touch ff touch of of O ld World World grace. grace. which offers Old In San In S an Jose, Jose, that that means mean ns elegant elegant living living iiss w ithin rreach eac ach ffor or a p rice. A nd tthe he p rices within price.

And prices aare re bound bound to to go go up. up.

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