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He says he was pleased that the position offered him a chance to change the lives of underprivileged students who had been left behind by traditional public schools. But he freely admits that the exceptional retirement package promised to all MACSA teachers really cemented his decision to pack his bags and come to Silicon Valley with 10 bucks in his pocket.

“This was the biggest reason why I took this job,” Baldoni says.

Baldoni says he had his preliminary interview with Xavier Campos, who was then MACSA’s chief operating officer and is now running for a seat on the San Jose City Council. Campos enthusiastically described the benefits that Baldoni, MACSA’s first teacher, would be getting: CalSTRS, the state-run teachers retirement program, would take 8 percent of Baldoni’s paycheck; MACSA would match it dollar for dollar, and then they’d add an additional 1 percent to it. “That’s pretty sweet,” Baldoni remembers thinking. “When I was in my interview, I was like ‘Oh my God, yeah!’ You just couldn’t find a job with that kind of retirement.”

It wasn’t until a year after he began teaching at MACSA, Baldoni says, that he noticed something was amiss. When he went to check his CalSTRS account online, instead of a couple thousand dollars, he discovered that only $162 had been

deposited. A month later, his account still read $162. Baldoni began asking around. “I started asking other teachers, and sure enough, once we opened that Pandora’s box, then everybody else started going, ‘Yeah, I don’t have it either.’”

At first, Baldoni says, MACSA’s administration insisted that the retirement payments were stalled as a result of the agency’s cyclical pay structure. He was told to wait a few months, and that the money would show up. Nothing happened. Then, he says, the administrators told the faculty that there was a wage freeze, but assured them once again that their retirement money was on its way. Nothing happened.

In 2007, the teachers finally brought the issue to the attention of MACSA chief financial officer Benjamin Tan. Baldoni says they still couldn’t find out what was going on.

“We didn’t know who was telling us the truth, or who was lying. We didn’t know anything was wrong. All we knew was that we weren’t getting the money that was promised us.”

Baldoni says he and his colleagues got the run-around for years. First, he says, they were told that MACSA sent the money to the East Side Union High School District, and then that it had been send directly to CalSTRS. When the teachers contacted

CalSTRS, they were told no money was coming from MACSA. Gordon Smith, a former math and music teacher at MACSA, says the same thing happened when he approached Tan, who has since resigned.

“I know for a fact, three different times, [Tan] told us to follow a path that lead to nowhere, so he knew,” Smith says.

“You couldn’t get a straight answer from anyone,” Baldoni says.

“There’s that point, where you don’t want to believe it, where you think it’s just you, or that it’s an honest mistake. We’re not naive, but you never think your employer is going to lie to you. “ In late August 2009, Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr received a 38-page report concerning MACSA, commissioned by the county Office of Education. In a letter to Carr, county Superintendent Charles Weis wrote that the report “found evidence of apparent illegal fiscal practices and misappropriation of funds” at the school.

According to the report, MACSA surreptitiously skimmed $400,000 that was earmarked for its employees’ pensions—practically cleaning out the account. Without the faculty’s or staff ’s knowledge, the money was instead used for operational costs to keep the insolvent school up and running.

Law and Politics The report has been on Carr’s desk for more than a year. The delay in concluding an investigation has raised some questions about the outgoing DA’s willingness to prosecute her political supporters.

Campos, who announced his candidacy for San Jose City Council’s District 5 around that time, has denied any knowledge of the teacher’s pension skimming going on at his longtime employer. Last March, in an interview at Tacos Al Carbon on Story Road, Campos refused to answer any questions on the record. “I’m proud of my time at MACSA, but other than that I have no comment,” he said. He declined to be interviewed for this story.

According to the report, in December 2008, the cashstrapped MACSA Board went into closed session to consider an “extraordinary” severance package

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for Campos, who was in the process of leaving his post. The severance package was later denied.

By the time these allegations started to come to light, Baldoni had spent five years teaching at the charter school.

“I had less in my [retirement] account than people who had been there only two years,” he says.

Finally, in early 2009, MACSA CEO Olivia Soza-Mendiola and the administration called a meeting of faculty and staff.

“She said, yes, we are having cash flow problems, and they were using money that was earmarked for the schools to pay for other programs,” Baldoni says. “She didn’t actually say she was misappropriating funds.”

Soza-Mendiola resigned a few weeks later. “For three years, I knew we were getting screwed,” Baldoni says. “But we weren’t going to leave, because those kids, we were really invested in their lives.

“Teachers are basically the parents of those kids for eight hours a day.

And those kids get really attached.

Even when you know you’re getting screwed, it’s very difficult to tell a kid you know needs you, ‘To hell with you, see you later.’”

Failing History The two former MACSA teachers say nobody was minding the store under the leadership of CEO Olivia Soza-Mendiola, COO Xavier Campos and CFO Benjamin Tan. “[MACSA] was all about creating this sense of community,” Smith says. “It was odd, because when we were doing that, there would also be this half-hour-long session where they’d take the teachers aside and basically lie to us.

“It was incongruous. We wanted to believe that there was good faith going on there, but we didn’t see any change.”

Smith says that he has known Xavier Campos since they played softball together as teenagers. Smith describes the current District 5 San Jose council candidate, who worked his way up to the COO position by spending 20 years with the organization, as a “MACSA lifer.”

Asked directly whether he believes Campos knew about the pension scheme, Smith will not come right out

and say; but he seems skeptical of the veracity of the council candidate’s denials.

“Three people ran that place,” Smith says. “It’s not feasible that only one of them knew. It’s impossible that none of them knew. So, it’s likely that more than one of them knew.”

On Sept. 15, the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce released a nine-page document which seems to show that Campos was more involved in MACSA’s financial decisions than he has admitted. According to documents obtained by outside auditors Fiscal

ÉK_\pÊ[ kXb\ k_\ k\XZ_\ij Xj`[\ Xe[ YXj`ZXccp c`\ kf lj%Ê Crisis & Management Assistance Team, Campos was the only officer at MACSA with a direct line of oversight regarding the school’s operations. Furthermore, documents show that he was a member of the MACSA financial committee, and directly handled the sale of a MACSA-owned property to solve the school’s “cash flow problem” in 2008.

The audit openly challenges “the truthfulness of [Campos’] statements,” and concludes that he knew—or should have known— about the decision to drain the retirement account.

Campos has refused to address the audit, other than to paint it as an unfounded attack. And he has steadfastly continued to insist—in the face of evidence to the contrary— that his involvement with MACSA was limited to working with kids in its gang-intervention program.

Baldoni is dubious about that claim as well. “I was there from 2004, and I never saw Xavier counsel a kid about gangs,” Baldoni says. “The gang intervention [program] was supposed to be classes after school that dealt with gang intervention, but that wasn’t Xavier. That was Mario [Ozuna-Sanchez]. Maybe he

did it at other schools, but not at our schools. I know for a fact that he never did it at our school.”

Smith has the same impression.

“The body language of the kids I saw when they were talking to him was more like ‘Who is this guy?’ Not, ‘Oh Xavier, let’s talk,’” Smith says. “[Campos’] involvement with the school directly, as a member of the school community, was minimal.

I think his influence in policy was huge. But, when I would see him there, I wouldn’t see him talking to any of the students.”

Smith says that in his eyes, the biggest roadblock that MACSA faced was the fact that the three top administrators, who may have known how to run a community cultural organization, were incompetent when it came to running an educational institution.

“It was a constant cycle of reinventing the wheel, and really, there was very little long-term vision,” Smith says. “If you don’t have experienced people at the top, you’re not going to get that.”

Both teachers say they valued the good work they were able to accomplish while at the Academica Calmecac, and speak proudly of the kids they were able to help get into college. Ultimately they are disappointed that the project failed.

“They were trying to make this dream happen, an integration of cultural resource center with a gang intervention center, with a charter high school that’s trying to be college prep,” Smith says. “But I think that’s how they wanted it to happen: playing volleyball and having raffles.

When you have legitimate things you are supposed to be doing at a school, you are preoccupied, and they just weren’t addressing it. The school was extremely low achieving.”

In the end, Baldoni and Smith say the real people who have gotten the shaft in the MACSA fiasco are the kids they taught.

“I think [the administrators] thought, maybe if everybody could just get along, then somehow magically the school could increase in performance,” Baldoni says. “Like if we could just learn how to play with each other, then it would all be OK. It was very Twilight Zone.”

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Fox Pulls Down Banksy ‘Simpsons’ Video IN CASE you haven’t been reading Twitter at all in the past day or so, last night “Banksy” was both the sixth search term on Google Trends and the No. 6 trending topic on Twitter (where it remained till Monday morning), all because of the elusive street artist’s unbelievably dark and metastoryboarding of the animated series’ infamous intro, which Fox just removed from YouTube for copyright violations.

Before Fox pulled it down, the YouTube video had amassed 42,305 views, and it’d be safe to say that almost none of us actually watched it on TV, to the point that there was even quickly dispelled speculation as to whether or not the segment had actually aired.

While tech leaning blogs Gizmodo, Mashable and even Daring Fireball had no qualms about blogging this immediately despite it not having any direct relationship to the verticals they usually cover (Oh Business Insider!), Forbes Tech tried a bit harder and came up with the pretty impressive “Pop Artist Banksy’s Intro on The Simpsons Makes Cultural Commentary on Outsourcing” this morning.

get onto YouTube last night, then the entire scenario still would have played out the same way. It just would have been 12 hours or so later, when the clip showed up—legally—on Hulu. That’s kind of the point of Hulu, really: That Fox, NBC, etc., can get the viral benefits of a Banksy clip, or Lazy Sunday, without having to cede distribution (and possible monetization) to Google or somebody else. And it sort of works.

cwagner Sure, it would totally have gone viral on Hulu. Inside the U.S. Because nobody else can view that stuff.

How retarded are they at Fox? Mike Isaac Meta-angles are always the best. Props.

Tom Miesen I’m not sure Fox understands how the Internet works, or they’re just ungrateful.

Brian D I’m thinking Fox does not understand how good the piece is.

It’s work like this that would make me tune into the ep. Then again—maybe they do understand and don’t like that “outsourcing” tone. Somebody page Ms. Streisand.

How Internet Jerks Pranked The Tea Party Twittergate is the hottest new conspiracy theory out of the conservative blogosphere. Yesterday, Glenn Beck’s news site, The Blaze, posted an epic YouTube video

which purports to expose a massive conspiracy by Democrats to take over Twitter: “DID DEMOCRATS HIRE A ‘TWITTER-THUG’ TO SMEAR THE TEA PARTY?” The Blaze asks.

The basic outline of Twittergate is this: Democrats have hired a cadre of menacing “E-thugs,” led by a progressive social media consultant named Neal Rauhauser. The gang’s mission: to identify prominent Tea Party Twitter users and harass them, ideally goading them into tweeting offensive things which can then be used to smear the Tea Party.

“Democratic campaign funds are being used to front this,” Twittergate’s lead theorist, Greg W. Howard, told me over the phone.

“Follow the evidence and let it lead you where it may. The links between these people are very clear.” Howard is a Christian financial planner and conservative blogger from Alabama who says he’s been to Tea Party events but considers himself a Libertarian. With over 14,000 followers on Twitter and 100,000 tweets, he’s been described as the “Glenn Beck of Twitter.”

Like a conspiracy spun out by Glenn Beck, Twittergate has sparked many sprawling blogposts outlining the conspiracy, and frenzied discussion on conservative message boards and Twitter. “Democrats PAY ethugs to harass you,” tweeted ResistTyranny. Democratic operatives exposed as the thuggish KGB to Obama’s Kremlin!

But also like a Glenn Beck conspiracy theory, Twittergate is utter bullshit. Although the truth is almost as ridiculous.

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It all starts with a Twitter gang known as the Beandogs, a loose-knit group of dozens of Twitter users from all over the world, united only by a love of dick jokes and harassing strangers on Twitter. Much of the time Beandogs just tweet dumb jokes at each other. But sometimes they go trolling, i.e., they piss people off for fun. And the Beandogs have found Tea Partiers are excellent targets for harassment because they react with hysterical outrage to their prodding. They feed the trolls.

Beandogs targeted Howard after he spearheaded the takedown of a highly publicized anti–Glenn Beck account called @murderglennbeck.

So, the Beandogs started tweeting vulgar things about Howard’s children and wife, spreading rumors about him and generally making his Twitter life miserable.

As Twittergate shows, the same Tea Party exists on Twitter as in the real world, only magnified absurdly: Blowhards dominate the discourse, race-baiting reigns supreme, conspiracy theories bloom at every coincidence. But in the real world, it’s usually the Tea Party doing the trolling. —ADRIAN CHEN, VALLEYWAG

meechybee The right wing sure do love spinning themselves as victims.

Which is paradoxical, as they’re usually the bullies.

Gigi Here’s the thing, though: Can you really “goad” or “bait” someone into saying something racist? Whether you’re pissed off or drunk or whatever, I kind of only think you say racist shit if you actually think racist shit. I should know, I get cranky and/or drunk all the time flugenock Glenn Beck thinks Democrats formed a crew to harass Teabaggers on Twitter? Democrats? That bunch of pussies?

If you want to see frothing Teabaggers in all their glory, just the discussion threads on the Wilmington News-Journal site (www.delawareonline. com). Christine O’Donnell has awakened a white-hot fury in these unemployed, bathrobe-clad men.

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At a city council committee meeting yesterday, Bob Brownstein of Working Partnerships blasted the report, saying it was “filled with flaws and inaccuracies.”

It was a testy exchange, and at one point, City Councilmember Pete Constant, who chaired the meeting, threatened to evict him.

Brownstein and supporters argued that the city had long shortchanged

the pension system, and called the current proposal in Measure W a “morale crusher.” Some of his arguments were less convincing, however. For instance, he noted that both American Airlines and Northwestern had rejected a twotiered pension system, but failed to mention that both later filed for bankruptcy.

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MICHAEL MOORE 19 you’ve seen a film on your fucking telephone”), and LeBron James, whom Moore feels is unfairly picked on: “He didn’t take the biggest check; he wanted to be with his friends.

Look, he’s 25, he wants to hang out on South Beach. They’re pissed at him in Cleveland, not in Akron, because he’ll always be a hero in Akron. I know, I came from Flint, which is to Detroit what Akron is to Cleveland. People back in Flint, who

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on all their parts. Those who call the shots have an interest in stopping anything the Democrats might be planning to do.

I think that people will be surprised by what happens, though.

Four weeks to go, and as we get closer to the election, the last thing we want to do is go back to the era of Bush and Cheney.

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That it’s much smaller than many movements on the left that have been around for decades; historically, that’s not surprising; the media gives short shrift to the left. Ultimately, the Tea Party is at least partly a media creation.

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None really specifically. What surprises me is the Democrats have squandered a year and a half when they could have gone on the offensive and gotten people excited about going back to the polls. The Democrats are scared of their own shadow.

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Well, first of all, thanks! You know when I first started making documentaries, they were considered medicine you were supposed to take.

When I filmed Roger & Me, I was trying to create a film that people wanted to see on a Friday night after work, eating popcorn and Goobers while they watched. I didn’t think there was anything wrong making politics entertaining, which would actually provide some talk after people left the theater.

I encourage other documentary filmmakers to, first and foremost, make a movie, not a documentary— fiction directors don’t say, “I’m going to make a fiction film next year.” They say they’re going to try to make a good film. That’s the most important thing, fiction or nonfiction, black-andwhite or color. ;f pfl m`\n pfli Ó cdj dfjkcp Xj Xkk\dgkj Xk dXb`e^ X ZXj\ fi dfi\ f] Xe Xkk\dgk kf le\Xik_ ]XZkj6

Again, I make them to make them good—I set out to make a great film

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Yes, and I’m loath to make comments on other documentary makers’ films—let’s leave it at that. I will say that people are saying Waiting for Superman is heartbreaking, but it’s heartbreaking to white audiences. Black and Hispanic audiences already know what’s going on.

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In high school. I grew up in a working-class town, so it was a book everyone read, and the movie was a movie everyone saw in school. You could imagine it very well in Flint, Mich., even though the book is about California. The labor struggle and the whole concept of what happens to the poor is very clear there. I’m actually reading Steinbeck’s first novel right now, In Dubious Battle.

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I’m actually writing what I’m going to say in San Jose right now, and I’m planning what I’m going say about that. On my blog, I just posted something about the libertarian bonfire in Obion County, Tenn. [where firefighters watched a man’s house, as well as his trapped pets, burn because he hadn’t paid the annual tax]. That man’s house— there you have your libertarian vision of the future.

A college kid stopped me in New York, a really very bright-looking kid he was, and he was going on about how taxes are illegal and how there’ll be no taxes in the future. I asked him how Broadway was going to get paved and he said, “The businesses on it will pay for it.”

Old-school libertarians used to believe that there should be a government infrastructure, that some money should be raised to defend the country and provide basic services. The new 21st-century version of libertarianism is so wacked out. This kid was smart, he totally believed it, he wasn’t some rube at a Tea Party event in Nevada.

I can see we’re going to have some serious political battles in the future.

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What have I learned? I’ve learned that our great American art form known as the cinema has taken quite

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I feel more committed than ever to preserving this art form into the next generation. To do that will require a different approach, especially how it relates to economics and how ďŹ lms are distributed and exhibited.

Look, I have an iPhone, and a Mac Book, and a DVD theater where I watch things, but remember when the U.S. Postal service put the Mona Lisa on a stamp? That was cool. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just not watching the movie the artist who made it intended you to see. I have become an exhibitor in the last three years. Where I live in northern Michigan, I helped reopen a movie palace that had been closed a couple of decades, the State in Traverse City. My plan was to run a theater in the way I think a theater should be run. If I were a painter, and I was having a showing of paintings in San Francisco, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d want input on how the paintings were hung. If I were a rock musician, I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just

be playing the music, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be doing everything from beginning to end, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have a lot of say how thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presented to the audience.

But ďŹ lmmakers? We dump our art in a DHL bag, and off it goes, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy. Theaters should be designed in a way that ďŹ lmmakers have a vested interest in the way ďŹ lms are shown. So if you would ever see my theater, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d see what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m saying.

I live in a county that twice voted for Bush, once for McCainâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a county that has the lowest percentage of high school graduates in the country.

This is not Berkeley or Madison or Ann Arbor. But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been running the theater three years this November, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve sold some 500,000 tickets over that time.

This last few months, we played a movie that was from Sweden, two and a half hours long with subtitles: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Some 16 to 20,000 people showed up.

These are people who never get ďŹ lms before the urban theaters.

I really want the studios to know what the experiment here has produced. People who live in middle America are not necessarily ďŹ lm illiterates, they love what everyone lovesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they just need a little help and support.

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What makes her thinks that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to get a crowd. Wow. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your irony. The same time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m there, yetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wait, it says here sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in at 3pm, so you can catch us both. @ YcXd\ Nfeb\kk\%Zfd ]fi _\i# pfl befn2 k_\p b\gk glkk`e^ lg k_\j\ Z_\\j\ZXb\ g`Zkli\j f] _\i Xj Ă&#x2021;8d\i`ZXĂ&#x160;j ?fkk\jk >fm\iefiĂ&#x2C6; Xe[ gi\kkp jffe k_\ I\glYc`ZXej kffb efk\%

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Depressed by the outcome of his Mother Jones tenure, Moore started going to the movies every day, “everything but ninjas and Neil Simon,” he said. Tim Burton’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure was a favorite; Moore later told Metro that “Roger & Me was a cross between Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and The Grapes of Wrath.”

Returning to Flint with a five-figure settlement from Mother Jones, Moore started to think about the possibilities of making a documentary about the

decline of his home town and a central figure in its woes: General Motors’ then-CEO Roger Smith.

With aid from Kevin Rafferty (The Atomic Cafe), San Francisco’s Chris Weaver and Judy Irving of the film Dark Circle, Moore started to learn the basics of documentary filmmaking. Moore sold his house and hosted a weekly bingo game.

The decision to make his first film humorous was there from the beginning: “I had said, ‘We’re not going to make a typical doc, with unemployment lines, bag ladies and people sleeping on grates.’” Moore’s decision to blend area celebs, like TV game-show host Bob Eubanks and the thenreigning Miss Michigan, with working people in Flint, made for a documentary with a level of satire not really seen before.

When Moore compressed three different sets of layoffs for his film, the tactic was criticized, as was the subjectivity of the storytelling.

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In addition to his 1995 feature ďŹ lm Canadian Bacon, and the live on-the-road picture The Big One (1996), Moore worked in television and wrote the 1997 bestseller Downsize This! His next high-proďŹ le ďŹ lm was 2002â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bowling for Columbine, which ultimately won an Oscar for best documentary. Moore zeroed in on the Columbine High School massacre and the way it had been used as an opportunity for politicians and pundits alike.

The cornering of an alreadyailing Charlton Heston may be the most dubious moment in Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career. Given the 13 dead at Columbine, not counting the shootersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and given the power of the NRAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to go after a symbol of the gun lobby has some justiďŹ cation. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll repeat what I wrote at the time: â&#x20AC;&#x153;An activistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only hope for sanity lies in following one simple rule: avoid the secondary boycott. For example, a crusading vegetarian would have reason to picket the Harris Ranch feedlot on Interstate 5. However, picketing every Safeway that sells steaks makes you a crank.

And the crankiness of Bowling for Columbine is that Moore uses the secondary boycott by pressuring a ďŹ gurehead like Heston, instead of the NRA lobbyists who actually make some decisions. Or, as Moore also does, by pestering ďŹ&#x201A;acks for Kmart, which formerly sold bullets, instead of the bullet makers and gun manufacturers.

Bowling for Columbine is passionate. I just wish it were more persuasive, because the people who need their minds changed arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be moved by emotion or ridicule.â&#x20AC;?

Fahrenheit 9/11, a piece timed for the election year, revisited the previous four years of the George W. Bush regime: a presidency brought in under a dubious election and legitimized by an unthinkable terrorist attack.

Fahrenheit 9/11 won the Palme dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Or, broke the $100 million

mark at the box office and was perhaps the most persuasive documentary ever made in America. The sequence of the unfortunate W, frozen over his childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, was an indelible image of presidential incompetence.

As matters got worse in America over the last decade, Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more recent ďŹ lms Sicko (2007) and Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) showed his improvement as a ďŹ lmmaker in every direction: in visuals, humor, pace, selection of music and fact-checking. Moore, physically a hulking, jovial cat recognizable a block away for his baseball hat and a T-shirt, became the right-wingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public enemy No. 1.

Moore was even the subject of a lamentable 2008 Dickens parody titled An American Carol, which returned only $7 million of its $20 million budget. Had David Zucker, the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formerly funny director, remembered the scene in Roger & Me of Roger Smith reading A Christmas Carol to his employees? If so, why was he to invert that tale so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d root for the team that supported Scrooge? Clearly Moore was the victor here. Sicko helped keep the health-care system an issue even when nervous Democrats wanted to look elsewhere. As he told Metro in 2007: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Enough people have been hurt. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to go to a movie to know we have a broken system. I have to hold some kind of hope that change is possibleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m saying the whole system needs to be upended, and that, to me, makes Sicko a lot more radical and much more dangerous ďŹ lm than anything Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done before.

In this view, Moore hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed. As he told us in 1990: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the long run, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that we can continue the economic system we have. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfair, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unjust and it creates violence.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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Palin P alin will be be speaking speakin ng at the San JJose ose Center Center for for o the Performing Perrfo orming Arts Arts

at 3pm, ffollowed o olllowed b byy a rreception eception (6pm) and a sit sit-down - down dinner (7pm) Marriott. at the San JJose ose Marriot t.

Palin previously P alin hass pr eviously limited her California moreactivities in nC aliffornia o to the mor efriendly cconfines on nfines of cconservative onservative like ke R Redding, edding e , Bak Bakersfield bastions lik ersfield and San Di Diego, iego, but ac according cording to eevent vent pr promoter om moter V Victor ictor i C Cocchia, occhia,, the eexecutive xecutive dir d director ector of the fledgling Lib Liberty erty & Fr F Freedom eedom F Foundation, oundation, (based, ac according cor o ding to its website website,, Washing Washington, to on, D.C.), D.C.), P Palin alin “is eexcited xcited ab about out brin bringing ging her cconservative onservative message an and nd cconservative onservative values into traditionally ‘blue’’ ar areas.

Theree ar aree a traditionall ly ‘blue eas. Ther heree as well. well.”” lot of cconservatives onseervatives her Cocchia, who was C occhia, w ho w ass rraised aiised iin n tthe he Bay Area, says primaryy Ba ay Ar ea, sa ays y one of the primar directives off h his organization d irectives o is o rganization iiss tto o “youth Hispanics,,” rreach each out to o “y outh and Hispanics demographics have been ttwo wo d emoggrap phics tthat hat h ave b een overlooked byy tthe ““traditionally traditional ally o verlooked b he party.

Cocchia his p arty.” C occhia aasserts sserts tthat hat h is organization—and Palin— aree “not or ganizatio on—and P alin— ar aafraid fraiid tto o rrepresent epresent cconservative onservative

values in what ar aree vie viewed wed as ‘blu ‘blue’ ue’ rregions. egions. We We be b believe lieve iin nah healthy ealthy dialo gue of ideas dialogue ideas..”

Immediately after the eevent, vent, P alin Palin will b ed d-meat bee heading off to mor moree rred-meat territor ounty, wh here territoryy in Orange C County, where she will app ear Satur daay (Oct. (Oct 16) 1 appear Saturday in Anaheim with ccontroversial ontroversial R eepublican National C ommitteee Republican Committee chairman Michael Steele ffor o or th he first the of a pair of national “victor allies” “victoryy ra rallies” sp onsored b otth sponsored byy the RNC and b both ffeaturing eeaturing P alin.

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On her Fac ebook page this week w Facebook the ubiquitous fformer ormer o go verno or of governor Alask Alaskaa rreferenced effer e enced her C California alifforni o ia tour ypical tour,, declaring with ttypical h hyperbole yyperb bole l that: h “C “California alifornia iiss aatt a m ajor ccrossroad rossroad d iin n tthis his eelection, lection, an nd major and tthe he eeyes yes o he n ation aare re o n tthis his off tthe nation on sstate tate b ecause tthe he G olden S tate h as because Golden State has unfortunately become u nfortunattely b ecome a ccase ase sstudy tudy iin n ffailed ailed lliberal iberal p policies. olicies. T This his ggreat reatt has been sstate tate ffor or ggenerations enerations h ass b een tthe he eepitome pitome o merica’s o ptimism aand nd off A America’s optimism eentrepreneurial ntrepreneurial sspirit. pirit. IItt h as lled ed tthe he has nation in agricultur e, technolo gy, agriculture, technology, aand nd eentertainment. ntertaiinment. B ut ffor or yyears earrs But California been over-taxed, now C aliffo ornia has b een o ver-taxed, a over-regulated, overwhelmed o ver-regulated, aand nd o verwhelmed b ver incr easing go vernment byy an eever increasing government bureaucracy.

Sound b ureaucraccy. S ound ffamiliar? amiliar?

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ccandidate andidate M eg W hitman n or G OP Meg Whitman nor GOP S enate ccandidate andidate C arly Fi orina w ill Senate Carly Fiorina will b pp earing w ith P alin iin n aany ny bee aappearing with Palin these C aliffornia o eevents, vents e , although California P alin has endorsed F iorina in Palin Fiorina h her er b battle attle w with ith llongtime ongtime lliberal ib eral Demo Democrat crat Barbara Boxer Boxer..

JJust ust how signific significant a the impact ant of a P Palin alin endorsem endorsement ment will b bee in a general election rremains em mains to b bee seen.

While she has clearl clearly ly ignited the T Tea ea e P Party arty ccandidacies andidacies of Christine O’D O O’Donnell D Donnell in Dela Delaware aware and Sharr Sharron on Ang Angle gle in N Nevada, evada,, a rrecent ecent F Field ield P Poll oll indicated ndiicated that mor moree than half (53 53 p percent) ercent) of C California aliffornia o vvoters oters “would wo ould b bee less lik likely elyy to vvote ote ffor or o a candidate and didate endorsed b byy P Palin.” alin.”

W With ith i rrespect espect to cr critical ritical independent ndependent vvoters oters iin nC California alifornia w who ho o often ften d decide ecide tthe he o outcome utcome o off n eelection, lection, ““69 69 p ercent h ave aan n an percent have nfavorable iimpression mpression o alin, w ith unfavorable off P Palin, with ercent seeing he er p ositivveelyy.”

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Th hroughout it all l, P alin has Throughout all, Palin urn ned her p erceived e victimization turned perceived he “lamestr eam m media”” into byy tthe “lamestream em markably eff ffeectiive p olitical a rremarkably effective political plat tfo orm among thee R epublic e an platform Republican base eecch b effo ore ccombat ombat base.. In a fier fieryy sp speech before vveterans eterans in San Die go last week, Diego P alin w as on the at tack again. “The Palin was attack lamestr eam media just j do esn’t get lamestream doesn’t it,”” she declar ed, “an nd when the declared, “and theyy don ’tt b elieve what p erhaps yyour our don’t believe perhaps message is ant to b elittle is,, so the theyy w want belittle yyou ou and mo ck yyou ou and tr eat yyou ou mock treat with much disdain, yyou ou know w, I know, think, well the an n do that to me theyy ccan me,, that ’s fine ecause I know truth. that’s fine,, b because truth.””

All of P alin n’s activi ities in advanc Palin’s activities advancee of the up coming midte erm elections ha ave upcoming midterm have iincreased ncreassed sspeculation peculation tthat hat sshe he h ass has her sights set on a bi id ffor or o the White bid House in 2012. JJust ust this t last week,, she met privately y, ac cording d to U .S. N ews privately, according U.S. News and W orld o R ep e ort, w ith a sselect elect group group World Report, with o 50 n ationall cconservative onservative lleaders eaders off ““50 national iin nP allm B eacch, F lorida, w here sshe he Palm Beach, Florida, where discussed ec onomic and a diplomatic economic po licy.” A ccording tto oo ne iinsider nsider policy.

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B.B.’S B .B.’S SSMALL MALL W WORLD ORLD CCAFÉ AFÉ Filipino Filipino and and Italian.

Italian. $$. $$. This This is is the the kind kind of of food food you you could could imagine imagine your your grandmother grandmother serving serving if if she she happened happened to to be be Filipino Filipino and and had had an an affection affection for for Italian Italian food. food. B.B.’s B.B.’s is is open open for for lunch lunch and and dinner, dinner, but but lunch lunch seems seems to to be be the the bigger bigger draw. draw.

Prices Prices are are low, low, and and the the many many steam steam table table items items mean mean the the food food is is ready ready right right away. away. 11am11am3pm 3pm and and 5-8pm 5-8pm Mon-Fri; Mon-Fri; 11am-4pm 11am-4pm Sat. Sat. 2561 2561 N. N. First First St. St. 408.383.9135.

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BANGKOK BA NGKOK T TASTE ASTE TThai. hai. $ $$. $.

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CCAO AO N NGUYEN GUYEN VVietnamese, ietnamese, $..

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options, options, including including smoked smoked duck, duck, sautéed sautéed frogs frogs and and clay clay pot pot catfish. catfish. Casual.

Casual. 10am-10pm 10am-10pm Mon-Fri, Mon-Fri, 9am-10pm 9am-10pm SatSatSun. Sun. 2549 2549 S. S. King King Rd Rd #A-16. #A-16.

408.270.9610.

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CCONSUELO ONSUELO M Mexican. exican. $ $$. $. Good Good regional regional Mexican Mexican food food made made with with lesser-known lesser-known ingredients ingredients in in an an attractive, attractive, upscale upscale atmosphere. atmosphere. The The food food is is served served tapas tapas style style and and meant meant to to be be shared. shared. Fantastic Fantastic tequila tequila list. list. 11:30am-10pm 11:30am-10pm Mon-Fri, Mon-Fri, 11am-11pm 11am-11pm Sat, Sat, Sun Sun 11am11am11pm.

11pm. 377 377 Santana Santana Row Row #1125. #1125.

408.260.7082.

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THE T HE CCOUNTER OUNTER H Hamburgers. amburgers. $. $. The The Counter Counter takes takes the the quintessential quintessential American American burger burger and and turns turns up up the the Americanness Americanness by by letting letting diners diners choose choose from from dozens dozens of of options options to to build build a custom custom burger. burger. 11am11am10pm 10pm Mon-Thu, Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm 11am-11pm Fri-Sat Fri-Sat and and noon-9pm noon-9pm Sun. Sun. 3055 3055 Olin Olin Ave Ave #1035 #1035 (Santana (Santana Row), Row), San San Jose, Jose, 408.423.9200.

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EDNA EDNA RAY RAY Chinese.

Chinese. $$. $$. Now Now in in a new new location, location, Edna Edna Ray Ray continues continues to to serves serves classics classics of of Chinese-American Chinese-American food food with with the the same same quantity, quantity, familiarity familiarity and and reasonable reasonable prices. prices. You’ll You’ll find find all all three three here, here, and and then then some. some. 11:30am11:30am9:30pm 9:30pm daily. daily. 1181 1181 Lincoln Lincoln Ave. Ave. 408.280.7738.

408.280.7738.

EELL TULE TULE Mexican.

Mexican. $$. $$. Most Most of of the the menu menu is is devoted devoted to to Mexican-American Mexican-American standards, standards, but but the the separate separate menu menu of of Oaxacan Oaxacan sspecialties pecialties is is where where El El Tule Tule really really shines. shines. The The black black mole mole is is uncommonly uncommonly delicious delicious while while lesser-known lesser-known dishes dishes like like tlayudas tlayudas and and molotes molotes are are also also good. good. 10am-9pm 10am-9pm daily. daily. 5440 5440 Thornwood Thornwood Dr. Dr. 408.227.1752.

408.227.1752.

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D<KIF1 N_p [`[ pfl [\Z`[\ kf glijl\ X ZXi\\i `e n`e\6 GUERRA: I’m a believer that everyone has a story about their first wine “epiphany.” Mine happened during my first year of college when—on a group date—I was handed the wine list and felt like I had been handed a poisonous snake. Paralyzed with fear, I found myself unable to make a decision about what my date should drink.

From that moment on I decided I was going to learn how to select a glass or bottle for any event.

N_Xk dXb\j k_\ n`e\ j\c\Zk`fe Xk <efk\ZX CX Jkfi`X jg\Z`Xc6 We have roughly 360 wines from around the globe with an emphasis on domestic—particularly local—and Italian wines. I hand-select every wine that makes it on our shelves. We specialize in finding those offthe-beaten-track, yet-to-be-discovered wines that foster exploration and the excitement of tasting something new. Another unique aspect of our wine selection is that, in keeping with the spirit of the traditional Enoteca, which promotes local wineries and varietals as we do, we feature a fairly extensive ENOTECA LA selection of wines from our neighbors in the Santa STORIA Cruz mountains and elsewhere in Santa Clara County such as Perrucci, Regale, Fleming-Jenkins, Storrs, 416 N. Santa Cruz Fernwood, Muccigrosso, Comartin Cellars, Thomas Ave., Los Gatos.

408.625.7272 Fogarty, Kathryn Kennedy, Ridge and more. We also www.enoteca host tastings where these folks come to our shop and lastoria.com pour their wines, tell their stories and interact with customers.

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They are also extremely versatile with food. As far as whites, I like Verdejo and Albarino from Spain, Sauvignon Blancs from New Zealand, Gruner Veltliner and Riesling from Austria, Rhone blends and Sancerre from France, Soave and Falanghina from Italy. With reds, I love a good Nero d’Avola from Sicily or Primitivo from Puglia, Malbec from Argentina, Garnacha or Monastrell from Spain. I also enjoy wines from the U.S., don’t get me wrong, but most folks are familiar with those varietals and producers.

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Before I left, I was intrigued by the number of urban farms sprouting across the country, but I was skeptical. I’m all for small-scale agriculture, but what difference were these city farms making? A few people were getting some fresh lettuce and tomatoes and learning how to grow their own food, but was that it? Industrial food production is a disaster, but given the power and reach of the factory food machine, what change can cute, plucky little urban ag bring about?

The short answer: a big difference. At Milwaukee’s Sweet Water Organics, I saw a former factory turned into an aquaponics farm, a fish-and-vegetable operation in which the plants and fish work in a closed-loop system to produce food year-round and employ 40 people.

I spoke with Columbia University public health professor Dickson Despommier, a dreamer who designs vertical farms that he says will allow farmland to revert to its natural state and bring large-scale food production and jobs into cities.

I rode the elevator to the top of a six-story building in Queens where Ben Flanner and crew have created a 1-acre rooftop farm, Brooklyn Grange. The farm not only grows delicious tomatoes with great views of Manhattan, it’s opening people’s minds to alternative methods of food production.

And I watched 61-year-old Edith Floyd drive down her street in east Detroit in a bright orange Kubota tractor where she farms 14 lots. The lots were once homes, but the city’s cratering economy forced half the city’s population to move. Abandoned homes are everywhere now and many are caving in on themselves or have burned to the ground. But Floyd has turned the devastation into opportunity. The urbanite-turnedfarmer feeds herself and sells the excess at the city’s Eastern Market.

Add it all up and you see the creation of a post-industrial food system that better serves local communities, treads more lightly on the earth, beautifies cities and creates economic alternatives to Big Ag. It’s transformational. Urban agriculture won’t feed the world or even the cities where it’s flourishing. But the strength of the movement is its power to transform: individuals, neighborhoods, communities, cities and, maybe one day, nations.

The transformation that’s occurring is from a failed, unsustainable food system to one that better serves the common good. Urban agriculture opens a door to another reality. Pass through this door and you see the world as it really is as well as the possibility for a creating a better one.

The end of industrial food may not be near, but it will come. It’s collapsing under the weight of its inherent instability. The planet will only tolerate so much abuse. Climate change will take care of what’s left. The system will weaken further as more people abandon it in favor of smaller-scale food production that better serves the common good and just plain tastes better. Whether by necessity or choice, urban agriculture is a potent force that’s redefining America’s relationship with the food we eat and with ourselves. —Stett Holbrook

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IISABELLA’S SABELLA’S Peruvian.

Peruvian. $ $$. $.

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Moncinnamon. 11am-10pm 11am-10pm M onThu, Thu, 11am-11pm 11am-11pm Fri-Sat Fri-Sat and and 2-8pm Winchester 2-8pm Sun. Sun. 700 700 SS.. W inchester Blvd.

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KRUNGTHAI K RUNGTHAI. TThai. hai. $$. $$.

Perennial Perennial Metro Metro “Best “Best Of” Of ” winner, winner, Krungthai Krungthai has has been been around around since since 1988, 1988, but but still still tastes tastes fresh fresh and and new. new. 11am11am3pm 3pm and and 5-10pm 5-10pm Mon-Fri Mon-Fri and and noon-10pm noon-10pm Sat-Sun. Sat-Sun. 640 640 S. S. Winchester Winchester Blvd.

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KUBOTA K UBOTA JJapanese. apanese. $ $$. $. A beautiful beautiful dining dining room room that that serves serves exquisite exquisite rice, rice, luscious luscious ribs ribs and and decent decent sushi. sushi. Full Full bar. bar. 5:30-10pm 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat, Mon-Sat, 559:30pm 9:30pm Sun. Sun. 593 593 N. N. Fifth Fifth St. St. 408.279.8440.

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KUMAKO K UMAKO RRamen. amen. $. $.

Japantown Japantown now now has has its its missing missing ingredient—good ingredient—good ramen. menu ramen. Kumako’s Kumako’s m enu is is simple, simple, ramen, ramen, curry curry rice rice and and

a few few appetizers. appetizers. 11:30am11:30am2:30pm 2:30pm and and 5:30-9:30pm 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. Mon-Sat. 211 211 E. E. Jackson Jackson St. St. 408.286.2111.

408.286.2111.

LLAYANG AYANG LLAYANG AYANG M Malaysian. alaysian. $$. $$. Layang Layang Layang Layang shines shines with with clean, clean, fresh fresh flavors flavors and and ingredients ingredients and and offers offers a great great entry entry into into Malaysian Malaysian food. food.

Service Service is is fast fast and and friendly, friendly, a feat feat given given how how harried harried the the waitstaff waitstaff can can be. be. Wine Wine and and beer. beer.

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REYHAN R EYHAN. $. $. P Persian. ersian. R Reyhan eyhan restaurant restaurant is is located located in in the the most most unlikely unlikely of of areas—an areas—an industrial industrial strip strip of of Almaden Almaden Road Road in in south south San San Jose.

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Oct 16, 1 Pagoda Pagoda Restaurant, Restaur esta ant, Fairmont San Fairmont Hotel, H S Josee

SSCHOLA CHOLA CANTORUM, CANTO O RU M , RENAISSSANCE GEMS GEMS WITH WITH RENAISSANCE THE WHOLE WHOLE N OYSE THE NOYSE Octt 16 at 8pm, Oc m Sunnyvale S Presbyterian; Presbyterian; Oct 17 at 4pm, First Fir irst ir Congregational Church Palo Alto Congr egationnal Chur ch of P a Al alo to

PIANIST P IANIST P PATRICIA ATRICIA CHENG CHENG Oct 17 at 2pm 2pm,, Community ni School choo of and Music an nd Arts, A Mountain View V Vie

SST. T. MICHAEL MICHAEL T TRIO RIO Oct 177 at 3pm, Historic Villa, Vi Arts Montalvo Ar rts Center nter

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Zoppé

Thursday–Sunday, Oct. 14–24; Circus Tent, downtown Redwood City For seven generations, the Zoppés have kept the rich tradition of Italian circus acts alive. The family brings its show to Redwood City with clowns, trapeze performers, trained dogs and lots of breathtaking acrobatics. New this year are the Bantu Warriors from Kenya. The visit begins with a special dinner show (7pm) on Oct. 14; there will be both evening and matinee shows through the run; see www.redwoodcity.org/events/zoppe.html for schedule.

For the inaugural For inaugural event event in Montalvo’s Montalvo’s “New “New Directions” D ections” Dir performing ccontemporary ontemporary perf orrming arts series, Hope Mohr will present pr esent two two beautiful beautifu ul and dynamic dance dance performances. perrformances.

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Saturday–Sunday, 10am–6pm; Casa de Fruta, Highway 152; $25

The siren call of better, bawdier times lives on at the annual Renaissance Faire, where the jousts, guilds and wenches of a bygone era cane be sampled. This weekend’s theme is Oktoberfest, and abundance varieties of locally brewed beer and maybe even mead will be available for quaffing lustily. The queen herself will pick the top suds. The Wicked Tinkers will perform Celtic rock Saturday starting at 6pm.

Hope Mohr Dance Fri, Oct 15, 7pm

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Dancers move ballet preconceived Danc ers mo ve in and out of classical classical ball et poses and break brreak e away from from pr rec e onceived notions off ““perfect” movement.

Features music byy W William Duckworth and original n otions o perfect” m ovement. F eatures m usic b illiam D uckworth a nd o riginal poetryy byy Brenda p Brenda Hillman.

The combination combination of Bach and and found found sounds from from tthe he u urban rban e environment nvironment n not ot o only nly drives action ass M Mohr listening-based improvisation d rives tthe he a ction onstage onstage a ohr jjuxtaposes uxtaposes lis tening-bassed impr ovisation and classical dance invites participate through ough clas sical danc e vocabulary, vocabularyy, but also invit es the audience audience tto o participat e thr auditory their own own visual and audit o rresponses. ory esponses.

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Oktoberfest

Saturday–Sunday, 1am–6pm; free; downtown Campbell

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One of the consolations nature has designed to ease us through the shorter daylight hours of fall is Oktoberfest. Music and beer certainly provide ample preparation for the cold weather ahead. The 16th annual Oktoberfest in Campbell features music by the AlpinersUDA (both days) and the Road Dogs Band, California Repercussion and Fred McCarty (all on Saturday)—as well as the Playbacks, Bughorn Rex and the Tin Man (Sunday).

Vodoun/Vodounon Oct. 13–March 20; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford; free

The newest show at the Cantor Arts Center takes a two-sided approach to form as Belgian photographer Jean-Dominique Burton displays split-screen images. On the left, he depicts Vodoun priests or priestesses from Benin in black-andwhite. These shots are matched on the right with color images of Vodoun shrines.

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4. $ 24-$36.

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Big Bands DAMES AND CATS alike were puttin’ on the ritz over the weekend for Stompin’ at the Savoy, a rollicking, two-act musical revue of the 1940s bigband era, presented by Tabard Theatre Company and currently playing at the Theatre on San Pedro Square.

The name refers to not only to Benny Goodman’s song but also to the Savoy Ballroom, a popular dance venue that was located in Harlem from the 1920s to the 1950s. In contrast to most venues at that time, white and black Americans were welcomed and danced together in the ballroom. It was also hubbub for famed musicians. Many dance fads had their beginnings at the Savoy; the Flying Charleston, the Lindy Hop and the Stomp, to name just a few.

Stompin’ at the Savoy opens up with the look and feel of a ballroom set in 1944. Backed by the 11-piece San Jose Jazz Orchestra, the 10 cast members not only sing and dance to the old tunes but also encourage the audience to get up and dance as well. They cover many favorites of the past, including songs from Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller.

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There really is no fault with the cast and how they transform themselves into 1940s boogie-woogie characters. Their costumes hit the nail on the head. Each member of the cast has his or her own standout moment. Greg Goebel plays the band leader, occasionally joining the band with his trumpet. Michael Amaral fits the role of the crooner, reminiscent of a young Frank Sinatra.

Paul Bolton’s duet with Lauren Post about the follies of watching your significant other grow old was hilarious. Diane Milo’s solo performance showcased her versatile voice. It might be a toss-up between who the diva of the evening was, either Juanita Harris or Tracy Perrilliat. Both are phenomenal singers who gave their all during their performances. Ben D’Angelo and Carol Lanoie clowned their way through a couple of comedy acts, with obviously terrible jokes that incited more groans than laughs, complete with baddabings and duck calls. But the true show-stopper was James Creer’s flawless channeling of Cab Calloway in “Minnie the Moocher.” He had the moves as well as the voice.

This is the type of theater that just wants audiences to have fun. It’s for young and old alike. You can either remember the songs or be introduced to great music of the past. Besides, what play encourages the patrons to dance? And if you’re lucky, one of the performers may ask you to dance as well.—Beau Dowling

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LLopez opez aand nd W oody M iller. TThru hru Oct O ct 331.

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Big Basin B ig B asin Way, Way, Saratoga.

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3. TTue-Fri, ue-Fri, 110am-5pm, 0am-5pm, SSat, at, noon-6pm. noon-6pm.

Open O pen llate ate first first Friday Friday ooff tthe he month. m onth. San San Jose.

Jose.

SSJSU JSU SSTUDENT TUDENT GGALLERIES ALLERIES Works bbyy JJulia Works ulia W Weber, eber, M Morgan organ CChivers, hivers, JJames ames Pollard, Pollard, JJennifer ennifer Lau, Lau, David David Cheung Cheung Appel aand nd Jackie Jackie A ppel iinn vvarious arious Art ggalleries. alleries. Thru Thru Oct Oct 15.

15. SJSU SJSU A rt Building.

B uilding.

SSLG LG A ART RT BOUTIKI BOUTIKI “EyaaaaaahH!! Monsters!”

“EyaaaaaahH!!

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Pieces P ieces iinn a bbeastly eastly vvein ein by by JJames ames Brunner, Brunner, JJohn ohn Hastings Hastings Rausch. aand nd Drew Drew R ausch. Thru Thru Oct Oct 29.

29.

SSan an Jose.

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so-so-bosses iiss tthe so-so-bosses he ttopic opic Boss Bad ooff Sutton’s Sutton’s ““Good Good B oss B ad Boss.”

Books B oss.” TTue, ue, 77pm. pm. FFree. ree. B ook s Palo Alto.

IInc., nc., P alo A l to.

ids *kkids ANNE IISAACS/ ANNE SAACS/ PAUL ZELINSKY P AUL ZE LINSKY

The author The author ooff “The “The Monster Monster Within: Hidden W ithin: TThe he H idden Side Side ooff Motherhood” Motherhood” speaks. speak s.

Books TThu, hu, 7pm.

7pm. FFree. ree. B ooks Inc., Inc., Mountain M ountain View.

View.

The authors of the popular young-adultt novel “Dust young-adul Devil” sign copies of their book about Angelica Free.

LLongrider. ongrider. TTue, uue, 3pm. Fr ee.

Hicklebee’s, Hicklebee ’s, San Jose.

BOOK B OOK SSALE ALE

MISS M ISS N NELSON ELSON IISS M MISSING! ISSING!

BARBARA BA RBARA A ALMOND LMOND

With vvideos, With ideos, D DVDs VDs aand nd CCDs Ds well aass w ell aass bbooks. ooks. SSat, at, 10am10amWillow Glen 44pm. pm. W illow G len Branch Branch Room.

LLibrary ibrary CCommunity ommunity R oom.

A ffamily amily play by CCalifornia alifornia Theatree Center Center.. Sat, Theatr 11am. $11-$16. Sunnyvale Theatre.

Community Center Theatr e.

SSUE UE GLADER GLADER

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A bbook ook n night ight w with ith tthe he aauthor uthor ooff “Nowhere “Nowhere Hair” Hair ” about about hhelping elping cchildren hildren understand understand a pparent’s arent’s cancer. cancer. Sun, Sun, 7pm.

7pm.

Books FFree. ree. B ooks IInc., nc., Town Town and and Palo Alto.

CCountry, ountry, P alo A l to.

Part of P Part Peninsula eninsula Youth Youth o Theatre’s Theatr e’s SStories tories on SStage tage series. Fri, 9:30 and 11am, S t 11:30am Sat, 11 30 andd 1:30pm.

1 30 Mountain View Center ffor or the Performing P erforming Arts.

MICHAEL M ICHAEL K KRASNY RASNY

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A ssigning igning event event for for author author ooff “Spiritual “Spiritual EEnvy: nvy: An An Agnostic’s Quest.”

A gnostic ’s Q uest.” KKrasny rasny is is tthe he host host ooff KQED’s KQED’s “Forum.”

“Forum.”

Wed, Kepler’s, W ed, 77pm. pm. FFree. ree. Ke pler ’s, Menlo M enlo Park.

Park.

Italian ffamily amily cir circus. cus. Thu, show, 7pm dinner show w, Fri, 4 and 7pm, Fri, noon, 3 and 6pm.

Runs thru Oct 224.

4. $10-$20.

Downtown LLibrary, ibraryy, Redwood City..

City

with admission; materials provided. provided. San Jose Museum of Art.

Sidewalk sale with paintings, photography photography and gifts. Frifree.

Sun, 10am–5pm; fr ee. Santa Cruz Avenue, Avenue, at EEll CCamino amino Park.

Real, Menlo P ark.

IINTERNATIONAL NTERNA ATI T ONAL GIFT GIFT FAIR FAIR Gifts made by hand. Fri, Gifts 9am-8pm, Sat, 10am-4pm.

Free.

Glen Fr ee. Lincoln Lincoln G len Church Church Fellowship Hall, San Jose.

LIVING LI VING T THE HE DREAM DREAM Joe Nance, SSJSU JSU grad grad and author,, talks author talks to students about how to achieve their goals. Fri, 7-10pm.

7-10pm. Free.

Free. Mt. Theater,, San Jose.

Pleasant Theater

OKTOBERFEST OK TOBERFEST Campbell transforms Campbell transforms itself German into a G erman village.

10am–6pm, Sat 10am Sat, 10am–6pm 6pm, Sun, Sun free.

10am–5pm; fr ee. Downtown CCampbell. ampbell.

OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGEOUS OUTGROWNS OUT GROWNS Bargain clothes ffor Bargain or kids. FriClaraa Sun, 9am-5pm. Santa Clar County Fairgrounds.

Fairgrounds.

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Free. Half Moon Bay. Bay.

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A ddiscussion iscussion w with ith EE.O. .O. Wilson, Dr.r. Michael W ilson, D Michael Merzenich M erzenich and and Rebecca Rebecca D. D. CCosta osta aabout bout hher er new new book, book, Rattle: ““The The Watchman’s Watchman’s R attle: Our TThinking hinking O ur Way Way Out Out of of EExtinction.” xtinction.” Thu, Thu, 77pm. pm. Free.

Free.

Kepler’s, Ke pler ’s, Menlo Menlo Park.

Park.

A talk about the art of Patricia animation with P atricia Hannaway and James Buckhouse. Thu, 7pm.

Free.

Palo Alto Fr ee. P alo Al to Art Center Auditorium.

REFLECTIONS OF OLD REFLECTIONS OLD SAN SAN JJOSE OSE

MICHAEL M ICHAEL M MOORE OORE TThe he famed famed documentary documentary filmmaker fi lmmaker aaccepts ccepts tthe he Steinbeck St einbeck award. award. Thu, Thu, 7pm.

7pm. $15/$25. $ 15/$25. Morris Morris Dailey Dailey Auditorium, A uditorium, SSJSU. JSU.

ALEX A LEX R ROSS OSS The author The author ooff “Listen “Listen ttoo TThis” his ” and and “The “The Rest Rest Is Is Noise” N o i s e” work ttalks alks aabout bout hhis is w ork aass a music forr ““The m usic ccritic ritic fo The New New YYorker.” orker.” FFri, ri, 22:30pm. :30pm. FFree. ree.

Kepler’s, Ke pler ’s, Menlo Menlo Park.

Park.

BARRY BA RRY SPECTOR SPECTOR Spector discusses Spector discusses A American merican Hee is iideology deology aand nd policies. policies. H is ttouring ouring oonn behalf behalf of of his his book book Gates ““Madness Madness aatt tthe he G ates of of the the Myth CCity: ity: TThe he M yth of of American American IInnocence.” nnocence.” Tue, Tue, 77pm. pm. Free.

Free.

Kepler’s, Ke pler ’s, Menlo Menlo Park.

Park.

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BROOMSTICK B ROOMSTICK B BALL ALL A costume extr extravaganza avaganza to benefit Innvision and the Society.. $125. Dolce Humane Society Hayes Mansion, San Jose.

CCAMELLIA AMELLIA SO SOCIETY CIETY A tasting lectur lecturee about a tea ffarm arm run by women in Bangladesh. Wed, Wed, 7:30pm. www.scccamelliasociety.

See www .scccamelliasociety. com ffor or details.

DALAI D ALAI LAMA A talk on compassion. Thu, Pavilion, avilion, 9:30am. Maples P SStanford. tanford.

D DIY IY A ART RT An art-making work workshop shop Villareal connected to LLeo eo Villar eal show.. Sat, 11-3pm.

Free show 3pm. Fr ee

STAGE

FINE ARTS AR RTS AND AND CRAFTS CRAFTS FFALL ALL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL

Costumed performers performers help bring local history to live.

Presented Pr esented by History San Petit Jose. Wed, Wed, 7pm. $20. LLee P etit TTrianon, rrianon, San Jose.

RENAISSANCE RENAIS SANCE FAIRE FAIRE TTravel ravel to the EElizabethan lizabethan er era, a, Celtic with Cel tic concerts every Sat. Sat-Sun, 10am-6pm.

Runs thru Oct 17.

177. Casa Casa de Fruta, Hollister.

Hollister.

ROCK-A-BUY R OCK-A-BUY BABY BABY EXPO EXPO A community event ffor or expectant mothers with tips from fr om the experts and a baby ffashion ashion show. show. Sun, noon4pm. Hillsdale Shopping CCenter, Center t , San S Mateo.

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Deep Fried TRACY LETTS wanted to follow up his Pulitzer Prize–winning August: Osage County with a play that would explore new territory—specifically, the city of Chicago. The result was Superior Donuts, which Letts calls a “love letter” to the city that has been his home for more than two decades. It’s also a celebration of friendship, community and the American melting pot, and you don’t have to be from Chicago to enjoy it.

This month, Superior Donuts is making its regional debut at TheatreWorks. Leslie Martinson directs, while Howard Swain stars as Arthur Przybyszewski, the aging owner of the small Uptown donut shop where all the action takes place. Sloppy, forlorn and apathetic, this character doesn’t even seem to care when he finds that someone has vandalized his already decrepit shop.

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Mountain View Things change when a new employee, Franco Wicks Center for the (Lance Gardner), arrives on the scene. Franco is Performing Arts everything that Arthur is not: enthusiastic, opinionated and, above all, hopeful. He envisions an updated Superior Donuts that would offer “heart-healthy” alternatives and host poetry slams, regenerating the shop’s dwindling clientele. These ideas seem to have no place in Arthur’s world; hope is not something he has felt since his days as ’60s radical, and he no longer believes that things can change for the better. But even as he butts heads with Franco, the two become friends and are bound to change each others’ lives.

The relationship between the older Polish-American Arthur and the younger African American Franco may sound like sitcom fodder, but Swain and Gardner manage to elevate it beyond that, and while the exchanges between them are hilarious, they are also infused with realism.

The supporting cast is also wonderful. Julia Brothers and Michael J. Asberry play a couple of police officers who frequent Superior Donuts.

Søren Oliver portrays Max Tarasov, a boorish Russian immigrant who runs a DVD shop next door. Joan Mankin is Lady Boyle, a homeless woman to whom Arthur gives free donuts, and Gabriel Marin plays a slimy gangster who is trying to collect a gambling debt from Franco. These actors manage to create unique personalities where only mere stock characters might have existed, rounding out a remarkably heartwarming production that is sentimental without being too sticky-sweet.—Sean Conwell

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metroactive FILM CINEMAAYAT, THE ARAB FILM FESTIVAL Various short ďŹ lms and documentaries about the Arab world, including GazaStrophe (Oct 16, 12:15pm), a neologism referring to the aftermath of the Israeli bombardment in Gaza.

Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (Oct 16, 6:30pm) is a feature ďŹ lm, in which an Egyptian talk-show host ďŹ nds her discussions getting close to home. City of Life (Oct 16, 9:15pm) does the Crash thing in Dubai. Tunisiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cinecita (Oct 17, 2pm) concerns a screenwriter who decides to rob a bank to ďŹ nance his ďŹ lm. American ďŹ lmmaker Jim Hannon follows three faiths in Little Town of Bethlehem (Oct 17, 4:30pm).

In Cairoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heliopisa (Oct 17, 6:30pm), a neighborhood interacts; and in Lebanon a trio of women head out to visit their men by bus in Every Day is a Holiday (Oct 17, 9pm). (Plays Oct 16-17 in San Jose at Camera 12; www.arabďŹ lmfestival.org.) (RvB)

8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION.

STONE (R; 105 min.) See review on page 48. (Opens Fri.)

Revivals THE BIG SLEEP/THE BLUE DAHLIA (Both 1946) Awakened from its Indian Summer nap, the Stanford

Theatre does what it does best, offering a double-bill of two protonoirs. In The Big Sleep, easygoing L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by a crippled general to keep tabs on his nymphomaniac daughter, who is wrapped up in a case of blackmail and murderâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; all a matter of less importance to Marlowe then matching wits with the ladies over cocktails. No one has ever cared as much about the plot as they have about Howard Hawksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; staggeringly impudent directionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or as much as they cared for Lauren Bacall, who plays the smoky-voiced, tough good girl who assists Marlowe. For once in the movies, the playing ďŹ eld is leveled between women and menâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as seen in the friendly rainyday tryst between Marlowe and a bookstore clerk (Dorothy Malone), a scene supposedly improvised on the

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;At Last: A Smart teen Comedy that Adults will Love too.â&#x20AC;?

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(R; 80 min.) See story on page 50.

This screening includes a voter registration drive. The showing is free and is sponsored by Marriage Equality Silicon Valley. (Plays Oct 15 at 7pm at the Bill DeFrank Center, San Jose.) (RvB)

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ENTER THE VOID (Unrated; 160 min.) See review on page 46. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose and at the Aquarius in Palo Alto.)

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stephen Whitty, THE STAR-LEDGER

JACKASS 3-D (R; 94 min.) Johnny Knoxville returns with more stunts that shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be attempted at home. (Opens Fri.)

NOWHERE BOY (R; 98 min.) Aaron Johnson stars as the young John Lennon in a biopic.

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RED (PG-13; 111 min.) Warren Ellis and Cully Hammerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually quite serious graphic novel series is reinterpreted as this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wacky geezers-with-guns pic starring a hopefully well-paid Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis. (Opens Fri.) (RvB)

SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL This week: Zrubavel (2008) The plight of Ethiopian Israelis is examined in this feature film.

(Oct 16, 8pm), Oshman Family JCC,

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Two army buddies return from World War II to a dismal new life. Laddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife (Doris Dowling) is sleeping around, and his child is dead, thanks to her negligence; his buddy Buzz (William Bendix, never better) has a plate in his head that gives him violent headaches and potentially murderous spells whenever the

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;monkey musicâ&#x20AC;? gets too loud. (Plays Oct 14-15 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS/ BEETLE JUICE (1990/1988) A young Frankenstein of a foundling (Johnny Depp) with garden shears for hands ďŹ nds his way in a bland suburb, with the help

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IN JOHN CURRANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Stone, a troika of heavy-acting steeds pull in all three directions. Curran (We Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Live Here Anymore, The Painted Veil) watches in wonder as the leads act up a Force 5 storm, while common sense sneaks out the back exit. Edward Norton, bug-eyed, corn-rowed and saluting Charles Manson, plays â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stone,â&#x20AC;? a longtime convict on a particularly heinous accessory-to-murder charge. Stone is up for parole once again.

Swathed completely in polyester and crumbling like a damp wall is his parole oďŹ&#x192;cer, Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro).

Stone has a new strategy to get himself released: an elementary honey trap, in the form of his red-hot wife, Lucetta (Milla Jovovich, very improved, if Oscarstalking). Lucetta ought to be able to get around Mabry, who is this close to retiring and who has a numbed-out relationship with his own aging wife (Frances Conroy, taking the dummied-up approach out of self-defense), who is near-comatose from booze, Jesus and old but justiďŹ ed resentments. Mabry drinks a bit himself.

Just as we can always tell that a character coughing in a movie equals imminent death of cancer, a character making a stop at the liquor store means heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s threequarters of the way to alcoholism.

Stone the con ends up conning himself.

He hunts for a religion thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make him look worthy of parole. Teetering on the edge from stir craziness, he discovers â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zukangor,â&#x20AC;? some sort of mail-order creed that makes him insanely passive, right as the trap he engineered snaps. Rural Michigan backgrounds and the exteriors of Jkfe\ that stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infamous Jacktown prison, give R; 105 min. the ďŹ lm some visually Opens Friday, believability.

Camera 7 Campbell, and By contrast, Curranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artsy Century 16 and sometimes windy take Mtn. View on this moth-and-candle game is scripted by Angus (Junebug) MacLachlan: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Previously, he was best known as a playwright . . . ,â&#x20AC;? says the press kit. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change his status on the grounds of a movie that certainly thinks itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a play.

Stone is auto-intoxicated with moral relativism (adultery equals murder once again in our sophisticated cinema). The occasional hard-hitting moments give way to a chain of irresolute endings, set to an electronic soundtrack that sounds like a dripping faucet.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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Aaron Johnson as John Lennon is a-Owenrevelation .â&#x20AC;?

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of a kindly Avon Lady. A bit awfully wistful, though Depp is mesmerizingly strange, and the waltz Danny Elfman wrote for the soundtrack worms its way into you. On the whole, full of appeal to the odd child in us all.

BILLED WITH Beetle Juice. A cocooning New England couple (Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin) are killed by a puppy and go to Purgatory, where they are remanded back as ghosts to haunt their own house. Due to the vagaries of time/space, when they return, their beloved home has been gentriďŹ ed and tenanted by two unbearable New York yuppies (Catherine Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara and Jeffrey Jones), made over by their color-blind decorator (the late Glenn Shadix)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and only their lonely gothette daughter, Lydia (Winona Ryder, never better), has the soul to recognize the modernist horror of it all.

Unhappy ghosts, haunted by the living, the dead couple make the mistake of hiring an untrustworthy â&#x20AC;&#x153;bioexorcistâ&#x20AC;? who calls himself Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton). A magic ďŹ lm. The black-light cinematography, Burtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low-tech effects and Keatonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a vile, irresistible horror clownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; make this a wild comedy about the next world and this one. The memorable score is by Danny Elfman with help from ProkoďŹ ev, Grieg and Harry Belafonte. (Plays Oct 15-17 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

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Rosenberg at the piano. Oct 17, 4pm: A birthday tribute to Edna Purviance with A Woman of Paris (1923) directed by Charlie Chaplin, and two shorts. (Plays Oct 16-17 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

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ELDER M. RUSSELL BALLARD explains it all for you: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The face of sin today wears the mask of tolerance . . . do not be deceived, behind the facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain.â&#x20AC;? And pain inďŹ&#x201A;iction is something that any major religion knows something about. The Ballard quote is from a speech delivered to California Mormons, retrieved by investigator Fred Karger and seen in 8: The Mormon Proposition. The Mormon Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tactics are outlined in Reed Cowenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary, distributed by local heroes Wolfe Video of New Almaden, and screened as part of a voter registration drive Friday at the Billy Frank Center. The free screening is sponsored by Marriage Equality Silicon Valley.

Cowen makes a damning case of how a church bought itself an election stripping gay people of the right to marry. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the ďŹ rst election it purchased; church documents here show how the LDS cooked an earlier Hawaiian vote on gay marriage. First, the church formed a coalition with other churches; then, it recruited nonthreatening middle-aged moms as spokespeople.

Karger also shows how the LDS church spent an as yet unknown sum of money putting over the proposition in California in 2008. Network news estimated $22 million spent, which, considering the inescapability of said TV commercials, seems about right.

The Mormons ďŹ rst told California oďŹ&#x192;cials that only $2,078.97 had come straight from them. A few months later, they multiplied

that sum tenfold to about $190,000. A very thrifty media blitz, including the producing and purchasing of air time for 23 separate TV commercials, including your favorite,â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a storm gathering! ... Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid!â&#x20AC;? Through what Cowen argues was an orchestrated pressure campaign from the Mormon leadership to the faithful below them, 2 percent of /1 K?< California by population DFIDFE donated 70 percent of the GIFGFJ@K@FE money to push over the Friday, 7pm, Billy ballot proposition.

DeFrank Center, San Jose; free The ďŹ lm also discusses teen suicides fostered by discrimination. This includes the death of Mormon teen Henry Stuart Matis; since it occurred in 2000, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of a larger pattern, yes, but not quite part of the story of Prop. 8. Another section tells the horror story of former BYU student Bruce Barton, who charges that he was given aversion therapy to conquer his homosexuality, including emetics and electroshock. Cowen has his subject dead to rights. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not even a matter of loving the sinner, hating the sin, when we hear the utterances of Utah State Sen. Chris Buttars, a serious troglodyte. The senator is a better-fed version of the sign wavers and shouters who forecast doom if we permit gay marriage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our country will run out of people!â&#x20AC;? is one numbskullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comment: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so good it ought to have been made into a commercial.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

(1942/1946) Two of the best by Hitchcock and Lubitsch. In Lubitschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smooth yet dark farce To Be or Not to Be, the Shakespearean Joseph Tura, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that great Polish actorâ&#x20AC;? (Jack Benny), learns that he should have followed Iagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advice, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look to your wife.â&#x20AC;?

His own spouse (Carole Lombard) is being courted by a callow pilot (Robert Stack), but this becomes less important when the Nazis invade, and the ham turns patriot.

BILLED WITH Notorious. A number of things all at once: a spy thriller, a Gothic, a romance and a Story of Oâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;like tale of love tested through suffering. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, a woman seduced by a highly authentic government agent named Devlin (Cary Grant). They travel to Rio de Janiero, where Alicia is persuaded

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to get intimate with Sebastian (Claude Rains), a debonair Nazi deeply involved in some Fourth Reich scheme. The stars bring it on in the famous nuzzle on a moonlit balcony over Copacabana; here is attention to the letter of the censorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; law, while defying their spirit, through long-held close-ups and interspersed dialogue.

One startling shot wafts us from a second-ďŹ&#x201A;oor balcony to the palm of Bergmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lovely hand. There a stolen key rests, just as in the Bluebeard myth this tale resembles. (Plays Oct 16-18 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

Reviews LET ME IN (R; 115 min.) Director Matt 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. The action takes place in Los Alamos,

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you can watch it and come to the conclusion that privatization and union-busting is the answer—the same answer we’ve been given since the 1980s. This may not have been Guggenheim’s intention. But as always in this passionate-intensity style documentary, there’s the possibility of deliberate misreading, thanks to the lethal combo of stridency and slipperiness. (RvB)

YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (R; 98 min.) Plushly set but terminally awkward London-set comedy drama. The title transforms a fortune teller’s prediction into a sentence of doom, as per the line in Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream: “The only ship sure to come in has black sails.” Here is Allen’s customary theme: given the certainty of death and the absence

of God, how to conduct oneself?

Better than these characters. Helena (Gemma Jones) and her husband, Alfie (Anthony Hopkins), have split, due to his terror of dying. He’s taken consolation with a £500 a night prostitute named Charmaine (the wonderful Lucy Punch). She’s seeing a psychic and drinking a bit, though Allen doesn’t understand what this boozing might entail as either comedy or drama; alcohol is not his thing. Meanwhile, the couple’s daughter (Naomi Watts) is struggling with her own career as her husband, Roy (Josh Brolin), wrestles with his unpublishable novel. Roy has his own obsession with a girl across the courtyard (Frida Pinto, almost audibly pleading for direction). Punch is the salt of this movie, a leggy comedian who makes even the minor dumb blonde jokes sail. (RvB)

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SECRETARIAT (PG; 116 min.) Today’s riddle: when is a horse a bum steer? I was ready to believe that Seabiscuit ended the Depression. You have to give a good film some slack. I was alive in 1973, the year Secretariat won the Triple Crown. I don’t recall his victory healing our divisions over the Vietnam War, though director Randall Wallace coaxes us to believe it’s true.

Secretariat is inbred—the offspring of too many similar sports films. It’s relentlessly thick—custard-thick— and cheap-looking, too, and its story is as fishy as three-day-old salmon; it tries to make an underhorse out of a very blueblooded steed. Diane Lane, ordinarily a fine actress, gets no help from the script which seems to be trying to make her an antiheroine. Lane plays thoroughbred breeder Penny Chenery. Ultimately, Secretariat is more fundraising pitch than race track action. It is scenes of cold calling, scratching names off a list and fretting over the money more than the races. (RvB)

WAITING FOR SUPERMAN (PG; 102 min.) The vast problems of the U.S. public school system distilled into a quick documentary. Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) follows five young students as they try to get into private schools. (One is eighth-grader Emily of Redwood City, whose parents are concerned that she’ll be pushed onto a noncollege track.) It’s Guggenheim’s contention that school funding has doubled while test scores continue to descend.

Guggenheim has a point: the dropout rate and the failing students are a hell of a problem. Yet this documentary has the kind of ideology even Meg Whitman can wrap herself around:

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N.M., in the winter of 1983. Raised by a drunken but pious single mom, Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is getting to the stage where he’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. She’s a pale girl with dirty bare feet, and she only comes out at night.

What Owen doesn’t know is that Abby’s father (Richard Jenkins) is a serial killer who ritually murders his victims, draining their blood into a jug. Let Me In, of course, makes the Twilight saga look worse than it does already. All in all, Reeves does a fine job of delivering the forlornness, solitude and shame of this story, which only uses the word “vampire” once: the focus is not on blood for blood’s sake but on the tragedy of inexplicable need. (RvB)

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Aaron â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back Bacck tthen, hen, tthere here w ere a lot lot of of were p eople who who w ere w illing to to work work to to people were willing m ak ke ssomething omething happen. hap ppen. Nowadays, Nowadays, make iitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s m ore aabout bout d rinking,â&#x20AC;? says says Melody.

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Sunday, 9pm; VooDoo Lounge, $8 It’s a sad fact that there as many original members of this first-wave SoCal punk band dead as alive.

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KKumar. umar. Fri, Fri, 8pm: 8pm: H ipshake.

Pink SSat, at, 8pm: 8pm: P ink aand nd tthe he Blind Blind Resistance.

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Mon: Dennis Dove.

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Treasure Island Music Festival THE Treasure Island Music Festival’s two days have practically become like two separate festivals. Saturday is dedicated mostly to electronic acts, while Sunday leans toward guitar rock. Last year, that meant fans on Saturday climbing all over each other Treasure Island to see Girl Talk’s incredible set on the smaller stage and bouncing frantically to Passion Pit on the main Single-day tickets stage, while Sunday mixed Bob Mould’s thinky-fuzzy $67.50; go to guitar rock (including some Husker Du classics) with treasureisland the Flaming Lips entering the main stage through a festival.com projection of a naked woman—you can guess where they came out, right? The organizers have a knack for catching acts just at the right time—last year they had Edward Sharpe just before “Home” completely blew up, and a lot of the crowd looked like they were wondering who the hell let this insane hippie cult onto the main stage. This year features two hip acts South Bay music fans will be familiar with—San Jose’s own Mumlers open on Sunday and frequent visitors (from Oakland) Wallpaper bring their campy twist on hip-hop to Saturday. LCD Soundsystem headlines on Saturday, supported by Dia Antwoord, Miike Snow, Little Dragon, Phantogram and more. On Sunday, Belle and Sebastian are preceded by the National, Broken Social Scene, Ra Ra Riot, Monotonix and the Sea and Cake. —Steve Palopoli Saturday–Sunday

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

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English Beat DAVE WAKELING’S father used to tell him, “If God made something better than this, he kept it to himself.” He was talking about sex, but right now, sitting in a small, sunny cafe, sipping on champagne with a plate of crab eggs benedict in front of him, Wakeling’s thinking of California.

“Does it get better?” he asks rhetorically.

This is why he moved here from England, where in the late ’70s and early ’80s his band the Beat rose from the ashes of the punk flameout to chart—along with the Specials, the Selector and Madness—a 2-Tone movement that successfully Friday, 9:30pm combined ska, punk and pop. The Sex Pistols used to listen to reggae music almost exclusively on the bus, but Avalon NIghtclub, never dared to incorporate it into their music; similarly, Santa Clara Wakeling remembers how parties at the time used to feature one DJ playing punk and one playing reggae. He $22 remembers the night that Beat guitarist Andy Cox (who would go on to play in Fine Young Cannibals) said to him, “What if you could get elements of both DJs into the same three-minute pop song?” Wakeling’s famous description of his musical vision is “the Velvet Underground meets Toots and the Maytals at a Buzzcocks concert.”

“I purposefully didn’t want it to sound like it was from Kingston, Jamaica, in 1963,” says Wakeling of his approach to ska. “I wanted something that would sound new and would stand up in its own right.”

The Beat only lasted five years and recorded three albums, but their legacy is immeasurable. Songs like “Mirror in the Bathroom,” “Save It for Later,” “I Confess” and “Hands Off She’s Mine” are iconic today, but unfortunately goodwill between the bandmates didn’t last as long. The breakup was famously brutal, with the Beat shattering into several spin-offs (including Wakeling’s General Public). In America, the Beat was always known as the English Beat, because there was already a band with that name stateside. So after various attempts to regroup the Beat imploded (including a disastrous episode of VH1’s Bands Reunited), Wakeling simply picked up with the English Beat last year. A U.K. version of the Beat also tours over there, featuring original members Ranking Roger and Everett Morton. Wakeling is currently working on an album, after several of the new songs got an enthusiastic reception in spots like the South Bay, where he’s played several times since re-forming the group. Sadly, he says, writing in California in 2010 is not so different from writing about England in 1978. “It’s a very similar story,” he says. “Re-evaluation and recession. It ends up with people having to re-evaluate their empire, and its position in the world.”—Steve Palopoli

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For $179.95, a storm glass from Hammacher Schlemmer gets you a weather forecast of dubious accuracy.

Whereas a 25-buck lava lamp, aided by the right combination of tunes and substances, will let you see God. A storm glass is a glass tube containing a mixture of ammonium chloride, potassium nitrate, camphor, water and alcohol, making a normally clear liquid in which different types of white crystals periodically grow and dissolve. The idea is that the mixture is so finely balanced that minor fluctuations in atmospheric conditions will change the solubility of the chemicals and produce a wide variety of crystal shapes, from tiny floating flakes to large masses of feathery fans. Each supposedly predicts a certain type of weather. The inventor of the storm glass is unknown, but descriptions date back to the late 18th century. Early theories held that the chemical blend inside was sensitive to light, heat, wind, atmospheric pressure or even electrical charge.

Interest in storm glasses crested in the 1860s, when such scientific notables as Michael Faraday, Robert Fitzroy and Charles Tomlinson investigated their properties. Fitzroy, meteorologist and captain of HMS Beagle (of Darwin fame), touted the glasses’ accuracy in his Weather Book of 1863. Tomlinson, on the other hand, tested a glass for several months and found it was sensitive only to heat, calling it a “rude thermoscope.” Japanese research from 2008 backs this up, pointing to temperature change as the sole cause of crystal growth, with the rate of cooling influencing the crystal shapes.

I decided we should check this out.

However, no way was I shelling out $179.95. No problem, said my assistants Una and Fierra. We’ll make some storm glasses of our own. They researched storm glass recipes and ordered the appropriate chemicals and laboratory equipment.

Toiling late one night at Straight Dope Labs, Una and Fierra made six storm glasses. Each consisted of a big test tube filled with the precisely measured chemical mixture, then capped. At first the experiment looked like a bust—the storm glasses became

opaque with massed crystals. But after a few days the initial crystal growth settled to the bottom of the tubes, leaving the liquid above clear.

Thereafter new crystals would grow or diminish in response to . . . well, that’s what we meant to find out.

Every day for 12 weeks, Una and Fierra diligently recorded local weather conditions plus their observations of the crystals in each glass. Problems soon emerged. First, how do you read crystals?

Previous researchers’ descriptions were vague, but this much seemed plain: clear liquid meant clear skies, while crystals or cloudiness meant precipitation, which we defined as rain. This gave us a couple simple tests: the storm glass was clear or it wasn’t; rain fell or it didn’t.

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The glasses were more likely to predict rain when they were cooler or cooled off quickly. The latter could signify passage of a cold front, so it’s plausible that a storm glass might sometimes correctly predict deteriorating weather. Una also reported that the crystals were pretty, if unexciting to watch. Personally, I’m sticking with the lava lamp.

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money and and get get my my name name on on the the money map p,” Weintraub Weintraub says, says, adding adding that that he he map, believes believes he he can can compete compete with with the the best best players players in in the the world. world.

Matteson Matteson captured cap ptured the the Frys.com Frys.com Open Open winner’s winner’s purse purse last last year year in in dramatic dramatic fashion, fashion, beating beating Rickie Rickie Fowler Fowler and an nd Jamie Jamie Lovemark Lovemarrk in in a twotwohole hole playoff playoff at at Grayhawk Grayhawk Golf Golf Club Club in in Scottsdale.

Scottsdale. Matteson Matteson bogeyed bogeyed the the last lasst two two holes holes to to put put him him in in a tie tie with with Fowler Fowler and an nd Lovemark Lovemark after after 72 72 holes, holes, and and birdied birdied the the second second playoff playoff hole hole to to win win his his second second career career PGA PGA Tour Tour event—and event—and the the $900,000 $900,000 purse. purse.

This This year year marks marks the the first first time time in in its its four-year history four-yearr h istory that that the the Frys.com Frys.com Open Open won’t won’t be be played played at at the the Grayhawk.

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CordeValle CordeVaallle is is a par-71 par-71 course course that that is is 7,333 7,333 yards yards in in length. length. The The longest longest hole, hole, No. No. 12, 12, is is a mammoth mammoth 605-yard 605-yarrd par parr 5.

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On On Thursday Thursday and and Friday, Friday, the the earliest earliest tee tee times times will will be at at 7am.

7am m. On On Saturday Saturday and and Sunday, Sunday, the the earliest earliest tee tee times times will will be bumped bumped up up to to 9am 9am m because becau use nearly nearly half hallf the the field field will will be cut. cut.

Also Also at at CordeValle CordeValle is is the the Official Official Pro-Am, Pro-Am, a friendly friendly competition competition featuring featuring groups groups of of three three amateurs amateurs paired paired with with one one pro pro that that starts starrts Wednesday, Wednesday, Oct. Oct. 13.

13. Among Among the the list list of of pros pros that that will will participate parrticipate in in the the event event is is nine-time nine-time PGA PGA Tour Tour winner winner Stuart Stuart Appleby.

Appleby. The The Pro-Am Pro-Am has hass tee tee times times starting startting as as early early ass 7:20am 7:20am m and an nd as as late late as as 1pm.

1pm. For For either either event, event, a single single day day ticket ticket is is $35, $35, and an nd children children under under 14 14 are are free free when when with with a paying paying adult. ad dult. An An all alll week week badge bad dge for for the the Frys.com Frys.com Open Open costs costs $125. $125. —Joey —Joey Akeley Akeley

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Adjacent to the Spartan Keyes neighborhood, which includes Kelley Park and Spartan Stadium, Martha Gardens is a mix of residential and lightindustrial development, with a few old cannery buildings and aging warehouses mixed in. It began attracting artists back in 1975, when San Jose Sate University established its Art Foundry on South Fifth Street. Not long afterward, SJSU’s art students found there were spaces available in the old Citadel Cannery Building and American Can Company and transformed them into artists studios. Over the years, some artists have stayed on with successful careers anchored in these Martha Gardens spaces. For much of that time, there were no official live/work or loftlike spaces, but rather the artists would put together makeshift living spaces in their art studios. That’s been changing in recent years, as the neighborhood is undergoing a revitalization.

Completed in 2006, the Brickyard, at 1060 S. Third St., is distinguished by its trademark all-brick facade, and houses 176 condominiums—one and two-bedroom units with spacious floor plans and 10-foot ceilings. All of the units are pre-wired with CAT-5 Internet and come with central air and heat, inunit washers and dryers and kitchens featuring granite slab counter tops and stainless steel appliances. There’s a pool

and a big spa; a barbecue area with a gas grill; a fitness center, billiards room and secured underground parking. There are eight listings in the Brickyard right now, priced between $138,000 and $230,000, with one-bedroom/one-bath and twobedroom/two-bath floor plans available.

Nearby, at 125 Patterson St., is the Works, completed in 2007, featuring 74 flats and loft-style condos with one- and two-bedroom floor plans ranging from 894 to 1,400 square feet. The kitchens are nicely appointed with Shaker-style cabinets, granite counters and stainless steel appliances. There are currently five units, priced from $274,888 to $364,500.

The Art Ark in Martha Gardens is an affordable housing development completed in 2007 and comprised of two distinct “neighborhoods” joined by a performance plaza and art gallery.

There is what’s known as the Factory Building, which faces a row of industrial fabricators and services and features small artist live-work lofts opening onto landscaped courts with space for residents to work in or display sculptural pieces. Then there are the Cottages, nested studios designed in the style of bungalows, with private porches. These have a homier, less industrial feel. There are 148 units in all, with 133 studios and 15 two-bedrooms.

Amenities include a fitness center and a computer room with a kitchen and a sun deck that opens to an outdoor amphitheater facing a neighborhood park. The coolest feature is undoubtedly the on-site art gallery and an in-house artist-in-residence who teaches art classes and coordinates gallery shows.

Studios are 450–550 square feet and monthly rents range $558–$903. Two bedrooms are 750–1,110 square feet with monthly rents $700–$1,145. The wait list is currently open.—Katherine Thornberry

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