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This time around, it’s not about hemp or personal freedom or medical use—it’s about money. California

lawmakers and voters could be more willing to expand their minds if it means shrinking the state’s $20 billion budget gap.

In 1996, Californians made history with Prop. 215, which allowed people with chronic illnesses to use marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation. More than a dozen states followed suit, despite federal laws prohibiting it, and the line dividing chronic illness from a taste for the chronic has all but evaporated.

Many opponents of Prop. 215 said then that it would be the beginning step toward broad state legalization.

Still, possession, cultivation and distribution of marijuana remain illegal and readily prosecutable under state law, sometimes even with a doctor’s note.

Prop. 19 is a pretty straightforward effort to legalize and tax marijuana in California. It is framed much the same as existing alcohol laws, with

prohibitions against driving while high and smoking at schools, and a requirement that users be 21 years old.

Unlike alcohol laws, the amount of marijuana that a person could possess and grow would be limited to 1 ounce of pot and a 25-square-foot garden.

That’s the legalization side.

How, exactly, the government would tax and control marijuana is not clear, since the initiative contains no specific tax plan or structure. The tax issue is left for local governments to figure out.

The opponents’ message is virtually the same as it has always been: legalization will lead to increased use among young people, increased addiction, more stoned drivers on the road, stoners in the workplace and a possible clash with federal drug enforcement officials—or even loss of federal contracts and funding if employers can’t legally require employees to be marijuana-free. Mothers Against Drunk Driving has come out strongly against the measure, as well as many law enforcement groups and both gubernatorial candidates, though Jerry Brown was a supporter of Prop. 215.

Actually, despite 215’s popularity,

medical marijuana advocates are split on Prop. 19, with the leading advocacy group, Americans for Safe Access, calling for a “no” vote. Richard Lee, founder of a pro-medipot outfit called Oaksterdam University, is largely bankrolling the Yes on 19 campaign.

The effort has won support from several large, mainstream groups.

Service Employees International Union, the largest labor union in the state, officially lent their support for Prop. 19, and so did the National Black Police Association (NBPA), which might be a first.

Prop. 19 proponents are framing the current legalization debate around potential tax revenues and law enforcement savings. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) said the potential boon to tax revenues is not easy to calculate, although the potential upside is huge.

“To the extent that a commercial marijuana industry developed in the state,” LAO said in a recent report, “we estimate that the state and local governments could eventually collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in additional revenues.”

It’s unclear how much money would really be generated from small pot gardens.

Meanwhile, groups like the NAACP, the NBPA and the ACLU are calling legalization a civil rights issue, pointing to the disproportionate number of nonwhite inmates in the penal system as a result of what they charge is a selective enforcement of drug laws. According to the NAACP, blacks make up fewer than 7 percent of the state population but account for 22 percent of people arrested for all marijuana offenses, and 33 percent of all marijuana felony arrests, though actual marijuana use among black and white Californians is about the same. The NAACP called California incarceration rates a modern sort of Jim Crow.

The potential savings to tax payers that would result in abolishing jail sentences for possessing marijuana would be tens of millions of dollars each year, according to the LAO. That’s a lot of money, but it’s still an order of magnitude away from closing the state budget gap.

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She has stressed issues that are intended to revitalize businesses and neighborhoods on the East Side — which has been deeply impacted by the recession and budget cuts.

She promises to fight to bring her district its fair share of city revenue, and to pursue other funding sources, including grants. With a background in social work for both the county and the non-profit sector, she has skills suited for both.

More important than those qualifications, more important than her keen intelligence and her lifetime’s knowledge of her community, Carrasco brings a refreshing level of integrity to her campaign.

Unfortunately, this race has been one of the dirtiest San Jose has ever seen.

Carrasco has been the victim of a series of attack-mailers, some illegal and others paid for by the South Bay Labor Council (SBLC), which backs her opponent, Xavier Campos.

The anti-Carrasco campaign was notable for its bald-faced dishonesty. She was accused of being a Communist. She

was accused of fronting a Los Angeles cabal spearheading a takeover of the East Side. Mostly, this born-andbred San Jose woman, a graduate of Independence High School who says she “had all of the big family experiences” at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, was accused of being an outsider.

Campos, whose sister Nora has represented the district for nine years, has turned a blind eye to the attacks— much as he overlooked (or so he says) the ripoff of employees’ pension funds at the Mexican American Community Services Agency, where he served as Chief Operations Officer.

Over the next four years, the East Side and all of San Jose will continue to face difficult challenges. We believe Xavier Campos can be counted on to do the bidding of his political allies at SBLC, rather than act independently on behalf of his constituents or the city in general.

Magdalena Carrasco deserves a chance to bring new political energy to the East Side, which will benefit by being liberated from insider politics.

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liked what we heard from Wasserman and feel strongly that he will make a good supervisor.

Apparently Wasserman has had the same effect on many local leaders in San Jose and Silicon Valley. He has received endorsements from all over the county and all over the political map. Notably, the self-described “liberal Republican” has gotten the nod from a number of prominent valley Democrats, including Democratic stalwart Larry Stone.

It’s no mystery why Wasserman is winning such broad support. A business owner and professional financial planner, his campaign is tightly focused on solving the county’s money problems, which are of crisis proportions. Rattling off economic jargon—about increasing efficiencies, nurturing job growth, leveraging under-performing assets and creating private-public partnerships— he gives the impression that he’s well equipped for the job.

A lifetime Los Gatan, he began his career of public service coaching kids’ sports teams. His resume is packed with decades of service to community organizations.

After serving on the Los Gatos City Council, he won his first bid for the mayor’s office in a landslide. He was reelected in 2006 with a stunning 72 percent of the vote.

Wasserman’s opponent, former San Jose City Councilmember Forrest Williams, also has a long record of public service.

But he is nowhere near as prepared to handle the County’s daunting problems.

Williams’ tenure on the San Jose City Council was distinguished mostly by his long-winded and often pointless speeches from the dais, and his slavish adherence to special interest agendas.

Mike Wasserman is the more likely of the two candidates to spend public money wisely and look for innovative ways to deliver county services more effectively.

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sv 411.com of course, is looking to be a part of this market with its own iPad competitors.

Arrington asked Bradley if HP is trying to adopt Apple’s strategy that the company implemented with its iOS platform. Bradley said that HP is definitely not trying to emulate Apple or Dell. —LEENA RAO, TECHCRUNCH.COM

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Tablets Will Be a $40 Billion Market At TechCrunch Disrupt Monday, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sat down with HP’s executive vice president for the Personal Systems Group, Todd Bradley, to discuss HP’s recent acquisition spree, future strategy and more.

HP just bought data storage company 3PAR for $2.4 billion after a heated bidding war with Dell. And earlier this summer, HP bought smartphone manufacturer Palm for $1.2 billion. And let’s not forget the whole Mark Hurd fiasco. Bradley of course could be a contender for Hurd’s former position as CEO. Bradley says his group, which is in charge of a $40-plus-billion revenue stream including PCs, printers and more, was in charge of buying Palm. Bradley’s main goal now is how to broadly deploy the WebOS, the mobile operating system for Palm phones.

He says that while the smartphone category is growing, tablets are going to be a huge market. He estimates that in the next few years tablets will be a $40 billion market. HP,

The unfortunate, if not surprising, news story making the rounds [this week] is that the feds are looking to pass new laws to legally require a wiretap backdoor in every kind of Internet communication offering. Yes, you read that right. If there’s any way to communicate online, the U.S. government is demanding the right to be able to wiretap it. Any company that doesn’t comply will face fines.

This despite the long history of the U.S. government massively abusing its wiretapping privileges repeatedly throughout history.

It’s pretty ridiculous for President Obama to talk about open Internet principles to the U.N., while cooking this up at the same time. Pushing for this also means that the United States will have no excuse when the governments of Iran, China and elsewhere also demand backdoors into all U.S.-based communications.

And, really, that’s the biggest problem with this law. Beyond the inevitable privacy violations by the feds, putting backdoors into communications technologies guarantees that those backdoors will be used by others (outside of the federal government) to snoop on communications.

—STAFF, TECHDIRT.COM

David Sugar Speaking on behalf of the GNU Telephony project, we will choose to publicly defy the imposition

of such an illegitimate law, [and to] explicitly continue to publicly develop and distribute free software enabling secure peer-to-peer communication privacy through encryption.

Anonymous Coward If secure encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have secure encryption.

Zacqary Adam Green This is zeroes and ones we’re talking about.

Making certain combinations of zeroes and ones illegal will have literally no effect on their availability, especially to criminals and terrorists.

Zuckerberg on Oprah It’s easy to interpret Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million donation to Newark schools—officially announced the exact day the Social Network opens the New York Film Festival—as a PR move to counter the film’s negative portrayal of him.

Not so, says Zuck! (And Oprah.)

Zuckerberg was on Oprah Saturday, along with Newark Mayor Corey Booker and super-intense N.J. Gov. Chris Christie. It was a lot of jawing on and on about how important schools are, and how children’s heads will fall off their necks if they don’t have a good education, yadda yadda.

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Unfortunately, the PowerPoint presentation stopped working after the first few slides, which was a shame since the slides were very informative and gave background information on the enormity of the problem we face. I showed the Concord Coalition’s documentary film I.O.U.S.A. at City Hall in May 2009 to show parallels with our own budget in San Jose.

The presenters shared some eyeopening items on Friday. One was that there is no Social Security trust fund. No money stashed away in a “lockbox” to pay obligations. Instead, there is a file cabinet in Virginia with a long list of IOUs, since the government has the spent the money.

This year Social Security is paying out more in benefits then it takes in.

Another revelation was that this year we will spend $202 billion just on interest on the national debt, which is more than the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. By 2019, nearly all federal revenue will go to paying interest on the national debt and entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, leaving a sliver for military,

food safety, science, etc. Not mentioned was the sleeping giant of $3 to $5 trillion in unfunded pensions from local and state governments nationally.

One may hope the federal government will bail out state and local governments from their pension obligations; however, it would require borrowing even more debt from foreign countries or raising income taxes to benefit one group in society instead of other priorities Americans may have. The more the United States borrows from other countries, the more it limits our liberty, as you must be nice to your lenders (foreign governments) even if they are wrong.

Whatever level of government, hard decisions must be made or citizens will feel the consequences of punting. When asked, “How we solve this problem?” Fiscal Solutions’ David Walker said: “It depends if elected officials are willing to risk their jobs. . . . Elected officials don’t get reelected by raising taxes and cutting spending. Instead they get re-elected for not raising taxes and increasing spending.” —Pierluigi Oliverio

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Proposed Ordinance for Increase Increase in Compensation of Directors Dirrectors Ap public hearing g is called and will be held heeld in the chambers of the Board of Directors Directors at 5700 5 Expresswayy, Headquarters Headqua arters Building, San Jose, Califor o Almaden Expressway, California, nia, on Oct tober 12, 2010, at 6:10 p.m. concerning concerning n the following: October PRO OPOSED ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR FO OR INCREASE IN COMPENSATION COMPENSA ATTION OF O PROPOSED DIR RECTORS OF SANTA SANTTA CLARA V ALLEY A W ATER T DISTRICT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER CHAP PTER 2, DIRECTORS VALLEY WATER DIV VISION 10, CALIFORNIA WATER WATER T CODE COD DE AND FOR PUBLIC HEARING THEREON THEREEON DIVISION Thee Board of Directors of Santa Clara Valley Va alley Water Water a District does ORDAIN as follows: FIR RST: This ordinance is adopted pursua ant to Chapter 2, Division 10, FIRST: pursuant Sec ction 20200, and following of the California California Water Water a Code.

Section SEC COND: For each h calendar l d year ffollow ll wing the h effective efffective f d date off this h ordinan d nce, SECOND: following ordinance, the current compensation of two hundred d sixty dollars and three cents ($260.03) ($260.0 03) perr day provided to each District Board member for each day’s day’s attendance att Board mee etings, or for each day’s day’’s service ser vice rende ered as a member of the Board by request req quest meetings, rendered of tthe he Board, is increased by an amount equal to ten (10) percent, for a total of o o hundred eighty-six dollars and threee cents ($286.03), commencing on two Jan uar y 1, 2011.

January Thee increase is in accordance with the California California W ater a Code Section 20202 which Water auth horizes the Board to increase compensation compen nsation up to five (5) percent for each authorizes cale endar year following the last increasee adopted by ordinance. The last increase increease calendar ado opted by Ordinance 08-02 for calendar calend dar year 2009 represented an amount amount equal adopted to te en (10) percent over o er the 2007 compensation, compeensation, ensation five fi e (5) percent for 2008 calendar calendar ten yea ar and five (5) percent for 2009 calendar calendar year. year. year THI IRD: This ordinance shall not be deem med to authorize compensation for mo ore than THIRD: deemed more a to otal of ten (10) days in any calendar month. m total FO OURTH: This ordinance shall become effective effective not less than 60 days from the th he date FOURTH: of itits ts final passage, which final passage must follow a public hearing thereon..

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Not that everybody believed it at the time.

“Someone called me and asked, ‘Is Joe Sib there?’ My dad’s like, ‘Excuse me? Joe Sib?’ I told him, ‘They gave me, I guess, a nickname.’ He said, ‘Oh, don’t worry about it; those never stick.’

“Here I am, I’m a 43-year-old man, and there’s a beautiful Italian name gone forever, at the wave of a hand of a guy with a skinhead.”

Sib, who’s telling this story by phone on the way to his office in Los Angeles, pauses—which, by the way, he almost never does.

“That right there,” he says, “is what California Calling is about.”

Hot Wax

California Calling, which comes to the Improv in San Jose on Oct. 7, is Sib’s one-man, spoken-word show about

growing up in the South Bay’s nowlegendary ’80s skate-punk scene.

Sib is a Hollywood success story, now best known as the founder of Sideonedummy Records, to which he has signed popular bands like the Gaslight Anthem, Gogol Bordello, 7 Seconds, Anti Flag and Flogging Molly.

Before that, Sib was the lead singer of Wax, a post-Pixies alt-band that found cult fame with the video for its single “California.” Directed by an up-and-coming Spike Jonze—and later banned from daytime airplay

by MTV—it featured a man on fire running through the streets in slowmotion, in one continuous cut, for the length of the song.

The band had met Jonze skateboarding, and another video he

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But before that, Sib was just one more alienated 1980s suburban child of divorce who found salvation through punk rock. He grew up in a South Bay melting pot of skating and punk rock that remains one of the great undocumented undergrounds. Although it has long been recognized within the skating world, it’s only barely begun to get attention in the mainstream in the last few years. While the punk scenes in Los Angeles, Orange County, New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere have all had books and movies dedicated to them, Sib’s touring show has been the first that most of his audience has ever heard of San Jose’s counterculture.

“The thing that was unique about San Jose was you had two influences in California culture hitting each other at the same time,” Sib explains. “You had one of the best skateboarders in the world,

Steve Caballero—he’s living in your backyard. He has a ramp. Every pro skateboarder from here to New York City is coming to visit him. You see Lance Mountain there. You see Stacy Peralta. When you’re living in it, you don’t think about it. But when I talk to other people about ‘Yeah, I grew up skating with Steve Caballero, saw Lance Mountain, saw Neil Blender, saw Chris Miller, Corey O’Brien,’ people don’t believe it. Cause that’s not happening in their hometown.”

Then there was the punk scene, mostly driven by the skaters themselves. The “supergroup” at the time was the Faction, featuring Caballero on guitar, with Gavin O’Brien handling lead vocals and Ray Stevens II on bass. The Faction was featured on the first skate-punk compilation, compiled by Thrasher magazine, along with another of Stevens’ bands, Los Olvidados. At the time that Sib arrived in San Jose, the Faction had just formed, but Los Olvidados had already been part of the South Bay’s first official punk riot, opening for Black Flag at De Anza College in 1981.

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Local skaters had access to the most famous punk bands from around the country, too.

“Every band at least played San Francisco, so we were able to see all of those bands. And guys like Corey O’Brien and Gavin O’Brien were also talking to those bands and bringing them to town. So it really was a unique situation,” Sib says.

Stage Dive In a way, Sib had been working up to California Calling for most of the decade as the host of the punk-rock show Complete Control on L.A.’s KYSRFM, mixing his own stories in with the music. But the idea began to come together last year.

“I was in the parking lot at SideOneDummy, I was with a band, we were just hanging out, and one of the guys said to me, ‘Man, I love your stories. I wish you could come on the road with us.’ They were driving to Portland and they had like 12 hours to kill,” Sib recalls. “He said, ‘You should put your stories on a CD for us.’”

Most people would laugh off the suggestion as a joke, but not Sib. Instead, he wrote down 10 to 15 of what he considered his best stories and actually did put four of those on a CD. After a while, the CD got

passed around, and he started getting questions about it: Did he have more stories? Was he ever going to tell them live?

Once he got the idea for the show—mixing in projected photographs of skaters and punk rockers with the stories he wanted to tell about them, blending his love of punk music with his personal story—Sib knew his new project would be met with some very specific preconceived notions.

“When you think of spoken word and punk rock, there’s two guys who come to mind: Henry Rollins and Jello [Biafra],” he says. “My show is nothing like theirs, nor would I ever try to do anything like that.

Because both of those guys are (a) way smarter than I am, and (b) they’re icons. They’re legends! Jello and Henry, they’ve made an impact on my life with their music, and with their spoken word on top of it.

I’m coming from the point of view of a kid who just happened to be at the right place at the right time when punk rock hit the suburbs of California.”

As Sib started to consider what stories to include in the show, he went back further and further, until he landed on one specific date—and Sib

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I remember fewer parents that were together than parents that weren’t together.”

If Westmont High was where Sib got his new name, Winchester Skate Park, two years earlier, was where he got his new identity.

“My dad walked me in. I was scared shitless. I had a bowl haircut.

A turtleneck sweater on. I was as far from being cool as you possibly can be, even farther.”

Finding a spot to hide out by himself, Sib saw for the first time the kind of skateboarding he’d only seen

in magazines up to that point. And he heard the first punk song of his life, the Buzzcocks’ “Hollow Inside.”

At that moment, he went from being a 13-year-old into FM radio and magic to something entirely different.

“That really began everything,” he says, “because from that moment on, all I wanted to do was skateboard and find out more about punk rock.

Whether it was the Sex Pistols, or the Clash, or the Ramones. All the bigger bands. Then when I found out as I continued in that scene that there were bands in San Jose, like Executioner and Los Olvidados and Ribsy, it was like, ‘Wow, these guys, the Faction, this is their band? How do they do it?’”

Sib’s obsession with starting a band only got deeper. When the SoCal-punk documentary Another State of Mind came out in 1984, he and his friends went to the Camera 3 in San Jose to see it. As far as punk films go, it’s even more depressing than Penelope Spheeris’ Decline of Western Civilization—at least the end, where the Social Distortion/Youth Brigade tour that the crew has been following for the whole film spirals into disaster. They leave their bus on the East Coast, Youth Brigade hitching a ride with the filmmakers, and Social D frontman Mike Ness flying back to California, his band broken up.

“When I walked out of that theater, all my friends were like, ‘Man, I never want to do that, what a nightmare.’ When I walked out, I was like, ‘I can’t wait to fucking do that. I cannot wait to push the broken-down van. I cannot wait to dye my hair in a bathroom in Omaha. I cannot wait not to get paid when we play Milwaukee. I can’t wait to go on the road. I can’t wait to get kicked out of my first band.”

Sib would have to wait until 1990, when he got the boot from Front-Line, a San Jose band that in its time played with the Faction, Ribsy and Frontier Wives. Ironically, even though his next band, Wax, got together after he had moved to L.A., he got kicked out of it in San Jose, too, on Aug. 9, 1995 (again, Sib’s eerie memory for details and dates). Wax

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does have an incredible mind for dates.

“That one day was Dec. 27, 1981, when my father took me to Winchester Skate Park in Campbell,” he says. “At that point, my parents were separated I was living with my mom during the week and visiting my dad on the weekends.

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reunited last year and even returned to play San Jose.

SJ All the Way Though Sib has already performed the show in Los Angeles (including a five-month residency at Largo where he developed it), New York City, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and elsewhere, this is his first time bringing it to the South Bay, and he admits he has no clue what the reaction will be.

Blank Club co-owner Corey O’Brien is one of the skaters Sib looked up to back in the day. There’s even a photograph of him in the show. O’Brien caught California Calling at the Punchline in San Francisco earlier this year and describes it as a mix of standup and spoken word.

“It was cool, ’cause it was one of my friends up onstage, telling stories from when we were kids,” O’Brien says. “He’s kind of a bigwig in Hollywood now, but he hasn’t forgotten his roots, which a lot of people do. He’s San Jose all the way.”

O’Brien says he had absolutely no idea what to expect. “He’d been

telling me about it for a while,” he says. “I thought he was crazy.”

Another of the skate-punk legends from Sib’s day, Ray Stevens II, hasn’t seen the show yet but plans to go.

Stevens remembers Sib’s energy.

“Even then he was a superfan,” says Stevens. “I used to call him the punk rock cheerleader. He has a way of getting people excited.”

That may be exactly the quality that the San Jose skatepunk story needs.

“What Joe’s doing is cool,” says Stevens. “No one else is going to do it.”

Nailing It What gives Sib such a mind for dates and details? Two words, he says: obsessive compulsive.

“Before I fly, I have to touch the outside of the plane,” he says. “About a year ago, I was on a plane, and I forgot to touch the outside. They were getting ready to shut the door, and I looked at the stewardess, and I said the wrong thing. I said, ‘Look, I don’t want to freak you out—but check this out. I’m not a weirdo, I just need to step outside for one second and touch the outside of the plane. I’ve been doing it my whole

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“I love those stories, but the thing that’s been exciting and more than I could have expected is to have people come up and tell me their story. Like, ‘When you talk about moving in with your dad, I went through the same thing.’ Or one was ‘I told my sister to come to your show because we both moved in with my dad when we were 15, and everything you said about what it was like going from mom’s house to dad’s house, you nailed it.’”

He’s also inspired some bizarre audience interactivity, like in Portland where a woman in the audience, in the middle of one of his stories, started talking about one time she saw Bad Religion.

“When you’re talking about music—whether it’s metal, rock & roll, classical—people will get passionate about it. I’ve seen it firsthand,” Sib says. “This woman just started talking over me, and I’m on a PA! I just said, hey, why don’t you come up here right now and tell that story. I want to hear that story.”

And even in a sea of stories about the Clash, the Ramones, the Faction and Social Unrest, isn’t that the most punk rock thing of all?

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life. She looked at me, then she looked at the guy I was flying with and she said, ‘Not a problem.’ Later on, we were halfway to New York, and she said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ve had crazier requests than that.’”

California Calling allows Sib to channel that obsessiveness into art, much like his music has over the years. There’s a lot of music in the show, too, although not always what you would expect.

“It runs the gamut from ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ to ‘Nervous Breakdown’ by Black Flag. If there’s one thing I try to get across, it’s not so much about punk rock, it’s really about growing up.

It’s about that moment that you stop being influenced musically, politically, religiously by your parents, and you start stepping out on your own. The soundtrack just happens to be punk rock.”

His sense that this is something bigger than just a story about skateboarders and punk rock has grown as he gets feedback from people in different cities.

“You get a lot of people who go, ‘You gotta tell that Ramones story, that’s insane’ or ‘Tell me the Social Distortion story again,’” he says.

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CCAPERS APERS W Well-heeled ell-heeled sport sportss bar and restaurant. restaurant. $$$.

Capers Capers is a sophisticated restaurant restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Well-devised Well-devised menu full of inventive recipes recipes and delicious finger foods. foods.

11am-10:30pm 11am-10:30pm Mon-Thu, Mon--Thu, T 11am-midnight Fri-Sat and 9:30am-10:30pm 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. W. Campbell Campbell Ave. Ave. 408.374.5777.

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LLA AP PIZZERIA IZZERIA Italian. $$.

La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand onn the strength strength of a few few highquality ingredients, ingredients, expertlyy prepared. prepared. ed Open for for lunch and annd dinner daily. daily. 11am-10pm 11am-10pm SunSunTue, Tuue, 11am-11pm 11am-11pm Wed, Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Campbell Ave. Ave. 408.370.0826.

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MICHI M ICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi standards aree tr transformed standar ds ar ansformed into palate-awakening presentations; pr esentations; culinary aree str stretched. boundaries ar etched.

11am-10pm daily.

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NEGEEN N EGEEN PPersian. ersian. $$. Mir Miraa puréed ghasemi, grilled and pur éedd eggplant in a tomato saucee scrambled with scr ambled eggs, and puréed kashk-e-bademjan, pur éed eggplant topped with mint creamy and a cr eamy yogurt sauce,, aree gr great, aree the kebabs kebabs. ar eat, as ar s.

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OLIO O LIO Mediter Mediterranean. ranean. serves $$$. Olio ser ves simple prepared but expertly pr epared Mediterranean Mediter ranean ffood ood that underexplored dips into the under exploredd cuisines of North Africa.

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Dinner 5-9pm 5-9pm Sun-Thu Sun--Thu T and 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 384 E. Campbell Campbell Ave. Ave. 408.378.0335.

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PSYCHO P SYCHO D DONUTS ONUTS Donuts. $. Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory ter ritory with flavors like apricot, the Cookie Monster Oreos) (topped with Or eos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits wafers) of vanilla waf ers) and the intimidating Psycho Donut, a maelstrom marshmallow, maelstr om of marshmallow w, pretzel pr etzel and chile powder. powder.

Mon-Thu, 6am-5pm Mon-TThu, 6am7am-11pm 11pm Fri, 7am11pm Sat, 7am5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester 408.378.4540.

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RUSSIAN R USSIAN CCAFÉ AFÉ A AND ND D DELI ELI Russian. $$. This is a small Russian grocery grocery store store with a goodd little littl restaurant restaur t antt tucked in the corner. corner.

Borscht soup, pelmeni and solyankya solyankya sbornaya, a thick soup studded with chunks chunks of mild pork sausage, black olives, pickles and barley all satisfy. satisfy. 11am-8pm daily. daily.

1712 S. Winchester Blvd.

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SSUSHI USHI ZO ZONE NE Japanese. $$. Fun sushi meets fun surroundings sur roundings in this zone. zone 11:30am-2:30pm 11:30am2:30pm and 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu 59:30pm Sun-Thu T and 11:30am-2:30pm 5-10pm 10pm 11:30am2:30pm and 5Fri-Sat. 75 S. San TTomas oomas 408.866.1323.

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TIGELLERIA T IGELLERIA. Italian. $$.

TTigelleria’s igelleria’s menu centers on fine cheeses and Italian paired salumi pair ed with tigelle, free-flowing, fr ee-flowing, piping hot flat-breads flat-br eads the size of mini bread pitas The br pitas. ead fforms orms the addictive heart of the meal.

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ALDO’S A LDO’S IItalian. talian. $$$. $$$. A w warm arm and and engaging engaging atmosphere atmosphere sets sets the the scene scene for for fullfullbodied flavors bodied fl avors aand nd hhealthy ealthy ingredients. ingredients. 11:30am-2:30pm 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, Mon-Fri, 5-9pm 5-9pm Thu, Thu, 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri-Sat. Fri-Sat. 14109 14109 Winchester Winchester Blvd.

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Everybody is jumping on the lunchwagon bandwagon now.

Refurbished commissary trucks can now be found peddling desserts, grilled-cheese sandwiches, Korean and Mexican food, Cajun cuisine, Filipino fare and more. But with the rise in popularity of these rolling restaurants, and the increasing variety of food being served, it’s easy to look past the earliest incarnation of the vehicle: the taco truck.

Taco trucks were the inspiration for many of today’s more upscale mobile-food vendors. Give me a couple of good $1 al pastor tacos and an horchata, and I’m a happy man. But while I do love my taco trucks, variety is nice too. That’s why San Jose’s Puerto Escondido taco truck is such a find.

The sparkly clean truck is parked on Keyes Street in front of the California Car Wash near the corner of South Ninth Street. There are two stools in front for eating at the truck’s counter. The truck serves typical taco truck fare like tacos, quesadillas and burritos, but what sets it apart is its specialties from Puebla and Mexico City.

The star of the show is the cemita poblana. A cemita is a tortalike sandwich, but it’s made with a special sesame seed roll that looks like a hamburger bun. Unlike a normal hamburger bun though, it is much sturdier, like French bread.

Between that bread diners can have a choice of a thin cutlet of fried chicken or lightly breaded and fried beef. The meat shares space with avocado, melted queso fresco, tomatoes and fresh jalapeños.

A swipe of mayo would have made the sandwich even better, but as it is, it’s a pretty satisfying lunch. The friendly lady in the truck says they are the only source for the sandwich in San Jose. I haven’t found evidence to the contrary.

The other seldom-seen dishes here are the mulitas, another specialty from the state of Puebla. What you get here is a quesadilla made with flour tortillas stuffed with the meat of your choice—and more of that stringy queso fresco and grilled onions. The puréed avocado salsa served with it is great, too.

Puerto Escondido also serves a few Mexico City street food classics like alambres and fortachon. An alambre is sort of like a fajita: onions, bell peppers, meat and bacon scattered onto a hot griddle and then shoveled onto a flour tortilla with cheese. A fortachon, which is a new one for me, is similar but made with chorizo instead of beef or chicken and with the addition of mushrooms.

The one item that I found to be less than good was the carne asada taco. Just because it’s a taco truck, that doesn’t mean that the basics are going to be top-notch. —Stett Holbrook

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Dio Deka is doing its part to elevate Greek Greek food food in Silicon Valley.

Valley. There’s There’s much to recommend recommend at this handsome restaurant. restaurant. Mostt starters are they’ree are large large so they’r best shared. shared. 5:30-10pm 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, Mon--TThu, 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm 5-9pm Sun. 210 E. Main SSt. t.

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FFLEUR LEUR D DEE CCOCOA OCOA French French bakery.. $$. Almond cr croissant. bakery oissannt. croissant.

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Gatos’’ Fleur cr oissant. LLos os Gatos de Cocoa is rightly known confections ffor or its chocolate conf ections stopp and pastries, but I can’t can’t sto thinking about the little pastry shop’s shop’s spectacular almond croissants. croissants. There’s There’s plenty l t off other th goodd stuff t ff and not all of it sweet, like croque the cr oque monsieur and the quiche. 7:30am-6pm TTue-Sat uue-Sat and 8am-4pm Ave. Sun. 39 N. Santa Cruz A ve.

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STEAKHOUSE $$$$. When Metro Metro first checked in with Forbes Mill in 2003, it was called “a “a big, bigg, burly brasserie brasserie equipped with wiith style as well as substance.”

It’s It’s holding up well and still does things in a big way. way.

Dinner 5-9pm 5-9pm Sun-Thu, Sun--Thu, T 510pm Fri-Sat. 206 N. Santa Cruz Ave. Ave. 408.395.6434.

GGREEN REEN P PAPAYA APAYA Vietnames Vietnamese. se. $$. California California cuisine meetss Southeast Asia Asia by way of Paris, updatees Paris, with inventive updates of clay pot and five-spice authentica. authentica 11am- 3pm, 3pm 5-9:30pm 5-9:30pm Tue-Sun..

Tuue-Sun.. Beer, Beer, wine. 137 N. Santa Cruz Ave. Ave. 408.395.9115.

I GGATTI ATTI New Italian. $$$.

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KAMAKURA SSUSHI KAMAKURA USHI A AND ND SSAKE AKE H HOUSE OUSE Sushi bar classics. $$. In a smart showcases setting, KKamakura amakura showcas es procession a pr ocession of impeccable sushi and sashimi platters.

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LLOS OS GGATOS ATOS B BREWING REWING CCO. O. Brewpub.

Brewpub. $$$. Most brewpubs brewpubs seem to be cooking from from the same menu, but executive chef Jim Stump Stump has created created a diverse menu of upscale comfort comfort food food that goes well beyond burgers burgers and grilled-chicken sandwiches. sandwiches The handsome woodaccented interior and open kitchen with its wood-fired wood-fired pizza oven and rotisserie rotisserie grill add to the rrestaurant’s estaurant’s appeal. Breakfast Breakfast 10am-2pm 10am-2pm Sat-Sun, lunch 11:30am-3pm 11:30am-3pm and dinner 5pm to 9pm daily. daily. 130 N. Santa Cruz Ave. Ave. 408.395.9929.

MAIN M AIN SSTREET TREET BURGERS BURGERS Burgers.

Burgers. $. Main Street Street Burgers Burgers offers offers fast fast food food convenience, affordable affordable prices and food food made with ingredients ingredients that are are higher quality and mor moree heal healthful thful than what you’d find at the golden arches. arches. 11am-8:30pm Mon-Thu, Mon--Thu, T 9am-9pm 9am-9pm Fri-Sat, 9am-8:30pm Sun. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. Ave. 408.354.1881.

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MANRESA M ANRESA High concept.

Drawing from produce oduce $$$$. Dr awingg fr om ppr grown gr own at his own ffarm, arm, superstar chef David Kinch is trail blazing a tr ail of high caliber that’s cuisine that ’s as daring as it is delicious. Expensive but worth it. 320 Village Lane.

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NICK’S N ICK’S O ON NM MAIN AIN American. $$$. Nick’s on Main is a relaxed relaxed but elegant bistro bistro full of neighborly charm and is a showcase for for owner Nick Difu’s decadent and deeply satisfying style of cooking.

11:30am-3pm 11:30am-3pm and 5-9:30pm 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 35 E. Main St. Tue-Sat. u St. 408.399.6457.

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PASTARIA P ASTARIA & M MARKET ARKET Italian. $$. Pastaria Pastaria offers offers reasonably reasonably priced comfort comfort food food in an unpretentious unpretentious but lively atmosphere. atmosphere. 5-9:30pm 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, Mon--Thu, T 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri-Sat and 5-10pm 5-10pm Sun. 49 E. Main St. St. 408.399.3477.

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TAPESTRY T APESTRY CContemporary ontemporary haute. haute. $$$. $$$. Right Right on on the the main main street, street, this this cottagelike cottagelike spot spot blends blends traditional traditional French French cooking cooking with with contemporary contemporary fusion: fusion: filet filet mignon mignon with with Mongolian-style Mongolian-style brown brown sauce; sauce; crayfish crayfish chow chow mein. mein. Elegant Elegant and and friendly. friendly. 11:30am-2pm, 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-9pm 5:30-9pm Sun-Thu, Sun-Thu, 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri-Sat. Fri-Sat. 11 11 College College Ave. Ave. 408.395.2808.

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

Italian. $$$. $$$.

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California Theatre, California Th heatre, San Jose Thu – 7:30pm, 7:30pm, Sat – 8pm, Sun – 2:30pm; 2:30pm; $39-$75 TThe he ssymphony ymphony oopens pens iits ts ffall all sseason eason with w ith ““Romance Romance & CCelebration,” elebration,” a pprogram rogram of of works works by

by Schumann, Schumann, Beethoven Mahler, B eethoven aand nd M ahler, aallll iin n tthe he ccapable apable hhands ands ooff eemeritus meritus George Baritone cconductor onductor G eorge CCleve. leve. B aritone Nathan Gunn N athan G unn iiss tthe he gguest uest ssoloist oloist ffor or Mahler’s M ahler ’s aaching ching SSongs ongs of of a W Wayfarer ayfarer.

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SoFA District, SoFA Disttrict, San Jose evening; Fri all eve ening; free free With forr aart W ith bbarely areely ttime ime fo rt llovers overs ttoo ccatch atch ttheir heir bbreath reath aafter fter tthe he bblitz litz of of 01SJ, 01SJ, here here comes comes aanother nother with eedition dition ooff SSouth outh FFirst irst FFriday, riday, w ith nnew ew sshows hows oopening pening up up aand nd ddown own Street.

Anno Domini SSouth outh FFirst irst St reet. A nno D omini welcomes w elcomes ggraffiti raffiti sspecialist pecialist MOMO, who M OMO, w ho eexpands xpands tthe he ggenre enre with more w ith ttagging agging events events tthat hat aare re m ore llike ike pperformance erfoormance aart. rt. JJennifer ennifer

Norton food flower N orton ddisplays isplays fo od aand nd fl ower Caffe ppaintings aintings aatt Ca ffe TTrieste, rieste, aand nd will llocal ocal oopera pera ssingers ingers w ill pperform erform aarias rias dduring uring tthe he eevening. vening.

MACLA M ACLA ssupplements upplements iits ts ccurrent urrent New Modes sshow, how, ““Lineas: Lineas: N ew M odes ooff Urbanism,” with CContemporary ontemporary U rbanism,” w ith pperformances erformances bbyy hhip-hip ip-hip ccomic omic D’Lo D ’Lo aand nd tthe he YYouth outh SSlam lam TTeam. eam.

Museum Quilts TThe he M useum ooff Q uilts & Textiles Textiles sshows hows ooff ff ffuturistic uturistic ttextile extile ccreations reations uusing sing hhigh-tech igh-tech iideas. deas.

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MAURICIO M AURICIO ‘‘EL EL HUESO’ HUESO’ DIAZ DIAZ Cafffe T Caffe Trieste, rrieste, San Jose free Satt – 8pm; fr ee Mauricio Ma uricio Diaz is a Mexican singer/ songwriter son ngwriter acclaimed ffor or fusing together tog gether styles as varied as rrock, ock, CCuban ubban son (which blends Spanish andd African styles), styles) the son Jarocho Jar rocho (a Mexican version that came Veracruz), cam me out of V eracruz), rrap, ap, bossa nova, Brazilian nov va, blues, Br azilian and classical guitar. gui tar. Right, so what does it actually act ually sound like? Duh, it sounds freelikee ffolk olk music. Diaz’s poetic, fr eeflowing brand inspired flow wing br and of it has inspir ed a around ffollowing ollowing ar ound the world, and

oncerts * cconcerts Sep 29 at VooDoo VoooDoo LLounge, ounge, San Jose

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PREACHING P REACHING TO T THE HE A ANIMALS, N I M A LS , T TOUCH OUCH M MY YR RASH AS H Oct 1 at a Johnny V V’s, ’s, San Jose

THE T HE SINATRA SINATRA SSHOW HOW W WITH ITH JJOHN OHN M MICHAEL ICHAEL A AND ND ESS ESSENCE ENCE Oct 1 at 8pm, Maggiano’s Maggiano’ss Little Italy Italy, y, Santana Row

TIM T IM LLEE, EE, SCIENTIST SCIENTIST TURNED TURNED CCOMEDIAN OMEDIAN Oct 1–2 1–2 at 8pm, Theatr Theatree on San P edro Squar Pedro Squaree

POWDER P OWDER TRAIN TRAIN Oct 2 at South First Billiar Billiards, ds, San Jose

WANDA W ANDA SYKES SYKES Oct 2 at 8pm, 8 Mountain Winery

DIRTY D IRTY O ODD DD SEVEN SEVEN Oct 1 at a 9pm, the Blank Club, Clu ub, San Jose ose

EENIGMA, NIGMA, R ROMEO OMEO R REYES EYES Oct 1 at W Wet, e San et, an Jose J

EEMERSON MERSON SSTRING TRING QUARTET QUARTET Oct 3 at 4pm, Menlo-Atherton M Menlo-A therton rto Center ffor or Performing Performing A Arts

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CCHEAP HEAP TRICK TRICK Oct c 8 at 7:30 ct 7:30pm, 0pm, Mountain Winery Wineery e

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DAVID D AVID A ALLAN LLAN COE COE VooDoo LLounge, VooDoo ounge, San Josee Sun – 9pm; $14 He’s H e’s ccontroversial, ontroversial, ttireless ireless world aand nd aan n eenigma nigma iin n tthe he w orld ooff music—David Allan ccountry ountry m usic—David A llan CCoe oe iis, s, ssimply imply pput, ut, a llittle ittle bbit it wacky. forgive forr w acky. But But we’ll we’ll fo rgive hhim im fo hhis is sseemingly, eemingly, uummm, mmm, ppolitically olitically releases mid-‘70s, iincorrect ncorrect re leases iin n tthe he m id-‘70s, bbecause ecause the the singer/songwriter singer/songwriter aalso lso penned penned some some of of the the greatest greatest

material m aterial eever ver pproduced roduced bbyy a ccountry ountry aartist. rtist. 11977’s 977’s ““Take Take TThis his JJob ob aand nd SShove hove IIt” t” recorded record r ed by by Paycheck JJohnny ohnny P aycheck aand nd tthe he eentirety ntirety ooff CCoe’s oe’s 11987 987 aalbum lbum A M Matter atter ooff Death LLife ife aand nd D eath aare re aamong mong his his best best works. works. Although Although Coe’s Coe’s career career has has ggone one tthrough hrough iinnumerable nnumerable peaks peaks and and vvalleys alleys ((he he oonce nce llived ived in in a cave cave after after the the IRS IRS possessed possessed his his home), home), the the renegade renegade outlaw outlaw continues continues to to showcase showcase a moremorethan-colorful than-colorful repertoire. repertoire. The The Shitkickers Shitkickers open. open. (GW) (GW)

SHANGHAI SHANGHAI SSTRING TRING QUARTET Q UA RT E T Le P Petit etit T Trianon, rianon, r San Jo Jose ose Sun – 7pm; $30-$42 wealth TThis his yyear ear hhas as sseen een a w ealth of of SShanghai-related hanghai-related events events and and

Bay Area. eexhibits xhibits iin n tthe he B ay A rea. TThe he SSan an Music JJose ose CChamber hamber M usic SSociety ociety jjoins oins tthe he ccultural ultural whirl, whirl, presenting pre r senting a String cconcert oncert bbyy tthe he SShanghai hanghai St ring Quartet.

Q uartet. TThe he eesteemed steemed ggroup, roup, first aamong mong tthe he fi rst iin n CChina hina ttoo ttake ake Western forms uupp W estern cclassical lassical fo rms aafter fter tthe he CCultural ultural Revolution, Revolution, will will pperform erform a pprogram rogram eexploring xploring form ccomposers omposers fo rm bboth oth ssides ides ooff tthe he Penderecki’s EEast-West ast-West sspectrum: pectrum: P enderecki’s String Quartet St ring Q uartet nno. o. 33,, ZZhou hou LLong’s ong’s SSong ong of of the the Ch’in Ch’in aand nd selections selections from from Yi Yi Wen Wen Jiang’s Jiang’s CChinaSong hinaSong.

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Streetlight Records, Streetlight Records, San Jose Tue T u ue – 5pm; free free It’s What is an ort? It t’s a scrap scrap or morsel of food food left left at a meal. I didn’t guess the Angry Crumbs C didn’t the sound very cool. Hence, H maybe it’s Angry Orts. Or ma aybe it ’s what the natives call one one another in Portland, wheree they’re P ortland wher ortland, they hey’rre from? from? know, what’s I don’t don’t know w, but what ’s even stranger str anger about their thheir name is that these orts aren’t aren’t angry; quite the opposite. Heavily influenced by the YYeah eah YYeah eah YYeahs, eahs, their sound is a mixturee of soft indie mixtur inndie rock rock with just enough edge. (BD) (BD D)

ALICE A LICE IN IN CHAINS CHAINS Oct 11 at 7pm, 7 SSJSU JSU Eventt Cen Center en er enter

MICHAEL M ICHAEL M MOORE OORE SSPEAKS PEAKS AT AT SSTEINBECK TEINBECK A AWARD WARD CCEREMONY EREMONY Oct 14 at 7p 7pm, pm, SSJSU J Mor JSU Morris ris Dailey ley Auditorium Auditori Auditoriu uudi di uum

MAKE M AKE A D DIFFERENCE IFFERENCE T TOUR: OUR: M AX LLUCADO, UCADO, T HIRD D AY, MAX THIRD DAY, T OBY M AC TOBY MAC 144, HP Oct 14, HP Pavilion, Pavilion, Sann Jose J Jos

JJOAN OAN SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN Oct 17 at 5pm 5pm, m, H HP PP Pavilion, avilion,, San Sa Jo Jose ose

BRIDE B RIDE SSCHOOL CHOOL B BENEFIT ENEFIT Oct 23-24 23-24 at Sh Shoreline horeline e e

LLADY ADY A ANTEBELLUM NTEBELLUM Oct 29 at 7:30pm, 7:30pm, SJSU SJSU Event Eve Center ent

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The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention Oct. 1–July 3; San Jose Museum of Art Ruth Bernhard’s 1930 gelatin silver print Lifesavers demonstrates how a great photograph can transform everyday moments into timeless images. Her piece shows as part of a new exhibit of early-20thcentury modernist photographs taken from the museum’s permanent collection. Some of the other photographers represented include Walker Evans, André Kertész, Weegee and Peter Stackpole.

ICA Annual Art Exhibition and Auction Oct. 1–23; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art This year marks the ICA’s 30th, which makes the Annual Art Exhibition and Auction event even more telling than usual. For three decades, the ICA has devoted itself to looking forward and capturing the essence of contemporary creativity in our area.

The annual show draws on the works of scores and scores of local arts in all mediums. After a month of display, the pieces go up for sale at a reception and auction on Oct. 23. Among the pieces is the very witty Art Forum collage cover by Francesca Pastine poking fun at the art-world excesses of Damien Hirst.

Great Glass Pumpkin Patch Through Oct. 1, sale Oct. 2–3; Palo Alto Art Center The bounty of the season comes from the fields and from the fertile imaginations of local glass artists who have created hundreds of beautiful multihued glass pumpkins for this annual fall event sponsored by the Bay Area Glass Institute. All the creations can be viewed through Friday, and then they go on sale this weekend, 10am–5pm. There will also be a cocktail reception and presale on Friday, 5:30–7:30pm at the center.

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ANGELS AN GELS IIN NA AMERICA, MERICA, P ART ON PART ONEE Pear A Pear Avenue venue mounts its version of TTony oony KKushner’s ushner ’s epic. ((Runs Runs in rrep ep with ““Our Ourr TTown.”) oown.”) TThis his W Week: eek: Fri, 8pm 8pm,, SSun, un, 2pm. R uns thru O ct 16.

Runs Oct $15-$30. P ear A venue TTheatre, heaatre, Pear Avenue M ountain V iew.

Mountain View.

Friday–Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm, runs through Oct. 24; The Retro Dome, San Jose; $24–$36 The Retro Dome, which just nabbed a Readers’ Pick award for small theater company in our Best Of balloting, shows off its talents with a production of the beloved long-running romantic musical The Fantasticks. This fable of love stars opera singer Stephen Guggenheim.

THEE MUS TH MUSIC IC M MAN AN Meredith Willson’s Meredith Willson’s hit musical about a con man and a marching small-town mar ching band presented Bay is pr esented by SSouth outh B ay Musical M usical TTheatre. heatre. Fri-Sat, Fri-Sat, 8pm, SSun, un, 2:30pm. Runs Runs through through Oct Oct 16. $15 and up. Saratoga Saratoga Civic Civic TTheatre. heatre.

OUR O UR T TOWN OW N

TTales aales of the M Mexican exican rrevolution evolution

by LLuis uis V Valdez. aldez. TThu-Sat, hu-Sat, 8pm 8pm, m, SSun, un, 2pm. R Runs uns thru O Oct ct 17 17.

7. $8/$15. EEll TTeatro eeatro CCampesino, ampesinno, SSan an Juan Juan B autista.

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Thornton Wilder Thornton Wilder’s ’s look at small-town A America merica presented presented Pear Avenue

by P ear A venue (in repertory repertory with ““Angels Angels in A America, merica, Part Part One”).

O ne”). TThis his W Week: eek: TThu, hu, 8pm, SSat, at, 2pm. Runs Runs thru Oct Oct 17.

177. $15-$30. Pear Pear Avenue Avenue Theatre, Theatre, Mountain View.

M ountain V iew.

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An audience ffavorite An avorite about Retro Dome. l love comes to t the th R etr t o Dom D me.

Fri-Sat, FriSat, 8pm, SSun, un, 2pm. R Runs unns thru O Oct ct 224.

4. $2 $24-$36.

4-$36. R Retro etro Dome, SSan an JJose. ose.

San JJose San ose Stage Stage presents presents Neil rregional egional ppremiere remiere ooff N eil LLaBute’s aBute’s pplay lay aabout bout tthe he hhardships ardships of of love. love. SSep ep 29-Oct 29-Oct $20 224.

4. $ 20 aand nd uup. p. SSan an JJose ose SStage. tage.

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City LLights City ights opens its season n with Bill Bill Aronson’s Aronson’s new comedy about educational ffollies ollies in the suburbs. TThu-Sat, hu-Sat, 8pm, SSun, un, 2pm ((Oct Oct 10, 17 aand nd 224) 4) or 7pm ((Oct Oct 3). R Runs uns thr thru ru Oct O ct 224.

4. $25-$40. CCity ity LLights, ightss, SSan an Jose.

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A one-man show by hip-hop D’Lo. comedian D’ Lo. SSat, at, 8pm. $10.

MACLA, MA CLA, SSan an JJose. ose.

CCORRIDOS! ORRIDOS!

LA CAGE CAGE A AUX UX FOLLES FOLLES A fr frothy othy musical about parents meeting the par ents in all tthe he strangest Broadway str angest ways. B roadway by b Bay. the B ayy. TThis his week: TThu-Fri, hu-Fri, 8pm, SSat, at, 2 and 8pm, SSun, un, Runs through Oct $202pm. R uns thr ough O ct 3. $2 20Mateo Performing $48. SSan an M ateo P erforming Arts A rts CCenter. enter.

KILLER KI LLER JJOE OE The season ffor The or R Renegade enegade TTheatre heatre EExperiment xperiment begins with a dark comedy about murder mur der and double-dealingg 8pm.

by TTracy racy Letts.

Letts. TThu-Sat, hu-Sat, 8pm m.

Runs Oct $12-$28.

R uns thru O ct 2. $12 -$28.

Historic Hoover TTheater, heater, SSan ann JJose. ose.

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dance, are are presented presented by National N ational A Arts rts and Humanities Month.

M onth. Sun, Sun, 1:30pm. Free.

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Mountain M ountain View View Center Center for for the Performing P erforming Arts.

Arts.

A rromantic omantic comedy that seekss the balance between seek sane and insane, by JJohn ohn Presented KKolvenbach. olvenbach. P resented byy Dragon Productions.

Dr agon P roductions. Thu-Sat, Thu-Sat, a Runs Oct 8pm, SSun, un, 2pm. R uns thru O ct Dragon 3. $16-$25. Dr agon TTheatre, heatre,, Palo Alto.

P alo A lto.

A MULTICULTURAL MULLT TICULLTURAL CCELEBRATION ELEBRAT TION Various art forms, Various forms, includingg A frican music and Mexican Mexican African

SMO SMOKEY KEY JJOE’S OE’S CCAFE AFE A musical revue revue with songs by LLieber ieber and Stoller, Stoller, including ““Stand Stand byy Me” Me” and ““Poison Poison IIvy.” vyy..”

Barn production.

A Bus Bus B arn pr oduction. This This Wed, week: W ed, 7:30pm, TThu-Sat, hu-Sat, 8pm. Thru Thru Oct Oct 2. $24-$30. $24-$30. Bus Bus Barn Altos.

B arn TTheatre, heatre, LLos os A ltos.

SSWEENEY WEENEY T TODD ODD Sondheim by way of the Sondheim Players.

SSunnyvale unnyvale CCommunity ommunity P layers.

TThu, hu, 7:30pm, FriFri-Sat, Sat, 8pm, SSun, un, 2:30pm. R Runs uns thru O Oct ct 10. $10.50-$23.50. SSunnyvale unnyvale CCommunity ommunity TTheatre. heatre.

CComedy omedy CCOMEDYSPORTZ OMEDYSPORTZ An iinteractive An nteractive iimprovised mprovised ccomedy omedy sshow. how. Fri, Fri, 9 and and 111pm 1pm 9pm. $12/$15. aand nd SSat, at, 7 aand nd 9 pm. $ 12/$15.

CComedySportz, omedySportz, San San Jose.

Jose.

FFUNNYGIRLZ UNNYGIRLZ Women ccomedians Women omedians pperform, erform, iincluding ncluding SShazia hazia M irza and and Mirza Geduldig.

LLisa isa G eduldig. Fri, Fri, 8pm.

8pm. $25. $25.

LLucie ucie SStern tern TTheatre, heatre, P alo A l to.

Palo Alto.

ROOSTER RO OSTER T T.. FFEATHERS EATHERS Wed, 8pm: Wed, 8pm: N New ew Talent Talent SShowcase. howcase. $ $10.

10. Thu, Thu, 8pm, 8pm, FFri, ri, 9 9pm, pm, Sat, Sat, 8 and and 110:30pm, 0:30pm, Mark Pitta. $18.

SSun, un, 8pm: 8pm: M ark P itta. $ 18.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE IIMPROV MPROV Wed, 8 Wed, 8pm: pm: B Black lack & B Blue lue 8pm, CComedy. omedy. $5. $5. TThu, hu, 8 pm, FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, SSat, at, 7 and and 9pm, 9pm, Sun, Sun, 7pm: 7pm: Godfrey.

G odfrey. TTue, ue, 8pm: 8pm: SStandup tandup CCompetition. ompetition. $15. $15. San San Jose.

Jose.

THEATRE ON THEATRE ON SAN SAN PEDRO P E D RO SSQUARE QUARE Fri-Sat, 8pm: Fri-Sat, 8pm: SScientist cientist turned turned ccomedian omedian TTim im LLee. ee. $10/$22. $10/$22.

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Museums M u se u m s OPENING O PENING DEE SSAISSET D AISSET M MUSEUM USEUM “Sing M “Sing Mee Your Your SStory, tory, Dance Dance Me Me H ome: A rt aand nd P oetry From From Home: Art Poetry N ative CCalifornia.” alifornia.” Oct Oct 2-Dec 2-Dec Native 55.. ““LandsCApes: LandsCApes: G limpses of of Glimpses EEveryday veryday CCalifornia.” alifornia.” O ct 22Oct JJan an 228.

8. ““The The SSaints aints ooff M ission Mission SSanta anta CClara: lara: D iscovering tthe he Discovering M eaning B ehind tthe he A rt.”

Meaning Behind Art.” O ct 2-Dec 2-Dec 55.. TTue-Sun, ue-Sun, 11am11amOct 44pm. pm. Santa Santa CClara lara U niversity University ccampus. ampus.

EEUPHRAT UPHRAT M MUSEUM USEUM “Learn ttoo P “Learn Play.” lay.” A ggroup roup show show aabout bout aart rt aand nd llife. ife. O Oct ct 4-Nov 4-Nov 24.. Reception 24 Reception Nov Nov 9, 9, 5:30pm.

5:30pm.

TTue-Thu ue-Thu 111am-3pm.

1am-3pm. SSan an JJose. ose.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE M MUSEUM USEUM OF OF A ART RT “The M “The Modern odern P Photographer: hotographer: Observation O bservation and and IIntention.” ntention.”

A sshow how ooff w works orks ffrom rom tthe he first fi rst hhalf alf ooff tthe he 220th 0th ccentury entury ddrawn rawn from from the the museum’s m u s e u m’ s ppermanent ermanent ccollection. ollection. Oct Oct 11-Jul -Jul 33.. TTue-Sun, ue-Sun, 111am-5pm, 1am-5pm, Mon. cclosed losed M on. San San Jose.

Jose.

CCONTINUING ONTINUING CCANTOR ANTOR A ARTS RTS CCENTER ENTER ““Go Go FFigure!” igure!” FFigurative igurative ppaintings aintings aand nd ssculptures culptures bbyy ccontemporary ontemporary aartists. rtists.

Ongoing.

O ngoing. ““Buildings Buildings oonn Paper: Paper: Architectural A rchitectural Drawings.”

Drawings.” TThru hru Oct O ct 17.

17. “Collection “Collection Highlights Highlights FFrom rom EEurope urope 11500-1800, 500-1800, Ancient Greece A ncient G reece aand nd Rome.”

Rome.”

Dec Wata: TThru hru D ec 330.

0. ““Mami Mami W ata: Arts forr W Water A rts fo ater SSpirits pirits in in Africa Africa Diasporas.” aand nd IIts ts D iasporas.” TThru hru JJan an 22.. Wed-Sun, Wed-Sun, 111am-5pm, 1am-5pm, TThu, hu, 111am-8pm.

1am-8pm. SStanford. tanford.

HISTORY H ISTORY P PARK ARK SSAN AN JJOSE OSE “Explore San “Explore San JJose ose P Parks— ark s— O pen ttoo the the Public Public Since Since Open 11850.”

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The action takes place on the first day of school in a suburban community. A married couple, Susan and David (played by Diahanna Davidson and Tom Gough), have just dropped their kids off at school.

Their PTA event has been canceled, leaving them with several hours to kill before class lets out for the day, so they decide to do something they have both wanted to do for a long time: have sex with other people.

Susan and David aren’t exactly swingers; in fact, we don’t get the impression that they have ever done anything like this before. They’re simply normal folks who are open about sex, and the real comedy starts when they begin to proposition the other parents at school. Susan sets her sights on Peter =`ijk ;Xp (Rich Miller), while David pursues Kim (Mandy F] JZ_ffc Manousos) and Alice (Courtney Walsh). The reactions they get to their direct line of approach (for example, when David nonchalantly drops “Do Through Oct. 24 you want to have sex with me?” into the middle of City Lights Theater a conversation about the school music program) are Company, San Jose varied, but always awkward and incredibly funny.

After what is probably the most entertaining set change you’re likely to see anytime soon, the second act begins. It’s not long before all the characters have found their way to Susan and David’s house, where things get even more awkward for everyone, except for Susan and David, who stand there, bewildered at their guests’ neurotic behavior.

Playwright Aronson is perhaps best known for his role in creating Rent (he came up with the original concept, but ultimately did not write the famous musical, which was recently staged at City Lights).

Aronson has also contributed to a number of children’s TV programs, including Courage the Cowardly Dog, Reading Rainbow and Wonder Pets.

This background shows in First Day of School, despite its mature subject matter. Fun is had and, in the end, lessons are learned—it’s almost like a children’s story, but with more complexity.—Sean Conwell

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4. Tue-Sun, Tue-Sun, 11am11am55pm, pm, closed closed Mon. Mon. San San Jose.

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PUNCH BROTHERS S FRI 15 OCT, 8 PM

DINKELSPIEL AUDITORIUM

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”Genghis KKhan.” ”Genghis han.” A new new show show aabout bout the the technological, technological, martial martial aand nd ssocial ocial aadvances dvances ooff tthe he Mongol M ongol warrior. warrior. Mon-Wed, Mon-Wed, 110am-5pm, 0am-5pm, TThu-Sun, hu-Sun, 10am10am8pm.

8 pm. San San JJose. ose.

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Wiith sensual With Wit al vocal vocals als and infe infectious fectious hooks, Reag Reagon agon ex explores xplores fo folk, blues blues, s, vintage rock, and more.

PLUS: Shubha Mudgal (10.20), (10.20), Tobari Sankai Juku: To T obarii (11.9), Christian McBride (11.13) AND MANY MORE!

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“Stan W “Stan Welsh: elsh: On On Land—On Land—On Water.”

W ater.” A show show of of mixed mixed media media aand nd cceramic eramic ssculptures. culptures. TThru hru Dec D ec 55.. Tue-Wed Tue-Wed and and Fri-Sun, Fri-Sun, 111am-5pm.

1am-5pm. Thu, Thu, 11am-9pm.

11am-9pm.

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Chapital. Oct Oct 1.

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Jose.

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-30. San San JJose. ose.

DOWNTOWN D OWNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SSHALA HALA Works bbyy N Works Nancy ancy LLober. ober. Thru Thru Oct O ct 29.

29. San San Jose.

Jose.

HIGHER H IGHER FFIRE IRE CCLAYSPACE LAYSPACE & GGALLERY ALLERY “Three fo “Three forr A All.” ll.” Works Works bbyy clay clay aartists rtists Liz Liz Burkhouse, Burkhouse, CCindy indy Oct CCouling ouling aand nd JJanet anet SStarr. tarr. O ct 11-Nov -Nov 44.. SSan an JJose. ose.

KALEID K ALEID GGALLERY ALLERY “Ancient A “Ancient Art, rt, Modern Modern Twist.”

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Oct EEric ric P aulson. O ct 1-31.

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CCITY ITY W WINDOWS INDOWS GGALLERY ALLERY “Earth-Bound.” A sshow “Earth-Bound.” how ooff w orks bbyy cclay lay ssculptors. culptors. City City works H all, South South Fourth Fourth St, St, San San Hall, JJose. ose.

FFILOLI I LO L I “San FFrancisco “San rancisco B Bay ay A Area rea Wildlife: W ildlife: Beautiful, Beautiful, Vital, Vital, FFragile.” ragile.” A pphoto hoto eexhibit. xhibit.

TThru hru O Oct ct 24 24.. TTue-Sat, ue-Sat, 10am10am33:30pm, :30pm, SSun, un, 111am-3:30pm.

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Photos hotos bbyy the the Ahn Ahn SSisters. isters. Oct Oct 1-29.

1-29. San San JJose. ose.

SAN JJOSE SAN OSE IINSTITUTE NSTITUTE O OFF CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY A ART RT Annual A Annual Art rt EExhibition xhibition aand nd Auction.

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23. Tue-Fri, Tue-Fri, 110am-5pm, 0am-5pm, SSat, at, noon-6pm. noon-6pm. O Open pen late late first first month.

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Pieces P ieces iinn a beastly beastly vein vein by by JJames ames B runner, John John H astings Brunner, Hastings aand nd D rew R ausch. Oct Oct 11-29.

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Oct O ct 11-29.

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“Italo SScanga: “Italo canga: M Metaphysical.” etaphysical.”

Oct O ct 5-Nov 5-Nov 55.. SSJSU JSU A Art rt Building.

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6pm. San San Jose.

Jose.

OPENING O PENING “Better TThan “Better han 22009.”

009.” SSolo olo exhibit exhibit ffor or M MOMO OMO post-graffiti post-graffiti artist. artist.

Reception Oct R eception O ct 11.. Thru Thru Nov Nov 20.

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TTue-Fri, ue-Fri, nnoon-7pm, oon-7pm, Sat, Sat, noonnoon55pm. pm. San San Jose.

Jose.

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SSOUTH OUTH FFIRST IRST B BILLIARDS ILLIARDS “Streelow Arte.”

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“Scrap FFacet.”

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A ddisplay isplay ooff 119 9 works, work s, iincluding ncluding tthe he ““Galactic Galactic Mysteries” M ysteries” sseries, eries, by

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by Tanya Tanya Aguiniga A guiniga aand nd TTeddy eddy CCruz. ruz. TThru hru Oct O ct 16.

16. San San Jose.

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THE T HE M MAIN AIN GALLERY GALLERY “Songs ooff SSilence.”

“Songs ilence.” P Photos hotos bbyy A Arup rup B Biswas. iswas. “Bird “Bird Song.”

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Oct TThru hru O ct 117.

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The entire cast delivers great performances, which are all the more commendable because of the play’s great length and the fact that, as Kushner intended, most of the actors play multiple roles. The standout here is Tom Ammon’s funny yet frightening portrayal of Roy Cohn, a deeply evil character based on the real-life Joseph McCarthy crony who was instrumental in the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Like the real Cohn, this one hides his homosexuality and the fact that he has AIDS. This same cast, as well as the same simple set design, will also be used for Pear Avenue’s staging of Our Town, which runs in repertory with Angels. These two plays are an interesting pairing, since both deal with the challenges of everyday life and its eventual end. Their contrasting perspectives are also fascinating: one looks back on the small-town life of a supposedly simpler time, while the other (Part One of Angels in America is subtitled Millennium Approaches) looks forward to a new era with a mixture of hope and trepidation. The millennium may have already arrived, but Angels is as relevant as ever, and the Pear Avenue Theatre is a great place to see it. —Sean Conwell

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Montalvo Bo Montalvo Box x Office Office 4 408.961.5858 08.961.5858 M M-F, -F, 1 10am-4pm, 0am-4pm, ticketmaster.com tick etmasterr..com or montalvoarts.org montalvoarts.org Free Parking!

F ree On-Site On-Site P arking!

San Jose Symphonic Choir

Mozart: Requiem Leroy Kromm, Conductor/Director with Nova Vista Symphony

Sun, Oct 3, 5:30PM Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church 13601 Saratoga Ave, Saratoga Tickets: $20/10 408-995-3318 www.sanjosesymphonicchoir.org

South Bay Guitar Society Berta Rojas classical guitar concert

Fri, Oct 8, 8PM Le Petit Trianon Theatre 72 N. 5th St, downtown San Jose Tickets $30/25/15 on-line: www.sbgs.org or 408 292-0704

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PALO P ALO A ALTO LTO T A ART RT CCENTER ENTER “In FFocus” “In ocus ” CCollecting ollecting P hotography.” “Light “Light From From tthe he Photography.”

Underground,” U nderground,” a photographic photographic essay about b t mining i i in i SSouth outth W ales by CColette olette CCampbellampbell-Wales JJones. ones. ““Paintings Paintings Fr om Hait ti.”

From Haiti.”

TThru hru Dec 12. TTue-Sat, uue-Sat, 10am-5pm, SSun, un, 1-5pm, and TTue-Thu, uue--Thu, Palo Alto.

77-10pm.

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Works by JJennifer Works ennifer Gr Groft, oft, Gr Greg e eg Marianne KKerekes, erekes, M arianne LLettiere, ettiere, SSieglinde ieglinde van Damme, P Paul aul YYula ula and Dana M Merschon. erschon. TThru h hru Oct Art Building.

O ct 1. IInside nside SSJSU JSU A rt B uilding.

SSTANFORD TANFORD A ART RT SSPACES PACES Photographs by KKen Photographs en Holden Holden, n, Marino paintings by Gianna M arinoo and N Nearl earl B Boor oor and P Pat at SSherwood. herwood. TThru hru Oct Oct 28.

Weekdays, W eekdays, 8:30am-5pm.

SStanford tanford campus.

VIEWPOINTS VIE WPOINTS GALLERY GALLERY “Water W “Water Works.” orks.” P Paintings aintings us using sing Barbara water media by B arbara vonn Haunalter.

Haunal ter. Thru Thru Oct Oct 2. Los Los Altos.

A ltos.

WORKS/SAN W ORKS/SAN JJOSE OSE ““Cityspaceshare Cityspaceshar it h e 2010: 2010 Architecture TThe he A rchitecture of Urban IInsertions: nsertions: ((Op)Space.”

Op)Space.” A An n exhibit as part of 01 01SJ. SJ. R Runs unss Oct thru O ct 1. SSan an JJose. ose.

Books B ooks BO CCALDWELL ALDWELL A book-launch party ffor or thee author’s author ’s latest, ““The The CCity ity off TTranquil ranquil q LLight.” ight.” g W Wed, ed,, 7:30pm 7:30pm. pm.

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Fr ee. B Books ooks IInc., nc., M Mountain ountain View.

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Discover the Arts www.svArts.org

The author of ““A The A SSmall mall Fur Furry ryy Prayer: Rescue P rayer: Dog R escue and thee Meaning M eaning of Life” Life” signs copies copiees Free. of his book. TTue, uue, 7pm. Fr ee.

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

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TThe he CCenter enter ffor or LLiterary iterary Arts Arts celebrates at SJSU SJSU celebr ates 25 years with a joint appearance appearance with Bay Area.

LLitquake itquake in the B ay A rea.

With rreadings eadings by Maxine Maxine Hong Kingston and Mary Mary Roach.

R oach. SSun, un, 6:30pm. $5-$25.

CCalifornia alifornia Historical Society, Societyy, Francisco.

SSan an Fr ancisco.

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JJENNIFER ENNIFER R ROSNER OSNER A signing event ffor or author of “If “If a Tree Tree Falls” Falls” A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Be Hear.”

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CHESLEY CH ESLEY B B.. SSULLENBERGER ULLENBERGER A Celebrity Celebrity Forum event.

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by A Arts rts Council Council Silicon Silicon Valley V alley with with food, food, ccarnival arnival ggames ames aand nd a ssilent ilent aauction. uction. Fri, Fri, 5-8pm.

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GGAMBLE AMBLE GGARDEN ARDEN A ccommunity ommunity dday ay w with ith pplant lant ssale ale and and ggarden arden demonstrations. demonstrations.

SSun, un, 110am-2pm.

0am-2pm. Free.

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G arden, P alo A lto.

GREAT GGLASS GREAT LASS PUMPKIN PUMPKIN PATCH P ATCH The B The Bay ay Area Area Glass Glass Institute Institute hhosts osts a sshow how aand nd aauction uction ooff gglass lass works. works. Exhibit: Exhibit: Thru Thru Oct. Oct. Oct. 11,, 10am–4pm.

10am–4pm. Sale: Sale: O ct. 2–3, 2–3, Palo Alto 110am-5pm.

0am-5pm. P alo A lto Art Art Center, Center, Palo Alto.

P alo A lto.

HARVEST H ARVEST FFAIR AIR With a ppumpkin With umpkin ppatch atch aand nd m more. ore.

SSat, at, 10am–4pm; 10am–4pm; free. free. EEmma mma Prusch P rusch FFarm arm P Park, ark, San San JJose. ose.

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7pm. $55.

Hills $ 55. FFremont remont H ills CCountry ountry Altos CClub, lub, LLos os A ltos Hills.

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PUNK P UNK DRUNKERS DRUNKERS A ppop-up op-up pparty arty aand nd sstory tory reception re ception with with punk-inspired punk-inspired cclothing. lothing. FFri, ri, 7-10pm.

7-10pm. Cukui, Cukui, SSan an JJose. ose.

RENAISSANCE R ENAISSANCE FFAIRE AIRE TTravel ravel ttoo tthe he Elizabethan Elizabethan eera, ra, with w ith CCeltic eltic concerts concerts every every Sat. Sat. SSat-Sun, at-Sun, 110am-6pm.

0am-6pm. R Runs uns tthru hru O Oct ct 17.

17. Casa Casa ddee FFruta, ruta, Hollister.

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ROCK-TOBERFEST RO CK-TO T BERFEST With live With live m music usic and and micro-brews m icro-brews pplus lus aarts rts and and ccrafts. rafts. SSat, at, 1am-3pm.

1am-3pm. Free.

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SST. T. V VICTOR’S ICTOR’S FFESTIVAL ESTIVAL A dday ay ooff ggames, ames, fo food od aand nd ffamily amily eentertainment. ntertainment. Sat, Sat, 110am-10pm, 0am-10pm, SSun, un, nnoon-8pm. oon-8pm.

FFree. ree. SSt. t. V Victor’s ictor ’s Church, Church, San San JJose. ose.

SPIRIT O SPIRIT OFF JJAPANTOWN APANTOWN FFESTIVAL ESTIVAL An eevent An vent to to hhighlight ighlight tthe he ccultural ultural life life of of Japantown.

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Jose.

THREE T HREE WISHES WISHES CCASINO ASINO N IGHT NIGHT TToo bbenefit enefit Angels Angels on on Stage, Stage, a forr cchildren with ggroup roup fo hildren w ith sspecial pecial nneeds. eeds. FFri, ri, 7-11pm.

7-11pm. $85/$100. $85/$100.

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metroactive FILM on Kazuo Ishiguroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel. (Opens Fri at the Aquarius in Palo Alto and at CinĂŠArts Santana Row.)

New CASE 39 (R; 109 min.) RenĂŠe Zellweger stars in a horror thriller about a social worker whose new charge is threatened with terrible danger.

(Opens Fri.)

LAST TRAIN HOME (Unrated; 85 min.) See review on page 48.

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;HOOLE (PG) An animated tale of a barn owlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adventures in a mythical world.

(Opens Fri.)

MODERN DAY SLAVES

Blood Meridian

Everyone knows about the diaspora of Filipinos to the corners of the earth; this documentary tells of the abuse and torture they face as low-wage workers. (Plays Oct 2 at 4 and 5:30 in Santa Clara at SCUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for the Performing Arts; Moderndayslavesmovie.com.) (RvB)

The brick-lined locationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a shabby apartment in Los Alamos, N.M., in the winter of 1983â&#x20AC;&#x201D;rhymes with the bad suburbs of Stockholm in Let the Right One In. It is the Reagan era; a time, as we see in a TV clip, when the president could go in front of the cameras and conďŹ dently explain that he knew the difference between good and evilâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as if the old fraud had been elected Pontifex Maximus instead of president.

Raised by a drunken but pious single mom, Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is getting to the stage where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less interested in candy and more interested in knives. Skinny, pale and with disturbingly wide-set eyes, he is a natural target for bullies. This is when Abby (Chloe Moretz) shows up. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pale girl with dirty bare feet, and she only comes out at night.

A friendship grows between the two solitary kids. What Owen doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know is that Abbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father (Richard Jenkins) is a serial killer who lurks in the back seats of cars wearing a mask fashioned from a

plastic trash bag. He ritually murders his victims, draining their blood into a jug.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprising how much Jenkins looks like a Nosferatu in certain lights. With a birthmark and cracked eyeglasses, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a predator at the end of the line, with as much bad luck as any other aging huntergatherer.

As we saw in Kick-Ass, Moretz is an actress C\k D\ @e of importance. We R; 115 min. see it here in Moretzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Opens Friday subtlety, in her pregnant silences and in the camera angles that search out the asymmetries of her pretty face. Those asymmetries are where the real horror lies: not in the Day-Glo contact lenses or dental prostheses she wears later. Sadly, this remake censors one aspect of Abbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nature, which viewers of the original will remember well; but to be fair, this version doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t contradict that part of the story, either.

Let Me In, of course, makes the Twilight saga look worse than it does already. Some of Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; innovations work, such as the ambitious POV shot of a car crash and some burn makeup so hideous itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost beautiful. All in all, Reeves does a ďŹ ne job of delivering the forlornness, solitude and shame of this story, which only uses the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;vampireâ&#x20AC;? once: the focus is not on blood for bloodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake but on the tragedy of inexplicable need.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG-13; 120 min.) See review on page 43.

YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER

(R; 115 min.) See review at left.

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OBVIOUSLY, Let Me In is a movie that wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist if Americans had better subtitle-reading skills. Still, director Matt (CloverďŹ eld) Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; respect for the original Swedish ďŹ lm, Let the Right One In, makes this an honorable and chilling movie about the uncanny. It has that element of pity that results in genuine horror, instead of a series of ever-noisier and yet ever-diminishing shocks.

(2010) Lafayetteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vicki Abeles, a former corporate attorney and mother of three, takes on the ailing school system in a documentary that beats Waiting for Superman to an opening date by a week. (Plays Sep 30 at 7pm in Cupertino at the BlueLight Cinemas.) (RvB)

(R; 98 min.) See review on page 47.

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NEVER LET ME GO (R; 103 min.) A three-way love affair among the denizens of an exclusive private school (Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew GarďŹ eld as the boy they both love) is shaded with science ďŹ ction overtones as we learn the real purpose of the school. Based

Revivals BLUE VELVET (1986) Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern, representatives of all that is good, fresh and innocent about small-town America, get a taste of the dark side when they investigate a severed ear and a ripe, traumatized nightclub chanteuse. And they end up face to face with a psychotic thug named Frank Booth (the late Dennis Hopper in what became his signature role). Staged as

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A film people will talk about!â&#x20AC;?

psychedelic ďŹ lm-noir, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a parable of the seen and unseen during a time when the dichotomy between Us in the U.S. and Them everywhere else was particularly strong. This superďŹ cially simple story of guilt and innocence indicts the audience in its rituals of violation. Love to see it double-billed sometime with

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the other major 1980s-buster, Tim Burtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Batman. (Plays Sep 30 at 9 in San Jose at Camera 3 and at Oct 1 at midnight in Campbell at Camera 7.)

(RvB)

THE FRISCO KID/YENTL (1979/1983) Robert Aldrichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s penultimate movie has a Polish rabbi

(Gene Wilder) crossing the Old West headed for San Francisco; he deals with the perils of the frontier with the help of a bank robber (Harrison Ford).

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BY BERT V. ROYAL BY WILL GLUCK

SOME WRITERS work from the ending backward, and the newest Woody Allen ďŹ lm, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, shows signs of such reverse engineering.

The ending neatly matches elderly pessimism and optimism with enough tidiness to look like symmetry. Does that make up for what came before: sequences of awkwardly posed actors reciting strained lines of dialogue as if, during the customary rounds of actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roulette that occur during an Allen ďŹ lm, they hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been reshaped for the new casting?

The title transforms a fortune tellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prediction into a sentence of doom, as per the line in Cassandraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dream: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only ship sure to come in has black sails.â&#x20AC;? Here is Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s customary theme: Given the certainty of death, how does one conduct oneself ? Better than these characters.

The ďŹ lm concerns the sundering of an old couple. Helena (Gemma Jones) and her husband, AlďŹ e (Anthony Hopkins), have split. He is taking consolation with a prostitute named Charmaine (Lucy Punch). Helena is seeing a psychic and drinking a bit, though Allen doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand what this boozing might entail; alcohol is not his thing.

Meanwhile, the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, Sally (Naomi Watts), is struggling with her desire to have a child, as her husband,

Roy (Josh Brolin), wrestles with his unpublishable novel. Roy has his own obsession with a girl across the courtyard (Freida Pinto, almost audibly pleading for direction). Punch is the salt of this movie, a leggy comedian who makes even the minor Pfl N`cc D\\k dumb-blonde jokes sail.

X KXcc ;Xib Allen displays her almost JkiXe^\i alarmingly, though even R; 98 min. that display is as close to Opens Friday, physical comedy as this Camera 7, movie gets. The closest Campbell, to physical acting that and the Guild, this movie gets is a shot Menlo Park of Brolin walking down a street in Notting Hill during a smog-colored afternoon, buttoning his shirt over his beer gut.

Top-drawer actors lined up for even small parts. Philip Glenister (Life on Mars) looks exactly like a hawk trying to get out of this cage Allen has built. The narration

by Zak Orth describes Charmaine as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a little mechanicâ&#x20AC;?; lines like these sound less wise-guy than scolding. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotten to the point where a director canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see what a young person would enjoy in the lights and music of a disco, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for some kind of new stimulusâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an adaptation of a book, a period drama, anything but the same old chaďŹ ng gang of afďŹ&#x201A;uent metropolitans. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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A FEW YEARS AGO, Up the Yangtze followed a Chinese family whose marginal living was slowly ďŹ&#x201A;ooded out by the Three Gorges Dam. The Canadian director Lixin Fan, who was the cameraman and the producer on Up the Yangtze, directs Last Train Home. If anything, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even more tragic, despite luminous visuals and the excellent reportage. Here, over the course of years, we see how the Zhang family have been broken up by their attempts to improve themselves. Their native farm is back in Szechuan. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1,300 miles from where the mother and father toil as garment workers, sewing the low-cost jeans Americans buy at Costco and Wal-Mart.

Once a year, the Zhangs are able to purchase a $40 train ticket back to their village, where their daughter Qin and son, Yang, are being raised by their elderly grandma. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rather beautifully traditional, this farm, with well-kept poultry and hot misty mornings, but Qin thinks itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mud hole. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a classic rebellious 17-year-old who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to get out. The ďŹ rst new year gathering Fan records is tensionwracked. The parents left home when Qin was 1 year old. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re essentially strangers who show up once a year to nag her and her brother about studying. Later, Qin drops out of school and becomes a factory girl, eating alone in the cafeteria and cramming into a dormitory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is it good here?â&#x20AC;? she answers the interviewerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s question. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freedom is happiness.â&#x20AC;?

Obviously, not an answer.

Fan chose his moments with care: the parents becoming irritable guilt-inducers, the beloved grandma turning brieďŹ&#x201A;y platitudinous, as old people will. The old ladyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life is revealed in asides: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were called upon by the government to support agriculture,â&#x20AC;? she says, and one realizes that she probably means the Cultural Revolution.

CXjk KiX`e Maybe not since Albert ?fd\ Brooksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; comedy Real Life Unrated; 85 min. have we seen the explosive Opens Friday, results of inserting cameras Camera 3, into the midst of a family San Jose ready to have it out. When the meltdown occurs, it seems irreparable. And Qin is happy to parcel out the blame: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You wanted to see the real me?â&#x20AC;? she screams at the camera.

This is just one story of estrangement among the 130 million workers in China who mob the train stations every new year.

When the system breaks down, the crowds wait for days, standing, pushing up against riot-squad police and uneasy-looking soldiers. Even standing among this angry mob, let alone ďŹ lming it, was an act of signiďŹ cant bravery. Of course, â&#x20AC;&#x153;130 millionâ&#x20AC;? is not the real number, considering the rest of the world torn from families to the sweatshops, to work their eyes and ďŹ ngers away. The big difference between what goes on in Last Train Home and what goes on in, say, Mexico, may just be simply that the trains work a little more often in China. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Friday–Sunday, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco; free This year’s free festival is hardlier strictlier bluegrassier than ever. Billionaire Warren Hellman has been running this one-of-a-kind free, multistage music mecca for 10 years now, and in that time he’s branched out from returning Americana names like Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris and Robert Earl Keen to rockers—including, this year, Elvis Costello, Bright Eyes, Jonathan Richman and Patti Smith.

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The Brownies Saturday, 9pm, Blank Club; $10/$12 This U.K. foursome made a splash with their single “Means to an End,” but sound punkier and heavier on their latest, “Fox Force Five.” Bristling with energy and shouty femme vocals, they prove that Norwich rocks—and that’s not easy. (SP)

Wanda Sykes Saturday, 8pm, Mountain Winery; $45-$95 Wanda Sykes has her own TV show again, but to many of us she may be forever best known for her rant about asses on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

“You an ass man, Larry—what you been doing, scrounging around looking for asses?” (See metroactive.com for interview). (SP)

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SSan an Jose.

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THE T HE BLANK BLANK CLUB CLUB Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm: pm: CCasey asey LLindstrum, indstrum, Ghosts Aqueducts.

G hosts iin n tthe he A queducts. FFree. ree.

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H ot B oxers. $ 10/$12. SSan an JJose. ose.

BOGART’S B OGART’S LOUNGE LOUNGE Thu & SSat: Thu at: LLive ive m music. usic.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

CCAPERS APERS BLINKY’S CAN’T BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY SAY AY Live m Live music usic SSaturdays aturdays 9pm.

9pm.

SSanta anta CClara. lara.

BOSWELL’S B OSWELL’S Wed: W ed: JJack ack R Rip ip Off, Off, TThu: hu: Bitchin’ Camaros.

Campbell.

B itchin’ Ca maros. Ca mpbell.

BRITANNIA ARMS BRITANNIA ARMS A LMADEN ALMADEN Fri, 110pm: Fri, 0pm: B Blood lood SSugar ugar Machine.

SSex ex M achine. Sat, Sat, 10pm: 10pm: Groovenugget.

G roovenugget. SSan an JJose ose .

FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, 8:30pm: 8:30pm: LLive ive m music. usic.

CCampbell. ampbell.

EELL RANCHO RANCHO 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 FFri: ri: G Greg reg CCross ross B Band. and. SSat, at, 110am-5pm: 0am-5pm: R ock-toberfest.

Rock-toberfest.

SSun: un: JJeff eff Hinkin.

Hinkin. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

THE T HE GGRAPEVINE RAPEVINE SSat, at, 7pm: 7pm: M Mike ike M Medina. edina.

W illow G len.

Willow Glen.

MO MOROCCO’S ROCCO’S RESTAURANT RESTAURANT

UNWINED U NWINED

Fri: Pr Preaching eaching to the Animals Animals, s, TTouch oouch My Rash. San Jose.

Wed, 55-11pm: Wed, -11pm: JJerry erry J CCalifornia alifornia Project.

FFlight light P roject. SSan an JJose. ose.

NICKEL NIC KEL CIT CITY Y

PARRANDA P ARRANDA N NIGHTCLUB IGHTCLUB

Thu, 7pm: Thu, 7pm: R Randy andy W Whiting. hiting. SSat, at, Night.

77-9:30pm: -9:30pm: JJazz azz N ight. San San JJose. ose.

Fri, 6pm: Phoenix Ash, Ash, Bidwell. San Jose.

Thu, 9 Thu, 9pm: pm: B Banda anda 3300, 00, D DJJ Akustik.

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

WINE W INE AFFAIRS AFFAIRS

Wed: W ed: J.C. J.C. Smith Jam Band.

Party.

Sat: Thu: After P artyy. Fri: Sage. Sa at: Jam Funkshus.

Funkshus. LLos os Gatos.

SSENZALA ENZALA

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BOSWELL’S B OSWELL’S

ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’S B BISTRO ISTRO

CCAFFE AFFE TRIESTE TRIESTE

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

Fri, 8 Fri, 8pm: pm: R Raja. aja. $ $10.

10. R Redwood edwood CCity. ity.

Wed, 8pm: Wed, 8pm: The The Ghost Ghost of of Wrights.

W rights. San San JJose. ose.

Fri, 6pm: Gr Groove oove Kings. Fr Free. ee.

Downtown Redwood City.

Cityy.

BRITANNIA A BRITANNIA ARMS RMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO

O’FLAHERTY’S O ’FLAHERTY’S

RED R ED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE

Sun, 5:30pm: Sun, 5:30pm: Jazz Jazz jam. jam.

CCupertino. upertino.

NUMBER N UMBER ONE BROADWAY BROADWAY

Wed, Sun & Mon: Jam with Wed, house band. band Thu: Live music. music.

Sunnyvale.

Fri, 8pm: Randy Bales Bales’’ Melodrama.

Chinese Melodr ama.

View..

Mountain View

SSOUTH OUTH FI FIRST RST BILLI BILLIARDS ARDS

Fri, nnoon: Fri, oon: LLive ive m music. usic. Fri, Fri, 77:30pm: :30pm: Capoeira.

Capoeira. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

CCAFFE AFFE T TRIESTE RIESTE Thu, 8 Thu, 8pm: pm: A Adam dam EEverett’s verett’s Jazz Jazz Duo. D uo. SSan an JJose. ose.

Fri: The Cryptics. Sat: Powder Powderr TTrain. rain. San Jose.

FAIRMONT H FAIRMONT HOTEL OTEL LLOBBY OBBY LLOUNGE OUNGE

SSTREETLIGHT TREETLIGHT R RECORDS ECORDS

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

Band.

8:30pm: TThu, hu, 8 :30pm: Contemporary Contemporary oorr 9pm: LLatin atin jjazz. azz. Fri-Sat, Fri-Sat, 9 pm: Jazz Jazz Monaand nd ppop op ddance ance bbands. ands. M onTTue: ue: Piano Piano Music.

Music. Fairmont Fairmont Hotel, H otel, San San Jose.

Jose.

TTue, uue, 5pm: The Angry Orts.

San Jose.

TOON’S T OON’S Wed: Local Wed: Local live music.

San Jose.

VOODOO V OODOO LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri, 9pm: V Voodoo oodoo Glow Skulls Skulls, s, FF.T.B. .TT.B. .B $10. $10 Sat, Sat 9pm: EPMD. EPMD Allen Sun, 7:30pm door: David Alle en Coe, the Shitkickers. $28.

San Jose.

WOODHAM’S W OODHAM’S LLOUNGE OUNGE

GGRAND RAND D DELL ELL SSALOON ALOON Thu, 8 Thu, 8pm: pm: Blues Blues Jam Jam w w/Aki /Aki KKumar. umar. CCampbell. ampbell.

HEDLEY H EDLEY CCLUB LUB Thu, 8 Thu, 8pm: pm: Russo-Alberts Russo-Alberts Trio.

Trio.

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

JJ.J.’S .J.’S B BLUES LUES CCAFE AFE

Fri-Sun: Pr Proo Jam. Santa Clar Clara. a a.

Wed, 9 Wed, 9pm: pm: G GoodLife. oodLife. TThu: hu: The The Dan D an Gough’s.

Gough’s. SSan an JJose. ose.

World W oorld

LLOFT OFT B BAR AR A AND ND B BISTRO ISTRO

ALBERTO’S A LBERTO’S

Thu, 77-10pm: Thu, -10pm: LLive ive jjazz. azz.

SSan an JJose. ose.

Wed: Bachata. Thu: Amateur Wed: Bachata Contest.

Contest Plus Salsa with Pantea.

Pantea. Fri: Salsa Fridays. Sat: Latin Nights. Tue: Tue ue: Pantea.

Salsa with P antea. Mountain n View..

View

MOROCCO’S M OROCCO’S R RESTAURANT ESTAURANT

ARYA AR RYA GL GLOBAL OBAL CUISINE CUISINE

Mon: Pro Mon: Pro blues blues jjam. am.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music andd belly dancing. CCupertino. upertino.

AZUCAR AZ UCAR Fri-Sat, 9pm: Son de KKali. ali. Sun, Sun, 9pm: Bachata Sensation.

San Jose.

Jose

CAFFEE TR CAFF TRIESTE IESTE Sat, 8pm: Mauricio Diaz. San Jose.

CCASCAL ASCAL Fri: LLos os Boleros.

Boleros. Sat, 8:30pm 8:30pm:: James Robinson.

View..

Mountain View

SSat, at, 55pm: pm: JJason ason B Ballenkes allenkes D Duo. uo.

With SSun, un, 5pm: 5pm: Ageless Ageless JJazz azz W ith Mark.

JJackie ackie aand nd M ark. TTue, ue, 55pm: pm: JJohnny ohnny FFingers. ingers. SSan an JJose. ose.

MURPHY’S M URPHY’S LLAW AW

POOR P OOR H HOUSE OUSE B BISTRO ISTRO Wed, 6 Wed, 6pm: pm: R Ron on TThompson hompson 6pm: aand nd FFriends. riends. TThu, hu, 6 pm: LLara ara Price 6pm: P rice and and YYesterdays. esterdays. FFri, ri, 6 pm: Gino Matteo G ino M atteo aand nd tthe he FFamily amily Phunk.

P hunk. SSat, at, 6pm: 6pm: TThe he 44’s.

44’s. SSun, un, Voodoo 22pm: pm: ZZydeco ydeco V oodoo Revival.

Revival.

SSan an JJose. ose.

THREE FFLAMES THREE LAMES RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT Sun & TTue, Sun ue, 77:30pm: :30pm: M Modesto odesto Briseno Willow Glen.

B riseno Septet.

Septet. W illow G len.

Thu: JJason Thu: ason LLewis ewis Trio.

Trio.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

Sun: Mike Sun: Mike LLeatherman. eatherman.

CCampbell. ampbell.

Sun aand Sun nd Tue, Tue, 55pm: pm: Traditional Traditional IIrish rish m music. usic. San San JJose. ose.

RED R ED R ROCK OCK COFFEE COFFEE Sat, 8 Sat, 8pm: pm: A Audra udra CConnoly. onnoly.

Mountain M ountain View.

View.

THE T HE SADDLE SADDLE R RACK ACK Wed, 9pm: Wed, 9pm: CCalifornia alifornia CCowboys. owboys.

TThu-Fri, hu-Fri, 9pm, 9pm, SSat, at, 110:15pm: 0:15pm: Diablo D iablo Road.

Road. Sat, Sat, 7:15pm: 7:15pm: Bobby B obby McDowell McDowell Band Band and and Diablo D iablo Road.

Road. Fremont.

Fremont.

SSTEPHENS TEPHENS GREEN GREEN TTue, ue, 7:30pm.

7:30pm. IIrish rish m music. usic.

Mountain M ountain View.

View.

SSAM’S AM’S BBQ BBQ Wed, 6pm: Wed, 6pm: M Matt att and and G George eorge Pleasant Valley aand nd Their Their P leasant V alley Boys.

Bean B oys. TTue: ue: B ean CCreek. reek.

SSan an Jose.

Jose.

THREE FLAMES THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Thu, 9pm: Live Live country country music music with w ith CCowboy owboy Larry.

Larry.

Willow W illow Glen.

Glen.

Open O pen Mic Mic ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’S BISTRO BISTRO Wed, 6:30pm: Wed, 6:30pm: Open Open M Mic. ic.

TTue, ue, 7-11pm: 7-11pm: Pro Pro Jazz Jazz Jam. Jam. Redwood R edwood CCity. ity.

BAREFOOT CCOFFEE BAREFOOT OFFEE ROASTERS R OASTERS Wed, 7pm: Wed, 7pm: Musical Musical oopen pen mic. mic.

SSign ign up up bbyy 55pm. pm. Santa Santa Clara.

Clara.

BRITANNIA ARMS BRITANNIA ARMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO Wed, 9:30pm: Wed, 9:30pm: Open Open M Mic ic N Night. ight.

CCupertino. upertino.

CCAFFE AFFE TRIESTE TRIESTE TTue, ue, 7pm: 7pm: O Open pen M Mic. ic. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

CCITY ITY ESPRESSO ESPRESSO Fri, 77-10pm: Fri, -10pm: Singers Singers and and musicians. m usicians. San San JJose. ose.

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MISSION M ISSION CITY CITY ROASTING ROASTING CO. CO.

Wed, 9pm: Wed, 9pm: KKaraoke araoke w/ w/ August.

August.

SSan an JJose. ose.

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

BRITISH B RITISH B BANKERS ANKERS CCLUB LUB

Fri, 9pm: Vinnie. Mon, 9pm: KKaraoke araoke in the lounge w/ Vinnie. TTue, uue, 9pm: August.

CCupertino. upertino.

POOR P OOR H HOUSE OUSE B BISTRO ISTRO

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

P ark.

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

SSan an JJose. ose.

HUDDLE HUDD LE

CC&J’S &J’S SPORTS SPORTS B BAR AR

Wed--TThu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Wed-Thu Nights KKaraoke. araoke. Fremont.

Fremont.

Thu, 10pm: Thu, 10pm: KKaraoke araoke w w/ / Melissa M elissa aand nd Heather.

Heather. Santa Santa CClara. lara.

KATIE KA AT TIE B BLOOM’S LOOM’S

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RED R ED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE CCO. O. Mon, M on, 77pm: pm: CCavin avin aand nd KKing’s ing’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

O pen M ic. M ountain V iew.

THREE FFLAMES THREE LAMES RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT Wed, 8 Wed, 8pm: pm: O Open pen M Mic. ic. W Willow illow Glen.

G len.

Karaoke K araoke 7B BAMBOO AMBOO Wed-Sat, 9 Wed-Sat, 9pm: pm: KKaraoke. araoke. TTue, ue, 9pm: 9 pm: KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an JJose. ose.

CCARDINAL ARDINAL LOUNGE LOUNGE Wed aand Wed nd Mon, Mon, 9pm-1am: 9pm-1am: D DJJ Noo ccover.

CCurtis. urtis. N over. TTue, ue, 9pm: 9pm: Western Noo ccover.

W estern kkaraoke. araoke. N over.

SSan an JJose. ose.

KCC B K BAR AR AND AND RESTAURANT RESTAURANT

CCREEKSIDE REEKSIDE LLOUNGE OUNGE

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. No cover.. CCampbell. cover ampbell.

Wed & M Wed Mon-Tue: on-Tue: With With SStephanie. tephanie. TThu hu & Sat: Sat: Randy.

Randy.

FFri: ri: JJerry erry SSauceda. auceda. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

DAN D AN B BROWN’S ROWN’S Thu aand Thu nd Tue, Tue, 9pm-1am: 9pm-1am: Brian Brian Palo Alto.

JJames. ames. P alo A lto.

DASILVA’S D ASILVA’S BRONCOS BRONCOS ALEX’S A LEX’S 49ER 49ER IINN NN

Wed: G Wed: Guitar uitar H Hero ero TTournament ournament 9pm-1am: pplus lus karaoke. karaoke. TThu, hu, 9 pm-1am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta Clara.

Clara.

Nightly eexcept Nightly xcept SSun, un, 9 9pm-2am: pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an JJose. ose.

DIVE D IVE B BAR AR

THE T HE B BEARS EARS FFri, ri, 9 9pm: pm: R Ryan. yan. SSan an JJose. ose.

BENNIGAN’S B ENNIGAN’S GRILL GRILL

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

Campbell.

Wed aand Wed nd Tue, Tue, 9:30pm: 9:30pm: KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

EEFFIE’S FFIE’S RESTAURANT RESTAURANT

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Wed, Jose.

KHARTOUM KHAR TOUM

KING K ING O OFF CL CLUBS UBS Thu and Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KKOR OR Karaoke.

Karaoke. aoke No cover.. Mountain View. cover View.

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

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

Clara.

NETO’S NET O’S MARK MARKET ET & GRILL GRILL Fri, 6:306:30-10:30pm: 10:30pm: Bands karaoke. with live kar aoke. Santa Clara.

Clara.

NORMANDY N ORMANDY HO HOUSE USE LLOUNGE OUNGE

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

Wed-Sat aand Wed-Sat nd Tue, Tue, 9pm9pm22am, am, aand nd llast ast Sun Sun of of every every month, B&S m onth, 22-7pm: -7pm: B &S KKaraoke. araoke.

CCampbell. ampbell.

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

Fri, 9 Fri, 9pm-1am: pm-1am: D Danielle. anielle. SSanta anta CClara. lara.

EELL R RANCHO ANCHO SPORTS SPORTS BAR BAR

NUMBER N UMBER ONE BR BROADWAY OADWAY

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

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

KKaraoke. araoke. N over. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

BLUE B LUE M MAX AX Fri-Sat, 9 Fri-Sat, 9pm-1:30am: pm-1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke.

SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

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

CCupertino. upertino.

TThu, hu, 8pm: 8pm: KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an Jose.

Jose.

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

Madness.

SSan an JJose. ose.

FFLAMES LAMES CCOFFEE OFFEE SHOP SHOP TThu-Sat, hu-Sat, 9pm: 9pm: U Uncle ncle Dougie Dougie Noo ccover.

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

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

A ugust. Milpitas.

Milpitas.

Thu: Singles party with DJ DJ..

LLos os Gatos.

OASIS O ASIS Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Wed Doug. Sunnyvale.

OFFICE O FFICE B BAR AR Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am, 9pm-2am, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke. Mountain View.

View.

PEACOCK P EACOCK LLOUNGE OUNGE Thu, 9pm: DJ Brian. Sun, 9pm: karaoke.

DJ and kar aoke. Tue, Tue, u 9pm: DJ, DJ, dancing, karaoke. karaoke. Sunnyvale.

PIONEER P IONEER SSALOON ALOON TTue, uue, 8:30pm: Acoustic Acoustic karaoke kar aoke w/ Sam Marshall.

Woodside.

W oodside.

BOGART’S B OGART’S LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, FFri Wed, ri aand nd SSun, un, 8 8pm-2am: pm-2am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.

BOSWELL’S B OSWELL’S

POINCIANA P OINCIANA LLOUNGE OUNGE

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

THE T HE GGOOSETOWN OOSETOWN LOUNGE LOUNGE

BRITANNIA A BRITANNIA ARMS RMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO

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

KKaraoke. araoke. W illow G len.

Sun-Tue, 110pm: Sun-Tue, 0pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

CCupertino. upertino.

GGOOSE OOSE LLOONEY’S OONEY’S Wed, 9pm: Wed, 9pm: KKaraoke araoke N Night. ight.

Milpitas.

M ilpitas.

Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside Wed, Entertainment. No cover. cover.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

QUARTER QU ARTER NO NOTE TE TTue, uue, 9pm: Sherrie Sherrie and Sue. No cover.. Sunnyvale. cover

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out 150 to 20 serves ab serves about 200 00 p people eople an anyy en week. giv given Dedic volunteer ated FabMo volunteer Dedicated HOLLY H OLLY W WELSTEIN ELSTEIN hand se sews ws bags and materials she gets purses out of the materials from from the group. group. She says says y a big part part is discovering discovering of the fun of FabMo is people’s trash that th hat she can can other people’s treasures e. turn into her treasures. there are a e retail ar retail prices prices “Sometimes there sampless], and we make make on them [the samples], little game of finding findin ng the most a little expensive one,” one,” Welstein Weelsteein says. saayys. “I just expensive tiny makeup makeup bag b last week. made a tiny was out of a piece piece that th hat was was about about It was square, and $320 was was the 12 inches square, price. I’m not sure sure if anybody a ybody paid an price. fo or it retail, retaill, but that was was that much for price put on it.” it.” the price Weelstein says saayys she loves lo oves getting getting Welstein elbow deep in fabric samples s elbow while network king with likelikemeeting and networking i d d people. people l . minded people love love animal prints. prints.

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Malloy M alloy eentered ntered the the tournament tournament ass tthe he 112th 2th best best player player iin n the the world world for for division. tthe he 557-kilogram 7-kilogram d ivision. Uchida Uchida says says Malloy, World M allloy, who who won won the the USA USA W orld Cup Cup iin n August, August, has has given given her her tteammates eammates

belief tthat belief hat tthey hey ccan an ccompete ompete aatt tthe he h ighest llevel. evel. ““She’s She’s tthe he ttype ype o ead der highest off lleader tthat hat w aven’t h ad d iin n a llong ong ttime, ime,” wee h haven’t had U chida ssays. ays.

Uchida U chida, w ho ccoached oached tthe he fi rst U .S. Uchida, who first U.S. O lympic jjudo udo tteam eam m iin n 11964, 964, ssays ays tthis his Olympic w as as tthe he first first time time iin n ab bout a d ecade was about decade tthat hat ffour our S an JJose ose S tate p layers eearned arned San State players b erths tto o ccompete ompete iin n tthe he W orld berths World C hampionships. ““We We h ave b een Championships. have been m aintaining a ccertain ertain p lateau, b ut maintaining plateau, but n ow I tthink hink we we h ave sstarted tarted tto op ush now have push fforward, orwaarrd,” h ays. hee ssays.

C olton B rown w on tthe he 9 0-kilogram m Colton Brown won 90-kilogram JJunior unior P an n-American C hampionships Pan-American Championships o nS ept. 5, 5, which which ffeatures eatures tthe he b est on Sept. best u nder-20 judokas judokass iin nN orth an nd S outh under-20 North and South A merica. H ays h is ggoal oall iiss tto op lay iin n America.

Hee ssays his play tthe he W orld C hampionships an nd h e’s World Championships and he’s p roud o his teammates. teammates. proud off his ““That’s That’s a big big d eal,” tthe he ffreshman reshman deal, ssays. ays. ““You’re You’re representing representing yyour our ccountry. ountry.”

T he quartet’s quarrtet’s iinclusion nclusion iin n tthe he The cchampionships hampionships w aass an nother iindication ndication was another tthat hat S an Jose Jose State State h ass tthe he b est San has best ccollegiate ollegiate program program m iin n tthe he n ation. nation.

T he Spartans Sparrtan ns h ave w on 4 4o ut o 9 The have won 44 out off 4 49 n ational championships. cham mpionships. B ut U chida national But Uchida an nd his his players players sstrive trive ffor or m ore. and more. ““The The eexpectations xpectations ar re p retty h igh are pretty high ffor or eeverything, verything,” B rown ssays. ays. ““You’re You’re Brown ssupposed upposed tto o ccome ome b acck w ith a m edal.” back with medal.

D riscoll ssays ays iitt w as a h uge Driscoll was huge d isap ppointment w hen tthe he cclub lub h ad dn o disappointment when had no rrepresentatives epresentatives iin n tthe he 2 008 S ummer 2008 Summer O lympics, and and h xpects b etter rresults esults Olympics, hee eexpects better iin n2 012. “We “We had had a llot ot o uccess tthis his 2012. off ssuccess yyear earr b ut this this iiss n ot eeven ven tthe he sstart tart o t,” but not off iit, h says. ““You’re You’re able able to to ssee ee tthe he p rogress hee says. progress tthat’s hat’s going going to to come come w ith tthe he gguys uys with tthat hat w e‘re w orking w ith n ow aand nd w ith we‘re working with now with tthe he young young guys guys coming coming up. up.”

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The major changes in auto AC technology in recent years have been better compressors and refrigerants that are more environmentally friendly. Back in 1986 I tried to establish whether a car was more fuel efficient with the AC on and the windows up or the AC off and the windows down—the hypothesis being that reduced drag from closed windows might compensate for the extra energy needed for the AC. The results were inconclusive then.

However, with the move toward better streamlining in the years since, it stands to reason that window drag would loom larger as a percentage of total drag, if you follow me. Translation: now, under some circumstances, running the AC might actually save you gas.

Other researchers have had the same thought. Tony sent us a newspaper story from this past July saying GM windtunnel and proving-ground tests showed drag was negligible at city speeds, meaning you were better off with the AC off and the windows down. At speeds above 55 miles per hour, though, the opposite was true—open windows reduced gas mileage 20 percent while AC reduced it just 10 percent. The crossover point was 40 mph.

Lab results were one thing; we needed to know how things worked in the real world. I sounded the klaxon in the Straight Dope Labs ready room and rousted out some volunteers. My assistant Dex had a Camry hybrid that measured gas mileage in tenths of a gallon. Fierra and Una, meanwhile, said they’d drive around in Fierra’s 2008 Corvette, which also calculated gas mileage in tenths.

Each car was tested at 25, 40 and 55 mph, with multiple runs at each speed. The weather throughout was in the 80s and 90s. Here are the results,

listed in this order: (1) AC off, windows up; (2) AC off, windows down; (3) AC on, windows up; (4) AC on, windows down.

Miles per gallon at 25 mph: • Corvette: (1) 24.4; (2) 24.2; (3) 20.9; (4) 19.6.

• Camry: (1) 53.8; (2) 61.1; (3) 27.2; (4) 32.2.

At 40 mph: • Corvette: (1) 33.9; (2) 32.7; (3) 29.6; (4) 28.1.

• Camry: (1) 48.4; (2) 47.6; (3) 36.3; (4) 37.7.

At 55 mph: • Corvette: (1) 33.7; (2) 37.2; (3) 32.8; (4) 29.6.

• Camry: (1) 47.2; (2) 45.5; (3) 40.8; (4) no result—Dex tired, decided to bag test.

These numbers are puzzling, to put it mildly. Let’s break it down: 1. Running the AC meant a big mileage hit at virtually any speed. The one sort-of exception was the Corvette at 55 mph—with the AC on, fuel efficiency fell just 3 percent.

2. To our surprise, in some cases rolling down the windows without touching the AC made fuel efficiency go up. The most striking instance of this was the Corvette at 55 mph. With the AC off and windows up, it recorded 33.7 miles per gallon. When the windows were rolled down, gas mileage rose sharply to 37.2 miles per gallon. A fluke? Fierra and Una ran the test three times, always with the same result.

With the AC on, the reverse happened: when the windows were up, the ’Vette managed 32.8 miles per gallon; when they were down it got only 29.6.

3. Dex experienced the same thing in his Camry at a lower speed. At 25 mph, his car displayed much better fuel efficiency with the windows down.

How do I explain this? For the moment, at least, I don’t. All I can say right now is what we might have predicted, Tony: unless you bought a Corvette, that car salesman’s AC spiel was hot air.

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The Axis, located near the Hotel De Anza on Almaden Boulevard, is a short walk from San Pedro Square’s many restaurants and also the HP Pavilion. The 22-story glass-and-granite high-rise features 329 homes with high-end kitchens, hardwood floors and floor-to-ceiling windows providing panoramic views. Units include studios, one, two and three bedrooms, penthouses and even live/work spaces.

Amenities include an outdoor common area with a pool, two spas and barbecue area, a fitness center, concierge services and a round-the-clock doorperson.

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distance of San Pedro Square, is located on West St. James Street. It offers 124 flats and loft-style condos, with one- and two-bedroom floor plans.

Features include nine-foot ceilings, wellappointed kitchens, imported flooring and shower tiling, pre-wiring for cable and satellite television in all bedrooms and the family room, CAT-5 wiring and a fitness center.

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Amenities include a full-size pool, spa, complete fitness center and secluded gardens. Residents also have access to a gourmet kitchen and entertaining facility, a media room and dedicated concierge service. Conveniently located on the ground floor is The Market, a new urban-marketplace concept by Safeway offering fresh food, prepared meals and groceries.

The much-anticipated 23-story 360 Residences was completed in early 2010 and overlooks the SoFA district. Following delays in obtaining its occupancy certificate, it is now in an active selling phase.

Prices for the high-rises range from the upper $200,000s to as much as $2 million. Initial occupancy at Axis was in fall 2008, and as of this month, 150 units have sold. Initial occupancy in The 88 was in May 2009, and the property is now over 50 percent sold and occupied. City Heights was San Jose’s first high-rise, opening in 2007, and is now better than 80 percent sold at 100 units. —Katherine Thornberry

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