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Cogan Moving On In the last few weeks, San Jose City Hall fixture and failed District 9 candidate JIM COGAN‘s Facebook posts have jumped from the occasional cryptic message about being “tired of being sick and sick of being tired,” to a recent barrage of updates referencing ‘90s pop culture. From HOMER SIMPSON quotes to ruminations on “Reality Bites” and updates on changing his default ring tone to Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping,” it seemed that JimCo suddenly had a lot of free time on his hands. Turns out that he does. The former chief of staff for District 1 Councilman PETE CONSTANT officially resigned his position at the end of October. Cogan spent the last decade of his life working his way up the ranks and preparing (expecting?) to nab a spot on the City Council. As he himself was never shy in letting anyone within earshot know, he was the youngest person ever to rise to a top staff position at City Hall. Cogan was by all accounts surprised to be shut down by Don’t DON ROCHA, another forget former council staffer, to tip! coming in a far third after evangelical activist FLY@ METRONEWS. LARRY PEGRAM. Cogan’s COM Facebook profile now says he is in the market for “a purpose greater than myself that also pays well.” Fly guesses that mixing Pete’s weight-loss shakes wasn’t a satisfying enough endeavor for Cogan anymore.

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The dollars spent annually on games for consoles or PCs, and on online memberships to “persistentenvironment” games like World of Warcraft, routinely exceed the revenues of the American film industry. Halo 3 took in more revenue in its first day of sales than Spider Man 3, the highest grossing movie debut as of 2007.

The gaming industry, which was born in Silicon Valley, continues to be an important player in the local economy. From the industry giant Electronic Arts in Redwood City to the boutique Cryptic Studios in Los Gatos, game builders make up one of the fastest growing segments of in the tech field. Meanwhile, concerns about how video gaming

will impact pre-adolescent and adolescent development are understandably pervasive; a Psychiatric Times article found that “it was unusual for boys to rarely or never play video games; just 8 percent of boys played for less than an hour per week.”

Adults watch children shotgunning onscreen avatars or wrecking cars in high-speed chases or chain-sawing aliens’ limbs off, and we get queasy—especially when we come back in a few hours and the child hasn’t moved from the couch.

But the relationship that players have to the virtual mayhem, and the narrative worlds that encompass it, is far from simple.

Despite scores of studies, psychologists have reached no consensus about whether violent gaming is a pernicious training experience, a healthful catharsis or a little of both.

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At the core of the medium is the lust for and the rewards of unfettered control. These are the primitive precepts of conservatism as it’s practiced in the modern world. Whether they realize it or not, devotees of “the free market” (who now resemble Jehovah’s

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The one paradigm that differs from this pattern—the ostensibly egalitarian MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) such as World of Warcraft and Ultima—is just as solipsistic, if impossible for an individual to control. You participate in a vast social web, but only in conflict or in commerce.

Apparently, this mechanical zeitgeist has no room for a democratic idea or a genuine social impulse. Profit and power dominate the players’ modus

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that the mother of five has aspirations for the District 1 seat that is now occupied by her husband’s newly slender derrière. She seems like a very nice, very sincere person, but it’s difficult to imagine that the stay-at-home mom and former PTA president has the chops for higher office.

Then again, as the District 5 race proved, possessing competency, charisma, the mayor’s endorsement and a honest desire to serve one’s community does not always a winning candidate make.

Apparently, all someone really needs to make it in this town is a little nepotism, a sibling’s spin master and a big bear hug from CINDY CHAVEZ. Fortunately, Julie has already had a lot of practice cuddling plus-size politicians.

operandi. MMORPG players can buy virtual currency with real money, instigating a subindustry in which (largely Asian) wage slaves “work” in the game for a real employer, accumulating nonexistent yet resalable gold and valuables. (In 2008, the BBC reported a richly equipped avatar was itself sold from one player to another for 5,000. ) Could there be such a thing as a progressive virtual “game”? Or is a responsible, sustainable perspective the antithesis to immersive roleplaying experiences? Let’s hope not, because virtuality is one of the largest and fastest-growing modes of human occupation on the planet. We should figure out how communal politics can be expressed in this medium, to say the least— before our culture completely morphs into one all-encompassing dog-eat-dog meta-landscape, and only the conscience-less survive.

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Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the constitutionality of a California law banning the sale of violent games to minors.

Arguing for the law was children’s advocate Jim Steyer, whose Common Sense Media includes on its board of directors John H.N. Fisher, managing director of the Menlo Park VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

The ultimate impact so much gaming will have may be unforeseeable, even as our culture is subsumed by meta-activities long predicted in the fiction of Philip K. Dick. But nobody asks about the politics of the form, the thrust of social meaning inherent in the activity and in the software.

In the future, virtual entertainment may take a vast variety of forms, but right now, the real money is spent on shooting games (first person or third person), like Doom, Halo and Call of Duty, or omnipotent strategy games like SimCity, Civilization and FarmVille (a Facebook application reportedly played by about 1 percent of the world’s population).

Either way, video gaming is about control. Participation is restricted to steering and maintaining the narrative flow, altering the course of the story, using the environment for certain ends, eliminating hindrances (monsters, or human antagonists) and generally being the only significant individual anywhere in the game. The player is either the shooter Attila or the society-ruling God, the one-man plague or the orchestrator of a greed-based system.

Absorbing a narrative in a film or on TV or in a stage play involves observation but also an exchange of empathy, anticipation, authorial intent and thematic meaning.

Playing a game is more singleminded—you dominate the world, accumulate the goods and safeguard your own ass— one way or another.

In this sense, most video games are infantile in nature, and inherently conservative. Think of them as individuated modes of authority disguised as either an escape from authority (the Tea Party esprit) or as benevolent dictatorship (in Spore, you get to control an

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sv 411.com As for inbox filtering, Facebook will show messages from a user’s Facebook friends on the main page, while messages from people not in your social network are shuffled into another mailbox. The system will get smarter over time, so that even people you aren’t friends with on Facebook, but communicate often with, will show up in the stream.

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Facebook’s ‘Modern Messaging System’ Facebook is seeking to replace email with what it calls a “modern messaging system” that combines all the ways people send messages—including email, IM and SMS—into a single interface. It’s a clear assault on Google and its popular “social” application—Gmail.

The new system, Facebook Messages, was announced Monday.

It allows you to simply click on a friend’s face, type a message and hit Enter. Facebook handles the rest. And it comes with an optional “facebook.com” email address.

But a new email address isn’t the point. Rather it is the unification of a variety of means of communication. Instead of grouping conversations by threads or organizing them chronologically, Facebook’s message system sorts all messages between two people into a single, long thread. That means you see every message sent through the system to a friend or boyfriend in a giant stream every time you open a new message.

While the system may not convince hard-core email users to switch their messaging life into Facebook, the always-on, centralized system could prove to be highly popular with Facebook’s core crowd of youngsters. It also ties Facebook users even closer to the Facebook system, so that the site becomes even more central to how they communicate, plan and cultivate friendships. —RYAN SINGEL, WIRED.COM/EPICENTER

Evil13rt By tying all the message systems together under facebook, they are forcing more people to access their services through the same interface. It works so long as everyone likes facebook. speakingofstartrek Email too complicated for young people?

Seriously? My effin grandmother can do email for chrissakes! I reject this idea and the solution MZ plagiarized (undoubtedly) to solve it. No thanks. jeffsconsult I guess it will be called fmail.

Zuck: Our System Is Not an E-Mail Killer. But . . .

Today during the unveiling of their “modern messaging system,“ Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had quite a bit to say about the rumored death of email with the coming of their product. “This is not an email killer. This is a messaging experience that includes email as one part of it,” Zuckerberg said.

Of course, he then went on to say that

if in the future, Facebook’s system fundamentally alters the way people communicate and email is depreciated over time, that would be OK too. He said that in talking to current high schoolers (who make him feel “really old”) they don’t use email. “It’s too formal,” Zuckerberg noted.

Again, if you extrapolate that out, that means the end of email. It sounds as if Zuckerberg is just tip-toeing around calling for the death of a system that a lot of people currently use. Obviously, such a claim would cause a huge uproar (considering that there’s a huge uproar when Facebook changes a font size, the idea of Zuckerberg calling for the death of email is truly terrifying).

He noted that email is too cumbersome. There’s a subject field, a formal greeting, a closing. Teens are using SMS and IM because it’s much simpler. And that’s what Facebook is trying to add to everyone’s life, using email as the gateway drug, of sorts.

“We think that we should take features away from messaging. It should be minimal,” Zuckerberg said.

The writing is on the wall for email.

Facebook just hopes it’s a Facebook Wall. —MG SIEGLER,

Chief Deal Seeker I just asked my 2 year old about the future of communication and she smacked me in the face. Zuck is way off. In the future we won’t use email, we will slap each other.

Arturo Asking high school kids about their behavior patterns assumes that they are not going to enter the work-force, have more meaningful things to say in the future, or well, just overall grow up.

I agree it could change email and it does progress messaging, like FB already has, but ignoring the utility of email in its current form is really very silly.

Pak-Kei If kids growing up implies they will use email eventually, wouldn’t that mean we will use mail pigeons when we get even older? That’s what our

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jake gr I know whenever I have a decision to make I go straight to the local high school. How to save money?

Check. How to dress? Check. How to communicate? Check. Nuff ced! (Is that how I do it? kids? hello?)

Tobias Difficult to wipe out 500 million users just like that. Myspace never even had 10 percent of that.

Jack Parsons They. Do. Not. Have.

500. Million. Users. There is no way that 1 out of 12 people on the planet “use” facebook. Cross-reference that number with U.N. development numbers on how many people have running water.

How to Keep Secrets—Even On Facebook No human relationship can withstand complete transparency.

Facebook gives you plenty of opportunities to commit social faux pas in the name of “connecting,” but there’s no feature to help you keep necessary secrets. You have to get tricky about it.

The problem here isn’t you, reader.

Hopefully you’re smart enough not to post things that will get you fired.

It’s your idiot friends, who are liable to tag you in drunken photos, or write on your wall about the time you made a bong out of a cheese steak sandwich so that your 15year-old son can read it.

Internet scholar danah boyd recently explained the “risk reduction strategies” that teens use to keep their Facebook profiles free of drama caused by friends. But these can be applied to adults just as well.

Let’s take a look: The “Super-Logoff:” The superlogoff is the practice of deactivating your Facebook account entirely each time you log out, then reactivating it when you log in. Your profile

disappears when you deactivate, but Facebook keeps it on their servers for a few days before deleting it indefinitely since they know most people will come crawling back for a hit of social crack. With the superlogoff you can assume maximum control over you profile, since people will only be able to see and post on your wall when you’re logged in.

This would be a good strategy for when you go to Burning Man and don’t want to come back to find yourself tagged in dozens of Facebook pics naked but for splashes of glow-in-the-dark body paint.

White-walling: This is the Facebook equivalent of inbox-zeroing: You delete every single wall post, status update and the like soon after it’s been posted, leaving them up just long enough for friends to see what happened.

The Shell Game: OK, we just made this one up. But what if, for every true thing you posted on your wall, you posted two false things? Haters wouldn’t know what’s up and what’s down!

Maybe all these techniques seems a bit OCD. You know what else seems a bit OCD? Constantly typing the trivial details of your life into a website. —ADRIAN CHEN, VALLEYWAG.GAWKER.COM

EggNogFairy Solution: Be a vampire and/or ghost, that way no one can take a photo of you and tag it. Then you can snort all the cocaine you want and hook up with slutty people. Added bonus: You can drink blood and/or haunt people. You’re welcome. danikilla As someone who has found out about a cheating boyfriend via Facebook in the past, I naturally despise this post. Just reading about the “super-logoff” gave me some flashback anxiety. I want to punch something or someone now. muppit_baby Dammit, I wanna do body shots off a Thai hooker in my cousin’s drug den without feeling embarrassed about it afterward! flugennock I did what I call the “Super-Duper Logoff”: I deleted my Facebook account this past June.

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Sitting cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by hundreds of grainy 3-by-5s and negative strips, daunted by the sheer volume of a family’s worth of photos, I remembered the days of film. A time when you couldn’t delete the picture of the bird that flew in front of Dad’s face, when the flash robbed cousin Tim of his baby blues and gave him red devil eyes instead. When I’d finished my chore, a part of me longed for an era I thought was lost and gone forever, when one had to wait for shoddily composed, quickly snapped photos to come back from the lab.

My nostalgia has been gratified.

Out-of-focus, light-streaked photos have made a second entrance. But this time such photo faux pas as darkened edges and double exposures do not condemn a shot to the scrapbook hall of shame.

Whole communities have sprung up around these “happy accidents” and the lovable, crappy cameras that produce them. An entire genre of “toy” cameras, which are often no more than a plastic carriage with a single lens in a bulky, boxy shape, has taken flight. Holga, Diana, Lomo—let’s not forget Polaroid. All

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Cheap Chic Aside from sharing strange but somehow charming names, the cameras that are making a comeback have a few key things in common.

Most of the models are made completely out of plastic, even the lens. Some operate on 120 mm film, some have fixed lenses; all are inexpensive.

Holgas are adored for discrepancies in their plastic construction that allow

light to leak into the body, which often results in bursts of overexposed film. Both Holgas and Dianas are famous for their marginal field coverage and low-quality plastic lenses, which produce the much sought-after vignetting, or blurred-edge look, and highly saturated color photos.

In the 1980s, Holga cameras were mass-produced and widely distributed to the Chinese public.

Intended to bring photography to the working class in an affordable way, the camera slowly gained international popularity a few years after its introduction. Professional

photographers appreciated the image abstraction Holgas produced, as well as their affordable price, which was as low as $15.

Diana cameras predate the Holga and were brought into the United States from a Hong Kong plastic factory in the 1960s. They were widely used as cheap prizes for carnivals and fairs, and produced dreamy images with their soft focus.

LOMO LC-As are Holga’s communist equivalent, developed in Russia during the ’80s.

And, of course, there’s the Polaroid. First introduced in

1947, the camera, which instantly produced square photos with a white margin, had its heyday in the 1960s.

Ever since Polaroid announced its decision to discontinue production of the film in 2008, though, the cameras have practically become an item of lore.

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Arguably one of the best digital single-lens reflex cameras on the market, Canon’s EOS D5 Mark II, boasts 21 megapixels, eight exposure modes and can snap a photo in 1/8,000th of a second. In contrast, Polaroid cameras tend to generate images that contain less than one megapixel.

Digital images may be quickly uploaded onto a computer and emailed to every corner of the earth, while photos from film must still be processed, cropped and then scanned if one plans to share. For the amateur photographer, printing digital pictures is much more economical.

Only the cream need be printed.

But despite the hassles, lowdefinition film cameras, or at least their aesthetics, are holding their own—and perhaps even breaking new ground—in the 21st century. The Lomographic Society International is a forum for all things toy camera, whether that entails writing about them, selling them or even selling accessories for them. Championing quick and

simple snapshot photography, the group offers 10 “golden rules.” The 10th one trumps all: “Don’t worry about any rules.”

The Hipstamatic iPhone application gives digital photos an old look, as if they were taken with a toy camera. The application’s description reads that Hipstaprints, the application’s resulting images, are “characterized by vignetting, blurring, oversaturation [and discoloration],” while the Hipstamatic itself “keeps the quirks of shooting old-school” with the option of switching the type of film, flash and lens used.

But—Why? We get that they’re crappy, we understand that they’re popular. But what exactly precipitates this shift in photographic trends?

Josh Marcotte, a San Jose photographer who often uses a Holga, calls it “the perfect antidote to digital. It is unapologetically lo-fi.”

Marcotte praises the soft focus and slightly blurry images that

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the Holga produces as pluses for his work. For a project called Lost San Jose (LostSanJose.com), Marcotte photographs vanishing and underappreciated places in the city. These transitory landmarks somehow cry out for retro-tech images.

Marcotte started his project with disposable cameras before working up to digital. About two years ago, however, he decided that “the original reason I got into photography—to have something tangible—was missing in digital.”

He started taking along his plastic cameras and every shot he took in digital he retook with film.

Of course, the advantages of digital can’t be denied. For his website, Marcotte is in the process of scanning his film negatives so that he can do his darkroom work on the computer. In addition to his Holga, he also uses a high-low combination of a digital Canon SLR adapted to work with an old-fashioned plastic Diana lens.

“It’s the best of both worlds,” he says.

In addition to his Holga, Marcotte

also experiments with a Lomo, especially the unusual Octomat model, which has eight lenses that snap in rapid succession.

For Marcotte, there is even a benefit to be gained from what many consider the greatest drawback of film: the lag time between snapshot and finished result.

“It’s a form of delayed gratification,” Marcotte says. “For your patience, you are rewarded.”

San Jose artist and photographer Anabella Pinon works with both 35 mm and 120 mm film point-andshoot cameras, including a Holga and an Ansco 35. She says that she “loves the happy accidents that happen in film . . . the raw look and graininess of the film.

Like many aficionados, Pinon covets the light leaks that might be considered flaws, as well as the opportunity to do double exposures.

She prefers “the raw look and graininess of film.”

“You can make your photos look ‘hip,’ without some fancy [digital] application,” she adds.

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PRESENT IMPERFECT 20 Brilliant, who shoots in both digital and Polaroid, says, “I think I got hooked because it was such a cool object. I go out, I take my Nikon, and it takes great pictures, but it’s not a cool object. Just the same damn thing everyone else has. If you have a camera that looks badass, why not use that?”

Following trends sucks. But in the end, who cares? “When your favorite band becomes popular, well, did you like them, or did you not like them?”

Brilliant asks. For him, it’s more about the camaraderie that instant photos foster.

“There’s a lot of great community in it,” he says. “You’re out with your friends and you’re just starting to take photos and you want to share that process with your friends. It’s not so geeky. It’s not like you take your digital camera and take a picture, and you go home and put it in your laptop. You’re out in a car, and you take it and pass [the Polaroid] to the driver, and that’s that.”

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Customers for the Instax, Jeremiah says, are mostly “people who didn’t have Polaroids as a kid, these 16-, 17-, 19-year-olds, and they’re coming in and they’re like, ‘Wow! Look at this!’”

One simple answer is trend. Tod Brilliant, a professional photographer who has been shooting Polaroid for some 10 years, says that instant film is, in some ways, a fashion accessory. “[Polaroids] were such a hipster item, they were so Urban Outfitters,” he says. Indeed, the alternative-fashion retail store was among the first in the last decade to reintroduce Holgas to the masses.

Of course, not everyone has a Holga from Urban Outfitters. Students of film photography are flea-marketand garage-sale-savvy, but the effect is the same. These photographers are looking for older-looking instruments in the form of weathered plastic.

much less angst than their filmwasting counterparts. Perhaps it’s the obsession with precision and efficiency that so often accompanies digital technology that makes digital photography feel inefficient.

Sonoma State photography major Anna Tracy certainly sees the value of film. “There are only 20 pictures on a roll of film,” she says. “You want to be careful about what you take a picture of. You look around and make sure your composition is exactly what you want it to be before you take a picture.”

Tracy, who previously worked primarily in digital media, took her first class in film photography in 2008 with Sonoma State and Santa Rosa Junior College photography instructor John Ferdico. Ferdico requires his students to shoot with Holgas, and, initially, Tracy was less than pleased about the process. “I was so angry,” she says, “I probably took about six rolls of film, and only two pictures turned out.” They later became her two favorite photos and

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Jeremiah Flynn, of Jeremiah’s Photo Corner in Santa Rosa, reports that this analog obsession has consumed nearly five of his eight years in photo retail. “It’s shocking how much film we’re selling,” he says.

“It seems like it’s actually ramping up.” And while the standard 35 mm film is still his leading seller, he’s noticing that medium and large format films, like those typically used with Holga and Diana cameras, are flying off the shelves like never before.

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She says, “I think photographers in general are a little more anal than a lot of other people in the art world, maybe a little controlling sometimes,” Tracy says. “Everything has a light meter, and it’s very ‘This is how it has to be done.’ [Holgas] kind of let you go a little bit. The fact that you really don’t know how it’s going to turn out, it lets you let go of it.”

Ferdico himself found solace in Holgas at a time in his career when photography was exciting but overwhelming. “I enjoyed it because it was a refreshing change from worrying about stuff with photography,” he says. As an undergraduate art student, he bought his first Holga at a Kansas City dollar store in the 1980s. At around $20, Holgas are more than affordable, especially for photographers, who are prepared to pay many times over that price just for film.

Tracy and Ferdico make it sound so easy, sacrificing to-the-very-pore exactness for the ability to capture a

serendipitous moment. And really, does high-def mean true-to-life?

“Polaroid is more like what you see,” says Brilliant. “Your eye can’t focus on more than one space. That’s what I really enjoy. To me, it’s more real because it’s less honest, which makes it more honest.”

So blurry pictures with a tiny frame taken with a camera that can’t effectively shoot an object more than 10 feet away evoke a heightened sense of verity? Can the human eye do much better? Brilliant rests his case.

Back to Basics For experienced photographers, meticulous visual detail and overly planned shots are not the only aspect of digital that’s bringing them down.

There’s the data, too. And just the thought of it bogs everyone down, even if we’re not totally aware.

“It’s like a visual overload for me,” Tracy says. “I have probably 18 flash drives, full of digital photographs,

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just because I want to have them all backed up, but it’s just so much to go through.” And for someone who’s trying to make a career out of photographs, this computerized burden can act as a hindrance to finding one shot among millions.

Which is why Brilliant typically travels with only one lens when shooting with his digital camera.

“I really enjoy being limited,” he says, “and right now we have so many choices with digital cameras.”

Brilliant relates this camera craze to other trends that have reverted back to older media, such as the popularity of vinyl records. He says these movements operate on a more “human scale” and praises their down-to-earth feasibility. “I can’t carry 4 million photos with me. I can carry 15 Polaroids,” he says.

So Bad It’s . . .

Maybe these crazy, crappy-cameracarrying kids have something here. Sure, it’s a trend. But it’s a trend based on spontaneity and downsizing, which is, at best, a hopeful perspective and, at worst, an idealistic one. Ferdico, who has been teaching photography classes for over 12 years, also sees the interest in film as a desire for an authenticity in the art form, a yearning to know

how it all works. “Here’s this basic technology that provides the basis for all art forms,” says Ferdico. “And it is very much like pottery in that way.

“Photographs aren’t only records, but they’re actually souvenirs,” he continues. “Every time you take a picture, a physical part of the world is absorbed by the emulsion of the film. And then you carry that with you on the surface of the paper. As I learned how digital photography works, it seems to me, it disappears the moment that light energy is encoded. You actually lost that tiny physical thing.”

Maybe it is the physical thing that we hold on to, even in our minds.

Are we going to remember the family portrait where every strand of hair is in place long after the flash drive’s been misplaced? Does a photographer really not learn from her mistakes unless the mistakes are tangible? It’s hard to pin it down, exactly. But I do know that those tiny physical things are not lost on me.

As I write, I have Instax photos scattered all over my room. Film canisters fill my shelves. Last night, I sat on my bed, moving the small white frames around me and wondering which one of these crappy images could possibly be used to accompany this article. I realized I probably couldn’t use any—they were just that bad. And that was OK.

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ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE AmericanAsian steakhouse. $$$$.

Alexander’s is much more than a steakhouse. Add a 500-bottle wine list, multiple dining rooms and Asianaccented ambience and you’ve got a standout South Bay restaurant. Full bar. 5:3010pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 10330 N. Wolfe Rd. 408.446.2222.

CAFE TORRE New Italian. $$$. A gem tucked away in an unassuming little mall, with a sophisticated interior and congenial hosts. Even better is the great pasta and seafood.

Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm and 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 510:30pm Fri-Sat. Closed Sun. 20343 Stevens Creek Blvd.

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CUPERTINO BAKERY Indian and bakery. $. Don’t be fooled by the name. Cupertino Bakery is really a great South Indian restaurant. Unlike many South Indian restaurants, Cupertino Bakery isn’t vegetarian. Good lunch buffet for $7.99. Don’t miss the dosa and utthappam.

11:30am-9:30pm daily, but weekdays kitchen closes 2:30-5:30pm. 102521 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.517.9000.

DYNASTY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Hong Kongstyle Chinese. $$$. Dynasty specializes in Hong Kong-style seafood. The seafood is very fresh, especially the creatures swimming minutes before they arrive on your plate.

Good dim sum, too. Full bar.

11am-2:30pm and 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 10am-3pm and 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 10123 N. Wolfe Rd (in Cupertino Square).

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FLORENTINE RESTAURANT Italian. $. Bold flavors, fresh ingredients and lavish portions.

Casual to dressy. Beer, wine.

10257 S. De Anza Blvd. (plus six other locations, some with full bars). 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat and 49pm Sun. 408.253.6532.

FONTANA’S California/Italian. $$$. A steady performer, Fontana’s rarely disappoints pasta lovers. Beer, wine.

11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 5-10pm Sat and 4:30-9pm Sun. 20840 Steven Creek Blvd.

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GOCHI Japanese. $$$. Gochi is a globally inspired izakaya (small plates) restaurant.

Most of the food is straightup Japanese fare, but there are a few American, French and Korean twists. Highly recommended. 19980 Homestead Rd. 408.725.0542.

LOON WAH Chinese. $. The kitchen produces good wokcentric dishes, but its main draw is fresh, hand-pulled noodles. Casual. Beer, wine.

11am-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 11am-10pm Fri-Sun. 1146 De Anza Blvd. 408.257.8877.

TODAI Japanese. $$. Billed as a Japanese seafood buffet, Todai doesn’t limit itself to Japanese dishes. Pan-Asian and just plain odd specialties rotate. 11:30am-2:30pm

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MAURIZIO’S AUTHENTIC ITALIAN RISTORANTE Italian. $$. You don’t dine here for a quick upscale fix, you dine here for down-home atmosphere.

Tender vitello saltimbocca tops the menu. 11:30am-2pm and 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-2pm and 5-10pm Fri and 5-10pm Sat. Closed Sun. 25 E. First St, Morgan Hill. 408.782.7550.

RAGOOTS American. $$.

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The tasting room, bottling facility and corporate offices are still there today. Amazingly, this small space processes and bottles the majority of the wine, more than 1 million cases per year. Demand drove expansion, and from the original 280 acres the winery grew to 1,300 acres in Monterey County, 2300 in Paso Robles and 35 in St. Helena.

Although they make vast quantities of wine most of which is very reasonably priced, the people at J. Lohr want their customers to say, “Wow, that’s great wine, and what a great price too,” not the other way around.

Lohr has always been interested in making good wine that can be enjoyed right now, not treasures to be stored away for decades.

There are essentially four tiers of J. Lohr wines. Out of those million-plus cases, there are a few that contain boutique-style wines. From a tasting standpoint, all the wines are solid. They are well-balanced and easy to drink. A few personal favorites from my visit were the October Night Chardonnay, Gesture GSM and Tower Road Petite Sirah. For the holidays, both STEVE LOHR, Jerry’s son and executive vice-president, and BILL FLINT, the hospitality manager, recommended the Wildflower Valdiguié as a great turkey wine. This unusually light red is best served slightly chilled and tastes distinctly of cranberries and retails for $10.

Jerry Lohr has always considered himself a steward of the land. His winery is a family business. He hopes to pass it to his grandchildren’s grandchildren and therefore does not follow a five-year or even a 10-year plan but looks at a much longer span of time as more businesses should.

In 2010, the winery became one of the first in the state to earn a Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing distinction, which requires meeting 58 prerequisites. In addition to composting, water conservation and reducing chemical waste, J. Lohr has a 3-acre solar photovoltaic tracking system that was unveiled in 2009 and is the largest of its kind in the industry. Even in tough times, the winery continues to grow and to win awards of distinction. This year, it was honored with Wine Enthusiast’s Winery of the Year award. It does pay to be green.—Liza Mock

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BANANA LEAF Southeast Asian/Malaysian. $$$. A charming, exotic gem of a place with some of the best Southeast Asian food in the county. Sauces are masterfully

crafted and reduced to glossy consistencies. 11am-3pm, 5-9:45pm Mon-Thu, 510:30pm Fri-Sat. 182 Ranch Dr. 408.719.9811.

CHILI GARDEN Szechuan. $$.

There’s a lot to recommend at this Szechuan standout.

Mapo tofu is a classic that rules here. For sheer fireworks, go for the Chongqing spicy

chicken, a fearsome-looking dish of chicken lightly battered and crisp. 10:30am-2:30pm and 4:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 10:30am-2:30pm and 4:3010:30pm Fri-Sun. 210 Barber Lane. 408.526.9888.

DARDA SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Islamic Chinese. $. Darda serves halal meat and

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SVDINING draws parts of its menu from western China, a region that borders the Muslim countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Seafood and noodle dishes are particularly good. No alcohol served. 11am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri 10:30am-3pm, 4:30-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 296 Barber Court.

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DING SHENG Chinese. $$.

Bustling Ding Sheng restaurant specializes in Shanghai-style Chinese food but features a wide variety of regional dishes.

Shanghai dishes include cold weather fare like dumplings, braised meats and sweet and savory meats. 11am-2:30pm and 5pm-midnight daily. 686 Barber Lane. 408.943.8786.

LIOU’S HOUSE Chinese. $$.

A shopping center next to a miniature golf course is an unlikely place to find a classically trained Chinese chef, but Silicon Valley offers good food in unexpected places.

Check out the Hunan tofu, kung pao chicken and stir-fried pea greens. 11am-2:30pm and 4:30-9:30pm Tue-Sun. 1245 Jacklin Rd. 408.263.9888.

SAVORY CHICKEN Filipino. $. Savory Chicken offers a Filipino take on fried poultry.

The chicken is tossed in a proprietary blend of herbs and spices and fried in soybean oil.

No flour or bread crumbs are used. The result is an almost translucent skin that is so crisp it shatters on contact. 11am8pm Tue-Sun. 1557 Landess Ave. 408.945.8616.

SOUTH LEGEND SICHUAN RESTAURANT Szechuan Chinese. $. The menu of this Milpitas standout reads like an encyclopedia of Szechuan food. Couple beef, kung pao chicken and Chen ma pa tofu are all great. 11am-2:30pm and 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri and 11am-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1720 N. Milpitas Blvd. 408.934.3970.

SWAGAT Indian. $. Swagat explores both southern and northern Indian cuisine in its traditional and extensive menu. Casual. Beer, wine.

Buffet daily 11am-3pm, 5:30-10pm. 68 S. Abel St. 408.262.1128.

TIRUPATHI BHIMAS Indian. $$. Tirupathi Bhimas specializes in vegetarian food from south India, particularly that of Andra Pradesh, a spicy and aromatic cuisine, as well as a few north Indian dishes and “Indo-Chinese.”

11:30am-2pm and 6-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 11:30am-2:30pm and 6-9:30pm Fri and Sat and 11:30am-2:30pm and 69:30pm Sun. 1208 S. Abel St. 408.945.1010.

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Casual shopping-center surroundings. 11:30-10pm Mon-Sun. 165 E. Camino Real.

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CHINA CAFE Mandarin, Szechuan. $$. A little surprise in the Blossom Valley Center promises uptown ambience, spotless surroundings and well-presented classical Chinese cuisine. 1760 Miramonte Ave. 650.968.2298.

DON GIOVANNI Italian. $$$.

This pumpkin-hued eatery faces the bustling downtown with a handsome demeanor of mahogany and candlelight. Full bar. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm MonFri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 235 Castro St. 650.961.9749.

Indian, tandoori. $$. Meals unfold like a bolt of rare silk, served with care and efficiency in a rich, luminous interior.

Dishes are complex and varied.

11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun, 5-9:45pm Mon-Sun. 2290 El Camino Real. 650.968.7511.

LE PETIT BISTRO Classic French. $$. There’s a lot to like about this pinch of a place with its simple, practiced French cuisine and quiet dining. Casual. Beer, wine.

5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 1405 W. El Camino Real. 650.964.3321.

AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza/Italian. $$.

MARU ICHI Japanese noodles.

When it’s done right, East Coast pizza can be a glorious thing. Dough is rolled ultrathin and served noticeably charred on the sides and bottom, the ideal combination for a “foldable” slice on the go. It’s done right here. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am-11pm Sat, 11:30am10pm Sun. 790 Castro St. 650.961.6666.

BODRUM CAFE Turkish. $$.

The menu at Bodrum Cafe is extensive and covers a lot of ground, but it’s the lamb dishes that stand out. A good place to start is with the lahmacun (Turkey’s take on pizza) and the kebabs. 10am10pm daily. 383 Castro St. 650.396.7010.

CASCAL Spanish Tapas. $$$.

The tapas menu yields big tastes in small portions at this pan-Latin charmer. Calamari, roasted quail and minted lamb meatballs are among the delicacies. Full bar. 11:30am10pm Mon-Sun. 400 Castro St. 650.940.9500.

CHAAT PARADISE Vegetarian Indian. $. Golden spices predominate at this popular spot for inexpensive, fun-to-

$. Maru Ichi is a true noodle shop. While there are a few appetizers on the menu, the slurpable house-made noodles—ramen, soba and udon—are what you want.

Go for the house specialty kuro ramen or the soy sauce ramen. Beer and wine. Cash only. 11:30-2:15pm, 5-9:45pm, 11:30am-9:45pm, 11:30am9pm Sun. 368 Castro St. 650.564.9931.

NAMI NAMI Japanese. $$$.

Nami Nami specializes in kappo-style Japanese food, food prepared in the artful, labor-intensive, seasonally driven style associated with the city of Kyoto. For diners willing to open their minds and mouths, it offers one of the most exciting restaurant experiences in the Bay Area.

11:30am-2pm Tue-Sun, 7-10pm Tue-Thu and 6-11pm Fri-Sat. 240 Castro St. 650.964.6990.

NETO CAFFE AND BAKERY CAFE $$. Neto Caffe and Bakery is a busy, good-looking space that has a happy buzz about it. The first thing you notice as you walk in is all the fresh pastries on the counter. There’s a little bit of everything including a number

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7am-10pm daily. 135 Castro St. 650.625.9888.

PHO TO CHAU Vietnamese noodle house. $. The pho here is an honest noodle soup.

First-timers might want to stick with the basic pho chin, topped with slices of beef brisket. 11am-10pm daily. 853 Villa St. 650.961.8069.

ROSE INTERNATIONAL MARKET Persian. $. Part Middle Eastern grocery store, part Persian food take-out counter and part kebab grill, Rose International Market is a gold mine of good food. The white plastic tables out front are packed with customers eating the market’s signature mesquite-grilled kebabs. 8am9pm Mon-Sat, 9am-8pm Sun. 1060 Castro St. 650.960.1900.

THE SPICE ISLANDS CAFE Singaporean, Malaysian, Indonesian. $$. This restaurant will send your taste buds to the tropics. Talented chefs put out dishes full of spice and passion, like jumbo chile prawns, papaya salad and Malaysian spareribs. The menu is expansive. Prices are reasonable. 210 Hope St. 650.960.1888.

SUSHI TOMI Japanese. $$.

Sushi Tomi serves Japanese food with an elegant simplicity.

Sushi and sashimi are ocean fresh. For a real treat, ask for an omakase dinner and let the chef put together a tasting menu for you. 11:30am-2pm 5:30-9:30pm. 635 W. Dana St. 650.968.3227.

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XANH RESTAURANT Modern Vietnamese. $$.

Xanh (pronounced “zahn”) epitomizes the new breed of upscale, contemporary Vietnamese restaurant. The appealing menu ranges from the traditional to the unconventional and includes rolls, salads, noodles, small plates and full-size entrees.

11:30am-2pm and dinner 4:30pm-close Mon-Fri. 110 Castro St. 650.964.1888

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

Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm MonSun. 5:30-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 5:30-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 975 W. Dana St. 650.960.0626.

ZUCCA Mediterranean. $$. Time slows and the paella glows at this Turkish/Spanish charmer: lamb kofte, spicy shrimp, steak, baklava. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sun 186 Castro St. 650.864.9940.

Redwood City OLD PORT LOBSTER SHACK New England. $$. Made with lobster flown in from Maine, the lobster roll is simple but good: a toasted, buttery hot dog-style bun cradles fresh, juicy lobster meat. The Gruyèrelaced lobster mac ’n’ cheese and lobster bisque are good, too. 11am-8pm Mon-Fri, 11am9pm Sat-Sun. 851 Veterans Blvd. 650.366.2400.

Mexican. $. This clean and fetching diner is the place for authentic fare. Generous portions. 6:30am-10pm MonFri, 6:30am-11pm Sat, 8am10pm Sun. 854 W. Dana St. 650.969.1464.

PAMPLEMOUSSE Cafe. $. Aside from owner Kelli Manukyan’s pastry skills, the cafe offers a number of tasty sandwiches, soups and quiches. 7am-7pm Mon-Thu, 7am-9pm Fri, 8am-7pm Sat, 8am-5pm Sun. 2401 Broadway St. 650.599.9714.

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Italian. $$$. Entrees are attractively presented, and the waiters will make you feel as though you were the most important guests in the place. Dessert lives up to the rest of the meal. Beer, wine.

11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9:30pm. 108 Castro St. 650.940.1717.

Asian. $$. Scattershot panAsian restaurants often falter because their menus offer tepid examples of each cuisine, but Red Lantern shows confidence and mastery of a variety of cooking styles. Lunch 11am-2pm Mon-Fri, dinner 5-10pm Sun-Wed, 5-11pm Thu-Sat. 808 Winslow St. 650.369.5483.

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ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$.

Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be.

Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri and dinner 5:30-10pm SunThu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555.

BELLA MIA Italian-American. $$$. One of downtown San Jose’s most attractive eateries, Bella Mia serves regional dishes with flair. Full bar. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 4:30-10pm Sat, 4:30-8pm Sun. 58 S. First St. 408.280.1993.

BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$. Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and taste likes the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American, Mexican and Asian food. Most dishes are designed for sharing—appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat, Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St, San Jose. 408.292.4300.

CITY BAR AND GRILL CLASSIC American. $$$. Bigshouldered food in handsome surroundings is the rule. The steaks are big and juicy, the pot pies better than Grandma used to make. Full bar. 300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444.

DALAT Vietnamese. $$.

San Jose’s second-oldest Vietnamese restaurant continues to draw those in search of delicious traditional fare. Surroundings are clean and friendly. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 408 E. William St. 408.294.6989.

E&O TRADING COMPANY Southeast Asian. $$$. Entrees come on playful serving dishes and are beautifully spiced with multiculti flavors,

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The Butter Paddle is run by volunteer women, and all proceeds benefit EASTFIELD MING QUONG (EMQ) Families First. EMQ represents the merging of two children and family services agencies: Eastfield Home of Benevolence (founded in San Jose in 1867) and Ming Quong Presbyterian Mission Home (founded in San Francisco in 1874). Eastfield began as an orphanage providing shelter, care and education for local homeless youth. Ming Quong rescued Chinese girls from slavery and prostitution in the alleys of San Francisco. The two agencies merged in 1987 and were later called EMQ Children and Family Services.

The store bailed on Saratoga after steady declines in foot traffic and retail sales. Food traffic on Big Basin Way in Saratoga is all but nonexistent. (You hear that Saratoga City Council? More businesses will leave the downtown, and there will be nothing left unless you come up with a plan to attract and retain businesses.) “We’re all about making money to give children, and our sales were dropping year after year,” says Carol Gruetzner, EMQ auxiliary president.

The new store opened Oct. 30 and business is great now. So how does a little store with just one location compete with the malls and retail giants like Macy’s and Williams-Sonoma? “We buy products the public likes, number one,” says Gruetzner. “That’s the secret of our success. We change what we sell all the time.”

Because volunteers run things, the 68 women who staff the store are deeply passionate about the work they do and what they sell. “We get to feel good about giving to the children,” says Gruetzner.

Of course the lack of labor costs give the Butter Paddle a strategic advantage over for-profit retailers. But that’s what makes the store so cool. You could go to a mall and give your money to a store that’s in business to enrich itself or you could support a store with deep community roots that’s is in business to improve the lives of children.

For me that’s a pretty easy choice to make.—Stett Holbrook THE BUTTER PADDLE 33 N. Santa Cruz Blvd., Los Gatos 408.395.1698

from Bali to Ceylon and back through Malaysia. Full bar.

Open 11:30am to 10:30pm, until midnight on weekends.

11:30am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10:30pm Fri, 510:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 96 S. First St. 408.938.4100.

stuffiness. An old favorite comes back strong with a new bistro. Full bar. Closed SunMon. Reservations suggested.

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

Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:30-9:30pm Sat. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161.

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EMILE’S Contemporary

$$$. The revamped menu emphasizes robust flavors and beautiful presentations.

American. $$. In Silicon Valley, the home-grown Flames restaurant chain is the

French. $$$. White-tablecloth amenities without the

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HOUSE OF SIAM Thai. $. This popular establishment runs the gamut of Thai treasures.

Casual. Beer, wine. 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm daily.

151 S. Second St. 408.295.3397.

IL FORNAIO Regional Italian. $$. Embraced by the graceful Sainte Claire Hotel, this location (there are several up and down the coast) transports the diner. The menu showcases a different region of Italy monthly. 7am-10pm, 10:30am-11:30pm Mon-Thu, 8am-11pm Fri-Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. Full bar. 302 S. Market St. 408.271.3366.

LA PASTAIA Italian. $$. La Pastaia remains a stalwart of downtown San Jose’s dining scene. Set inside the Hotel De Anza, the rustic Italian restaurant has big city style to spare. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri and noon-2pm SatSun; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 233 W. Santa Clara St. 408.286.8686.

LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$.

Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades.

Lunch 11am-2:30pm; dinner 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 3-10pm Sat and 3-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.

MCCORMICK AND SCHMICK’S Seafood. $$$. Harks back to big-city fish houses with stately, masculine interiors.

Menu follows the freshest fruits of the sea, grilled, panseared, steamed. Desserts will hook you. 11:30am-10pm daily, 11pm happy hour Fri-Sat. 170 S. Market St. 408.283.7200.

MEZCAL Regional Mexican. $$. Mezcal specializes in delicious regional cuisine from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. People who need nachos and sour-creamtopped burritos on the menu will probably be miffed, but for those willing to venture beyond the same old MexicanAmerican standards, Mezcal offers an excellent point of

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

MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food cooked and served by people with a personal investment in customer happiness. Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, dinner 5-11pm MonSat and Sun 5-9pm. 86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.

MORTON’S STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, a Chicago-based chain of restaurants with more than 80 locations across the United States and abroad, offers delicious, premium-priced steaks. The rest of the menu is a mixed bag. 5:30-11pm MonSat, 5-10pm Sun. 177 Park Ave. 408.947.7000.

MUCHOS Mexican. $. A small player with a big rotisserie, this taqueria cultivates a devout lunch following. All standards get billing, but the mesquite-roasted chicken is the star. Beer. 11am-10pm daily. 72 E. Santa Clara St. 408.277.0333.

NAGLEE PARK GARAGE New American. $$. Lots of restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood joints but few deliver. The Garage does.

Small but satisfying menu of well executed comfort food classics. 5-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm Sat, 9am-1pm Sun. 505 E. San Carlos St. 408.286.1100.

NHA TOI Vietnamese. $$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am10pm daily. 460 E. William St. 408.294.2733.

ORIGINAL JOE’S ItalianAmerican. $$. For five decades OJ’s has been serving classics of American and ItalianAmerican food with heaping portions of big city attitude and glamour. The restaurant underwent an extensive

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PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor.

Pagoda offers the gamut of regional all-stars. Dressy. Full bar. 6-10pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St. 408.998.3937.

PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$.

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

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO New Orleans. $$. The Poor House Bistro offers a lowpriced menu of Crescent City classics like po’ boys, barbecued shrimp, gumbo and muffaletta. Live music on Fridays and Saturdays.

Open 11am-9pm Mon-Sat. Open Sundays for major HP Pavilion events. 91 S. Autumn St. 408.292.5837.

SCOTT’S SEAFOOD Seafood. $$$. Culture lovers and power brokers alike find impeccable sourdough, a sea of marine treats and other entrees and a panoramic view (there’s a sister eatery in Palo Alto). For maximum pleasure, get there at sunset. Full bar. 11:30am5pm Mon-Fri, 5pm-close Sat, 4:30pm-close Sun. 185 Park Ave. 408.971.1700.

71 SAINT PETER New American. $$$. This romantic eatery offers upscale Mediterranean food in an intimate setting Beer, wine.

Closed Sun. 71 N. San Pedro St. 11:30am-1pm, 5-9pm MonSat. 408.971.8523.

VEGETARIAN HOUSE Vegetarian. $. This meat-free stalwart offers vegetarian dishes from around the world with a side serving of religious reading material from spiritual leader Ching Hai. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 520 E. Santa Clara St. 408.292.3798.

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And now they’ve opened in downtown San Jose to great acclaim. 7am-midnight daily.

88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

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*wed ART N SOUL VooDoo Lounge, San Jose Wed – 9pm; $5 Old friends Bill Torgerson and Clifford Dinsmore have returned to the NorCal scene with Dusted Angel. The two were formally in the ’80s punk band Blast, and later in Space Boy, a prog/metal outfit. Their current project is their best yet. Harking back to its earlier days, Dusted Angel builds its songs around heavy riffs and a crushing sound, a la Black Sabbath. Dinsmore’s voice cuts through you like a chain saw, and Torgerson’s pounding on the drums complements it perfectly. Dusted Angel headlines this week’s Art N Soul Night, also

with Hightower and DJs Coco & RS2, 1/4 skate ramp with Noggin’s Skate Crew, live art and more. (BD)

by Mozart and Bach as well as adventuresome selections by Crumb and Szymanowski. (MSG)

MIDORI AND ROBERT MCDONALD

SLAP BRACELET

Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford Wed – 8pm; $66-$76 Japanese-American violinist Midori got her start as a prodigy at age 11 and has returned the favor with her foundation that helps children in New York City learn about music. So stalwart have been her charitable instincts, that she was picked to be a U.N. Messenger of Peace a few years ago. She appears for Stanford Lively Arts with his frequent collaborator pianist Robert McDonald. Their program will feature some familiar works

Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free My child was injured in a slap bracelet accident, so it’s not like I’m very amused by a band taking the name of the ’90s novelty.

True, the kid was really kind of spinning her wheels in life, and her grades were poor. A classic Nuevo-Wavo revival trio (with a sense of humor the original We, Robots gangs of the ’80s lacked), San Jose’s Slapbracelet does those cyberboops and beeps, so very endemic back when MTV’s “No Negroes!” rule meant that wedge haircuts and padded shoulders ruled the cable. Their remix of the Limousines’ “Very

Busy People” manages to make it even more retro-electro, which is saying something. So cool that you’ll think a skinny tie garroted you, just like it happened to my poor dear Courtney, God bless her underachieving soul. (RvB)

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Mountain Charley’s, Los Gatos Thu – 9pm; $5 Honoring the pioneering spirit of a porn actress known for her great-lady roles in Genital Hospital and The Sperminator—they’re from Sunnyvale, they specialize in ’62–’82 big rock, with drum solos

and those escalating slide guitar runs that make it sound like the Marshalls are going to detonate, plus vocals in which the only discernable word is “Alabama.” (RvB)

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THREE BAD JACKS Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $10 Three Bad Jacks isn’t your average rockabilly band. These rebels try to defy convention, mixing the best elements of punk, psychobilly and ’50s doo-wop to create their own sound. Sometimes fast and raw, then shifting to soulful love songs, Three Bad Jacks are here to rock & roll and have a good time. And speaking of defying convention, how can you

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MARCO PEREIRA AND BRASIL GUITAR DUO Nov 19 at 8pm, First Lutheran, Palo Alto

NELLY Nov 19 at 10pm, Wet, San Jose

NO CAPTAINS Nov 19, South First Billiards

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REDWOOD SYMPHONY go wrong with a band that’s been known to set its instruments on fire? You can’t, although it behooves these guys to be a little wary of open flames due to the Pomade. (BD)

BLOOD AND WATER/ STICKUP KIDS Nickel City, San Jose Fri – 6pm; $12 Christian pop-punk band Blood and Water are showing some maturity on their latest release, In Character. The album is packed with songs dealing with their internal struggle to become men of God and shed their youthful naiveté.

The album’s production has also gotten increasingly serious and sophisticated since their previous recording, but they haven’t lost their sense of humor entirely. This

December, they’re teaming up with the not-nearly-as-Christian poppunk band Stickup Kids for a regional winter tour, but are making an early stop off at Nickel City a couple weeks before they head out. Opening are The Art of War, Fabulous Under Fire, Casanova and The Druid. (AC)

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SKANKSGIVING WITH MONKEY Homestead Lanes, Cupertino Sat – 8pm; $8 Monkey has a lot to be thankful for.

When Curtis Meacham started the group almost 15 years ago, it was the only traditional ska band in the Bay Area. Lineup nightmares and constant setbacks kept them banging

their heads against the wall. But suddenly, they’ve found their groove.

Last year, they made it onto the roster of Mike Park’s esteemed Asian Man label and released their best album, Lost at Sea. So let us all now bow our heads and move our feet in celebration of Thanksgiving, the first two-tone American holiday. (SP)

THEM SLACK JAWED SONS OF BITCHES Johnny V’s, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $5 Them Slack Jawed Sons of Bitches are more than just a name that looks great on a black T-shirt (though it really, really does), they also play a mean brand of punkabilly.

Right at home in a South Bay scene with a completely inexplicable flair for alt-country, the Slack Jawed

ones are currently locked away in some basement writing new songs, but they’ll be taking a break for this Johnny V’s show. (SP)

THUNDERHORSE Streetlight Records, San Jose Sat – 7pm; free Anyone around here who remembers Janitors Against Apartheid might wonder whatever happened to Pete Rice and Justin Estep from that band. They’ve stopped skankin’ and gone metal with their band Thunderhorse. Not, like, as in they’re cowboys and on their steel horses they ride. No, this is fast, heavy, high-energy stuff—almost thrash.

Initially instrumental, Rice is now handling vocals along with bassist Ian Manell Menor. Their most recent single, “Haulin’ Ass,” is pure chunky, chugging riffage. Imagika, Red Aftermath and ThirdCrow open. (SP)

Nov 20 at 8pm, Cañada College N Main Theatre, Redwood City

AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS, SAN JOSE CHAPTER Nov 21 at 3pm, Stone Church, Willow Glen

SIMONE DINNERSTEIN, GOLDBERG VARIATIONS Nov 21 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 21 at 3 and 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

OHLONE COLLEGE CHOPS BIG BAND Nov 23 at 8pm, Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont

TRIPLE HO SHOW Dec 1 at 6:30pm, SJSU Event Center

ANDRE RIEU Dec 4 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

ROGER WATERS, THE WALL IN CONCERT Dec 7-8 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

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Tosca Nov. 18, 20, 23 and 26 at 8pm, Nov. 21 and 28 at 3pm; California Theatre, San Jose; $51–$101

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As is obvious from the picture of star Rebecca Davis, Puccini’s famed diva Tosca doesn’t take lightly to being crossed in the tempestuous opera named after her. The story of the Italian opera star caught up in the political intrigue of Rome, circa 1800, continues for two more weeks. The lead role is shared by Davis and Jouvanca Jean-Baptise.

The Color Purple Nov. 23–28, no show Nov. 24; San Jose Center for the Performing Arts; $20 and up Alice Walker’s 1982 novel begat Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film (and gave us Oprah Winfrey) begat the 2005 Broadway musical adaptation of the story of Celie, a young black woman of a century ago who endures an abusive childhood and marriage. This version of The Color Purple comes to town from Broadway San Jose and stars Dayna Jarae Dantzler (left) as Celie and Traci Allen at Nettie.

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Every Christmas Story Ever Told Nov. 17–Dec. 19; San Jose Stage; $20–$45 Don’t try to hide, don’t try to deny it. The Nutcrackers and Scrooges are on their inexorable way. San Jose Stage Company offers a chance to get all of the holiday cheer down in one hilarious gulp with its production of Every Christmas Story Ever Told, a three-man comedy that runs the gamut from Rudolph to Dickens to George Bailey and back.

A Tuna Christmas Nov. 18–Dec. 18; Bus Ban Theater, Los Altos; $24–$30 In the new tradition of distaff holiday shows, Bus Barn Stage Company takes audiences to the thirdsmallest town in Texas, namely Tuna, where the decidedly eccentric town (all portrayed by just two actors) celebrates the Yuletide in colorful fashion.

performs hit songs from 1930 and 1964. Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1:30 and 5pm. $28-$49. San Mateo Performing Arts Center.

CTRL + ALT + DELETE Anthony Clarvoe’s comedy about a miracle gizmo developed right here in Silicon Valley. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Nov 21. $15$30. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.

THE COLOR PURPLE The stage musical based on the movie adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel, presented by Broadway San Jose. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. Runs thru Nov 28. $20 and up. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

DRIVING MISS DAISY Tabard Theatre Company presents the story of an elderly Southern white woman and her friendship with her African American chauffeur. Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat 3 and/or 8pm, Sun, 2pm (no show Nov 25). Runs thru Nov 27. $10-$24. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD Michael Carleton, Jim FitzGerald and John K. Alvarez present a romp through the holiday classics at high speed in a seasonal comedy presented by San Jose Stage Company. Previews Wed-Thu, 7:30pm. Opens Fri, 8pm.

Regular shows: Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Dec 19. $20$45. The Stage, San Jose.

GODSPELL Sunnyvale Community Players present the musical

by Stephen Schwartz. Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Nov 21. $10.50-$23.50. Sunnyvale Community Theater.

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*stage Opera TOSCA Opera San José presents the Puccini opera about a woman who struggles

against the dictates of powerful men. Nov 18, 20, 23 and 26 at 8pm, and 21 and 28 at 3pm. $51-$101.

California Theatre, San Jose.

Theater ALL THIS INTIMACY One man impregnates three

women in the Renegade Theatre Experiment West Coast premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s comedy. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7pm. Runs thru Nov 27. $12-$28.50. Historic Hoover Theater, San Jose.

BROADWAY BY THE YEAR Broadway by the Bay: Marc Kudisch, Mary Testa, Kerry O’Malley and Noah Racey

A comedy in a Southern vein about the women of Eden Falls, Ga. A Santa Clara Players production. ThuSat, 8pm. Runs thru Nov 20. $10-$18. Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara.

SUNSET BOULEVARD Palo Alto Players presents the stage version of the famed movie about an aging star and a cynical young writer.

Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm.

Runs thru Nov 21. $23-$32.

Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

A TUNA CHRISTMAS The holidays done Texas style.

Preview Thu, 8pm. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows: Wed (except Nov 24), 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun (except Nov 21), 3pm. Runs thru Dec 18. $34-$30. Bus Barn Stage, Los Altos.

THE TURN OF THE SCREW A stage adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher of the Henry James ghost story, presented by Dragon Productions. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm (no show Nov 25). Runs thru Nov 28. $16/$20. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

TWELFTH NIGHT SJSU’s theater department interprets Shakespeare. FriSat, 7pm. Runs thru Nov 20. $10/$20. SJSU Theatre, San Jose.

paintings and rare sketches

by ADM Cooper. Nov 20March. Inside the Pasetta House. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm.

San Jose.

CONTINUING CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates.” Portraits of Vodoun followers and their shrines in Benin by Jean-Dominque Burton.

Thru Mar 20. “Go Figure!”

Figurative paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists. Ongoing. “Collection Highlights From Europe 15001800, Ancient Greece and Rome.” Thru Dec 30. “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.” Thru Jan 2. “Chiaroscuro Woodcuts From 16th-Century Italy.” Thru Feb 27. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM

West Valley Light Opera presents the Irving Berlin classic for the holidays. FriSat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm (no show Nov 26). Runs thru Dec 11. $18-$30. Saratoga Civic Theater.

“Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home: Art and Poetry From Native California.” Thru Dec 5. “LandsCApes: Glimpses of Everyday California.” Thru Jan 28. “The Saints of Mission Santa Clara: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Art.” Thru Dec 5. Tue-Sun, 11am-4pm.

Santa Clara University.

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COMEDYSPORTZ An interactive improvised comedy show. Fri, 9 and 11pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm. $12/$15.

ComedySportz, San Jose.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: Laughing Skull Festival. $5-$10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Don Friesen. $12-$17.

Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Unfiltered. $12.

Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 6, 8 and 10pm: Adam Carolla. $25. San Jose.

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“Learn to Play.” A group show about art and life. Thru Nov 24. Tue-Thu 11am-3pm. San Jose.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Explore San Jose Parks— Open to the Public Since 1850.” Thru Jan 23. At Pacific Hotel Gallery. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm. San Jose.

JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM “Camp Days: 1942-1945.”

Works about the internment camps by Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz. Thru Apr 30. Also exhibits about the history of Japantown and the lives and contributions of Japanese immigrants in the valley. ThuSun, noon-4pm. San Jose.

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OPENING

“Bear in Mind: The Story of the California Grizzly.” Thru Feb 27. Wed-Sun, noon-4pm.

Los Gatos.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

“Celebrating Local Artists: The Fifth Anniversary of the McKay Gallery. A look at the McKay’s collection, including

“The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention.”

A show of works from the

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“Vital Signs: New Media From the Permanent Collection.”

Thru Feb 6. “Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography From the Permanent Collection.” Thru Mar 14. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES “Cream of the Cloth: Quilts From the Marbaum Collection.” A rich sampling of contemporary quilts and fiber art. “Yvonne Porcella: Bold Strokes.” A 25-year survey. Both shows run thru Jan 30. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm.

San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION “Body Worlds Vital.” A detailed anatomical look at bodies in health and disease, based on the work of Gunther von Hagens. Mon-Wed, 10am5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm.

San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “The Nature of Things.”

A retrospective show for sculptor David Middlebrook.

Thru Dec 5. “Stan Welsh: On Land—On Water.” A show of mixed media and ceramic sculptures. Thru Dec 5. TueWed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm.

Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries OPENING SJSU ART BUILDING “Soft Art.” Works by a dozen artists from university art programs. Nov 22-Dec 2.

Gallery 3, Art Building, SJSU.

CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI “The Offering.” Transcendent and mystical works by Wendell McShine, paintings, drawings and animations.

Thru Nov 20. “Better Than 2009.” Solo exhibit for MOMO post-graffiti artist. Thru Nov

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“The More the Merrier.” A group show. Thru Dec 3. San Jose.

Photography by Brandy Brune and oil paintings by Elizabeth Noerdlinger. Thru Nov 21. Wed-Sun, 10am-3pm.

Redwood City.

CAFFE TRIESTE “Celebrating Cafe Moments.”

Paintings by Jeanette Turkus.

Thru Nov 27. San Jose.

DIRIDON STATION “The Way to San Jose.” An overview of transportation history in the valley, sponsored by Rotary Club of San Jose and History San Jose. Ongoing. San Jose.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “Before It Flew Away.” Works

by Rachel Jones. Thru Nov 27.

San Jose.

GALLERY HOUSE Holiday Show by gallery artists. Thru Dec 24. Reception Fri, 6-8pm. Tue, 11am-4pm, Wed-Sat, 11am-8pm, Sun, 11am-3pm. Extended hours start Nov 29. Enter through Printer’s Ink Palo Alto.

GALLERY SARATOGA “Duets.” Color photos by David Blanchard. Thru Nov 30. TueSun, 11am-6pm. Saratoga.

GOOD KARMA VEGAN CAFE “Drive-by Photography.”

Images by James Dewrance.

Thru Nov 27. San Jose.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE & GALLERY “Earth, Spin, Fire.” Works

by Lee Middleman and Jon Dunlavy. Thru Dec 2. San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY “The Process of Creation.”

New paintings by Joe Barajas.

“Insomnia: Lost San Jose Nights.” Photographs by Josh Marcotte. Thru Nov 26. San Jose.

KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS A display of 19 works, including the “Galactic Mysteries” series, by Leah Lubin. SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Stanford.

MACLA “Hybrid Spaces: Family Origins & Collaborations.” Works by Las Hermanas Iglesias and Amy Diaz-Infante. Thru Jan 8.

METRO LOBBY “I Love Trash.” A show by the First St. Photo Collection.

Thru Nov 30. Metro Lobby, San Jose.

MOHR GALLERY Mixed-media prints by Pantea Karimi. Thru Nov 21. Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, Sat, 9am-3pm.

Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “From Within, So Without”

by Ali Maschke-Messing.

Thru Jun 1. “Sculpture on the Grounds: David Middlebrook.” Thru Jun 1.

“The Oldest Living Things in the World.” Photographs by Rachel Sussman. Thru Jan 16.

Saratoga.

PALO ALTO ART CENTER “In Focus” Collecting Photography.” “Light From the Underground,” a photographic essay about mining in South Wales by Colette CampbellJones. “Paintings From Haiti.”

Thru Dec 12. Tue-Sat, 10am5pm, Sun, 1-5pm, and TueThu, 7-10pm. Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Old Technology.” A retrospective of painting, sculpture and installations by the SJSU artist Tony May. Thru Feb 26. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat-noon-5pm. San Jose.

SJSU ART BUILDING Works by Alex Gibson, Jessica Eastburn, Erin Salazar, Jenifer Valdivia, Cynthia Rand Thompson and George Ziegler.

Thru Nov 19. Art & Design Building, Gallery 5, SJSU.

SLG ART BOUTIKI “Modern Primitive Cultural Research and Cocktail Society.” An exhibit of tiki art and kitsch culture. Thru Nov 5.

San Jose.

STANFORD ART SPACES Textile work by Alice Beasley, paintings by James Su and

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Coming Up Daisy ALFRED UHRY’s Driving Miss Daisy, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and served as the basis for the Oscar-winning film, is now seeing a revival. There is currently a production on Broadway starring James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave, and here in the Bay Area, the Tabard Theatre Company is staging its own version.

For those who don’t know, the Miss Daisy referred to in the title is an elderly Georgia Jewish woman no longer able to safely operate a motor vehicle. The driving is done by Hoke Colburn, an aging black man whom Daisy’s son, Boolie, hires, completely against his mother’s wishes. Daisy doesn’t get along with her new chauffeur. ;i`m`e^ She is bitter about the erosion of her independence D`jj ;X`jp and has the prejudices against blacks that one would expect of a Southerner born in 1876. But the more time they spend together, the more they realize they have in Through Nov. 27 common. A lifelong friendship has begun.

Theatre on Tabard Theatre The story spans the years from 1948 to 1973, a turbulent Company, San Pedro and often violent period in America. Terrorists blow up Square, San Jose the Reform Jewish temple that Daisy attends (a real-life $15–$24 event), and Daisy later takes an interest in the activities of Martin Luther King Jr. However, the play is presented as an understated narrative about the relationship between a few people, not as a sweeping historical panorama. The set design, tasteful in its simplicity, helps keep the focus on the characters. A group of four chairs represent the cars that Hoke drives, and this setup proves remarkably convincing once the actors start to do their thing.

Tabard Theatre has assembled a fine cast, whose performances ring true throughout the play. The role of Hoke is closely associated with Morgan Freeman, who played the part in both the movie and the original theatrical production. Nevertheless, James Creer’s take on Hoke is highly personalized, never for a moment recalling Freeman’s. Beverly Griffith and Toby Cordone are similarly original in their respective roles as Daisy and Boolie. At no point does it seem that they are trying to act like Jessica Tandy or Dan Aykroyd.

There isn’t much else to say about Tabard’s Driving Miss Daisy that hasn’t already been said about previous productions or the movie. It remains, as it always has been, a touching and bittersweet comedy, and watching the bond grow between the two main characters is a heartwarming experience.—Sean Conwell

THOMPSON GALLERY “Chicago Imagism(S).” An exploration of Chicago painters from the late 1960s who redefined the city as a regional art center. Thru Dec 17. Tue, 11am-4pm, 6-7:30pm, Mon, Wed-Fri, 11am-4pm.

SJSU Art Building.

VIEWPOINTS GALLERY “Drawing From the Abstract.”

Works by Jane Ferguson.

Thru Dec 4. Mon-Sat, 11am5pm, Sun, 11am-3pm. Los Altos.

WORKS/SAN JOSE “My Favorite Nightmares.”

Lacey Bryant curates a show of art pieces that explore the terrors of our sleeping hours.

Thru Nov 25. Thu, noon-4pm, Fri-Sat, noon-4pm. San Jose.

Books PETER BALAKIAN An evening with the poet and author of “Zuggurat.”

Thu, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

LESLIE DUNTONDOWNER The vagaries of modern language are discussed in lively fashion in “The English Is Coming!: How One Language Is Sweeping the World.” The author talks about words and phrases and how they develop. Thu, 6pm. Free. Borders Books, Sunnyvale.

MAX FALLON The author talks about “Couples: An Eclectic View,” a book of photographs.

Sat, noon. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.

PETER LOVENHEIM The author of a new cultural study called “In the Neighborhood” talks about how people can find connections in the modern world. Wed, 7pm. $10.

Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Palo Alto.

BRUNO LUKIC AND BARRY KATZ The designers responsible for the new book of philosophy and imagination, “Nonobject,” sign copies of

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A booksigning event with Tom Brungar for his memoir about overcoming the odds.

Sat, 4pm. $14.95. Borders, Santana Row, San Jose.

SANDRA PARK An evening with the author of the new memoir about life in Hawaii in the 1950s, “If You Live in a Small House.”

Thu, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Palo Alto.

THOMAS SANDERS AND VERONICA KAVASS The authors of a new book about World War II veterans, “The Last Good War,” appear.

Wed, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Palo Alto.

AMY SEDARIS The comedian visits on behalf of her book “Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People.” The event is a benefit for Breast Cancer Connections. Sponsored by Kepler’s. Wed, 7:30pm. $38.

Spangenberg Auditorium, Gunn High School, Palo Alto.

GAIL STEKETEE AND RANDY FROST People who can’t get rid of anything will want to listen to what the authors of “Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things” have to say. Sun, 2pm. Free.

Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

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AMELIA EARHART, FLIGHTS OF FANCY A family show by California Theatre Center. Sat, 11am. $11.

Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre.

CINDERELLA A Rising Stars production by Children’s Musical Theater San Jose. Wed-Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2 and 7pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. $15/$18. Montgomery Theater, San Jose.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK A new season opens for Junior Theatre. Fri-Sat, 7pm, Sun, 2pm. $5/$8. Mello Auditorium, Community Recreation Center, Santa Clara.

THE WIZARD OF OZ The Baum classic interpreted

by Peninsula Youth Theatre.

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The lecture series continues with “Transformed: Turning Found Objects Into Fine Art,” a panel discussion. Thu, 7-9pm. Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium.

DIWALI Traditional celebration of lights with a chance for children to connect with their culture. Sat, 6pm. India Community Center, Milpitas.

DOWNTOWN ICE The holiday season gets into full swing with iceskating rink downtown.

Kristi Yamaguchi shows up for the opening ceremonies with music and dignitaries.

Mon, 5pm. Runs through Jan 17. Downtown San Jose on Market at San Fernando.

DRUM WORKSHOP A session with Danny Seraphine of Chicago. Thu, 7pm. Guitar Center, San Jose.

ENERGY AUTONOMY A showing of the documentary “The 4th Revolution” about solar energy and a panel discussion. Thu, 6pm. $20 and up. Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Palo Alto.

FESTIVE FLEA MARKET With gifts and bargains of all kinds. Sat, 6am-2pm.

Prospect High School, Saratoga.

IMINUSD ANNIVERSARY The fixed-gear bike shop celebrates a year of riding in style with an alleycat event for two-person teams. Registration Sat, 1pm. Registration is $5 per person. Race starts at 2pm.

Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose.

KING LIBRARY BOOK SALE

SOCIAL MEDIA CLUB

A fall extravaganza of used books and more, sponsored by friends of the library. Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, 1-5pm. King Main Library, San Jose.

A tweetup event with Sony reps about Internet TV, includes drinks and appetizers. Thu, 6-8pm. Sony Style store, Valley Fair Mall, Santa Clara

PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL MOTORCYCLE SHOWS With displays of new bikes, ATVs and accessories. Fri, 4-9pm, Sat, 9:30am-8pm, Sun, 9:30am-5pm. $15. San Mateo County Event Center.

PSYCHOLOGY TALK A discussion called “My Journey From Evil to Heroism” by psychologist Philip Zimbardo, who gained fame for the Stanford Prison Experiment. Fri, 7pm. $10. Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont.

RHODODENDRON SOCIETY A the De Anza Chapter’s meeting including a discussion about plants from Borneo. We, 7:30pm. Hillview Community Center, Los Altos.

TASTE OF COMPASSION Proceeds from a night at the restaurant go to help hunger and homelessness services. Sponsored by West Valley Community Services.

Mon-Tue, 5:30pm. $24/$26.

Florentine Restaurant, Cupertino.

TRUNK SALE A pre-holiday event for shoppers. Sat, 2:30-5pm.

Left Bank, Santana Row.

TOYS FOR TOTS A toy drive sponsored by Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park. Runs thru Dec 24. Lake Cunningham, near Raging Waters Park.

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VISION: FROM THE LIFE OF HILDEGARD VON BINGEN (Unrated; 110 min.) See review on page 52. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.)

Revivals DEATHDREAM (1973) Also known as Dead of Night.

This cult ďŹ lm by Bob Clark and Alan Ormsby is about a mother whose willpower reanimates her son, who died in Vietnam. (Plays Fri at midnight at Camera 7 in Campbell.)

NILES FILM MUSEUM Nov 20: Charlie Chaplin meets gypsies in The Vagabond (1916). In Never Weaken Harold Lloyd thinks he dies and goes to heaven. In The High Sign (1921) Buster Keaton runs afoul of that dreaded secret society, the Blinking Buzzards. In Sugar Daddies (1927) Mr. Finlayson marries in haste, and Laurel and Hardy repent in leisure. Greg Pane at the piano.

(Plays Nov 20 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

PULP FICTION (1994) A riot. A brilliantly written, multilayered tale of crime paying, but not paying much. Two advance men for the mortician, John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, are out retrieving a very important briefcase for their boss (Ving Rhames); while on the assignment they encounter, together and separately, such characters as a bad-news moll (Uma Thurman), hard-luck robbers (Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth), a punch-drunk boxer (Bruce Willis) and the utterly suave Winston

Wolf (Harvey Keitel). Horror and comedy have the same ancestral relationship that snakes have to birds; in this magniďŹ cently conďŹ dent ďŹ lm, Tarantino stages a sort of family reunion between them. More bad imitations of this movie exist than of any other movie made in our lifetimes. (Plays Nov 19-21 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

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Unconventional MARGARETHE VON TROTTA’S Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen is a good-looking, reasoned biopic of the 12th-century German nun and preacher. It stresses the humanist qualities of Hildegard (played by a firm, shrewd Barbara Sukowa, once upon a time Fassbinder’s Lola). The film seems less interested in the mystic revelations than in the way Hildegard’s visions affected the people around her. If the title sounds like a campaign slogan, it’s appropriate—von Trotta stresses the personal relationships of a convent life.

We rightly associate these orders with submission and denial, but we forget that in the depths of feudal times, they kept a little something of democracy alive, a fact that von Trotta reminds us when we see Hildegard elected magistra of her convent in a secret ballot. The nun eventually uses this power for a kind of a radical gesture: she separates her nuns from the monks they live with, leading them to a new allfemale convent.

Having underscored this progressiveness, von Trotta counterpoints, insisting that such nunneries were prone to the troubles of democracy: money, pride and favoritism. And being a humanist, von Trotta isn’t afraid to suggest the kinds of passions that might have motivated Hildegard. She’s open to the idea that her heroine’s love for a younger sister, the charismatic Richardis (Hannah von Herzsprung), aptly described as “a

little demon,” might have gone beyond the bounds. Vision includes the wellbeloved musical compositions, which present Hildegard in the best light: as composer, feminist and healer. Does the film overstate the case? Of course it does; that’s what biopics always do.

Yet the visuals are fresh M`j`fe1 =ifd and clear. A procession k_\ C`]\ f] into the forest is free ?`c[\^Xi[ mfe of the sense of actors 9`e^\e in funny clothes (they Unrated; 110 min. look like they’ve got Opens Friday things on their mind, like Camera 3, a modern crowd does San Jose when it passes). Quick bursts of hand-held camera interrupt the slowness of life in stone walls.

The colors have a warm muted glow; the midnight blue habits and cream-colored draperies on the sisters aren’t pretty-pretty, but they are inviting to the eye.

The staging of her meeting with King Fredrich Barbarossa (Devid Striesow) is an excellent example of how to envision medieval history: escorted in by a grave dwarf, Hildegard meets the high king, with flaming beard and cloth of gold; the room isn’t enormous; he’s gregarious, pleasant and likely not to be trusted at his word. Vision is the work of a director who has some age and experience, who has a knowledge of which way power flows, and who notes how unlovely we can get when we love someone.—Richard von Busack

of Show Boat is about the young lovers, unfortunately, with Irene Dunne’s Magnolia suffering through marriage to a fancy, no-account gambler (Allan Jones). BILLED WITH Gold Diggers of 1933. PreCode, kitschy and wild, the Warner Brothers musical is exemplified here. It’s about the class struggle: the courtship between patrician Dick Powell and working (chorus) girl Ruby Keeler. As always, Joan Blondell is aboard, dubbed by Marian Anderson, singing “Remember My Forgotten Man”—as fine a piece of fake Brecht as you’ll ever see. But Brecht never imagined Ginger Rogers in a gold-coin-covered bikini singing “We’re in the Money” in pig Latin.

And who but Busby Berkeley could conceive of a horde of platinumblonde women carrying neon violins, arranged in the form of a 100-footlong lit-up neon violin? (Plays Nov 20-22 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

Reviews DUE DATE (R; 100 min.) Forced to drive from Georgia to Los Angeles, a pair of men try to get along. One is a deluded would-be actor named Ethan (Zach Galifianakis), a halfbright stoner bearing a lapdog.

The other is a mean executive, Peter (Robert Downey Jr.), trying to get home to be there in time for his wife’s C-section. Uneven, in a word. Indeed, the movie is just as middling as it was when it was called Planes, Trains and Automobiles; it’s a road-trip movie with nowhere to go, emotionally

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speaking, and director Todd Phillips may not be as handy with the Laurel and Hardy dynamic as he was with the Three Stooges vibe in The Hangover. We get the post-Apatow method—extended improv may result in something you can keep; meanwhile, keep throwing up good comedians as if they were skeets. Not a total loss. Photographer Lawrence Sher provides some fine landscapes and nightscapes, Downey explores some really deep rancor and Phillips demonstrates admirable comedic ruthlessness. (RvB)

FAIR GAME (PG-13; 108 min.) Doug Liman’s account of the felonious Valerie Plame business is a model of exciting, intelligent espionage lore. It’s shot with braced but fluid camerawork. Naomi Watts’ performance as Plame is one of the year’s best. In the short period between the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq invasion, members of the CIA ask the independent consultant Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn) to go to Niger to confirm confidential reports of uranium being sent to Saddam Hussein. Wilson quickly discovers there was no such shipment. In a Nixonian attempt to silence a whistleblower, high Bush administration figures leak the name of Wilson’s wife, Victoria Plame, to columnist Robert Novak, a move that destroys her career and puts her operations in jeopardy. It’s hard for a film to be all things to all people. Fair Game’s script is less surefooted with the domestic drama than it is with the paranoid/political tale-telling.

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Penn gets to play a different kind of character: decidedly upper-class, peremptory and with little patience for fools. He gives one of his strongest and slyest performances, but he becomes mannered. (RvB)

FOR COLORED GIRLS (R; 134 min.) Tyler Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bigscreen adaptation of Ntozake Shangeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play about women of color stars Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Kerry Washington and Whoopi Goldberg.

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Escape Artists OVER THE LAST half-decade, ďŹ lmmaker Paul Haggisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; name has become synonymous with socially and politically themed ďŹ lms, from Million Dollar Baby to Crash and In the Valley of Elah. Haggisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; latest, The Next Three Days, leaves the messaging aside for a prisonescape thriller thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s every bit as entertaining as it is shallow.

A remake of Fred CavayĂŠâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2008 French thriller Pour Elle, the ďŹ lm centers on John Brennan (Russell Crowe), a college professor. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happily married to Lara (Elizabeth Banks). Brennanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seemingly idyllic existence gets turned upside down when Lara is arrested for the murder of her boss. Circumstantial evidence, including a bloodstain on her overcoat, strongly suggests Laraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guilt. She unpersuasively claims that a young woman, possibly a drug addict, brushed her overcoat as she was entering the parking lot. Lara is tried, convicted for murder and sentenced to 20 years to life.

After three years and unsuccessful appeals, Laraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future looks bleak, but Brennan, unwaveringly convinced of her innocence, decides thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only one alternative left: breaking Lara out of prison and beginning a new life in a foreign country under assumed identities. Brennan turns to Damon (Liam Neeson), a repeat felon who broke out of several prisons. Damon crisply lays out everything Brennan has to do, a plan that gets accelerated when Brennan learns that Laraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being transferred to a distant maximum-security prison.

Divided into three acts, the ďŹ rst act looks at Laraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrest, conviction and incarceration.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only perfunctory focus on the matter of Laraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guilt. The second act concentrates on Brennanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prep for Laraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s escape, including several encounters with career criminals, romantic temptation in the form of a single mom, Nicole (Olivia Wilde), cops increasingly suspicious of Brennanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behavior and the already mentioned K_\ E\ok accelerated plan to free K_i\\ ;Xpj Lara. Not surprisingly, the PG-13 third act focuses on Brennan Opens Friday putting his semi-improvised plan into action, with complications and a prolonged chase scene that proves, assuming it needed to be proved, that Haggis can direct tense, suspenseful action scenes.

Despite the sermon-ready subject matter, The Next Three Days doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like a movie-with-a-message. That might be due to its origin as a French ďŹ lm and not a Haggis original. Unfortunately, Haggis chooses clarity over ambiguity, a closed ending instead of an open ending for the audience. He leaves Brennan still convinced of his wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innocence but minus the evidence necessary to prove it but gives the audience a deďŹ nitive answer (which I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spoil). This allows Haggis to make an obvious, unsubtle point about the criminal justice systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shortcomings (one few people would ďŹ nd controversial).â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mel Valentin

(R; 148 min.) The glowing harbor and country views of the last entry (the seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; high point) are replaced by a televisionistic series of closeups of baleful Swedes frowning at each other over tables or sitting ďŹ dgeting at press conferences.

The survivors of the government cabal that planned to silence the troublesome Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace) are still afoot and grumpier than ever (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fools! Idiots! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll destroy you all!â&#x20AC;? exclaims their leader, Lisbethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maimed dad). Our hero, magazine reporter Mikael (Michael Nyqvist), is trying to get Lisbethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side of the story. But his co-editor Erika (Lena Endre) is menaced by anonymous emails and a brick through the window. Lisbeth is also cornered by yet another smirking civil servant: her former shrink, Dr. Peter Teleborian (Anders Ahlbom).

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The ďŹ lm pedantically insists on the realistic after-effects of some gunshot wounds, and it makes a very, very long journey from hospital bed to very unmoving last goodbye. The two leads (punkette avenger and dog-faced journalist) practically turn to the camera and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re done here.â&#x20AC;? (RvB)

HEREAFTER (PG-13; 129 min.) The opening of this dull, morose and oatmealcolored drama is a flawlessly animated tsunami. Swept into the tide and clonked by an automobile, Parisian journalist Marie LeLay (CĂŠcile De France) is rescued just as she has a vision of human beings standing around a glowing plaza. She has seen the Hereafter itself; so has San Francisco psychic Matt Damon. Meanwhile a pair of twins in London, separated by death, try to reconnect. Bland and slow, the film seems as if it will never get started, and the afterworld is neither sinister nor inspirational. (RvB)

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JACKASS 3-D (R; 94 min.) Undeniably visceral entertainment, and sometimes hilarious. This corner’s motto is, as always, “It’s not what you laugh at that makes you a moron, it’s what you cry at.” One of the stuntmen taunting an ornery ram with blasts from a sousaphone is carrying on the frontier humor tradition of Mark Twain’s “His Grandfather’s Old Ram.” The difference is that the ram in the Twain tale is left frozen in space, while this furious sheep attacks about a dozen times. The tormenter’s yelp to the beast as he gets severely butted—“Why?”—is easily the most hilarious thing in the movie.

Genial but horrible ringleader Johnny Knoxville is to a rodeo clown what a wealthy rock star is to a Delta blues picker: someone getting rich from a rich tradition.

So, the movie may only just seem like the end of Western civilization; some of the slapstick horrors here are true-life versions of favorites from Keystone comedies: the guy in the gorilla suit, the dog that goes straight for the seat of the pants, the irritable donkey. Some of the tortures are a little too close to the Roman Empire’s method of handling dissidents, and a couple of the bits here are serious lunchavulsers. The 3-D helps one get most of the popular bodily fluids right in the face, if that’s your idea of fun. (RvB)

MEGAMIND (PG; 96 min.) Rivals from the moment their planets were destroyed and they were sent to Earth, Megamind (Will Ferrell)

and Metro Man (Brad Pitt) have competed in the usual battle of good vs. evil in the new animated film Megamind. The movie has an enjoyable twist when Metro Man is eliminated, and Megamind is left to rampage Metro City with his best friend, Minion (David Cross).

Following the unconventional yet delightful storyline, Megamind seeks to fill his boredom of having no one to fight by creating a new good superhero, Tighten (Jonah Hill). However, Tighten has other plans; he intends to use his newly acquired laser vision, superstrength and ability to fly for his own interests. Megamind, Metro Man and even Tighten all have their sights on Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey), a newswoman in the Lois Lane mold. Ferrell and Pitt should have given Fey and Hill lessons on ways to alter their voices, because it took me out of the movie when their characters were onscreen sounding like their real-life selves. The themes— never taking things for granted and being careful about what you wish for—offer lessons for people of all ages. Megamind also touches on the subject of not judging a book by its blue, alien cover.

Expected to be evil his whole life, Megamind ends up fighting for good in order to save the city from Tighten. (Shiva Zahirfar)

MORNING GLORY (PG-13; 102 min.) The forced nervous energy and desperate eagerness to please of the wakey-wakey TV show is evident. Chirpy Becky (Rachel McAdams) is on her way up as the producer of a despondent morning news show, essentially fourthranked in a field of three networks.

Becky takes a celebrated but now languishing former anchorman, Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), and partners him with the current AM show host, Colleen (Diane Keaton).

Colleen knows Pomeroy of old, and she loathes him. As Pomeroy, Ford is a very amusing grumpus—a newsman frozen in distaste for the parade of exotic animals, cooking tips and celebrity chat. Ford and Keaton have a comedic rapport that’s like an elegant version of the “Jane, you ignorant slut” routine between Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin in ancient episodes of SNL. The film has terminal third-act problems, the kind that force a trip into sudden-death overtime, just to reassure us that Becky has a choice in her career. (RvB)

SKYLINE (PG-13; 92 min.) Aliens show up in

large spaceships and menace the inhabitants of Earth. Eric Balfour and Scottie Thompson star in the effects-heavy sci-fi thriller.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG-13; 2 hrs.) Fiendishly clever and funny movie about the creation of an Internet monster.

As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg gives a master class on recessive acting: he’s beady eyed and covert, with the occasional pitviper-like sway of a truculent, lowered forehead. It’s the kind of remorseless superiority that can only look comically childish and wounded onscreen. The film shuttles between the present-day deposition of the now arrogantly rich Zuckerberg, as he’s sued by a quartet of burned partners (among them his former best friend Eduardo, played by Andrew Garfield). In flashback, we see his own history—a Jewish student at WASP-ridden Harvard, a social reject whose grudge-hacking was his entry into fame. Later, Zuckerberg meets the founder of Napster, Sean Parker—played by Justin Timberlake, excellent as a happy wastrel. The Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score is closer to the sinister Byrne and Eno we loved once than the flowery, love-struck Byrne and Eno in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

Fincher regular cinematographer

Jeff Cronenweth keeps us oriented by making the walnut-lined tombs of Harvard so different from the lambency of the sun in Palo Alto.

Aaron Sorkin’s wild, witty script hands out punishment that goes beyond the financial penalties: this is a comedy in the Balzac sense, a balancing act; the mockery and the disgust for greed matches the essential lightness of the situation. It’s only Facebook, after all. (RvB)

UNSTOPPABLE (PG-13) Only Tony Scott would het up a runaway train movie, a subject het up enough on its own.

In Unstoppable, old dog (Denzel Washington) and young pup (Chris Pine) race a single engine to catch up with an unmanned train heading for catastrophe; news helicopters buzz around the runaway train as it speeds down the track. Scott crowds the location changes with captions, including my new all-time favorite: “Zinc Plant, Southern Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania in the full Amazonian green-hell of summer would be a perfect background for a hell-bound train, but this is forlorn, waning fall.

Computer animation allows the bad train into something able to do things trains can’t ordinarily do, like dance sideways on the rails.

This impedes the free enjoyment of the heavy-machinery porn,

something Scott usually does very well. Every Scott film is heavy on the exclamation points, but this one is as worn out as America’s rail infrastructure. (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: 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 passionateintensity style documentary, there’s the possibility of deliberate misreading, thanks to the lethal combo of stridency and slipperiness. (RvB)

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Goldman Sachs and elsewhere are returned to government offices they left for Wall Street. Some of these spoilsmen go to formerly honorable Ivy League institutions, there to legitimize the kind of fiscal policies that made them superrich. Few have regrets, but some have anger at being asked impertinent questions about ethics by a lowly submillionaire with a camera. Inside Job records a nonpartisan disgrace. One of the prime disappointments of the Obama administration is the way he found work for the familiar rogues from the Meltdown of ’08. Ferguson asks great questions. Don’t expect a lot of great answers about how a glorified Ponzi scheme left most of America either overworked or unemployed, heavily in debt and a few millimeters away from homelessness. (RvB)

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Average White Band Wednesday, Montalvo, Saratoga, 7:30pm; $37–$42 From their humble beginnings as the Worst White Band, this R&B ensemble clawed and scratched their way to the statistical mean. But despite their international success with the mostly instrumental hit “Pick Up the Pieces,” they still toiled in the shadow of The Bestest White Band Ever and even the Slightly Above Average White Band. OK, most of that is made up, but that song was totally groovin’. (SP)

Nelly Friday, Wet, San Jose, 10pm; $30 It’s been almost 10 years since “Hot in Herre” was making it hot in pretty much every club in the country.

That was when Nelly officially “made it” as a popculture superstar—in other words, he had his song parodied by Weird Al Yankovic. Since then, he’s been up and down with his little-bit-country sound, but moved enough butts and units to make him the third most successful act of the decade. His latest hit is “Just a Dream” from the brand-new 5.0 album. (SP)

Five Characters in Search of An Exit Saturday, the Refuge, Cupertino, 6pm; $12 You loved the Twilight Zone episode (spoiler warning: they’re five dolls trapped in a barrel!), now hear the band! This Bay Area deathcore band has a new CD out, so if you ever dreamt of listening to Cookie Monster sing about Team Coco or 10 things they hate about “chu,” this is your chance. (SP)

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THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Slap Bracelet, Shuteye Unison, Parents France.

Free. Fri, 9pm: Three Bad Jacks, Los High Tops, Moonshine. $10.

San Jose.

BOSWELL’S Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Bitchn’ Camaros. Fri: Suga Daddy. Sat and Mon: Drive! Campbell.

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Thu, 10pm: After Party. Fri, 10pm: Spazmatics. Sat, 10pm: Blood Sugar Sex Machine. San Jose.

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CAPERS Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music.

Campbell.

CLUB FOX Sat, 8pm: Luce. $14. Redwood City.

THE GRAPEVINE Sat, 7pm: Given to Fly. Willow Glen.

JOHNNY V’S Thu: Amber from San Jose Rock Shop. Sat: Them Slack Jawed Sons of Bitches and more. Sun: Dru Rite and more. San Jose.

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NICKEL CITY Fri, 6pm: Stickup Kid, Blood and Water, the Art of War, Fabulous Under Fire, Casanova, the Druids. Sat, 6pm: One New Message, the Fort Nelson Zoo, Four O’ Clock Heroes, Rapid Fire, How High the Moon, Evening Has Struck. San Jose.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Thu, 9:30pm: Joint Chiefs. Fri, 9:30pm: Touch of Class. Sat, 9:30pm: The Hitmen. Los Gatos.

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Sat, 7pm: Thunderhorse. San Jose.

THE REFUGE Sat, 6pm: 5 Characters in Search of an Exit (CD Release), the Golden Hour, Raelin, Undergone, Ten Days New, Burnside Drive, We Stand United. Cupertino.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Fri: No Captains. Sat, 8:30pm: Veronica Malki, Shawn Evans and Troy Curtis. $7. Tue: 9 Ball.

San Jose.

VOODOO LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Art and Soul with Dusted Angel and Higtower. $5.

Thu, 8pm: Pat Travers Band, the Dave Abbott Band, the Mike Osborn Band. $12. Fri, 10pm: Bossquatch. $10. San Jose.

WILLOW DEN Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Black Pearl.

Willow Glen.

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WOODHAM’SLOUNGE Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with rock and blues local musicians. Santa Clara.

World ALBERTO’S Wed: Bachata. Thu: Pantea. Fri: Bollywood Nights. Sat: Latin Nights. Sun-Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Pantea. Mountain View.

AZUCAR Fri-Sat, 9pm: Son de Kali. Sun: Bachata with Jazzy Jez. Mon, 8:30pm: Salsa party. Tue, 7pm: Orquesta Saboricua. $3 after 9pm. San Jose.

CASCAL Fri, 9pm: Kaweh. Sat, 8:30pm: James Robinson. Mountain View.

LILLYMAC’S Sun, 5-8pm: Irish music.

Sunnyvale.

MOROCCO’SRESTAURANT Fri, 8pm: Ambient lounge music.

Sat, 7:30pm: Fountain M.U.S.E. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan Music Night. San Jose.

PARRANDANIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

SENZALA Fri, 7:30pm: Capoeira show.

Sunnyvale.

Jazz/Blues ANGELICA’SBISTRO Fri, 6pm: Aprylle Gilbert and Kristina Sablan. $10. Fri, 8:30pm: Sound Moves. $10. Sat, 8pm: Corazon al Sur performs Argentine tangos and ballads. $15. Redwood City.

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Latin Jazz. Fri-Sat, 9pm: Jazz and Pop Dance Bands. Mon-Tue: Piano Music. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

C&W/Folk

GRANDDELLSALOON

Sun: Mike Leatherman.

Campbell.

Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam, Aki Kumar.

Fri, 8pm: After Dark. Sat, 8pm: Tip of the Top. Campbell.

HEDLEYCLUB Wed, 8pm: The Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Mark Arroyo Trio. Sat, 8:30pm: Rick Vandivier.

Hotel de Anza, San Jose.

J.J.’SBLUESCAFE Wed: Blues Angel, Ariole. Thu: Madylan Rose. Fri: Dog House Riley, Vicious Groove. $10. Sat: South 46, JC Smith. $10. Sun: Larry Valdez. Mon: Waynes Way Band. Tue: Blue J, Dennis and Stuart. San Jose.

Fri, 8pm: San Jose Lyric Theatre.

San Jose.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 7:30pm: True Wind Acoustic.

Sat, 8pm: Cosy Sheridan. Free.

Santa Clara.

RED ROCK COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 8pm: Christina Li. Sat, 8pm: Elizabeth Hunnicutt with Travis Oberg. Mountain View.

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Thu, 5pm: Jason Bellenkes Duo. San Jose.

Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle and Co. Tue, 6pm: Windy Hill. San Jose.

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Sat: South City Blues Band. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

NUMBERONEBROADWAY Wed: J.C. Smith Jam Band. Los Gatos.

POORHOUSEBISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson and Friends. Thu, 6pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays. Fri, 6pm: Andy Just Band with Phillip Benson (CD release party). Sat, 6pm: Sid Morris Blues Band. Sun, noon4pm: School of the Blues Student Jam Session. San Jose.

QUARTERNOTE Mon, 8:30pm: Isis and Cool Cats Jazz. Sunnyvale.

REDROCKCOFFEEROASTING Sun, 2-4pm: Hot Club of Palo Alto. Mountain View.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 6:30pm: Open Mic. Tue, 7: Pro Jazz Jam. Redwood City.

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO. Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.

MOUNTAIN CHARLIE’S Wed, 8-11pm: Live music, comedy and poetry. Los Gatos.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

THREEFLAMES Sun, 6pm: Touch ‘N Go. Willow Glen.

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Thu, 8pm: Alfredo Gomez CD release party. Sat, 8pm: Jon Rubin, Stu Wilson. San Jose.

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KHARTOUM Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. No cover.

Campbell.

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

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NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

Fri, 9pm: Danielle. Santa Clara.

Fri-Sat: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Thu: Singles party. Los Gatos.

Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

Fri: DJ Checko. Sat: G Beats the Soulchild and Metrorock. Tue: DJ David Q. San Jose.

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Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.

Wed, 9pm-2am: Whip It Out. Thu: Playground. Fri: Breathless.

San Jose.

PEACOCK LOUNGE CLUBILLUSIONS

Thu, 9pm: Brian. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Ryan.

Sunnyvale.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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Fri, 10pm: Fuz, LGBT event. $10.

Sat: South East Asian After Party with Sunny Brown, Lomaticc and Baba Khan. Palo Alto.

Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke w/ Sam Marshall. Woodside.

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Thu-Fri: DJ Otrebor. Sun: DJ Venom 347. San Jose.

Wed: Wildside Entertainment. No cover. Santa Clara.

FAHRENHEITULTRALOUNGE

Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.

Wed: Reggae Riddims. San Jose.

REDI ROOM Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.

FIBBARMAGEES

Wed: Guitar Hero Tournament plus karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Wed, 8:30pm: SIN. Fri: Anthony Cavazos. Sat: Club FM. Sunnyvale.

Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.

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Wed and Sat-Sun, 8:30pm: Chris. Thu-Fri, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

KHARTOUM

Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 27pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

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Wed-Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.

Fri: Destination. Sat: Autumn Bash, DJ Greg Lopez. San Jose.

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Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug.

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Thu-Sat, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.

GALAXY Thu, 9pm-2am: August. Milpitas.

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Sun: Reggae. San Jose.

ALBERTO’S Fri: Salsa Fridays. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.

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KATIE BLOOM’S Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Campbell.

Wed: Humpday Wednesdays.

Thu: DJ. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Jazzy and DJ Chaos. Hip-hop and Top 40. Sun: Happy Hour.

Mon: DJ. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Thu: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.

Wed: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Fri-Sat: Video Killed the DJ. San Jose.

Wed: Beer pong with DJ Thunder.

Clash of the DJs. Fri: DJ Sparkee.

Sat: DJ Bravo. Sun: Hip-hop. Mon: Dance, pool, sing, fun. Tue: From the Heart, bring canned foods for free cover. San Jose.

VOODOOLOUNGE Fri: DJs Krucial, DStrukt and Bossqquatch. $10. Sat, 10pm: Third Saturdays. $10. San Jose.

WET Thu: Calicove. Fri, 10pm: Nelly. $30. San Jose.

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If you can get past the gang rape and violent death aspects, it’s actually kind of cute. More on that below. In any case, tentacle porn is hardly Japan’s only out-there erotic category—try Googling “koonago” sometime. The basic phenomenon to be understood here is this: (1) the Japanese create this stuff; (2) we buy it—the United States is a big market for comic-book-style (manga) and animated (anime) Japanese erotica, collectively known here as hentai. So there are people all over who get off on things like this. The question is why the Japanese have been so inventive in dreaming it up.

Tentacle porn depicts pretty much what the name suggests: critters getting it on, consensually or otherwise, with nubile maidens via tentacles or similar protuberances. Often cited as the earliest prototype is an 1814 print by the renowned Japanese artist Hokusai commonly known in the West as The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife. It shows a reclining, naked and apparently willing woman wrapped in the tentacles of a pair of octopuses, one of whom is kissing her and caressing her nipple while the other performs cunnilingus. The work is one of the foremost examples of shunga (erotic pictures) from the Edo period.

A couple things to understand.

First, porn in Japan wasn’t and isn’t the furtive business it mostly remains in the United States—shunga were commonly given to newlyweds on their wedding nights. Second, tentacles weren’t a big deal at first. Images like Hokusai’s were memorable but hardly the only kinky treatment to be found in the catalog of Japanese erotica—other shunga depicted lesbian sex, sex toys, transvestites and bondage rape.

What turned tentacle porn into a genre of its own was the manga series Urotsukidoji, begun in 1986 by cartoonist Toshido Maeda, and its subsequent anime adaptations, which expanded on the original concept. The plot: members of a half-human, half-bestial race invade Japan searching for an evil supreme being called the Chojin (“Overfiend”), who 3,000 years earlier created the three parallel worlds of humans, man-beasts and demons, hopes now to unite them,

and, at the moment, lives inside a human teenager. The initial creative impulse, it seems to me, wasn’t that far removed from what led J.K. Rowling to invent Harry Potter. The final product . . . well, here we see a divergence of artistic sensibilities. As the Chojin manifests himself we’re treated not only to giant tentacle-penises but quasi phalluses swelling to explode people from within and flaming sperm devastating cities. The reason for the reliance on tentacles was simple. Till 1993 Japanese law prohibited straightforward depictions of penises and intercourse. So Maeda was obliged to come up with a substitute: tentacles. In a 2002 interview he explained: “I could say as an excuse, this is not a [penis], this is just a part of the creature . . . So it is not obscene—not illegal.”

Other instances of tentacle sex appear in such classics as Obscene Beast Teacher, Alien From the Darkness and Advancer Tina. Sometimes the woman is a willing participant—the manga Fiend Without a Face, for example, has the female protagonist defending the tentacled monster from her father. On the other hand, Maeda’s manga Demon Beast Invasion features several women being raped by tentaclelike tree roots and branches, and was graphic enough that Texas courts ruled it obscene.

Tentacle porn is hardly an outlier in the world of Japanese erotica. Hentai frequently features nontentacular rape and other sexual violence, plus bizarre fetishes and fantasies involving humans, animals, supernatural beings, robots, aliens and hybrids thereof. Then again, maybe they really do just have a bunch of sickos over there. However, it’s not like smut mongers in our hemisphere are always the picture of mental health.

The main difference is that Western porn, including the comic book and animated variety, tends to be largely realistic, apart from the gravity-defying boobs. The Japanese, in contrast, are big on fantasy and surrealism. Couple that with the Hello Kitty cuddliness that seeps into even the kinkiest hentai, and the typical sheltered Westerner is going to think: this crap is strange.

Still, the Japanese don’t have a lock on twisted artistic imaginations, as Straight Dope readers know. They may have Toshido Maeda; we’ve got Slug.

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Generally, a cloak is totally sleeveless outerwear that goes all the way to the floor and opens at the front, with or without a hood (think Harry Potter or The Village). Capes are the cloak’s slightly shorter cousin, usually ankle or knee-length and oftentimes featuring arm slits. A capelet, on the other hand, only covers the top of the shoulders.

As such, this incarnation is the most aesthetically versatile of the cape family, and is usually worn more as an accessory than for its pure coldweather-fighting ability.

Likewise, no ball gown in the ’40s and ’50s was complete without a matching fur stole to cover the shoulders—stoles are a pure luxury fashion statement.

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Cloaklike garments have been popular in almost every culture, from the Maasai to medieval Europe.

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More recently, MISSONI dived full-throttle into the cape trend in its fall/winter 2010 collection. Models strutted down the runway swathed in heavy-knitted wool outerwear ranging from one-shouldered shawls and toggled and hooded capes to long wraps that encompassed the body two or three times and secured with giant silver safety pins. The It Italian fashion house paired these outer outerwear looks with frothy, seethrough fro frocks and thigh-high tights.

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“He makes a lot of things happen,” head coach Todd McLellan says.

“He’s pushing himself up into that prime area.”

Couture credits his early success, six goals in 16 games, to being able to read the play. “I see things develop quick, and I can get to spots quicker than most,” he says.

Teammates Jason Demers and Jamie McGinn say Couture is always in the right place at the right time.

“He has a great hockey sense where he knows where the puck’s going to be or where the puck is going to squirt out,” McGinn says, “and that’s something you need in this game.”

Couture hopes his second year with the Sharks is his breakout campaign in the NHL. “He’s earning more and more minutes, understands the game, wins a lot battles,” McLellan says.

“If he just keeps doing what he’s doing, we will have no issues at all with him.”

Normally positioned on the second and third lines, Couture has recently seen time on the first line with wingers Dany Heatley and Patrick Marleau because of a two-game suspension to captain Joe Thornton. Couture says a key to the Sharks season is getting scoring contributions from all the lines.

“Teams lock in on our top line, even our second line at times, so our

third and fourth line really need to contribute and score some more goals,” he says.

In 2005, Couture was signed by the Ontario Hockey League’s Ottawa 76s, where he played for four seasons.

“Going to Ottawa when I was 16, moving away from home, first time being away from my family, I grew up so much,” Couture says. “When you’re living on your own, especially at that young of an age, I think it really helped in my development as a person and as a hockey player.”

McGinn, who played with Couture on the 76s for three seasons, says Couture has always been a silent leader.

“He just continues to get better every year,” McGinn says. “He’s the type of guy who’s not going to say very much, just prove it on the ice.”

The Sharks drafted Couture with the ninth overall pick in the 2007 NHL Draft, and he debuted in San Jose last year, scoring five goals in 25 games.

Couture says the pressure of being a top pick doesn’t creep into his mind too often.

“I believe if Logan meets his own expectations, then we will all be happy because he has set some pretty high standards for himself,” McLellan says.

Demers and McGinn believe Couture has the ability to be one of the league’s best players in the near future.

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This business is conducted by a Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/12/10. /s/Huiyi Liang This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/12/2010. (pub Metro 11/17, 11/24, 12/01, 12/08/2010)

Pure Water, 404 South 2nd St., Suite B, San jose, CA, 95113, Hoang, Thu Van, 122 Avenida Espana, San Jose, CA, 95139.

Filed in Santa Clara County on 1/4/2010 under file No. 532567 This business was conducted by a individual. /s/Hoang, Thu Van This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/7/2010. (pub Metro 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24/2010)

pie Cakes, 51 Glen Eyrie, #10, San Jose, Ca, 95125, Patrick Perry, Sarai Thomas.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on. /s/Patrick Perry This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/01/2010. (pub Metro 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17/2010)

#543702 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: K.A. & T Trucking, 1723 Winston St, San Jose, CA, 95131, Tiffany Nguyen.

This business is conducted by an individual.

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STATEMENT OF ABANFICTITIOUS BUSINESS DONMENT NAME STATEMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #544278 BUSINESS NAME NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is #543701 (are) doing business as: The The following person(s) / en- #543350 Nahal Law Firm, 4471 Park Bristol Place, San Jose, CA, 95136, Harpaul Nahal.

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Filed in Santa Clara County on 10/19/2010 Under File NO. 494760 This business was conducted by an individual. /s/Kim Anh Huynh This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/19/2010. (pub Metro 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24/2010)

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This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

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