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The FireďŹ ght Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Over Some of the headlines in various local rags and websites over the past couple of weeks cast such a golden glow on San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ reďŹ ghters union, it was as if Local 230 president RANDY SEKANY had written them himself: â&#x20AC;&#x153;San Jose FireďŹ ghters Quickly Quell Two Blazes.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;FireďŹ ghters Respond to Three Blazes in Less Than Two Hours.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;San Jose FireďŹ ghters to Expose Fatal Flaws in Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dynamic Deploymentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Scheme.â&#x20AC;?

Coming as they did while the union was locking horns with the city over pay cuts and layoffs, the puff pieces no doubt pleased Sekany and his troops.

But on Friday, every news source in town seemed to spin that story in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favor: â&#x20AC;&#x153;San Jose FireďŹ ghters Reject Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Concession Proposal.â&#x20AC;?

There was no other way to play it: the utterly admirable ďŹ re guys seemed to have suddenly and selďŹ shly turned on their own. Mayor CHUCK REED, pointing out that the SJFDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget had doubled in Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a decade, had ďŹ red 49 forget ďŹ reďŹ ghters and put it to tip! on the union to come up with the money to FLY@ hire them back. NORA METRONEWS. CAMPOS immediately COM called a press conference (surprising no one) to voice her â&#x20AC;&#x153;disapprovalâ&#x20AC;? of Reedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s move â&#x20AC;&#x153;and the dangerous impact these cuts will have.â&#x20AC;? The union members then voted by a ginormous margin (88 percent!) to throw their laid-off comrades under the ďŹ retruck rather than accept the 9 percent cut in pay and bennies that most city workers and executives have accepted. Perhaps they were galled that their publicsafety rivals, er, colleagues at the SJPD got off with a 5.25 percent pay cut.

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Campos, whose brother Xavier Campos is running against Carrasco to represent San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s East Side, suggests the money is evidence that Carrasco is somehow in cahoots with politicians from L.A. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I truly believe that there is no reason that someone like Francisco Leal would donate to a candidate in

San Jose if he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t smell some type of opportunity,â&#x20AC;? Campos says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What promises has [Carrasco] been making down in Southern California that would lead people like Leal to want to contribute to her campaign?â&#x20AC;?

Carrasco is a San Jose native who lived in Santa Barbara from 1986 to 1991, when she was married to nowAssemblymember Kevin de LeĂłn.

After she and de LeĂłn were divorced, she returned to San Jose, where she has worked as a child advocate for the First 5. During the June primary, a series of anonymous negative mailers claimed her campaign was an effort by â&#x20AC;&#x153;L.A. politiciansâ&#x20AC;? to subvert San Jose politics.

Leal, an attorney who has lobbied on behalf of a handful of scandalplagued L.A.-area cities, found himself

in hot water in the wake of a recent controversy over bloated salaries in the city of Bell. On Aug. 13, a Los Angeles Times news blog reported that the city of Huntington Park, located next to Bell, paid $500,000 to Leal last year for his lobbying and legal services. Lealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s law ďŹ rm partner William Trejo also gave $250 to Carrascoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign.

Although she is not leveling any speciďŹ c charges against her brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political rival, Campos is calling into question Lealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with Carrasco and de LeĂłn.

Carrasco acknowledges receiving the campaign donation from Leal last April, and says that the L.A. lawyer and her ex-husband are friends.

She says she was not aware of Lealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history in L.A., and has never met him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a supporter of Kevin in the past, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the extent of it, from my understanding,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Campos points to what she says is Lealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pattern of using political contributions to work his way into cities. Over the years Leal has gained

Political Hardball, Part II These latest charges come in the wake of a primary election marked by push-polling and a slew of illegal campaign mailers. Several local political consultants have said that the fight for east San Jose is one of the dirtiest local city races they’ve seen in years.

Carrasco sees Nora Campos’ concerns as just the latest move by Camp Campos to discredit her in the eyes of District 5 voters.

“In the primary I was a Vietnamese communist sympathizer,” Carrasco says. “Then two days later I was a Los Angeles gangster, and now I’m with the L.A. mafia? I mean, what’s next?

That my children are not my children?

That they are campaign props?

“I don’t know what else they want to address, but the fact that I was born and raised in San Jose, and that I have lived here my entire life, cannot be disputed.”

Carrasco says she can understand Nora Campos’ close involvement with her brother’s City Council race.

“Her interest in this race is beyond political, it’s family,” Carrasco says.

“I’m sure that’s where this is coming from. But I don’t understand what her tactics are. It just baffles me that

our honorable district representative would behave in such a manner.”

De León, who holds a powerful position in the state Assembly as Assistant Majority Floor Leader, admits that he has helped his exwife out with campaign fundraising in SoCal. However, he says his relationship with Leal is purely a social one, and he insists that they have never worked on any local or state policy together “ever. Period.”

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“Right hand on the Bible, this is just bizarre,” de León said last Friday after stepping out of a Joint Legislative Budget Committee meeting. “Magdalena doesn’t even know Francisco Leal. They’ve never even had a conversation. She wouldn’t even know how to pick him out in a crowd if he was standing five inches in front of her.”

In fact, de León says Nora Campos herself has been harassing him and his friends in Sacramento in recent weeks.

“It feels like I have my own personal stalker,” de León says.

“She’s going through all of my friends and colleagues and calling them on the phone and threatening them,” he says. “It’s very strange stuff.

And while politics has its share of bullies, it’s never, never acceptable for elected officials to make threatening phone calls to campaign contributors.

“She may not have intended to have threatened my friends, but that’s certainly how every one of them has interpreted their conversation with her.”

De León says that he’s baffled as to why Campos, who is running for Joe Coto’s 23rd state Assembly District seat this fall, even thinks she has a right to weigh in on who he chooses to support.

“They say, ‘You can’t support her,’ and I’m like ‘She’s my daughter’s mother, what am I supposed to do?’” says de León. “Listen, the bottom line is that anyone who relies on threats to raise money, and not work hard with the good of the public in mind, will have a very short carrier in this business, at least at the state level.”

“How they’re trying to frame this, I’m just, like, what are they thinking?

That L.A. is going to annex San Jose? I don’t get it. It’s very immature stuff.”

Rolando Bonilla, Campos’ media director, says Campos is simply raising these questions in effort to look out for the well-being of her district.

“This is about protecting the district that she built up for the last 10 years,” Bonilla says. “Miss Carrasco, frankly, owes the voters of this district an explanation as to whether or not she truly has their best interest. And it’s hard to say that you have people’s best interest when you are being backed by folks who have a history of using council candidates in races only to infiltrate councils and then make a profit.”

De León, who had a recent run in with South Bay Labor Council head Cindy Chavez, says that even compared to L.A. politics, the blatant use of political pressure in San Jose is shocking.

“Folks are, like, afraid. This is like a cabal or mafia you guys have there,” he says. “It’s like Chicago-style politics on the East Side of San Jose. There’s a real dark side.”

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held a press event of his own to unveil “newly discovered audiotape that details what the City Administration actually knew prior to recommending to the City Council to eliminate five fire companies.” Apparently Sekany’s strategy calls for sticking to his position that, despite a crippling budget deficit, the city has the money and must give it to the firefighters or children will die. The fight appears headed for arbitration.

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a reputation for what the Long Beach Press Telegram called “shady political dealings.” He’s been repeatedly hired and fired from cities including Commerce, Cudahy, Bell Gardens and Lynwood.

Campos says that once he has hooked politicians in and gotten them into office, Leal then uses his connections to line up lucrative deals for himself that ultimately suck city budgets dry. She fears that’s what will happen to District 5.

“His history has shown that he invests in candidates to get into cities where he’ll hopefully be accepted to receive a contract, which then means money will go his way,” Campos says.

“Obviously he’s playing a bigger role in her campaign, which leads me to [think], What incentive did he have?

What would draw someone like him to want to play a financial role in local politics in a San Jose council race?

“There is no telling what favors she may owe people in this campaign.”

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sv 411.com The experience of watching this highly personalized video is not easily described, but basically the story of childhood ending as time rapidly slips away becomes your own.

Mashable’s own Christina Warren and I chatted a bit about the technical aspects of the “The Wilderness Downtown,” and she pointed out that it really shows off the capabilities offered by HTML5.

As the Chrome Experiments page details, the new audio, video and canvas tags in HTML5 are used to full effect.

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The video was announced Monday on the Official Google Blog, which details exactly what elements went into its creation. Dubbed “The Wilderness Downtown” (an undertaking created by writer/director Chris Milk), the video is a new kind of musical experience, reminiscent of—but much more advanced than—hypertext storytelling of old.

Basically, you surf over to “The Wilderness Downtown” page using Google Chrome (don’t use Safari, the program will murder your browser), and type in the address of your childhood home when prompted. If Google Maps has enough footage of home sweet home, you’ll be pulled into a multibrowser movie of your own making.

It’s unclear whether this is the “positive” outcome Stoppelman was hoping for. The companies’ ambiguous “talks” seemed more complex than the simple inclusion or omission of Yelp’s data but Stoppelman did say that (prior to Google’s data grab) Yelp was content to be excluded from Places and confined to organic results.

File Google and Yelp’s relationship under “it’s complicated” (and not just because Yelp walked away from a hefty takeover offer in late 2009).

“In addition to timed-playback, synchronized effects and custom windows sizes for the video and animated content, this video also features custom rendered maps directly from the Google Maps API,” Christina told me. “Using SVG, the drawing application, for the postcard aspect of the video adds an interactive and personal touch.”

Several years ago, Google paid Yelp for access to its treasure trove of user reviews, as the company developed the precursor to Google Places. Eventually the partnership fell apart and an unsatisfied Yelp walked away. It was a relatively peaceful coexistence until this summer, when Google unexpectedly started to crawl Yelp’s pages for unlicensed content to flesh out Google Places.

“More than just a one-off proof of concept, the end project [the video] shows just what is possible with HTML5 and emerging web standards,” she added. —BRENNA

As Stoppelman pointed out in our July interview, he was also annoyed to see Yelp’s reviews pushed to the bottom, while official partners, like Zagat, got top billing. —EVELYN

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Has Google Purged Places of Yelp?

Well, this is curious. From our checks, it seems like Google has completely omitted Yelp reviews from Google Places. As you may recall, Yelp has been frustrated by Google’s recent decision to pump up its Places service with Yelp’s content—without Yelp’s consent.

During a recent interview with TechCrunch TV, Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said he was surprised

by Google’s move but was confident that it was not a “permanent situation, from what we gather from talking to Google, they are sort of headed in a new direction that which hopefully will be more positive.”

Cool James Actually, I am quite glad on this. YELP is corrupt in my opinion. I know of personal examples where a dentist friend of mine had 15 to 20 positive reviews but only the bad reviews would appear in Google Search.

Of course—approach YELP with some dollars in hand, and the problem of your bad reviews magically disappears.

Mr. Grumpy Business is a rough and tough game. Get used to it, all you naive wusses.

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Is Google Objective?

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It has always been so, in a way.

Google is a platform, and at some point, platforms always build out that which most beneďŹ ts the platform, for any number of reasons. Twas so for Windows, for Facebook, for Twitter.

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A 17- and 19-year-old were stabbed, one suffering serious injuries. “In the second incident . . . nine to 10 assailants stabbed a 34-year-old man while he walked to a bus stop.

He’s expected to recover from the stabbing.” Last Thursday night, a man jumped to his death in the middle of a concert at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga. Earlier that day, another man committed suicide by leaping off a freeway overpass in San Jose. On Friday, Aug. 20, there were three unrelated killings in San Francisco, all within a 24-hour period. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that a man was shot in the Oceanview neighborhood, another near the Alemany Housing Project, and a third was shot and killed in

the Tenderloin District.

What is going on around here?

When it rains, it pours—and lately, it’s been pouring blood.

Chronicle writer C.W. Nevius wrote a short piece on the recent death of a German tourist, an innocent bystander who was hit and killed by crossfire near Union Square.

“Although the incident was an international story for a day, San Francisco Police Chief Gascon says he is “outraged” that it quickly dropped off the local radar.”

“This should not be a one-day story. We should be angry. We should be concerned.”

Gascon is absolutely right. People should be angry and concerned, but they’re not. They’re only numb, and almost conditioned to the violence that is always around them. —Pete Campbell

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Eating bugs just makes sense, so much so that the U.N. is giving consideration to the matter. In February 2008, the Food and Agriculture Organization hosted a workshop called “Forest Insects as Food: Humans Bite Back,” in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at which 36 entomologists, edible insect nutritionists, foresters and others with a stake in the developing edible insect movement discussed the potential of six-legged animals as food and the challenges of developing a market and industry. The BBC reports that a handful of Dutch companies have already begun breeding beetles, crickets and locusts for food. Even here in the United States advocates are pushing the concept.

The entomology department of Iowa State University posts online nutritional information about eating insects, while numerous cookbooks, including Creepy Crawly Cuisine: The Gourmet Guide to Edible Insects

by Dr. Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, tout the wisdom and sense in eating earth’s most abundant terrestrial animal resource and offer recipes like fried grasshoppers, ant larva tacos and mealworm cookies. Eminent entomologists, like Dr. Gene R. DeFoliart, a bug-eating advocate at the University of Wisconsin wellknown to many in the insectivorous community, also vouch for insects as food. And some high-end restaurants, like Mezcal in San Jose and the increasingly famous Typhoon at the Santa Monica Airport, are putting insects on their menus.

You might say the insectivore movement is gaining legs. And they’re wiggling.

Bottoms Up Just why creatures can be categorically defined as sustainable or not-so-sustainable food sources can be understood with a quick look at the trophic energy scale, or pyramid, a conceptual representation of organisms and the energy each one requires to grow and reproduce. At the top of the pyramid are the meateating apex predators, like bluefin tuna and tigers. At the bottom are

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So what if we just cut big mooing, grunting mammals from the equation and looked to another source of protein? Something lower on the food chain, perhaps—like insects?

We wouldn’t be the first large mammals to crunch them between their teeth. The great Ursus arctos, also known as the brown bear, will sink its teeth into elk and salmon when it can, but it also eats large quantities of moths, termites and

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BUG BITES 19 sun via photosynthesis, they do it efficiently, directing up to 85 percent of assimilated energy toward making more of themselves. Algae can double their biomass in hours just by soaking up the sun.

But the food business is show business, and no chef attains rock star status by boiling primordial broths of microscopic nourishment.

They gain fame by carving up beasts and grilling them. A restaurant in New Jersey called Café Arugula has even served up retired circus cats— read this as “roasted leg of lion”—at expensive special event dinners. The chef told us about it himself.

All the Little Fishes In Menlo Park, Flea Street Café’s food director and lead cook Carlos Cañada recognizes the virtues of serving small animals, and one of the restaurant’s most popular items is the fried sardines. From a business perspective, serving such fish pays off, Cañada says. Grade-A yellowfin tuna belly may cost $14 per pound wholesale, but sardines set Cañada back just $1.95. “And there’s very little waste,” he says.

Cañada believes the low cost of sardines reflects their natural abundance in the ocean, and he believes that building a customer base happy with finger-sized fish is a sustainable long-term business model—much more so, anyway, than thrilling guests with grilled lion and tuna, neither of which Flea Street Café serves.

At the EcoFarm Conference in Pacific Grove last January, where restaurateurs and food producers convened to discuss sustainable food production, sardines were a hot topic of discussion. That sardines have become an esteemed item in the culinary world gives Trenor at Greepeace reason to hope.

“Sardines are a powerful indicator of change in the seafood industry,” Trenor says. “Sardines have been out of favor for a long time. They’ve been the poor man’s food, processed down by the train tracks and eaten out of a tin.”

At FishWise, Bill Wall, business partnership program manager, says

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the simplest organic building blocks of life, like algae and phytoplankton, which often require little more than sunlight to grow. In terms of biomass, there is very little of the former and vast quantities of the latter.

The critters at the bottom of the trophic pyramid are better choices for food, but not just because they’re plentiful. They’re also efficient. It is through algae and phytoplankton that the energy of the sun is first absorbed into the food web through photosynthesis. As energy ascends the pyramid, however—from the phytoplankton to the krill to the sardines to the tuna, from the bacteria to the grasses to the grazers to the carnivores—energy efficiency is lost rapidly. For every pound of flesh at the top of the trophic pyramid, immeasurable quantities of energy have been expended to make it.

Casson Trenor, the senior markets campaigner with Greenpeace and a former sustainability consultant with the Santa Cruz–based nonprofit FishWise, explains basic trophic math using two of the creatures he knows best: tuna and sardines.

“To take our protein from the level of tuna is a totally inefficient use of the ocean,” says Trenor, who in 2007 founded the sustainable sushi restaurant Tataki in San Francisco, and received Save Our Shores’ Ocean Protection Hero of the Year award at Toast to the Coast on Aug. 21. “If we want a pound of protein, we could get it from sardines. If we need to get it from tuna, it might have taken 15 pounds of protein from sardines to make that pound of tuna protein.”

The lower we eat on the food chain, the more sustainable our diets become. The invertebrate level is a good place to settle down and make a meal, for these spineless species are excellent processors of energy. On average, invertebrate species utilize 20 percent of assimilated energy (i.e., food ingested and not pooped out) for growth and reproduction.

Vertebrates, by contrast, use just 2 percent of assimilated energy for growth and reproduction, the balance being used for nothing but fueling motion and metabolism.

Of course, a vegetarian diet is the most sustainable long-term nutrition plan of all. Plants not only draw their energy directly from the

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Cañada scrapes the last bits of flesh from filleted fish carcasses and uses the scraps for carpaccio. The bones, finally, are used for soup. To use all parts of an animal “is spiritually and karmically right on,” Cool says.

Squid, too, are a great choice for diners hunting low on the trophic scale. Lou Zeidberg, a researcher in Monterey working for UCLA, says, “Unless you eat anchovies and sardines, you aren’t going to get any closer to phytoplankton than with squid.” Sardines and anchovies both filter phytoplankton from the water. Squid—voracious predators, even the four-inchers—do not eat phytoplankton, Zeidberg says, but they eat the copepods and the baby fish that do. Moreover, squid grow marvelously fast, a key point in true sustainability. The familiar market

squid—the sort usually dredged in flour and fried—rarely lives more than eight months, according to Zeidberg. Its rapid life cycle helps make the population resilient.

Those wishing to cook some low-order prey species at home can find squid, anchovies and sardines periodically at Cook’s in Palo Alto, L&F Fish Market in San Jose and any Ranch 99 Market.

Wall at FishWise says retailers that don’t regularly stock smaller fishes, and mollusks may just need to be encouraged. “The best way to see the items in the case is to ask your fishmonger, to let them know there is a demand for lower trophic level items,” Wall says.

He adds that there are health, and not just ecological, benefits to eating species closer to the trophic base: “Seafood lower in the food web is typically lower in mercury and contaminants too. Mercury and PCBs bioaccumulate, meaning they are found in greater concentrations higher in the food web. As a shark eats many small fish with low mercury levels, all of the mercury consumed by the shark remains in the tissue, making the mercury content of the shark many times more than the fish it eats.” The same rule applies to tuna, infamous for its potentially dangerous densities of mercury.

Jiminy Bar Snacks Those uninterested in seafood but wanting more than veggies might aim in between, at the meek of the earth. One place to try eating insects is Mezcal in San Jose, which serves grasshoppers. The appetizer, called chapulines, is a traditional item from Oaxaca, the original homeland of owner Adolfo Gomez and his brother, chef Octavio Gomez.

The hoppers are toasted in a hot pan with chile powder, salt and lime juice. Many customers rave about them on Yelp, though the most common complaint is of their mouth-burning saltiness. Metro food editor Stett Holbrook called them “spicy nuts that happen to be bugs.”

Reportedly the crunchy hoppers go well with beer. The intrepid chef can

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the economic downturn combined with a increased awareness of ecological dynamics has spurred interest in small fishes, squid and other mollusks.

Flea Street Café owner Jesse Cool believes a social change in the perception of what is edible is unraveling—that people are coming to understand “the value of eating diversely, eating beginning to end, and not just eating what has been made appealing commercially, like

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Eat the Pests MANY GARDENERS know that dandelions and other weeds go well in salads. Fewer know that the common garden snail, Cantareus aspersus (formerly known as Helix aspersa), does well when sautéed in butter and garlic (what doesn’t?) and served in the shell in which it lived its life. Yep, the garden snail that ravages your chard and kale is among the snails esteemed as escargot. In fact, it was introduced to California from France, no less, in the 1850s as a food source, according to a UC-Davis online report. It now lives around the world.

Although snails can reportedly carry diseases dangerous to people, Cantareus aspersus is ranked as a food item by those who know. The French harvest the snails in the fall and may set them loose in an empty fish tank for several days where they are allowed to feed on rolled oats for a clean change of diet. A subsequent forced fast of several days renders them ready to prep, cook and eat. Snails are high in protein, vitamins E and B1, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium and are low in fat—prior to the butter. Be forewarned, though: Snails may carry the parasitic worm Angiostrongylus cantonensis. If cooking fails to kill this parasite, it may kill you.

Do your homework.

—Alastair Bland

sometimes find dried grasshoppers for sale at Mexican markets in the South Bay like Tropicana and Mi Pueblo.

But insects need not be rendered into mere bar food, and cooking them at home can produce creative and tasty dishes, both savory and sweet. Iowa State University’s

entomology department website recommends recipes. One is for a “rootworm beetle dip,” no small portion of which is beetles—a full cup of them, dried and roasted. The site also includes recipes for “banana worm bread,” chocolate chip cookies

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Eating Everything In Sight T HOSE who eat lots of shark, tuna, beef and lion are—how do we put this gently?—pigging out on the world’s precious resources.

But what if we could draw our energy directly from the sun? Some believers say we can. They call themselves sungazers and claim that life can be lived without food as we know it. By staring at the sun while standing barefoot on barren sand, rock, mud or soil, the philosophy goes, one can photosynthesize sunlight into calories.

Mason Howe Dwinell, a former San Francisco resident, sungazed on and off for a year in 2003 and 2004, was featured in a documentary film and eventually wrote a book about his experience and philosophy. Though he never went more than three weeks without food, he does declare on his website, www.sungazing.com: “Yes, you can live without food.” Dwinell, now of Vermont, suffered only minor damage to his maculas during his days of staring at the sun, but he says his vision never deteriorated.

Elsewhere, sungazing gurus have reportedly lived for years without food. The science behind the practice is not fully understood or thoroughly documented, but its advocates assure: With patience and faith, we can actually eat the sun. I’d rather eat termites.

—Alastair Bland

with dried crickets crumbled into the dough and “mealworm fried rice” calling for equal parts rice and larvae. According to the same website, 100 grams, or about a cup, of grasshopper contains 20.6 grams of protein, 6.1 of fat and 3.9 of carbohydrates. (A 3-ounce portion of lean beef—just under a quarterpound—contains 27.4 grams of protein.) Caterpillar contains 28.2 grams of protein per 100 grams.

The same volume of dung beetle

contains 17.2 grams. And crickets are high in calcium.

Cañada traveled recently in Oaxaca and tasted the local chapulines. The critters were delicious, he says, nutty and crunchy—though the feeling of the legs and brittle body sections shattering over his tongue gave him the willies. Cañada says he might be persuaded someday to cook them himself, though they won’t appear on Flea Street Café’s menu anytime soon—at least not before we run out of sardines.

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EEMILE’S MILE’S CContemporary ontemporary French.

French. $$$. $$$. White-tablecloth White-tablecloth amenities amenities without without the the stuffiness. stuffiness. An An old old favorite favorite comes comes back back strong strong with with a new new bistro. bistro. Full Full bar. bar. Closed Closed SunSunMon. Mon. Reservations Reservations suggested. suggested.

11am-2pm 11am-2pm Thu-Fri, Thu-Fri, 5-10pm 5-10pm Tue-Sat. Tue-Sat. 545 545 S. S. Second Second St. St. 408.289.1960.

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HAWGS H AWGS SSeafood. eafood. $$$. $$$. Next Next door door to to the the San San Jose Jose Rep Rep Theatre, Theatre, Hawgs Hawgs offers offers simple simple seafood seafood and and convenience convenience for for theatergoers. theatergoers. Mostly Mostly shellfish shellfish and and pasta pasta combinations combinations are are offered; offered; the the linguini linguini clams clams and and sautéed sautéed scallops scallops are are full full of of garlic garlic and and rich rich flavors. flavors. Tue-Sat Tue-Sat 11:30am-9pm, 11:30am-9pm, 4-10pm 4-10pm Sun. Sun. 150 150 S. S. Second Second St. St. 408.287.9955.

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IILL FFORNAIO ORNAIO RRegional egional IItalian. talian. $$. $$. Embraced Embraced by by the the graceful graceful Sainte Sainte Claire Claire Hotel, Hotel, this this location location (there (there are are several several up up and and down down the the coast) coast) transports transports the the diner. diner. The The menu menu showcases showcases a different different region region of of Italy Italy monthly. monthly.

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Cupcakes have graduated from birthday parties and gone upscale. You can find specialized cupcake boutiques pretty much everywhere, but often with more flare than substance, sacrificing the quality of the petite cakes. I was looking for a place that baked its cupcakes daily, did not overfrost them and kept the flavors simple and just plain good.

I found LOVE’S CUPCAKES on East San Fernando Street, San Jose. This gourmet cupcakery lives up to its name. I stepped into the shop and immediately knew I was going to be in for something good. It was bright, colorful and very inviting. Because I arrived at 3pm, there wasn’t too much of a selection left, but what I did taste was amazing. My favorite was the strawberry shortcake. Vanilla cake, whipped cream and strawberries—to me, it doesn’t get any better. I could have had another serving it was so good. Clearly, the love put into the product made it shine, but the high-quality ingredients and small-batch baking probably had a little to do with the results as well. Red velvet was also a winner.

The cake was moist and deep red, and the cream cheese frosting was delicious. Carrot cake, which is also one of my favorites, is only available Friday and Saturday, so I didn’t get to try it. These gourmet cupcakes are probably the best I have had in a very long time.

Custard is my weakness—creamy, sweet custard. That is what I found at BEARD PAPA’S in Cupertino. You can have light and fluffy clouds of custard-filled happiness, made fresh to order. While waiting for lunch one day, I walked by the small store, tucked next to a Japanese grocery, and saw huge cream puffs being filled with pastry cream. I almost couldn’t wait for the end of my meal so I could go back and try one. Their signature pastry cream, flavored with vanilla, chocolate or other specialty flavors, is lightened with whipped cream. The desserts are the perfect size to satisfy one’s need for something sweet but not so big that it will send a person into a sugar coma. There is no need for anything other than one’s mouth and a napkin.

The choux pastry is delicate, almost savory, and since it is filled to order, it retains its crisp bite. Served with some fresh berries and chocolate sauce, it would make a really great dessert, too. The best part is that there is nothing unrecognizable in the ingredient list. A definite must try. There are two other stores in the area, one in San Mateo and one in Milpitas.

I think that the greatest thing about ice cream is that you can hold it in one hand. Cup or cone, ice cream offers a strong link to childhood summers and the anticipation of a trip to the ice cream shop. But personally, the ice cream flavors I had as a kid just don’t cut it anymore.

So I set out to find some really interesting flavors, ones that my 8-yearold self probably would have dismissed. I stopped by RICK’S ICE CREAM in Palo Alto. Not only does this shop make its own ice cream, the flavors are definitely geared for an adult palate. Saffron pistachio, rose and lemon lavender not only perk up your eyebrows, but once you get a taste of them, you will forever dismiss that hum-drum vanilla cone. But even though I am adventurous with my ice cream flavors, the nostalgic flavor of cotton candy, also found in Rick’s ice cream, makes me feel like a little kid again, and I drove off with a scoop of it in a cone, with a big smile on my face.—Mariel Balderas

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NHA N HA TOI TOI Vietnamese.

Vietnamese. $$$$. $$. Nha Nha Toi Toi is is the the place place for for northern northern style style Vietnamese Vietnamese food—less food—less sweet sweet than than southern southern Vietnamese Vietnamese food food and and less less spicy spicy than than the the food food of of central central Vietnam, Vietnam, yet yet it it makes makes wider wider uses uses of of aromatic aromatic ingredients ingredients 9am-10pm 9am-10pm daily. daily.

460 460 E. E. William William St. St. 408.294.2733.

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11am-1am 11am-1am daily. daily. 301 301 S. S. First First St. St. 408.292.7030.

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

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

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According guitarist A ccording to lead gu uitarist Rick

Miller,, the “countrypolitan” Miller “countrypolitan” Southern embodied by Sou uthern CCulture ulture made on the Skids is m ade up of highlowbrow components and lowbr ow com mponents that complement eachh other like pinot while and ppork. And wh hile some mayy collision object to the colli ision of Nashville drawls dr awls and rrockabilly ockabilly tendencies, aree the ffolks probably obably these ar olkks who pr haven’t experienced haven ’t yet exper rienced Mary Huff’s Miller’s Huff ’s beguiling vocals, v Miller ’s creative picking wildly cr eative pic cking and Dave Hartman’s unfettered Hartman ’s unf etttered yet polished trio backss rrock drumming. The tr rio back ock lickss with a slower country & rroll oll lick rhythm, garneringg an eclectic including ffollowing ollowing includin ng SStephen tephen King and the ffans ans of True True r Bloodd, which featured featured two songs songs on a rrecent ecent season. (GW)

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The show, called “Estates of the Splendrous and Secret,” was commissioned by the gallery and gives American audiences a first look at the Canadian artist’s work. McLeod uses software to create fantastical, otherworldly dioramas full of glistening blobbly structures, vaguely geodesic matchstick architecture and floating beings. They are displayed as limited edition digital prints.

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by Ras Lowe and René Lorraine. This edition of South First Friday also features a street fair with art booths and music by Sean Hayes, multiinstrumentalist Jhameel and Lisa Dewey and Lotus Life.

In related news, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art will extend its hours on Sept. 3 to 10pm to give people a chance to sample its current shows. Especially intriguing is “Exposed,” in which more than a dozen artists use old-fashioned photographic equipment and developing techniques to look afresh at our world. —Michael S. Gant

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The intellectual complexity of Lucas’ book is one thing that distinguishes the play from standard musical fare; another is Guettel’s beautiful music, with its operatic songs and romantic (in the musicological sense) orchestration. The Light in the Piazza didn’t win a Tony for best original score for nothing, and moreover, its classical idiom lends the play a dignity that it might otherwise lack.

Heading up the superb cast is Rebecca Eichenberger in the difficult role of Margaret. Martin Vidnovic exudes suave Italian charm in his portrayal of Fabrizio’s father, while Whitney Bashor and Constantine Germanacos radiate perfect sincerity and emotion as the two young lovers. The entire cast displays great comic timing, which adds just the right amount of humor to an otherwise immensely poignant and at times, very sad story.

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by Ruba Nadda seems to be one.

Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), the wife of a U.N. employee stuck in the Gaza Strip, is at loose ends in the city.

Fortunately, the husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former friend Tareq (Alexander Siddiq)â&#x20AC;&#x201D; now retired and running his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s storied old cafeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;can show her the sights. Do they dare tour the

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THE SLOW-COOKED existential spy movie The American breaks no new philosophical ground. Still, it has the true resonance of the spy movie: that summing up of menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alienation, fear of betrayal and terror of entanglement. The Dutch director Anton Corbijn directs in a classic, neo-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s style that has nothing of MTV in it. Photographer Martin Ruhe (who shot Corbijnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biopic Control as well as Harry Brown) soaks this ďŹ lm in much of the orange and blues that can be seen everywhere onscreen in an era of digital tweaking. But the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nocturnes are a bit more heightened, almost to Mario Bava level: at night, the stony labyrinths of the streets glow in shades of lunar green and polished copper.

Much of The American is an act of following: Corbijn keeps the most interesting male movie star in the world in his sights. George Clooney plays a character called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jack.â&#x20AC;? In the pre-titles, killers run him out of a snowy haven in Sweden, and he ďŹ&#x201A;ees to Italy. Apparently, the only man who knows his whereabouts is his employer, who warns him to make no friends in his new village. Despite himself, it happens: Jack meets an elegant hooker, Clara (Violante Placido), and starts sharing drinks with a rumbling local priest (Paolo Bonicelli). This man and woman, reaching out to body and soul, compromise Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perimeter. And then Jack is recruited for a new job: the construction of a sniper riďŹ&#x201A;e for a striking female assassin (Thekla Reuten from In Bruges).

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Martin Boothâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s source novel, A Very Private Gentleman, is literary, ďŹ&#x201A;orid and sardonic. The Browning you think of when you read it is the poet, not the riďŹ&#x201A;e; the middle-aged British gentleman of the book is, he tells us, â&#x20AC;&#x153;not a James Bond.â&#x20AC;? Which is immaterial as well as disingenuous. Even those who really know James Bondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lore have no idea who James Bond is.

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Booth, who was a poet R; 105 min. more than a plotter, Opens Sept. 3 is most fascinated with the case of a man trying to cut off all ties to the world, social and moral. The Italian hilltop town in Abruzzo described in humid and roasting summer by Booth appears onscreen far up in the clouds, looking chilly, inaccessible and more like Tibet than Tuscany. It is compelling to watch Clooney pacing these ancient stones in fascinating solitude, quivering with alertness.

The American, however, is not at all the thriller a lot of people will expect.

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GOING THE DISTANCE (Unrated; 89 min.) A romantic comedy about a long-distance relationship. Stars Drew Barrymore and Justin Long. (Opens Fri.)

MACHETE (R; 105 min.) See review on page 48.

MAYAN INDIE SERIES In Tropico de Sangre, Michelle Rodriguez, so much more appealing in Machete somehow, stars as a real-life heroine of the Dominican

Republic who dared to defy the murderous Trujillo (Sep 1, 12:15pm, Sep 2, 2:15pm). Backyard is a grisly but not exploitative fiction based on the Juarez murders (Sep 1, 2:45pm; Sep 2, 4:45pm). The Kid: Chamaco is the usual boxing melodrama, featuring Martin Sheen as a crusty old doctor doing volunteer medicine in Mexico City (Sep 1, 5:15pm; Sep 2, 7:30pm). Chasing 3000: A lad heads out in a stolen car to see his idol Roberto Clemente get his 3,000th hit (Sep 1, 7:30pm; Sep 2, 9:45pm).

In Therapy is a comedy about a mad divorcee in Rio. (Sep 2, 12:15pm).

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Myth Reborn JUST BEFORE the stylistic revolution of the French New Wave struck with Breathless, French director Marcel Camus took a jaunt to Brazil to create the magical feature Black Orpheus (1959)—a film that seems entirely sui generis, beholden to no one except perhaps Cocteau’s own hothouse revisioning of the Orpheus myth.

There really is nothing like Black Orpheus, with its bursts of color (from cinematographer Jean Bourgoin); its stunningly beautiful and graceful female lead, Marpessa Dawn, an African American dancer from Pittsburgh who moved to France; its cast of Brazilian actors, especially Breno Mello, a soccer player recruited to acting by Camus; and its influential score, which helped popularize Brazilian music worldwide.

The action is set over a day or two leading up to Carnaval in Rio, as the residents of the poor favelas overlooking the city prepare their costumes and samba choreography. Orfeo (Mello), a sunny, handsome trolley conductor, is engaged to be married to the almost ridiculously 9cXZb Fig_\lj sexy Mira (Lourdes de Oliveira), Criterion; $29.95 sheathed, snakelike, in a red dress.

Soon, however, he falls in love with Eurydice (Dawn), a naive country girl come to the city. Orfeo’s lovely samba ballads can coax the sun to rise each morning (or so the favela children believe), but he cannot rescue Eurydice from the skeleton-costumed figure of death who wants her for the underworld.

A frantic night filmed at the real Carnaval leads to a fatal denouement. The classical myth is seamlessly transferred to another world, where the tragedy is just as inevitable and unbearable.

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The print on this two-disc Criterion release is immaculate, with colors that dazzle the eye. The set comes with several extras, including an all-too-brief period interview with Dawn, a luminous beauty. A couple of long modern documentaries set the film in context, from its origin as an avant-garde play to its current mixed reputation in its homeland, where many Brazilians admit its importance but fret about the film’s failure to expose the real poverty and misery suffered by the inhabitants of the favelas.

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pyramids together? Clarkson’s mix of assurance and girlishness is unique, but she has to work that mixture too hard here. Conflict instead of cooperation is overvalued in cinema, just as it is in life and economics, but the film seems underpowered.

And there isn’t any of the forceful counterpoint that comes from adventures in really big crazy cities—just plenty of nostril-flaring between the leads and mall walking in bazaars, as the muezzin wails in the distance. The satisfyingly large and lovely Amina Annabi’s dance at a wedding is a highlight, as are (inevitably) the pyramid-scapes

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MESERINE (R) A two-parter (Killer Instinct and Public Enemy No. 1) by director JeanFrancois Richet about a notorious French criminal (played by Vincent Cassel). (Plays at CinĂŠArts Santana Row and Palo Alto Square.)

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CINEMA is a study of contrasts. Take the face of Danny Trejo, star of Machete. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a picture of him, you can easily make a model by acquiring some distressed brown leather, peppering it with birdshot and wrapping it around the steel prow of a Bobcat-size bulldozer. Take this face and place it next to the cosseted bare backside of a starlet heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rescuing in a ďŹ reman carry, out of a burning garage, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all you need to know of the play of light on varied surfaces.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to overpraise Macheteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sure I do. Visually, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like an explosion in a ketchup factory, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effervescence in Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use of Trejo: the solemn catalyst for a tale of urban rebellion and human rights. At the least, Trejo is the second coming of Warren Oates.

Machete is a Mexican federale, betrayed, widowed and exiled in Austin. Two women notice him. One is Luz (Michelle Rodriguez): by day a taco-truck proprietor; by night, revolutionary hero â&#x20AC;&#x153;ShĂŠ,â&#x20AC;? the long-awaited female incarnation of Che. Meanwhile, a Latina ICE agent, Sartana (Jessica Alba), also starts tracking Machete.

A villainous politico, Booth (Jeff Fahey), hires Machete to put a hit on a state senator (Robert De Niro) known for his racist rhetoric. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a setup, a Reichstag burning party. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a Minutemen-like group, whose members shoot illegals crossing

the border. We see them plug a pregnant woman to take out an unborn â&#x20AC;&#x153;anchor baby.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ifâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;n itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s born here, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be a citizen,â&#x20AC;? is a resounding exploitation-movie line; note also the Glenn Beck look-alike in the hunting party. With affecting reluctance, Machete takes up his weapon against these racists.

The downside of Machete is the problem DXZ_\k\ of any overcrowded party, the feeling that R; 105 min. one doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get enough Opens Sept. 3 quality time with people you came to see: Lindsay Lohan as Boothâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degenerate daughter, Daryl Sabara as wannabe cholo and Cheech Marin as an armed and ludicrous padre. People will say that De Niro is squanderedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if you really want to see him squandered, rent a Fokkers movie. De Niro is doing what Brando would do; certainly, Brando would have bestirred himself to play a weaselly Southern senator if he agreed with the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s politics.

After so much rhetorical viciousness and discriminatory lawmaking, this counterblastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in a movie that really slops the gore hogsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has unimpeachable relevance. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weirdly cheerful, absolutely extreme and always seriously comic. And Trejo, clearly not just a pretty face, is the weirdly calm eye of this hurricane of mayhem.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

(Unrated; 89 min.) Produced by 408 Films, a consortium of investors based in Silicon Valley; apparently, Juno whetted their appetites. The spicy title conceals a pitiless baitand-switch trick. Angela (Anna Karin Cheung) has a problem, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotta have it, but rather that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gestating â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tiny,â&#x20AC;? as she deems the child-not-a-choice in her belly. And she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember who impregnated her. Three walking stereotypes are among the possible honorees: Long Duk Dongish nerd, freaky-deaky white boy and Mr. Asian Perfect. At times, local director Quentin Lee recalls his past as a polymorphously perverse director (Shopping for Fangs). The result is TV-like material thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slower

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SOUL KITCHEN (Unrated; 99 min.) The newest by Fatih Akin (Head On) tells of a greasy spoon restaurant in Hamburg that gets a makeover when a new chef arrives. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.) (RvB)

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NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent ďŹ lms. Sep 4: The Phantom Bullet (1926) with Hoot Gibson. The Nebraskan Gibson was a real-life cowboy, rodeo champ and circus performer who was a sergeant in the World War I tank corps; here â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Smiling Whirlwindâ&#x20AC;? poses as a half-wit to avenge his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death. Felix Dopes It Out (1925), a punchline-free excursion to the tropical island of Boola Boola. The Trail of the Octopus, Episode 2, The Purple Dagger (1919): Detective

Carter Holmes is on the trail of a world domination scheme that might be Arab, might be Chinese or might (horrors) be both, double-teaming Western civilization. Bruce Loeb at the piano. (Plays Sep 4 in Fremont Sep 4 at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK/ INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1981/1984) Remembered fondly by ex-children is the Lucas/Spielberg reconstitution of vintage serials, featuring Harrison Ford as one of the old-hat-act adventurers. Raiders, the ďŹ rst, has more class at half the budget, with Jones heading off Nazis in the desert. In the sequel, Jones adventures to India where they eat bugs. (Plays Sep 3-5 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW/ THE DARK MIRROR (1944/1946) Thanks to the old Manhattan custom of wives leaving for the country in the summer, a married man (Edward G. Robinson) is struck with a case of the sevenyear itch and is left open to the depredation of silk-stockinged evil (Joan Bennett), who is the model for a painting heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been admiring.

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Wed: B Wed: Beeretics. eeretics. TThu: hu: TTest est Your Your TTalent, alent, R&B R&B SSingoff. ingoff. San San Jose.

Jose.

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Thu, 8 Thu, 8:30pm: :30pm: CContemporary ontemporary oorr LLatin atin jjazz. azz. FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, 9pm: 9pm: JJazz azz aand nd ppop op dance dance bbands. ands. M onMonTTue: ue: P iano M usic. Fairmont Fairmont Piano Music.

H otel, SSan an JJose. ose.

Hotel,

Bit aand Bit nd SSpur pur Band Band featuring featuring CCowboy owboy LLarry. arry. Willow Willow Glen.

Glen.

WOODHAM’S W OODHAM’S LLOUNGE OUNGE

GGRAND RAND D DELL ELL SSALOON ALOON

ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’SB BISTRO ISTRO

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

World W orld ALBERTO’S A LBERTO’S

Thu, 8 Thu, 8pm: pm: Blues Blues Jam Jam w with ith Aki Aki KKumar. umar. FFri, ri, 8pm: 8pm: CChris hris B rown.

Brown.

SSat, at, 8 pm: SSouth outh City City B lues 8pm: Blues B and. CCampbell. ampbell.

Band.

HEDLEY H EDLEY CCLUB LUB

ARYA A RYA GGLOBAL LOBAL CCUISINE UISINE

Wed, 77:30pm: Wed, :30pm: JJam am ssession. ession.

TThu, hu, 8 pm: Russo-Alberts Russo-Alberts Trio.

Trio.

8pm: FFri, ri, 8 :30pm: Danjuma Danjuma and and 8:30pm: FFriends. riends. SSat, at, 8 :30pm: JJ.P. .P. and and 8:30pm: tthe he R hythm CChasers. hasers. H otel de de Rhythm Hotel A nza, San San Jose.

Jose.

Anza,

Fri-Sat, 8 Fri-Sat, 8pm: pm: LLive ive m music usic and and bbelly elly ddancing. ancing. CCupertino. upertino.

LLOFT OFT B BAR AR A AND ND B BISTRO ISTRO

Wed: Bachata.

Wed: Bachata. TThu: hu: SSalsa alsa with with P antea. FFri: ri: SSalsa alsa FFridays. ridays. Sat: Sat: Pantea.

LLatin atin Nights.

Nights. TTue: ue: SSalsa alsa with with P antea. M ountain V iew.

Pantea.

Mountain View.

AZUCAR A ZUCAR

Thu, 77-10pm: Thu, -10pm: LLive ive jjazz. azz. SSan an JJose. ose.

Fri, 9pm: Fri, 9pm: Live Live ssalsa alsa m music. usic.

SSat, at, 9pm: 9pm: Orquesta Orquesta Saboricua.

Saboricua.

SSan an JJose. ose.

LUNCHTIME O LUNCHTIME ON NT THE HE SSQUARE QUARE

CCASCAL ASCAL Fri, 9:30pm: Fri, 9:30pm: D Danilo. anilo. SSat, at, 8 :30pm: JJames ames R obinson.

8:30pm: Robinson.

M ountain View.

View.

Mountain

MOROCCO’S M OROCCO’S RESTAURANT RESTAURANT Wed, 6:30 Wed, 6:30 and and 8 8:15pm: :15pm: Guitar Guitar V irtuoso N ight, JJerome erome Mouffe Mouffe Virtuoso Night, aand nd Grisha Grisha Goryachev.

Goryachev. $ 12. Fri, Fri, $12.

77pm: pm: G uitarist V eronika Malki.

Malki.

Guitarist Veronika M on, 55pm: pm: SSoft oft rrock, ock, FFarther arther Mon, SSnake. nake. SSan an JJose. ose.

PARRANDA P ARRANDA N NIGHTCLUB IGHTCLUB Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: B Banda anda 3300, 00, DJ DJ A kustik. FFri, ri, 8 pm: N orteño and and Akustik.

8pm: Norteño B andas live. live. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

Bandas

SSENZALA ENZALA Fri, noon: Fri, noon: LLive ive m music; usic; aatt 8 :30pm, CCaminos aminos FFlamencos, lamencos, 8:30pm, $ 15. Second Second aand nd FFourth ourth TTue, ue, $15.

77:30pm: :30pm: JJam am SSession. ession. $ 5. $5.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

SSTEPHENS TEPHENS GGREEN REEN Sat, 10pm: Sat, 10pm: Peruvian Peruvian pparty arty nnight ight with with DJ DJ M GD. MGD.

JJazz/Blues azz/Blues ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’S B BISTRO ISTRO Fri, 6pm: Fri, 6pm: LLisa isa FForkish; orkish; aatt 8 pm, FFivePlay ivePlay JJazz azz Quintet.

Quintet.

8pm, R edwood CCity. ity.

Redwood

BRITANNIA A BRITANNIA ARMS RMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO Sun, 6 Sun, 6pm: pm: Dixieland Dixieland Jazz.

Jazz.

CCupertino. upertino.

CCAFFE AFFE T TRIESTE RIESTE FFri, ri, 8pm: 8pm: Opera Opera Night.

Night. San San JJose. ose.

FAIRMONT H FAIRMONT HOTEL OTEL LLOBBY OBBY LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, W ed, 8 8:30pm: :30pm: TThe he G Girlz irlz B Band. and.

Wed, W ed, 111:30am: 1:30am: M Megan egan SSlankard. lankard. Courthouse Courthouse Square, Square, R edwood CCity. ity.

Redwood

Open O penMic Mic Wed, W ed, 6:30pm: 6:30pm: Open Open M Mic. ic. TTue, ue, Redwood 77-11pm: -11pm: Pro Pro Jazz Jazz Jam. Jam. R edwood CCity. ity.

CCAFFE AFFET TRIESTE RIESTE TTue, ue, 77pm: pm: O Open pen Mic. Mic. San San JJose. ose.

CCITY ITYESPRESSO ESPRESSO Fri, 7-10pm: Fri, 7-10pm: SSingers ingers aand nd musicians. m usicians. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

RED R EDROCK ROCKCCOFFEE OFFEECO. CO. Mon, 7pm: Mon, 7pm: CCavin avin and and King’s King’s Open Open Mic. M ic. Mountain Mountain View.

View.

Karaoke K araoke 7B BAMBOO AMBOO Wed-Sat, W ed-Sat, 9pm: 9pm: KKaraoke. araoke. Tue, Tue, 9pm: 9 pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke. San San JJose. ose.

POOR P OOR H HOUSE OUSE B BISTRO ISTRO Wed, 6 Wed, 6pm: pm: R Ron on TThompson hompson aand nd FFriends. riends. TThu, hu, 6pm: 6pm: Lara Lara Price Price aand nd YYesterdays. esterdays. FFri, ri, 6 pm: LLittle ittle 6pm: JJohnny ohnny aand nd tthe he Giants.

Giants. SSat, at, 6 pm: B eauFunk. Sun, Sun, 44pm: pm: The The 6pm: BeauFunk.

B ornia B oys. SSan an JJose. ose.

Bornia Boys.

THREE T HREE FFLAMES LAMES SSun un aand nd TTue, ue, 77:30pm: :30pm: M Modesto odesto B riseno Septet.

Septet. W illow G len.

Briseno Willow Glen.

ALEX’S A LEX’S4 49ER 9ERINN INN Nightly except Nightly except SSun, un, 9 9pm-2am: pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke. San San Jose.

Jose.

THE T HEB BEARS EARS FFri, ri, 9pm: 9pm: Ryan.

Ryan. San San Jose.

Jose.

UNWINED U NWINED

BENNIGAN’S B ENNIGAN’SGRILL GRILL

Thu, 77-9pm: Thu, -9pm: R Randy andy W Whiting hiting aand nd @ Jazz. SSat, at, 77-9:30pm: -9:30pm: @Jazz.

JJazz azz N ight. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

Night.

BLUE B LUEBONNET BONNETBAR BAR

CC&W/Folk &W/Folk

SSat, at, 9pm: 9pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

Wed-Thu W ed-Thu and and M Mon, on, 8pm: 8pm: KKaraoke. araoke. No No cover. cover. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

BLUE B LUEPHEASANT PHEASANT TTue, ue, 77pm: pm: SSteve teve Tiger.

Tiger. Cupertino.

Cupertino.

THE T HEGRAPEVINE GRAPEVINE Sat, 77pm: Sat, pm: B Brian rian B Bergeron. ergeron. W Willow illow G len.

Glen.

O’FLAHERTY’S O ’FLAHERTY’S Sun aand Sun nd TTue, ue, 55pm: pm: TTraditional raditional IIrish rish m usic. SSan an JJose. ose. music.

RED R EDR ROCK OCKCCOFFEE OFFEECCO. O. Fri, 8 Fri, 8pm: pm: CCurious urious Q Quail. uail. M Mountain ountain V iew.

View.

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BOGART’S B OGART’SLLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, W ed, Fri Fri and and Sun, Sun, 8pm-2am: 8pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale.

BOSWELL’S B OSWELL’S TTue: ue: DJ DJ D Davey avey KK.. Campbell.

Campbell.

Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm: pm: CCalifornia alifornia CCowboys. owboys.

TThu-Fri, hu-Fri, 9 pm, SSat, at, 110:15pm: 0:15pm: 9pm, D iablo R oad. SSat, at, 77:15pm: :15pm: W ild aatt Diablo Road.

Wild H eart. FFremont. remont.

Heart.

BRITANNIA B RITANNIAA ARMS RMSCUPERTINO CUPERTINO

SSAM’S AM’SB BBQ BQ

Wed, W ed, 9pm: 9pm: KKaraoke araoke w/ w/ A August. ugust.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

Wed, 6 Wed, 6pm: pm: SSidesaddle idesaddle aand nd CCo. o.

TTue, ue, 6 pm: B ean CCreek. reek. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

6pm: Bean

THREE T HREEFLAMES FLAMESRESTAURANT RESTAURANT Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: LLive ive ccountry ountry m music, usic, D oug R ose Productions Productions w/ w/ Doug Rose

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

CCupertino. upertino.

BRITANNIA B RITANNIAA ARMS RMSSAN SANJOSE JOSE

CC&J’S &J’S SPORTS SPORTS BAR BAR Thu, 10pm: Thu, 10pm: Karaoke Karaoke w w/ / Melissa Heather.

M elissa aand nd H eather.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

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Bracelet. $15.

FFri: ri: The The G rouch aand nd EEligh. ligh. TTue: ue: Grouch B ig Freedia.

Freedia. SSan an JJose. ose.

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Green Day MY number-one claim to fame at the moment, besides being an occasional contributor to this paper, is that I am a nonplayable character in the Green Day edition of Rock Band. Thanks to 20 minutes of relentlessly refreshing the Ticketmaster event listing, I was able to snag tickets to the band’s sold-out secret show at the Fox Theater in Oakland in the spring of last year. One of the first things I noticed that night was a huge camera on a crane that swung over the audience periodically during the show. Next thing I know, the tech blogs are telling me that the Fox Theater is the final level in the game. Somewhere in the crowd, there is a probably an unrecognizable blob modeled after my face. The second thing I noticed that night in the crowd Saturday, 7pm is that Green Day’s audience is getting simultaneously younger and older. More and more kids discover Shoreline them in their local modern-rock rotation, while their Amphitheatre parents realize they’re not as scary as they used to be.

Gone are the days of Gilman spitfire and street cred, the $20–$50 latter of which has hung in the balance for two decades now. Never ones to give a flying you-know-what about whatever kind of “cred” they might have, Green Day have channeled their youthful belligerence into a wacky, nonoffensive live show with costumes, sing-alongs and a troupe of supporting musicians in tow, including venerable session man Jason Freese, and sometimes, San Josean Kurt Lohmiller. They’re a little more family-friendly these days, but they still entertain. Contrary to what they said back in 1994, they’re not burning out, they’re just growing up. —Jody Amable

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53 Wed aand Wed nd TTue, ue, 9 9:30pm: :30pm: KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an JJose. ose.

Fri, 9pm: Fri, 9pm: V Vinnie. innie. Mon, Mon, 9 9pm: pm: Karaoke Ka raoke in in the the lounge lounge w/ w/ Vinnie.

August.

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

CCupertino. upertino.

EELL R RANCHO ANCHO SPORTS SPORTS BAR BAR

KATIE K ATIE BLOOM’S BLOOM’S

DIVE D IVE B BAR AR

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

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

SSan an JJose. ose.

FFLAMES LAMES CCOFFEE OFFEE SHOP SHOP Thu-Sat, 9 Thu-Sat, 9pm: pm: U Uncle ncle D Dougie ougie SShow. how. N over. SSan an JJose. ose.

Noo ccover.

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

Ka raoke. Campbell.

Campbell.

THE T HE GGOOSETOWN OOSETOWN LO LOUNGE UNGE Fri-Sun, 9 Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: :30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Willow Glen.

Ka raoke. W illow G len.

KHARTOUM K HARTOUM Thu, 9pm: Thu, 9pm: DJ DJ Davey Davey K. K. No No Campbell. ccover. over. Ca mpbell.

GGOOSE OOSE LO LOONEY’S ONEY’S Thu aand Thu nd SSun, un, 9 9pm: pm: D DJJ August.

Milpitas.

A ugust. M ilpitas.

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

MARIANI’S M ARIANI’S Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clar Clara. a a.

NORMANDY HOUSE NORMANDY HOUSE LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY BROADWAY Thu: Singles party with DJ DJ..

LLos os Gatos.

PEACOCK PEA COCK LLOUNGE OUNGE Thu, 9pm: DJ Brian. Sun, 9pm 9pm: m: karaoke.

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

Sunnyvale. dancing, kar aoke. Sunnyvale e.

POINCIANA LOUNGE LOUNGE Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside Wed, cover..

Entertainment. No cover Clara.

Santa Clar a.

AVALON A VA ALON Sun: Club Ice. Santa Clara.

Clara.

Marathon.

Marathon. Tue: Tuue: Take Taake It Off. Off. San Jose.

AZUCAR A ZUCAR

CARDINAL LLOUNGE OUNGE

Wed, 10pmWed, 10pm-1am: 1am: Comedy Party.

Club After P arty. Thu, 8pm1am: Urban DJ Spinning Beats and Brazilian Brazilian Nights. Sun: 8pm-1am: Salsa Night. Mon, 8pm1am: 9pm-1am: Salsa Lessons. TTue, uue, 9pm1am: College Night Beats and Beer Pong P ong w/ Mike Jones. San Jose.

BLOWFISH BL OWFISH SUSHI Wed-Sat: DJs and dancing.

Wed-Sat: Row..

Santana Row

BL BLUE UE PHEA PHEASANT SANT

Wed: Humpday Wednesdays.

Wed: Wednesdays.

Thu: DJ and KKaraoke. araoke. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Jazzy and DJ Chaos. Hip-hop and TTop oop 40. Sun: Happy Hour All Day. Day y. Mon: DJ and KKaraoke. araoke.

TTue: uue: $2 Tuesdays.

Tuuesdays. San Jose.

WOODHAM’S W OODHAM’S LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed-Thu, Sat, TTue: Wed-Thu, uue: 9:30pm: Clara.

Vinnie. Santa Clar a.

Dancee Clubs Danc Clubs AGENDA A GENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa W Wed, Wednesdays ednesdays Fri: w/ N’Rumba. Thu: SLAP!. Fr ri: Workout Anniversary ffor or the W orkouut Vania. w/Le CCastle astle V ania. $7/$10..

Paolos Sun: P aolos TTKK and the San Sizzlack.

Jose Rockers and DJ Sizzlac ck.

San Jose.

ALBERTO’S ALBER TO’S Wed, 7:30pm: Bachata with Wed, Pantea.

P antea. Thu: Salsa with Pantea.

P antea. Fri: Salsa Fridays. Sat: Saat: Latin Night. TTue: uue: Salsa with Pantea.

View..

P antea. Mountain View

Wed, 9pm: Reggae Riddims.

Wed, Mon, 8pm: Monday Night Madness. TTue, uue, 9pm: College Night. San Jose.

GGALAXY ALAX XY Mon: Ladies Ladies’’ Night. No cover cover..

Milpitas.

IILLUSIONS LLUSIONS SSUPPER UPPER CCLUB LUB Fri, 9pm: Fuz, LLGBT GBT night. Sun: Palo Alto.

Juicee Sundays. P alo Al to.

KHARTOUM KHAR TOUM Wed: W ed: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Campbell.

SOUTH FIRST FIRST BILLIARDS

Wed, 9:30pm: Thomas. San Wed, Jose

EELL RANCHO SPOR SPORTS RTS B BAR AR

FAHRENHEIT UL FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LTRA T LLOUNGE OUNGE

TTue, ue, u 10pm-close: 10 l KKamikaze amikaze ik KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

WILLOW WILL OW D DEN EN

Thu, 9:30pm: Th 9 30 DJ Otr Ot Otrebor. ebor b . Fri, Fi 9:30pm: DJ Otrebor Otrebor and guest DJs. Sat, 9:30pm: DJ C-Note and guest DJs. Sun, 3-10pm: 3-10pm: DJ Venom Venom 347 347 and guest DJs. San Jose.

BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE

SSAN AN JOSE BAR BAR & GRILL GRILL

Wed, 8pm: Beer P Wed, Pong ong conte contest. est.

San Jose.

DIVE B BAR AR

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Party, Dance P artyy, DJ Neto. San Jose.

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

TOON’S T OON’S

Wed, 9pmWed, 9pm-1am: 1am: DJ CCurtis. urtis. karaoke.

Plus kar aoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: 9pm-1am: KJ JR. Sun-Mon, 8pm: DJ L.V. L.V. TTue, uue, 9pm-1am: 9pm-1am: KJ JR. San Jose.

Wed-Sun, Tue, Wed-Sun, Tue, u 7pm-close: DJ and dancing. Big band, swing. upertino.

No cover. cover. CCupertino.

QUARTER Q UARTER NOTE NOTE

Sun: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

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KINGG O KIN OFF CL CLUBS UBS BRIT BRITANNIA ANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed W ed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

Thu, 10pm: DJ Benofficial.

Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong.

Pong. San Jose.

Fri, 9:30pm: Noche Vaquera Vaquera w/ DJ Jose KKuervo uervo and DJ SStam. tam. Sat: Azukar w/ DJ 3D. TTue, uue, 9pm: Club Nostalgia, Goth, Industrial and Darkwave. $8. Mountain View.

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BRITANNIA A BRITANNIA ARMS RMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO Thu: DJ TTosh. oosh. Sat, 9pm: Barb Rockss Pr Presents.

Rock esents. CCupertino. upertino.

BRITANNIA A BRITANNIA ARMS RMS DOWNTOWN D OWNTOWN Fri: DJ Kay Kay Rich and DJ Check O. Sat: G Beats the Soulchild and Metrorock.

Metrorock. Tue: Tue: u DJ David Q.. San Jose.

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BRITISH B RITISH B BANKER’S ANKER’S CCLUB LUB Wed: College Night. Thu: 18 Wed: and Up Girls Night Out. Fri: Goth. Sat: Album Release Party.

P arty. Sun, 44-8pm: -8pm: Reggae.

Pong.

Park.

TTue: uue: Beer P ong. Menlo P ark.

BRIX Wed, 9pmWed, 9pm-2am: 2am: Whip It Huntress.

Out. Thu: Huntr ess. Fri: Party.

White P arty. Sat: Sinful. Sun, 9pm-2am: Afterglow.

9pm2am: After glow. Mon:

PARRANDA P ARRANDA NI NIGHTCLUB GHTCLUB Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover.. Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo. Sat, cover 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik.

Sun, 7pm: Latin Beat. Sun, 9pm: Sonidero Sonidero Night. With local DJs spinning salsa, cumbia and more. more. Sunnyvale.

PEARL Thu: A Wild Night by Flo Rida!

Fri: Battle of the DJs. Sat: Four Play! San Jose.

SSABOR ABOR T TAPAS A AP PAS B BAR AR Thu: Major Thursdays. TTue: uue: College TTwo wo Buck TTuesdays, uesdays, u party.. San Jose. dance party

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Michael Been: 1950â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2010 THERE ARE cult bands, and then there are cult bands. Fans of the Ramones or the MisďŹ ts, for example, may treat them like cult bands, quick to point out that they were so far ahead of their time that the mainstream simply didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to do with them until long after they were gone, when they were vindicated by a rise to legendary status.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fans of bands like the Call that truly feel the pain of knowing their musical heroes have no hope of ever really getting the recognition they deserve and are in danger of being lost to pop culture history altogether.

In Michael Beenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, it either makes it better or worse that one of those fans was Peter Gabriel, who once called him â&#x20AC;&#x153;the future of American music.â&#x20AC;?

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The ElliptiGO replicates the sensation of running—yet at a much faster rate. Rather than a cycling motion, the machine is powered by a running motion. Pate said he came up with the idea for the ElliptiGO six years ago after suffering various injuries. “My knees and hips are to the point now where I can’t run for fitness,” Pate says, “which was something that I never thought would happen to me.”

After coming to this realization, Pate began going to the local gym and using the elliptical trainers, which provide a low-impact way for people to run. “I liked the elliptical trainer, [but] I hated the gym,” he says. “And I figured that somebody had already made an ElliptiGO, and I just never heard of it. While I was on the elliptical trainer, I was like, I’ll just buy an elliptical trainer that I could ride on the street.” After going home and finding out that no such cycle had yet been invented, Pate began to think of people he knew

that might be able to build one. He ended up reaching out to his friend and colleague Brent Teal, with whom he had trained for a triathlon.

Teal has a degree in mechanical engineering and is an Ironman triathlete and an elite-level ultramarathon runner. His experience provides him with firsthand knowledge of running mechanics.

According to Pate, it took about six months to design the system and another six months to build it. Pate tested the bike in a 50-mile race from Rosarito to Ensenada, Mexico. “At that point, we knew we had a viable system, because for me it felt like I had just run a marathon,” he says. “It was a little over three hours of working hard and my body was exhausted, but my bones didn’t hurt.”

The success of this race, combined with accolades received at the Stanford Cool Products Expo, inspired Teal and Pate to quit their jobs and go all-in in May 2008. Pate says that through five prototypes leading up to the new model 8S, they have gone from chromoly steel to aluminum to a combination of aluminum and carbon fiber. These adjustments allow for a lighter bike (40 pounds) and dampening of vibrations from the wheel to the bones and muscles. “Your body is designed to absorb shock through your feet and knees,” Pate explained. “Bicycling doesn’t offer a natural range of motion—that’s not how we’ve been moving around all these years.”

The ElliptiGO 8S is available for test rides that can be signed up for on the company’s website, ElliptiGO.com, and can be purchased there for $2,199.

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We had a helluva time with this one, Erwin. The problem wasn’t just coming up with an answer. It was figuring out the question, which we’ve gotten in different forms over the years.

Possibilities: 1. Why, after eating Chinese food, do you soon feel hungry again?

2. Do you, in fact, after eating Chinese food, soon feel hungry again?

3. People used to say that after eating Chinese food one soon feels hungry again. Now they don’t. What changed?

All we were able to establish initially was that, long ago (at least), people did in fact say the Saying, as I’ll refer to it, and that this wasn’t some mass hallucination. My assistant Una found the following fragment from a dramatic piece published in the literary magazine Golden Book in 1934: JULIE (in a flat tone): Yes, but the trouble with that Chinese food is, no matter how much you eat you feel hungry an hour later. Have you ever noticed that?

HAM (the Orientalist): It’s the rice.

The easily satisfied will say, “So there you have it—it’s the rice,” and move on.

Those of subtler bent will inquire more closely. This Julie—why is she speaking in a flat tone? Has she been drugged? Has Ham, the glib Orientalist, put something in her lo mein? I have no idea, and if we waste any more time on such flighty inquiries we’ll soon run out of column.

However, having eaten considerable quantities of the impugned starch without subsequently experiencing premature hungriness, I feel confident in saying: it’s not just the rice.

What, then, is it? I’m working on that. Some preliminary observations: • I don’t personally feel hungry soon after eating Chinese food, nor do I hear the Saying much these days.

I therefore incline to the view that while the Saying may have been true years ago, it’s not true now.

• Researchers (Holt et al, 1995) have developed a satiety index, or SI. Testing satiety typically involves eating a specified calorie amount of various foods and rating how you

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feel over the next two hours on a scale from “extremely hungry” to “extremely full.” The ratings are then converted to a numerical score by comparing them to ratings for white bread, whose SI score is fixed at 100. From this we learn that two major components of Chinese cuisine—white rice and white pasta noodles—have much lower SI values (138 and 119 respectively) than the starch that was once a mainstay of American food, namely the potato.

The humble tuber has an SI of 323, by far the highest of any food tested.

Here we glimpse an explanation. I can’t speak to German dining trends, but prior to 1980 or so, potatoes in various forms were a standard feature of the American dinner menu. Since then, in my casual observation, they’ve become less prevalent, and potato stats bear this out. So when people said the Saying 50 years ago, they may simply have been comparing Chinese food to the meat-and-potatoes fare to which they were accustomed. In other words, it’s not that Chinese food left you feeling hungry after an hour, but that the standard American diet left you feeling exceptionally full. As American cooking became less potato-dependent, the difference in satiety potential between Chinese and U.S. food likely diminished.

Other factors may also have been at work. For example, eating a salad before the main course—common in Westernstyle restaurants but less so at Chinese places—increases a diner’s feeling of fullness, whereas high-fat soups, like the old-school egg drop and hot-andsour varieties, have only minimal impact on satiety. Another element in the decline of the Saying may be the increased popularity of spicy Hunan and Szechuan cuisine compared to the bland Cantonese that once dominated Chinese menus—the capsaicin in hot peppers is known to reduce hunger.

We haven’t yet tested any of the above—after their recent adventure with alcoholic cupcakes, Una and Fierra are on a diet. For now, however, I don’t blame the rice; I blame the spuds.

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Campbell is also one of the finest little cities in the Bay Area, with a sense of community that is increasingly hard to find elsewhere.

Best of all, private homes here mean plenty of green, in front and out back, so families can live outside just as easily as inside, weather permitting. Let’s take a look at some of these homes.

A distinctive, five-bedroom, fourbath home set in a 3,217-square-foot lot can be found at 121 George Court.

This is a new house, built just this year. The rooms are all large, but the master bedroom and living room are absolutely enormous. Since it’s a new home, everything in it is brandnew, too, including the hardwood cabinets, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances in the

kitchen. It’s available at what seems like a bargain price of $799,000.

That’s 8 percent lower than similar homes in Campbell.

For a slightly smaller home, take a look at this French colonial style villa at 1236 Harriet Ave. Although it’s surrounded by million-dollar homes, this four-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath house can be had for just $829,000.

The home has recently been remodeled both inside and out, so the kitchen cabinets and counter tops are all new. The rooms are all spacious and bright, but you can still go outdoors on even the hottest summer days thanks to the historic oak trees that line the property. It’s practically a vacation home in the heart of Silicon Valley.

For families who want to pinch pennies, check out this wonderful three-bedroom, two-bath home at 424 Memphis Dr. It goes to show why listings can be deceptive.

Though the house itself has 1,230 square feet, that doesn’t count the 200-square-foot sun room that was added in the back (with all the necessary permits).

It’s a bright home with plenty of yard, both front and back. Inside there are gorgeous hardwood floors and double paned windows. The living room opens to the sun room.

This showcase home is on the market for just $589,000.

Campbell is a great place to live, and it’s not just because of baseball.

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